1972–73 Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League Premier Division
Season	1972–73
Champions	Boston United
Promoted	None
Relegated	Ellesmere Port Town
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,503 (2.72 per match)
Biggest home win	Stafford Rangers 7-0 Barrow^[1] (16 September 1972)
Biggest away win	South Shields (2) 1–5 Lancaster City^[1] (30 December 1972) Barrow 0–4 Bradford Park Avenue (17 March 1973)
Highest scoring	Great Harwood 6–3 Fleetwood^[1] (9 October 1972)
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

The 1972–73 Northern Premier League was the fifth season of the Northern Premier League, a regional football league in Northern England, and the northern areas of the Midlands. The season began on 1 August 1972 and concluded on 4 May 1973.^[1]

New teams

Mossley promoted from Cheshire County League
Barrow relegated from Football League Division Four

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv ¹	Pts ²	Qualification or relegation
1	Boston United (C)	46	27	16	3	88	34	2.59	70
2	Scarborough	46	26	9	11	72	39	1.85	61
3	Wigan Athletic	46	23	14	9	69	38	1.82	60
4	Altrincham	46	22	16	8	75	55	1.36	60
5	Bradford Park Avenue	46	19	17	10	63	50	1.26	56
6	Stafford Rangers	46	20	11	15	63	46	1.37	51
7	Gainsborough Trinity	46	18	13	15	70	50	1.40	49
8	Northwich Victoria	46	17	15	14	74	62	1.19	49
9	Netherfield	46	20	9	17	68	65	1.05	49
10	Macclesfield Town	46	16	16	14	58	47	1.23	48
11	Ellesmere Port Town (R)	46	18	11	17	52	56	0.93	47	Relegated to Lancashire Combination
12	Skelmersdale Ufnited	46	15	16	15	58	59	0.98	46
13	Bangor City	46	16	13	17	70	60	1.17	45
14	Mossley	46	17	11	18	70	73	0.96	45
15	Morecambe	46	17	11	18	62	70	0.89	45
16	Great Harwood	46	14	15	17	63	74	0.85	43
17	South Liverpool	46	12	19	15	47	57	0.82	43
18	Runcorn	46	15	12	19	75	78	0.96	42
19	Goole Town	46	13	13	20	64	73	0.88	39
20	South Shields (2)	46	17	4	25	64	81	0.79	38
21	Matlock Town	46	11	11	24	42	80	0.53	33
22	Lancaster City	46	10	11	25	53	78	0.68	31
23	Barrow	46	12	6	28	52	101	0.51	30
24	Fleetwood	46	5	15	26	31	77	0.40	25

