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

Northern Premier League The Northern Premier League is an English Association football, football league that was founded in 1968. Together with the Isthmian League and the Southern Football League, Southern League it forms levels seven and eight of the English footba ...

, a regional

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league 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 ...

, the northern areas of the

Midlands The Midlands is the central region of England, to the south of Northern England, to the north of southern England, to the east of Wales, and to the west of the North Sea. The Midlands comprises the ceremonial counties of Derbyshire, Herefor ...

and

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. 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 Runcorn is an industrial town and Runcorn Docks, cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. It is upstream from the port of Live ...

promoted to Alliance Premier League The following club joined the League at the start of the season: * Bangor City 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: * Bangor City promoted to Alliance Premier League * Lancaster City relegated to North West Counties League Division One The following two clubs joined the League the following season: *

Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth ca ...

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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