2021–22 Northern Premier League Division One East

Northern Premier League Division One East 2021–22
Season information
Winners	Liversedge
Promoted	Liversedge Marske United
Relegated	Yorkshire Amateur Frickley Athletic Pickering Town
Season statistics
Matches played	342
Goals scored	1099
Top goalscorer	28 goals - Adam Boyes (Marske United)
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

When the divisions were realigned this became Division One East instead of Division One South East from the previous season. Division One East comprised 19 teams, with a vacancy left due to the withdrawal of Droylsden in the previous campaign.

Team changes

The following 6 clubs were promoted from Step 5 divisions and 7 clubs transferred from NPL Division One North West before the season:

• Bridlington Town – promoted from Northern Counties East League Premier Division
• Hebburn Town – promoted from Northern League Division One
• Liversedge – promoted from Northern Counties East League Premier Division
• Shildon – promoted from Northern League Division One
• Stockton Town – promoted from Northern League Division One
• Yorkshire Amateur – promoted from Northern Counties East League Premier Division

The following and 7 clubs transferred from NPL Division One North West Step 4 division before the season:

• Dunston UTS – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Marske United – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Tadcaster Albion – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Pickering Town – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Brighouse Town – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Pontefract Collieries – transferred from NPL Division One North West
• Ossett United – transferred from NPL Division One North West

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bridlington Town	Bridlington	Queensgate	3,000
Brighouse Town	Brighouse	St Giles Road	1,000
Cleethorpes Town	Grimsby	Bradley Football Centre	1,000
Dunston UTS	Dunston	Wellington Road	2,500
Frickley Athletic	South Elmsall	Westfield Lane	2,087
Hebburn Town	Hebburn	The Green Energy Sports Ground	–
Lincoln United	Lincoln	Ashby Avenue	2,200
Liversedge	Cleckheaton	Clayborn	2,000
Marske United	Marske-by-the-Sea	Mount Pleasant	2,500
Ossett United	Ossett	Ingfield	1,950
Pickering Town	Pickering	Mill Lane	2,000
Pontefract Collieries	Pontefract	Harratt Nissan Stadium	1,200
Sheffield	Dronfield	Coach and Horses Ground	2,089
Shildon	Shildon	Dean Street	4,700
Stocksbridge Park Steels	Stocksbridge	Bracken Moor	3,500
Stockton Town	Stockton	Bishopton Road West	1,800
Tadcaster Albion	Tadcaster	Ings Lane	2,000
Worksop Town	Worksop	Sandy Lane	2,500
Yorkshire Amateur	Leeds	Bracken Edge	1,550

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Liversedge  (C) (P)	36	29	6	1	98	22	+76	93	Promotion to the Premier Division
2	Leek Town	36	28	4	4	94	34	+60	88	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Cleethorpes Town	36	21	6	9	74	46	+28	69
4	Stockton Town	36	19	9	8	79	41	+38	66
5	Shildon	36	19	6	11	61	35	+26	63
6	Dunston UTS	36	17	3	16	67	60	+7	54
7	Brighouse Town	36	15	9	12	059	52	+7	54
8	Worksop Town	36	16	6	14	056	53	+3	54
9	Ossett United	36	15	8	13	043	59	−16	53
10	Yorkshire Amateur  (R)	36	14	5	17	55	63	−8	47	Relegation to the Northern Counties East League
11	Stocksbridge Park Steels	36	13	7	16	53	58	−5	46
12	Pontefract Collieries	36	13	4	19	41	54	−13	43
13	Hebburn Town	36	12	6	18	47	56	−9	42
14	Tadcaster Albion	36	10	7	19	47	63	−16	37
15	Bridlington Town	36	9	7	20	40	65	−25	34
16	Lincoln United	36	9	7	20	56	91	−35	34	Reprieve from inter-step play-offs
17	Sheffield	36	8	9	19	47	77	−30	33
18	Frickley Athletic  (R)	36	8	6	22	30	67	−37	30	Relegation to the Northern Counties East League
19	Pickering Town  (R)	36	7	5	24	52	103	−51	26

