The 1979–80 Northern Premier League season was the 12th 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

• 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....
  
  
• Frickley Athletic
  Frickley Athletic F.C.
  Frickley Athletic F.C. are a football club based in South Elmsall, in West Yorkshire, England. They were established in 1910 as Frickley Colliery F.C., and changed to their present name in 1974.-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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Runcorn
• 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...
  
  
• Tamworth
  Tamworth F.C.
  Tamworth Football Club are an English semi-professional football club based in the town of Tamworth, Staffordshire. Nicknamed 'The Lambs', they are currently members of the Conference National, the fifth highest tier in the English league system....
  
  
• 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	Mossley	42	28	9	7	96	41	+55	65
2	Witton Albion	42	28	8	6	89	30	+59	64
3	Frickley Athletic	42	24	13	5	93	48	+45	61
4	Burton Albion	42	25	6	11	83	42	+41	56
5	Matlock Town	42	18	17	7	87	53	+34	53
6	Buxton	42	21	9	12	61	48	+13	51
7	Worksop Town	42	20	10	12	65	52	+13	50
8	Macclesfield Town	42	18	11	13	67	53	+14	47
9	Grantham	42	18	8	16	71	65	+6	44
10	Marine	42	16	10	16	65	57	+8	42
11	Goole Town	42	14	13	15	61	63	-2	41
12	Lancaster City	42	13	13	16	74	77	-3	39
13	Oswestry Town	42	12	14	16	44	60	-16	38
14	Gainsborough Trinity	42	14	8	20	64	75	-11	36
15	Runcorn	42	11	11	20	46	63	-17	33
16	Gateshead	42	11	11	20	50	77	-27	33
17	Morecambe	42	10	12	20	40	59	-19	32
18	Netherfield	42	7	15	20	37	66	-29	29
19	Southport	42	8	13	21	30	75	-45	29
20	South Liverpool	42	7	14	21	51	84	-33	28
21	Workington	42	8	12	22	50	85	-35	28
22	Tamworth	42	8	9	25	26	77	-51	25

^{1 The points system up until the 1982-83 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

Promotion and relegation

In the twelfth season of the Northern Premier League no sides applied 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 were automatically promoted. Frickley Athletic applied to join the Alliance Premier League and were successful; they were replaced by Southern League

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...

 side King's Lynn

King's Lynn F.C.

King's Lynn F.C. was an English football club based in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Established in 1879, they were wound up at the High Court on 25 November 2009 with debts of £77,000 and went out of business in December after a failed appeal...

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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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• Runcorn 2-0 Lancaster City
  

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

• Runcorn bt. Mossley

External links

• Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF