Promotion and Regulation 2018/19
Posted by Nobody on 30 June 2018
Only the First Division Champions will be promoted to the Premier Division.
The First Division runners-up will be promoted to the Premier Division if they are one of the best 9 (out of 19) Step 6 runners-up on a points per match basis nationwide.
The bottom 2 First Division sides will be relegated to Step 7 (unless there are not enough teams coming up from Step 7, in which case clubs will be reprieved nationally on a points per game basis.
No more than 38 clubs will be promoted from Step 7.
By 2020/21 the FA League Committee hopes to add an additional division at Step 4 and two further divisions at Step 5 in order to create the perfect 1-2-4-8-16 divisionall model at Steps 1 to 5 of the NLS.
