Ramsgate Football Club are the lowest-ranked team left in this year's FA Cup. They are one step away from reaching the 3rd round for the first time in their history but in their way are one of the most famous giant killers in the history of the competition, AFC Wimbledon, who under their previous guise beat Liverpool 1-0 in the Cup final back in 1988 against all the odds. Ramsgate have sold out their allocation of 1500 tickets and 20 coach loads of Rams will be packing out th

Cray Wanderers London's oldest football club celebrated a landmark moment on Friday night in South East London when the floodlights were switched on for the first time at their new ground at Flamingo Park. Cray Wanderers FC  was formed in 1860 when migrant workers, building the Cray Valley railway viaduct, teamed up with villagers from St. Mary Cray for a “lunchtime kick about”. Little did these early footballing pioneers realise that what started out as a bit of fun would st

It's the return of the greatest club Cup competition in the world with the FA Cup🏆⚽ 2nd round taking place over the next four days with the obligatory homemade tin foil FA Cups on show on terraces and stands up and down the country. But which of the 10 remaining non-league sides do you fancy causing an upset? Tonight sees the first potential upset as National League side York City FC face League One Wigan Athletic at home. On Saturday National League North side Alfreton Town

Oxford City have won the National League South playoff final with an emphatic 4-0 victory over St Albans City. The game was over as a contest in the first half as the Hoops raced into a 4-goal lead in front of a record attendance of 3,100 at their Marsh Lane ground. Oxford City who finished 3rd in the National League South this season beat Worthing at home 2-0 in the playoff semi final and now with this playoff final success, they will be plying their trade at their highest-e

Dawley Town Football Club a team based just South of Telford in Shropshire have had a remarkable season in the Salop Leisure Football League Premier Division which is the 11th tier of the English football pyramid. They not only won the League but also went the whole campaign unbeaten winning 26 of 27 matches with only one draw. The Invincibles decided to celebrate in style through the town, but the mode of transport was the back of a scaffolding truck instead of an open-top b

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Bury FC Supporters' Society and Bury AFC have both voted overwhelmingly in favour of a merger. They will come together under the name Bury and be back playing at Gigg Lane next season! Members of both clubs failed to reach a two-thirds majority in the first merger vote in October. This time 90.1% of the Bury FC Supporters' Society and 97% of Bury AFC members voted to form one club to play at Gigg Lane from next season. Having a unified club in Bury means it also now qualifies

In the Isthmian Premier League playoff final it was Aveley who were victorious after beating Hornchurch 0-1 in front of 2,040 fans. Aveley will be joined in the National League South next season by Truro City who won the Southern Premier Division South playoff final defeating Bracknell Town 2-3 away with a 94th-minute winner! In front of 1,554 fans. In the Northern League Premier Division Warrington Town beat Bamber Bridge 1-0 with a goal in the 90th minute having been down t

NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH Congratulations to AFC Fylde who won the National League North after winning 2-0 at Bradford PA, a result that sadly sent the home side down, Kings Lynn in second place also won but it just wasn't enough to overhaul the new champions AFC Fylde. Kings Lynn Town will now go into the playoffs along with Chester FC, Brackley Town, Alfreton Town, Kidderminster Harriers and Gloucester City. Here's a great little Vlog from the Brackley Town v Alfreton Town matc

It's all still to play for in the race for the Championship playoff places with 2 games to go with everyone in with a shout from 5th down...

Here are all the upcoming fixtures for the Non-League Playoff finals and Inter-Step Playoffs for relegation and promotion for Steps 3, 4, and 5 in the Non-League pyramid. Badshot Lea, Bemerton Heath Harlequins and Rugby Town have been automatically promoted from Step 5 on Points Per Game to fill the vacancies left by Harlow Town and demoted duo North Shields and Skelmersdale, who have both failed ground grading requirements and had their appeals rejected. Bideford, Carlton To

Like thousands of other football fans on Saturday 25th March, we decided to take in a game at grassroots level on what was the annual Non-League Day. Our destination was Carlton Town FC a wonderful community club based in Nottingham, Carlton Town play in the NPL First Division East which is step 4 of the National League pyramid, the visitors were high-flying Stockton Town. We were honoured to be invited to the game by Mick Garton the chairman and Gary ‘Boatsy Clarke' the comm

It's that time of the season again when the Premier League and Championship take a week off for the international break but more importantly it's when Non-League football takes centre stage with the annual Non-League Day which celebrates semi-professional and grassroots football in the UK. The concept of Non-League Day was set up by James Doe in 2010 as a social media experiment, after being inspired by a pre-season trip to Devon to watch Queens Park Rangers play at Tavistock

Join Proper Footballs' Gary Harris & Dan Slawson tonight Thursday 2nd March @ 7 pm with Dave Nathan & Marc Brewer 2 of the inaugural fan owners at Dial Square FC on our live Proper Football show ‘Under The Floodlight'. The diehard disgruntled Arsenal fans will be discussing why the club was formed in 2020 & their reasonings for their distaste of modern-day football owners and how fans are treated. It's the money. It's the greed. It's the way fans are treated as customers. We'

What a landmark day for the fans of beleaguered Scunthorpe United. The Lincolnshire club who were on the verge of going out of existence with an HMRC winding-up order hanging over them along with the news from earlier in the week of an interested consortium pulling out of a potential takeover, things were looking very bleak, adding to the fact they were sitting rock bottom of the National League and without an away win for 25 months the trip to Halifax Town on Wednesday eveni

One of the reasons we started Proper Football just over 18 months ago was because some of us had become disillusioned with football, yes, that may seem a bizarre thing to say and beggars the question, why set up a football page? Well, for those of us who follow teams in the Premier League or a yo-yo side in the Championship, since the birth of the Premier League on 27th May 1992 we have gradually seen our clubs which we have worshiped like a religion and have played a massive

It was great to see the fans flock in to watch their clubs over the holiday period in the lower leagues of the football pyramid, one big factor is the fixtures are planned so that doubleheader matches are scheduled for the Boxing day and New years day fixtures between local sides, something that has sadly been lost on the Premier League and EFL! Some of the stand-out attendances were in step 6 in the National League North and South. Darlington had a record attendance at Black

We all know football has the habit of conjuring up amazing stories, be it heart warming, emotional or freak results, just like Leicester City winning the Premier League, Wimbledon's Crazy Gang defeating the might of Liverpool to lift the FA Cup in 1988, 42-year-old Roger Milla coming out of retirement to score in the World Cup for Cameroon, David's beating Goliath's in the 3rd round of the Cup or Jamie Vardy getting an England call up just 4 years after playing non-league foo