2022–23 National League South

National League South
2022–23
	National League South; 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Ebbsfleet United
Promoted	Ebbsfleet United; Oxford City
Relegated	Cheshunt; Concord Rangers; Dulwich Hamlet; Hungerford Town
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,550
Average	(2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dominic Poleon (36)
Biggest home win	Worthing 7–0 Concord Rangers; (7 April 2023)
Biggest away win	Hampton & Richmond 0–6 St Albans; (1 November 2022); Worthing 0–6 Ebbsfleet Utd; (6 December 2022)
Highest scoring	Ebbsfleet Utd 7–2 Worthing; (7 March 2023); Worthing 4–5 St Albans (11 February 2023)
← 2021–22	2023–24 →

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

Team changes[]

To National League South

Relegated from 2021–22 National League

Promoted from 2021–22 Isthmian League

Promoted from 2021–22 Southern Football League

From National League South

Promoted to 2022–23 National League

Relegated to 2022–23 Isthmian League

Billericay Town

Stadia and locations[]

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bath City	Bath (Twerton)	Twerton Park	8,840
Braintree Town	Braintree	Cressing Road	4,085
Chelmsford City	Chelmsford	Melbourne Stadium	3,019
Cheshunt	Cheshunt	Theobalds Lane	3,000
Chippenham Town	Chippenham	Hardenhuish Park	3,000
Concord Rangers	Canvey Island	Thames Road	3,300
Dartford	Dartford	Princes Park	4,100
Dover Athletic	Dover	Crabble Athletic Ground	5,745
Dulwich Hamlet	London (East Dulwich)	Champion Hill	3,000
Eastbourne Borough	Eastbourne	Priory Lane	4,151
Ebbsfleet United	Northfleet	Stonebridge Road	4,800
Farnborough	Farnborough	Cherrywood Road	7,000
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
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
Taunton Town	Taunton	Wordsworth Drive	2,500
Tonbridge Angels	Tonbridge	Longmead Stadium	3,000
Welling United	London (Welling)	Park View Road	4,000
Weymouth	Weymouth	Bob Lucas Stadium	6,600
Worthing	Worthing	Woodside Road	4,000

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Tonbridge Angels	Steve McKimm	Sacked	4 May 2022	Pre-season	Jay Saunders	9 May 2022
Braintree Town	Ryan Maxwell	Mutual consent	11 May 2022		Angelo Harrop	22 May 2022
Dartford	Steve King	Sacked	24 May 2022		Alan Dowson	31 May 2022
Dulwich Hamlet	Gavin Rose	Sacked	11 September 2022	21st	Paul Barnes	21 October 2022
Weymouth	David Oldfield	Mutual consent	14 September 2022	24th	Bobby Wilkinson	15 September 2022
St Albans City	Ian Allinson		29 September 2022	15th	David Noble	29 September 2022
Concord Rangers	Chris Search		16 October 2022	22nd	Rob Small	18 October 2022
Slough Town	Neil Baker and Jon Underwood	Resigned	14 November 2022	18th	Scott Davies	23 November 2022
Hemel Hempstead Town	Mark Jones	Mutual consent	30 December 2022	15th	Bradley Quinton	30 December 2022
Hampton & Richmond Borough	Gary McCann		2 January 2023	19th	Mel Gwinnett	13 January 2023
Dover Athletic	Andy Hessenthaler		5 January 2023	15th	Mitch Brundle	16 January 2023
Dulwich Hamlet	Paul Barnes		1 March 2023	19th	Hakan Hayrettin	2 March 2023
Havant & Waterlooville	Paul Doswell	Move to Boardroom	10 March 2023	5th	Jamie Collins	10 March 2023

