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    Posted: 13 May 2025 at 20:27
I have seen a regional 1 NW league for next season that includes 4 notionally Midlands sides:
Leek
Derby
Burton
Long Eaton

plus Huddersfield from Yorkshire.

Anybody seen any other Regional 1 leagues published?
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Originally posted by cobbler cobbler wrote:

I have seen a regional 1 NW league for next season that includes 4 notionally Midlands sides:
Leek
Derby
Burton
Long Eaton

plus Huddersfield from Yorkshire.

Anybody seen any other Regional 1 leagues published?

Where'd you see that? I guess its because SW got the reprieve that its pushed some clubs up the country.
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Just came via WhatsApp from Derby fixture sec.

Until I have seen other leagues it is hard to judge but it seems the NW league might be more of a North (SW) and the NE league more of a North (NE). Blackburn and Rochdale are furthest North teams in the league I have seen. The others around Manchester and the Wirral.

The Midlands league has has a South West Midlands bias to it for a while and with Newport (Salop) moving back to it (presumably) from North West and the departure of Derby, Burton and Long Eaton (plus Syston promoted) that looks even more the case.
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Originally posted by cobbler cobbler wrote:

Just came via WhatsApp from Derby fixture sec.

Until I have seen other leagues it is hard to judge but it seems the NW league might be more of a North (SW) and the NE league more of a North (NE). Blackburn and Rochdale are furthest North teams in the league I have seen. The others around Manchester and the Wirral.

The Midlands league has has a South West Midlands bias to it for a while and with Newport (Salop) moving back to it (presumably) from North West and the departure of Derby, Burton and Long Eaton (plus Syston promoted) that looks even more the case.

That would make sense that they push some of the northern SW teams into the Midlands to compensate for the reprieve, and thus then have to push the more northern Midlands teams up north to cover for that too. That's all I can think of as the logical reason based on what you described, having not seen all the leagues myself either.
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Many will have seen confirmation last week that 12th & 13th in the Championship will play off, with the loser then facing Nat 1 runner-up in an 'up or down' decider...

Has anyone else heard the same as me, about the possibility of this coming in at other levels? Possibly not the same format, as the pyramid system comes into play from level 4 downwards, but something similar... but not sure if this is confirmed, or when it comes into play.
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I've seen that SC is as expected. Worthing replace Welsh and London Scottish and Farnham replacing Horsham and brighton. So That probably means that they have pushed some SW sides up to Midlands.
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I have seen Nuneaton's league and the Midlands leagues below for the season.

Drybrook and Newent are in as Burton, Derby and Long Eaton have moved. Newport have moved over and Bournville have come down from the nationals and Lichfield and Lutterworth moved up Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Robb Robb wrote:

Originally posted by cobbler cobbler wrote:

I have seen a regional 1 NW league for next season that includes 4 notionally Midlands sides:
Leek
Derby
Burton
Long Eaton

plus Huddersfield from Yorkshire.

Anybody seen any other Regional 1 leagues published?

Where'd you see that? I guess its because SW got the reprieve that its pushed some clubs up the country.

I saw it on the Unofficial North1 X account. Also Penrith in the NE league. I think the argument is that they are closer to the North East clubs that they are Cheshire. 
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Leagues are out
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Leagues are also finalised and published for the Midlands with an assurance that fixtures will be released no later than June 14th
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