2017–18 National League North

National League North 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Salford City
Promoted	Salford City Harrogate Town
Relegated	North Ferriby United Gainsborough Trinity Tamworth
Season statistics
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The division will consist of 22 clubs.

Team changes

To National League North Promoted from Northern Premier League Blyth Spartans Spennymoor Town Promoted from Southern League Premier Division Leamington Relegated from National League North Ferriby United Southport York City

From National League North Relegated to Northern Premier League Altrincham Stalybridge Celtic Demoted to Midland Football League Worcester City Transferred to National League South Gloucester City Promoted to National League Fylde Halifax Town

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Telford United	Telford	New Bucks Head	6,300
Alfreton Town	Alfreton	North Street	3,600
Blyth Spartans	Blyth	Croft Park	4,435
Boston United	Boston	York Street	6,643
Brackley Town	Brackley	St. James Park	3,500
Bradford Park Avenue	Bradford	Horsfall Stadium	3,500
Chorley	Chorley	Victory Park	4,100
Curzon Ashton	Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside Stadium	4,000
Darlington 1883	Darlington	Blackwell Meadows	3,300
F.C. United of Manchester	Manchester	Broadhurst Park	4,400
Gainsborough Trinity	Gainsborough	The Northolme	4,304
Harrogate Town	Harrogate	Wetherby Road	3,800
Kidderminster Harriers	Kidderminster	Aggborough	6,238
Leamington	Leamington	New Windmill Ground	3,000
North Ferriby United	North Ferriby	Grange Lane	2,200
Nuneaton Town	Nuneaton	Liberty Way	4,314
Salford City	Salford	Moor Lane	2,164
Southport	Southport	Haig Avenue	7,177
Spennymoor Town	Spennymoor	The Brewery Field	6,000
Stockport County	Stockport	Edgeley Park	10,852
Tamworth	Tamworth	The Lamb Ground	4,000
York City	York	Bootham Crescent	8,256

League table

2017–18 National North League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Salford City  (C) (P)	42	28	7	7	80	45	+35	91	Promotion to the National League
2	Harrogate Town  (P)	42	26	7	9	100	49	+51	85	Qualification to the National League North play-offs
3	Brackley Town	42	23	11	8	72	37	+35	80
4	Kidderminster Harriers	42	20	12	10	76	50	+26	72	Qualification to the National League North play-off qualifying round
5	Stockport County	42	20	9	13	75	57	+18	69
6	Chorley	42	18	14	10	52	39	+13	68
7	Bradford Park Avenue	42	18	9	15	66	56	+10	63
8	Spennymoor Town	42	18	9	15	71	67	+4	63
9	Boston United	42	17	9	16	67	66	+1	60
10	Blyth Spartans	42	19	2	21	76	69	+7	59
11	York City	42	16	10	16	65	62	+3	58
12	Darlington 1883	42	14	13	15	58	58	0	55
13	Nuneaton Town	42	14	13	15	50	57	−7	55
14	A.F.C. Telford United	42	16	5	21	55	69	−14	53
15	Southport	42	14	8	20	60	72	−12	50
16	F.C. United of Manchester	42	14	8	20	58	72	−14	50
17	Alfreton Town	42	14	7	21	67	71	−4	49
18	Curzon Ashton	42	12	13	17	52	66	−14	49
19	Leamington	42	13	10	19	51	65	−14	49
20	Gainsborough Trinity  (R)	42	14	4	24	47	73	−26	46	Relegation to the Northern Premier League
21	Tamworth  (R)	42	11	9	22	55	77	−22	42	Relegation to the Southern League Central Division
22	North Ferriby United  (R)	42	4	9	29	25	101	−76	21	Relegation to the Northern Premier League

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Play-offs

	Qualifying round					Semi-finals					Final
						2	Harrogate Town	2
	5	Stockport County	0			6	Chorley	1
	6	Chorley	1								2	Harrogate Town	3
											3	Brackley Town	0
						3	Brackley Town	1
	4	Kidderminster Harriers	0			7	Bradford Park Avenue	0
	7	Bradford Park Avenue	2

Qualifying round

2 May 2018	Stockport County	0–1	Chorley	Edgeley Park, Stockport
19:45 (UTC+01:00)		Report	Walker  68'

2 May 2018	Kidderminster Harriers	0–2	Bradford Park Avenue	Aggborough Stadium, Kidderminster
19:45 (UTC+01:00)		Report	Boyes  10' Johnson  78'

