The Third Division North of The Football League was a level in English association football, which ran parallel to Third Division South from 1921 to 1958.

The Third Division South had been formed the previous season (as simply the Third Division) with 22 teams mostly from the Southern League. It was decided that this gave the league too much of a southern bias, so the Third Division North was created to redress the balance. However, there was not a northern equivalent of the Southern League, so only 20 teams could be found, taken from several regional leagues: the Midland League, the Central League, the North Eastern League, the Lancashire Combination and the Birmingham Combination. A further two teams were added in 1923 to take the total to 22.

Only one promotion place was available each season from Third Division North to the Second Division, which made it very difficult to win promotion. Eight teams were ever-present in the division for the thirty years of its existence.

In 1958 the two regional Third Divisions were merged together, to create the new Third Division and Fourth Division.

Champions

1922	Stockport County
1923	Nelson
1924	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1925	Darlington
1926	Grimsby Town
1927	Stoke City
1928	Bradford Park Avenue
1929	Bradford City
1930	Port Vale
1931	Chesterfield
1932	Lincoln City
1933	Hull City
1934	Barnsley
1935	Doncaster Rovers
1936	Chesterfield
1937	Stockport County
1938	Tranmere Rovers
1939	Barnsley
1947	Doncaster Rovers
1948	Lincoln City
1949	Hull City
1950	Doncaster Rovers
1951	Rotherham United
1952	Lincoln City
1953	Oldham Athletic
1954	Port Vale
1955	Barnsley
1956	Grimsby Town
1957	Derby County
1958	Scunthorpe United