The 2020–21 Hellenic Football League season was the 68th in the history of the
Hellenic Football League
The Hellenic Football League, currently known as the uhlsport Hellenic Football League for sponsorship reasons, is an English men's association football, football league covering an area including the English Counties of the United Kingdom, cou ...
, a
football
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competition in England. The league operates a number of divisions, three of which were in the
English football league system
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the ...
, the Premier Division at Step 5 and the two regionally split Divisions One, East and West, at Step 6.
The allocations for Steps 5 and 6 for season 2020–21 were announced by the FA on 21 July,
and were subject to appeal.
The 2020–21 season started in September and was suspended in December a result of the
Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. The league season was subsequently abandoned on 24 February 2021.
Promotions and restructuring
The scheduled restructuring of non-League football took place at the end of the season, with new divisions added to the Combined Counties and the United Counties Leagues at Step 5 for 2021-22, along with an additional division in the
Northern Premier League
The Northern Premier League is an English Association football, football league that was founded in 1968. Together with the Isthmian League and the Southern Football League, Southern League it forms levels seven and eight of the English footba ...
at Step 4.
Promotions from Steps 5 to 4 and 6 to 5 were based on points per game across all matches over the two cancelled seasons (2019-20 and 2020-21), while teams were promoted to Step 6 on the basis of a subjective application process.
Consequently, the East and West divisions merged into one group for the next season.
Premier Division
The Premier Division comprised 18 teams, one less than the previous season, following the resignation of
Brackley Town Saints.
League table
Division One East
Division One East comprised 15 teams, two less than the previous season, following the resignations of
Didcot Town reserves and
Marlow United.
League table
Division One West
Division One West comprised 15 teams, one less than the previous season, following the resignation of
New College Swindon.
League table
Division Two East
Division Two East featured 15 new clubs:
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Penn & Tylers Green reserves, transferred from Division Two South
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Yateley United, transferred from Division Two South
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Wokingham & Emmbrook reserves, transferred from Division Two South
*Hazlemere Sports, transferred from Division Two South
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Chalvey Sports reserves, transferred from Division Two South
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Chalfont Wasps, transferred from Division Two South
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Taplow United, transferred from Division Two South
*Stokenchurch, transferred from Division Two South
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Chinnor
Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about southeast of Thame and close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Sinc ...
, transferred from Division Two North
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Cove
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Under 23
*FC Beaconsfield
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Flackwell Heath
Flackwell Heath is a village in the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe on the outskirts of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. With an elevation of about , in the Chiltern Hills. It has a population of around 6000.
History
The name 'Flac ...
reserves
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Holmer Green development
*Watlington Town, joined from the
North Berks League
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Westfield reserves
League table
Division Two North
Division Two North featured 10 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 4 new clubs:
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Ardley United development
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Aston Clinton
Aston Clinton is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The village lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, between the Wendover and Aylesbury arms of the Grand Union Canal. Surrounding towns i ...
reserves, transferred from Division Two South
*
Kidlington
Kidlington is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England. It is in-between the River Cherwell and Oxford Canal, north of Oxford and south-west of Bicester. It had a population of 13,600 at the 2021 Census.
...
development
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Thame United reserves
League table
Division Two South
Division Two South featured 2 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 12 new clubs:
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Abingdon United development, rejoined the League
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Clanfield reserves, transferred from Division Two West
*Faringdon Town, transferred from Division Two West
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Highworth Town reserves, transferred from Division Two West
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Letcombe, transferred from Division Two West
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Shrivenham
Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about east-northeast of the centre of Swindon. The 201 ...
reserves, transferred from Division Two West
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Wantage Town development, transferred from Division Two West
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Woodstock Town, transferred from Division Two North
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Hungerford Town Swifts
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Kintbury Rangers
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Swindon Supermarine development
*Woodcote & Stoke Rows, joined from the
Thames Valley Premier Football League
League table
Division Two West
Division Two West featured 2 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 12 new clubs:
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Moreton Rangers reserves, transferred from Division Two North
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Bourton Rovers reserves
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Cricklade Town reserves
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Evesham United development
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Hartpury University
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Kington Town
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Malvern Town development
*SC Inkberrow
*Shipston Excelsior, transferred from
Midland League
The Midland Football League, officially known as the Capelli Sport Midland Football League since January 2025 for sponsorship reasons, is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midl ...
*
Shortwood United reserves
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Slimbridge
Slimbridge is a village and civil parish near Dursley in Gloucestershire, England.
It is best known as the home of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's Slimbridge Reserve which was started by Sir Peter Scott.
Canal and Patch Bridge
The Glou ...
reserves
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Tuffley Rovers development
League table
References
External links
Official Site
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2020–21
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Association football events curtailed and voided due to the COVID-19 pandemic