2021–22_FA_Women's_National_League

FA Women's National League
Season	2021–22
Champions	Southampton F.C.
Promoted	Southampton F.C.
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2021–22 FA Women's National League

Football league season

The 2021–22 FA Women's National League was the 30th season of the competition, and the fourth since a restructure and rebranding of the top four tiers of English football by The Football Association. Starting in 1991, it was previously known as the FA Women's Premier League. It sits at the third and fourth levels of the women's football pyramid, below the FA Women's Championship and above the eight regional football leagues.^[1]

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The league featured six regional divisions: the Northern and Southern Premier divisions at level three of the pyramid, and Division One North, Division One Midlands, Division One South East, and Division One South West at the fourth level. The league consisted of 76 teams, divided into six divisions of 13 teams apart from the Southern Premier Division which contains 14 teams, Division One North which contains 12 teams, and Division One South West which contains 11 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the Northern and Southern Premier divisions qualified for a play-off match to decide the overall National League champion. Southampton F.C. beat Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final and were promoted to the FA Women's Championship.^[2]

Division One

Division One North

Changes from last season:

Following the second consecutive curtailment of the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2021, it was decided that upward club movement within the women's football pyramid would be done via application. All clubs from tiers 3 to 6 were eligible to apply to move into the league immediately one tier above where they currently played with applications marked against a criterion weighted 75% on-field and 25% off-field.^[3]
Brighouse Town were promoted to Northern Premier Division via application.^[5]
Alnwick Town were promoted from North East Regional Women's Football League via application.^[3]
F.C. United of Manchester were promoted from North West Women's Regional Football League via application.^[12]
Bolton Ladies folded and withdrew from the league prior to the start of the 2021–22 season.

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Division One Midlands

Changes from last season:

Following the second consecutive curtailment of the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2021, it was decided that upward club movement within the women's football pyramid would be done via application. All clubs from tiers 3 to 6 were eligible to apply to move into the league immediately one tier above where they currently played with applications marked against a criterion weighted 75% on-field and 25% off-field.^[3]
Wolverhampton Wanderers were promoted to Northern Premier Division via application.^[6]
Leek Town were promoted from West Midlands Regional Women's Football League via application.^[3]
Peterborough United were promoted from East Midlands Regional Women's Football League via application.^[13]
Holwell Sports folded on 3 January 2022 and their results were removed from the league table.^[14]

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Division One South West

Changes from last season:

Following the second consecutive curtailment of the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2021, it was decided that upward club movement within the women's football pyramid would be done via application. All clubs from tiers 3 to 6 were eligible to apply to move into the league immediately one tier above where they currently played with applications marked against a criterion weighted 75% on-field and 25% off-field.^[3]
Southampton F.C. were promoted to Southern Premier Division via application.^[9]
Brislington took voluntary relegation to South West Regional Women's Football League.
Bournemouth were promoted from Southern Region Women's Football League via application.^[18]
Portishead Town were promoted from South West Regional Women's Football League via application.^[3]
Buckland Athletic withdrew from the league on 7 December 2021 and their results were removed from the league table.^[19]

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Wolverhampton Wanderers (C)	24	18	5	1	61	16	+45	59	Championship play-off
2	Derby County	24	16	3	5	48	19	+29	51
3	Fylde	24	14	5	5	47	28	+19	47
4	Burnley	24	14	4	6	70	27	+43	46
5	Nottingham Forest	24	13	5	6	40	17	+23	44
6	Huddersfield Town	24	13	4	7	54	28	+26	43
7	Brighouse Town	24	11	7	6	51	31	+20	40
8	West Bromwich Albion	24	7	7	10	29	44	−15	28
9	Stoke City	24	8	1	15	36	54	−18	25
10	Loughborough Lightning	24	6	5	13	35	63	−28	23
11	Middlesbrough (R)	24	5	3	16	27	67	−40	18	Relegation to FA WNL Division One
12	Hull City (R)	24	2	3	19	18	72	−54	9
13	Sheffield F.C. (R)	24	2	2	20	13	63	−50	8

