Northern Premier League 1983-84
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The 1983–84 Northern Premier League season was the 16th in the history of the Northern Premier League
Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League, is one of the regional English football leagues which sits directly below the Football Conference featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs. Geographically, the league covers all of Northern England, and the northern areas of the Midlands. Originally just one...

, a football competition in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.

Teams

  • Barrow
    Barrow A.F.C.
    Barrow A.F.C. are an English football club founded in 1901 based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Following promotion at the end of the 2007–08 season, they currently play in the Conference National. The club spent over fifty years in the Football League between 1921 and 1972, and have...

  • Burton Albion
    Burton Albion F.C.
    Burton Albion Football Club are a professional English football club based in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. The club's home ground is the Pirelli Stadium, having moved from Eton Park in 2005...

  • Buxton
    Buxton F.C.
    Buxton Football Club are an English football club based in Buxton, Derbyshire. They were established in 1877 and joined the Combination League in 1891. They then joined the Manchester League in 1899 and won the championship in 1932. They reached the 3rd round of the FA Cup in the 1951-52 season....

  • Chorley
    Chorley F.C.
    Chorley Football Club are a football club from Chorley, Lancashire, England. They were founded as a rugby union club in 1875 but switched to football in 1883. They have reached the FA Cup second round twice in 1986–87 and 1990–91. Their best performance in the FA Trophy was in 1995–96 when they...

  • Gainsborough Trinity
    Gainsborough Trinity F.C.
    Gainsborough Trinity Football Club are an English football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.Between 1896 and 1912 they were members of the Football League. They are currently in the Conference North, and play their home matches at The Northolme, which has a capacity of 4,304...

  • Goole Town
  • Grantham
    Grantham Town F.C.
    Grantham Town F.C. is a football club, based in Grantham, Lincolnshire, currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One South. They are nicknamed The Gingerbreads and they play their home matches at the South Kesteven Sports Stadium . They were established in August 1874...

  • Horwich RMI
    Leigh RMI F.C.
    Leigh Genesis Football Club, formerly known as Horwich Railway Mechanics Institute F.C. and Leigh Railway Mechanics Institute F.C. , was an English semi-professional association football team that folded after relegation from the Northern Premier League in 2011...

  • Hyde United
  • Macclesfield Town
    Macclesfield Town F.C.
    Macclesfield Town Football Club is an English football team. The club was formed in 1874 and is based in the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire. The team play its home games at the 6,355 capacity Moss Rose stadium...

  • Marine
    Marine F.C.
    Marine Football Club is an English football club in Crosby, Merseyside. The club, which was founded in 1894, is a member of both the Liverpool County and Lancashire County Football Associations, and currently plays in the Northern Premier League Premier Division.Marine is notable for having the...

  • Matlock Town
    Matlock Town F.C.
    Matlock Town F.C. is an English football club based at Causeway Lane in Matlock, Derbyshire.-History:The club was established in the late 1870s and have competed in the Central Alliance and the Midland Counties League before reaching the Northern Premier League.In the 1974–75 season the club won...

  • Morecambe
    Morecambe F.C.
    Morecambe Football Club is an English football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire. It plays its football in League Two, the fourth division of English football, having been promoted in 2007 for the first time in their history to the Football League. They played their home matches at Christie Park...

  • Mossley
    Mossley A.F.C.
    Mossley Association Football Club are an English football club from the town of Mossley, Greater Manchester, currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division One North. They were founded in 1903 and are nicknamed the Lilywhites, owing to their colours...

  • Oswestry Town
    Oswestry Town F.C.
    Oswestry Town F.C. was a football club, formerly playing in the League of Wales.The club was founded as Oswestry United in 1860, which meant they were one of the world's oldest football clubs. Matches were latterly played at Park Hall stadium, Oswestry, after a spell at Victoria Road...

  • Rhyl
    Rhyl F.C.
    Rhyl Football Club is a Welsh football club, playing in the Cymru Alliance.The club was founded in 1882 and the team plays its home matches at Belle Vue, Rhyl, which can accommodate 3,000 spectators.- History :Few clubs in the Welsh Premier League have as distinguished a past as Rhyl's...

