AFC Emley have made Michael Tunnacliffe skipper.
The midfielder will be manager Darren Hepworth’s on-field leader for the new Northern Counties East League First Division campaign.
Defender Sam Jerome, brother of Norwich City’s Huddersfield-born striker Cameron, will be Tunnacliffe’s vice-captain.
Previously player-manager of District League side Hepworth United, Emley signed Tunnacliffe two years ago.
He takes over the armband from Paul Sykes.
The 38-year-old defender has called time on his Emley stint and will seek a fresh playing challenge.
Emley boss Hepworth is planning another promotion tilt.
His side led the table for long spells last season but eventually finished fifth.
Clubs will this month vote on the introduction of play-offs in Division I.
Under the proposals, the number of teams relegated from the Premier Division would be increased to three.
The top two would be promoted from Division I automatically with play-offs to determine the third side to go up.
To be approved, there will need to be at least a two-thirds majority when the vote is taken at the NCEL annual meeting in Scarborough on Saturday, June 20.
The meeting will also rubber-stamp the promotion of Hull United and Westella VIP to the league.
Hull, managed by Curtis Woodhouse, are moving up from the Humber Premier League and Lincolnshire-based Westella from the Central Midlands League.
Louth Town have resigned from the NCEL.
They finished sixth in Division I, a place and eight points behind Emley.
Mick Norbury, who played for the original Emley, has been made manager of NCEL club Glasshoughton Miners Welfare.
The ex-Cambridge United, Preston North End and Doncaster Rovers striker has previously bossed Goole, Harrogate Railway Athletic and Maltby Main.
A Glasshoughton spokesman said: “Mick believes that his main attributes to offer are a great knowledge of the tactics of the game from which he can input ideas on the way football should be played, both in attack and defence, and his ability to attract quality players.”
