2021–22 National League North

National League North 2021–22
Season information
Dates	14 August 2021–7 May 2022
Winners	Gateshead
Promoted	Gateshead York City
Relegated	Guiseley
Season statistics
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The National League North consists of 22 teams for the last time.

Team changes

Following the COVID-19 pandemic-related cancellation of the four Step 3 leagues' 2020–21 seasons, no teams were promoted to or relegated from the National League North.

To National League North Relegated from 2020–21 National League None

From National League North Promoted to 2021–22 National League None

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Fylde	Wesham	Mill Farm	6,000
AFC Telford United	Telford	New Bucks Head	6,300
Alfreton Town	Alfreton	North Street	3,600
Blyth Spartans	Blyth	Croft Park	4,435
Boston United	Boston	Boston Community Stadium	5,000
Brackley Town	Brackley	St. James Park	3,500
Bradford (Park Avenue)	Bradford	Horsfall Stadium	3,500
Chester	Chester	Deva Stadium	6,500
Chorley	Chorley	Victory Park	4,100
Curzon Ashton	Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside Stadium	4,000
Darlington	Darlington	Blackwell Meadows	3,300
Farsley Celtic	Farsley	The Citadel	3,900
Gateshead	Gateshead	Gateshead International Stadium	11,800
Gloucester City	Gloucester	Meadow Park	3,600
Guiseley	Guiseley	Nethermoor Park	4,200
Hereford	Hereford	Edgar Street	5,213
Kettering Town	Kettering	Latimer Park (groundshare with Burton Park Wanderers)	2,400
Kidderminster Harriers	Kidderminster	Aggborough	6,238
Leamington	Leamington	New Windmill Ground	2,300
Southport	Southport	Haig Avenue	6,008
Spennymoor Town	Spennymoor	The Brewery Field	6,000
York City	York	York Community Stadium	8,500

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Gloucester City	Paul Groves	Sacked	25 September 2021	20th	Lee Mansell	25 September 2021
AFC Telford United	Gavin Cowan		5 October 2021	20th	Dennis Greene (caretaker)	28 October 2021
Curzon Ashton	Steve Cunningham		18 October 2021	6th	Adam Lakeland	28 October 2021
York City	Steve Watson		13 November 2021	11th	John Askey	13 November 2021
Blyth Spartans	Michael Nelson		17 November 2021	22nd	Terry Mitchell	29 November 2021
AFC Telford United	Dennis Greene	End of interim spell	21 November 2021	22nd	Paul Carden	21 November 2021
Chester	Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley	Sacked	24 November 2021	16th	Steve Watson	23 December 2021
Spennymoor Town	Tommy Miller		5 December 2021	13th	Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley	13 December 2021
Boston United	Craig Elliott		4 January 2022	7th	Paul Cox	21 January 2022
Kettering Town	Paul Cox	Signed by Boston United	21 January 2022	8th	Ian Culverhouse	23 January 2022
Farsley Celtic	Neil Ross	Sacked	27 January 2022	21st	Russ Wilcox	9 February 2022
AFC Fylde	Jim Bentley		4 March 2022	4th	James Rowe	7 March 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Gateshead  (C) (P)	42	29	7	6	99	47	+52	94	Promotion to the National League
2	Brackley Town	42	25	12	5	53	23	+30	87	Qualification to the National League North play-offs
3	AFC Fylde	42	24	8	10	68	37	+31	80
4	Kidderminster Harriers	42	21	11	10	72	35	+37	74	Qualified for the National League North play-off quarter-finals
5	York City  (P) (O)	42	19	9	14	58	50	+8	66
6	Chorley	42	17	14	11	62	49	+13	65
7	Boston United	42	18	9	15	63	57	+6	63
8	Kettering Town	42	16	13	13	54	48	+6	61
9	Alfreton Town	42	17	10	15	58	59	−1	61
10	Spennymoor Town	42	17	9	16	55	51	+4	60
11	Southport	42	14	15	13	60	55	+5	57
12	Hereford	42	15	10	17	51	52	−1	55
13	Darlington 1883	42	14	11	17	57	58	−1	53
14	Curzon Ashton	42	13	13	16	51	63	−12	52
15	Leamington	42	12	12	18	39	47	−8	48
16	Chester	42	12	11	19	70	71	−1	47
17	Gloucester City	42	10	16	16	47	60	−13	46
18	Bradford Park Avenue	42	11	11	20	46	70	−24	44
19	Blyth Spartans	42	12	7	23	41	76	−35	43
20	A.F.C. Telford United	42	7	16	19	48	65	−17	37
21	Farsley Celtic	42	9	10	23	37	78	−41	37
22	Guiseley  (R)	42	9	8	25	31	69	−38	35	Relegated to the Northern Premier League