Home \ Away	BHT	BUR	DER	FYL	HUD	HUL	LOU	MID	NOT	SHE	STO	WBA	WOL
Brighouse Town	—	3–1	2–3	0–1	1–0	5–0	2–1	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–1
Burnley	0–1	—	1–0	2–2	4–0	7–0	3–0	6–1	1–4	6–1	3–1	3–4	3–0
Derby County	1–3	2–1	—	0–0	3–0	3–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	4–0	5–0	0–0	0–1
Fylde	5–2	2–0	0–2	—	1–5	3–0	2–0	6–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	4–0	1–1
Huddersfield Town	1–1	0–0	1–3	3–0	—	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	5–1	3–0	2–3
Hull City	1–5	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–5	—	1–3	0–0	0–6	4–0	1–4	0–0	0–5
Loughborough Lightning	5–4	2–6	0–3	4–1	1–5	2–2	—	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–5	2–1	0–3
Middlesbrough	0–5	1–3	0–2	0–3	1–3	2–1	1–3	—	0–7	2–1	1–2	4–1	0–4
Nottingham Forest	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	3–2	—	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–3
Sheffield F.C.	0–3	0–4	0–2	0–2	0–6	4–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	—	1–0	0–2	0–5
Stoke City	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–3	1–2	3–0	4–2	2–6	0–1	2–1	—	2–0	0–4
West Bromwich Albion	2–2	0–8	2–0	2–2	1–3	4–2	5–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	—	0–3
Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–2	2–2	3–2	0–0	2–1	3–2	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	5–0	2–0	—

Home \ Away	BWU	CAR	CHI	CRA	GIL	HOU	IPS	KEY	LON	MKD	OXF	PLY	POR	SOU
Bridgwater United	—	4–1	4–0	3–1	0–0	5–0	0–1	9–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–2
Cardiff City Ladies	0–1	—	3–2	1–3	0–1	4–0	0–3	2–1	4–1	3–2	0–3	1–5	0–1	0–4
Chichester & Selsey	1–0	1–2	—	2–1	1–1	3–0	0–4	3–1	0–5	1–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–2
Crawley Wasps	1–2	3–0	5–0	—	4–2	4–1	0–2	4–2	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–3
Gillingham	0–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	—	2–0	0–3	H-W	2–1	0–0	0–1	3–2	3–0	0–2
Hounslow	0–3	0–5	1–7	1–7	0–3	—	0–6	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–3	0–2	0–11	0–9
Ipswich Town	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	9–0	—	11–2	3–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2
Keynsham Town	0–2	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–8	6–2	2–5	—	2–0	2–1	0–3	1–5	2–3	1–9
London Bees	0–3	5–1	1–1	1–5	4–0	5–0	1–3	5–1	—	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–4	1–2
Milton Keynes Dons	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	5–0	0–0	5–1	1–5	—	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–1
Oxford United	3–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–0	7–0	3–1	9–0	5–1	5–1	—	3–0	3–1	1–1
Plymouth Argyle	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–4	1–3	5–0	0–5	5–0	0–3	5–1	0–5	—	2–1	0–3
Portsmouth	0–2	0–0	3–1	2–3	0–0	3–0	1–0	6–1	2–0	0–3	1–1	5–1	—	0–1
Southampton F.C.	1–1	4–1	8–0	3–0	9–0	5–0	0–2	9–0	5–0	3–1	3–3	6–1	2–0	—

Club	Home ground	Position 2020–21
Alnwick Town	St James Park, Alnwick	NEWRFL, N/A
Barnsley	Barnsley FC Academy, Barnsley	N/A
Bradford City	Plumpton Park, Wrose	N/A
Chester-le-Street	Moor Park, Chester Moor	N/A
Chorley	Blainscough Park, Coppull	N/A
Durham Cestria	The Graham Sports Centre, Durham	N/A
F.C. United of Manchester	Broadhurst Park, Moston	NWWRFL, N/A
Leeds United	Ings Lane, Tadcaster	N/A
Liverpool Feds	Jericho Lane, Liverpool	N/A
Newcastle United	Druid Park, Woolsington	N/A
Norton & Stockton Ancients	Station Road, Norton, County Durham	N/A
Stockport County	Stockport Sports Village, Stockport	N/A

