FA Women's National League North

FA Women's National League North

Sport	Football
Founded	1992
No. of teams	13
Country	England
Most recent champion(s)	Blackburn Rovers L.F.C. (2018–19)
Most titles	Blackburn Rovers (4 Titles)
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	FA Women's Championship
Relegation to	FA Women's National League Division One (North or Midlands)

The FA Women's National League North is a league at the third-level in the women's football league pyramid in England, along with the Southern division. These two divisions are part of the FA Women's National League and below the FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship.

The league is played on a home and away basis, with each team playing each other twice, and points being awarded in the standard football format. The bottom two clubs are relegated, also on a geographical basis, to the Division One Northern, and Division One Midland.

Northern Championship teams are eligible to play in the Women's League Cup as well as the FA Women's Cup.

Name

It was known as the 'Women's Premier League Northern Division' prior to the 2018–19 season.

Current teams (2019–20 season)

Club	Position in 2018–19
Burnley	Promoted from D1 North (1st)
Derby County	3rd
Fylde	6th
Huddersfield Town	4th
Hull City	10th
Loughborough Foxes	Realigned from NL South (7th)
Middlesbrough	5th
Nottingham Forest	9th
Sheffield F.C.	11th
Stoke City	7th
Sunderland	2nd
West Bromwich Albion	Promoted from D1 Midlands (1st)

Stadiums 2019–20

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Burnley	Burnley	Arbories Memorial Sports Ground	1,668
Derby County	Derby	Station Road	1,500
Fylde	Wesham	Mill Farm	6,000
Huddersfield Town	Huddersfield	The Stafflex Arena	1,000
Hull City	North Ferriby	Dransfield Stadium
Loughborough Foxes	Loughborough	Loughborough University Stadium	3,500
Middlesbrough	Billingham	Billingham Town F.C.	3,000
Nottingham Forest	Nottingham	Mill Street Playing Fields	n/a
Sheffield	Sheffield	Sheffield F.C.	2,000
Stoke City	Stoke	Community Drive	1,500
Sunderland	Hetton Le Hole	Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground	2,500
West Bromwich Albion	Boldmere	Trevor Brown Memorial Ground	2,500

Previous winners

Season	Winner
2000–01	Leeds United L.F.C.
2001–02	Birmingham City L.F.C.
2002–03	Aston Villa L.F.C.
2003–04	Liverpool L.F.C.
2004–05	Sunderland A.F.C. Women
2005–06	Blackburn Rovers L.F.C.
2006–07	Liverpool L.F.C.
2007–08	Nottingham Forest L.F.C.
2008–09	Sunderland A.F.C. Women
2009–10	Liverpool L.F.C.
2010–11	Aston Villa L.F.C.
2011–12	Manchester City L.F.C.
2012–13	Sheffield F.C. Ladies
2013–14	Sheffield F.C. Ladies
2014–15	Sheffield F.C. Ladies
2015–16	Sporting Club Albion L.F.C.
2016–17	Blackburn Rovers L.F.C.
2017–18	Blackburn Rovers L.F.C.
2018–19	Blackburn Rovers L.F.C.

From the 2014–15 season onwards, the club promoted to FA WSL2 (via a play-off between the Northern and Southern division champions), and overall champions of the FA WPL, are marked in bold.

See also

• Women's football (soccer)
• List of women's football teams
• List of women's football (soccer) competitions

External links

• The FA Women's Page
• FA Full-time
• http://www.rsssf.com