2006–07 Isthmian League
The 2006–07 season was the 92nd season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. Also, it was the first season for newly created divisions One North and One South.
Premier Division
Season | 2006–07 |
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Champions | Hampton & Richmond Borough |
Promoted | Bromley Hampton & Richmond Borough |
Relegated | Slough Town Walton & Hersham Worthing |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1,385 (3 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 37 goals – Danny Hockton (Margate) |
Highest attendance | 3,377 – AFC Wimbledon – Heybridge Swifts, (21 April) |
Total attendance | 227,011 |
Average attendance | 491 (+5.4% to previous season) |
← 2005–06 2007–08 → |
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season, and six new clubs.
- Three clubs promoted from Division One:
- Plus
- Ashford Town (Middlesex), promoted as champions of Southern Football League Division One West
- Boreham Wood, promoted as champions of Southern Football League Division One East
- Carshalton Athletic, relegated from the Conference South
Hampton & Richmond Borough won the division and were promoted to the Conference South along with play-off winners Bromley. Worthing, Walton & Hersham and Slough Town were relegated, while Harrow Borough, initially also relegated as the worst 19th-placed club among seventh level leagues, were reprieved as an effect of the Conference clubs Farnborough Town and Scarborough folded, Lancaster City demoted two levels down and Hayes merged with Yeading.
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Hampton & Richmond | 42 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 77 | 53 | +24 | 82 | Promoted to the Conference South |
2 | Bromley | 42 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 83 | 43 | +40 | 80 | Qualified for the play-offs, then promoted to the Conference South |
3 | Chelmsford City | 42 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 96 | 51 | +45 | 77 | Qualified for the play-offs |
4 | Billericay Town | 42 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 71 | 42 | +29 | 77 | |
5 | AFC Wimbledon | 42 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 76 | 37 | +39 | 75[lower-alpha 1] | |
6 | Margate | 42 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 79 | 48 | +31 | 71 | |
7 | Boreham Wood | 42 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 71 | 49 | +22 | 69 | |
8 | Horsham | 42 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 70 | 57 | +13 | 68 | |
9 | Ramsgate | 42 | 20 | 5 | 17 | 63 | 63 | 0 | 65 | |
10 | Heybridge Swifts | 42 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 57 | 40 | +17 | 64 | |
11 | Tonbridge Angels | 42 | 20 | 4 | 18 | 74 | 72 | +2 | 64 | |
12 | Staines Town | 42 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 64 | 64 | 0 | 57 | |
13 | Carshalton Athletic | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 54 | 59 | −5 | 54 | |
14 | Hendon | 42 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 53 | 64 | −11 | 54 | |
15 | Leyton | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 55 | 77 | −22 | 49 | |
16 | East Thurrock United | 42 | 14 | 6 | 22 | 56 | 70 | −14 | 48 | |
17 | Ashford Town (Middlesex) | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 59 | 71 | −12 | 46 | |
18 | Folkestone Invicta | 42 | 12 | 10 | 20 | 45 | 66 | −21 | 46 | |
19 | Harrow Borough | 42 | 13 | 6 | 23 | 61 | 71 | −10 | 45 | Reprieved from relegation |
20 | Worthing | 42 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 57 | 82 | −25 | 35 | Relegated to Division One South |
21 | Walton & Hersham | 42 | 9 | 6 | 27 | 38 | 83 | −45 | 33 | |
22 | Slough Town | 42 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 26 | 123 | −97 | 18 | Relegated to SFL Division One South & West |
Top scorers
Player | Club | Goals[6] |
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Danny Hockton | Margate | 37 |
John Main | Tonbridge Angels | 36 |
Danny Gabriel | East Thurrcok United / Enfield / Waltham Forest | 22 |
Ian Hodges | Hampton & Richmond Borough | 21 |
Mark Nwokeji | Staines Town | 20 |
Nic McDonnell | Bromley | |
Ali Chaaban | Staines Town | 19 |
Kezie Ibe | Chelmsford City | |
Richard Jolly | AFC Wimbledon |
Play-offs
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
2 | Bromley | 1 | |||||||
5 | AFC Wimbledon | 0 | |||||||
2 | Bromley | 1(4) | |||||||
4 | Billericay Town | 1(2) | |||||||
3 | Chelmsford City | 1(3) | |||||||
4 | Billericay Town | 1(5) | |||||||
Stadia and locations
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Club | Stadium |
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AFC Wimbledon | Kingsmeadow (groundshare with Kingstonian) |
