1985–86 Northern Premier League

Northern Premier League Premier Division

Season	1985–86
Champions	Gateshead
Promoted	Gateshead
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1275 (2.76 per match)
← 1984–85 1986–87 →

The 1985–86 Northern Premier League season was the 18th in the history of the Northern Premier League, a football competition in England. It was known as the Mulipart Premier League for sponsorship reasons.

Final table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Gateshead	42	24	10	8	85	51	+34	82
2	Marine	42	23	11	8	63	35	+28	80
3	Morecambe	42	17	17	8	59	39	+20	68
4	Gainsborough Trinity	42	18	14	10	66	52	+14	68
5	Burton Albion	42	18	12	12	64	47	+17	66
6	Southport	42	17	11	14	70	66	+4	62
7	Worksop Town	42	17	10	15	51	48	+3	61
8	Workington	42	14	18	10	54	46	+8	591
9	Macclesfield Town	42	17	8	17	67	65	+2	59
10	Hyde United	42	14	15	13	63	62	+1	57
11	Witton Albion	42	15	13	14	56	59	−3	571
12	Mossley	42	13	16	13	56	60	−4	55
13	Bangor City	42	13	15	14	51	51	0	54
14	Rhyl	42	14	10	18	65	71	−6	52
15	South Liverpool	42	11	17	14	43	44	−1	50
16	Horwich RMI	42	15	6	21	53	63	−10	501
17	Caernarfon Town	42	11	17	14	51	63	−12	50
18	Oswestry Town	42	12	13	17	51	60	−9	49
19	Buxton	42	11	12	19	55	76	−21	45
20	Chorley	42	9	15	18	56	64	−8	42
21	Matlock Town	42	9	15	18	59	75	−16	42
22	Goole Town	42	7	11	24	37	78	−41	311

^{1 Workington, Witton Albion, Horwich RMI and Goole Town all had 1 point deducted.}

Results

Home ╲ Away

BAN

BRT

BUX

CAN

CHO

GAI

GAT

GOO

HOR

HYD

MAC

MAR

MAT

MOR

MOS

OSW

RHL

CHO

SOU

WTN

WRK

WKS

Bangor City

2–2

1–0

0–1

1–1

3–1

0–2

1–3

3–1

0–1

0–0

1–2

3–2

0–0

1–0

4–0

1–1

2–1

2–3

1–0

1–1

1–0

Burton Albion

0–0

2–0

1–0

2–1

1–0

1–3

5–1

3–0

0–0

1–2

1–1

2–1

1–1

2–2

0–3

2–1

1–0

2–3

3–2

2–0

0–1

Buxton

2–0

1–0

1–3

1–0

0–0

1–5

2–2

1–0

3–2

1–2

0–2

6–2

2–4

0–3

4–2

2–0

0–0

3–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

Caernarfon Town

1–3

0–0

1–1

1–9

2–2

0–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–2

3–1

1–0

3–3

2–1

5–2

1–1

0–0

3–2

0–0

2–2

1–1

Chorley

0–4

0–5

0–0

1–1

0–2

1–1

4–0

1–3

2–2

1–4

0–1

1–1

0–2

0–1

3–1

2–1

2–1

1–1

0–0

2–0

2–1

Gainsborough Trinity

2–0

0–1

4–1

1–0

2–1

2–2

2–1

0–3

2–1

3–1

1–1

4–3

3–0

3–0

2–0

6–2

2–3

5–0

1–1

2–2

1–0

Gateshead

3–0

2–0

5–0

3–2

1–0

4–0

2–0

3–1

1–1

1–3

1–1

2–2

4–2

2–0

2–2

5–4

1–0

3–1

2–0

0–2

2–0

Goole Town

1–1

1–5

2–1

0–1

0–4

1–2

0–2

1–1

1–3

0–0

0–0

2–0

1–2

2–0

2–1

0–3

1–1

1–5

1–1

0–1

2–3

Horwich RMI

1–2

2–1

2–2

1–0

0–0

2–1

2–1

4–0

1–4

2–0

2–3

3–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

2–1

0–1

1–1

0–1

0–3

1–3

Hyde United

0–4

0–0

2–1

2–0

2–1

2–2

3–3

3–2

1–0

0–1

1–3

2–0

0–0

2–0

0–1

3–0

2–2

0–2

2–2

2–2

3–1

Macclesfield Town

4–0

2–1

2–1

7–2

1–1

0–1

1–0

2–1

7–2

2–3

0–1

3–2

0–2

0–1

2–3

0–0

2–2

0–1

1–1

1–1

1–2

Marine

1–1

1–3

2–3

3–1

3–1

3–0

3–1

1–0

1–0

3–0

4–0

1–3

1–0

2–0

2–0

2–3

0–1

2–3

3–1

1–0

1–2

Matlock Town

2–2

0–2

3–2

1–1

2–2

1–1

1–1

3–0

1–3

1–1

0–2

0–0

1–0

4–4

2–3

1–1

2–1

2–1

1–2

2–1

4–2

Morecambe

1–0

1–0

4–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–0

2–0

1–1

1–1

5–1

0–0

0–1

0–2

2–0

2–2

1–1

2–1

4–1

0–0

1–0

Mossley

0–0

3–3

2–1

1–0

2–2

2–2

0–0

1–1

3–2

2–2

5–1

1–1

2–2

1–1

1–0

1–3

0–2

1–2

0–2

1–2

3–1

Oswestry Town

0–0

3–1

0–0

0–0

2–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

2–2

2–4

0–0

3–0

0–0

0–0

2–3

2–1

2–4

2–0

0–1

1–1

Rhyl

3–1

1–0

3–0

3–2

4–1

0–0

2–3

1–1

0–1

3–3

1–0

0–2

2–2

4–2

0–2

1–2

1–1

1–3

2–4

1–3

0–1

South Liverpool

1–1

2–2

1–2

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–0

0–1

0–0

1–2

1–0

0–0

2–2

0–0

1–2

1–2

2–0

0–1

0–2

Southport

3–1

1–2

2–2

3–3

2–1

2–0

3–1

3–1

2–0

2–0

0–2

0–0

2–2

0–3

1–1

0–3

0–1

1–2

1–2

2–2

0–0

Witton Albion

1–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

0–3

1–2

0–2

1–0

1–4

3–2

3–2

0–1

1–1

1–2

5–1

3–1

2–0

1–1

1–1

2–1

1–0

Workington

2–1

1–2

2–1

0–0

1–1

1–1

4–2

1–1

0–0

3–1

3–0

0–0

1–0

0–0

1–2

3–3

0–2

0–0

2–2

1–3

0–1

Worksop Town

1–1

1–1

2–2

1–0

2–2

3–0

1–2

0–1

2–1

1–0

4–2

0–1

1–0

0–2

1–1

0–0

2–1

0–2

2–0

3–1

1–2

Updated to games played on 3 May 1986.
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.

Promotion and relegation

In the eighteenth season of the Northern Premier League Gateshead (as champions) were automatically promoted to the Alliance Premier League; they replaced relegated Barrow, who swapped Leagues with them.

Cup Results

Challenge Cup:

• Hyde United bt. Marine

President's Cup:

• Worksop Town 3–2 Burton Albion

Northern Premier League Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.

• Hyde United 2–4 Gateshead

External links

• Northern Premier League Tables at RSSSF