2017–18 National League South

National League South 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Havant & Waterlooville
Promoted	Havant & Waterlooville Braintree Town
Relegated	Bognor Regis Town Whitehawk Poole Town
Season statistics
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The division will consist of 22 clubs.

Team changes

To National League South Promoted from Southern League Premier Division Chippenham Town Promoted from Isthmian League Premier Division Havant & Waterlooville Bognor Regis Town Relegated from National League Braintree Town Transferred from National League North Gloucester City

From National League South Relegated to Isthmian League Premier Division Margate Relegated to Southern League Premier Division Gosport Borough Bishop's Stortford Promoted to National League Maidenhead United Ebbsfleet United

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bath City	Bath	Twerton Park	8,840
Bognor Regis Town	Bognor Regis	Nyewood Lane	4,500
Braintree Town	Braintree	Cressing Road	4,085
Chelmsford City	Chelmsford	Melbourne Stadium	3,019
Chippenham Town	Chippenham	Hardenhuish Park	3,000
Concord Rangers	Canvey Island	Thames Road	3,300
Dartford	Dartford	Princes Park	4,100
East Thurrock United	Corringham	Rookery Hill	4,000
Eastbourne Borough	Eastbourne	Priory Lane	4,151
Gloucester City	Gloucester	Spiers and Hartwell Jubilee Stadium	3,000
Hampton & Richmond Borough	London	Beveree Stadium	3,500
Havant & Waterlooville	Havant	West Leigh Park	5,250
Hemel Hempstead Town	Hemel Hempstead	Vauxhall Road	3,152
Hungerford Town	Hungerford	Bulpit Lane	2,500
Oxford City	Oxford	Court Place Farm	2,000
Poole Town	Poole	Tatnam Ground	2,500
St Albans City	St Albans	Clarence Park	5,007
Truro City	Truro	Treyew Road	3,857
Wealdstone	London	Grosvenor Vale	3,607
Welling United	London	Park View Road	4,000
Weston-super-Mare	Weston-super-Mare	Woodspring Stadium	3,500
Whitehawk	Brighton	Enclosed Ground	2,175

League table

2017–18 National South League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Havant & Waterlooville  (C) (P)	42	25	11	6	70	30	+40	86	Promotion to the National League
2	Dartford	42	26	8	8	81	44	+37	86	Qualification for the National League South play-off semi-finals
3	Chelmsford City	42	21	11	10	68	45	+23	74
4	Hampton & Richmond Borough	42	18	18	6	58	37	+21	72	Qualification for the National League South play-off qualifying round
5	Hemel Hempstead Town	42	19	13	10	71	51	+20	70
6	Braintree Town  (P)	42	19	13	10	73	55	+18	70
7	Truro City	42	20	9	13	71	55	+16	69
8	St Albans City	42	19	8	15	71	58	+13	65
9	Bath City	42	17	12	13	64	48	+16	63
10	Welling United	42	17	10	15	68	59	+9	61
11	Wealdstone	42	16	11	15	64	62	+2	59
12	Weston-super-Mare	42	16	7	19	66	73	−7	55
13	Chippenham Town	42	15	9	18	64	70	−6	54
14	Gloucester City	42	15	8	19	56	70	−14	53
15	East Thurrock United	42	13	11	18	68	84	−16	50
16	Oxford City	42	13	10	19	60	69	−9	49
17	Concord Rangers	42	12	10	20	46	62	−16	46
18	Eastbourne Borough	42	13	7	22	57	80	−23	46
19	Hungerford Town	42	12	7	23	45	68	−23	43
20	Poole Town  (R)	42	11	9	22	47	73	−26	42	Relegation to Southern League South Division
21	Whitehawk  (R)	42	8	10	24	51	89	−38	34	Relegation to Isthmian League Premier Division
22	Bognor Regis Town  (R)	42	5	12	25	41	78	−37	27

Updated to games played on 19 May 2018
Source: BBC Sport
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

Play-offs

	Qualifying round					Semi-finals					Final
						2	Dartford	0
	5	Hemel Hempstead Town	0 (2)			6	Braintree Town	1
	6	Braintree Town	0 (3)								4	Hampton & Richmond Borough	1 (3)
											6	Braintree Town	1 (4)
						3	Chelmsford City	0
	4	Hampton & Richmond Borough	3			4	Hampton & Richmond Borough	1
	7	Truro City	1

Qualifying round

2 May 2018	Hemel Hempstead Town	0–0 (2–3 pen)	Braintree Town	Vauxhall Road, Hemel Hempstead
19:45
	Penalties
	Parkes McCall Shulton Moyo Watt		Barrington Allen Wright Thompson

2 May 2018	Hampton & Richmond Borough	3–1	Truro City	Beveree Stadium, Hampton
19:45	Cook  34' Hudson-Odoi  99', 117'	Report	Neal  8'

Semi-finals

6 May 2018	Dartford	0–1	Braintree Town	Princes Park, Dartford

6 May 2018	Chelmsford City	0–1	Hampton & Richmond Borough	Melbourne Stadium, Chelmsford

Final

13 May 2018	Hampton & Richmond Borough	1–1 (3–4 pen)	Braintree Town	Beveree Stadium, Hampton
15:00				Attendance: 3,127
	Penalties

