2021–22 Essex Senior Football League

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Essex Senior Football League 2021–22
Season information
Winners	Walthamstow
Promoted	Walthamstow
Relegated	Sporting Bengal United
Season statistics
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The 2021–22 Essex Senior Football League season is the 51st in the history of the Essex Senior Football League, a football competition in England.

The proposed constitution for this season was published on 22 May 2021, based on allocations for Steps 5 and 6 announced by the FA five days earlier, and it was subject to appeal. The constitution was ratified at the league's annual general meeting (AGM) on 24 June.

After the abandonment of the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, numerous promotions were decided on a points per game basis over the previous two seasons.

Essex Senior League

At the end of the 2020–21 season, the following teams left the league:

• Promoted to Step 4, to the Isthmian League North Division
  • Hashtag United
• Transferred within Step 5, to the Spartan South Midlands League
  • Hadley

The remaining 16 teams, together with the following, form the Essex Senior League for 2021–22:

• Promoted from Step 6, from the Eastern Senior League
  • Athletic Newham
  • Little Oakley
  • White Ensign
• Transferred within Step 5, from the Eastern Counties League
  • FC Clacton
  • Stanway Rovers

Cockfosters were initially moved to the Spartan South Midlands League, but they won their appeal and the transfer was reversed.

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Athletic Newham	Plaistow	Terence McMillan Stadium	2,000
Clapton
Cockfosters	Cockfosters	Chalk Lane	1,000
Enfield	Bishop's Stortford	Woodside Park	4,525 (525 seated)
FC Clacton	Clacton-on-Sea	Austin Arena	3,000 (200 seated)
Hoddesdon Town	Hoddesdon	Lowfield	3,000 (100 seated)
Ilford	Ilford	Cricklefield Stadium	3,500 (216 seated)
Little Oakley	Little Oakley	Memorial Ground
Redbridge	Barkingside	Oakside Stadium	3,000 (316 seated)
Saffron Walden Town	Saffron Walden	Catons Lane	2,000
Sawbridgeworth Town	Sawbridgeworth	Crofters End	2,500 (175 seated)
Sporting Bengal United	Mile End	Mile End Stadium	2,000 (439 seated)
Southend Manor	Southend-on-Sea	Southchurch Park	2,000 (500 seated)
St. Margaretsbury	Stanstead Abbotts	Recreation Ground	1,000 (60 seated)
Stansted	Stansted Mountfitchet	Hargrave Park	2,000 (200 seated)
Stanway Rovers	Stanway	Hawthorns	1,500 (100 seated)
Takeley	Takeley	Station Road	2,000
Walthamstow	Walthamstow	Wadham Lodge	3,500
West Essex	Dagenham	Mayesbrook Park	2,500 (200 seated)
White Ensign	Great Wakering	Burroughs Park	3,000 (250 seated)
Woodford Town	Woodford	Ashton Playing Fields

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Walthamstow (C, P)	40	28	8	4	92	30	+62	92	Promotion to the Southern League
2	Saffron Walden Town	40	26	5	9	101	48	+53	83	Qualification for an inter-step play-off
3	Redbridge	40	24	9	7	89	50	+39	81
4	Stansted	40	22	9	9	81	45	+36	75
5	Enfield	40	22	7	11	82	40	+42	73
6	Little Oakley	40	20	10	10	83	53	+30	70
7	FC Clacton	40	20	7	13	71	61	+10	67
8	Athletic Newham	40	18	12	10	78	55	+23	66
9	Cockfosters	40	17	9	14	78	65	+13	60	Transfer to the Spartan South Midlands League
10	Takeley	40	18	6	16	73	73	0	60
11	White Ensign	40	16	11	13	85	67	+18	59
12	Stanway Rovers	40	16	9	15	67	52	+15	57
13	West Essex	40	16	9	15	68	67	+1	57
14	Woodford Town	40	16	7	17	68	64	+4	55
15	Hoddesdon Town	40	15	9	16	54	63	−9	54	Transfer to the Spartan South Midlands League
16	Ilford	40	11	8	21	43	72	−29	41
17	Southend Manor	40	9	7	24	39	87	−48	34
18	Clapton	40	6	9	25	45	90	−45	27
19	Sawbridgeworth Town	40	7	6	27	37	94	−57	27
20	St Margaretsbury (R)	40	6	7	27	40	89	−49	25	Relegation to the Eastern Senior League
21	Sporting Bengal United (R)	40	3	4	33	31	140	−109	13

