Member teams have previously included reserve teams of Highland Football League clubs alongside teams from throughout the Highlands and Islands region. Over the years, replica football shirts the North Caledonian League has been characterised by the number of clubs who have used it as a ‘stepping-stone’ to the professional ranks of Scottish football. Among those to have ‘graduated’ from the league are Wick Academy and Fort William who left to join the Highland Football League, and much earlier Ross County, football shorts who played in the league under their former name of Dingwall Victoria United between 1896 and 1929 before renaming to join the Highland Football League.