Source: National League 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

Results table

Home \ Away	GAT	BRA	FYL	KID	CHO	YOR	BOS	ALF	KET	SPE	HER	SOU	DAR	CUR	LEA	GLO	BRD	CHE	BLY	FAR	TEL	GUI
Gateshead	—	2–0	0–3	4–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	4–2	4–0	3–1	3–0	0–0	4–3	3–0	3–1	4–1	2–1
Brackley Town	1–0	—	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	1–0
AFC Fylde	2–0	3–3	—	2–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	3–1	1–1	2–1
Kidderminster Harriers	2–3	0–2	0–1	—	1–1	3–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	4–0	3–0	6–0	1–0	5–0	3–0	0–0	5–1	3–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	3–0
Chorley	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	—	2–2	2–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	3–2	2–1	2–1	4–3	1–0	9–0	1–1	4–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–0
York City	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	—	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–0	4–0	4–2	3–1	3–0
Boston United	1–2	1–3	1–3	1–2	2–2	2–1	—	2–3	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	3–0	4–1	2–1
Alfreton Town	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–4	0–1	3–0	1–1	—	0–0	3–2	3–3	2–2	0–0	4–2	1–0	1–1	5–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–1	2–1
Kettering Town	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–3	1–0	—	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–3	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–1	2–2	0–2
Spennymoor Town	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–2	2–1	—	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–2	4–2	3–0	6–0	1–0	2–1
Hereford	0–2	2–2	1–4	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–2	—	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0
Southport	3–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–3	4–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	—	3–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–2	2–3	4–0	1–1	2–1
Darlington	1–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	—	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	5–1
Curzon Ashton	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–4	1–2	1–1	0–3	3–0	0–0	2–1	—	1–2	1–2	2–1	4–3	3–2	1–2	0–0	1–1
Leamington	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–2	0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	—	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	1–0
Gloucester City	2–4	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	—	0–0	3–3	2–2	2–0	2–2	4–1
Bradford (Park Avenue)	2–4	0–3	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–4	1–2	5–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–5	0–0	2–3	2–1	1–2	—	1–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–0
Chester	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–2	1–2	0–1	4–0	3–2	4–0	0–2	2–3	5–0	2–2	0–3	2–1	3–2	4–0	—	5–1	1–0	1–1	0–1
Blyth Spartans	2–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–2	0–3	0–1	2–0	1–2	3–1	1–4	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–3	1–3	—	2–1	2–0	1–0
Farsley Celtic	3–4	0–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	0–2	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–2	0–4	2–0	0–6	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	—	1–1	1–0
AFC Telford United	1–1	0–2	1–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–3	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–3	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	2–2	2–0	—	0–1
Guiseley	0–6	0–5	2–4	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	3–2	0–2	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–2	3–1	0–0	0–0	—

Source: National League North results grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						2	Brackley Town	0
	5	York City	2			5	York City	1
	6	Chorley	1								5	York City	2
											7	Boston United	0
						3	AFC Fylde	0
	4	Kidderminster Harriers	1			7	Boston United	2
	7	Boston United	2

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Macauley Langstaff	Gateshead	28
2	Nick Haughton	AFC Fylde	26
3	Glen Taylor	Spennymoor Town	25
4	Cedwyn Scott	Gateshead	24
5	Danny Elliott	Boston United	19
6	Ashley Hemmings	Kidderminster Harriers	15
7	Jordan Harper	Southport	14
	Lee Ndlovu	Brackley Town
	JJ O'Donnell	Blyth Spartans
10	Jason Oswell	AFC Telford United	13
	Tom Owen-Evans	Hereford

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Glen Taylor	Spennymoor Town	Farsley Celtic	6–0	11 September 2021
Marcus Carver	Southport	Boston United	4–1	13 November 2021
Jack Lambert	Darlington	Farsley Celtic	0–6	8 January 2022
Matt Lowe	Brackley Town	Guiseley	0–5	8 March 2022
Alex Curran	Curzon Ashton	Bradford (Park Avenue)	2–3	12 March 2022
Cedwyn Scott	Gateshead	Curzon Ashton	4–0	22 March 2022

Monthly awards

Each month the Vanarama National League announces their official Player of the Month and Manager of the Month.

Month	Manager of the Month	Club	Player of the Month	Club
August/September 2021	Steve Cunningham	Curzon Ashton	Nick Haughton	AFC Fylde
October 2021	Steve Watson	York City	Ashley Hemmings	Kidderminster Harriers
November 2021	Russell Penn	Kidderminster Harriers	Krystian Pearce	Hereford
December 2021	Mike Williamson	Gateshead	Cam Mason	Southport
January 2022	Russell Penn	Kidderminster Harriers	Greg Olley	Gateshead
February 2022	John Askey	York City	Maziar Kouhyar	Hereford
March 2022	Kevin Wilkin	Brackley Town	Cedwyn Scott	Gateshead
April 2022	Billy Heath	Alfreton Town	Sam Osborne	AFC Fylde

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