2021–22 EFL League Two

League Two
2021–22
	League Two; 2021–22
Season information
Dates	7 August 2021–7 May 2022
Winners	Forest Green Rovers
Promoted	Forest Green Rovers; Exeter City; Bristol Rovers
Relegated	Oldham Athletic; Scunthorpe United
Season statistics
Matches played	538
Goals scored	1,312
Average	2.42 per match
Top goalscorer	Dom Telford; (Newport County, 25)
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The 2021–22 EFL League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) is the 18th season of Football League Two under its current title and the 30th season under its current league division format.

Team changes[]

The following teams have changed divisions since the 2020–21 season.

To League Two[]

Promoted from National League

Relegated from League One

From League Two[]

Promoted to League One

Relegated to National League

Stadiums[]

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Barrow	Barrow-in-Furness	Holker Street	5,045
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Memorial Stadium	12,300
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	18,202
Colchester United	Colchester	Colchester Community Stadium	10,105
Crawley Town	Crawley	Broadfield Stadium	6,134
Exeter City	Exeter	St James Park	8,541
Forest Green Rovers	Nailsworth	The New Lawn	5,147
Harrogate Town	Harrogate	Wetherby Road	3,800
Hartlepool United	Hartlepool	Victoria Park	7,856
Leyton Orient	London (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	9,271
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	9,186
Newport County	Newport	Rodney Parade	7,850
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,798
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,512
Port Vale	Burslem	Vale Park	19,052
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	10,249
Salford City	Salford	Moor Lane	5,108
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Stevenage	Stevenage	Broadhall Way	7,800
Sutton United	London (Sutton)	Gander Green Lane	7,032
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	16,587
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300

Personnel and sponsoring[]

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
Barrow	Phil Brown	Jason Taylor	Joma	JF Hornby & Co.
Bradford City	Mark Hughes	Paudie O'Connor	Avec Sport	JCT600
Bristol Rovers	Joey Barton	Paul Coutts	Macron	Utilita Energy
Carlisle United	Paul Simpson	Callum Guy	Erreà	Thomas Graham
Colchester United	Wayne Brown (caretaker)	Tommy Smith	Macron	Texo Scaffolding (Home) JobServe (Away / Third)
Crawley Town	John Yems	George Francomb	Erreà	The People's Pension
Exeter City	Matt Taylor	Matt Jay	Joma	Carpetright
Forest Green Rovers	Rob Edwards	Jamille Matt	PlayerLayer	Ecotricity
Harrogate Town	Simon Weaver	Josh Falkingham	New Balance	Strata
Hartlepool United	Graeme Lee	Nicky Featherstone	O'Neills	Orangebox Training Solutions
Leyton Orient	Richie Wellens	Darren Pratley	New Balance	Multiple charities
Mansfield Town	Nigel Clough	Ollie Clarke	Surridge	One Call
Newport County	James Rowberry	Matty Dolan	Hummel	Alzheimers Society Cymru
Northampton Town	Jon Brady	Joseph Mills	Hummel	University of Northampton
Oldham Athletic	John Sheridan	Carl Piergianni	Hummel	Bartercard
Port Vale	Darrell Clarke	Tom Conlon	Erreà	Synectics Solutions
Rochdale	Robbie Stockdale	Eoghan O'Connell	Erreà	Crown Oil Ltd
Salford City	Gary Bowyer	Ashley Eastham	Kappa	TalkTalk
Scunthorpe United	Keith Hill	Liam Feeney	Macron	Utilita Energy
Stevenage	Steve Evans	Scott Cuthbert	Macron	Prime Gaming
Sutton United	Matt Gray	Craig Eastmond	Macron	Angel Plastics
Swindon Town	Ben Garner	Dion Conroy	Puma	Bartercard
Tranmere Rovers	Micky Mellon	Peter Clarke	Mills	Essar
Walsall	Michael Flynn	Joss Labadie	Erreà	HomeServe

