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2006–07 Isthmian League

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Season
  
2006–07

Goals scored
  
1,385

Promoted
  
Total attendance
  
227,011

Matches played
  
462

2006–07 Isthmian League

Champions
  
Hampton & Richmond Borough

Top goalscorer
  
37 goals – Danny Hockton (Margate)

Highest attendance
  
3,377 – AFC Wimbledon – Heybridge Swifts, (21 April)

Average attendance
  
491 (+5.4% to previous season)

Relegated
  
Worthing F.C., Slough Town F.C.

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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.

Contents

Premier Division

The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season, and six new clubs.

  • Three clubs promoted from Division One:
  • Horsham
  • Ramsgate
  • Tonbridge Angels
  • Plus
  • Ashford Town, 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 team 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

    Source:
    AFC Wimbledon were deducted eighteen points for fielding a player without international clearance in eleven matches. After an appeal deduction was cut to three points.
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Division One North

    After the end of the previous season, Division One was restructured. Most of the previous season's Division One teams were transferred to Division One South.

    Division One North consisted of 22 teams: eleven teams transferred from Southern League Division One North, three teams relegated from higher level leagues and eight teams promoted from lower level leagues. Barking & East Ham United, another team from the Southern League, joined the division but resigned and folded before the start of the season.

  • Eleven teams transferred from Southern Football League Division One East:
  • Arlesey Town
  • Aveley
  • Enfield
  • Enfield Town
  • Great Wakering Rovers
  • Harlow Town
  • Ilford
  • Potters Bar Town
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wingate & Finchley
  • Wivenhoe Town
  • Two teams relegated from the Premier Division:
  • Maldon Town
  • Redbridge
  • Team demoted from the Conference National
  • Canvey Island
  • Three teams promoted from Division Two:
  • Flackwell Heath
  • Ware
  • Witham Town
  • Three teams promoted from the Essex Senior League:
  • AFC Hornchurch
  • Tilbury
  • Waltham Abbey
  • Two teams promoted from the Eastern Counties League:
  • AFC Sudbury
  • Bury Town
  • 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

    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Stadia and locations

    1.^ Harlow Town spent start of the season at their old stadium Sportscentre before moving to Barrows Farm at October.

    Division One South

    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 teams transferred from Southern Football League Division One East:
  • Chatham Town
  • Dartford
  • Sittingbourne
  • 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

    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Stadia and locations

    2.^ Dartford spent start of the season groundsharing with Ebbsfleet United before moving to Princes Park at November.

    League Cup

    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.

    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.

    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.

    References

    2006–07 Isthmian League Wikipedia