The 1984–85 Northern Premier League season was the 17th in the history 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

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competition in

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Overview

The League featured twenty-two clubs.

Team changes

The following club left the League at the end of the previous season: * Barrow promoted to

Alliance Premier League The National League of English Football Clubs is a professional football league in England that consists of 72 teams, divided equally between the National League (division), National League North and National League South. The National League ...

The following club joined the League at the start of the season: *

Bangor City Bangor City Football Club () was a Welsh football club from the City of Bangor, Gwynedd. Founded in 1876, Bangor City have been founder members of the North Wales Coast League, the Welsh National League, the North Wales Combination, the W ...

relegated from

League table

Results

Cup Results

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: *''Marine'' bt. Goole Town President's Cup: *''Rhyl'' 2–0 Macclesfield Town Northern Premier League Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup. *''Stafford Rangers'' bt. Marine

End of the season

At the end of the seventeenth season of the Northern Premier League, Stafford Rangers applied to join the

and were successful.

Promotion and relegation

The following two clubs left the League at the end of the season: * Stafford Rangers promoted to

Grantham Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln, England ...

relegated to Southern League Midland Division The following two clubs joined the League the following season: *

Gateshead Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, ...

relegated from

* Caernarfon Town promoted from North West Counties League Division One

External links

Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF
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