{"id":583541,"date":"2026-05-14T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:36:10","slug":"the-fa-releases-national-league-system-allocations-for-steps-1-6-in-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583541\/","title":{"rendered":"The FA releases National League System allocations for Steps 1-6 in 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can now confirm the National League System (NLS) club allocations for Steps 1-6.<\/p>\n<p>The allocations follow the recent completion of the play-offs in all NLS leagues, culminating in the National League Play-Off Final \u2013 during which Rochdale achieved promotion to the EFL. Congratulations to all 132 promoted clubs which includes those promoted from Regional NLS Feeder League level.<\/p>\n<p>Through the allocation process for the 2026-27 season, we have placed 996 clubs across 48 divisions, 19 leagues and six steps of the football pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>These allocations are subject to appeals and any amendments will be confirmed in due course.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank everyone involved, from volunteers to clubs and leagues across the NLS, for their hard work during the 2025-26 campaign and wish everyone the best of luck for next season.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of club allocations for the 2026-27 season covering Steps 1-6 can be downloaded below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can now confirm the National League System (NLS) club allocations for Steps 1-6. The allocations follow the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[199395,199396,218,199394,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-fa-national-league-system-allocations","tag-fa-nls-allocations","tag-football","tag-national-league-system-allocations-steps-1-6-2026-27","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}