title: 1904–05 Northern Football League
text: # 1904–05 Northern Football League
  
  The 1904–05 Northern Football League season was the sixteenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.
  
  ## Clubs
  
  The league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.
  
  ### League table
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Newcastle United A | 24 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 83 | 12 | 6.917 | 44 |
  | 2 | Sunderland A | 24 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 59 | 29 | 2.034 | 33 |
  | 3 | Middlesbrough A | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 69 | 35 | 1.971 | 32 |
  | 4 | Darlington | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 38 | 38 | 1.000 | 24 |
  | 5 | Shildon Athletic | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 48 | 48 | 1.000 | 23 |
  | 6 | South Bank | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 42 | 44 | 0.955 | 23 |
  | 7 | West Hartlepool | 24 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 35 | 44 | 0.795 | 23 |
  | 8 | Bishop Auckland | 24 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 51 | 49 | 1.041 | 22 |
  | 9 | Stockton | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 37 | 0.865 | 22 |
  | 10 | Darlington St. Augustine's | 24 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 34 | 43 | 0.791 | 22 |
  | 11 | Grangetown Athletic | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 36 | 52 | 0.692 | 20 |
  | 12 | Scarborough | 24 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 22 | 60 | 0.367 | 13 |
  | 13 | Crook Town | 24 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 23 | 81 | 0.284 | 9 |
  
  * ↑ Sunderland A deducted two points for fielding an ineligible player.
  