The BUSA Men's Football League system is a football league system set up for Universities and Colleges in the United Kingdom to compete on an amateur and professional level of higher education

Higher education

Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...

 association football.

Competition format

The top division in the BUSA football league structure is known as the Premier division, which is split into North and South sections, each consisting of six teams. Teams in each section of the Premier division play each other twice, resulting in each team playing a total of ten games between October and February. The top five teams from each section then progress to the BUSA Football Championship, along with the top two teams from the Scottish conference and the top team from each of the four English regional conferences to make up a 16-team tournament.

Below the Premier division, there are four regional conferences that feed into it: the Northern Conference, the Midlands Conference, the Western Conference and the South Eastern Conference. The Northern and Midlands conferences feed into the North section of the Premier division, while the Western and South Eastern conferences feed into the Premier South. There is also a Scottish Conference, but the teams in this division are ineligible for promotion to the Premier division. At the end of each league season, the top team in each region goes into a play-off for promotion with the top team from their partner region. The top team also progresses to the BUSA Football Championship, while the next two teams are entered into the Trophy.

Each regional conference then has a number of subsidiary divisions with varying numbers of teams depending on the number of teams associated with that region.

Former winners

Season	Championship	Trophy	Shield	Plate	Vase
2004–05		MMU Cheshire 2nd Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the...	UWE Hartpury 1st University of the West of England The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...	University of Sussex 1st University of Sussex The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....	University of Strathclyde 2nd University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...
2005–06	Loughborough University 1st Loughborough University Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...	UWE Hartpury 1st University of the West of England The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...	De Montfort University, Bedford 1st University of Bedfordshire The University of Bedfordshire is based in Luton and Bedford, the two largest towns in the English county of Bedfordshire. The university was created by the merger of the University of Luton and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University on 1 August 2006 following approval by the Privy Council...	Leeds Metropolitan Carnegie 2nd
2006–07	UWE Hartpury 1st University of the West of England The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...	University of Manchester 1st University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...	University of Hull 1st University of Hull The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...	Bournemouth University 1st Bournemouth University Bournemouth University is a university in and around the large south coast town of Bournemouth, UK...	Northumbria University 3rd Northumbria University Northumbria University is an academic institution located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. It is a member of the University Alliance.- History :...
2007–08	UWE Hartpury 1st University of the West of England The University of the West of England is a university based in the English city of Bristol. Its main campus is at Frenchay, about five miles north of the city centre...	University of Bath 2nd University of Bath The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....	University of Manchester 1st University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...	University of Central Lancashire 1st University of Central Lancashire The University of Central Lancashire is a university based in Preston, Lancashire, England.The university has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge which was founded in 1828. In 1992 it was granted University status by the Privy Council...	University of Nottingham 4th University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

Roehampton Institute were the Champions in 1996, beating Edinburgh 2-1 (aet) at Walsall's Bescott Stadium. Goal Scorers for Roehampton were Ben Miles and Tony Dowson.

External links

• BUSA Football