Ashford Town (Middlesex) | Short Lane |
Billericay Town | New Lodge |
Boreham Wood | Meadow Park |
Bromley | Hayes Lane |
Carshalton Athletic | War Memorial Sports Ground |
Chelmsford City | Melbourne Stadium |
East Thurrock United | Rookery Hill |
Folkestone Invicta | Cheriton Road |
Hampton & Richmond Borough | Beveree Stadium |
Harrow Borough | Earlsmead Stadium |
Hendon | Claremont Road |
Heybridge Swifts | Scraley Road |
Horsham | Queen Street |
Leyton | Leyton Stadium |
Margate | Hartsdown Park |
Ramsgate | Southwood Stadium |
Slough Town | Stag Meadow (groundshare with Windsor & Eton) |
Staines Town | Wheatsheaf Park |
Tonbridge Angels | Longmead Stadium |
Walton & Hersham | The Sports Ground |
Worthing | Woodside Road |
Division One North
Season | 2006–07 |
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Champions | AFC Hornchurch |
Promoted | AFC Hornchurch Harlow Town |
Relegated | Flackwell Heath |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1,266 (2.74 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 24 goals – Harry Elmes (Waltham Abbey) |
Highest attendance | 751 – AFC Hornchurch – Canvey Island, (9 April) |
Total attendance | 72,722 |
Average attendance | 157 |
← 2005–06 2007–08 → |
After the end of the previous season, Division One was restructured. Most of the previous season's Division One clubs were transferred to Division One South.
Division One North consisted of 22 clubs: eleven clubs transferred from Southern League Division One North, three clubs relegated from higher level leagues and eight clubs promoted from lower level leagues. Barking & East Ham United, another club from the Southern League, joined the division but resigned and folded before the start of the season.
- Eleven clubs transferred from Southern Football League Division One East:
- Two clubs relegated from the Premier Division:
- Club demoted from the Conference National:
- Three clubs promoted from Division Two:
- Three clubs promoted from the Essex Senior League:
- Two clubs promoted from the Eastern Counties League:
Maldon Town qualified for the play-offs but were ineligible for promotion due to ground grading issues, so Harlow Town received a bye to the play-off final which they won, and were promoted to the Premier Division along with AFC Hornchurch, who earned a second successive promotion. Flackwell Heath finished bottom of the table and were relegated. Ilford finished second bottom, but were reprieved to make up the number of clubs at eight tier after a few higher league clubs folded and merged and Northern Premier League was reformed.
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | AFC Hornchurch | 42 | 32 | 7 | 3 | 96 | 27 | +69 | 103 | Promoted to the Premier Division |
2 | Harlow Town | 42 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 71 | 31 | +40 | 82 | Qualified for the play-offs, then promoted to the Premier Division |
3 | Enfield Town | 42 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 74 | 39 | +35 | 79 | Qualified for the play-offs |
4 | Maldon Town | 42 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 50 | 42 | +8 | 71 | Ineligible for promotion |
5 | AFC Sudbury | 42 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 67 | 41 | +26 | 70 | Qualified for the play-offs |
6 | Canvey Island | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 65 | 47 | +18 | 67 | |
7 | Ware | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 70 | 56 | +14 | 67 | |
8 | Waltham Forest | 42 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 60 | 56 | +4 | 65 | |
9 | Wingate & Finchley | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 58 | 49 | +9 | 59 | |
10 | Waltham Abbey | 42 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 65 | 51 | +14 | 58 | |
11 | Wivenhoe Town | 42 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 50 | 52 | −2 | 57 | |
12 | Great Wakering Rovers | 42 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 57 | 64 | −7 | 57 | |
13 | Enfield | 42 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 65 | 63 | +2 | 54 | Resigned and folded |
14 | Potters Bar Town | 42 | 14 | 9 | 19 | 60 | 62 | −2 | 51 | |
15 | Aveley | 42 | 14 | 9 | 19 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 51 | |
16 | Redbridge | 42 | 15 | 5 | 22 | 42 | 48 | −6 | 50 | |
17 | Bury Town | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 57 | 69 | −12 | 50 | |
18 | Arlesey Town | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 44 | 63 | −19 | 50 | |
19 | Tilbury | 42 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 43 | 72 | −29 | 43 | |
20 | Witham Town | 42 | 10 | 7 | 25 | 52 | 90 | −38 | 37 | |
