- Source: List of former English Football League clubs
The former member clubs of the English Football League are football clubs who lost their status in the League by resigning, or by relegation, by becoming defunct, merging with another club, or expulsion. Clubs presently playing in the Premier League are also included in this article.
The English Football League comprises professional clubs from England and Wales, and was established in 1888 as The Football League (First Division). In 1892, the Second Division was formed. A Third Division was introduced in 1920, before being regionalised as North and South. In 1958 these became the national Third and Fourth Division. The Premier League superseded the First Division as the top-flight of the English football league system in 1992, with the other three divisions renamed the First, Second and Third Divisions. They were rebranded again in 2004 as the Championship, League One and League Two.
Until 1986, clubs could lose their League status by failing to gain re-election after finishing in the bottom four of the bottom division (fourth tier). From the 1986–87 season, the club finishing bottom was relegated to the Conference National (now National League), the highest level of non-League football, depending on the ability of the Conference champions to meet FA requirements. Since 2002–03, the bottom two clubs of League Two face relegation to the National League.
Clubs
The tables show the first and last seasons in which each club competed in the League. Some clubs' membership was intermittent between their first and last seasons.
Clubs shown in bold were among the founder members of the League. As of 2023, the founder member clubs playing in the League are Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Derby County, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke City, and West Bromwich Albion. Preston have continuously been League members, whereas the others (except Notts County) have played in the Premier League at one time or another. Notts County has recently returned to the League after four seasons in the National League.
Five former members of the old Football League Division One no longer play in the Football League or Premier League: Bury, Bradford Park Avenue, Darwen, and Glossop North End and Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
Where a defunct club has been succeeded by a phoenix club, the new club is listed.
= Former member clubs (no longer at English football levels 1–4)
== Current members of the Premier League (2024–25)
=See also
List of Scottish Football League clubs
Timeline of English football
Footnotes
References
General
"footballsite.co.uk". footballsite.co.uk. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
Out of Our League: Defunct and ex-Football League Teams – Volume One. Wibble Publishing. August 2013. ISBN 978-0-9919266-1-9.
Out of Our League: Defunct and ex-Football League Teams – Volume Two. Wibble Publishing. August 2014. ISBN 978-0-9919266-9-5.
Hyder, Jawad (2014). Ghosts of the League: 1946–92. Flict Enterprises. ASIN B00QVEGW24.
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