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Ebbsfleet United (C, P)	46	32	7	7	110	47	+63	103	Promotion to National League
2	Dartford	46	25	8	13	82	50	+32	83	Qualification for the National League South play-off semi-finals
3	Oxford City (O, P)	46	21	15	10	83	56	+27	78
4	Worthing	46	22	12	12	92	72	+20	78	Qualification for the National League South play-off quarter-finals
5	Chelmsford City	46	23	9	14	67	49	+18	78
6	St Albans City	46	22	9	15	72	51	+21	75
7	Braintree Town	46	20	14	12	66	55	+11	74
8	Eastbourne Borough	46	22	5	19	74	66	+8	71
9	Tonbridge Angels	46	20	10	16	68	69	−1	70
10	Havant & Waterlooville	46	19	12	15	80	70	+10	69
11	Bath City	46	19	10	17	64	57	+7	67
12	Farnborough	46	19	9	18	59	52	+7	66
13	Chippenham Town	46	15	17	14	57	66	−9	62
14	Taunton Town	46	17	10	19	50	55	−5	61
15	Hemel Hempstead Town	46	15	15	16	49	57	−8	60
16	Welling United	46	15	14	17	57	63	−6	58
17	Hampton & Richmond Borough	46	15	9	22	59	71	−12	54
18	Slough Town	46	13	12	21	58	78	−20	51
19	Weymouth	46	14	6	26	59	78	−19	48
20	Dover Athletic	46	12	12	22	42	68	−26	48
21	Dulwich Hamlet (R)	46	13	9	24	61	89	−28	48	Relegation to the Isthmian League
22	Concord Rangers (R)	46	12	8	26	45	85	−40	44
23	Cheshunt (R)	46	11	10	25	48	74	−26	43
24	Hungerford Town (R)	46	10	10	26	48	72	−24	40	Relegation to the Southern Football 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

Welling United were deducted one point for playing an ineligible player.

Play-offs[]

Quarter-finals			Semi-finals			Final

			2	Dartford	1 (3)
5	Chelmsford City	0	6	St Albans City	1 (5)
6	St Albans City	1				6	St Albans City	0
						3	Oxford City	4
			3	Oxford City	2
4	Worthing	2	4	Worthing	0
7	Braintree Town	1

Results table[]

Home \ Away	BAT	BRA	CHE	CHS	CHI	CON	DAR	DOV	DUL	EAS	EBB	FAR	HAM	HAV	HEM	HUN	OXF	SLO	STA	TAU	TON	WEL	WEY	WOR
Bath City	—	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–3	4–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–1	5–1	1–3	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–2
Braintree Town	2–1	—	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–2	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	2–1
Chelmsford City	0–2	2–0	—	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	5–1	5–0	0–1	3–2	0–2	3–4	2–1	5–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–2
Cheshunt	2–1	0–5	1–2	—	3–2	4–2	1–3	2–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–2	2–3	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	3–4	1–1	1–0	0–2
Chippenham Town	0–0	1–2	0–0	4–4	—	2–2	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	2–2	3–2	3–2	1–1
Concord Rangers	0–2	1–3	1–2	1–1	3–1	—	3–2	1–0	1–1	2–4	1–2	0–1	2–0	3–4	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–5	1–1
Dartford	0–0	4–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–1	—	2–1	4–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	5–1	3–0	1–2
Dover Athletic	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	0–3	1–3	—	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–3	1–0	4–0	1–0	1–5	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–3
Dulwich Hamlet	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	—	1–3	1–3	1–4	3–2	2–1	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1
Eastbourne Borough	3–4	1–2	2–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	—	2–3	2–0	0–1	1–3	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–3	1–2	0–1	5–1	0–2
Ebbsfleet United	3–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–4	3–0	4–2	0–2	—	4–2	6–2	2–0	0–0	5–0	3–0	2–0	3–1	5–0	1–2	1–1	4–1	7–2
Farnborough	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	—	2–2	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–1	4–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–1	0–1
Hampton & Richmond Borough	1–1	0–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	3–2	1–2	0–1	—	2–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–6	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–0
Havant & Waterlooville	2–2	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–3	4–2	5–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	—	2–0	4–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	0–3	2–2	1–5
Hemel Hempstead Town	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	—	3–2	0–3	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	1–1
Hungerford Town	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	—	1–3	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0
Oxford City	3–3	2–2	3–1	1–0	5–3	5–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	—	1–3	2–1	2–1	4–0	3–0	3–1	3–0
Slough Town	0–3	1–1	0–2	3–1	6–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	4–3	1–5	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	0–2	4–0	2–2	—	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–3	1–1
St Albans City	3–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–3	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	—	0–0	2–3	3–0	3–2	0–1
Taunton Town	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	1–3	2–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	2–1	0–1	—	4–1	0–0	1–3	3–2
Tonbridge Angels	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–1	4–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–4	1–1	1–1	4–3	2–2	3–3	1–2	2–3	—	0–1	0–5	2–1
Welling United	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–4	1–0	3–2	1–2	3–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	5–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	2–1	—	1–2	2–4
Weymouth	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	3–1	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–5	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–3	1–3	2–1	—	0–3
Worthing	2–3	2–1	1–3	3–2	0–0	7–0	3–0	1–1	6–0	1–1	0–6	1–2	4–3	3–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–2	4–5	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–3	—

