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1979–80 Alliance Premier League

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Season
  
1979–80

Promoted to the Football League
  
None

Relegated to Level 6
  
Redditch United

Champion
  
Altrincham F.C.

Matches played
  
380

Champions
  
Altrincham

Runners-up
  
Weymouth

Promoted for next season
  
Frickley Athletic

Goals scored
  
972

1979–80 Alliance Premier League

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1981–82 Alliance Premier League

The Alliance Premier League season of 1979–80 was the inaugural season of the Alliance Premier League – the first league outside the Football League to cover the whole of England.

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Overview

Between 1979–2004 the single-division Alliance Premier League formed Level 5 of the English football league system. Since 2004 two regional divisions were added at Level 6.

The founder members of the Alliance Premier League were drawn from the Southern League and Northern Premier League, covering the country from Yeovil Town in the South West to Barrow in the far North. One club from Wales – Bangor City – also participated.

Final table

  • Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
  • Points were scored until the 1981–82 season as follows: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.
  • Results

    Source: Rothmans Football Yearbook 1980–81. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1981.
    ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

  • Frickley Athletic (from the Northern Premier League)
  • Relegated

  • Redditch United (to the Southern League Midland Division)
  • Election to the Football League

    As winners of the Alliance Premier League, Altrincham won the right to apply for election to the Football League to replace one of the four bottom teams in the 1979–80 Football League Division Four. The vote went as follows:

    As a result of this, Altrincham failed to be elected to membership of the Football League, falling just one point behind Fourth Division's bottom club Rochdale.

    References

    1979–80 Alliance Premier League Wikipedia