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Auckland's year, with all of the top four places filled by teams from the Queen City. The league was very close with teams who had led early ending in the bottom half of the table and vice versa. As the second half of the season started only two points separated second from ninth, and at the
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were by far the league's strongest side in 1983, and would have finished first by either the old or new points system. They scored five more goals than the second highest scoring team, and conceded fewer than any other side as well on their way to the title. Their season was topsy-turvy, and after
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From 1983 play-offs for promotion and relegation returned, with the bottom side in the league playing off with the three regional champions for a solitary league place. This was thus the last season in which the top teams from the regional leagues would automatically enter the league. In the event
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repeated 1982's second placing, and did so in a similarly unorthodox fashion. As with their 1982 performance, they could not repeat their home form away. At home they were invincible, with ten wins and a single draw from their eleven matches. Away, they were a different side, drawing five, losing
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had a lacklustre season by their high standards, finishing fourth. They led in the first half of the season, but their later form was inconsistent and the league at the halfway mark was too close for that to go unpunished. Fifth-placed
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was another team briefly in title contention after an undefeated string of eight matches. A mid-season break did them no favours, and they found it impossible to replicate this early form on the resumption. Early competition leaders
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finished one point below
Gisborne, a far cry from the brief spell they had at the top of the table after the opening round of matches. Neither they nor Gisborne was in any real danger of relegation, however, as
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found the step up from the regional leagues simply too great. They set records of the wrong sort with 59 goals scored against them and a gap of 20 points between them and eleventh placed Nelson.
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three matches they were bottom of the league with just one point. Their remaining 19 matches contained only two further losses, however. Their team was bolstered by the twin acquisitions of
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was another team to have a mid-season change of fortune. With five games to go they were second on the table, but their final five games produced only one point.
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impressed with their third placing. unlike North Shore, it was the reds' away form which saw them reach the heights, with seven wins on the road.
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withdrew from the league at the end of the season, meaning that the three regional champions would play off for the vacancy.
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had also headed the table mid-season, but a series of bad results saw them drop to the lower reaches of the table.
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36:. This was the first season in which a win scored three points; prior to this they were worth only two.
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comfortably won the league for the first time, finishing eight points clear of second-placed
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end of the season fourth and seventh place were separated on goal difference alone.
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
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Promotion was automatic, with the three lowest placed sides in the 1982 league (
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had a consistently poor season, never being far from the foot of the table.
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636:Champions;
26:New Zealand
22:round-robin
1203:Categories
662:References
620:−41
289:Papatoetoe
108:Papatoetoe
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640:Relegated
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515:−8
737:Archived
629:Source:
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101:Hanimex
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46:Hamilton
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