2012–13 Northern Football League

Ebac Northern League

Season	2012–13
← 2011–12 2013-14 →

The 2012–13 Northern Football League season (known as the 2012–13 Ebac Northern League for sponsorship reasons) is the 115th in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in England. Teams are divided into two divisions.

Division One

Ebac Northern League Division One

Champions	Darlington 1883
Promoted	Darlington 1883
Relegated	South Shields Norton & Stockton Ancients
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1981 (3.59 per match)
Top goalscorer	Andrew Johnson (Bishop Auckland) (38 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Shildon 11–0 South Shields 5 September 2012
Biggest away win	Newton Aycliffe 0–8 Billingham Town 29 September 2012
Highest scoring	Shildon 11–0 South Shields 5 September 2012 Whitley Bay 8–3 Penrith 10 November 2012
Highest attendance	2,670 - Spennymoor Town 1–3 Darlington 1883 15 February 2013
Lowest attendance	24 - Team Northumbria 5–1 Sunderland RCA 8 April 2013
Average attendance	226

Division One features 19 teams which competed in the first division last season, along with five new teams:

• Celtic Nation (formerly Gillford Park), Hebburn Town & Team Northumbria, promoted from the Second Division
• Durham City, resigned from the Northern Premier League at the conclusion of the previous season
• Darlington 1883, 22nd in Conference National (demoted four divisions by The Football Association)^[2]

• From this league, only Bishop Auckland, Celtic Nation, Darlington 1883 and Spennymoor Town applied for promotion.^[3][4]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Darlington 1883 (C) (P)	46	40	2	4	145	35	+110	122	Promotion to Northern Premier League Division One North
2	Spennymoor Town	46	33	10	3	108	34	+74	109
3	Whitley Bay	46	27	7	12	110	62	+48	88
4	West Auckland Town	46	25	9	12	112	75	+37	84
5	Dunston UTS	46	23	10	13	74	50	+24	79
6	Bishop Auckland	46	24	7	15	95	77	+18	79
7	Ashington	46	21	13	12	106	68	+38	76
8	Shildon	46	19	12	15	83	69	+14	69
9	Consett	46	19	11	16	68	63	+5	68
10	Celtic Nation	46	19	10	17	80	79	+1	67
11	Guisborough Town	46	20	6	20	78	87	−9	66
12	Bedlington Terriers	46	18	7	21	90	83	+7	61
13	Billingham Synthonia	46	17	10	19	79	83	−4	61
14	Penrith	46	17	9	20	92	96	−4	60
15	Durham City	46	17	8	21	90	90	0	59
16	Team Northumbria	46	14	14	18	63	80	−17	56
17	Newton Aycliffe	46	16	5	25	71	89	−18	53
18	Hebburn Town	46	15	8	23	81	109	−28	53
19	Marske United	46	15	4	27	66	91	−25	49
20	Billingham Town	46	13	8	25	84	125	−41	47
21	Newcastle Benfield	46	14	4	28	51	88	−37	46
22	Sunderland RCA (R)	46	12	8	26	62	103	−41	041^†	Relegation to Northern League Division Two
23	South Shields (R)	46	11	5	30	54	117	−63	38
24	Norton & Stockton Ancients (R)	46	6	7	33	39	128	−89	25

Updated to games played on 17 May 2013.
Source: League Official
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^†Sunderland RCA deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.^[5]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

