2002–03 Northern Premier League

The 2002–03 Northern Premier League season was the 35th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.

Premier Division

Northern Premier League Premier Division
Season	2002–03
Champions	Accrington Stanley
Promoted	Accrington Stanley
Relegated	Colwyn Bay Gateshead Hyde United
Matches played	506
Goals scored	1536 (3.04 per match)
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The Premier League featured three new teams:

Stalybridge Celtic relegated from the Conference
Harrogate Town promoted as champions of Division One
Ashton United promoted via play-offs from Division One

League Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Accrington Stanley !Accrington Stanley (C) (P)	44	30	10	4	97	44	+53	100	Promotion to Conference
2	Barrow !Barrow	44	24	12	8	84	52	+32	84
3	Vauxhall Motors !Vauxhall Motors	44	22	10	12	81	46	+35	76
4	Stalybridge Celtic !Stalybridge Celtic	44	21	13	10	77	51	+26	76
5	Worksop Town !Worksop Town	44	21	9	14	82	67	+15	72
6	Harrogate Town !Harrogate Town	44	21	8	15	75	63	+12	71
7	Bradford Park Avenue !Bradford Park Avenue	44	20	10	14	73	70	+3	70
8	Hucknall Town !Hucknall Town	44	17	15	12	72	62	+10	66
9	Droylsden !Droylsden	44	18	10	16	62	52	+10	64
10	Whitby Town !Whitby Town	44	17	12	15	80	69	+11	63
11	Marine !Marine	44	17	10	17	63	60	+3	61
12	Wakefield & Emley	44	14	18	12	46	49	−3	060^*
13	Runcorn F.C. Halton	44	15	15	14	69	74	−5	60
14	Altrincham !Altrincham	44	17	9	18	58	63	−5	60
15	Gainsborough Trinity !Gainsborough Trinity	44	16	11	17	67	66	+1	59
16	Ashton United !Ashton United	44	15	13	16	71	79	−8	58
17	Lancaster City !Lancaster City	44	16	9	19	71	75	−4	57
18	Burscough !Burscough	44	14	9	21	44	51	−7	51
19	Blyth Spartans !Blyth Spartans	44	14	9	21	67	87	−20	51
20	Frickley Athletic !Frickley Athletic	44	13	8	23	45	78	−33	47
21	Gateshead !Gateshead (R)	44	10	11	23	60	81	−21	41	Qualification for Division One Play-offs
22	Colwyn Bay !Colwyn Bay (R)	44	5	9	30	52	99	−47	24	Relegation to NPL Division One
23	Hyde United !Hyde United (R)	44	5	8	31	40	98	−58	23	Relegation to NPL Division One

Updated to games played on 8 February 2011.
Source: .
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^* From this season onwards Emley were known as Wakefield & Emley.
(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

Home ╲ Away	Accrington Stanley !ACC	Altrincham !ALT	Ashton United !ASH	Barrow !BRW	Blyth Spartans !BLY	Bradford Park Avenue !BPA	Burscough !BUR	Colwyn Bay !COL	Droylsden !DRO	Emley	Frickley Athletic !FRK	Gainsborough Trinity !GAI	Gateshead !GAT	Harrogate Town !HAR	Hucknall Town !HUC	Hyde United !HYD	Lancaster City !LNC	Marine !MAR	Runcorn !RUN	Stalybridge Celtic !STL	Vauxhall Motors !VAU	Whitby Town !WTB	Worksop Town !WKS
Accrington Stanley !Accrington Stanley		3–1	4–1	2–1	3–2	3–1	4–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Altrincham !Altrincham	1–1		1–0	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	4–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–4	0–0	4–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	3–3	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–4
Ashton United !Ashton United	2–2	1–0		2–2	2–1	1–4	0–0	2–2	2–1	3–2	1–3	3–1	5–0	2–3	2–1	2–2	2–3	3–3	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–4
Barrow !Barrow	1–0	4–0	0–3		2–1	3–2	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	3–1
Blyth Spartans !Blyth Spartans	0–3	0–2	4–0	1–1		1–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	2–1	3–2	0–3	1–2	1–3	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–4	2–5	2–1	2–3	2–1
Bradford Park Avenue !Bradford Park Avenue	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	5–1		3–2	4–2	3–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	5–1	0–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	0–1
Burscough !Burscough	0–1	0–3	3–2	2–0	1–3	0–1		3–0	0–0	1–0	4–4	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	3–3	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	3–2
Colwyn Bay !Colwyn Bay	1–2	2–3	1–1	3–4	1–2	2–0	1–3		0–3	2–3	0–3	2–3	0–1	3–6	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–2
Droylsden !Droylsden	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	7–0	2–0	1–0	2–1		3–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–5	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–1
Frickley Athletic !Frickley Athletic	2–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–3	0–0	3–0	0–2		2–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–7	1–3
Gainsborough Trinity !Gainsborough Trinity	1–5	2–1	1–2	0–2	3–2	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–4	2–0		0–1	1–2	2–2	4–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	0–1	4–2
Gateshead !Gateshead	5–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–1		2–3	1–5	2–1	3–3	1–2	2–3	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–3	2–3
Harrogate Town !Harrogate Town	0–2	3–0	0–1	3–2	3–1	5–2	2–1	4–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–3	}	2–0	3–1	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–2
Hucknall Town !Hucknall Town	2–1	4–1	2–3	0–3	0–2	1–2	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1		2–0	1–1	2–1	3–3	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0
Hyde United !Hyde United	3–3	0–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–3	2–3	1–5	0–1	1–5	0–1		2–3	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–3	1–4
Lancaster City !Lancaster City	1–2	3–0	1–3	1–5	1–4	2–3	2–1	1–0	0–3	4–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	4–1		1–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	5–2	0–1	1–4
Marine !Marine	0–3	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–1	4–2	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–0	4–2	2–2	2–1	4–1	4–0		0–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	5–5	1–2
Runcorn !Runcorn	0–2	3–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–2	6–2	0–0	0–1	0–5	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1	1–4	2–1		1–0	0–5	4–1	1–1	3–0
Stalybridge Celtic !Stalybridge Celtic	1–4	2–0	4–1	4–3	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	3–0	4–4	4–1	1–2	6–0	1–0	2–1	0–1		2–2	0–0	2–0	4–1
Vauxhall Motors !Vauxhall Motors	0–1	4–0	5–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	5–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	5–1	1–0	6–2	1–1	2–1	2–1		1–0	3–2	0–1
Wakefield & Emley	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–4	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1		1–0	1–0
Whitby Town !Whitby Town	0–3	0–1	3–2	1–1	4–4	0–1	0–2	1–0	5–2	3–1	3–0	2–2	4–2	3–3	3–2	2–3	2–0	0–3	1–2	1–2	0–1		0–1
Worksop Town !Worksop Town	1–4	1–2	3–2	0–2	1–1	7–1	0–2	4–1	4–1	2–4	0–1	2–0	1–2	5–4	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–0

