League's fans going social media mad!

The EVO-STIK League’s fan-run NPL Group on Facebook is fast becoming one of the most popular online communities in football and aiming to be the biggest in Non-League.

After passing the 3,000 member mark towards the end of last season, the supporters behind the social media success revealed on Tuesday that they are now just short of hitting 4,000. Their Twitter account - @TheNPLGroup - recently attracted its 3,000th follower thanks to fans sharing their passions and organisers are urging supporters to keep on spreading the word.

Set up in 2009 to show the league at its best to the world and bring together fans, players and officials, the NPL Group has thrived on the back of its diverse efforts. As well as bringing fans together to help raise thousands of pounds for charity through efforts like Movember, fans helped in the launch the EVO-STIK League’s official monthly podcast last season and for the third year running are looking forward to presenting the NPL Facebook Group Fan of the Year Award net April at the 2014-15 NPL Players of the Year Awards.

A new initiative this season will also see the winner of the NPL Group Prediction League presented with a trophy at the end of the campaign.

One of the NPL Facebook Group’s twin founders, Bradley Dobson, said: "Social media is definitely proving to be the way forward for the league and its fans to stay in touch. Everybody is helping each other get the most out of our league and show it off to the rest of the world at its best and most friendly.

"I'm not a huge fan of forums simply because it can be a community of keyboard warriors at times and I think that’s why people love the Facebook and Twitter side of what we do because it is a totally open and welcoming community.

"We grew by more than a third last season which was fantastic. With more to offer the bigger we get, we’re looking forward to even more people joining the community to make it the biggest and best in Non-League football."

For more information visit: www.facebook.com/groups/TheNPL or follow on Twitter at: @TheNPLGroup

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