ASH

BED

BLS

BLT

BIS

CEL

CON

DAR

DUN

DUR

GUI

HEB

MAR

NCB

NTA

NSA

PEN

SHI

SSH

SPE

RCA

TNO

WAT

WHI

Ashington

3–3

2–1

8–1

0–1

4–1

0–0

0–1

1–1

6–2

1–2

1–1

2–2

3–0

3–1

4–1

2–2

1–2

2–0

1–2

3–1

2–0

3–3

1–2

Bedlington Terriers

4–0

6–0

0–2

1–3

2–4

1–3

0–4

1–1

6–2

1–0

5–2

3–1

4–0

0–0

0–0

3–1

8–1

1–2

0–6

2–3

5–1

4–2

1–1

Billingham Synthonia

2–2

1–3

0–1

3–2

1–3

1–1

1–4

0–0

1–1

0–2

1–1

4–1

3–4

0–1

2–2

1–0

1–1

4–1

0–1

2–0

3–2

2–2

2–1

Billingham Town

2–4

4–4

1–3

2–5

0–0

1–0

1–7

2–5

2–2

4–2

2–5

0–4

2–1

3–2

3–0

2–1

0–0

2–1

0–3

1–1

4–0

1–4

1–2

Bishop Auckland

2–1

2–1

0–8

6–2

1–2

1–1

1–3

0–0

2–3

2–1

0–1

3–2

3–0

3–1

4–0

6–2

1–3

4–2

1–1

1–0

2–0

3–4

1–4

Celtic Nation

2–0

2–0

1–4

3–1

2–2

2–2

1–2

0–1

2–1

3–2

3–0

1–1

2–1

1–1

1–0

3–3

2–3

1–0

0–3

2–1

3–3

1–3

1–3

Consett

2–2

1–0

4–1

3–2

4–2

2–0

0–3

1–0

0–2

1–0

2–3

1–2

1–2^^[‡]

