It's mad how imbalanced towards the south the 6th tier is, to the point Oxford City are in the 24 most northern teams and have to play Darlington home and away.

I know the south has a much higher population but I actually think it's because, down to the history of the game, there's actually a lot of northern towns that punch above their weight and have EFL or National League clubs.

It is a problem though, for example last season Bishop's Stortford FC came up from winning the 7th tier Isthmian League Premier, and despite being 22 miles north of London had to be placed in the National League North. They protested and then basically gave up, being relegated back to the Southern League Premier Central.

>Scarborough Athletic

Based

>>146793945
West Brom legend Jonathan Greening is manager there, it's his hometown club

>>146793835
>remembers when Scunthorpe were our big promotion rivals a decade ago
We've been in the Premier League three times since then
feels bad man ;_;

Based

>>146793835
S O V L

>Scunthorpe toiling in the regional leagues
waheeeeyyyy

>>146797632
Buxtons a lovely place too

for me it's Chester

>>146798284
Cheers

>>146798171
I should travel to small towns throughout the uk sometime.

>>146793835
do people watch/care about these 9nth or whatever league teams in england?
genuine question, you have so many tiers
in croatia nobody cares about bottom 5 teams in the first league besides like 50 people with basically nobody watching the second league
i know its not really comparable due to england having 15x the population

>>146798600
>do people watch/care about these 9nth or whatever league teams in england?
Yes

>>146798600
Professional Leagues
>Premier League
>Championship
>League One
>League Two

Then you have the fifth tier, the National League, of which 21 teams are professional and 3 are semi-professional. Below that division are the first regional leagues, the National League North and National League South, in which most clubs are semi-professional. You get weird mixes of former Football League clubs, attracting 2,000+ attendances, and overachieving amateurs from small villages, whose attendances are 250 on a good day

>>146793835
>Needham Market
a market where the needy buy ham
>Kidderminster Harriers
a minster where kids are harried

>>146798600
The top five tiers are legitimate teams which might, conceivably, have fans. Below that, people will still go, but it's more because they just want to hang out with their friends who also go every week, and the results don't really matter.

>>146798600
They kind of do. It’s impressive.
Local amateur football is supremely based. My club plays in the 8th tier (of 11, we split leagues up sooner than they do in England) and we‘re reliably about 150 people for home games, away fans not included. Most of the players are from the village or at least the region, and the viewers almost all know each other as well. We once were more than 500 (in total, with opponents) for a derby against the neighboring village. It’s always comfy and the atmosphere can get really intense. We aren’t really „fans“ of the club in the sense of people being fans of big clubs, it’s much more personal. We all like our regional pro club as well, it’s no contradiction.
If we can kind of give a fuck about village teams, so can you. And that English league is obviously comparatively much higher, I’m sure Scunthorpe has many fans. It doesn’t have to be hyper-elite football

>>146798600
People just enjoy going to games and when your that far down the leagues its nice and personal, close quarters stuff. Plus you get to know everyone.
I thought Croatia liked football how come you don't like going to games?

>>146800806
Sure, if you like

>>146793835
>Buxton
that app that tells you when to drink water should sponsor them

>>146802876
Nta but Croatia isn't a friendly place people dont talk to each other like in England

>>146812857
In Bosnia people are chill but not in Croatia they're cold you have to talk less here in Bosnia you can talk more

>>146802876
>>146812857
how are they so nationalistic and yet so cold and introverted with their own fellow man?

>>146813542
You know what they say: around Croats, never have chats.

>>146812857
I thought Croats were friendly Med folk who hated England

>>146793945
Herring gulls are annoying shits.

Match between the world's 2 oldest clubs tonight in the Sheffield & Hallamshire cup
1,496 attendance
Level 9 vs Level 8

>>146816268
>>146816316
s o u l

I pity the people who look no further than the PL in our pyramid. It's so vast it's scarcely believable sometimes.

Pic related is just the FA regulated pyramid, I think it goes as far down as level 19 if you go into the County leagues.

>>146816268
Dangerously based

>>146800024
Wow, impressive. I wish we had this in America, but we dont have a good sport for it. Maybe baseball or apehoop

>>146817923
Ice hockey would probably lend itself well to a tiered system of 2 or 3 professional leagues

>>146802876
We do, it depends a lot on the town. My local club is in 4th division and we get a nice crowd every weekend, a group of older guys even get together and travel to the away games sometimes. That anon sounds terminally online.

