title: 1905–06 Northern Football League
text: # 1905–06 Northern Football League
  
  The 1905–06 Northern Football League season was the seventeenth in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.
  
  A Championship Match between the Professional Champions, Sunderland A, and the Amateur Champions, Bishop Auckland, was played on 28 April 1906. The match was a 1–1 draw.
  
  ## Clubs
  
  The league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:
  
  * Spennymoor United
  
  ### League table
  
  | Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Sunderland A | 26 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 90 | 21 | 4.286 | 45 | Qualified for the championship match and then founder member of North Eastern League |
  | 2 | Newcastle United A | 26 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 92 | 14 | 6.571 | 42 | Founder member of North Eastern League |
  | 3 | Bishop Auckland | 26 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 45 | 39 | 1.154 | 33 | Qualified for the championship match |
  | 4 | Darlington | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 47 | 47 | 1.000 | 31 | |
  | 5 | Middlesbrough A | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 59 | 30 | 1.967 | 29 | Founder member of North Eastern League |
  | 6 | South Bank | 26 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 49 | 35 | 1.400 | 28 | |
  | 7 | Shildon Athletic | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 40 | 45 | 0.889 | 28 | |
  | 8 | Spennymoor United | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 34 | 34 | 1.000 | 22 | |
  | 9 | Grangetown Athletic | 26 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 37 | 43 | 0.860 | 20 | |
  | 10 | Stockton | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 32 | 54 | 0.593 | 19 | |
  | 11 | Crook Town | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 33 | 57 | 0.579 | 19 | |
  | 12 | West Hartlepool | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 49 | 65 | 0.754 | 17 | |
  | 13 | Scarborough | 26 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 24 | 93 | 0.258 | 16 | |
  | 14 | Darlington St. Augustine's | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 70 | 0.229 | 13 | |
  
  * ↑ West Hartlepool deducted two points for fielding an ineligible player.
  
  ## Championship match
  
  * 28 April 1906: Sunderland A 1–1 Bishop Auckland
  