  • South Liverpool
    South Liverpool F.C.
    South Liverpool F.C. are a football club from Liverpool, England. They are currently in the West Cheshire Amateur Football League and play their home matches at Jericho Lane. The club's colours are white shirts, black shorts and red socks.-First incarnation:...

  • Southport
    Southport F.C.
    Southport Football Club are an English football club, based in Southport, Merseyside. They are currently in the Conference National, and play their home matches at Haig Avenue, which has a capacity of 6,008...

  • Stafford Rangers
    Stafford Rangers F.C.
    Stafford Rangers Football Club is a semi-professional English football team from Stafford which plays in the Northern Premier League Premier Division.The team wear black and white stripes with black shorts...

  • Witton Albion
    Witton Albion F.C.
    Witton Albion F.C. are a football club based in Northwich, England. They were founded in 1887. They have won the Cheshire Senior Cup 11 times since 1902. Their most recent success in this competition was in 2006, when they defeated Stalybridge Celtic in the final. They have also reached the FA Cup...

  • Workington
    Workington A.F.C.
    Workington A.F.C. is an English football club from Workington, Cumbria. They are in the Conference North, and play their home matches at Borough Park, which has a capacity of 3,101 . The club play in red, and are known locally as the Reds...

  • Worksop Town
    Worksop Town F.C.
    Worksop Town Football Club are a semi-professional English football club from Worksop, Nottinghamshire who play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division...


Final table

Position Team Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Points 1
1 Barrow 42 29 10 3 92 38 +54 97
2 Matlock Town 42 23 8 11 72 48 +24 77
3 South Liverpool 42 22 11 9 55 44 +11 77
4 Grantham 42 20 8 14 64 51 +13 68
5 Burton Albion 42 17 13 12 61 47 +14 64
6 Macclesfield Town 42 18 10 14 65 55 +10 64
7 Rhyl 42 19 6 17 64 55 +11 63
8 Horwich RMI 42 18 9 15 64 59 +5 63
9 Gainsborough Trinity 42 17 11 14 82 66 +16 62
10 Stafford Rangers 42 15 17 10 65 52 +13 62
11 Hyde United 42 17 8 17 61 63 -2 59
12 Marine 42 16 10 16 63 68 -5 58
13 Witton Albion 42 14 14 14 64 57 +7 56
14 Chorley 42 14 11 17 68 65 +3 53
15 Workington 42 14 9 19 53 57 -4 51
16 Southport 42 14 8 20 57 74 -17 50
17 Worksop Town 42 13 8 21 57 74 -17 47
18 Goole Town 42 12 10 20 59 80 -21 46
19 Morecambe 42 11 12 19 59 75 -16 45
20 Oswestry Town 42 11 8 23 66 97 -31 41
21 Buxton 42 11 6 25 52 91 -39 39
22 Mossley 42 9 9 24 47 74 -33 362


1 The points system: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.

2 Mossley had 3 points deducted.

Promotion and relegation

In the sixteenth season of the Northern Premier League Barrow (as champions) were automatically promoted to the Alliance Premier League
Football Conference
The Football Conference is a football league in England which consists of three divisions called Conference National, Conference North, and Conference South. Some Football Conference clubs are fully professional, such as Luton Town, but most of them are semi-professional...

; they replaced relegated Bangor City
Bangor City F.C.
Bangor City Football Club are a semi-professional Welsh football club from the City of Bangor. The club compete in the Welsh Premier League, being ever present since the league was founded in 1992....

, who swapped Leagues with them.

Cup Results

Challenge Cup
Northern Premier League Challenge Cup
The Northern Premier League Challenge Cup is a knock-out cup competition organised by the Northern Premier League....

:

  • South Liverpool 1-1 (7-6 Pens) Hyde United


President's Cup
Northern Premier League President's Cup
The Northern Premier League President's Cup is a knock-out cup competition organised by the Northern Premier League.Teams from both of the Northern Premier League Division One leagues take part in the tournament, with teams that played in the preliminary round of the Northern Premier League...

:

  • Workington bt. Marine


Northern Premier League Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.
  • Barrow bt. South Liverpool

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