2021–22 National League South

National League South 2021–22
Season information
Dates	14 August 2021–7 May 2022
Winners	Maidstone United
Promoted	Maidstone United Dorking Wanderers
Relegated	Billericay Town
Season statistics
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The National League South has consisted of 21 teams since the 2019–20 season and will do so 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 South.

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

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

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bath City	Bath (Twerton)	Twerton Park	8,840
Billericay Town	Billericay	New Lodge	3,500
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
Dorking Wanderers	Dorking	Meadowbank Stadium	3,000
Dulwich Hamlet	London (East Dulwich)	Champion Hill	3,000
Eastbourne Borough	Eastbourne	Priory Lane	4,151
Ebbsfleet United	Northfleet	Stonebridge Road	4,800
Hampton & Richmond	London (Hampton)	Beveree Stadium	3,500
Havant & Waterlooville	Havant	West Leigh Park	5,300
Hemel Hempstead Town	Hemel Hempstead	Vauxhall Road	3,152
Hungerford Town	Hungerford	Bulpit Lane	2,500
Maidstone United	Maidstone	Gallagher Stadium	4,200
Oxford City	Oxford (Marston)	Court Place Farm	2,000
Slough Town	Slough	Arbour Park	2,000
St Albans City	St Albans	Clarence Park	4,500
Tonbridge Angels	Tonbridge	Longmead Stadium	3,000
Welling United	London (Welling)	Park View Road	4,000

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Welling United	Steve Lovell	Resigned	20 September 2021	19th	Peter Taylor	28 September 2021
Hemel Hempstead Town	Lee Bircham	Sacked		21st	Mark Jones	20 September 2021
Billericay Town	Kevin Watson		5 October 2021	21st	Jody Brown	8 October 2021
Oxford City	David Oldfield	Signed by Weymouth	18 January 2022	4th	Ross Jenkins	9 March 2022
Welling United	Peter Taylor	Sacked	13 March 2022	20th	Warren Feeney	14 March 2022
Chippenham Town	Mike Cook	Resigned	9 April 2022	11th	Gary Horgan	11 April 2022
Billericay Town	Jody Brown	Sacked	19 April 2022	21st	Danny Brown (Interim)	19 April 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Maidstone United  (C) (P)	40	27	6	7	80	38	+42	87	Promotion to the National League
2	Dorking Wanderers  (P) (O)	40	25	6	9	101	53	+48	81	Qualification to the National League South play-offs
3	Ebbsfleet United	40	24	4	12	78	53	+25	76
4	Dartford	40	21	11	8	75	42	+33	74	Qualified for the National League South play-off quarter-finals
5	Oxford City	40	19	12	9	71	46	+25	69
6	Eastbourne Borough	40	17	9	14	73	67	+6	60
7	Chippenham Town	40	16	11	13	61	50	+11	59
8	Havant & Waterlooville	40	15	12	13	58	55	+3	57
9	St Albans City	40	15	7	18	55	58	−3	52
10	Dulwich Hamlet	40	13	12	15	63	60	+3	51
11	Hampton & Richmond Borough	40	14	9	17	56	56	0	51
12	Hungerford Town	40	15	4	21	59	68	−9	49
13	Slough Town	40	12	13	15	51	69	−18	49
14	Concord Rangers	40	13	10	17	53	72	−19	49
15	Hemel Hempstead Town	40	13	9	18	49	72	−23	48
16	Tonbridge Angels	40	11	12	17	43	53	−10	45
17	Braintree Town	40	11	12	17	38	54	−16	45
18	Bath City	40	13	6	21	45	68	−23	45
19	Chelmsford City	40	9	14	17	46	53	−7	41
20	Welling United	40	10	8	22	46	87	−41	38
21	Billericay Town  (R)	40	9	9	22	41	68	−27	36	Relegation to Isthmian 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 table

