2021–22 Southern Football League

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The 2021–22 Southern Football League season is the 119th in the history of the Southern League since its establishment in 1894. The league has two Premier divisions (Central and South) at Step 3 of the National League System (NLS) and two Division One divisions (Central and South) at Step 4. These correspond to levels 7 and 8 of the English football league system.

The allocations for Step 4 this season were announced by The Football Association (FA) on 17 May 2021.

The scheduled restructuring of the non-League system took place at the end of the 2020–21 season and a new division was added to the Northern Premier League at Step 4 for 2021–22, which resulted in some reallocations into or out of, and promotions to, the Southern League's Step 4 divisions.

Premier Division Central

Main article: 2021–22 Southern Football League Premier Central

Premier Division Central 2021–22
Season information
Season statistics
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

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

Team changes

From Premier Division Central

Transferred to Premier Division South

• Kings Langley

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Rushden & Diamonds	Rushden	Hayden Road	2,000
Alvechurch	Alvechurch	Lye Meadow	3,000
Banbury United	Banbury	Spencer Stadium	2,000
Barwell	Barwell	Kirkby Road	2,500
Biggleswade Town	Biggleswade	Langford Road	3,000
Bromsgrove Sporting	Bromsgrove	Victoria Ground	4,893
Coalville Town	Coalville	Owen Street Sports Ground	2,000
Hednesford Town	Hednesford	Keys Park	6,039
Hitchin Town	Hitchin	Top Field	4,554
Kings Langley	Kings Langley	Sadiku Stadium	1,963
Leiston	Leiston	Victory Road	2,250
Lowestoft Town	Lowestoft	Crown Meadow	3,000
Needham Market	Needham Market	Bloomfields	4,000
Nuneaton Borough	Nuneaton	Liberty Way	4,614
Peterborough Sports	Peterborough	Lincoln Road	2,300
Redditch United	Redditch	The Valley	5,000
Royston Town	Royston	Garden Walk	5,000
Rushall Olympic	Walsall (Rushall)	Dales Lane	2,000
St Ives Town	St Ives	Westwood Road	2,000
Stourbridge	Stourbridge	War Memorial Athletic Ground	2,626
Stratford Town	Stratford-upon-Avon	Knights Lane	2,000
Tamworth	Tamworth	The Lamb Ground	4,565

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Banbury United  (C) (P)	40	32	6	2	92	32	+60	102	Promotion to the National League North
2	Peterborough Sports  (P) (O)	40	24	7	9	94	46	+48	79	Qualification for Premier Division Central play-offs
3	Coalville Town	40	23	9	8	86	47	+39	78
4	Rushall Olympic	40	20	9	11	80	54	+26	69
5	Alvechurch	40	18	11	11	57	41	+16	65
6	AFC Rushden & Diamonds	40	19	8	13	57	49	+8	65
7	Leiston	40	18	6	16	59	65	−6	60
8	Royston Town	40	17	8	15	65	51	+14	59
9	Hednesford Town	40	14	12	14	66	64	+2	54
10	Tamworth	40	14	12	14	58	58	0	54
11	Stourbridge	40	15	8	17	61	71	−10	53
12	Needham Market	40	12	13	15	66	69	−3	49
13	Stratford Town	40	13	8	19	48	70	−22	47
14	St Ives Town	40	13	8	19	57	90	−33	47
15	Redditch United	40	11	12	17	38	50	−12	45
16	Nuneaton Borough	40	11	10	19	51	62	−11	42
17	Hitchin Town	40	11	9	20	47	58	−11	42
18	Bromsgrove Sporting	40	10	12	18	36	59	−23	42
19	Barwell	40	10	11	19	57	78	−21	41	Reprieve from relegation
20	Biggleswade Town  (R)	40	7	13	20	47	64	−17	34	Relegation to Division One Central
21	Lowestoft Town  (R)	40	9	6	25	49	93	−44	33	Relegation to the Isthmian League North Division

Source: Southern League
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

Premier Division South

Main article: 2021–22 Southern Football League Premier South

Premier Division South 2021–22
Season information
Season statistics

Premier Division South comprises 22 teams, 20 of which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To Premier Division South

