The ATTIS ECB Yorkshire Premier League North was created in 2016 when its predecessor, the Yorkshire County League, founded in 1936, was disbanded as part of the re-structuring of Premier League Cricket in Yorkshire. 

 

In 2019 it embraced the York & District Senior Cricket League with the top division enjoying ECB Premier League status at the top of the pyramid. The League also manages a Sunday Division and several knockout cup competitions. 

 

From 2019 to 2022 the bulk of the member clubs from the Leeds & Wetherby Cricket League migrated across to YPLN. 

 

At the end of 2024 The Scarborough Beckett Cricket League and the remaining York Vale Cricket League merged into YPLN along with Committee members from both leagues to help with the administration of the league that had grown to 130 clubs.