Semi-finals

6 May 2018	Harrogate Town	2–1	Chorley	Wetherby Road, Harrogate
15:00 (UTC+01:00)

6 May 2018	Brackley Town	1–0	Bradford Park Avenue	St. James Park, Brackley

Final

13 May 2018	Harrogate Town	3–0	Brackley Town	Wetherby Road, Harrogate
15:00				Attendance: 3,000

Results table

Home \ Away

TEL

ALF

BLY

BOS

BRK

BPA

CHO

CZA

DAR

FCU

GAI

HAR

KID

LEA

NFU

NUN

SLC

SOU

SPE

STP

TAM

YOR

A.F.C. Telford United

1–2

2–3

2–1

1–3

1–4

1–2

0–3

0–0

1–0

3–2

1–5

0–0

3–2

3–0

1–2

0–2

1–1

3–2

3–2

2–0

3–5

Alfreton Town

0–1

2–0

2–3

1–1

1–3

0–2

4–0

1–1

1–0

4–1

1–2

0–2

4–1

1–0

1–1

2–3

0–1

1–4

1–3

2–1

2–3

Blyth Spartans

0–1

0–1

5–2

3–0

3–0

2–0

2–1

3–1

1–1

4–0

0–2

1–2

1–0

0–1

6–3

0–1

2–0

2–3

0–1

4–2

0–2

Boston United

1–0

3–1

2–1

2–3

1–2

2–0

3–3

1–1

4–4

2–0

3–0

3–2

0–1

2–1

1–1

0–1

3–2

0–3

2–2

3–1

2–1

Brackley Town

1–1

1–3

3–1

4–1

0–1

1–2

2–2

3–0

2–1

2–0

0–0

2–0

1–1

3–0

1–0

2–1

4–0

2–0

3–2

0–0

2–0

Bradford Park Avenue

2–1

3–3

4–1

2–1

2–0

0–0

3–1

0–1

3–0

5–0

3–1

1–1

1–0

0–1

1–1

1–2

1–2

1–2

2–3

3–4

0–5

Chorley

3–2

1–0

2–0

0–1

0–0

2–0

1–1

4–1

1–0

1–0

0–1

0–0

2–0

2–2

2–2

0–1

0–0

3–1

1–1

1–1

2–0

Curzon Ashton

1–0

2–2

0–3

2–1

0–2

1–1

0–2

1–0

1–0

2–0

1–2

1–2

1–1

4–0

2–2

1–1

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–0

4–1

Darlington

0–1

4–1

3–0

1–2

0–3

2–1

2–2

1–0

3–0

4–3

3–1

2–1

0–0

6–0

0–0

1–2

2–4

1–1

1–1

0–1

1–2

F.C. United of Manchester

3–1

3–2

1–3

2–1

1–1

4–0

0–0

2–0

1–2

1–0

3–2

1–2

1–2

0–2

2–1

3–2

1–0

2–3

0–1

3–1

1–0

Gainsborough Trinity

3–2

2–1

2–4

1–1

1–2

0–3

1–0

1–0

3–1

1–0

4–5

1–0

1–2

2–0

0–1

0–1

0–3

4–1

2–3

3–0

1–0

Harrogate Town

2–1

4–3

5–1

3–1

1–1

1–1

4–1

5–0

3–0

6–0

2–0

2–2

2–2

3–0

4–0

1–2

2–0

1–2

4–1

3–0

2–0

Kidderminster Harriers

2–0

2–1

5–4

1–1

2–1

1–2

0–1

2–2

3–3

4–0

3–0

0–2

2–0

4–0

3–0

4–4

3–0

2–2

3–1

2–0

2–1

Leamington

0–3

2–3

1–0

0–2

2–2

2–1

2–0

0–0

2–3

1–0

3–0

1–3

1–1

3–0

1–0

0–4

0–1

4–0

2–3

1–2

2–2

North Ferriby United

0–2

0–3

1–0

1–5

0–5

0–1

0–2

0–1

1–1

3–3

0–1

0–2

1–3

1–1

0–2

1–1

0–3

0–6

1–3

0–0

1–4

Nuneaton Town

0–2

2–2

2–2

1–1

0–2

0–0

1–1

1–1

2–1

1–0

0–1

2–1

1–0

4–0

2–2

0–2

3–0

0–1

1–3

4–1

1–0

Salford City

3–0

1–0

4–1

1–2

2–0

2–2

0–3

2–1

0–2

2–2

1–0

2–1

3–0

2–3

4–0

3–0

2–1

3–2

2–1

2–1

3–2

Southport

3–0

1–3

0–3

4–0

0–1

0–4

3–0

3–1

2–0

3–3

2–2

1–4

0–3

2–0

2–2

0–1

0–1

1–2

3–1

3–0

1–1

Spennymoor Town

1–2

2–1

3–1

0–0

0–3

3–0

1–0

2–4

1–2

4–4

1–1

3–1

1–1

1–0

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

1–0

1–0

2–4

Stockport County

1–0

1–0

1–3

1–0

0–1

0–0

1–1

3–0

1–1

4–1

1–0

2–2

1–2

4–0

4–1

0–1

2–2

6–0

3–2

3–2

2–0

Tamworth

2–2

2–3

0–3

2–1

1–1

0–1

3–4

4–1

0–0

0–2

1–2

1–1

2–1

0–3

4–1

2–0

1–2

3–3

3–1

3–1

1–1

York City

0–1

1–1

2–3

1–0

0–2

2–1

1–1

2–1

0–0

0–2

1–1

0–2

1–1

2–2

2–0

4–3

1–0

3–2

2–2

2–0

2–3

Updated to games played on 28 April 2018
Source: The Vanarama National League
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of matches played 24 April 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jason Gilchrist	Southport	26
2	Jason Oswell	Stockport County	24
3	Aaron Williams	Brackley Town	22
4	Reece Styche	Darlington	21
5	Adam Boyes	Bradford Park Avenue	20
	Jon Parkin	York City
7	Ashley Chambers	Nuneaton Town	19
	Joe Ironside	Kidderminster Harriers
	Glen Taylor	Spennymoor Town
10	Marcus Dinanga	AFC Telford United	17
	Jack Redshaw	Salford City
12	Daniel Maguire	Blyth Spartans	16

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