Returned after one-season absence

• Merthyr Town

Transferred from Premier Division Central

• Kings Langley

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Beaconsfield Town	Beaconsfield	Holloways Park	3,500
Chesham United	Chesham	The Meadow	5,000
Dorchester Town	Dorchester	The Avenue Stadium	5,000
Farnborough	Farnborough	Cherrywood Road	7,000
Gosport Borough	Gosport	Privett Park	4,500
Harrow Borough	Harrow	Earlsmead Stadium	3,000
Hartley Wintney	Hartley Wintney	The Memorial Playing Fields	2,000
Hayes & Yeading United	Hayes, Hillingdon	SkyEx Community Stadium	3,000
Hendon	Hendon	Silver Jubilee Park	2,000
Kings Langley	Kings Langley	Sadiku Stadium	1,963
Merthyr Town	Merthyr Tydfil	Penydarren Park	4,000
Metropolitan Police	East Molesey	Imber Court	3,000
Poole Town	Poole	Tatnam Ground	2,500
Salisbury	Salisbury	Raymond McEnhill Stadium	5,000
Swindon Supermarine	Swindon (South Marston)	Hunts Copse Ground	3,000
Taunton Town	Taunton	Wordsworth Drive	2,500
Tiverton Town	Tiverton	Ladysmead	3,500
Truro City	Truro	Treyew Road	3,200
Walton Casuals	Walton-on-Thames	Elmbridge Sports Hub	2,500
Weston-super-Mare	Weston-super-Mare	Woodspring Stadium	3,500
Wimborne Town	Wimborne Minster	The Cuthbury	3,000
Yate Town	Yate	Lodge Road	2,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Taunton Town  (C) (P)	42	28	7	7	83	42	+41	91	Promotion to the National League South
2	Hayes & Yeading United	42	26	8	8	100	39	+61	86	Qualification for Premier Division South play-offs
3	Farnborough  (P) (O)	42	26	7	9	73	44	+29	85
4	Metropolitan Police	42	24	9	9	72	46	+26	81
5	Weston-super-Mare	42	23	9	10	72	41	+31	78
6	Chesham United	42	22	11	9	80	50	+30	77
7	Yate Town	42	21	9	12	66	48	+18	72
8	Truro City	42	20	10	12	62	54	+8	70
9	Gosport Borough	42	19	9	14	65	56	+9	66
10	Poole Town	42	19	7	16	74	69	+5	64
11	Walton Casuals	42	16	10	16	53	61	−8	58
12	Swindon Supermarine	42	16	9	17	63	63	0	57
13	Tiverton Town	42	15	8	19	61	63	−2	53
14	Harrow Borough	42	15	7	20	62	77	−15	52
15	Salisbury	42	13	9	20	49	75	−26	48
16	Hendon	42	14	5	23	58	70	−12	47
17	Beaconsfield Town	42	13	7	22	70	92	−22	46
18	Hartley Wintney	42	13	5	24	56	75	−19	44
19	Dorchester Town	42	12	5	25	41	58	−17	41
20	Kings Langley	42	9	10	23	49	68	−19	37	Reprieve from relegation
21	Merthyr Town  (R)	42	6	8	28	47	94	−47	26	Relegation to Division One South
22	Wimborne Town  (R)	42	4	7	31	35	106	−71	19

Source: Southern League
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

Division One Central

Main article: 2021–22 Southern Football League Division One Central

Division One Central 2021–22
Season information
Season statistics
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

Division One Central comprises 20 teams, 14 of which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.

Team changes

To Division One Central

Transferred from the Isthmian League South Central Division

• F.C. Romania
• Harlow Town
• Hertford Town
• Waltham Abbey
• Ware

Promoted from the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division

• Colney Heath

From Division One Central

Transferred to the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands

• Bedworth United
• Coleshill Town
• Corby Town
• Daventry Town
• Halesowen Town
• Yaxley

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Dunstable	Dunstable	Creasey Park	3,200
Aylesbury United	Aylesbury	The Meadow (groundshare with Chesham United)	5,000
Barton Rovers	Barton-le-Clay	Sharpenhoe Road	4,000
Bedford Town	Bedford	The Eyrie	3,000
Bedworth United	Bedworth	The Oval	3,000
Berkhamsted	Berkhamsted	Broadwater	2,500
Biggleswade	Biggleswade	Langford Road (groundshare with Biggleswade Town)	3,000
Coleshill Town	Coleshill	Pack Meadow	2,070
Corby Town	Corby	Steel Park	3,893
Daventry Town	Daventry	Communications Park	3,000
Didcot Town	Didcot	Loop Meadow	3,000
Halesowen Town	Halesowen	The Grove	3,150
Kempston Rovers	Kempston	Hillgrounds Leisure	2,000
Kidlington	Kidlington	Yarnton Road	1,500
North Leigh	North Leigh	Eynsham Hall Park Sports Ground	2,000
St Neots Town	St Neots	New Rowley Park	3,500
Thame United	Thame	Meadow View Park	2,000
Wantage Town	Wantage	Alfredian Park	1,500
Welwyn Garden City	Welwyn Garden City	Herns Way	1,000
Yaxley	Yaxley	Leading Drove	1,500

