1978–79 Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League Premier Division

Season	1978–79
Champions	Mossley
Promoted	Altrincham Scarborough Boston United Stafford Rangers Northwich Victoria Bangor City Barrow
Matches played	506
Goals scored	1414 (2.79 per match)
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Northern Premier League season was the 11th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England.

No sides applied for election to the Football League nor were automatically promoted. This season saw several sides leave the League to join the newly formed Alliance Premier League, which would later become the Football Conference. Altrincham, Scarborough, Boston United, Stafford Rangers, Northwich Victoria, Bangor City and Barrow all left, replaced by Southern League sides Grantham, Oswestry Town, Burton Albion and Tamworth, as well as Cheshire County League sides Witton Albion and Marine. No sides were relegated.

Final table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts ^1
1	Mossley	44	32	5	7	117	48	+69	69
2	Altrincham	44	25	11	8	93	39	+54	61
3	Matlock Town	44	24	8	12	100	59	+41	56
4	Scarborough	44	19	14	11	61	44	+17	52
5	Southport	44	19	14	11	62	49	+13	52
6	Boston United	44	17	18	9	40	33	+7	52
7	Runcorn	44	21	9	14	79	54	+25	51
8	Stafford Rangers	44	18	14	12	67	41	+26	50
9	Goole Town	44	17	15	12	56	61	−5	49
10	Northwich Victoria	44	18	11	15	64	52	+12	47
11	Lancaster City	44	17	12	15	62	54	+8	46
12	Bangor City	44	15	14	15	65	66	−1	44
13	Worksop Town	44	13	14	17	55	67	−12	40
14	Workington	44	16	7	21	62	74	−12	39
15	Netherfield	44	13	11	20	39	69	−30	37
16	Barrow	44	14	9	21	47	78	−31	37
17	Gainsborough Trinity	44	12	12	20	52	67	−15	36
18	Morecambe	44	11	13	20	55	65	−10	35
19	Frickley Athletic	44	13	9	22	58	70	−12	35
20	South Liverpool	44	12	10	22	48	85	−37	34
21	Gateshead	44	11	11	22	42	63	−21	33
22	Buxton	44	11	9	24	50	84	−34	31
23	Macclesfield Town	44	8	10	26	40	92	−52	26

^{1 The points system up until the 1982–83 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

