2022–23 National League North

National League North
2022–23
	National League North; 2022–23
Season information
Dates	6 August 2022–14 May 2023
Winners	AFC Fylde
Promoted	AFC Fylde; Kidderminster Harriers
Relegated	AFC Telford United; Bradford (Park Avenue); Kettering Town; Leamington
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,390
Average	(2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nick Haughton (26)
Biggest home win	AFC Fylde 5–0 Banbury Utd; (7 January 2023); Blyth Spartans 5–0 Hereford; (29 April 2023); Scarborough 5–0 Kettering; (8 October 2022)
Biggest away win	Gloucester 2–6 Darlington; (10 December 2022); AFC Telford United 0–4 Gloucester; (10 April 2023); AFC Telford United 0–4 King's Lynn; (20 August 2022); Buxton 0–4 Banbury United; (12 November 2022)
Highest scoring	Boston United 3–5 Southport; (6 August 2022); Gloucester 2–6 Darlington; (10 December 2022)
← 2021–22	2023–24 →

The National League North consisted of 24 teams for the first time.

Team changes[]

To National League North

Relegated from 2021–22 National League

King's Lynn Town

Promoted from 2021–22 Northern Premier League

Promoted from 2021–22 Southern Football League

From National League North

Promoted to 2022–23 National League

Relegated to 2022–23 Northern Premier League

Guiseley

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
Banbury United	Banbury	Spencer Stadium	2,000
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
Buxton	Buxton	The Silverlands	5,200
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
Gloucester City	Gloucester	Meadow Park	3,600
Hereford	Hereford	Edgar Street	5,213
Kettering Town	Kettering	Latimer Park (groundshare with Burton Park Wanderers)	2,400
Kidderminster Harriers	Kidderminster	Aggborough	6,238
King's Lynn Town	King's Lynn	The Walks	8,200
Leamington	Leamington	New Windmill Ground	3,050
Peterborough Sports	Peterborough	Lincoln Road	2,300
Scarborough Athletic	Scarborough	Flamingo Land Stadium	2,833
Southport	Southport	Haig Avenue	6,008
Spennymoor Town	Spennymoor	The Brewery Field	6,000

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Buxton	Steve Cunningham	Resigned	28 April 2022	Pre-season	Jamie Vermiglio	25 May 2022
Chester	Steve Watson	End of contract	7 May 2022		Calum McIntyre	12 May 2022
Kettering Town	Ian Culverhouse	Mutual Consent	15 May 2022		Lee Glover	17 May 2022
Chorley	Jamie Vermiglio	Resigned	23 May 2022		Andy Preece	28 May 2022
Blyth Spartans	Terry Mitchell	Sacked	9 August 2022	18th	Graham Fenton	16 August 2022
Boston United	Paul Cox		6 September 2022	24th	Ian Culverhouse	6 September 2022
Spennymoor Town	Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley		20 September 2022	13th	Jason Ainsley	11 October 2022
Brackley Town	Kevin Wilkin		29 September 2022	8th	Roger Johnson	29 September 2022
Gloucester City	Lee Mansell			16th	Steven King	30 September 2022
AFC Fylde	James Rowe	Resigned		4th	Andy Taylor (interim)	29 September 2022
AFC Telford United	Paul Carden	Sacked	9 October 2022	23rd	Kevin Wilkin	10 October 2022
AFC Fylde	Andy Taylor (interim)	End of interim spell	14 November 2022	8th	Adam Murray	14 November 2022
Buxton	Jamie Vermiglio	Resigned	3 December 2022	18th	Craig Elliott	11 December 2022
Peterborough Sports	Jimmy Dean	Resigned	28 January 2023	13th	Michael Gash and Luke Steele	28 January 2023
Hereford	Josh Gowling	Mutual consent	5 February 2023	15th	Yan Klukowski	28 February 2023
King's Lynn Town	Tommy Widdrington	Resigned	1 April 2023	2nd	Mark Hughes	1 April 2023
Brackley Town	Roger Johnson	Mutual consent	8 April 2023	4th	Gareth Dean (interim)	8 April 2023

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	AFC Fylde (C, P)	46	29	8	9	80	44	+36	95	Promotion to National League
2	King's Lynn Town	46	27	12	7	84	43	+41	93	Qualification for the National League North play-off semi-finals
3	Chester	46	22	18	6	72	41	+31	84
4	Brackley Town	46	18	15	13	57	47	+10	69	Qualification for the National League North play-off quarter-finals
5	Alfreton Town	46	17	18	11	54	44	+10	69
6	Kidderminster Harriers (O, P)	46	19	12	15	49	42	+7	69
7	Gloucester City	46	19	11	16	75	68	+7	68
8	Scarborough Athletic	46	18	14	14	74	69	+5	68
9	Spennymoor Town	46	18	14	14	68	67	+1	68
10	Darlington	46	18	13	15	72	64	+8	67
11	Buxton	46	18	13	15	55	54	+1	67
12	Chorley	46	17	15	14	62	50	+12	66
13	Curzon Ashton	46	18	11	17	58	55	+3	65
14	Peterborough Sports	46	15	12	19	50	55	−5	57
15	Boston United	46	15	11	20	68	66	+2	56
16	Hereford	46	15	10	21	47	56	−9	55
17	Banbury United	46	13	15	18	55	62	−7	54
18	Southport	46	13	11	22	50	62	−12	50
19	Blyth Spartans	46	12	14	20	49	62	−13	50
20	Farsley Celtic	46	12	14	20	51	75	−24	50
21	Kettering Town (R)	46	11	16	19	41	63	−22	49	Relegation to the Southern Football League
22	Leamington (R)	46	10	18	18	41	60	−19	48	Relegation to the Southern Football League
23	Bradford (Park Avenue) (R)	46	11	13	22	43	65	−22	46	Relegation to the Northern Premier League
24	AFC Telford United (R)	46	6	14	26	35	76	−41	32	Relegation to the Northern Premier League

