1978–79 Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League Premier Division
Season	1978–79
Champions	Mossley
Promoted	Altrincham Scarborough Boston United Stafford Rangers Northwich Victoria Bangor City Barrow
Matches played	506
Goals scored	1414 (2.79 per match)
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Northern Premier League season was the 11th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England.

No sides applied for election to the Football League nor were automatically promoted. This season saw several sides leave the League to join the newly formed Alliance Premier League, which would later become the Football Conference. Altrincham, Scarborough, Boston United, Stafford Rangers, Northwich Victoria, Bangor City and Barrow all left, replaced by Southern League sides Grantham, Oswestry Town, Burton Albion and Tamworth, as well as Cheshire County League sides Witton Albion and Marine. No sides were relegated.

Final table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts ¹
1	Mossley	44	32	5	7	117	48	+69	69
2	Altrincham	44	25	11	8	93	39	+54	61
3	Matlock Town	44	24	8	12	100	59	+41	56
4	Scarborough	44	19	14	11	61	44	+17	52
5	Southport	44	19	14	11	62	49	+13	52
6	Boston United	44	17	18	9	40	33	+7	52
7	Runcorn	44	21	9	14	79	54	+25	51
8	Stafford Rangers	44	18	14	12	67	41	+26	50
9	Goole Town	44	17	15	12	56	61	−5	49
10	Northwich Victoria	44	18	11	15	64	52	+12	47
11	Lancaster City	44	17	12	15	62	54	+8	46
12	Bangor City	44	15	14	15	65	66	−1	44
13	Worksop Town	44	13	14	17	55	67	−12	40
14	Workington	44	16	7	21	62	74	−12	39
15	Netherfield	44	13	11	20	39	69	−30	37
16	Barrow	44	14	9	21	47	78	−31	37
17	Gainsborough Trinity	44	12	12	20	52	67	−15	36
18	Morecambe	44	11	13	20	55	65	−10	35
19	Frickley Athletic	44	13	9	22	58	70	−12	35
20	South Liverpool	44	12	10	22	48	85	−37	34
21	Gateshead	44	11	11	22	42	63	−21	33
22	Buxton	44	11	9	24	50	84	−34	31
23	Macclesfield Town	44	8	10	26	40	92	−52	26

^{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.}

Results

Home ╲ Away	Altrincham !ALT	Bangor City !BAN	Barrow !BRW	Boston United !BOS	Buxton !BUX	Frickley Athletic !FRK	Gainsborough Trinity !GAI	Gateshead !GAT	Goole Town !GOO	Kendal Town !KEN	Lancaster City !LNC	Macclesfield Town !MAC	Matlock Town !MAT	Morecambe !MOR	Mossley !MOS	Northwich Victoria !NOR	Runcorn !RUN	Scarborough !SCA	South Liverpool !CHO	Southport !SOU	Stafford Rangers !STA	Workington !WRK	Worksop Town !WKS
Altrincham !Altrincham		3–2	4–0	3–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	5–1	1–3	0–0	3–2	4–1
Bangor City !Bangor City	1–1		1–3	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–3	4–0	3–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	0–2	0–2	2–0	2–4
Barrow !Barrow	1–6	0–1		0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–2	0–0	3–3	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	2–5	2–4	0–3	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1
Boston United !Boston United	1–4	1–1	2–0		1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2
Buxton !Buxton	0–4	5–1	2–1	0–0		1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–3	1–6	1–3	0–2	0–2	0–3	4–1	1–1	0–1	0–4	1–2
Frickley Athletic !Frickley Athletic	0–4	1–3	1–2	1–1	2–1		4–0	1–1	1–2	5–0	3–2	3–1	1–3	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–0	1–0	6–0	1–3	0–3	3–1	1–1
Gainsborough Trinity !Gainsborough Trinity	2–4	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–1		0–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–2	1–2	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–2
Gateshead !Gateshead	0–3	2–4	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0		0–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–2
Goole Town !Goole Town	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	3–3	2–0	0–0	0–0		1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–4	1–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	0–2	2–1	2–1	1–2
Kendal Town !Kendal Town	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–4	1–0	0–2	0–0	3–0		0–0	2–0	1–6	0–0	1–3	3–1	0–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0
Lancaster City !Lancaster City	0–4	3–1	0–1	0–2	4–1	1–3	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–0		5–3	0–0	4–2	2–3	1–0	2–3	1–0	4–0	2–2	1–0	4–1	1–1
Macclesfield Town !Macclesfield Town	1–5	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–1		0–4	1–3	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–0
Matlock Town !Matlock Town	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	2–3	4–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	5–0		1–1	2–4	3–2	2–3	6–0	3–1	1–1	3–2	5–1	1–1
Morecambe !Morecambe	2–4	3–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–2	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–1		1–2	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–4
Mossley !Mossley	1–1	3–0	6–1	1–1	3–1	4–3	2–0	3–3	5–1	2–0	3–1	5–0	3–1	3–2		2–3	4–2	2–2	6–0	1–2	2–1	4–1	4–0
Northwich Victoria !Northwich Victoria	1–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	0–0	4–0	1–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	2–2	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–0		2–3	2–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–1
Runcorn !Runcorn	0–0	0–0	2–1	4–2	6–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	4–0	4–0	1–3	6–0	2–3	2–0	0–2	1–2		0–0	4–1	0–0	3–2	0–0	2–0
Scarborough !Scarborough	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	5–0	1–3	2–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	4–0	3–0		2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0
South Liverpool !South Liverpool	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–3	3–1	0–1	2–1	4–1	2–0		0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0
Southport !Southport	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–3	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	2–2		1–2	3–1	2–0
Stafford Rangers !Stafford Rangers	1–1	3–2	4–2	0–0	4–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	7–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	3–0	4–0	0–0	5–1	1–1		0–2	0–0
Workington !Workington	0–4	3–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–2	3–3	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–6	4–1	1–1	3–2	6–1	0–2	1–0		3–0
Worksop Town !Worksop Town	1–2	1–3	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–5	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–0

