1979–80 Alliance Premier League
| Season | 1979–80 |
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| Champions | Altrincham |
| Promoted to the Football League | None |
| Runners-up | Weymouth |
| Relegated to Level 6 |
Redditch United |
| Promoted for next season | Frickley Athletic |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 972 (2.56 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | G. J. Smith (Northwich Victoria), 29 |
| Biggest home win | Maidstone United – Bath City 6–0 |
| Biggest away win |
Redditch United – Bangor City 1–5 Stafford Rangers – Weymouth 1–5 |
| Highest scoring |
Northwich Victoria – Barrow 6–3 |
| Longest winning run | ? |
| Longest unbeaten run | ? |
| Longest losing run | ? |
| Highest attendance | ? |
| Lowest attendance | ? |
| Average attendance | ? |
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The Alliance Premier League season of 1979–80 was the inaugural season of the Alliance Premier League – the first league outside the Football League to cover the whole of England.
Between 1979–2004 the single-division Alliance Premier League formed Level 5 of the English football league system. Since 2004 two regional divisions were added at Level 6.
The founder members of the Alliance Premier League were drawn from the Southern League and Northern Premier League, covering the country from Yeovil Town in the South West to Barrow in the far North. One club from Wales – Bangor City – also participated.
Northwich Victoria – Barrow 6–3
Source: Rothmans Football Yearbook 1980–81. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1981.
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
As winners of the Alliance Premier League, Altrincham won the right to apply for election to the Football League to replace one of the four bottom teams in the 1979–80 Football League Division Four. The vote went as follows:
As a result of this, Altrincham failed to be elected to membership of the Football League, falling just one point behind Fourth Division's bottom club Rochdale.
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