Club	Home ground	Position 2020–21
Bedworth United	The Oval, Bedworth	N/A
Boldmere St. Michaels	Trevor Brown Memorial Ground, Sutton Coldfield	N/A
Burton Albion	Hillsfield, Rocester	N/A
Doncaster Rovers Belles	Oxford Street, Rossington	N/A
Holwell Sports	Welby Road, Asfordby Hill	N/A
Leafield Athletic	Dickens Heath Sports Club, Solihull	N/A
Leek Town	Harrison Park, Leek	WMRWFL, N/A
Lincoln City	Moorlands Sports Ground, Lincoln	N/A
Long Eaton United	Grange Park, Long Eaton	N/A
Peterborough United	Mick George Training Academy, Orton	EMRWFL, N/A
Solihull Moors	Damson Park, Solihull	N/A
Sporting Khalsa	Aspray Arena, Willenhall	N/A
Wem Town	Butler Sports Centre, Wem	N/A

2021–22_FA_Women's_National_League

2021–22 FA Women's National League

Premier Division

Northern Division

League table

Results

Southern Division

League table

Results

Championship play-off

Division One

Division One North

League table

Division One Midlands

League table

Division One South East

League table

Division One South West

League table

See also

References

External links

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Southampton F.C. (C, O, P)	26	22	3	1	99	13	+86	69	Championship play-off
2	Oxford United	26	19	3	4	71	15	+56	60
3	Ipswich Town	26	18	4	4	69	14	+55	58
4	Bridgwater United	26	15	5	6	48	16	+32	50
5	Crawley Wasps	26	15	0	11	57	40	+17	45
6	Gillingham	26	13	6	7	37	33	+4	45
7	Portsmouth	26	13	4	9	51	29	+22	43
8	London Bees	26	9	3	14	46	51	−5	30
9	Milton Keynes Dons	26	8	5	13	34	42	−8	29
10	Plymouth Argyle	26	9	2	15	46	61	−15	29
11	Cardiff City Ladies (R)	26	8	2	16	33	52	−19	24^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Relegation to FA WNL Division One
12	Chichester & Selsey (R)	26	7	3	16	31	60	−29	24
13	Keynsham Town (R)	26	6	0	20	31	110	−79	18
14	Hounslow (R)	26	0	0	26	5	122	−117	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Liverpool Feds (C, P)	22	19	2	1	60	11	+49	59	Promotion to FA WNL Premier Division
2	Newcastle United	22	18	2	2	85	16	+69	56
3	Durham Cestria	22	13	2	7	65	35	+30	41
4	Leeds United	22	12	4	6	51	34	+17	40
5	Chorley	22	8	10	4	39	34	+5	34
6	Stockport County	22	7	6	9	44	42	+2	27
7	Bradford City	22	7	5	10	39	48	−9	26
8	Norton & Stockton Ancients	22	7	5	10	35	45	−10	26
9	Barnsley	22	8	2	12	41	51	−10	23^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	F.C. United of Manchester (R)	22	6	3	13	34	72	−38	21	Relegation to regional league level
11	Chester-le-Street (R)	22	3	5	14	28	62	−34	14
12	Alnwick Town (R)	22	0	2	20	24	95	−71	2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Boldmere St. Michaels (C, P)	22	16	3	3	59	20	+39	51	Promotion to FA WNL Premier Division
2	Doncaster Rovers Belles	22	15	4	3	55	21	+34	49
3	Lincoln City	22	15	3	4	68	30	+38	48
4	Long Eaton United	22	11	5	6	44	27	+17	38
5	Leek Town	22	10	3	9	51	52	−1	33
6	Sporting Khalsa	22	9	5	8	37	37	0	32
7	Solihull Moors	22	9	3	10	55	47	+8	30
8	Peterborough United	22	8	5	9	45	50	−5	29
9	Leafield Athletic	22	7	5	10	35	45	−10	26
10	Wem Town (N)	22	3	6	13	24	47	−23	15	Relegation to regional league level
11	Burton Albion (R)	22	4	3	15	26	63	−37	15
12	Bedworth United (R)	22	2	1	19	23	83	−60	7
13	Holwell Sports (W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Club withdrew