Source: National League official site
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play-offs[]

Main article:2023 National League play-offs#National League North

Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final

			2	King's Lynn Town	1
5	Alfreton Town	0	6	Kidderminster Harriers	4
6	Kidderminster Harriers	1				6	Kidderminster Harriers	2
						4	Brackley Town	0
			3	Chester	0
4	Brackley Town	2 (5)	4	Brackley Town	1
7	Gloucester City	2 (3)

Results table[]

Home \ Away	FYL	TEL	ALF	BAN	BLY	BOS	BRA	BPA	BUX	CHE	CHO	CUR	DAR	FAR	GLO	HER	KET	KID	KIN	LEA	PET	SCA	SOU	SPE
AFC Fylde	—	3–1	2–0	5–0	0–3	4–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	3–3	5–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–2
AFC Telford United	0–3	—	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	1–4	1–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–4	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1
Alfreton Town	0–1	1–0	—	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	4–0	3–2
Banbury United	3–1	1–2	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–3	2–2	3–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–1	0–3	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	3–1	0–1
Blyth Spartans	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–1	—	1–4	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–2	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	5–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–3
Boston United	0–1	4–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	—	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–3	1–4	0–1	3–1	4–0	2–2	2–4	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	2–2	3–5	1–2
Brackley Town	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	—	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–3	4–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1
Bradford (Park Avenue)	0–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	—	1–4	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–1
Buxton	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–4	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–3	—	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–1
Chester	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	—	0–0	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	4–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–2
Chorley	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–0	2–2	2–2	—	3–0	1–1	4–3	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	1–2	2–0
Curzon Ashton	0–2	3–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	2–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	—	0–2	5–2	4–3	1–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–0
Darlington	1–2	3–1	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–3	0–2	—	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–0	3–2
Farsley Celtic	1–2	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–2	0–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	—	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–4	0–3	2–2
Gloucester City	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	5–1	0–1	1–1	4–3	0–3	2–6	5–1	—	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–3	3–2	2–0
Hereford	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–3	3–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–3	—	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–3
Kettering Town	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	4–2	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–0	—	0–3	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1
Kidderminster Harriers	0–0	3–0	0–0	0–2	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	—	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	4–1
King's Lynn Town	0–1	3–0	3–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–0	—	1–1	2–1	3–2	3–2	3–0
Leamington	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	4–1	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	—	0–2	1–1	2–1	0–1
Peterborough Sports	0–2	3–2	1–2	3–2	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	3–0	—	0–1	2–1	1–1
Scarborough Athletic	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–3	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–3	3–2	0–1	2–5	1–2	0–3	1–0	5–0	4–2	3–3	4–1	2–1	—	0–1	2–2
Southport	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	4–1	1–4	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	4–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	0–3	1–1	—	1–3
Spennymoor Town	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–3	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	4–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	3–3	2–2	0–1	—

Source: National League Results Grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Top scorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nick Haughton	Fylde	26
2	Glen Taylor	Spennymoor Town	23
3	Gold Omotayo	King's Lynn Town	22
4	Connor Hall	Chorley	20
4	Kurt Willoughby	Chester	20
6	Jacob Hazel	Darlington	19
7	Tom Peers	Curzon Ashton	17

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Jack Lambert	Darlington	AFC Telford United	1–4	1 November 2022
Kieran Burton	Scarborough Athletic	Kidderminster Harriers	4–2	1 November 2022
Scott Pollock	Boston United	Leamington	3–0	3 December 2022
Jack Lambert	Darlington	Gloucester City	2–6	10 December 2022
Jacob Hazel	Darlington	AFC Telford United	3–1	4 February 2023
Billy Chadwick	Boston United	Farsley Celtic	4–0	7 April 2023
Sion Spence	Gloucester City	AFC Telford United	0–4	10 April 2023
Glen Taylor⁴	Spennymoor Town	Kettering Town	4–2	15 April 2023

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 2022	Tommy Widdrington	King's Lynn Town	Morgan Roberts	Banbury United
September 2022	Alun Armstrong	Darlington	Nick Haughton	AFC Fylde
October 2022	Josh Gowling	Hereford	Kieran Phillips	Gloucester City
November 2022	Calum McIntyre	Chester	Jack Lambert	Darlington
December 2022	Jonathan Greening	Scarborough Athletic	Connor Hall	Chorley
January 2023	Adam Murray	AFC Fylde	Dominic McHale	Gloucester City
February 2023	Craig Elliott	Buxton	Modou Faal	AFC Fylde
March 2023	Michael Gash & Luke Steele	Peterborough Sports	Billy Chadwick	Boston United

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Season information
National League North 2022–23

Dates	6 August 2022–14 May 2023
Winners	AFC Fylde
Promoted	AFC Fylde Kidderminster Harriers
Relegated	AFC Telford United Bradford (Park Avenue) Kettering Town Leamington
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,390
Average	(2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nick Haughton (26)

Biggest home win	AFC Fylde 5–0 Banbury Utd (7 January 2023) Blyth Spartans 5–0 Hereford (29 April 2023) Scarborough 5–0 Kettering (8 October 2022)

Biggest away win	Gloucester 2–6 Darlington (10 December 2022) AFC Telford United 0–4 Gloucester (10 April 2023) AFC Telford United 0–4 King's Lynn (20 August 2022) Buxton 0–4 Banbury United (12 November 2022)

Highest scoring	Boston United 3–5 Southport (6 August 2022) Gloucester 2–6 Darlington (10 December 2022)


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