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bedford Town  (C) (P)	38	28	7	3	100	28	+72	91	Promotion to Step 3
2	Berkhamsted	38	24	9	5	64	29	+35	81	Qualification for the play-offs
3	AFC Dunstable	38	21	10	7	64	33	+31	73
4	Ware	38	21	8	9	90	47	+43	71
5	Welwyn Garden City	38	21	8	9	80	48	+32	71	Exclusion from the play-offs
6	North Leigh  (P) (O)	38	19	11	8	69	42	+27	68	Qualification for the play-offs
7	Harlow Town	38	17	10	11	71	49	+22	61
8	Thame United	38	16	12	10	64	45	+19	60
9	Biggleswade	38	18	6	14	62	56	+6	60
10	St Neots Town	38	14	11	13	57	53	+4	53
11	Waltham Abbey	38	15	7	16	64	64	0	52
12	FC Romania	38	15	3	20	71	83	−12	48
13	Didcot Town	38	13	8	17	50	69	−19	47
14	Aylesbury United	38	12	7	19	64	70	−6	43
15	Barton Rovers	38	11	8	19	47	63	−16	41
16	Hertford Town	38	10	6	22	58	82	−24	36
17	Kidlington	38	8	11	19	47	86	−39	35	Reprieve from inter-step play-off
18	Kempston Rovers  (O)	38	8	5	25	50	102	−52	29	Qualification for inter-step play-off
19	Colney Heath  (R)	38	7	2	29	35	92	−57	23	Relegation to the Hellenic League
20	Wantage Town  (R)	38	5	5	28	37	103	−66	20	Relegation to the Spartan South Midlands League

Source: Southern League
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

Division One South

Main article: 2021–22 Southern Football League Division One South

Division One South 2021–22
Season information
Winners	Plymouth Parkway
Promoted	Plymouth Parkway Winchester City
Relegated	Cinderford Town Mangotsfield United Barnstaple Town
Season statistics
Goals scored	1138
← 2020–21	2022–23 →

Division One South comprises the same set of 20 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.

After Moneyfields voluntary relegated from the league, Division One South consisted of 19 clubs: 17 clubs from the previous season, and two new clubs:

• Lymington Town, promoted from the Wessex League
• Plymouth Parkway, promoted from the Western League

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Totton	Totton	Testwood Stadium	3,000
Barnstaple Town	Barnstaple	Mill Road	5,000
Basingstoke Town	Basingstoke	The City Ground (groundshare with Winchester City)	4,500
Bideford	Bideford	The Sports Ground	2,000
Bristol Manor Farm	Bristol (Sea Mills)	The Creek	2,000
Cinderford Town	Cinderford	Causeway Ground	3,500
Cirencester Town	Cirencester	Corinium Stadium	4,500
Evesham United	Evesham	Jubilee Stadium	3,000
Frome Town	Frome	Badgers Hill	2,000
Highworth Town	Highworth	The Elms Recreation Ground	2,000
Larkhall Athletic	Bath (Larkhall)	The Plain Ham Ground	1,000
Mangotsfield United	Mangotsfield	Cossham Street	2,500
Melksham Town	Melksham	Oakfield Stadium	2,500
Moneyfields	Portsmouth	Moneyfields Sports Ground	2,000
Paulton Rovers	Paulton	Athletic Field	2,500
Sholing	Sholing	Universal Stadium	1,000
Slimbridge	Slimbridge	Thornhill Park	1,500
Thatcham Town	Thatcham	Waterside Park	1,500
Willand Rovers	Willand	The Stan Robinson Stadium	1,000
Winchester City	Winchester	The City Ground	4,500

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Plymouth Parkway  (C) (P)	36	26	3	7	92	40	+52	81	Promotion to Step 3
2	Frome Town	36	23	9	4	76	30	+46	78	Qualification for Division One South play-offs
3	Cirencester Town	36	23	8	5	75	29	+46	77
4	Winchester City	36	21	8	7	93	47	+46	71
5	Bristol Manor Farm	36	20	9	7	64	41	+23	69
6	AFC Totton	36	21	5	10	83	37	+46	68
7	Sholing	36	19	6	11	59	36	+23	63
8	Melksham Town	36	15	8	13	56	59	−3	53
9	Paulton Rovers	36	14	7	15	72	61	+11	49
10	Highworth Town	36	12	6	18	41	59	−18	42
11	Larkhall Athletic	36	9	12	15	43	48	−5	39
12	Bideford	36	11	6	19	36	55	−19	39
13	Evesham United	36	11	6	19	50	72	−22	39
14	Slimbridge	36	11	5	20	52	83	−31	38
15	Willand Rovers	36	10	7	19	54	62	−8	37
16	Lymington Town	36	9	9	18	51	90	−39	36	Reprieve from inter-step play-off
17	Cinderford Town	36	8	7	21	54	83	−29	31	Qualification for inter-step play-off
18	Mangotsfield United	36	7	6	23	42	91	−49	27	Relegation to the Western League
19	Barnstaple Town	36	7	3	26	45	115	−70	24

