Welcome To Nonleague Football History

The story of the wonderful game of nonleague football from the age of the great amateurs right through to present day FA Cup shocks.

The media and prawn sandwich brigade may be head over heels in love with the Premiership but for many of us there is another world of football out there - the world of Nonleague Football.

The nonleague, semi-professional, amateur (call it what you will) game has a rich history and on these pages I hope to bring some flavour of that nonleague football history onto the web.

My name is Craig Ellyard and I work as a journalist for the NonLeague Today newspaper. 

Many of the articles on this site were first published in Nonleague Today and I would like to thank group editor Dave Watters for allowing me to reproduce those articles on this website.

You will also find plenty of exclusive material on the site which I hope, in time, to build up to be a valuable historical resource for the follower of the nonleague game.   

However I have no intention of trying to make this site into a statistical resource.  Richard Rundle already performs that job brilliantly on his FCHD site and for current results and tables Tony Kempster provides an unparalleled service on the Internet.

What you will find on this site are plenty of interesting articles, histories of nonleague clubs, memories of great matches and characters and round -ups of seasons gone by. 

Hopefully video and audio will also (eventually) play their part on the site.

I will welcome contributions from anyone who has any interest in nonleague football history and invite you to bookmark this site  and return regularly as I will be adding more material almost every day. 

If you would like to contribute an article for the website please contact me.  Thank you.