Updated to games played on 26 April 2003.
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

Northern Premier League Division One
Season	2002–03
Champions	Alfreton Town
Promoted	Alfreton Town Radcliffe Borough Spennymoor United
Relegated	Eastwood Town Trafford
Matches played	465
Goals scored	1407 (3.03 per match)
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

Division One featured four new teams:

Bamber Bridge relegated from Premier Division
Bishop Auckland relegated from Premier Division
Alfreton Town promoted as champions of the Northern Counties East Premier Division
Kidsgrove Athletic promoted as champions of the North West Counties Division One

League Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Alfreton Town !Alfreton Town (C) (P)	42	26	9	7	106	59	+47	87	Promotion to Premier Division
2	Spennymoor United !Spennymoor United (P)	42	27	6	9	81	42	+39	87	Promotion to Premier Division
3	Radcliffe Borough !Radcliffe Borough (P)	42	25	10	7	90	46	+44	85	Qualification for Play-offs
4	North Ferriby United !North Ferriby United	42	23	9	10	78	45	+33	78
5	Chorley !Chorley	42	21	10	11	80	51	+29	73
6	Belper Town !Belper Town	42	20	13	9	53	42	+11	73
7	Witton Albion !Witton Albion	42	19	15	8	67	50	+17	72
8	Matlock Town !Matlock Town	42	20	10	12	67	48	+19	70
9	Leek Town !Leek Town	42	20	9	13	63	46	+17	69
10	Workington !Workington	42	19	10	13	73	60	+13	67
11	Farsley Celtic !Farsley Celtic	42	17	11	14	66	67	−1	62
12	Kendal Town !Kendal Town	42	18	7	17	68	58	+10	61
13	Bamber Bridge !Bamber Bridge	42	15	9	18	55	59	−4	54
14	Guiseley !Guiseley	42	14	11	17	68	63	+5	53
15	Bishop Auckland !Bishop Auckland	42	13	10	19	58	83	−25	49
16	Lincoln United !Lincoln United	42	12	9	21	67	77	−10	45
17	Stocksbridge Park Steels !Stocksbridge Park Steels	42	11	9	22	54	81	−27	42
18	Rossendale United !Rossendale United	42	12	5	25	58	88	−30	41
19	Kidsgrove Athletic !Kidsgrove Athletic	42	9	11	22	49	71	−22	38
20	Ossett Town !Ossett Town	42	8	9	25	39	80	−41	33
21	Eastwood Town !Eastwood Town (R)	42	5	8	29	33	92	−59	23	Relegation to NCEFL Premier Division
22	Trafford !Trafford (R)	42	5	6	31	34	99	−65	21	Relegation to NWCFL Division One

Updated to games played on 8 February 2011.
Source: .
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

