Of the 13 existing teams, Brighton switched to Worthing and with new sponsors would be known as the Nissan Worthing Bears and Hemel Hempstead merged with the second division outfit Watford Royals to form Hemel & Watford Royals.
The new fourteenth team was Telford Turbos who secured a new sponsor called Screen Stars.
[3] It was evident that as the season progressed many clubs had been spending beyond their means in recent years and were duly struggling to balance the books.
An extraordinary season continued in January 1985 when just a few days before the National Cup final Manchester United F.C.
bought the FSO Cars Liverpool & Warrington club, renaming them for the final and relocating to Stretford.