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North Coast Football is an Association football competition in the northern part New South Wales, Australia, extending from Iluka in the north to Macksville in the south. There are 23 clubs in the region:


 * Bellingen SC
 * Boambee FC
 * Coffs City United F.C.
 * Coffs Coast Tigers FC
 * Corindi Red Rock SC
 * Coutts Crossing FC
 * Dorrigo Highlanders SC
 * Grafton City SC
 * Iluka FC
 * Lawrence SC
 * Macksville SC
 * Maclean FC
 * Majos SC
 * Nambucca Strikers SC
 * Northern Storm F.C.
 * Orara Valley FC
 * Sawtell & District SC
 * South Services Gunners SC
 * Tucabia Bears SC
 * Urunga FC
 * Westlawn Tigers FC
 * Woolgoolga United FC
 * Yamba FC

Current Season
10 clubs compete in the Men's 1st Division competition: Boambee FC, Coffs City United FC, Coffs Coast Tigers FC, Maclean FC, Northern Storm FC, Orara Valley FC, Sawtell FC, Urunga FC, Westlawn Tigers FC and Woolgoolga FC. The competition is conducted by Northern New South Wales Football, the organising body in the region.

The other main competitions that come under the bracket of North Coast Football are the Men's 2nd Division, Youth League (16-19 year old men, with a maximum of four over-age players), Women's 1st Division and Women's 2nd Division. In the 2010 season, the Youth League competition rules will be altered to only allow 3 over-age players in any one team. Minor divisions in the zone range from Under 6 to Under 12s (divisions which operate under the Small Sided Games format recently implemented by Football Federation Australia), Under 13 to Under 16s (who are allowed to play up in the senior divisions if required), 3rd and 4th division football (senior football at a lower grade than 1st and 2nd division), and Over 35s.

History
North Coast Football was originally formed in the late 1980s under the name of Holiday Coast Soccer, but the name was changed in 2005, which also marked the evolution of a number of clubs into their current forms (for example, Korora became Northern Storm).

The league currently contains over 5000 players, and is also home to the two largest clubs in Northern New South Wales, Coffs City United F.C. and Northern Storm F.C.. Defunct clubs in the region include Scott's Head, Toormina, Repton (now part of the Urunga club), Macleay Valley and Valley United (a combined team from the Macksville/Nambucca Valley).