2022–23 Northern Premier League Division One Midlands

Northern Premier League Division One Midlands 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Stamford
Promoted	Stamford
Relegated	Daventry Town Yaxley
Season statistics
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The 2022–23 season was the 55th season of the Northern Premier League. The league consists of three divisions, the Premier Division at Step 3 of the National League System, and the West and East Divisions at Step 4. The NPL continued this season with main sponsors Entain's Pitching In.

Team changes

The following 6 clubs left Division One Midlands before the season:

• Belper Town – promoted to the Premier Division
• Carlton Town – transferred to Division One East
• Histon – relegated to the United Counties League Premier Division South
• Ilkeston Town – promoted to the Southern League Premier Division Central
• Soham Town Rangers – relegated to the Eastern Counties League Premier Division
• Wisbech Town – relegated to the United Counties League Premier Division South

The following 6 clubs joined the division before the season:

• Boldmere St Michaels – promoted from the Midland League Premier Division
• Dereham Town – transferred from the Isthmian League North Division
• Gresley Rovers – promoted from the United Counties League Premier Division North
• Harborough Town – promoted from the United Counties League Premier Division South
• Hinckley LRFC – promoted from the United Counties League Premier Division South
• St Neots Town – transferred from the Southern League Division One Central

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bedworth United	Bedworth	The Oval	3,000
Boldmere St Michaels	Boldmere	Trevor Brown Memorial Ground	2,000
Cambridge City	Impington	Bridge Road (Impington)	4,300
Chasetown	Burntwood	The Scholars Ground	2,000
Coleshill Town	Coleshill	Pack Meadow	2,000
Corby Town	Corby	Steel Park	3,893
Daventry Town	Daventry	Elderstubbs	1,855
Dereham Town	Dereham	Aldiss Park	3,000
Gresley Rovers	Church Gresley	Moat Ground	2,400
Halesowen Town	Halesowen	The Grove	3,150
Harborough Town	Market Harborough	Bowden Park	–
Hinckley LRFC	Hinckley	Leicester Road Stadium	4,329
Loughborough Dynamo	Loughborough	Nanpantan Sports Ground	1,500
Shepshed Dynamo	Leicestershire	The Dovecote Stadium	2,500
Spalding United	Spalding	Sir Halley Stewart Field	3,500
Sporting Khalsa	Willenhall	Guardian Warehousing Arena	–
Stamford	Stamford	Borderville Sports Centre	2,000
St Neots Town	St Neots	New Rowley Park	3,500
Sutton Coldfield Town	Sutton Coldfield	Central Ground	2,000
Yaxley	Yaxley	Leading Drove	1,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Stamford (C, P)	38	27	6	5	76	31	+45	87	Promotion to the Premier Division
2	Halesowen Town (O, P)	38	24	6	8	80	40	+40	78	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Spalding United	38	22	9	7	68	28	+40	75
4	Sporting Khalsa	38	21	7	10	84	48	+36	70
5	Coleshill Town	38	21	6	11	68	39	+29	69
6	Chasetown	38	20	8	10	58	27	+31	68
7	Corby Town	38	19	10	9	71	48	+23	67
8	Harborough Town	38	20	7	11	71	50	+21	67
9	Boldmere St Michaels	38	19	7	12	65	51	+14	64
10	Loughborough Dynamo	38	14	10	14	55	50	+5	52
11	Shepshed Dynamo	38	15	6	17	55	47	+8	51
12	Sutton Coldfield Town	38	14	5	19	56	60	−4	47
13	Hinckley LRFC	38	11	11	16	37	40	−3	44
14	Cambridge City	38	11	11	16	43	51	−8	44
15	Bedworth United	38	9	15	14	37	45	−8	42
16	Gresley Rovers	38	11	8	19	34	58	−24	41
17	Dereham Town (R)	38	10	5	23	43	79	−36	35	Qualification for the inter-step play-offs
18	St Neots Town (R)	38	8	8	22	41	87	−46	32
19	Daventry Town (R)	38	6	6	26	30	100	−70	24	Relegation to Step 5
20	Yaxley (R)	38	1	3	34	23	116	−93	6

Source: NPL 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-off

		Semifinals				Final
	2	Halesowen Town	3
	5	Coleshill Town	1
						2	Halesowen Town	2
						3	Spalding United	1
	3	Spalding United	2
	4	Sporting Khalsa	1

