Football Conference 2005–06

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The 2005-06 Football Conference season saw the return of Accrington Stanley (albeit as a reformed club) and Hereford United to the Football League. Accrington replaced Oxford United, who had replaced them when they resigned from the League in 1962.

Northwich Victoria, Stafford Rangers and Weymouth returned to the Conference National, the latter for the first time since 1989, whilst St Albans City won promotion to the fifth tier for the first time.

Contents 1 Conference National 1.1 League table 1.2 Play-offs 1.3 Top scorers 2 Conference North 2.1 League table 2.2 Play-offs 3 Conference South 3.1 League table 3.2 Play-offs 4 External links

[edit] Conference National

[edit] League table

	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Accrington Stanley	42	28	7	7	76	45	31	91	Promoted
2	Hereford United	42	22	14	6	59	33	26	80	Play-offs, promoted
3	Grays Athletic	42	21	13	8	94	55	39	76	Play-offs
4	Halifax Town	42	21	12	9	55	40	15	75	Play-offs
5	Morecambe	42	22	8	12	68	41	27	74	Play-offs
6	Stevenage Borough	42	19	12	11	62	47	15	69
7	Exeter City	42	18	9	15	65	48	17	63
8	York City	42	17	12	13	63	48	15	63
9	Burton Albion	42	16	12	14	50	52	-2	60
10	Dagenham & Redbridge	42	16	10	16	63	59	4	58
11	Woking	42	14	14	14	58	47	11	56
12	Cambridge United	42	15	10	17	51	57	-6	55
13	Aldershot Town	42	16	6	20	61	74	-13	54
14	Canvey Island	42	13	12	17	47	58	-11	51	Voluntarily relegated to Isthmian League Division One North
15	Kidderminster Harriers	42	13	11	18	39	55	-16	50
16	Gravesend & Northfleet	42	13	10	19	45	57	-12	49
17	Crawley Town	42	12	11	19	48	55	-7	47
18	Southport	42	10	10	22	36	68	-32	40
19	Forest Green Rovers	42	8	14	20	49	62	-13	38
20	Tamworth	42	8	14	20	32	63	-31	38
21	Scarborough	42	9	10	23	40	66	-26	37	Relegated
22	Altrincham	42	10	11	21	40	71	-31	23	18 points deducted, reprieved from relegation ¹

¹ Altrincham were reprieved from relegation due to the enlargement of the Conference to 24 teams and the voluntary demotion of Canvey Island (whose main financial backer, Jeff King, had moved to Chelmsford City). It was the first of three successive seasons in which the club finished in the relegation zone, but were spared demotion due to financial issues at other clubs. They had previously had 18 points deducted for playing an ineligible player.

[edit] Play-offs

	Semifinals							Final
	1	Hereford United	1	3	4
	4	Morecambe	1	2	3
								1	Hereford United	3
								3	Halifax Town	2
	2	Grays Athletic	2	2	4
	3	Halifax Town	3	2	5

[edit] Top scorers

Player	Club	Goals
Andy Bishop	York City	23
Justin Richards	Woking	21
Danny Carlton	Morecambe	17
Colin Little	Altrincham	17
Clayton Donaldson	York City	16
Chris Moore	Dagenham & Redbridge	15
Michael Kightly	Grays Athletic	14
Paul Mullin	Accrington Stanley	14

[edit] Conference North

[edit] League table

	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Northwich Victoria	42	29	5	8	97	49	48	92	Promoted
2	Stafford Rangers	42	25	10	7	68	34	34	85	Play-offs, promoted
3	Nuneaton Borough	42	22	11	9	68	43	25	77	Play-offs
4	Droylsden	42	20	12	10	80	56	24	72	Play-offs
5	Harrogate Town	42	22	5	15	66	56	10	71	Play-offs
6	Kettering Town	42	19	10	13	63	49	14	67
7	Stalybridge Celtic	42	19	9	14	74	54	20	66
8	Worcester City	42	16	14	12	58	46	12	62
9	Moor Green	42	15	16	11	67	64	3	61
10	Hinckley United	42	14	16	12	60	55	5	58
11	Hyde United	42	15	11	16	68	61	7	56
12	Hucknall Town	42	14	13	15	56	55	1	55
13	Workington	42	14	13	15	60	62	-2	55
14	Barrow	42	12	11	19	62	67	-5	47
15	Lancaster City	42	12	11	19	52	66	-14	47
16	Gainsborough Trinity	42	11	13	18	45	65	-20	46
17	Alfreton Town	42	10	15	17	46	58	-12	45
18	Vauxhall Motors	42	12	7	23	50	71	-21	43
19	Worksop Town	42	10	11	21	46	71	-25	41
20	Redditch United	42	9	12	21	53	78	-25	39
21	Leigh RMI	42	9	13	20	45	79	-34	39	1 point deducted, reprieved from relegation ¹
22	Hednesford Town	42	7	14	21	42	87	-45	35	Relegated

¹ Leigh RMI were reprieved from relegation due to Canvey Island's voluntary three-level demotion.

[edit] Play-offs

	Semifinals							Final
	1	Stafford Rangers	1
	4	Harrogate Town	0
								1	Stafford Rangers	1 (5)
								3	Droylsden	1 (3)
	2	Nuneaton Borough	0
	3	Droylsden	1

[edit] Conference South

[edit] League table

	Club	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Weymouth	42	30	4	8	80	34	46	90	4 points deducted, promoted
2	St Albans City	42	27	5	10	94	47	47	86	Play-offs, promoted
3	Farnborough Town	42	23	9	10	65	41	24	78	Play-offs
4	Lewes	42	21	10	11	78	57	21	73	Could not participate in the play-offs due to ground issues
5	Histon	42	21	8	13	70	56	14	71	Play-offs
6	Havant & Waterlooville	42	21	10	11	64	48	16	70	3 points deducted
7	Cambridge City	42	20	10	12	78	46	32	67	3 points deducted
8	Eastleigh	42	21	3	18	65	58	7	66
9	Welling United	42	16	17	9	58	44	14	65
10	Thurrock	42	16	10	16	60	60	0	58
11	Dorchester Town	42	16	7	19	60	72	-12	55
12	Bognor Regis Town	42	12	13	17	54	55	-1	49
13	Sutton United	42	13	10	19	48	61	-13	49
14	Weston-super-Mare	42	14	7	21	57	88	-31	49
15	Bishop's Stortford	42	11	15	16	55	63	-8	48
16	Yeading	42	13	8	21	47	62	-15	47
17	Eastbourne Borough	42	10	16	16	51	61	-10	46
18	Newport County	42	12	8	22	50	67	-17	44
19	Basingstoke Town	42	12	8	22	47	72	-25	44
20	Hayes	42	11	9	22	47	60	-13	42
21	Carshalton Athletic	42	8	16	18	42	68	-26	40	Relegated
22	Maidenhead United	42	8	9	25	49	99	-50	31	2 points deducted, relegated

[edit] Play-offs

	Semifinals							Final
	1	St Albans City	W/O ¹
	-	Lewes	-
								1	St Albans City	2
								3	Histon	0
	2	Farnborough Town	0
	3	Histon	3

¹ Lewes did not take part in the play-offs as they could not be promoted to the Conference National due to ground grading issues. As a result, St Albans were given a bye to the play-off final.

[edit] External links

• Nationwide Conference

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