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	Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	36
2	Shaun Jeffers	St Albans City	27
3	Ollie Pearce	Worthing	24
4	Muhammadu Faal	Havant & Waterlooville	21
5	Bradley Ash	Weymouth	18
5	Scott Wilson	Bath City	18
7	Jordan Greenidge	Tonbridge Angels Hemel Hempstead Town	17
8	Rakish Bingham	Ebbsfleet United	16
	Klaidi Lolos	Oxford City
	Josh Parker	Oxford City

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Cody Cooke	Bath City	Slough Town	5–1	29 August 2022
Ade Azeez	Welling United	Oxford City	5–0	3 September 2022
Ken Charles	Cheshunt	Chippenham Town	3–2	8 November 2022
Callum Kealy	Worthing	Havant & Waterlooville	1–5	3 December 2022
Bradley Ash	Weymouth	Tonbridge Angels	0–5	10 December 2022
Shaun Jeffers	St Albans City	Chelmsford City	3–0	10 December 2022
Joe Iaciofano	Oxford City	Chippenham Town	5–3	13 December 2022
Liam Vincent	Hampton & Richmond Borough	Worthing	4–3	26 December 2022
Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	Weymouth	4–1	7 January 2023
George Alexander	Welling United	Slough Town	0–3	18 February 2023
Joe Hanks	Chippenham Town	Cheshunt	4–4
Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	Hampton & Richmond Borough	6–2
Dominic Poleon⁴	Ebbsfleet United	Dulwich Hamlet	4–2	18 March 2023
Tommy Willard	Farnborough	Slough Town	4–1	21 March 2023
George Alexander⁴	Slough Town	Chippenham Town	6–1	7 April 2023
Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United	Oxford City	3–0	7 April 2023
Stefan Payne	Welling United	Ebbsfleet United	3–2	22 April 2023
Ross Stearn	Taunton Town	Worthing	3–2	22 April 2023
Toby Edser	Ebbsfleet United	Hungerford Town	5–0	29 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	Dennis Kutrieb	Ebbsfleet United	Jake McCarthy	Havant & Waterlooville
September 2022	Paul Doswell	Havant & Waterlooville	Chris Solly	Ebbsfleet United
October 2022	Alan Dowson	Dartford	Charlie Ruff	Chelmsford City
November 2022	Danny Bloor	Eastbourne Borough	Tafari Moore	St Albans City
December 2022	Craig Edwards	Cheshunt	Jayden Clarke	Dulwich Hamlet
January 2023	Adam Hinshelwood	Worthing	Josh Parker	Oxford City
February 2023	Dennis Kutrieb	Ebbsfleet United	Dominic Poleon	Ebbsfleet United
March 2023	Gary Horgan	Chippenham Town	Jake Gray	Hampton & Richmond Borough

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Season information
National League South 2022–23

Winners	Ebbsfleet United
Promoted	Ebbsfleet United Oxford City
Relegated	Cheshunt Concord Rangers Dulwich Hamlet Hungerford Town
Season statistics
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,550
Average	(2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dominic Poleon (36)

Biggest home win	Worthing 7–0 Concord Rangers (7 April 2023)

Biggest away win	Hampton & Richmond 0–6 St Albans (1 November 2022) Worthing 0–6 Ebbsfleet Utd (6 December 2022)

Highest scoring	Ebbsfleet Utd 7–2 Worthing (7 March 2023) Worthing 4–5 St Albans (11 February 2023)


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