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Season
  
2007–08

Champion
  
Fleetwood Town F.C.

Matches played
  
423

Champions
  
Fleetwood Town

Goals scored
  
1,310

2007–08 Northern Premier League

Promoted
  
Fleetwood Town Gateshead

Relegated
  
Leek Town F.C., Stamford A.F.C., Lincoln United F.C.

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2008–09 Northern Premier League

The 2007–08 is the 40th season for the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and the first season for the Northern Premier League Division One North and South.

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Created as part of non-league restructuring, the Division One leagues temporarily have 18 teams each, with a targeted number of 22 teams. To help increase the league to 20 teams for next season there will only be one relegation this year per league. Many clubs expressed their concern that a 34 game season would be too short. To remedy this, clubs will play an extra 8 games (4 home, 4 away) against teams within geographically related groups.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured four new clubs:

  • Buxton, promoted as champions from NPL Division One
  • Eastwood Town, promoted via play-offs from NPL Division One
  • Stamford, transferred from the Southern Football League
  • Worksop Town, relegated from the Conference North

    • League table

    Updated to games played on 30 Apr 2008.
    Source: Unibond League
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    * Deducted 1 points for fielding an ineligible player.
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Results

    Updated to games played on 26 April 2008.
    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.

    Division One North

    This was the first season of the Northern Premier League Division One North. It Featured six new teams:

  • Mossley relegated from the Premier Division
  • Radcliffe Borough relegated from the Premier Division
  • Garforth Town promoted as fourth in the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division
  • Newcastle Blue Star promoted from the Northern League Division One
  • F.C. United of Manchester promoted as champions of the North West Counties Division One
  • Curzon Ashton promoted as runners-up of the North West Counties Division One
  • Lancaster City as reformed club

    • Fixture increase

    The following are the groups which decided the extra 8 games for all teams:

    League table

    Updated to games played on 26 Apr 2008.
    Source: Unibond League
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Results

    Updated to games played on 26 April 2008.
    Source: Northern Premier League First Division North results grid
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Division One South

    This was the first season of the Northern Premier League Division One South. It featured seven new teams:

  • Nantwich Town promoted as third in the North West Counties Football League Premier Division
  • Retford United promoted as champions of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division
  • Sheffield promoted as runners-up in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division
  • Carlton Town promoted as third in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division
  • Quorn promoted as third in the Midland Football Alliance
  • Spalding United promoted from the United Counties League
  • Grantham Town relegated from the Premier Division

    • Fixture increase

    The following are the groups which decided the extra 8 games for all teams:

    League table

    Updated to games played on 26 Apr 2008.
    Source: Unibond League
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    1Failed to meet ground grading requirements
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Results

    Updated to games played on 26 April 2008.
    Source: Northern Premier League First Division South results grid
    1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
    Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Cup results

    Challenge Cup: Teams from all 3 divisions.

  • Eastwood Town 3–0 Skelmersdale United

    • President's Cup: Teams from lower 2 divisions.

  • FC United of Manchester 2–0 Radcliffe Borough

    • Chairman's Cup: Between Champions of NPL Division One North and NPL Division One South.

  • Retford United 2–0 Bradford Park Avenue

    • Peter Swales Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the Chairmans Cup.

  • Fleetwood Town 2–1 Bradford Park Avenue1

    • 1 Retford United qualified but its ground standards were not high enough for it to play in the shield.

    References

    2007–08 Northern Premier League Wikipedia
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