Updated to games played on 21 May 1979.
Source: Northern Premier Division results grid
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Cup Results

Challenge Cup:

Mossley 4–1 Northwich Victoria

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

Altrincham ¹ bt. Mossley

^{1 As Mossley won both the Northern Premier League and the NPL cup, Altrincham qualified as 2nd placed team of the NPL.}

External links

Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF

Northern Premier League

Premier Division	Ashton United Barwell Blyth Spartans Buxton Coalville Town Corby Town Frickley Athletic Grantham Town Halesowen Town Hednesford Town Ilkeston Marine Matlock Town Mickleover Sports Nantwich Town Rushall Olympic Skelmersdale United Spennymoor Town Stafford Rangers Stourbridge Sutton Coldfield Town Warrington Town Whitby Town Workington

Division One North	Bamber Bridge Brighouse Town Burscough Clitheroe Colne Colwyn Bay Droylsden Farsley Celtic Glossop North End Goole Hyde United Kendal Town Lancaster City Mossley Ossett Albion Ossett Town Prescot Cables Radcliffe Borough Ramsbottom United Scarborough Athletic Tadcaster Albion Trafford

Division One South	AFC Rushden & Diamonds Basford United Bedworth United Belper Town Carlton Town Chasetown Gresley Kidsgrove Athletic Leek Town Lincoln United Loughborough Dynamo Market Drayton Town Newcastle Town Northwich Victoria Romulus Rugby Town Shaw Lane Sheffield Spalding United Stamford Stocksbridge Park Steels Witton Albion

Seasons	1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

See also: Northern Premier League Challenge Cup, Northern Premier League President's Cup, Northern Premier League Chairman's Cup, Peter Swales Shield

1978–79 in English football

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FA competitions

Football League

Lower leagues

European competitions

Related to national team

Club seasons

First Division	Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Bolton Wanderers Bristol City Chelsea Coventry City Derby County Everton Ipswich Town Leeds United Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Norwich City Nottingham Forest Queens Park Rangers Southampton Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Blackburn Rovers Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Burnley Cambridge United Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Crystal Palace Fulham Leicester City Leyton Orient Luton Town Millwall Newcastle United Notts County Oldham Athletic Preston North End Sheffield United Stoke City Sunderland West Ham United Wrexham

Third Division	Blackpool Brentford Bury Carlisle United Chester Chesterfield Colchester United Exeter City Gillingham Hull City Lincoln City Mansfield Town Oxford United Peterborough United Plymouth Argyle Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swansea City Swindon Town Tranmere Rovers Walsall Watford

Fourth Division	Aldershot Barnsley Bournemouth Bradford City Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Rovers Grimsby Town Halifax Town Hartlepool United Hereford United Huddersfield Town Newport County Northampton Town Port Vale Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Scunthorpe United Stockport County Torquay United Wigan Athletic Wimbledon York City

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