Club	Home ground	Position 2020–21
Actonians	Rectory Park, Northolt	N/A
AFC Wimbledon	New Plough Lane, Wimbledon	N/A
Billericay Town	New Lodge, Billericay	N/A
Cambridge City	The Demcom Stadium, Ely	N/A
Cambridge United	Rowley Park, St Neots	N/A
Enfield Town	Queen Elizabeth II Stadium, Enfield	N/A
Harlow Town	The Harlow Arena, Harlow	ERWFL, N/A
Hashtag United	Park Lane, Canvey Island	N/A
Kent Football United	Glentworth Sports Club, Kent	N/A
London Seaward	Hornchurch Stadium, Upminster	N/A (as Leyton Orient)
Norwich City	The Nest, Horsford	N/A
Queens Park Rangers	Powerday Stadium, Perivale	LSEWRFL, N/A
Stevenage	Hertingfordbury Park, Hertford	N/A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Billericay Town (C, P)	24	20	3	1	77	15	+62	63	Promotion to FA WNL Premier Division
2	Hashtag United	24	20	2	2	83	14	+69	62
3	AFC Wimbledon	24	16	5	3	62	15	+47	53
4	Queens Park Rangers	24	12	5	7	46	40	+6	41
5	Actonians	24	11	7	6	52	26	+26	40
6	London Seaward	24	7	8	9	31	43	−12	29
7	Cambridge City	24	7	5	12	36	48	−12	26
8	Norwich City	24	8	2	14	33	56	−23	26
9	Cambridge United	24	8	2	14	29	60	−31	26
10	Enfield Town (R)	24	6	6	12	36	37	−1	24	Relegation to regional league level
11	Stevenage (R)	24	6	4	14	19	61	−42	22
12	Harlow Town (R)	24	5	2	17	27	73	−46	17
13	Kent Football United (R)	24	3	3	18	19	62	−43	12

Club	Home ground	Position 2020–21
Bournemouth	Potterne Park, Verwood	SRWFL, N/A
Buckland Athletic	Homers Heath, Newton Abbot	N/A
Cheltenham Town	Corinum Stadium, Cirencester	N/A
Chesham United	The Meadow, Chesham	N/A
Exeter City	Cullompton Cricket Club, Cullompton	N/A
Larkhall Athletic	Larkhall Sports Club, Larkhall	N/A
Maidenhead United	York Road, Maidenhead	N/A
Poole Town	Dorset County Ground, Poole	N/A
Portishead Town	Bristol Road, Portishead	SWRWFL, N/A
Southampton Women's F.C.	Arlebury Park, New Alresford	N/A
Swindon Town	Cinder Lane, Fairford	N/A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cheltenham Town (C, P)	18	14	3	1	44	12	+32	45	Promotion to FA WNL Premier Division
2	AFC Bournemouth	18	12	4	2	52	14	+38	40
3	Exeter City	18	12	2	4	52	19	+33	38
4	Southampton Women's	18	11	4	3	47	14	+33	37
5	Chesham United	18	8	2	8	31	32	−1	26
6	Maidenhead United	18	6	4	8	26	32	−6	22
7	Swindon Town	18	5	4	9	30	31	−1	19
8	Portishead Town	18	4	4	10	23	44	−21	15^{[lower-alpha 1]}
9	Larkhall Athletic	18	2	4	12	20	52	−32	10
10	Poole Town (R)	18	0	1	17	3	78	−75	1	Relegation to regional league level
11	Buckland Athletic (W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Club withdrew