21 | Ilford | 42 | 9 | 5 | 28 | 36 | 97 | −61 | 32 | Reprieved from relegation |
22 | Flackwell Heath | 42 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 37 | 90 | −53 | 30 | Relegated to the Hellenic League |
Top scorers
Player | Club | Goals[6] |
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Harry Elmes | Ware | 24 |
Ricci Crace | Enfield Town | 23 |
Simon Parker | AFC Hornchurch | |
Kris Lee | AFC Hornchurch | 22 |
Play-offs
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
2 | Harlow Town | 2(5) | |||||||||||
5 | AFC Sudbury | 2(3) | |||||||||||
3 | Enfield Town | 2 | |||||||||||
5 | AFC Sudbury | 4 |
Stadia and locations
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Club | Stadium |
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AFC Hornchurch | Hornchurch Stadium |
AFC Sudbury | King's Marsh |
Arlesey Town | Hitchin Road |
Aveley | The Mill Field |
Bury Town | Ram Meadow |
Canvey Island | Brockwell Stadium |
Enfield | Wodson Park (groundshare with Ware) |
Enfield Town | Goldsdown Road (groundshare with Brimsdown Rovers) |
Flackwell Heath | Wilks Park |
Great Wakering Rovers | Burroughs Park |
Harlow Town | Barrows Farm |
Ilford | Cricklefield Stadium |
Maldon Town | Wallace Binder Ground |
Potters Bar Town | Parkfield |
Redbridge | Oakside |
Tilbury | Chadfields |
Waltham Abbey | Capershotts |
Waltham Forest | Wadham Lodge |
Ware | Wodson Park |
Wingate & Finchley | The Harry Abrahams Stadium |
Witham Town | Spa Road |
Wivenhoe Town | Broad Lane |
- 1.^ Harlow Town spent start of the season at their old stadium Sportscentre before moving to Barrows Farm at October.
Division One South
Season | 2006–07 |
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Champions | Maidstone United |
Promoted | Hastings United Maidstone United |
Relegated | None |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1,381 (2.99 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 25 goals – Brendon Cass (Dartford) |
Highest attendance | 4,097 – Dartford – Horsham YMCA, (11 November) |
Total attendance | 122,629 |
Average attendance | 287 |
← 2005–06 2007–08 → |
After the end of the previous season, Division One was restructured. Most of the previous season's Division One clubs were transferred to Division One South.
Division One South consisted of 22 clubs, 16 clubs transferred from previous season Division One and six new clubs.
- Three clubs transferred from Southern Football League Division One East:
- Plus:
- Godalming Town, promoted as champions of the Combined Counties League
- Horsham YMCA, promoted as champions of the Sussex County League
- Maidstone United, promoted as champions of the Kent League
Maidstone United won their second title in a row and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Hastings United. Both clubs finished in the relegation zone were reprieved to make up the number of clubs at eight tier after a few higher league clubs folded and merged and Northern Premier League was reformed.
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Maidstone United | 42 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 79 | 47 | +32 | 80 | Promoted to the Premier Division |
2 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 42 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 70 | 41 | +29 | 79 | Qualified for the play-offs |
3 | Dover Athletic | 42 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 77 | 41 | +36 | 77 | |
4 | Hastings United | 42 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 79 | 56 | +23 | 76 | Qualified for the play-offs, then promoted to the Premier Division |
5 | Fleet Town | 42 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 65 | 52 | +13 | 75 | Qualified for the play-offs, then transferred to SFL Division One South & West |
6 | Metropolitan Police | 42 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 65 | 48 | +17 | 69 | |
7 | Dartford | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 86 | 65 | +21 | 68 | Transferred to Division One North |
8 | Dulwich Hamlet | 42 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 83 | 56 | +27 | 67 | |
9 | Horsham YMCA | 42 | 17 | 7 | 18 | 59 | 69 | −10 | 58 | |
10 | Sittingbourne | 42 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 68 | 63 | +5 | 57 | |
11 | Leatherhead | 42 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 58 | 63 | −5 | 55 | |
12 | Cray Wanderers | 42 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 67 | 69 | −2 | 54 | |
13 | Kingstonian | 42 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 60 | 63 | −3 | 52 | |
14 | Burgess Hill Town | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 58 | 81 | −23 | 51 | |
15 | Molesey | 42 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 52 | 63 | −11 | 49 | |