Home ╲ Away	Alfreton Town !ALF	Bamber Bridge !BAM	Belper Town !BLP	Bishop Auckland !BIS	Chorley !CHO	Eastwood Town !EAS	Farsley Celtic !FAR	Guiseley !GUI	Kendal Town !KEN	Kidsgrove Athletic !KID	Leek Town !LEE	Lincoln United !LIN	Matlock Town !MAT	North Ferriby United !NFU	Ossett Town !OST	Radcliffe Borough !RAD	Rossendale United !Rossendale United	Spennymoor United !SPU	Stocksbridge Park Steels !STO	Trafford !TRA	Witton Albion !WTN	Workington !WRK
Alfreton Town !Alfreton Town		1–1	1–2	4–1	1–3	4–1	2–0	1–3	4–3	2–0	1–2	2–2	2–0	3–4	5–1	3–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	6–1	1–1	3–0
Bamber Bridge !Bamber Bridge	0–2		0–0	1–2	2–0	2–2	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–4	2–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	5–1	1–2	1–0
Belper Town !Belper Town	2–5	2–1		3–1	4–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	4–3	1–0	1–1	1–0
Bishop Auckland !Bishop Auckland	0–0	2–2	2–2		2–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–5	1–3	3–1	1–3	5–3	3–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–3
Chorley !Chorley	2–4	3–1	1–2	4–1		3–1	1–1	2–3	5–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	1–0	1–1
Eastwood Town !Eastwood Town	0–4	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–1		1–4	1–3	1–3	4–4	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–3	0–3
Farsley Celtic !Farsley Celtic	0–3	2–1	0–1	3–0	3–3	2–1		2–2	0–1	5–4	4–3	4–1	1–5	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–3	0–1	0–1
Guiseley !Guiseley	2–2	3–3	0–0	7–0	2–1	4–0	0–1		1–2	0–0	2–2	4–0	0–3	1–2	2–6	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	2–2
Kendal Town !Kendal Town	4–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–1		1–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	3–3	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	4–1	1–2	3–3
Kidsgrove Athletic !Kidsgrove Athletic	0–1	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–1	3–1		0–4	2–4	2–3	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–3	2–0	2–2	1–1
Leek Town !Leek Town	3–2	0–1	4–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0		2–3	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–3	3–2	1–1	1–2	0–1
Lincoln United !Lincoln United	1–3	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–2	6–0	4–1	2–3	3–1	0–2	0–0		1–5	4–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	2–0	5–0	0–1	1–2
Matlock Town !Matlock Town	2–4	1–0	0–0	4–2	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–5	2–0	0–1	1–2		1–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	3–2
North Ferriby United !North Ferriby United	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–3	5–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	0–0		7–1	4–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1
Ossett Town !Ossett Town	1–2	4–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–5	1–1	0–0	0–4		0–4	2–1	0–1	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–2
Radcliffe Borough !Radcliffe Borough	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	2–4	5–1	0–1	4–1	0–1	2–0	7–1		2–1	7–4	4–0	4–2	4–2	1–1
Rossendale United !Rossendale United	3–4	1–3	0–4	3–1	0–1	2–3	4–3	1–4	1–4	1–0	1–0	3–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–3		1–2	6–3	3–1	1–3	1–2
Spennymoor United !Spennymoor United	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	3–0	0–2	3–0		6–0	3–0	3–0	2–1
Stocksbridge Park Steels !Stocksbridge Park Steels	2–3	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–4	2–1	1–3	2–3	1–1	3–4	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	5–1	0–3		2–0	1–1	1–2
Trafford !Trafford	2–2	1–3	0–2	0–1	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–0	3–1	3–2	1–2	0–4	1–0	0–3	1–2	0–3	3–1		2–3	3–2
Witton Albion !Witton Albion	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	5–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–4	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	5–3	1–1	4–1		2–1
Workington !Workington	0–3	3–3	2–1	2–2	1–1	7–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	5–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	1–2	3–0	3–3

Updated to games played on 26 April 2003.
Source: Northern Premier League First 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.

Play-offs

The Division One play-offs saw the third to fifth placed sides in the Division and the team that finished 21st in the Premier Division compete for one place in the Premier Division.^[1]

Semifinals			Final


3	Radcliffe Borough	1

4	North Ferriby United	0
			3	Radcliffe Borough	2(4)

			5	Chorley	2(2)
5	Chorley	5

21	Gateshead	2

Promotion and relegation

In the thirty-fifth season of the Northern Premier League Accrington Stanley (as champions) were automatically promoted to the Football Conference. Gateshead, Colwyn Bay and Hyde United were relegated to the First Division; these three clubs were replaced by relegated Conference side Southport, First Division winners Alfreton Town, second placed Spennymoor United and third placed Radcliffe Borough (via a Playoff). In the First Division Eastwood Town and Trafford left the League at the end of the season and were replaced by newly admitted Bridlington Town and Prescot Cables.

Cup Results

Challenge Cup: Teams from both leagues.

Marine bt. Gateshead 3–0 on aggregate^[2]

President's Cup: 'Plate' competition for losing teams in the NPL Cup.

Stalybridge Celtic bt. Ashton United

Chairman's Cup: 'Plate' competition for losing teams in the NPL Cup.

Hucknall Town bt. Droylsden

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

Accrington Stanley bt. Marine

External links

Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF

References

↑ "UniBond League Premier Division: Fixtures 2002–03". nonleaguefooty.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
↑ "The Official Gateshead FC Website – Fixtures/Results". Gateshead FC. Archived from the original on 2003-06-22. Retrieved 2011-07-11.

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 1999–00 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

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