Results table

Home \ Away

BAT

BOG

BRA

CHE

CHI

CON

DAR

EAB

ETU

GLO

H&R

H&W

HEM

HUN

OXC

POO

SAC

TRU

WEA

WEL

WSM

WHI

Bath City

0–0

1–1

1–2

2–5

2–0

1–2

0–1

4–0

5–1

2–0

1–2

0–0

5–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

0–0

0–0

1–1

0–2

1–1

Bognor Regis Town

3–2

2–1

0–1

1–3

1–2

1–2

0–1

0–2

2–2

1–2

0–3

2–3

1–2

0–0

1–1

2–1

0–2

0–3

1–3

1–1

6–2

Braintree Town

0–2

3–0

2–2

2–0

2–1

2–2

3–2

4–0

3–0

2–1

1–3

1–2

5–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

0–1

4–3

Chelmsford City

1–1

0–0

2–2

2–0

1–0

1–0

5–2

1–2

2–0

1–2

0–2

3–3

1–1

1–2

2–1

0–2

2–0

3–0

4–1

1–1

4–2

Chippenham Town

0–3

1–0

1–1

3–2

1–2

2–2

4–0

2–2

2–0

3–3

0–0

5–1

1–2

3–2

0–1

3–3

2–0

0–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

Concord Rangers

0–1

2–1

0–1

0–2

4–2

1–1

2–1

1–4

1–1

1–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

2–1

0–1

1–2

2–2

3–1

0–2

2–2

1–0

Dartford

2–0

3–1

1–1

1–2

3–0

2–0

4–2

0–1

4–1

1–0

1–0

3–2

0–0

7–1

0–1

2–1

4–1

3–3

4–1

3–1

3–1

Eastbourne Borough

2–3

3–0

2–3

0–3

4–2

3–1

0–1

2–2

0–1

1–2

1–4

0–2

4–1

2–0

0–4

1–1

1–3

1–1

0–0

1–2

1–4

East Thurrock United

1–1

2–0

5–3

2–4

0–2

2–3

0–1

0–0

3–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

0–1

4–1

2–2

1–1

1–2

1–1

0–1

3–4

4–2

Gloucester City

2–1

3–2

1–3

0–2

1–0

1–0

0–1

1–2

3–1

1–1

0–1

1–0

4–0

0–1

2–2

1–4

0–3

2–2

0–1

1–3

3–1

Hampton & Richmond

3–1

1–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

5–1

1–1

0–1

0–0

3–1

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–1

1–1

3–1

1–1

Havant & Waterlooville

1–2

0–0

0–0

1–1

4–0

3–2

0–0

3–2

6–1

2–1

0–0

1–1

2–0

3–2

2–2

2–1

1–2

1–0

2–3

2–0

4–0

Hemel Hempstead Town

1–1

3–1

4–3

3–1

3–1

1–1

0–3

3–0

2–0

3–1

1–0

0–0

1–2

2–0

0–1

2–0

1–2

1–0

2–2

1–1

3–0

Hungerford Town

1–2

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

2–0

1–0

0–1

2–2

2–3

2–2

0–1

0–2

1–2

4–0

3–1

0–1

1–3

1–4

2–0

0–1

Oxford City

1–1

4–0

1–2

2–0

0–1

1–1

0–2

2–1

3–3

0–3

0–0

0–1

4–1

2–0

2–3

2–3

3–1

3–2

1–1

3–3

0–1

Poole Town

0–4

2–2

0–3

0–0

2–0

1–1

0–1

0–4

2–3

0–3

0–1

1–3

2–4

1–2

2–0

0–1

0–3

2–1

2–3

3–1

1–1

St Albans City

2–0

1–2

2–1

2–1

2–0

2–1

4–0

2–2

7–2

2–3

1–3

2–1

2–2

0–0

1–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

1–2

3–1

0–3

Truro City

1–2

1–1

1–2

2–0

1–0

2–0

3–1

0–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–0

3–3

2–1

2–3

3–1

1–2

1–3

3–2

3–1

7–2

Wealdstone

2–1

3–0

3–1

0–2

4–4

2–1

1–2

2–3

3–0

1–2

0–3

0–1

1–1

1–0

1–1

4–1

1–3

2–1

1–0

2–1

2–1

Welling United

0–2

3–3

3–0

0–1

4–0

3–3

2–3

3–0

0–3

2–3

0–1

0–1

0–0

3–2

1–3

2–0

3–1

2–2

1–2

3–1

1–0

Weston-super-Mare

4–2

1–0

1–2

0–1

2–2

1–0

3–0

5–1

2–2

2–1

1–2

1–4

2–1

2–1

4–2

1–2

0–2

0–2

5–1

0–2

1–0

Whitehawk

1–1

2–2

1–1

0–2

1–3

2–0

0–4

0–1

2–3

1–1

1–3

0–0

0–5

0–3

0–3

2–2

1–1

3–2

0–1

2–1

5–1

Updated to games played on 28 April 2018
Source: The Vanarama National League
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of matches played 24 April 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sam Higgins	East Thurrock United	25
2	Alfie Pavey	Dartford	22
	Jason Prior	Havant & Waterlooville
4	Sam Merson	St. Albans City	20
	Matt Paterson	Oxford City
6	Gethyn Hill	Weston-super-Mare	19
7	Philip Roberts	Braintree Town	18
8	Warren Bentley	Poole Town	17
9	Dayle Grubb	Weston-super-Mare	16

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