The 1897–98 Northern Football League season was the ninth in the history of the

Northern Football League The Northern League is a British men's association football, football league in North East England, north east England. Having been founded in 1889, it is the second-oldest football league in the world still in existence after the English Footb ...

, a

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competition in

Northern England Northern England, or the North of England, refers to the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the Historic counties of England, historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, County Durham, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmo ...

. This was the first season in which the Northern League was split into two divisions.

Division One

The division featured 9 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.

League table

Division Two

The division featured 7 new clubs.

League table

References

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