title: 1929–30 Northern Football League
text: # 1929–30 Northern Football League
  
  The 1929–30 Northern Football League season was the 37th in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.
  
  ## Clubs
  
  The league featured 12 clubs which competed in the last season, along with two new clubs:
  
  * Crook Town
  * Eden Colliery Welfare
  
  ### League table
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Willington | 24 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 71 | 41 | 1.732 | 35 | |
  | 2 | Stockton | 24 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 72 | 36 | 2.000 | 33 | |
  | 3 | Bishop Auckland | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 58 | 47 | 1.234 | 27 | |
  | 4 | Eden Colliery Welfare | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 53 | 51 | 1.039 | 26 | |
  | 5 | South Bank | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 60 | 53 | 1.132 | 25 | |
  | 6 | Whitby United | 24 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 69 | 76 | 0.908 | 25 | |
  | 7 | Ferryhill Athletic | 24 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 53 | 59 | 0.898 | 24 | |
  | 8 | Esh Winning | 24 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 56 | 64 | 0.875 | 24 | |
  | 9 | Chilton Colliery Recreation Athletic | 24 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 58 | 54 | 1.074 | 22 | |
  | 10 | Crook Town | 24 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 40 | 53 | 0.755 | 20 | Left the league |
  | 11 | Cockfield | 24 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 43 | 59 | 0.729 | 19 | |
  | 12 | Tow Law Town | 24 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 49 | 62 | 0.790 | 16 | |
  | 13 | Stanley United | 24 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 44 | 71 | 0.620 | 14 | |
  | – | Langley Park | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | — | 0 | |
  
  * ↑ Cockfield deducted two points for playing an unqualified man.
  * ↑ Langley Park resigned from the league on 11 December 1929. Their record (P7 W2 D0 L5 F14 A26 P4) was expunged.
  