2025–26 Northern Premier League Division One West

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Northern Premier League Division One West 2025–26
Season information
Season statistics
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The 2025–26 season is the 58th season of the Northern Premier League. The league consists of four divisions, the Premier Division at Step 3 of the National League System, and the West, East and Midlands divisions at Step 4.

Team changes

To Division One West Promoted from the Midland League Premier Division Shifnal Town Promoted from the North West Counties League Premier Division Bury Lower Breck Transferred from Division One Midlands Darlaston Town 1874 Sporting Khalsa

From Division One West Promoted to the Premier Division Hednesford Town Widnes Relegated to the Midland League Premier Division Hanley Town Relegated to the North West Counties League Premier Division City of Liverpool Wythenshawe

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Atherton Collieries	Atherton	Alder Street	2,500
Avro	Oldham	Whitebank Stadium	1,500
Bootle	Bootle	New Bucks Park	2,500
Bury	Bury	Gigg Lane	12,500
Chasetown	Burntwood	The Scholars Ground	3,000
Clitheroe	Clitheroe	EcoGiants Stadium	2,000
Congleton Town	Congleton	Cleric Stadium	1,500
Darlaston Town 1874	Walsall	The Paycare Ground	1,000
Kidsgrove Athletic	Kidsgrove	The Autonet Insurance Stadium	2,000
Lower Breck	Liverpool (Anfield)	Anfield Sports and Community Centre	1,000
Mossley	Mossley	Seel Park	4,000
Nantwich Town	Nantwich	The Weaver Stadium	3,500
Newcastle Town	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lyme Valley Stadium	4,000
Runcorn Linnets	Runcorn	APEC Taxis Stadium	1,600
Shifnal Town	Shifnal	Acoustafoam Stadium	1,500
Sporting Khalsa	Willenhall	Aspray Arena	5,000
Stafford Rangers	Stafford	Marston Road	4,150
Stalybridge Celtic	Stalybridge	Bower Fold	6,500
Trafford	Flixton	Shawe View	2,500
Vauxhall Motors	Ellesmere Port	Rivacre Park	3,300
Witton Albion	Northwich	Wincham Park	4,813
Wythenshawe Town	Wythenshawe	Ericstan Stadium	1,320

Division One West table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Lower Breck	15	11	3	1	36	16	+20	36	Promotion to the Premier Division
2	Shifnal Town	17	9	5	3	29	19	+10	32	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Avro	16	9	4	3	26	15	+11	31
4	Bury	15	8	4	3	26	15	+11	28
5	Runcorn Linnets	14	7	5	2	26	14	+12	26
6	Atherton Collieries	17	8	2	7	25	25	0	26
7	Vauxhall Motors	17	6	7	4	34	26	+8	25
8	Stalybridge Celtic	16	8	1	7	29	21	+8	25
9	Chasetown	15	7	3	5	21	15	+6	24
10	Mossley	17	5	8	4	23	16	+7	23
11	Nantwich Town	14	7	2	5	19	18	+1	23
12	Kidsgrove Athletic	16	6	5	5	22	23	−1	23
13	Clitheroe	16	7	2	7	23	26	−3	23
14	Bootle	17	6	5	6	19	24	−5	23
15	Stafford Rangers	17	6	4	7	22	23	−1	22
16	Witton Albion	17	4	6	7	25	30	−5	18
17	Newcastle Town	17	5	3	9	14	20	−6	18
18	Congleton Town	17	4	5	8	21	28	−7	17
19	Sporting Khalsa	17	4	3	10	17	34	−17	15	Relegation to Step 5
20	Darlaston Town (1874)	16	3	4	9	14	29	−15	13
21	Wythenshawe Town	18	3	4	11	16	38	−22	13
22	Trafford	17	2	3	12	23	35	−12	9

Updated to match(es) played on 8 November 2025. Source: NPL official site
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of matches won; 5) head-to-head results

Results table

Home \ Away	ATC	AVR	BOO	BRY	CHA	CLI	CON	DAR	KGA	LWB	MOS	NAN	NEW	RUN	SHI	SPK	STR	SBC	TRA	VHM	WIT	WYT
Atherton Collieries	—					2–1	4–2			2–5		2–0		0–2			3–1		1–0	1–1
Avro		—		1–1	2–1	4–0							0–0	1–2	1–2			1–0		2–1		1–0
Bootle	2–1	3–2	—	1–1		0–1	0–1		2–2	1–3		1–2			2–2	0–1
Bury				—	4–0				2–0				1–0	1–0	3–0		3–2	0–2				5–2
Chasetown	1–2		6–0		—					1–0	0–0		3–0		1–0					0–0		2–0
Clitheroe						—	2–0			2–3			1–0			3–3		1–3	2–1	2–5
Congleton Town		0–2		0–0			—	1–0			2–2			1–1						3–3	2–1	4–0
Darlaston Town (1874)	2–0		1–2			1–3		—	0–0		1–4	1–1					0–1			1–2
Kidsgrove Athletic	2–1				3–2		1–0		—							1–1	0–1	2–1	4–2		1–1	2–0
Lower Breck							3–3	1–1	2–2	—						3–0	2–0	2–1	2–0		3–2
Mossley	3–0	0–1		2–1		0–0				0–1	—			0–0		4–0	0–0		1–1
Nantwich Town					3–0	3–2	2–0		3–1	1–4	1–1	—
Newcastle Town	1–2		0–2					2–0			0–1	3–0	—			2–0			1–0		4–3	0–0
Runcorn Linnets								4–1	3–0					—	1–2	4–1			2–1	2–2
Shifnal Town	1–1					0–1		1–1			3–1		1–0		—		3–0	1–0		5–2	3–2
Sporting Khalsa		1–2		2–0	0–1		3–1					1–0			1–1	—						2–3
Stafford Rangers		0–2	0–0				1–0					2–1	0–0	2–2			—	4–0	3–4		2–3
Stalybridge Celtic	1–0		0–1				3–1	6–0					3–0			1–0		—			1–3
Trafford				0–1	1–3			1–2				0–1			2–2	4–1		4–6	—			1–2
Vauxhall Motors			0–1	3–3					2–1			0–1	3–1			4–0		1–1		—	1–1	4–1
Witton Albion	0–3	2–2			0–0	1–0		0–2			3–2			1–1					1–1		—
Wythenshawe Town		2–2	1–1			0–2				0–2	2–2			1–2	0–2		0–3				2–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 November 2025. Source: NPL official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kyle Hawley	Avro	10
	Max McCarthy	Congleton Town
3	Sam Burns	Lower Breck	9
	Alex Cherera	Lower Breck
5	Lewis Buckley	Lower Breck	8
	Ben Hodkinson	Bootle
	Joel Jones	Newcastle Town
	Chinedu Uche	Atherton Collieries
9	Ruben Jerome	Stalybridge Celtic	7

External links

• Current league tables