^{1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976–77 season.}

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

(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted

Results

Home ╲ Away	Altrincham !ALT	Bangor City !BAN	Barrow !BRW	Boston United !BOS	Bradford Park Avenue !BPA	Ellesmere Port Town !EPT	Fleetwood Town !FLE	Gainsborough Trinity !GAI	Goole Town !GOO	Great Harwood !GHA	Netherfield !NET	Lancaster City !LNC	Macclesfield Town !MAC	Matlock Town !MAT	Morecambe !MOR	Mossley !MOS	Northwich Victoria !NOR	Runcorn !RUN	Scarborough !SCA	Skelmersdale United !SKU	South Liverpool !SLI	South Shields !SSH	Stafford Rangers !STA	Wigan Athletic !WIG
Altrincham !Altrincham		2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	4–1	0–0	4–2	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	0–1	2–0
Bangor City !Bangor City	4–0		3–0	1–3	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	3–2	4–2	3–1	0–0	1–2	4–0	1–1	3–0	4–2	0–0
Barrow !Barrow	1–2	2–0		1–1	0–4	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–4	0–3	3–1	0–2	4–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	2–3	3–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–1
Boston United !Boston United	4–1	4–3	5–1		3–0	2–2	4–0	1–1	3–0	5–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	4–0	4–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0
Bradford Park Avenue !Bradford Park Avenue	2–3	0–1	4–2	1–1		1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1
Ellesmere Port Town !Ellesmere Port Town	2–2	2–0	4–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–4	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–1
Fleetwood Town !Fleetwood Town	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–2		1–2	1–4	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–3	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Gainsborough Trinity !Gainsborough Trinity	0–0	1–1	5–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	3–0		2–1	4–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	4–0	5–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–3
Goole Town !Goole Town	0–2	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0		1–2	2–1	1–1	4–1	3–3	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	2–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–0
Great Harwood !Great Harwood	1–3	2–0	3–1	2–2	2–3	0–2	6–3	4–2	0–0		3–0	2–0	1–1	4–2	0–3	3–1	3–3	2–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–4	0–0	0–0
Netherfield !Netherfield	2–2	2–1	0–3	2–1	5–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–0	6–2	2–1		1–1	4–3	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–2
Lancaster City !Lancaster City	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–2	0–3	3–0	0–1		0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–2	4–3	1–2	0–1
Macclesfield Town !Macclesfield Town	2–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	4–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–0		3–0	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	4–1	0–2	0–1
Matlock Town !Matlock Town	0–1	0–0	5–0	0–3	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–2	0–3		0–2	1–3	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–4	1–4
Morecambe !Morecambe	4–1	0–2	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–1	4–3	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–0		1–1	2–2	1–1	4–0	0–3	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–0
Mossley !Mossley	2–3	1–4	3–3	3–1	4–2	1–0	5–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–2	2–1		1–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	3–2	3–1	1–3
Northwich Victoria !Northwich Victoria	3–3	3–2	4–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	3–2	6–1	2–2	2–0	1–1		2–1	2–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0
Runcorn !Runcorn	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–4	1–4	2–4	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	4–1	4–0	3–4		3–3	1–1	1–2	5–1	1–0	1–0
Scarborough !Scarborough	0–2	1–0	5–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	3–1		3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0
Skelmersdale United !Skelmersdale United	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	5–0	0–0	1–4	2–1	1–1	4–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	3–2	4–1	1–2	2–3		1–0	0–1	0–2	2–2
South Liverpool !South Liverpool	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–3	2–2	2–0		0–3	1–1	0–0
South Shields !South Shields	1–0	1–2	3–1	1–3	2–1	2–2	0–2	3–2	3–1	0–1	1–5	0–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–0	2–2	3–2	0–1	0–1		3–1	1–2
Stafford Rangers !Stafford Rangers	1–1	1–1	7–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	4–2	0–0	2–0	4–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	4–2	4–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	5–0		2–1
Wigan Athletic !Wigan Athletic	4–1	4–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	4–2	4–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–0

Updated to games played on 3 May 1973.
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.

Promotion and relegation

In the fifth season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams were put forward for election to the Football League nor automatically promoted. Conversely, none of the sides were relegated, but Ellesmere Port Town left the League at the end of the season. They were replaced by newly admitted:

Buxton promoted from Cheshire County League.

Cup results

Challenge Cup:

Northwich Victoria 3–2 agg. Wigan Athletic

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

Boston United bt. Northwich Victoria

References

1 2 3 4 "The Football Archive 72-73". Football Archive.

External links

Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF

Northern Premier League
Premier Division	Altrincham Ashton United Barwell Buxton Coalville Town Farsley Celtic Grantham Town Halesowen Town Hednesford Town Lancaster City Marine Matlock Town Mickleover Sports Nantwich Town Rushall Olympic Shaw Lane Stafford Rangers Stalybridge Celtic Stourbridge Sutton Coldfield Town Warrington Town Whitby Town Witton Albion Workington
Division One North	Atherton Collieries Bamber Bridge Brighouse Town Clitheroe Colne Colwyn Bay Droylsden Glossop North End Goole Hyde United Kendal Town Mossley Ossett Albion Ossett Town Prescot Cables Radcliffe Borough Ramsbottom United Scarborough Athletic Skelmersdale United South Shields Tadcaster Albion Trafford
Division One South	Alvechurch Basford United Bedworth United Belper Town Carlton Town Chasetown Cleethorpes Town Corby Town Frickley Athletic Gresley Kidsgrove Athletic Leek Town Lincoln United Loughborough Dynamo Market Drayton Town Newcastle Town Peterborough Sports Romulus Sheffield Spalding United Stamford Stocksbridge Park Steels
Seasons	1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

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First Division	Arsenal Birmingham City Chelsea Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Everton Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Southampton Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur Wolverhampton Wanderers
Second Division	Aston Villa Blackpool Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Carlisle United Fulham Huddersfield Town Hull City Leyton Orient Luton Town Middlesbrough Millwall Nottingham Forest Oxford United Portsmouth Preston North End Sheffield Wednesday Sunderland Swindon Town West Bromwich Albion West Ham United
Third Division	Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Rovers Charlton Athletic Chesterfield Grimsby Town Halifax Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Rochdale Rotherham United Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swansea City Tranmere Rovers Walsall Watford Wrexham York City
Fourth Division	Aldershot Barnsley Bradford City Bury Cambridge United Chester Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Rovers Exeter City Gillingham Hartlepool United Hereford United Lincoln City Mansfield Town Newport County Northampton Town Peterborough United Reading Southport Stockport County Torquay United Workington

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