The 1979–80 Alliance Premier League was the inaugural season of the

Alliance Premier League The National League (named Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons) is an association football league in England consisting of three divisions, the National League, National League North, and National League South. It was called the ...

– the first league outside

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in Association football around the wor ...

to cover the whole of England.

Overview

Between 1979 and 2004 the single-division Alliance Premier League formed Level 5 of the English football league system. Since 2004 two regional divisions were added at Level 6. The founder members of the Alliance Premier League were drawn from the Southern League and Northern Premier League, covering the country from

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in the South West to Barrow in the far North. One club from

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– Bangor City – also participated.

Teams

;From the Northern Premier League *

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* Bangor City * Barrow *

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* Northwich Victoria *

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* Stafford Rangers ;From the Southern League *

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* Barnet *

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* Gravesend & Northfleet * Kettering Town * Maidstone United * Nuneaton Borough *

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* Telford United *

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* Weymouth *

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League table

Results

Promotion and relegation

Promoted

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(from the Northern Premier League)

Relegated

(to the Southern League Midland Division)

Top scorers

Election to the Football League

As winners of the Alliance Premier League,

won the right to apply for election to

to replace one of the four bottom teams in the 1979–80 Football League Fourth Division. The vote went as follows: As a result of this,

failed to be elected to membership of the Football League, falling just one point behind Fourth Division's bottom club Rochdale.

References

External links

1979–80 Football Conference Results

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