2021–22 Northern Premier League Premier Division

Northern Premier League Premier Division 2021–22
Season information
Winners	Buxton
Promoted	Buxton Scarborough Athletic
Relegated	Witton Albion Grantham Town
Season statistics
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1202
Top goalscorer	26 goals - Jacob Hazel (Whitby Town)
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

Premier Division comprised the same set of 22 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.

Stadia and locations

Club	Ground	Capacity
Ashton United	Hurst Cross	4,500
Atherton Collieries	Alder Street	2,500
Bamber Bridge	Irongate	2,264
Basford United	Greenwich Avenue	2,200
Buxton	The Silverlands	5,200
FC United of Manchester	Broadhurst Park	4,400
Gainsborough Trinity	The Northolme	4,304
Grantham Town	South Kesteven Sports Stadium	7,500
Hyde United	Ewen Fields	4,250
Lancaster City	Giant Axe	3,500
Matlock Town	Causeway Lane	2,214
Mickleover Sports	Station Road	2,000
Morpeth Town	Craik Park	1,500
Nantwich Town	The Weaver Stadium	3,500
Radcliffe	Stainton Park	3,500
Scarborough Athletic	Flamingo Land Stadium	2,070
South Shields	Mariners Park	3,500
Stafford Rangers	Marston Road	4,000
Stalybridge Celtic	Bower Fold	6,500
Warrington Town	Cantilever Park	3,500
Whitby Town	Turnbull Ground	3,500
Witton Albion	Wincham Park	4,813

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Buxton  (C) (P)	42	23	12	7	80	38	+42	81	Promotion to the National League North
2	South Shields	42	23	9	10	71	40	+31	78	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Scarborough Athletic  (P) (O)	42	21	11	10	61	48	+13	74
4	Matlock Town	42	21	10	11	59	36	+23	73
5	Warrington Town	42	20	11	11	67	47	+20	71
6	Bamber Bridge	42	21	6	15	67	59	+8	69
7	Whitby Town	42	19	9	14	57	50	+7	66
8	Stafford Rangers	42	15	16	11	55	39	+16	61
9	F.C. United of Manchester	42	18	7	17	66	57	+9	61
10	Morpeth Town	42	17	10	15	67	59	+8	61
11	Lancaster City	42	17	5	20	44	51	−7	56
12	Mickleover Sports	42	15	10	17	54	65	−11	55
13	Nantwich Town	42	14	10	18	46	52	−6	52
14	Stalybridge Celtic	42	15	7	20	51	59	−8	52
15	Ashton United	42	13	12	17	50	59	−9	51
16	Radcliffe	42	15	6	21	56	73	−17	51
17	Gainsborough Trinity	42	12	14	16	40	52	−12	50
18	Hyde United	42	14	8	20	52	65	−13	50
19	Atherton Collieries	42	13	9	20	34	45	−11	48	Reprieve from relegation
20	Basford United	42	12	9	21	32	49	−17	45
21	Witton Albion  (R)	42	12	7	23	48	78	−30	43	Relegation to Division One West
22	Grantham Town  (R)	42	8	10	24	45	81	−36	34	Relegation to Division One East

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	ASH	ATH	BAM	BAS	BUX	UOM	GAI	GRA	HYD	LNC	MAT	MIC	MOR	NAN	RAD	SCA	SOU	STA	STL	WAR	WHI	WIT
Ashton United		2–2	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–2	0–3	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–3	0–1
Atherton Collieries	1–2		2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0
Bamber Bridge	0–1	1–2		1–0	0–4	0–0	5–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	2–4	2–2	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	3–0	1–3	0–2	2–2	3–0	2–0
Basford United	0–0	2–0	0–1		1–3	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2
Buxton	3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0		1–2	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	1–1	3–0	5–1	2–2	2–3	2–0	3–3	4–1	3–1
FC United of Manchester	4–3	2–0	1–0	3–2	1–1		3–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–2	3–0	6–0	0–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	3–4	2–0
Gainsborough Trinity	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	3–2		2–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1
Grantham Town	4–3	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–1		2–0	2–7	1–3	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	2–3
Hyde United	2–1	0–1	0–4	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	3–0		0–1	2–3	1–4	2–2	1–0	1–3	3–2	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–2	3–2
Lancaster City	3–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–0		0–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1
Matlock Town	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–1		1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–3	2–1	2–0	2–3	9–0
Mickleover	2–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–3	3–3	2–0	2–2	3–2	3–1	2–1		0–4	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	2–2	1–2	2–1
Morpeth Town	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	3–1		1–2	3–1	0–3	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–2
Nantwich Town	2–2	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–3		2–3	2–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	1–0
Radcliffe	0–2	1–0	2–3	3–0	2–3	3–3	2–0	1–2	3–2	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–5	3–1		0–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	0–2	4–3	2–0
Scarborough Athletic	1–1	0–1	2–4	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	5–2		0–2	1–1	0–3	2–0	2–1	3–2
South Shields	1–1	2–1	4–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	4–1	1–2	2–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	4–2	2–0	1–0		2–0	4–0	3–2	2–3	3–1
Stafford Rangers	5–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–1		2–0	0–1	0–0	1–1
Stalybridge Celtic	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	5–2	1–1	5–0	1–1	3–0	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–5	0–2	0–1	1–3	2–1		0–3	2–1	2–2
Warrington Town	1–3	2–0	4–1	2–3	2–2	2–0	1–0	3–3	1–0	5–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	3–0		0–0	2–0
Whitby Town	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	4–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–3	0–1	1–1		0–1
Witton Albion	1–0	2–0	1–4	4–0	0–3	2–3	1–1	1–4	4–2	2–3	0–1	1–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–4	0–2

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

Play-offs

		Semifinals				Final
	2	South Shields	1 (5)
	5	Warrington Town (pen.)	1 (6)
						5	Warrington Town	1
						3	Scarborough Athletic	2
	3	Scarborough Athletic	2
	4	Matlock Town	1

Semi-finals

26 April	South Shields	1–1 (5–6 pen)	Warrington Town	South Shields
	Osei  19'		Buckley  52'	Stadium: Mariners Park Attendance: 2,014
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26 April	Scarborough Athletic	2–1	Matlock Town	Scarborough
	Jackson  74' Colville  84'		Hughes  90'	Stadium: Flamingo Land Stadium Attendance: 2,676

Final

2 May	Scarborough Athletic	2–1	Warrington Town	Scarborough
	Coulson  19' Gooda  81'		Amis  36' Duggan	Stadium: Flamingo Land Stadium Attendance: 2,805

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jacob Hazel	Whitby Town	26
2	Diego De Girolamo	Buxton	20
3	Andrew Johnson	Morpeth Town	18
	Callum Saunders	Witton Albion
5	Jordan Buckley	Warrington Town	17
	Jamie Ward	Buxton
7	Bobby Grant	Radcliffe	16
8	Paul Dawson	Bamber Bridge Lancaster City (6)	14
	Regan Linney	F.C. United of Manchester
10	Joshua Amis	Warrington Town	12
	Liam Henderson	Morpeth Town
	JJ Hooper	South Shields
	Luca Navarro	Radcliffe Stafford Rangers (3)

External links

• Current league tables