Results

Home ╲ Away

ALT

BAN

BRW

BOS

BUX

FRK

GAI

GAT

GOO

KEN

LNC

MAC

MAT

MOR

MOS

NOR

RUN

SCA

CHO

SOU

STA

WRK

WKS

Altrincham

3–2

4–0

3–0

0–1

1–2

3–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

0–0

0–1

3–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

2–0

5–1

1–3

0–0

3–2

4–1

Bangor City

1–1

1–3

1–1

2–0

4–2

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–1

2–1

2–1

3–3

4–0

3–1

1–0

1–2

0–0

3–0

0–2

0–2

2–0

2–4

Barrow

1–6

0–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

2–1

4–2

0–0

3–3

2–1

1–2

3–2

0–0

2–5

2–4

0–3

0–1

0–0

0–2

1–1

1–2

1–1

Boston United

1–4

1–1

2–0

1–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

0–0

0–0

0–0

2–0

2–1

3–0

1–0

1–0

0–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

2–1

2–2

Buxton

0–4

5–1

2–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

2–1

1–1

3–1

2–1

1–3

1–6

1–3

0–2

0–2

0–3

4–1

1–1

0–1

0–4

1–2

Frickley Athletic

0–4

1–3

1–2

1–1

2–1

4–0

1–1

1–2

5–0

3–2

3–1

1–3

1–1

0–2

1–3

1–0

1–0

6–0

1–3

0–3

3–1

1–1

Gainsborough Trinity

2–4

1–1

1–2

2–0

1–2

1–1

0–1

1–2

0–1

1–0

2–1

3–3

2–1

2–1

0–1

2–3

1–2

1–2

3–0

1–0

3–0

1–2

Gateshead

0–3

2–4

1–2

0–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–3

0–1

0–1

1–2

2–0

1–3

2–2

1–1

1–2

1–1

2–1

1–1

0–1

0–2

Goole Town

1–1

3–1

3–1

0–0

3–3

2–0

0–0

0–0

1–0

0–0

2–0

1–1

3–2

0–4

1–0

3–0

2–2

2–1

0–2

2–1

2–1

1–2

Kendal Town

0–0

1–0

0–1

0–2

2–4

1–0

0–2

0–0

3–0

0–0

2–0

1–6

0–0

1–3

3–1

0–2

1–0

3–1

2–1

1–1

1–0

2–0

Lancaster City

0–4

3–1

0–1

0–2

4–1

1–3

3–0

1–0

1–2

0–0

5–3

0–0

4–2

2–3

1–0

2–3

1–0

4–0

2–2

1–0

4–1

1–1

Macclesfield Town

1–5

0–0

1–1

0–2

2–2

0–2

2–2

0–1

1–2

1–1

0–1

0–4

1–3

1–1

1–0

3–2

1–1

3–2

1–1

0–2

3–0

1–0

Matlock Town

2–0

1–2

0–1

1–0

4–1

1–0

2–3

4–1

2–2

2–1

2–0

5–0

1–1

2–4

3–2

2–3

6–0

3–1

1–1

3–2

5–1

1–1

Morecambe

2–4

3–1

0–0

0–0

3–1

1–1

2–2

1–2

3–2

3–1

2–0

4–0

0–1

1–2

0–0

1–0

1–3

2–1

0–1

0–1

2–0

1–4

Mossley

1–1

3–0

6–1

1–1

3–1

4–3

2–0

3–3

5–1

2–0

3–1

5–0

3–1

3–2

2–3

4–2

2–2

6–0

1–2

2–1

4–1

4–0

Northwich Victoria

1–0

1–2

3–0

3–0

0–0

4–0

1–2

3–1

0–0

3–0

2–2

3–0

2–1

0–0

2–0

2–3

2–0

0–0

2–2

2–0

2–1

1–1

Runcorn

0–0

0–0

2–1

4–2

6–0

0–1

3–0

2–0

4–0

4–0

1–3

6–0

2–3

2–0

0–2

1–2

0–0

4–1

0–0

3–2

0–0

2–0

Scarborough

1–2

1–1

1–0

0–0

1–1

2–0

3–0

2–1

3–1

5–0

1–3

2–2

0–1

0–0

2–1

4–0

3–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

South Liverpool

1–1

1–1

2–0

3–1

1–0

3–0

2–2

0–1

2–0

2–1

0–2

1–1

0–3

3–1

0–1

2–1

4–1

2–0

0–1

0–2

1–1

1–0

Southport

3–1

0–0

1–2

1–0

2–1

0–0

3–3

0–2

1–1

2–1

2–2

3–2

2–1

1–0

0–1

2–2

0–3

1–2

2–2

1–2

3–1

2–0

Stafford Rangers

1–1

3–2

4–2

0–0

4–3

1–0

0–1

1–1

3–0

7–0

1–1

2–0

1–2

0–0

0–2

3–0

4–0

0–0

5–1

1–1

0–2

0–0

Workington

0–4

3–1

3–0

1–2

2–1

2–2

0–0

3–2

3–3

0–1

0–0

2–0

1–0

3–1

0–6

4–1

1–1

3–2

6–1

0–2

1–0

3–0

Worksop Town

1–2

1–3

3–1

1–1

0–1

3–3

1–1

2–1

0–1

1–0

0–1

3–1

2–5

3–2

1–2

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

0–2

2–2

1–0

Updated to games played on 21 May 1979.
Source: Northern Premier Division results grid
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Cup Results

Challenge Cup:

• Mossley 4–1 Northwich Victoria

Northern Premier League Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.

• Altrincham ¹ bt. Mossley

^{1 As Mossley won both the Northern Premier League and the NPL cup, Altrincham qualified as 2nd placed team of the NPL.}

External links

• Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF