2020–21 National League (division)

National League 2020–21
Season information
Winners	Sutton United
Promoted	Sutton United Hartlepool United
Relegated	No relegation
Season statistics
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The 2020–21 National League season, known as the Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons, is the 6th season under English football's new title of National League, fourteenth season consisting of three divisions and the thirty-ninth season overall.

On 16 September 2020, Macclesfield Town folded as a result of debts, and were expelled from the National League on 29 September 2020. As the club folded before the season started, no records were expunged.

Due to Macclesfield's closure, only 23 clubs took part in the 2020–21 season and a maximum of three clubs were to be relegated instead of the usual four. However, on 26 March 2021, having not fulfilled a fixture since 30 January, Dover Athletic's results were expunged and the club deducted 12 points for the 2021–22 season. Therefore the season is set to complete with 22 clubs playing fixtures.

Additionally, following the National League North and South divisions being declared null and void on 18 February, no teams will be relegated this season.

Promotion and Relegation

The following teams changed divisions after the 2019–20 season:

Team changes

To National League Promoted from National League North King's Lynn Town Altrincham Promoted from National League South Wealdstone Weymouth Relegated from League Two Macclesfield Town

From National League Promoted to League Two Barrow Harrogate Town Relegated to National League North AFC Fylde Chorley Relegated to National League South Ebbsfleet United

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aldershot Town	Aldershot	Recreation Ground	7,200
Altrincham	Altrincham	Moss Lane	7,700
Barnet	London (Canons Park)	The Hive Stadium	6,418
Boreham Wood	Borehamwood	Meadow Park	4,502
Bromley	London (Bromley)	Hayes Lane	5,300
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Proact Stadium	10,504
Dagenham & Redbridge	London (Dagenham)	Victoria Road	6,078
Dover Athletic	Dover	Crabble Athletic Ground	5,745
Eastleigh	Eastleigh	Ten Acres	5,250
Halifax Town	Halifax	The Shay	10,400
Hartlepool United	Hartlepool	Victoria Park	7,856
King's Lynn Town	King's Lynn	The Walks	8,200
Maidenhead United	Maidenhead	York Road	4,000
Notts County	Nottingham	Meadow Lane	19,588
Solihull Moors	Solihull	Damson Park	5,500
Stockport County	Stockport	Edgeley Park	10,852
Sutton United	London (Sutton)	Gander Green Lane	5,013
Torquay United	Torquay	Plainmoor	6,500
Wealdstone	London (Ruislip)	Grosvenor Vale	3,607
Weymouth	Weymouth	Bob Lucas Stadium	6,600
Woking	Woking	Kingfield Stadium	6,036
Wrexham	Wrexham	Racecourse Ground	10,771
Yeovil Town	Yeovil	Huish Park	9,566

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Aldershot Town	Danny Searle	George Fowler	Adidas	Bridges Estate Agents
Altrincham	Phil Parkinson	Jake Moult	SK Kits	J Davidson Ltd
Barnet	Peter Beadle	Callum Reynolds	Jako	Canon
Boreham Wood	Luke Garrard	Mark Ricketts	Puma	Barnet and Southgate College
Bromley	Neil Smith	Jack Holland	Macron	Southwark Metals
Chesterfield	Pemberton, JohnJohn Pemberton	Jonathan Smith	Puma	Technique Learning Solutions
Dagenham & Redbridge	Daryl McMahon	Kenny Clark	Nike	West & Coe
Dover Athletic	Andy Hessenthaler	Jack Munns	Jako	Exclusive Glazing
Eastleigh	Ben Strevens	Danny Hollands	LAB Sports	Utilita
Halifax Town	Pete Wild	Matty Brown	Adidas	Northern Powerhouse Developments (Home) Pennine Pneumatic Services Ltd (Away) Architectural Cladding Products Limited (Third)
Hartlepool United	Dave Challinor	Ryan Donaldson	O'Neills	Utility Alliance Limited
King's Lynn	Ian Culverhouse	Aaron Jones	O'Neills	Barsby Produce
Maidenhead United	Alan Devonshire	Alan Massey	Uhlsport	Utility Alliance Limited
Notts County	Neal Ardley	Michael Doyle	Puma	Sharpes of Nottingham
Solihull Moors	Shan, JamesJames Shan	Kyle Storer	Surridge	John Shepherd Estate Agents
Stockport County	Jim Gannon	Sam Minihan	Joma	Pioneer Group
Sutton United	Matt Gray	Jamie Collins	Macron	Angel Plastics
Torquay United	Gary Johnson	Asa Hall	Nike	No Sponsor
Wealdstone	Dean Brennan	Jerome Okimo	Macron	GPF Lewis
Weymouth	Brian Stock	Josh Wakefield	Umbro	Terras Family
Woking	Alan Dowson	Josh Casey	Macron	Abstract Plans
Wrexham	Dean Keates	Shaun Pearson	Macron	Ifor Williams Trailers
Yeovil Town	Darren Sarll	Lee Collins	TAG	Jones Building Group

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Barnet	Darren Currie	Resigned	12 August 2020	Pre-season	Peter Beadle	22 August 2020
Weymouth	Mark Molesley	Signed by Southend United	13 August 2020		Brian Stock	4 September 2020
Chesterfield	John Pemberton	Sacked	18 November 2020	21st	James Rowe	26 November 2020
Barnet	Peter Beadle		13 December 2020	20th	Tim Flowers	14 December 2020
Stockport County	Jim Gannon		21 January 2021	4th	Simon Rusk	27 January 2021
Wealdstone	Dean Brennan	Resigned	2 February 2021	18th	Stuart Maynard	11 March 2021
Solihull Moors	James Shan	Sacked	10 March 2021	17th	Mark Yates	11 March 2021
Barnet	Tim Flowers			22nd	Simon Bassey	7 April 2021
Notts County	Neal Ardley		24 March 2021	6th	Ian Burchnall	25 March 2021
Bromley	Neil Smith		25 March 2021	7th	Andy Woodman	29 March 2021

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sutton United  (C) (P)	42	25	9	8	72	36	+36	84	Promotion to League Two
2	Torquay United	42	23	11	8	68	39	+29	80	Qualification to the Qualified for the National League play-off semi-finals
3	Stockport County	42	21	14	7	69	32	+37	77
4	Hartlepool United  (P) (O)	42	22	10	10	66	43	+23	76	Qualified for the National League play-off qualifying round
5	Notts County	42	20	10	12	62	41	+21	70
6	Chesterfield	42	21	6	15	60	43	+17	69
7	Bromley	42	19	12	11	63	53	+10	69
8	Wrexham	42	19	11	12	64	43	+21	68
9	Eastleigh	42	18	12	12	49	40	+9	66
10	Halifax Town	42	19	8	15	63	54	+9	65
11	Solihull Moors	42	19	7	16	58	48	+10	64
12	Dagenham & Redbridge	42	17	9	16	53	48	+5	60
13	Maidenhead United	42	15	11	16	62	60	+2	56
14	Boreham Wood	42	13	16	13	52	48	+4	55
15	Aldershot Town	42	15	7	20	59	66	−7	52
16	Yeovil Town	42	15	7	20	58	68	−10	52
17	Altrincham	42	12	11	19	46	60	−14	47
18	Weymouth	42	11	6	25	45	71	−26	39
19	Wealdstone	42	10	7	25	49	99	−50	37
20	Woking	42	8	9	25	42	69	−27	33
21	King's Lynn Town	42	7	10	25	50	98	−48	31
22	Barnet	42	8	7	27	37	88	−51	31
23	Dover Athletic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Results expunged
24	Macclesfield Town	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Club folded

Source: National League official site
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

a. Dover Athletic refused to play matches due to a lack of promised funding starting with their fixture on January 30. On 26 March 2021, it was announced the club would play no part in the rest of the season and all results would be expunged.
b. Macclesfield deducted 17 points for entering into an insolvency event the previous season, before being expelled from the league on 29 September 2020. At the time of their expulsion before the 2020-21 National League Season, they had played no matches.

