National Association
# National Association

National Association may refer to:

## Politics

* National Association (South Korea), a political party 1946–1960
* Kokumin Kyōkai or National Association, a Japanese political party 1892–1899

## Sports

Unless noted otherwise, each of the below is or was based in the United States

### Baseball

* National Association of Base Ball Players (1857–1870), the governing body of early high-level but officially non-professional baseball
* National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (1871–1875), regarded by baseball historians as the first professional baseball league
* National Association (1879–1880), successor to the International Association after it lost its final Canadian team
* National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), the former name of the governing body of Minor League Baseball, established in 1901
* National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba (1907–1910), an early professional Negro baseball league

### Other

* National Association of Basketball Coaches, an organization of men's college basketball coaches
* National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, a professional organization for college and university athletic directors
* National Association Football League, a semi-professional soccer league (1895–1898)

## Acronym usage

* NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), a civil rights organization in the United States
* NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics), a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America
* NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company
* Nasdaq (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market), an American stock exchange

## Other

* National Association, or "N.A.", the official designation of federally chartered banks in the United States
* National Association of Letter Carriers, an American labor union
* National Association of Realtors, an American trade association