1–3

2–0

0–2

1–1

1–1

2–2

3–0

0–1

3–4

0–1

Darlington 1883

6–1

3–1

4–1

3–2

2–2

1–0

5–0

4–0

3–1

3–0

1–0

3–0

5–2

1–0

6–1

1–0

4–0

2–1

0–0

7–2

3–1

2–0

3–1

Dunston UTS

2–2

2–1

2–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

0–2

0–3

3–1

4–0

3–1

3–0

2–0

0–2

3–0

2–3

1–3

4–0

2–2

0–1

1–0

5–2

2–1

Durham City

2–3

3–1

1–2

6–1

0–2

6–3

3–2

0–4

2–0

1–2

4–2

0–1

4–0

5–2

1–2

4–4

1–0

6–1

2–3

1–2

0–2

3–1

0–4

Guisborough Town

1–0

1–2

2–4

3–7

3–2

3–1

0–2

4–1

1–1

3–0

4–3

1–0

1–0

5–1

5–0

0–3

0–3

1–3

0–6

2–1

1–1

3–2

1–3

Hebburn Town

3–5

2–3

4–0

4–3

0–0

4–3

1–1

1–7

0–3

0–1

1–3

4–3

1–1

1–2

3–3

1–4

3–2

0–4

0–4

3–3

2–2

0–3

4–1

Marske United

1–5

3–1

0–3

3–1

1–3

2–1

1–2

0–5

0–2

1–3

0–1

2–4

2–1

1–0

1–0

2–2

2–2

1–2

2–3

1–3

4–0

1–0

0–3

Newcastle Benfield

0–2

2–0

0–2

2–1

0–1

0–4

0–1

0–4

1–2

1–0

4–4

1–3

2–1

1–0

1–0

2–3

1–0

0–0

0–2

1–0

1–1

1–3

2–4

Newton Aycliffe

2–1

4–0

1–1

0–8

1–5

1–2

0–2

2–1

0–1

0–1

3–1

1–4

1–0

0–3

4–0

1–3

3–1

2–3

1–2

2–0

5–1

2–1

2–3

Norton & Stockton Ancients

0–5

1–0

1–0

3–3

0–2

1–4

0–4

2–4

1–2

0–3

0–1

1–0

0–3

3–1

0–5

1–2

2–2

1–2

0–6

1–3

1–1

0–7

1–3

Penrith

3–4

1–4

5–0

2–2

0–2

5–1

1–2

1–4

2–2

3–2

0–1

1–2

1–2

3–1

1–3

6–0

2–2

3–2

3–2

2–1

0–1

0–1

2–2

Shildon

0–2

3–0

2–1

1–3

2–1

2–2

4–1

0–2

0–2

3–1

2–0

3–2

2–3

2–0

2–1

2–0

4–1

11–0

1–1

2–3

1–1

1–1

0–2

South Shields

0–2

1–3

0–1

3–2

0–1

2–1

1–2

0–3

0–4

1–1

3–2

0–2

0–4

0–2

3–3

3–2

5–1

0–2

0–4

2–4

1–3

1–1

1–6

Spennymoor Town

0–0

0–0

4–2

3–0

4–0

1–1

3–1

1–3

2–0

3–2

2–2

3–0

1–0

2–0

2–0

2–0

0–1

2–0

1–0

2–1

3–0

2–0

3–1

Sunderland RCA

0–6

0–1

1–3

2–0^^[†]

1–5

0–2

2–2

0–4

0–1

1–1

3–3

1–0

3–2

0–3

2–2

3–4

2–0

0–3

3–2

1–1

2–3

1–2

0–1

Team Northumbria

1–1

2–3

2–2

3–0

3–1

1–3

0–0

2–0

2–0

0–0

1–1

0–2

3–2

2–4

3–0

2–2

1–2

1–1

2–0

0–2

5–1

0–1

2–2

West Auckland Town

2–2

2–1

2–4

4–1

5–1

0–1

2–0

2–1

3–2

3–3

2–0

4–1

2–1

3–2

4–2

4–2

2–2

0–0

6–0

2–3

6–2

0–1

3–2

Whitley Bay

1–3

1–0

2–1

6–0

0–2

2–2

0–2

0–3

1–0

2–2

0–3

5–0

4–0

2–0

3–1

3–0

8–3

3–1

3–0

2–3

1–1

6–0

2–2

Updated to games played on 17 May 2013.
Source: League Official
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
^{† ^ RCA v BLT} (6 Apr 1-0) : Billingham Town have asked for the game to be replayed. - new date is 7 May 2013.^{[5]
‡ ^ CON v NCB} (29 Apr 0-2) : Abn 77 mins floodlight failure. - Replay is 13 May 2013.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Division Two

Ebac Northern League Division Two

Champions	Crook Town
Promoted	Crook Town Morpeth Town Jarrow Roofing BCA
Relegated	Ryhope Colliery Welfare Horden Colliery Welfare
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1706 (3.69 per match)
Top goalscorer	John Butler (Ryhope Colliery Welfare) (56 goals)[6]
Biggest home win	Jarrow Roofing BCA 10–2 Horden Colliery Welfare 26 December 2012 Morpeth Town 9–1 Darlington Railway Athletic 5 January 2013
Biggest away win	Brandon United 1–10 Jarrow Roofing BCA 27 April 2013
Highest scoring	Jarrow Roofing BCA 10–2 Horden Colliery Welfare 26 December 2012
Highest attendance	186 - Seaham Red Star 2–5 Crook Town 19 October 2012
Lowest attendance	13 - Horden Colliery Welfare 1–2 Stokesley Sports Club 10 November 2012
Average attendance	68

Division Two features 18 teams which competed in the second division last season, along with four new teams:

• Jarrow Roofing BCA, Stokesley Sports Club & Tow Law Town, relegated from the First Division.
• Ryhope Colliery Welfare, promoted from the Wearside Football League.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Crook Town (C) (P)	42	32	5	5	123	60	+63	101	Promotion to Northern League Division One
2	Ryhope Colliery Welfare (R)	42	30	8	4	147	52	+95	98	failing to comply with necessary ground grading requirements. ^^[#]
3	Morpeth Town (P)	42	25	10	7	108	51	+57	85	Promotion to Northern League Division One
4	Jarrow Roofing BCA	42	26	7	9	100	46	+54	85
5	Darlington Railway Athletic	42	22	12	8	82	57	+25	78
6	Northallerton Town	42	23	8	11	101	63	+38	77
7	West Allotment Celtic	42	23	8	11	95	66	+29	77
8	North Shields	42	21	7	14	72	54	+18	70
9	Whitehaven	42	20	8	14	97	74	+23	065^†
10	Seaham Red Star	42	19	8	15	86	85	+1	65
11	Tow Law Town	42	19	7	16	83	66	+17	64
12	Washington	42	16	4	22	72	93	−21	52
13	Chester-le-Street Town	42	13	10	19	51	73	−22	49
14	Ryton & Crawcrook Albion	42	15	4	23	56	82	−26	49
15	Stokesley Sports Club	42	12	8	22	60	93	−33	44
16	Whickham	42	11	8	23	57	86	−29	41
17	Birtley Town	42	10	8	24	47	83	−36	38
18	Brandon United	42	10	11	21	55	93	−38	038^‡
19	Thornaby	42	9	5	28	59	106	−47	32
20	Esh Winning	42	10	3	29	49	108	−59	030^‡
21	Alnwick Town	42	8	8	26	63	100	−37	029^*
22	Horden Colliery Welfare (R)	42	7	5	30	43	115	−72	26	Relegation to Wearside League/Northern Alliance

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: League Official
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^*Alnwick Town deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.^[7]
†Whitehaven deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.^[8]
‡Esh Winning, Brandon United deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.^[9]
# decided that Ryhope CW will be classed as a "relegated club" (not complied with the grading requirement).^[10] - Promotion mark even though they have, official information is inconsistent.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

