The 1984–85 Northern Premier League season was the 17th 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...

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Teams

• 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....
  
  
• 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	Stafford Rangers	42	26	8	8	81	40	+41	86
2	Macclesfield Town	42	23	13	6	67	39	+28	82
3	Witton Albion	42	22	8	12	57	39	+18	74
4	Hyde United	42	21	8	13	68	52	+16	71
5	Marine	42	18	15	9	59	34	+25	69
6	Burton Albion	42	18	15	9	70	49	+21	69
7	Worksop Town	42	19	10	13	68	56	+12	67
8	Workington	42	18	9	15	59	53	+6	63
9	Horwich RMI	42	16	14	12	67	50	+17	62
10	Bangor City	42	17	9	16	70	61	+9	60
11	Gainsborough Trinity	42	14	14	14	72	73	-1	56
12	Southport	42	15	9	18	65	66	-1	54
13	Matlock Town	42	14	9	19	56	66	-10	51
14	Oswestry Town	42	14	9	19	59	75	-16	51
15	Mossley	42	14	9	19	45	65	-20	51
16	Goole Town	42	13	11	18	60	65	-5	50
17	Rhyl	42	11	14	17	52	63	-11	47
18	Morecambe	42	11	14	17	51	67	-16	47
19	Chorley	42	12	10	20	47	63	-16	46
20	South Liverpool	42	9	15	18	43	71	-28	42
21	Grantham	42	8	13	21	41	69	-28	362
22	Buxton	42	8	6	28	38	79	-41	30

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

2 Grantham had 1 point deducted.</sup>

Promotion and relegation

In the seventeenth season of the Northern Premier League Stafford Rangers (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 Gateshead

Gateshead F.C.

Gateshead Football Club are a professional Association football club, based in Gateshead, England. They currently play in the Conference National, the fifth level of the English football league system.Ian Bogie is the current manager....

, who swapped Leagues with them. Meanwhile, Grantham moved to the Southern League Midland Division

Southern Football League

The Southern League is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales...

 at the end of the season and were replaced by newly-admitted Caernarfon Town

Caernarfon Town F.C.

Caernarfon Town F.C. is a football team, playing in the Cymru Alliance. The club ia nicknamed The Canaries because of its yellow and green strip. Caernarfon Town plays at The Oval, Caernarfon, Gwynedd.-History:...

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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....

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• Marine bt. Goole Town
  

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...

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• Rhyl 2-0 Macclesfield Town
  

Northern Premier League Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.

• Stafford Rangers bt. Marine

External links

• Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF