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1981–82 Alliance Premier League

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Season
  
1981–82

Runners-up
  
Enfield

Goals scored
  
1,269

Promoted to the Football League
  
None

Champion
  
Runcorn F.C. Halton

Matches played
  
462

1981–82 Alliance Premier League

Champions
  
Runcorn (1st Alliance Premier League title)

Relegated toLevel 6
  
Dartford,Gravesend & Northfleet,AP Leamington

Promoted for the next season
  
Bangor City,Nuneaton,Wealdstone

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1982–83 Alliance Premier League

The Alliance Premier League season of 1981–82 was the third season of the Alliance Premier League.

Contents

New teams in the league this season

  • Dagenham (promoted 1980–81)
  • Dartford (promoted 1980–81)
  • Enfield (promoted 1980–81)
  • Runcorn (promoted 1980–81)
  • Trowbridge Town (promoted 1980–81)

    • Final table

  • Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
  • Points scored during this and the following season: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

    • Results

    Source: Rothmans Football Yearbook 1982–83. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1982.
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

  • Bangor City (from the Northern Premier League)
  • Nuneaton (from the Southern Premier League)
  • Wealdstone (from the Southern Premier League)

    • All of these teams had been relegated from the Alliance Premier League after the 1981–82 season.

    Relegated

  • Dartford (to the Southern Premier League)
  • Gravesend & Northfleet (to the Southern Premier League)
  • AP Leamington (to the Southern Premier League)

    • Election to the Football League

    This year Runcorn, the winners of the Alliance Premier League, could not apply for election because they did not meet Football League requirements. 2nd placed Enfield could not apply either for the same reasons, so 3rd placed Telford United won the right to apply for election to the Football League to replace one of the four bottom sides in the 1981–82 Football League Fourth Division. The vote went as follows:

    As a result of this, Telford United did not gain membership of the Football League.

    References

    1981–82 Alliance Premier League Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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