>>146817923
baseball could do it if there wasnt a farm system. there's already four levels of minors (not including rookie ball, or indie leagues which could constitute another 30-team level). sure as hell would force teams like the Rockies and Pirates and Athletics to actually field competitive teams

>>146818527
Tell us about Chorley FM then, lad

>>146799686
Compare this to when pula or sibenik play
There is like 50 away fans
>>146819328

>>146802876
>I thought Croatia liked football how come you don't like going to games?
We do in a sense, every village has a football pitch and a team, but there is not much of local-patriotism i guess? like there is a club that plays in the first league from my region but nobody supports them in my city its just either dinamo or hajduk (the 2 biggest clubs)

In Bosnia everyone supports their local team

>>146823685
Here, even down at level 7 and 8, there are teams getting 1,000+ attendances and leagues with averages of ~750
It's exceptionally rare for a professional game here to get an attendance of less than four figures, and I can only remember one

>>146824912
no offense but how are you not better on the world stage then? a lot of leagues a lot of professional players that you produce, lot of football schools...
i wish we had that, here players need to be sold asap to a bigger league to advance so they can play in the nt

>>146824912
As far as I know only Britain and Germany have this level of passion for lower league teams. It's very soulful
here when you go down to the third tier there are already several teams with an average attendance of less than a thousand. People prefer to root for the big teams instead of their local teams, and some even deride those who choose to root for smaller teams.

>>146825252
>no offense but how are you not better on the world stage then?
Pic related is all I can offer in answer to that question

>>146826391
Some of them are old professional clubs who've slipped down the leagues, others are simply in areas with little competition.

There are also clubs that are a bit of a novelty, such as FC United who were founded by Manchester United fans protesting the Glazers and who get ~1,500 at their games. Dulwich Hamlet, in SE London, are very well supported because they appeal to a certain demographic (as a kind of English equivalent of St Pauli). In some cases, clubs advertise themselves as a friendlier, cheaper and more community-oriented alternative to bigger neighbours. Solihull Moors have never played in the professional leagues, and they're fighting for fans with Aston Villa, West Brom, Birmingham City, etc, but they've still averaged 1,200+ so far this season.

>>146831413
Every team in the fifth division has averaged over 1,000 this year. It might be the first time it's happened

>>146817321
For me it's Bristol Telephones

>>146817321
NEED a team called Colliery or Welfare to get to the football league

>>146831872
This is SOVL

Apparently they were a club for BT employees before hance the name.

>>146831872
>>146831949
Just outside the official pyramid in Midland League Division Two is Cadbury Athletic

>>146817321
>Corinthian casuals
>Bristol telephone
>Harrogate Railway Athletic
>Armthorpe Welfare
>London Samurai Rovers
>Staveley Miner's Welfare
>Yorkshire amateurs
>British Airways
>Easington Colliery
>[Team] reserves
Kino

>>146831970
Those quakers really know how to build pleasant buildings

Absolutely howling at this

>>146832067
why? it doesn't look funny

We should all follow one of these teams on here with great dedication and never explain why

>>146831921
For me, it's Hamworthy Recreation

Prescot Cables FC

Scunnybros report in.

>>146817321
why is the combined counties premier north/edgware and kingsbury in red

>>146834931
That's the badge in the top right. Apparently Viz magazine sent personalised ones to every club on there. Edgware & Kingsbury threw theirs up on Twatter.

>>146831413
here in Brazil all of the football pyramid is professional which sounds retarded but it helps favelados feed their families even if they're playing at a state third tier club
And there are lots of old professional teams here which in the past could get 20k+ people in a stadium but nowadays struggle to get past a thousand. People literally live thousand of kilometers away from Rio or São Paulo yet still choose to root for teams of these states. They might never even see the team playing live, but they still don't even give a chance to their local clubs.
Doesn't help that the small teams are consistently fucked and almost always drowning in debt. But I do wish people here had more pride in their local teams. Attendances have been slowly ticking upwards in the last few years but it's still very grim, something not helped by the fact that several new money teams with little history or local appeal have found success in recent years

Beautiful thread

>>146793835
also, was there ever cases of these clubs in lower leagues advancing to prem or a much higher proffesional league? and also who had the biggest fall like from pro to like 8th league or something?