Semi-finals

25 April 2023	Halesowen Town	3–1	Coleshill Town	Halesowen
19:45	Manning  3' Gregory  18' (pen.) Cobourne  87'	Report	Williams  25'	Stadium: The Grove Attendance: 2,334 Referee: Harry Tarrant

25 April 2023	Spalding United	2–1	Sporting Khalsa	Spalding
19:45	Edge  64' Clifton  76'		Okafor  20'	Stadium: Sir Halley Stewart Field Attendance: 690 Referee: Daniel Smith

Final

29 April 2023	Halesowen Town	2–1	Spalding United	Halesowen
15:00	Donnelly  90' Insall  112'	Report	Stainfield  39'	Stadium: The Grove Attendance: 3,250 Referee: Elliot Bell

Inter-Step Playoff

29 April 2023	Dereham Town	0–2	Stotfold	Dereham
15:00		https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/2022-2023/step-45-inter-step/dereham-town/stotfold/457368	Alleyne  5', 31'	Stadium: Aldiss Park Attendance: 287

29 April 2023	St Neots Town	1–6	Lye Town	St Neots
15:00	Anderson  78'	Report	Meacham  2' Hesson  20', 53', 88' Palmer  62', 74'	Stadium: New Rowley Park Attendance: 548

Results table

Home \ Away	BED	BSM	CAM	CHA	COL	COR	DAV	DER	GRE	HAL	HAR	HLR	LOU	SHE	SPA	SPO	STA	STN	SUT	YAX
Bedworth United	—	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–3	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–1
Boldmere St Michaels	2–1	—	3–1	1–5	2–2	0–4	2–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	5–1	3–0	5–1
Cambridge City	0–0	1–1	—	0–4	2–3	2–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–4	0–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–1
Chasetown	2–1	0–1	0–1	—	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	4–0	3–1	4–0
Coleshill Town	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1	—	0–0	3–2	3–0	2–0	3–2	2–4	2–1	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	3–1	4–0	3–0	2–0
Corby Town	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–4	1–0	—	2–1	3–0	2–2	4–2	0–4	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	4–0	3–1	4–1
Daventry Town	0–1	0–2	0–4	1–2	0–4	0–7	—	2–0	3–2	1–4	0–2	0–0	0–4	3–2	0–9	0–7	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–0
Dereham Town	0–2	0–3	1–0	2–3	1–4	0–1	6–0	—	2–0	0–3	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–2	1–3	1–3	0–1	3–2	6–2
Gresley Rovers	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–0	1–0	—	2–3	2–2	2–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	1–2	4–2	4–0
Halesowen Town	2–0	2–3	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	4–0	4–0	3–0	—	1–0	3–0	3–2	0–1	3–0	2–2	0–0	3–0	0–3	3–0
Harborough Town	2–2	4–2	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	6–1	1–0	1–3	—	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–2	2–3	0–2	1–1	2–1	9–1
Hinckley LRFC	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–2	0–0	—	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–1
Loughborough Dynamo	4–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	1–2	0–0	0–2	2–3	1–1	—	2–0	0–4	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	4–0
Shepshed Dynamo	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–3	3–0	2–2	0–1	3–4	1–2	0–1	2–0	—	0–2	3–0	0–2	3–1	3–0	1–1
Spalding United	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–2	0–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	4–0	3–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	—	2–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	4–2
Sporting Khalsa	0–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–1	7–1	5–0	1–0	0–5	5–1	3–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	—	0–2	2–0	2–1	8–0
Stamford	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	3–1	—	4–0	0–3	3–0
St Neots Town	0–4	0–2	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–3	1–0	3–0	1–3	3–3	0–3	2–4	1–3	—	1–3	4–1
Sutton Coldfield Town	4–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	0–3	1–5	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–1	2–3	1–1	6–0	—	2–1
Yaxley	0–2	1–3	0–2	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–2	0–1	2–3	0–1	3–1	0–0	0–3	0–4	0–1	0–4	0–6	2–2	1–2	—

Source: NPL official site
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jonny Margetts	Stamford	33
2	Kai Tonge	Coleshill Town	30
3	Miracle Okafor	Sporting Khalsa	26
4	Richard Gregory	Halesowen Town	19
5	Trey Charles	St Neots Town	17
	Zayn Hakeem	Shepshed Dynamo
7	Simeon Cobourne	Halesowen Town	16
8	Rhys Hilton	Sutton Coldfield Town	15
	Jack Langston	Chasetown

External links

• Current league tables

Northern Premier League Division One Midlands seasons

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