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Leyton Orient	Jobi McAnuff	End of Interim spell	8 May 2021	Pre-season	Kenny Jackett	21 May 2021
Swindon Town	Tommy Wright	End of Interim spell	8 May 2021		John McGreal	26 May 2021
Bradford City	Mark Trueman Conor Sellars	Sacked	10 May 2021		Derek Adams	4 June 2021
Walsall	Brian Dutton	Sacked	10 May 2021		Matthew Taylor	19 May 2021
Barrow	Rob Kelly	End of Caretaker spell	14 May 2021		Mark Cooper	28 May 2021
Tranmere Rovers	Ian Dawes		23 May 2021		Micky Mellon	1 June 2021
Forest Green Rovers	Jimmy Ball		23 May 2021		Rob Edwards	27 May 2021
Swindon Town	John McGreal	Mutual consent	25 June 2021		Ben Garner	21 July 2021
Rochdale	Brian Barry-Murphy	Resigned	30 June 2021		Robbie Stockdale	10 July 2021
Newport County	Michael Flynn	Resigned	1 October 2021	15th	James Rowberry	19 October 2021
Carlisle United	Chris Beech	Sacked	10 October 2021	22nd	Keith Millen	26 October 2021
Scunthorpe United	Neil Cox	Sacked	1 November 2021	24th	Keith Hill	5 November 2021
Hartlepool United	Dave Challinor	Signed by Stockport County	1 November 2021	10th	Graeme Lee	1 December 2021
Stevenage	Alex Revell	Sacked	15 November 2021	21st	Paul Tisdale	28 November 2021
Oldham Athletic	Keith Curle		24 November 2021	22nd	Selim Benachour (Interim)	24 November 2021
Colchester United	Hayden Mullins		19 January 2021	22nd	Wayne Brown (Interim)	22 January 2022
Oldham Athletic	Selim Benachour	End of Interim Spell	22 January 2022	24th	John Sheridan	22 January 2022
Walsall	Matthew Taylor	Sacked	9 February 2022	21st	Michael Flynn	15 February 2022
Bradford City	Derek Adams		15 February 2022	11th	Mark Hughes	24 February 2022
Leyton Orient	Kenny Jackett		22 February 2022	18th	Richie Wellens	9 March 2022
Carlisle United	Keith Millen	Mutual consent	23 February 2022	23rd	Paul Simpson	23 February 2022
Stevenage	Paul Tisdale	Sacked	16 March 2022	22nd	Steve Evans	16 March 2022
Barrow	Mark Cooper	Mutual consent	20 March 2022	21st	Phil Brown	21 March 2022

League table[]


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Forest Green Rovers (C) (P)	46	23	15	8	75	44	+31	84	Promotion to League One
2	Exeter City (P)	46	23	15	8	65	41	+24	84
3	Bristol Rovers (P)	46	23	11	12	71	49	+22	80
4	Northampton Town	46	23	11	12	60	38	+22	80	Qualification to the League Two play-offs
5	Port Vale (P) (O)	46	22	12	12	67	46	+21	78
6	Swindon Town	46	22	11	13	77	54	+23	77
7	Mansfield Town	46	22	11	13	67	52	+15	77
8	Sutton United	46	22	10	14	69	53	+16	76
9	Tranmere Rovers	46	21	12	13	53	40	+13	75
10	Salford City	46	19	13	14	60	46	+14	70
11	Newport County	46	19	12	15	67	58	+9	69
12	Crawley Town	46	17	10	19	56	66	−10	61
13	Leyton Orient	46	14	16	16	62	47	+15	58
14	Bradford City	46	14	16	16	53	55	−2	58
15	Colchester United	46	14	13	19	48	60	−12	55
16	Walsall	46	14	12	20	47	60	−13	54
17	Hartlepool United	46	14	12	20	44	64	−20	54
18	Rochdale	46	12	17	17	51	59	−8	53
19	Harrogate Town	46	14	11	21	64	75	−11	53
20	Carlisle United	46	14	11	21	39	62	−23	53
21	Barrow	46	10	14	22	44	57	−13	44
22	Stevenage	46	11	14	21	45	68	−23	47
23	Oldham Athletic (R)	46	9	11	26	46	75	−29	38	Relegation to the National League
24	Scunthorpe United (R)	46	4	14	28	29	90	−61	26	Relegation to the National League

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

Results[]

Home \ Away	BRW	BRA	BRI	CAR	COL	CRA	EXE	FOR	HAR	HAT	LEY	MAN	NEW	NOR	OLD	POR	ROC	SAL	SCU	STE	SUT	SWI	TRA	WAL
Barrow	—	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–3	0–1	0–0	4–0	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1
Bradford City	1–1	—	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–3	1–3	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–1
Bristol Rovers	1–0	2–1	—	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	1–2	4–2	1–0	7–0	0–2	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–0
Carlisle United	0–0	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	0–3	0–1	1–0
Colchester United	0–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	—	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–2
Crawley Town	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	3–1	—	1–3	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–4	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–0
Exeter City	2–1	0–0	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	—	0–0	4–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–2
Forest Green Rovers	2–0	0–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	6–3	0–0	—	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–1
Harrogate Town	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–4	—	1–2	0–3	0–0	2–2	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–2	0–2	6–1	0–0	0–2	1–4	2–2	1–1
Hartlepool United	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–2	—	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–0	2–0
Leyton Orient	2–0	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	0–2	5–0	—	0–0	0–1	2–4	4–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	3–0	2–2	4–1	4–1	0–1	0–0
Mansfield Town	0–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–3	3–2	2–0	—	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–3	3–2	2–0	2–0
Newport County	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	4–0	2–3	2–2	1–1	—	0–1	3–3	2–1	0–2	0–2	3–0	5–0	3–2	1–2	4–2	2–1
Northampton Town	0–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	—	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–2	1–1	3–2	1–1
Oldham Athletic	0–3	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	3–3	0–2	5–5	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–2	—	3–2	0–0	1–2	1–3	3–0	1–3	1–3	0–1	1–3
Port Vale	3–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	3–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	3–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	—	2–3	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	0–1
Rochdale	0–0	0–0	3–4	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–3	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0
Salford City	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	—	5–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1
Scunthorpe United	0–1	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–3	2–1	0–4	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	1–0
Stevenage	1–0	0–1	0–4	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–4	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	4–2	1–1	—	3–3	1–1	2–0	3–1
Sutton United	1–0	1–4	1–1	4–0	3–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	4–3	3–0	0–0	4–1	2–1	—	1–2	1–1	0–1
Swindon Town	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	5–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	1–2	3–0	0–0	2–1	—	0–0	5–0
Tranmere Rovers	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–4	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	—	1–0
Walsall	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–2	1–3	1–3	3–1	0–2	3–1	3–3	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	—

