Next season’s Non League Day date is revealed

The date for next season’s much anticipated Non League Day have recently been announced for Saturday the 12th of October with the charity partners being Prostate UK.

Non League Day is a day set aside in English football where supporters of clubs playing at the highest levels of the game are encouraged to experience football at non league level with which they may be unfamiliar.

Non-League Day 2019 will take place on Saturday 12 October. It will be our 10th event and we'll be working once again with our charity partners @ProstateUK.
Check out what's on as we prepare for this year's celebration of the clubs, players and volunteers: https://t.co/oByWR6xjke pic.twitter.com/uv72zBwNZa

— Non-League Day (@nonleaguedayuk) July 24, 2019

It is a non-profit and volunteer run initiative and is set to coincide with a break in fixtures within the football calendar when the Premier League and Championship sides do not have games.

This is so that international fixtures can be played and top level players will be on international duty.

It has received widespread backing from the Premier League and from Football League clubs as well as MPs, media organisations, charities and from non-league clubs themselves. The Football Association also gives its backing to the campaign.

Clubs often look to this day for a boost in attendance figures and offer reduced admittance prices to fans of other clubs for games played on Non League Day. Clubs can also offer incentives for fans to attend.

Back in August 2014, Bungay Town got attention from the media after the club handed out mushrooms to supporters attending their match with Martham in the Anglian Combination League Division Two doubling their normal match-day attendance to 100.

There have been plenty of highlights across the years, here’s just some of them:

– Maidenhead United unveiled a blue plaque to celebrate their York Road ground being the oldest in the country to be in continuous use.

– Lincoln United hosted a ‘traditional British Games Day’ before their Evo-Stik First Division South match with Gresley to encourage kids, including sack, three-legged and egg and spoon races.

– If fans turned up dressed as a pirate then they would get in for free for Bexhill’s Sussex County Division Two home game with Saltdean United.

– A ticket for a performance by the Military Wives Choir granted fans access to Buxton’s Evo-stik Premier home match against Blyth Spartans for no charge.

– There was a pre-match five-a-side tournament before Hendon’s Ryman Premier home game with Leiston. All entrants got into the main match for free.

– If fans followed Sheerwater on Twitter, they would get free entry to their Cherry Red Records Division One match against Cobham Reserves.