[1] The Premier League featured three new teams: Division One featured four new teams: In the twenty-ninth season of the Northern Premier League Leek Town (as champions) were automatically promoted to the Football Conference.
Witton Albion and Buxton were relegated to the First Division while Knowsley United left the League at the end of the season.
Boston United moved to the Southern League.
These clubs were replaced by relegated Conference side Altrincham, First Division winners Radcliffe Borough and second placed Leigh RMI.
In the First Division Curzon Ashton, Warrington Town and Atherton Laburnum Rovers left the League at the end of the season and were replaced by newly admitted Whitby Town, Belper Town and Trafford.