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
The National League System comprises the six levels of the English football league system immediately below the level of the English Football League. It comes under the jurisdiction of The Football Association. The National League System has a h ...
(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 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 Isl ...
.
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
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Divisio ...
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
Premier Division Central comprises 21 teams, one fewer than the set of 22 which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.
Team changes
;From Premier Division Central
Transferred to
Premier Division South
*
Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a village, former Manorialism, manor and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, north-west of Westminster in the historic centre of London and to the south of the Chiltern Hills. It now forms part o ...
Premier Division Central table
Results
Stadia and locations
Premier Division South
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
Merthyr Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Tref Merthyr) is a Welsh semi-professional association football, football club based in Merthyr Tydfil, currently playing in the , in the seventh tier of the English football league system.
The ...
Transferred from Premier Division Central
*
Kings Langley
Kings Langley is a village, former Manorialism, manor and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, north-west of Westminster in the historic centre of London and to the south of the Chiltern Hills. It now forms part o ...
Premier Division South table
Results
Stadia and locations
Division One Central
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
Harlow Town Football Club is an English association football, football club based in Harlow, Essex. The club is a former member of the and plays at The Harlow Arena.
The club is best known for its exploits in the 1979–80 FA Cup, in which it ...
*
Hertford Town
*
Waltham Abbey
Waltham Abbey is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the metropolitan and urban area of London, England, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and E ...
*
Ware
Ware may refer to:
People
* Ware (surname)
* William of Ware (), English Franciscan theologian
Places Canada
*Fort Ware, British Columbia
United Kingdom
*Ware, Devon
*Ware, Hertfordshire
*Ware, Kent
United States
* Ware, Elmore County, Al ...
Promoted from the
Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division
*
Colney Heath
Colney Heath is a large village in Hertfordshire, England. The village became a civil parish in 1947 when the St. Peter Rural parish was split to form Colney Heath and London Colney. There is a converted windmill in the village. The civil paris ...
;From Division One Central
Transferred to the
Northern Premier League Division One Midlands
The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. It has four divisions: the Premier Division (which stands at level 7 of the English football league system), Division One East, Division One West and Division ...
*
Bedworth United
Bedworth United Football Club is a football club based in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Oval.
History
The first club from which the modern Bedworth United traces its lineage was Bedworth ...
*
Coleshill Town
*
Corby Town
Corby Town Football Club is a football club based in Corby, Northamptonshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Steel Park.
History
The club was established in 1948, taking over from Stewarts & Lloyds as the main team ...
*
Daventry Town
Daventry Town F.C. is a football club based in the town of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, formed in 1886. They are members of the .
History
The club was established in 1886 as a local-town club playing in the Northampton Town League. T ...
*
Halesowen Town
Halesowen Town Football Club is a football club based in Halesowen, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Grove Recreation Ground.
History
The club was believed to have been established around 1873, but rec ...
*
Yaxley
Division One Central league table
Prior to the first match(es) being played the ''Pos'' column shows alphabetic sequence of teams rather than league position.
Results
Stadia and locations
Division One South
Division One South comprises 19 teams, 17 of which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.
Moneyfields' voluntary relegation left a vacancy in this division.
Team changes
;To Division One South
Promoted from the
Wessex League Premier Division
*
Lymington Town
Promoted from the
Western League Premier Division
*
Plymouth Parkway
;From Division One South
Transferred to the
Isthmian League South Central Division
*
Basingstoke Town
Basingstoke Town Football Club is a football club based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. The club are currently members of the and play at the Winklebury Sports Complex. Their motto, 'Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum', means 'Never a step backward' ...
*
Thatcham Town
Relegated to the
Wessex League Premier Division
*
Moneyfields
Division One South league table
Prior to the first match(es) being played the ''Pos'' column shows alphabetic sequence of teams rather than league position.
Results
Stadia and locations
Relegation reprieves
Step 3
Seven clubs at
Step 3, all four fourth-from-bottom teams and those placed third-from-bottom that are the top three on a points per game (PPG) basis, will be reprieved from relegation. The remaining team will be relegated to Step 4.
The current points-per-game ranking of the third-from-bottom placed teams in Step 3 divisions is as follows:
Updated to match(es) played on 22 January 2022. Source
Football Web Pages
Step 4
Ten of the 16 clubs at
Step 4, all eight fourth-from-bottom teams and two that are placed third-from-bottom, which are also the top two on a points per game (PPG) basis, will be reprieved from relegation. The remaining six teams will contest one-off play-off matches with six runners-up from Step 5 that have the fewest PPG at the end of the 2021–22 season. The winner of each match will play at Step 4 for the 2022–23 season, while each loser will also play at Step 5.
[
The current points-per-game ranking of the 3rd-from-bottom-placed teams in Step 4 divisions is also as follows:
Updated to match(es) played on 22 January 2022. Source]
Football Web Pages
See also
* Southern Football League
The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...
* 2021–22 Isthmian League The 2021–22 season was the 107th season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. The league operates four divisions, the Premier Divisi ...
* 2021–22 Northern Premier League The 2021–22 season will be the 54th season of the Northern Premier League. The league consists of four divisions, the Premier Division at Step 3 of the National League System, and the West, East and Midlands divisions at Step 4. The NPL continued ...
References
External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:2021-22 Southern Football League
Southern Football League seasons
7
Eng