Source: Southern League Website
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

Home \ Away	TOT	BAR	BID	BMF	CIN	CIR	EVE	FRO	HWT	LAR	LYM	MAN	MEL	PAU	PLY	SHO	SLI	WIL	WIN
AFC Totton	—	0–0	4–2	1–2	4–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	7–1	3–0	1–0	2–4	1–0	0–1	0–3	2–0	2–2
Barnstaple Town	1–8	—	1–0	4–5	0–7	1–5	2–1	1–4	4–0	2–1	1–3	2–1	0–2	1–5	0–4	0–3	3–2	0–4	2–4
Bideford	1–0	1–0	—	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–2	4–0	0–2	0–2	1–2	0–3	2–0	0–4	1–2
Bristol Manor Farm	2–2	3–1	0–2	—	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	4–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–3	2–0	4–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2
Cinderford Town	1–8	3–2	1–0	1–2	—	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–0	3–3	3–0	1–0	2–4	2–3	1–4	1–2	2–1	2–5
Cirencester Town	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	—	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–2	3–1	4–3	3–1	1–0	6–0	0–1	4–2
Evesham United	3–3	3–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	—	1–4	4–1	2–0	4–3	2–1	0–1	1–4	3–1	2–2	1–2	1–4	1–5
Frome Town	0–2	9–2	2–0	0–0	5–2	0–2	1–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–3	2–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	3–0	2–0
Highworth Town	0–3	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–1	1–3	5–1	1–0	—	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	3–3	0–3
Larkhall Athletic	1–2	9–1	0–1	2–2	3–3	0–3	3–3	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–3	3–1	1–0	0–2
Lymington Town	0–4	3–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	3–1	0–5	1–1	1–1	—	3–0	2–2	0–7	1–4	2–5	2–3	2–2	0–1
Mangotsfield United	0–5	2–2	3–1	0–3	3–1	1–5	3–2	0–2	0–1	1–4	3–1	—	0–2	2–4	0–6	0–2	2–0	2–2	2–4
Melksham Town	0–1	1–2	2–2	0–4	4–2	1–1	1–3	0–3	2–0	0–0	3–2	3–3	—	1–0	4–3	1–0	2–1	4–2	2–2
Paulton Rovers	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–3	3–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–3	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	—	1–2	1–0	5–1	3–2	0–4
Plymouth Parkway	1–0	4–1	4–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	4–1	4–0	1–1	5–1	—	4–1	6–1	4–1	1–0
Sholing	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	4–1	5–0	0–2	0–2	—	2–1	2–1	2–0
Slimbridge	1–3	3–0	1–0	1–1	3–3	3–2	2–0	0–2	4–2	2–3	3–0	3–5	0–5	3–3	1–3	3–0	—	2–3	0–4
Willand Rovers	1–4	1–1	1–2	1–2	3–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–4	1–2	3–0	—	1–3
Winchester City	3–1	7–1	2–2	5–1	3–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–1	2–4	5–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	3–3	3–1	4–0	1–1	—

Source: Southern League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

		Semi-finals				Final
	2	Frome Town	1
	5	Bristol Manor Farm	3
						4	Winchester City	4
						5	Bristol Manor Farm	1
	3	Cirencester Town	1
	4	Winchester City	4

Semi-finals

26 April 2022	Frome Town	1–3	Bristol Manor Farm	Badger Hill, Frome
19:45 (UTC+01:00)	O'Loughlin  32'		Simpson  33' Howe  53' Howe  71'	Attendance: 1,158

26 April 2022	Cirencester Town	1–4	Winchester City	Corinium Stadium, Cirencester
19:45 (UTC+01:00)	Grace-Parsons  77'		Feeney  59' Griggs  103' Smith  109' Smith  115'	Attendance: 393

Final

2 May 2022	Winchester City	4–1	Bristol Manor Farm	Charters Community Stadium, Winchester
15:00 (UTC+01:00)	Bentley  7' Feeney  26' Mlambo  58' Smith  90+6'		Gosling  70'	Attendance: 1,025

Inter-step play-offs

30 April 2022	Cinderford Town	1–5	Skelmersdale United	Causeway Ground, Cinderford
15:00 (UTC+01:00)	Drew  80'		Howard  33', 47', 88', 90+3' Conteh  65'	Attendance: 360

See also

• Southern Football League
• 2021–22 Isthmian League
• 2021–22 Northern Premier League

External links

• Official website