16 | Chatham Town | 42 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 52 | 62 | −10 | 47 | |
17 | Walton Casuals | 42 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 57 | 71 | −14 | 46 | |
18 | Ashford Town (Kent) | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 52 | 65 | −13 | 44 | |
19 | Croydon Athletic | 42 | 12 | 8 | 22 | 44 | 77 | −33 | 44 | |
20 | Whyteleafe | 42 | 9 | 15 | 18 | 52 | 65 | −13 | 42 | |
21 | Corinthian-Casuals | 42 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 53 | 88 | −35 | 34 | Reprieved from relegation |
22 | Godalming Town | 42 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 45 | 76 | −31 | 33 | Reprieved from relegation, then transferred to SFL Division One South & West |
Top scorers
Player | Club | Goals[6] |
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Brendon Cass | Dartford | 25 |
Paul Vines | Tooting & Mitcham United | 23 |
Chris Dickson | Dulwich Hamlet | 20 |
Bobby Traynor | Walton & Hersham / Kingstonian | 19 |
Play-offs
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
2 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 2 | |||||||
5 | Fleet Town | 1 | |||||||
2 | Tooting & Mitcham United | 0 | |||||||
4 | Hastings United | 2 | |||||||
3 | Dover Athletic | 0 | |||||||
4 | Hastings United | 2 | |||||||
Stadia and locations
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Club | Stadium |
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Ashford Town (Kent) | The Homelands |
Burgess Hill Town | Leylands Park |
Chatham Town | The Sports Ground |
Corinthian-Casuals | King George's Field |
Cray Wanderers | Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley) |
Croydon Athletic | Keith Tuckey Stadium |
Dartford | Princes Park |
Dover Athletic | Crabble Athletic Ground |
Dulwich Hamlet | Champion Hill |
Fleet Town | Calthorpe Park |
Godalming Town | Weycourt |
Hastings United | The Pilot Field |
Horsham YMCA | Gorings Mead |
Kingstonian | Kingsmeadow (groundshare with AFC Wimbledon) |
Leatherhead | Fetcham Grove |
Maidstone United | Bourne Park (groundshare with Sittingbourne) |
Metropolitan Police | Imber Court |
Molesey | Walton Road Stadium |
Sittingbourne | Bourne Park |
Tooting & Mitcham United | Imperial Fields |
Walton Casuals | Waterside Stadium |
Whyteleafe | Church Road |
- 2.^ Dartford spent start of the season groundsharing with Ebbsfleet United before moving to Princes Park at November.
League Cup
Country | ![]() |
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Teams | 66 |
Champions | Ashford Town (Middx) |
Runners-up | Dover Athletic |
← 2005–06 2007–08 → |
The Isthmian League Cup 2006–07 was the 33rd season of the Isthmian League Cup, the league cup competition of the Isthmian League. Sixty-six clubs took part. The competition commenced on 22 August and finished on 4 April.[7]
Calendar
Round | Dates | Matches | Clubs |
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First round | 22 August | 2 | 66 → 64 |
Second round | 11 September – 26 September | 32 | 64 → 32 |
Third round | 2 October – 31 October | 16 | 32 → 16 |
Fourth round | 7 November – 9 January | 8 | 16 → 8 |
Quarterfinals | 5 December – 13 February | 4 | 8 → 4 |
Semifinals | 13 March – 20 March | 2 | 4 → 2 |
Final | 4 April | 1 | 2 → 1 |
Fixtures and results
Fixtures are listed in alphabetical order, not that which they were drawn in.
First round
Four clubs from division Ones participated in the First round, while all other clubs received a bye to the Second round.
Tie | Home Team (Tier) | Score | Away Team (Tier) | Att. |
1 | Metropolitan Police (S) | 4–1 | Godalming Town (S) | 58 |
2 | Tilbury (N) | 2–3 (a.e.t.) | Wivenhoe Town (N) | 44 |
Second round
The two clubs to have made it through the First round were entered into the Second Round draw with all other Isthmian League clubs, making sixty-four teams.
Third round
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Semifinals
Tie | Home Team (Tier) | Score | Away Team (Tier) | Att. |
63 | Dover Athletic (S) | 4–3 | Cray Wanderers (S) | 203 |
64 | Staines Town (P) | 2–3 | Ashford Town (Middx) (P) | 369 |
Final
Ashford Town (Middx) (P) | 4–1 | Dover Athletic (S) |
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References
- "AFC Wimbledon deducted 18 points". BBC Sport. 7 February 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- "FA cuts AFC Wimbledon punishment". BBC Sport. 26 March 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- Robinson, M. (2010). Non-League Football Tables 1889-2010. Soccer Books Ltd. ISBN 9781862232044.
- 2006–07 Isthmian League
- nonleaguefooty website
- "Isthmian League 2006/07 Bulletin No38".
- The Isthmian archive