2016–17 National League South

National League South 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Maidenhead United
Promoted	Maidenhead United Ebbsfleet United
Relegated	Bishop's Stortford Gosport Borough Margate
Season statistics
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The division will consist of 22 clubs.

The following 5 clubs left the National League South before the season -

• Basingstoke Town, relegated to the Southern Football League Premier Division
• Havant & Waterlooville, relegated to the Southern Football League Premier Division
• Hayes & Yeading United, relegated to the Isthmian League Premier Division
• Maidstone United, promoted to the National League
• Sutton United, promoted to the National League

The following 5 clubs joined the National League South before the season -

• East Thurrock United, promoted as play-off winners from the Isthmian League Premier Division
• Hampton & Richmond Borough, promoted as champions from the Isthmian League Premier Division
• Hungerford Town, promoted as play-off winners from the Southern Football League Premier Division
• Poole Town, promoted as champions from the Southern Football League Premier Division
• Welling United, relegated from the National League

Stadia and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Bath City	Twerton Park	8,840
Bishop's Stortford	Woodside Park	4,525
Chelmsford City	Melbourne Stadium	3,019
Concord Rangers	Thames Road	3,300
Dartford	Princes Park	4,100
Eastbourne Borough	Priory Lane	4,151
East Thurrock United	Rookery Hill	4,000
Ebbsfleet United	Stonebridge Road	5,011
Gosport Borough	Privett Park	4,500
Hampton & Richmond Borough	Beveree Stadium	3,500
Hemel Hempstead Town	Vauxhall Road	3,152
Hungerford Town	Bulpit Lane	2,500
Maidenhead United	York Road	3,000
Margate	Hartsdown Park	3,000
Oxford City	Court Place Farm	2,000
Poole Town	Tatnam Ground	2,500
St Albans City	Clarence Park	4,500
Truro City	Treyew Road	3,857
Wealdstone	Grosvenor Vale	3,607
Welling United	Park View Road	4,000
Weston-super-Mare	Woodspring Stadium	3,500
Whitehawk	The Enclosed Ground	2,000

League table

2016–17 National South League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maidenhead United  (P)	42	30	8	4	93	29	+64	98	Promotion to the National League
2	Ebbsfleet United  (P) (O)	42	29	9	4	96	30	+66	96	Qualification to the National League South play-offs
3	Dartford	42	25	9	8	83	45	+38	84
4	Chelmsford City	42	23	13	6	89	47	+42	82
5	Poole Town	42	20	11	11	63	49	+14	71
6	Hungerford Town	42	19	13	10	67	49	+18	70
7	Hampton & Richmond	42	19	12	11	81	56	+25	069a	Qualification to the National League South play-offs
8	Wealdstone	42	18	12	12	62	58	+4	66
9	Bath City	42	18	8	16	71	51	+20	62
10	St Albans City	42	16	11	15	72	66	+6	59
11	Eastbourne Borough	42	16	10	16	82	70	+12	58
12	Hemel Hempstead Town	42	15	12	15	74	83	−9	57
13	East Thurrock United	42	14	14	14	73	65	+8	56
14	Oxford City	42	15	7	20	48	73	−25	52
15	Weston-super-Mare	42	14	6	22	63	69	−6	48
16	Welling United	42	12	7	23	64	69	−5	43
17	Whitehawk	42	12	7	23	51	72	−21	43
18	Concord Rangers	42	10	12	20	57	75	−18	42
19	Truro City	42	11	7	24	53	99	−46	40
20	Gosport Borough  (R)	42	9	9	24	45	101	−56	36	Relegation to Northern Premier League, Southern Football League or Isthmian League
21	Bishop's Stortford  (R)	42	8	3	31	29	104	−75	27
22	Margate  (R)	42	7	4	31	26	81	−55	25

Source: BBC Sport

a: Hungerford Town and Poole Town were barred from the play-offs due to failing ground size regulations.

Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Results

Home \ Away

BAT

BIS

CHE

CON

DAR

EAS

EAS

EBB

GOS

H&R

HEM

HUN

MAI

MAR

OXC

POO

SAC

TRU

WEA

WEL

WSM

WHI

Bath City

2–0

2–2

2–2

0–1

1–1

2–1

0–1

4–0

1–1

6–0

1–1

1–5

2–0

1–3

3–0

3–0

4–0

1–2

2–1

1–2

2–1

Bishop's Stortford

0–1

1–3

1–0

0–3

1–4

0–4

0–3

0–2

0–1

0–4

1–2

0–2

0–2

0–2

1–4

1–5

4–0

0–3

2–2

2–1

0–3

Chelmsford City

3–1

4–0

4–3

1–1

5–1

2–2

2–1

5–1

2–2

4–4

3–3

0–1

2–0

2–0

3–0

1–1

2–0

4–1

3–1

1–0

1–0

Concord Rangers

0–5

0–0

2–2

1–1

3–1

1–1

0–1

2–2

2–1

2–0

2–4

0–1

0–0

3–3

3–2

3–2

0–2

0–1

0–5

1–3

3–0

Dartford

2–0

4–0

0–1

2–1

4–3

6–1

2–1

0–0

3–1

2–0

2–0

0–0

4–0

1–0

2–1

0–2

5–3

2–2

2–1

3–2

3–1

Eastbourne Borough

1–2

1–0

1–5

2–1

2–3

4–0

0–0

2–0

2–2

3–0

2–2

1–2

2–1

4–0

0–0

3–2

2–0

5–1

7–3

3–4

4–2

East Thurrock United

2–0

2–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

5–1

2–1

2–3

0–1

0–0

1–0

2–1

1–2

1–1

5–1

1–1

1–1

5–1

2–3

Ebbsfleet United

1–0

8–0

2–0

4–0

1–0

4–1

6–1

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–0

2–3

4–0

1–0

4–0

3–1

4–2

4–1

5–1

2–1

1–1

Gosport Borough

1–0

0–1

0–6

2–5

0–4

3–1

1–5

1–0

1–1

0–6

1–4

0–2

1–0

0–1

0–2

4–0

3–1

1–3

1–1

1–1

2–3

Hampton & Richmond Borough

2–1

4–1

0–2

1–0

4–1

3–1

1–2

1–1

2–2

3–3

2–0

2–3

1–0

0–1

0–2

4–0

2–2

1–1

3–1

0–2

0–2

Hemel Hempstead Town

3–3

3–2

2–2

2–1

2–2

0–4

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–0

2–0

2–1

3–2

2–0

2–4

2–2

0–1

1–3

2–0

0–5

2–0

Hungerford Town

2–2

2–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

0–2

3–0

1–1

3–3

1–3

3–0

1–1

1–0

2–0

0–1

0–0

5–0

2–0

1–0

2–1

3–1

Maidenhead United

2–1

6–0

1–0

2–0

5–0

2–1

2–1

1–2

3–0

0–0

5–0

2–2

2–0

6–1

1–1

1–1

2–0

2–0

3–0

3–0

2–1

Margate

1–0

0–3

0–2

1–5

0–2

1–1

2–1

0–1

2–0

2–4

2–1

1–1

0–3

0–5

0–2

0–2

2–1

0–1

0–3

3–1

0–2

Oxford City

1–1

3–1

2–0

2–2

1–1

1–0

0–1

1–3

1–2

0–5

1–0

0–6

1–3

1–0

0–1

2–1

1–1

0–3

2–1

0–0

1–0

Poole Town

1–0

1–0

4–0

2–1

2–3

1–1

1–1

0–2

7–0

3–3

1–1

1–1

1–0

1–0

1–3

1–0

2–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

3–1

St Albans City

1–4

0–1

2–1

2–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

0–3

2–1

2–4

2–2

5–0

2–2

1–1

2–4

4–0

5–0

0–3

3–2

3–0

3–1

Truro City

1–3

1–2

2–2

1–2

0–5

2–2

0–6

1–1

2–0

0–3

2–1

2–0

0–3

2–0

3–2

0–0

3–2

1–2

1–1

1–2

4–2

Wealdstone

0–1

5–0

1–1

1–1

0–4

1–4

1–0

2–4

2–1

2–4

1–1

3–0

2–1

2–1

1–1

2–2

2–2

1–2

0–1

1–0

0–0

Welling United

3–1

1–2

0–2

3–1

0–0

3–1

2–0

1–2

4–0

1–2

2–3

0–0

1–2

5–1

4–0

2–1

0–1

3–2

0–1

0–2

1–2

Weston-super-Mare

1–2

5–0

0–0

1–2

1–2

2–0

1–3

0–2

1–1

1–3

3–5

0–1

1–3

3–1

3–0

0–0

0–3

4–2

1–2

2–2

3–1

Whitehawk

0–2

1–0

0–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

2–3

0–3

4–4

1–3

1–4

1–2

1–2

2–0

3–0

2–0

1–1

2–4

0–0

1–0

0–2

Updated to games played on 29 April 2017
Source: The National League Official Website
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Main article: 2017 National League play-offs

		Semifinals				Final
	2	Ebbsfleet United
	7	Hampton & Richmond Borough
							Ebbsfleet United	2
							Chelmsford City	1
	3	Dartford
	4	Chelmsford City

First leg

3 May 2017	Hampton & Richmond Borough	1–2	Ebbsfleet United	Beveree Stadium, Hampton
19:45	Culley  45'		Rance  6' McLean  43' (pen.)	Attendance: 1,689

3 May 2017	Chelmsford City	0–0	Dartford	Melbourne Stadium, Chelmsford
19:45				Attendance: 1,653

Second leg

7 May 2017	Ebbsfleet United	2–1 (4–2 agg.)	Hampton & Richmond Borough	Stonebridge Road, Northfleet
15:00	Clark  37' McQueen  89'	Report	Federico  61'	Attendance: 2,102 Referee: Alan Dale

7 May 2017	Dartford	1–2 (1–2 agg.)	Chelmsford City	Princes Park, Dartford
15:00	Ofori-Acheampong  90+3'	Report	Theophanous  70' Dickson  85'	Attendance: 2,622 Referee: Gary Parsons

Final

Main article: 2017 National League South play-off Final

13 May 2017	Ebbsfleet United	2–1	Chelmsford City	Stonebridge Road, Northfleet
15:00	Winfield  72' McQueen  76'	Report	Graham  55'	Attendance: 3,134 Referee: Richard Hulme

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