Source: .
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: 2022 Football League play-offs

	Semi-finals		Final

4	Northampton Town	1 0 1
7	Mansfield Town	2 1 3
				Mansfield Town


5	Port Vale	1

6	Swindon Town	2

First leg

14 May 2022 19:45	Mansfield Town	2–1	Northampton Town	Field Mill Attendance: 7,469 Referee: Anthony Backhouse
	Oates 13' Bowery 32'	Report	Koiki 61'	Field Mill Attendance: 7,469 Referee: Anthony Backhouse

15 May 2022 12:00	Swindon Town	2–1	Port Vale	County Ground Attendance: 14,086 Referee: Ross Joyce
	McKirdy 26', 68'	Report	Wilson 83'	County Ground Attendance: 14,086 Referee: Ross Joyce

Second leg

18 May 2022 19:45 BST	Northampton Town	0–1	Mansfield Town	Sixfields Stadium Attendance: 7,619 Referee: Ben Toner
		Report	McLaughlin 32'	Sixfields Stadium Attendance: 7,619 Referee: Ben Toner

Mansfield Town won 3–1 on aggregate.

19 May 2022 19:45	Port Vale	v	Swindon Town	Vale Park
		Report		Vale Park

Final[]

Main article: 2022 EFL League Two play-off Final

28 May 2022 (2022-05-28)	Mansfield Town	v	Port Vale or Swindon Town	Wembley Stadium, London
				Wembley Stadium, London

Season statistics[]

Top scorers[]

As of 7 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dom Telford	Newport County	25
2	Matty Stevens	Forest Green Rovers	23
3	Harry McKirdy	Swindon Town	20
4	Jamille Matt	Forest Green Rovers	19
5	Aaron Collins	Bristol Rovers	16
6	Davis Keillor-Dunn	Oldham Athletic	15
7	Matt Jay	Exeter City	14
7	Freddie Sears	Colchester United

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Andy Cook	Bradford City	Stevenage	4–1	17 August 2021
Nicky Cadden	Forest Green Rovers	Crawley Town	6–3	21 August 2021
Aaron Drinan	Leyton Orient	Hartlepool United	5–0	30 October 2021
Paul Lewis	Northampton Town	Carlisle United	3–0	30 October 2021
Dom Telford	Newport County	Stevenage	5–0	30 October 2021
Harry McKirdy⁴	Swindon Town	Northampton Town	5–2	1 January 2022
Jack Muldoon	Harrogate Town	Oldham Athletic	3–0	22 January 2022
Brandon Thomas-Asante	Salford City	Scunthorpe United	5–1	19 March 2022

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Most assists[]

As of match played 1 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Kane Wilson	Forest Green Rovers	13
2	Jevani Brown	Exeter City	12
	Nicky Cadden	Forest Green Rovers
	Mitch Pinnock	Northampton Town
5	Antony Evans	Bristol Rovers	11
6	Corey O'Keeffe	Rochdale	10
7	Theo Archibald	Leyton Orient	9
	Oli Cooper	Newport County
	Sam Hoskins	Northampton Town
	Jamille Matt	Forest Green Rovers
	Stephen McLaughlin	Mansfield Town

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Season information
League Two 2021–22

Dates	7 August 2021–7 May 2022
Winners	Forest Green Rovers
Promoted	Forest Green Rovers Exeter City Bristol Rovers
Relegated	Oldham Athletic Scunthorpe United
Season statistics
Matches played	538
Goals scored	1,312
Average	2.42 per match
Top goalscorer	Dom Telford (Newport County, 25)





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