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.[1] 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.Peter Swales Shield: Between Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.
Northern Premier LeaguefootballEnglandNorthern Premier League Premier DivisionAccrington StanleyColwyn BayGatesheadHyde UnitedStalybridge CelticFootball ConferenceHarrogate TownAshton UnitedBarrowVauxhall MotorsWorksop TownBradford Park AvenueHucknall TownDroylsdenWhitby TownMarineWakefield & EmleyRuncorn F.C. HaltonAltrinchamGainsborough TrinityLancaster CityBurscoughBlyth SpartansFrickley AthleticRuncornNorthern Premier League Division OneAlfreton TownRadcliffe BoroughSpennymoor UnitedEastwood TownTraffordBamber BridgeBishop AucklandKidsgrove AthleticNorth Ferriby UnitedChorleyBelper TownWitton AlbionMatlock TownLeek TownWorkingtonFarsley CelticKendal TownGuiseleyLincoln UnitedStocksbridge Park SteelsRossendale UnitedOssett TownSouthportBridlington TownPrescot CablesChallenge CupPresident's CupChairman's CupPeter Swales Shield2002–03 in English football2001–022003–04UEFA Euro 2004qualificationGroup 7Sven-Göran ErikssonPremier LeagueFootball LeagueFirst DivisionSecond DivisionThird Divisionplay-offsIsthmian LeagueSouthern LeagueCombined Counties LeagueEastern Counties LeagueEssex Senior LeagueHellenic LeagueKent LeagueMidland AllianceMidland Football CombinationNorth West Counties LeagueNorthern Counties East LeagueNorthern LeagueSpartan South Midlands LeagueSussex County LeagueUnited Counties LeagueWessex LeagueWest Midlands (Regional) LeagueWestern LeagueFA CupQualifying roundsCommunity ShieldFA TrophyLeague CupFootball League TrophyChampions LeagueUEFA CupArsenalAston VillaBirmingham CityBlackburn RoversBolton WanderersCharlton AthleticChelseaEvertonFulhamLeeds UnitedLiverpoolManchester CityManchester UnitedMiddlesbroughNewcastle UnitedSouthamptonSunderlandTottenham HotspurWest Bromwich AlbionWest Ham UnitedBradford CityBrighton & Hove AlbionBurnleyCoventry CityCrystal PalaceDerby CountyGrimsby TownGillinghamIpswich TownLeicester CityMillwallNorwich CityNottingham ForestPortsmouthPreston North EndReading Rotherham UnitedSheffield UnitedSheffield WednesdayStoke CityWalsallWatfordWimbledonWolverhampton WanderersBarnsleyBlackpoolBrentfordBristol CityCardiff CityColchester UnitedCrewe AlexandraHuddersfield TownLuton TownMansfield TownNorthampton TownOldham AthleticPlymouth ArgylePort ValeQueens Park RangersStockport CountySwindon TownWigan AthleticHartlepool UnitedHull CityRochdaleRushden & DiamondsSouthend UnitedSwansea CityWrexhamNon-LeagueYeovil TownSummer 2002 transfersWinter 2002–03 transfersSummer 2003 transfersBasford UnitedFC United of ManchesterHebburn TownIlkeston TownMacclesfieldMickleoverMorpeth TownStockton TownWarrington Rylands 1906AshingtonBradford (Park Avenue)Brighouse TownCarlton TownCleethorpes TownConsettDunston UTSGarforth TownGrimsby BoroughHeaton StanningtonLiversedgeNewton AycliffeNorth FerribyOssett UnitedPontefract CollieriesSheffieldSherwood CollieryAFC Rushden & DiamondsAnstey NomadsBedworth UnitedBoldmere St MichaelsColeshill TownCorby TownCoventry SphinxDarlaston Town (1874)Grantham TownHinckley LRFCLong Eaton UnitedLoughborough StudentsLye TownRacing Club WarwickRugby TownShepshed DynamoSporting KhalsaSutton Coldfield TownWalsall WoodWellingborough TownWorcester CityAtherton CollieriesBootleChasetownCity of LiverpoolClitheroeCongleton TownHanley TownHednesford TownMossleyNantwich TownNewcastle TownRuncorn LinnetsStafford RangersWidnesWythenshaweWythenshawe Town1968–691969–701970–711971–721972–731973–741974–751975–761976–771977–781978–791979–801980–811981–821982–831983–841984–851985–861986–871987–881988–891989–901990–911991–921992–931993–941994–951995–961996–971997–981998–991999–20002000–012004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–232023–242024–25