Northern Premier League Division One North

Northern Premier League Division One North

Country	England
Founded	2007
Number of teams	22
Level on pyramid	Level 8
Promotion to	NPL Premier Division
Relegation to	Northern League Division One NWCL Premier Division NCEL Premier Division
Domestic cup(s)	FA Cup FA Trophy Challenge Cup Peter Swales Shield
Current champions	Warrington Town (2015–16)
Website	Official website
2016–17

Division One North is one of the two second-tier divisions of the Northern Premier League. It is at tier 4 of the National League System, tier 8 of the English football league system. For sponsorship reasons, it is also referred to as the Evo-Stik League Division One North.

The league currently covers the English regions of the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber and the High Peak district of Derbyshire.

The split of the Northern Premier League First Division resulted in the creation of the Division One North and the Division One South. The division began play at the start of the 2007–08, initially with 18 teams.

At the end of the season, the champion of the league is promoted to the Northern Premier Division. The teams placed 2nd to 5th engage in a playoff to determine which team is also promoted. The teams placed 21st and 22nd are relegated to level 9.^[1]

League system

The League operates a double round robin system, where each team plays each other team twice, once at home and once away. After 42 games the team that is placed top of the league will automatically be promoted to the Northern Premier League Premier Division and the two teams at the bottom of the league will be relegated to one of the feeder leagues (Usually either the North West Counties, Northern Counties East or Northern League).

The teams placed 2nd to 5th will play off for the final promotion spot.

However, for the 1st season of the new division in 2007–08 season, when the league originally split from its traditional one division into a Division North and Division South, the league operated with 18 teams, leading to splitting the league into two separate groups of nine teams each. Each team would play each team in their own group three times (once at home, once away then an extra game where each team received an extra four home games) and play the teams in the other group home and away once each.

This changed back to the traditional format in 2008–09 when more teams entered the league.

Current clubs 2016-17

Club	Home Ground	Finishing position 2015–16
Bamber Bridge	QED Stadium	12th
Brighouse Town	St Giles' Road	14th
Burscough	Victoria Park	5th
Clitheroe	Shawbridge	7th
Colne	XLCR Stadium	Promoted as champions from the NWCFL, 1st
Colwyn Bay	Llanelian Road	Relegated from NPL Premier Division, 23rd
Droylsden	Butcher's Arms Ground	19th
Farsley	Throstle Nest	9th
Glossop North End	Surrey Street	4th
Goole	Victoria Pleasure Grounds	Transferred from Division One South, 19th
Hyde United	Ewen Fields	Relegated from NPL Premier Division, 22nd
Kendal Town	Lakeland Radio Stadium	15th
Lancaster City	Giant Axe	6th
Mossley	Seel Park	13th
Ossett Albion	Our Physio Stadium	10th
Ossett Town	4G Voice & Data Stadium	17th
Prescot Cables	Volair Park	16th
Radcliffe Borough	Stainton Park	18th
Ramsbottom United	Harry Williams Riverside Stadium	Relegated from NPL Premier Division, 24th
Scarborough Athletic	Queensgate	20th
Tadcaster Albion	The Brewers	Promoted as champions from the NCEL, 1st
Trafford	Shawe View	8th

Past champions

From 1987 until 2007, the league was united and just known as the Northern Premier League First Division, before being split into North and South subsections. Here are the champions from when the league was just the NPL First Division.

League summaries

Season	Winners	Promoted	Playoffs	Relegated
2007–08	Bradford Park Avenue	Bradford Park Avenue FC United of Manchester	FC United of Manchester Skelmersdale United Curzon Ashton Bamber Bridge	Bridlington Town
2008–09	Durham City	Durham City Newcastle Blue Star	Skelmersdale United Newcastle Blue Star Colwyn Bay Curzon Ashton	No relegation
2009–10	FC Halifax Town	FC Halifax Town Colwyn Bay	Lancaster City Colwyn Bay Curzon Ashton Skelmersdale United	Rossendale United
2010–11	Chester	Chester Chorley	Skelmersdale United Chorley Curzon Ashton AFC Fylde	No relegation
2011–12	A.F.C. Fylde	A.F.C. Fylde Witton Albion	Curzon Ashton Witton Albion Farsley Garforth Town	Durham City^† Woodley Sports^#
2012–13	Skelmersdale United	Skelmersdale United Trafford	Cammell Laird New Mills Trafford Mossley	Garforth Town
2013–14	Curzon Ashton	Curzon Ashton Ramsbottom United	Darlington Warrington Town Bamber Bridge Ramsbottom United	Wakefield^†
2014–15	Salford City	Salford City Darlington 1883	Darlington 1883 Bamber Bridge Northwich Victoria Spennymoor Town	Padiham
2015–16	Warrington Town	Warrington Town Spennymoor Town	Burscough Glossop North End Northwich Victoria Spennymoor Town	Harrogate Railway Athletic New Mills

^{# Relegated for ground standards.}
^{† Voluntarily asked for relegation.}

References

↑ BBC Guide to the Non-League Pyramid

External links

Current league tables

Northern Premier League

Premier Division	Ashton United Barwell Blyth Spartans Buxton Coalville Town Corby Town Frickley Athletic Grantham Town Halesowen Town Hednesford Town Ilkeston Marine Matlock Town Mickleover Sports Nantwich Town Rushall Olympic Skelmersdale United Spennymoor Town Stafford Rangers Stourbridge Sutton Coldfield Town Warrington Town Whitby Town Workington

Division One North	Bamber Bridge Brighouse Town Burscough Clitheroe Colne Colwyn Bay Droylsden Farsley Celtic Glossop North End Goole Hyde United Kendal Town Lancaster City Mossley Ossett Albion Ossett Town Prescot Cables Radcliffe Borough Ramsbottom United Scarborough Athletic Tadcaster Albion Trafford

Division One South	AFC Rushden & Diamonds Basford United Bedworth United Belper Town Carlton Town Chasetown Gresley Kidsgrove Athletic Leek Town Lincoln United Loughborough Dynamo Market Drayton Town Newcastle Town Northwich Victoria Romulus Rugby Town Shaw Lane Sheffield Spalding United Stamford Stocksbridge Park Steels Witton Albion

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 1999–2000 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

See also: Northern Premier League Challenge Cup, Northern Premier League President's Cup, Northern Premier League Chairman's Cup, Peter Swales Shield

Men's football in England

National teams

League competitions

Level 1	Premier League

Levels 2-4	Football League

Levels 5-6	National League

Levels 7-8	Isthmian League Northern Premier League Southern League

Levels 9-10	Combined Counties League East Midlands Counties League (level 10 only) Eastern Counties League Essex Senior League (level 9 only) Hellenic League Midland League Northern Counties East League Northern League North West Counties League Southern Counties East League South West Peninsula League (level 10 only) Spartan South Midlands League Southern Combination League United Counties League Wessex League Western League West Midlands (Regional) League (level 10 only)

Cup competitions

FA cups	FA Cup FA Community Shield FA Trophy FA Vase FA Inter-League Cup

League cups	EFL Cup EFL Trophy Northern Premier League Cup Isthmian League Cup Southern League Cup

County cups	List of County Cups

Others

Reserve and youth football
Defunct leagues
Defunct cups

Lists

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Trophies and awards
History
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