Northern Football Alliance#Premier Division

{{short description|Association football league in England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox football league

| organiser = {{flagicon|Northumberland}} Northumberland Football Association
{{flagicon|County Durham}} Durham County Football Association

| logo = Image:NFA logo.png

| pixels = 100px

| country = England

| confed = FA

| founded = 1890

| divisions = Premier Division
Division One
Division Two
Division Three

| teams = 60

| feeds = Northern League Division Two

| levels = Level 11 (Premier Division)

| domest_cup = Challenge Cup
Stan Seymour League Cup

| confed_cup =

| champions = Wallington FC (Premier Division)
Gosforth Bohemians FC (Division One)
Heaton Stannington FC Reserves (Division Two)
Cramlington Town Independent(Division Three)

| season = 2023-2024

| most successful club =

| tv =

| website =

| current = 2023-24

}}

The Northern Football Alliance is a football league based in the North East, England. It has four divisions headed by the Premier Division, which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System.

The top club in the Premier Division is eligible for promotion to the Northern League Division Two. The top clubs in the First, Second and Third Divisions are promoted to the Premier, First, and Second Divisions respectively. The bottom club in the Third Division may be relegated to either the North Northumberland League Division One, or the Tyneside Amateur League, depending on which is more geographically appropriate.

The Northern Football Alliance was founded in 1890 as a single league, with a membership of seven teams. In 1926 it became the Second Division of the North Eastern League, but it split away again in 1935. It disbanded in 1964 due to lack of membership, but reformed just one season later, in 1965–66.

In 1988 the Northern Amateur League and the Northern Combination League combined with the Northern Football Alliance (all under the name Northern Football Alliance) to create a three-division format, which later expanded to four. Under a sponsorship agreement it is billed as the Bay Plastics Northern Football Alliance.

The league's teams chiefly come from Tyneside as well as Northumberland, with teams from further south preferring to play in the Wearside League, but there are exceptions, for example Prudhoe Town F.C. from Northumberland competed in the Wearside League, whilst Coundon and Leeholme from near Bishop Auckland in southern County Durham compete in the Alliance.

Member teams, 2022–23 season

=Premier Division=

=Division One=

  • Bedlington
  • FC United of Newcastle
  • Forest Hall
  • Gosforth Bohemians
  • Hebburn Town U23
  • Hexham
  • Newcastle Blue Star Reserves
  • Newcastle East End
  • North Shields Athletic
  • Rothbury
  • Seaton Burn
  • Stobswood Welfare
  • Wallsend Boys Club
  • West Moor & Jesmond
  • Whitburn & Cleadon
  • Willington Quay Saints

=Division Two=

  • Blaydon Community
  • Blyth Town U23
  • Cullercoats
  • Ellington
  • Heaton Stannington 'A'
  • Morpeth
  • Newcastle Chemfica Amateurs
  • Newcastle Independent Cabrito
  • Newcastle University 'A'
  • North Sunderland
  • Ponteland United Reserves
  • Red House Farm
  • Seaton Sluice
  • Walker Central
  • Whitley Bay Sporting Club
  • Wideopen

=Division Three=

  • Amble AFC
  • Alnwick Town Development
  • Ashington AFC Reserves
  • Benton
  • Blyth Rangers
  • Cramlington Blue Star
  • Gateshead Redheugh 1957
  • Gosforth Bohemians Reserves
  • Hazlerigg Victory
  • Heddon United
  • Stocksfield
  • Wallsend Boys Club U23
  • West Moor & Jesmond U23
  • Whickham U23
  • Whitley Bay Sporting Club 'A'

Champions (1890–1988)

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Divisional Champions (Since 1988)

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Season

!Premier Division

!Division One

!Division Two

1988–89

|Seaton Delaval Seaton Terrace

|Ashington Premier

|Blyth Kitty Brewster

1989–90

|Seaton Delaval Amateurs

|Westerhope Hillheads

|Heaton Corner House

1990–91

|West Allotment Celtic

|Blyth Kitty Brewster

|Procter & Gamble

1991–92

|West Allotment Celtic

|Carlisle City

|St Columbas

1992–93

|Seaton Delaval Amateurs

|Longbenton

|Amble Town

1993–94

|Morpeth Town

|Amble Town

|Ashington Hirst Progressive

1994–95

|Newcastle Benfield Park

|Amble Town

|Walker Ledwood

1995–96

|Seaton Delaval

|Gosforth Bohemians

|Walbottle Masons

1996–97

|Lemington Social

|Ryton

|Northbank

1997–98

|West Allotment Celtic

|Shankhouse

|Coxlodge S C

1998–99

|West Allotment Celtic

|Percy Main Amateurs

|Amble Vikings

1999–2000

|West Allotment Celtic

|Coxlodge S C

|Harraby Catholic Club

2000–01

|Walker Central

|Amble Vikings

|Wallington

2001–02

|West Allotment Celtic

|Bedlington Terriers "A"

|Haydon Bridge

2002–03

|Newcastle Benfield Saints

|Chopwell Top Club

|Blyth Town

2003–04

|West Allotment Celtic

|Heddon

|Alnmouth

2004–05

|Shankhouse

|Alnmouth

|Ashington Colliers

2005–06

|Team Northumbria

|Wallsend

|Whitley Bay "A"

2006–07

|Harraby Catholic Club

|Gillford Park Spartans

|Westerhope

2007–08

|Walker Central

|Wark

|Killingworth Y P C

2008–09

|Walker Central

|Killingworth Y P C

|Amble United

2009–10

|Harraby Catholic Club

|Gateshead Rutherford

|North Shields Athletic

2010–11

|Ponteland United

|Hebburn Reyrolle

|Newcastle Chemfica Independent

2011–12

|Heaton Stannington

|Amble United

|Hexham

2012–13

|Heaton Stannington

|Wallington

|North Shields Athletic

2013-14

|Blyth Town

|North Shields Athletic

|Blyth Isabella

2014–15

|Blyth Town

|Percy Main Amateurs

|Shilbottle Colliery Welfare

2015–16

|Blyth Town

|Shilbottle Colliery Welfare

|Gateshead FC A

2016-17

|Killingworth Town

|Gateshead FC A

|Killingworth YPC

2017-18

|Newcastle University

|Killingworth YPC

|Blyth Spartans Reserves

2018-19

|Newcastle University

|Blyth Town

|Rothbury

2019-20 & 2020-21

|Not awarded due to Covid-19 Pandemic

|Not awarded due to Covid-19 Pandemic

|Not awarded due to Covid-19 Pandemic

Divisional Champions (4 Divisions since 2021)

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Season

!Premier Division

!Division One

!Division Two

!Division Three

2021-22

|Killingworth

|Newcastle Independent

|Stobswood Welfare

|Blaydon Community

2022-23

|Newcastle Blue Star

|Stobswood Welfare

|Ponteland United Reserves

|Hazelrigg Victory

2023-24

|Wallington

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2024-25

|Burradon & New Fordley

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