The 1981–82 Northern Premier League was the fourteenth season of the

Northern Premier League The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...

, a regional

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league in Northern England, the northern areas of the

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and North Wales. The season began on 15 August 1981 and concluded on 1 May 1982.

Overview

The League featured twenty-two clubs.

Team changes

The following club left the League at the end of the previous season: * Runcorn promoted to Alliance Premier League The following club joined the League at the start of the season: *

Bangor City Bangor City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Bangor) are an inactive Welsh football club from the City of Bangor, Gwynedd. They started the 2021–22 season in the Cymru North the second level of the Welsh football league system, but ...

relegated from Alliance Premier League (returning after a two years absence)

League table

Results

Stadia and locations

Cup results

Challenge Cup

President's Cup

Northern Premier League Shield

Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.

FA Cup

None of the twenty-two Northern Premier League clubs reached the second round: First Round

FA Trophy

None of the twenty-two Northern Premier League clubs reached the fourth round: Third Round

End of the season

At the end of the fourteenth season of the Northern Premier League, Bangor City applied to join the Alliance Premier League and were successful.

Promotion and relegation

The following two clubs left the League at the end of the season: *

promoted to Alliance Premier League *

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relegated to North West Counties League Division One The following two clubs joined the League the following season: *

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promoted from Cheshire County League Division One (returning after a ten years absence) * Hyde United promoted from Cheshire County League Division One (returning after a twelve years absence)

References

External links

Northern Premier League official website

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