The 1972–73 Northern Premier League season was the 5th 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

• Altrincham
  Altrincham F.C.
  Altrincham Football Club is an English association football club from Altrincham, Greater Manchester. They currently play in the Conference North, having been relegated from the Conference National at the end of the 2010–11 season.-History:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Boston United
  Boston United F.C.
  Boston United Football Club are an association football club based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. They currently play in the Conference North. The club is known as 'the Pilgrims' in reference to the Pilgrim Fathers, who fled from Boston to the USA and founded Boston, Massachusetts. The club's...
  
  
• Bradford Park Avenue
• Ellesmere Port Town
  Ellesmere Port Town F.C.
  Ellesmere Port Town F.C. were an English football club from the town of Ellesmere Port, The Wirral.-History:The club was originally formed in 1924 as Ellesmere Port F.C. and joined the Cheshire County League. After three season, in which they finished bottom twice, the club folded. They reformed as...
  
  
• Fleetwood
  Fleetwood Town F.C.
  Fleetwood Town F.C. is an English football club based in Fleetwood, Lancashire. They currently play in the Conference National having been defeated in the Conference National play-off semi-final by AFC Wimbledon in the 2010–11 season.-History:...
  
  
• 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
• Great Harwood
  Great Harwood F.C.
  Great Harwood F.C. was an English football club based in Great Harwood, Lancashire. Their colours were red and white, and they played at the Showground.-History:The club was founded in the 1880s. In 1908 the joined Division Two of the Lancashire Combination...
  
  
• Lancaster City
  Lancaster City F.C.
  Lancaster City F.C. is an English football club based in Lancaster, Lancashire. The club are currently members of Northern Premier League Division One North and play at Giant Axe.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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
• Netherfield
  Kendal Town F.C.
  Kendal Town F.C. is an English football club based in Kendal, Cumbria. The club are currently members of the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League and play at Parkside.-History:...
  
  
• Northwich Victoria
  Northwich Victoria F.C.
  Northwich Victoria Football Club are an English football club who play at the Victoria Stadium in Wincham, Northwich, Cheshire in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of the English football league system.Northwich are an old club, founded in 1874 and named in honour of...
  
  
• Runcorn
• Scarborough
  Scarborough F.C.
  Scarborough Football Club was an English football club based in the seaside resort of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. They were one of the oldest football clubs in England, formed in 1879, before they were wound up on 20 June 2007, with debts of £2.5 million.In the 2006–07 season...
  
  
• Skelmersdale United
  Skelmersdale United F.C.
  Skelmersdale United F.C. are a football club from Skelmersdale, West Lancashire competing in the Northern Premier League Division One North. The club is a member of both the Liverpool F.A. and the Lancashire County Football Association.-The first 75 years:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• South Shields
  South Shields F.C.
  South Shields F.C. are a football club based in South Shields, England. They have a long and complicated history, with three distinct incarnations taking the name...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Wigan Athletic
  Wigan Athletic F.C.
  Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
  
  

Final table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average 1	Points 2
1	Boston United	46	27	16	3	88	34	2.59	70
2	Scarborough	46	26	9	11	72	39	1.85	61
3	Wigan Athletic	46	23	14	9	69	38	1.82	60
4	Altrincham	46	22	16	8	75	55	1.36	60
5	Bradford Park Avenue	46	19	17	10	63	50	1.26	56
6	Stafford Rangers	46	20	11	15	63	46	1.37	51
7	Gainsborough Trinity	46	18	13	15	70	50	1.40	49
8	Northwich Victoria	46	17	15	14	74	62	1.19	49
9	Netherfield	46	20	9	17	68	65	1.05	49
10	Macclesfield Town	46	16	16	14	58	47	1.23	48
11	Ellesmere Port Town	46	18	11	17	52	56	0.93	47
12	Skelmersdale United	46	15	16	15	58	59	0.98	46
13	Bangor City	46	16	13	17	70	60	1.17	45
14	Mossley	46	17	11	18	70	73	0.96	45
15	Morecambe	46	17	11	18	62	70	0.89	45
16	Great Harwood	46	14	15	17	63	74	0.85	43
17	South Liverpool	46	12	19	15	47	57	0.82	43
18	Runcorn	46	15	12	19	75	78	0.96	42
19	Goole Town	46	13	13	20	64	73	0.88	39
20	South Shields	46	17	4	25	64	81	0.79	38
21	Matlock Town	46	11	11	24	42	80	0.53	33
22	Lancaster City	46	10	11	25	53	78	0.68	31
23	Barrow	46	12	6	28	52	101	0.51	30
24	Fleetwood	46	5	15	26	31	77	0.40	25

<sup>1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.

2 The points system up until the 1982-83 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.</sup>

Promotion and relegation

In the fifth season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams were put forward for election to the Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

 nor automatically promoted. Conversely, none of the sides were relegated, but Ellesmere Port Town left the League at the end of the season. They were replaced by newly-admitted 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....

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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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• Northwich Victoria 3-2 agg. Wigan Athletic
  

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

• Boston United bt. Northwich Victoria

External links

• Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF