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1984–85 Northern Premier League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4582098 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1984–85 Northern Premier League season was the 17th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England.

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

Bangor City relegated from Alliance Premier League

League table

Results

Cup Results

Challenge Cup:

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 Alliance Premier League and were successful.

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The public source identifies “1984–85 Northern Premier League” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Northern, Premier and League.

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This entry incorporates text from “1984–85 Northern Premier League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.