Home \ Away	MAI	DOR	EBB	DAR	OXF	EAB	CHI	H&W	STA	DUL	HAM	HUN	SLO	CON	HEM	TON	BRA	BAT	CHE	WEL	BIL
Maidstone United	—	0–2	4–0	4–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	4–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	3–2	0–1	2–2	4–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	4–1	1–0
Dorking Wanderers	1–0	—	5–1	1–0	1–0	4–3	3–0	8–0	3–2	4–3	2–2	1–2	5–0	7–2	2–1	1–3	2–1	4–1	2–0	3–1	2–1
Ebbsfleet United	2–3	1–1	—	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	5–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–1	3–1	5–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	6–0	0–0
Dartford	0–1	3–2	1–0	—	0–0	3–1	3–3	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	4–2	1–0
Oxford City	1–3	2–4	1–0	1–1	—	0–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	3–3	2–0	5–0	1–1	5–1	1–1	3–0	1–2
Eastbourne Borough	2–3	3–2	0–1	2–7	2–2	—	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–5	5–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	6–0	2–0	2–1	3–3	1–2
Chippenham Town	1–2	4–1	2–5	4–2	1–0	1–1	—	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	6–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	1–4	2–3	1–3	3–0
Havant & Waterlooville	0–0	1–3	4–2	0–1	1–2	3–0	0–2	—	0–1	2–2	3–0	4–0	1–2	5–2	0–0	1–1	4–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	2–2
St Albans City	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	—	3–4	3–0	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–3	0–1	3–2	0–3	5–0	4–1
Dulwich Hamlet	0–0	1–3	5–2	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	—	4–3	3–1	1–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–3	0–1	1–2
Hampton & Richmond Borough	1–1	1–2	3–0	0–1	0–3	1–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–1	—	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–4	4–0	4–2	2–1	2–0
Hungerford Town	3–2	1–1	3–4	2–1	0–1	2–3	0–3	1–1	0–2	3–1	3–0	—	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–3	2–1	1–2	1–4
Slough Town	2–1	2–1	1–3	0–6	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	4–1	2–2	—	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1
Concord Rangers	1–5	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–3	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–4	1–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–3	2–1	0–0
Hemel Hempstead Town	0–4	2–2	1–3	2–3	0–4	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	0–6	1–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	—	4–3	0–3	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–1
Tonbridge Angels	0–1	3–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	—	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0
Braintree Town	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	—	1–3	2–2	2–2	0–1
Bath City	0–3	0–2	0–2	1–3	3–3	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–2	2–1	3–0
Chelmsford City	1–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–3	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	—	0–0	2–1
Welling United	3–2	0–4	2–4	0–6	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–3	1–3	2–3	1–4	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	—	1–0
Billericay Town	1–1	0–5	1–2	0–2	3–1	2–5	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–4	2–1	1–3	2–3	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on complet. Source: National League official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
						2	Dorking Wanderers	3
	5	Oxford City	2			5	Oxford City	0
	6	Eastbourne Borough	0								2	Dorking Wanderers	3 (a.e.t.)
											3	Ebbsfleet United	2
						3	Ebbsfleet United	1
	4	Dartford	0 (2)			7	Chippenham Town	0
	7	Chippenham Town	0 (3)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers	30
2	Shaun Jeffers	St. Albans City	27
	Ryan Seager	Hungerford Town
4	Charley Kendall	Eastbourne Borough	25
5	Joe Iaciofano	Oxford City	22
6	Joan Luque	Maidstone United	20
7	Dipo Akinyemi	Welling United	18
	Jack Barham	Maidstone United
9	Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	17
	Alex Fletcher	Bath City

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Simo Mbonkwi	Hungerford Town	Welling United	1–4	14 August 2021
Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	Tonbridge Angels	5–1	14 August 2021
Luke Holness	Braintree Town	Hemel Hempstead Town	0–3	21 August 2021
Shaun Jeffers	St Albans City	Welling United	5–0	28 August 2021
Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	Chippenham Town	2–5	28 September 2021
Shaun Jeffers	St Albans City	Billericay Town	4–1	26 October 2021
Jake McCarthy	Havant & Waterlooville	Chelmsford City	2–3	30 October 2021
Ryan Seager	Hungerford Town	Maidstone United	3–2	30 October 2021
Charley Kendall	Eastbourne Borough	Slough Town	3–1	20 November 2021
Harry Parsons	Chippenham Town	Dorking Wanderers	4–1	4 December 2021
Jack Barham	Maidstone United	Dartford	4–0	11 December 2021
Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers	Oxford City	2–4	14 December 2021
Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers	Havant & Waterlooville	8–0	26 December 2021
Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers	Dulwich Hamlet	1–3	18 January 2022
Matt Briggs	Dorking Wanderers	Ebbsfleet United	5–1	22 January 2022
Jack Barham	Maidstone United	Eastbourne Borough	2–3	12 February 2022
Jack Barham	Maidstone United	Havant & Waterlooville	4–0	2 April 2022
Nana Kyei	Concord Rangers	Bath City	3–1	9 April 2022
Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers	Welling United	0–4	18 April 2022
Alfie Rutherford4	Dorking Wanderers	Concord Rangers	7–2	23 April 2022

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

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 King	Dartford	Adebayo Azeez	Dartford
October 2021	Dennis Kutrieb	Ebbsfleet United	Shaun Jeffers	St Albans City
November 2021	Gavin Rose	Dulwich Hamlet	Joe Newton	Havant & Waterlooville
December 2021	Hakan Hayrettin	Maidstone United	Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers
January 2022	Marc White	Dorking Wanderers	Joe Ellul	Maidstone United
February 2022	Ryan Maxwell	Braintree Town	Marcus Dinanga	Dartford
March 2022	Danny Bloor	Eastbourne Borough	Jack Barham	Maidstone United
April 2022	Hakan Hayrettin	Maidstone United	Alfie Rutherford	Dorking Wanderers

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