The 2016–17 season was the 49th 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 ...

Premier Division, and the tenth season of the

Division One North and South. The League sponsors for 2016–17 were Evo-Stik. The league constitution was announced on 12 May 2016.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured six new clubs: * Coalville Town, promoted as playoff winners in NPL Division One South * Corby Town, relegated from

National League North The National League North, officially known as Vanarama National League North for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Association football league in England. National League North is the second division of the National League (English footb ...

Hednesford Town Hednesford Town Football Club is a football club based in Hednesford, Staffordshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Keys Park. They won the FA Trophy in 2004. History The club was established in 1880 as a merger of t ...

, relegated from

* Stafford Rangers, promoted as champions of NPL Division One South * Spennymoor Town, promoted as playoff winners in NPL Division One North * Warrington Town, promoted as champions of NPL Division One North

League table

Top scorers

Updated to match(es) played on 22 April 2017

Results

Play-offs

Semi-finals Final

Stadia and locations

Division One North

Two Division One North clubs were moved to the parallel division:

Northwich Victoria Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers River Weaver, Weaver and River Dane, Dane, east of Chester, south of Warr ...

and Witton Albion were transferred to Division One South. Thus, Division One North featured six new clubs: *

Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. The town is northeast of Nelson, Lancashire, Nelson, northeast of Burnley and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. The ...

, promoted from the North West Counties League Premier Division *

Colwyn Bay Colwyn Bay () is a town, Community (Wales), community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea. It lies within the historic counties of Wales, historic county boundaries of Denbighshire (h ...

, relegated from the NPL Premier Division *

Goole Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's Historic counties of England, historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom censu ...

, transferred from NPL Division One South * Hyde United, relegated from the NPL Premier Division * Ramsbottom United, relegated from the NPL Premier Division * Tadcaster Albion, promoted from the Northern Counties East League Premier Division

League table

Top scorers

Updated to match(es) played on 22 April 2017

Results

Play-offs

Semi-finals Final

Stadia and locations

Division One South

Division One South featured five new clubs: *

AFC Rushden & Diamonds A.F.C. Rushden & Diamonds is an English football club based in Rushden in Northamptonshire. They played their opening season at Kiln Park, the home of Raunds Town, in 2011–12 and subsequently shared the Dog & Duck ground with Wellingboroug ...

, transferred from

Southern League Division One Central The Southern League is a Association football, football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from East Anglia, the Southern England, South and The Midlands, Midlands of England, and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and t ...

* Bedworth United, relegated from

Southern League Premier Division The Southern League is a football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from East Anglia, the South and Midlands of England, and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and e ...

, transferred from NPL Division One North * Stamford, relegated from NPL Premier Division * Witton Albion, transferred from NPL Division One North

League table

Top scorers

Updated to match(es) played on 22 April 2017

Results

Play-offs

Semi-finals Final

Stadia and locations

Challenge Cup

The 2016–17 Northern Premier League Challenge Cup, known as the 16–17 Integro Doodson League Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 47th season of the Northern Premier League Challenge Cup, the main cup competition in the

. It was sponsored by Doodson Sport for a sixth consecutive season. 67 clubs from England and one from Wales entered the competition, beginning with the preliminary round, and all ties ended after 90 minutes and concluded with penalties. The defending champions were Marine, who defeated Scarborough Athletic on penalties in the 2016 Final. They were eliminated in the first round.

Calendar

Preliminary round

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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Premier Division

League table

Top scorers

Results

Play-offs

Stadia and locations

Division One North

League table

Top scorers

Results

Play-offs

Stadia and locations

Division One South

League table

Top scorers

Results

Play-offs

Stadia and locations

Challenge Cup

Calendar

Preliminary round

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

See also

Notes

References

External links