Source: Essex Senior League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ATH	CLA	COC	ENF	CLC	HOD	ILF	OAK	RED	SAF	SAW	SOU	SBU	STM	STS	STN	TAK	WAL	WSX	WHI	WOD
Athletic Newham	—	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	3–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–2	6–0	2–1	6–1	1–2	1–1	3–6	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–3
Clapton	2–0	—	1–2	1–4	0–4	1–2	1–3	0–2	0–2	0–5	2–1	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–4	0–4	0–5	0–2	0–4
Cockfosters	0–1	1–1	—	1–1	2–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	4–1	0–0	5–0	5–1	4–3	1–2	2–1	0–2	5–1	1–1	6–1
Enfield	1–2	2–0	3–1	—	1–2	5–0	4–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	5–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	6–1	4–0	1–1
F.C. Clacton	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	—	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–5	0–4	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–4	1–3
Hoddesdon Town	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	—	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–5	1–0	2–0	4–3	3–1	2–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–4	1–2
Ilford	2–3	0–3	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–3	—	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–3	0–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–2	2–1
Little Oakley	1–1	3–5	1–4	2–3	3–4	3–0	0–0	—	1–3	1–2	4–1	4–0	8–0	1–1	4–3	0–3	1–0	2–0	3–0	4–3	2–1
Redbridge	2–2	3–1	2–1	3–1	1–3	3–1	1–2	1–1	—	2–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	3–2	4–2
Saffron Walden Town	2–2	3–0	4–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	4–3	0–1	1–3	—	2–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	7–1	2–3	4–1	3–3	3–1
Sawbridgesworth Town	0–6	1–1	2–1	1–5	0–4	2–0	3–0	1–5	0–3	0–3	—	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	4–1	0–2	1–3
Southend Manor	3–4	1–0	3–5	0–4	1–2	1–1	0–2	2–3	0–3	1–3	1–0	—	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–8	0–3	2–1	0–1
Sporting Bengal United	0–2	1–1	1–5	0–5	1–5	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–5	0–7	2–2	0–3	—	1–1	0–2	0–6	0–3	0–2	2–3	1–4	1–0
St Margaretsbury	1–1	3–1	1–2	0–2	2–3	1–1	0–1	1–3	2–3	1–2	5–1	0–3	2–1	—	1–5	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–3	0–5	1–2
Stansted	2–0	2–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	5–1	1–3	1–3	1–0	2–1	2–1	9–2	5–1	—	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	3–0
Stanway Rovers	3–3	0–0	3–0	4–0	4–4	1–3	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–4	1–2	4–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	—	5–0	0–3	0–0	3–2	0–3
Takeley	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–4	4–2	3–0	2–1	0–3	1–4	4–1	4–0	4–1	4–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	—	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–5
Walthamstow	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	3–0	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	5–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	—	4–1	0–0	2–1
West Essex	2–0	3–2	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–3	1–4	4–1	4–0	8–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–4	1–1	—	1–1	1–0
White Ensign	0–2	3–3	8–3	1–0	4–3	2–1	4–1	0–0	0–1	2–4	0–0	3–2	7–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–5	1–1	—	2–3
Woodford Town	0–1	1–4	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	2–0	4–2	4–1	0–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–4	1–2	3–1	—

Source: The FA Full-Time
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.