Claim: Leyton Orient F.C. is a club.

The National League , formerly the Conference National -LRB- currently named the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons -RRB- , is the top division of the National League in England . It is the highest level of the National League System and fifth-highest of the overall English football league system . While all of the clubs in the top four tiers of English football are full-time professional , the National League has a mixture of full-time and semi-professional clubs . The National League is the lowest nationwide division in the English football pyramid . Beginning with the 2015 -- 16 season , the league was renamed as the National League .