The 8 Div 1 teams I have heard this year are: Nomads, Mid Canty, Selwyn, FC2011, Uni, Waimak, CashTech, Halswell. 3 ineligible teams to be promoted, but, it's a division!
At the delegates meeting at the end of last season Mainland said that div 1 was going to be in line with all the other divisions from 2012 onwards so a club can have 2 or 3 teams in it if they think they are good enough, at least it gives it some consistency of having at least 8 teams after what it has been like the last few years, so not solely a promotion league anymore.