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Northern Premier League Division One South
Countries	England
Founded	2007
Number of teams	22
Promotion to	NPL Premier Division
Relegation to	NWCL Premier Division; NCEL Premier Division; Midland Football Alliance
Levels on pyramid	Level 8
Domestic cup(s)	FA Cup; FA Trophy; Challenge Cup; President's Cup; Chairman's Cup
Current champions	Retford United (2006-07)
Website	http://www.unibondleague.com/
	2009-10

Division One South is one of the two second-tier divisions of the Northern Premier League. It is at Step 4 (or level 8) of the National League System, placing it seven divisions below the Premier League. For sponsorship reasons, it is also referred to as the UniBond League Division One South.

The split of the Northern Premier League First Division resulted in the creation of the Division One South and the Division One North. The division began play at the start of the 2007-08 season, initially with 18 teams but now 22 teams for the 2009-10 season

[edit] League system

The League operates a Double Round Robin System, where each team plays each other team Twice, once at Home and Once Away. After 42 Games the team that are placed top of the league will automatically promote to the Northern Premier League Premier Division and the 2 teams at the bottom of the league relegate to one of the feeder leagues (Usually either the North West Counties,Northern Counties East or Midlands Alliance ). The Teams that place 2nd to 5th will playoff for the final promotion spot.

However Prior to the 2008/9 season, when the league originally split from its traditional 1 division into a North and South, the league operated with 18 teams, leading to splitting the league into 2 separate groups of 9 teams each. Each team would play each team in their own group 3 times (once at home,once away then a extra game where each team received an extra 4 home games) and play the teams in the other group home and away once each.

This Changed back to the traditional format in 2008/09 when more teams entered the league

[edit] Current clubs

Club	Finishing position 2008-09
Belper Town	2nd (Losing Playoff Finalist
Brigg Town	20th (Reprived from Relegation)
Cammell Laird	18th in NPL Premier League(Demoted)
Carlton Town	4th (Losing Playoff Semi Finalist)
Chasetown	7th in SPL Midlands League
Glapwell	6th
Goole	18th
Grantham Town	13th
Kidsgrove Athletic	15th
Leek Town	9th
Lincoln United	10th
Loughborough Dynamo	14th
Market Drayton	1st in Midland Alliance
Mickleover Sports	1st in NCEL Premier
Quorn	12th
Rushall Olympic	5th (Losing Playoff Semi Finalists)
Sheffield	11th
Shepshed Dynamo	8th
Spalding United	17th
Stamford	7th
Willenhall Town	16th
Witton Albion	20th in NPL Premier League

[edit] Past champions

From 1987 until 2007, the division was united and just known as the Northern Premier League First Division, before being split into North and South subsections. Here are the champions from when the league was just the NPL First Division.