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Quite, it's a football league record - the all time record at any level in England is AFC Wimbledon's 130 points when winning the CCL Premier League - they also scored 180 goals that season with their top scorer netting 53 time.
Our 106 season remains the professional record in England. The National League isn't a completely professional division - this season Maidenhead, Dorking, Wealdstone and Oxford City are all semi-professional sides.
On the flip side, there are three professional clubs in the National League North (Scunthorpe; South Shields; King's Lynn) and four in the South (Yeovil; Torquay; Maidstone; Eastbourne). There's additionally one side in the seventh tier (Dulwich Hamlet) who are professional.
The definition of 'professional' is a bit blurred, although apparently the only official difference is semi-professional clubs pay their players during the football season (basically a few weeks before the competitive season starts until the end of the competitive season) whilst professional clubs pay their players all year (including when the off-season). A lot of 'professional' players in the National League and lower still have second jobs and train on a part-time basis, despite being officially classified as full professionals. It's likely even more clubs in the National League and lower are effectively semi-pro clubs; Dulwich Hamlet consider themselves semi-pro, despite fitting the professional category as defined above, as they train part-time.
It's likely Wrexham got as many as 111 points was due to their players training full-time (among other things ), whilst most of the other sides in the division were training part-time.
Surely the term ‘professional’ became redundant years ago.
Every team in the National Leagues and Southern league and equivalent and probably lower pay their players, at most clubs you have contracted players who get a guaranteed weekly wage whether they play or not and non contracted players who get paid when they play.
Well its not redundant as most would take "professional" to mean football is their main job, they train daily etc though may have a secondary form of income. I had a friend I used to work with who played for Hayes & Yeading amongst others, he was paid a weekly amount from them but it was very much a secondary income and they only trained twice a week - other teams as mentioned elsewhere at a similar level may well be professional but any record at a level where clubs are run differently should be discounted when looking at any footballing record.