1982–83 Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League
Season	1982–83
Champions	Gateshead
Promoted	Gateshead
Relegated	Tamworth; Netherfield
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,476 (3.19 per match)
	← 1981–82 1983–84 →

The 1982–83 Northern Premier League season was the 15th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England.

Overview[]

The League featured twenty-two clubs.

Team changes[]

The following two clubs left the League at the end of the previous season:

Bangor City promoted to Alliance Premier League
Lancaster City relegated to North West Counties League Division One

The following two clubs joined the League at the start of the season:

Chorley promoted from Cheshire County League Division One (returning after a ten year's absence)
Hyde United promoted from Cheshire County League Division One (returning after a twelve year's absence)

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Gateshead (C, P)	42	32	4	6	114	43	+71	100	Promoted to Alliance Premier League
2	Mossley	42	25	9	8	77	42	+35	84
3	Burton Albion	42	24	9	9	81	53	+28	81
4	Chorley	42	23	11	8	77	49	+28	80
5	Macclesfield Town	42	24	8	10	71	49	+22	80
6	Marine	42	17	17	8	81	57	+24	68
7	Workington	42	19	10	13	71	55	+16	67
8	Hyde United	42	18	12	12	91	63	+28	66
9	King's Lynn	42	17	13	12	62	44	+18	64	Transferred to Southern League Premier Division
10	Matlock Town	42	18	10	14	70	65	+5	64
11	Witton Albion	42	17	12	13	82	52	+30	63
12	Buxton	42	17	9	16	60	62	−2	60
13	Morecambe	42	16	11	15	75	66	+9	59
14	Grantham	42	15	13	14	59	60	−1	58
15	Southport	42	11	14	17	58	65	−7	47
16	Goole Town	42	13	7	22	52	66	−14	46
17	Gainsborough Trinity	42	11	9	22	60	71	−11	42
18	Oswestry Town	42	10	8	24	56	99	−43	38
19	South Liverpool	42	7	15	20	57	91	−34	36
20	Tamworth (R)	42	7	8	27	44	97	−53	29	Relegated to Southern League Midland Division
21	Worksop Town	42	5	10	27	50	98	−48	25
22	Netherfield (R)	42	2	9	31	28	129	−101	15	Relegated to NWCL Division One

Source:^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results[]

Home \ Away	BRT	BUX	CHO	GAI	GAT	GOO	GRN	HYD	KEN	KLY	MAC	MAR	MAT	MOR	MOS	OSW	SLI	SOU	TAM	WTN	WRK	WKS
Burton Albion		2–1	4–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	1–2	2–3	5–1	0–2	3–1	3–2	3–2	3–1	0–3	3–1	4–0
Buxton	0–2		0–1	4–0	1–2	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–5	1–0	4–1	2–0	4–1	3–2	1–0	1–4	1–1
Chorley	1–2	3–1		0–2	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2
Gainsborough Trinity	1–2	3–1	1–1		2–4	3–0	1–3	1–2	0–0	0–3	3–4	0–2	0–2	1–2	2–1	6–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	3–4	3–3
Gateshead	2–0	3–1	1–2	4–1		6–0	4–0	3–2	8–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	5–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	3–1	6–0
Goole Town	0–2	3–0	2–4	0–0	1–3		1–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	1–3	0–3	4–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–1
Grantham Town	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–1		0–0	4–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	1–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–0
Hyde United	5–3	1–2	0–0	2–1	4–4	2–1	2–1		8–1	2–0	2–0	3–3	2–1	3–3	2–3	3–2	7–1	3–0	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–1
Kendal Town	0–1	0–4	0–3	1–1	0–1	3–1	0–2	2–5		0–3	0–4	0–0	1–1	2–3	1–2	0–0	2–2	0–2	3–1	0–3	0–3	0–3
King's Lynn	3–3	5–2	2–2	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	5–0		1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	5–1	4–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1
Macclesfield Town	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	6–0	0–4		1–1	0–2	4–2	0–1	3–2	1–0	3–2	1–0	3–2	2–2	2–1
Marine	3–3	1–1	5–1	2–2	3–2	5–2	1–1	2–1	5–1	1–3	2–3		1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–3	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–1	4–2
Matlock Town	0–0	2–1	1–3	0–2	0–5	2–0	2–1	2–2	3–3	1–3	4–0	0–2		2–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	5–1
Morecambe	2–2	1–2	0–3	2–4	1–2	1–3	0–0	3–1	5–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–0		2–0	2–2	3–2	1–1	5–1	3–0	0–0	1–0
Mossley	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	4–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	3–2	3–1		1–3	3–0	1–4	5–0	2–2	1–0	5–1
Oswestry Town	2–1	3–3	0–4	0–1	0–5	1–0	2–1	1–6	3–1	1–4	0–2	0–2	1–2	4–2	1–2		1–1	2–2	1–3	4–3	1–2	0–0
South Liverpool	0–2	0–1	1–4	0–3	1–2	0–2	2–2	2–2	6–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–4	0–0	3–1		1–1	2–2	2–7	2–1	2–1
Southport	2–1	0–0	0–1	4–2	0–2	3–1	0–2	2–3	3–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	2–3	2–3		1–0	1–2	1–2	3–2
Tamworth	0–3	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–6	1–3	0–4	2–3	1–5	2–3		1–2	1–3	3–2
Witton Albion	0–1	1–2	3–3	3–1	1–1	2–1	4–0	0–0	8–0	3–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	3–3	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	4–1		2–2	4–1
Workington	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–4	6–0	2–1	4–0	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–4	0–2	4–1	1–0	3–2	2–2	2–2	2–1		3–0
Worksop Town	1–4	4–1	0–3	0–0	1–2	3–2	0–2	2–2	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–2	0–3	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–2	3–2	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 7 May 1983. Source: Northern Premier Division results grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.