ALN

BIR

BRA

CLS

CRO

DRA

ESH

HCW

JRO

MOR

NSH

NOR

RCW

RYC

SRS

SSC

THO

TOW

WAS

WAC

WHC

WHA

Alnwick Town

0–1

2–2

4–1

2–3

0–2

5–1

1–1

0–0

0–4

2–2

0–4

1–1

1–3

3–4

1–1

4–1

2–0

5–2

0–4

0–1

2–4

Birtley Town

3–3

2–1

1–2

1–2

1–1

2–1

0–2

1–2

0–3

0–3

0–2

1–6

0–1

2–1

0–3

4–1

0–2

3–3

2–0

2–2

4–3

Brandon United

4–0

3–1

1–1

1–2

1–5

2–2

3–1

1–10

1–4

2–2

2–1

1–2

1–0

6–3

2–1

0–1

0–4

1–1

0–0

1–1

1–4

Chester-le-Street Town

2–0

2–0

2–2

2–3

1–1

6–1

0–0

0–1

0–2

0–2

1–5

1–2

2–0

1–2

0–1

1–0

0–5

0–0

1–1

1–2

2–1

Crook Town

3–2

5–1

2–2

6–0

2–2

2–0

4–1

1–1

3–2

3–1

2–0

3–2

5–0

7–1

2–0

6–1

1–3

7–1

2–0

1–1

3–1

Darlington Railway Athletic

4–2

2–1

1–1

0–0

3–2

8–1

3–1

1–0

1–2

2–1

1–2

1–6

1–0

1–1

5–0

4–2

3–0

0–1

1–1

1–0

0–0

Esh Winning

2–1

0–2

2–0

0–1

6–2

1–1

1–2

2–0

1–5

1–2

3–1

0–5

0–3

4–1

2–3

0–5

0–2

0–4

0–3

4–2

2–3

Horden Colliery Welfare

1–2

2–2

3–0

1–2

1–2

0–1

1–0

0–3

1–3

0–3

1–4

0–5

1–3

0–4

1–2

2–1

1–2

2–0

2–5

1–3

2–6

Jarrow Roofing BCA

3–1

4–0

3–0

6–1

2–3

0–3

2–0

10–2

3–2

1–0

0–2

2–2

2–0

3–3

3–0

1–1

3–0

1–2

5–1

2–0

3–2

Morpeth Town

4–1

0–0

5–2

4–2

3–1

9–1

1–0

0–0

3–2

1–2

6–0

3–4

2–3

0–3

3–1

2–1

1–0

6–1

1–1

0–0

2–0

North Shields

1–0

1–0

1–0

0–2

2–0

3–0

2–1

2–0

0–0

1–1

0–2

2–2

2–1

7–2

0–1

1–2

0–2

3–0

2–3

3–0

1–1

Northallerton Town

3–1

4–0

4–2

2–0

3–3

1–1

1–2

3–0

0–4

0–2

5–1

2–2

1–1

5–2

4–1

7–1

2–2

3–4

0–1

1–0

4–0

Ryhope Colliery Welfare

4–3

2–0

3–0

5–0

2–5

3–0

4–0

5–0

1–0

2–2

1–3

3–1

5–0

2–2

5–0

5–1

1–3

1–0

7–1

3–1

5–2

Ryton & Crawcrook Albion

3–2

0–2

1–1

0–2

1–3

0–1

3–1

1–0

1–2

0–2

1–3

1–1

0–3

4–3

3–2

0–2

0–5

1–0

0–0

3–0

4–6

Seaham Red Star

3–1

1–0

4–0

0–3

2–5

2–2

2–1

3–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

2–4

0–5

3–1

6–0

2–3

2–2

2–0

3–3

0–0

1–2

Stokesley Sports Club

4–0

0–0

0–1

2–2

0–1

0–3

1–1

5–1

0–0

1–1

0–1

0–2

0–7

3–4

1–0

1–3

2–2

3–2

0–2

7–2

2–3

Thornaby

2–3

1–1

0–2

1–3

0–1

0–2

2–3

2–0

0–1

3–3

0–6

3–5

4–4

1–2

0–2

5–2

0–4

2–4

0–2

0–1

1–4

Tow Law Town

0–0

2–0

1–2

3–1

2–3

1–2

3–0

2–3

0–1

3–1

5–1

2–2

2–5

1–4

1–2

2–5

0–0

3–1

1–5

2–0

0–1

Washington

4–2

1–3

3–2

1–0

0–3

1–2

2–0

5–2

2–3

1–3

2–4

2–0

0–6

2–1

1–2

6–0

1–3

1–2

1–4

2–0

2–4

West Allotment Celtic

2–0

4–1

1–0

3–1

2–4

0–4

6–0

7–0

3–5

4–4

2–0

1–4

2–2

2–1

2–1

3–1

5–2

1–3

1–2

2–1

1–0

Whickham

2–3

3–2

3–1

1–1

2–3

5–3

1–2

3–2

1–2

0–3

4–0

1–2

2–5

1–0

1–2

1–3

2–0

2–2

2–2

1–4

1–4

Whitehaven

4–1

2–1

4–0

1–1

1–2

2–2

4–1

2–2

2–3

0–2

1–1

2–2

1–2

5–1

0–3

1–1

3–1

5–2

1–2

1–0

4–1

Updated to games played on 4 May 2013.
Source: League Official
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

1. "Division One (League Only) Top Goalscorers 2012-13". Northern Football League. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
2. "Darlington relegated four divisions after FA recommendation". BBC Sport. 25 May 2012.
3. "Applications For Promotion - Step 5 To Step 4". The Official Website of The North West Counties Football League. 11 December 2012.
4. "Step 4 applications received". TheFA.com. 6 December 2012.
5. "RCA points deduction". Northern League. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
6. "Division Two (League Only) Top Goalscorers 2012-13". Northern Football League. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
7. "Town get points penalty". Northumberland Gazette. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
8. "Whitehaven deducted points". Northern Football League. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
9. "Two clubs deducted points". Northern Football League. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
10. "Ryhope CW". Northern Football League. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.

External links

• Northern League