Results table

Home \ Away	ALD	ALT	BRN	BOR	BRO	CHE	DAG	EAS	HAL	HAR	KIN	MDH	NOT	SOL	STO	SUT	TOR	WEA	WEY	WOK	WRE	YEO
Aldershot	—	2–1	2–1	3–3	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–3	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–2	1–2	1–4	2–0	0–2	3–0	3–0	2–0
Altrincham	1–2	—	2–3	2–3	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–4	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	4–3
Barnet	3–1	1–2	—	0–3	1–3	0–2	0–2	1–5	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–4	0–2	1–2	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–4
Boreham	3–2	0–1	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	5–1	1–4	2–2	2–2	0–3	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	2–3
Bromley	2–0	3–1	2–2	1–1	—	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–3	1–2	2–2	3–2	2–2	1–1	1–2
Chesterfield	0–0	1–0	6–0	0–0	1–2	—	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	4–1	1–2	2–3	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–0
Dagenham & R	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–2	—	2–0	3–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	3–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–0
Eastleigh	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–0	—	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0
Halifax	1–0	3–2	5–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	3–1	—	1–1	4–2	2–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–1	3–2	1–0	0–4	1–1
Hartlepool U	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	3–1	—	2–0	2–4	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–5	3–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–1
King's Lynn	4–4	2–0	5–1	0–3	1–4	1–2	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–2	—	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	0–0	2–3	2–2	3–2	0–2	2–2
Maidenhead	2–4	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–2	0–4	2–3	—	0–4	3–1	0–0	0–3	4–1	4–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	4–2
Notts C	0–1	3–1	4–2	0–1	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–3	—	2–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	3–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0
Solihull Moors	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–0	1–1	2–1	—	0–5	0–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	5–1
Stockport C	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	—	0–2	2–2	4–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–0
Sutton Un	3–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	5–1	3–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	—	0–1	4–1	2–0	3–2	0–0	2–1
Torquay	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	6–1
Wealdstone	3–4	1–0	5–1	1–0	0–1	3–2	0–5	0–0	1–2	2–7	3–1	0–6	0–1	1–4	2–5	3–3	1–2	—	2–1	0–1	4–3	0–2
Weymouth	0–3	2–1	0–2	1–3	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–5	1–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–4	4–0	—	0–1	2–3	0–3
Woking	0–1	1–1	4–1	0–0	3–4	1–4	2–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–4	2–1	1–4	0–1	0–2	2–4	2–4	—	0–4	1–1
Wrexham	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	5–3	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–3	4–0	0–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	—	3–0
Yeovil T	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–3	0–3	1–3	3–1	0–0	2–2	3–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–1	0–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: National League Results Grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-offs

Main article: 2021 National League play-offs

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						2	Torquay United	4
	5	Notts County	3			5	Notts County	2
	6	Chesterfield	2									Torquay United
						3	Stockport County
	4	Hartlepool United	3			4	Hartlepool United
	7	Bromley	2

Quarter-finals

5 June 2021 (2021-06-05)	Notts County	3–2	Chesterfield	Nottingham
16:00	Wootton  30', 71' Ellis  90'	Report	Rowe  27' Mandeville  42'	Stadium: Meadow Lane Referee: Tom Reeves

6 June 2021 (2021-06-06)	Hartlepool United	3–2	Bromley	Hartlepool
16:00	Oates  17', 24' Armstrong  20'	Report	Alabi  48' Webster  90+3'	Stadium: Victoria Park Referee: Lewis Smith

Semi-finals

12 June 2021 (2021-06-12)	Torquay United	4–2	Notts County	Torquay
12:00	Wright  1', 48' Hall  102' Moxey  109' (pen.)	Report	Rodrigues  39' Chicksen  51'	Stadium: Plainmoor Attendance: 1,709 Referee: Andrew Kitchen

13 June 2021 (2021-06-13)	Stockport County	v	Hartlepool United	Edgeley
12:00				Stadium: Edgeley Park

Final

Main article: 2021 National League play-off Final

20 June 2021 (2021-06-20) 14:00	Torquay United	v		Ashton Gate Stadium