Source: NPL 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

Results table

Home \ Away	BRD	BRI	CLE	DUN	FRI	HEB	LIN	LIV	MAR	OSS	PIC	PON	SHE	SHI	STB	STC	TAD	WOR	YOR
Bridlington Town		1–4	1–2	3–2	1–1	0–0	4–2	2–2	0–5	2–0	5–2	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–4	0–1	2–1
Brighouse Town	1–0		0–2	0–0	3–1	3–1	3–2	1–2	0–3	2–0	5–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–2
Cleethorpes Town	1–0	3–2		1–1	3–0	0–2	4–4	2–4	3–4	7–1	2–0	0–2	3–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1
Dunston UTS	1–2	2–3	0–2		6–0	1–0	3–1	0–4	2–0	2–1	4–3	4–1	3–1	0–2	4–2	2–1	1–2	4–0	3–0
Frickley Athletic	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–2		0–1	1–4	0–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–3	2–0	0–1	1–4
Hebburn Town	3–0	1–3	0–4	2–1	0–1		2–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–5	1–4	2–3	3–0	4–2
Lincoln United	2–2	1–1	1–4	3–2	1–0	1–4		0–2	0–3	3–3	3–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–5	1–3	1–0	4–1
Liversedge	1–1	1–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	6–1		2–1	6–0	5–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	5–0	4–2	3–1	1–0	5–0
Marske United	2–1	4–1	2–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	1–0	0–2		1–1	5–2	1–0	6–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	3–2	3–2	4–0
Ossett United	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	4–2	2–1	2–1	0–5	1–3		1–1	1–3	3–2	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
Pickering Town	1–4	2–2	0–4	4–2	1–2	2–1	3–4	1–3	1–4	0–2		1–3	4–1	0–4	1–0	0–6	2–1	1–4	3–3
Pontefract Collieries	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	3–4	1–3	0–1	0–2	1–0		1–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–5	1–2	4–3
Sheffield	3–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–4	2–0	0–2	0–5	0–0	2–3	4–0		1–1	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–3	3–2
Shildon	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	0–3	1–2	0–0	4–0	4–0	5–1		2–2	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–2
Stocksbridge Park Steels	2–0	1–3	0–2	5–2	1–2	5–2	4–3	0–3	2–2	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–2		0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0
Stockton Town	2–1	3–2	2–3	3–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	4–0	4–1	3–1	3–3	1–0	3–2		4–0	0–1	1–1
Tadcaster Albion	2–1	1–2	1–4	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–2	0–1	2–3	3–2	0–2	2–2	0–3	1–1	3–2		2–2	0–3
Worksop Town	4–2	0–1	3–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	6–2	0–2	3–5	1–1	3–2	1–0	6–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	0–0		0–3
Yorkshire Amateur	2–0	1–3	0–4	0–3	0–0	0–1	7–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–5	2–0	1–2

Source: NPL East Division results grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

		Semifinals				Final
	2	Marske United	2
	5	Shildon	1
						2	Marske United	2
						4	Stockton Town	1
	3	Cleethorpes Town	1
	4	Stockton Town	2

Semi-finals

26 April	Marske United	2–1	Shildon	Marske-by-the-Sea
				Stadium: Mount Pleasant

26 April	Cleethorpes Town	1–2	Stockton Town	Grimsby
				Stadium: Bradley Football Centre

Final

30 April	Marske United	2–1	Stockton Town	Marske-by-the-Sea
				Stadium: Mount Pleasant

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Adam Boyes	Marske United	28
2	Laurence Sorhaindo	Brighouse Town	23
3	Matthew Cotton	Lincoln United	21
4	Benjamin Atkinson	Liversedge	18
	Luke Mangham	Stocksbridge Park Steels
	Michael Roberts	Stockton Town
	Nicholas Walker	Liversedge
8	Kevin Hayes	Stockton Town	16
	Dean Thexton	Shildon
9	Marc Newsham	Sheffield	16
	Brody Robertson	Cleethorpes Town

External links

• Current league tables