The 2020–21 season was the 106th 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 Division at Step 3, and three divisions, North, South Central and South East at Step 4 of the National League System. This was the third season since the former South Division was subdivided into the South Central and South East divisions. The league is also known as the Pitching In League under a sponsorship deal with Entain, formerly GVC Holdings.
The allocations for Steps 3 and 4 for season 2020–21 were announced by the FA on 21 July 2020.
Due to the restrictions on clubs' ability to play matches in the lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, competitions at Steps 3–6 were curtailed on 24 February 2021. The scheduled restructuring of non-league took place at the end of the season, with a new division added to Northern Premier League at Step 4 for 2021–22, which resulted in some reallocations into or out of, and promotions to, the Isthmian League's Step 4 divisions.
Premier Division The Premier Division comprised the same set of 22 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Club Location Stadium CapacityBishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford Woodside Park 4,525Bognor Regis Town Bognor Regis Nyewood Lane 4,500Bowers & Pitsea Pitsea Len Salmon Stadium 2,000Brightlingsea Regent Brightlingsea North Road 2,000Carshalton Athletic Carshalton War Memorial Sports Ground 5,000Cheshunt Cheshunt Theobalds Lane 3,000Corinthian-Casuals Tolworth King George's Field 2,700Cray Wanderers St Mary Cray Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley) 6,000East Thurrock United Corringham Rookery Hill 4,000Enfield Town Enfield Queen Elizabeth II Stadium 2,500Folkestone Invicta Folkestone Cheriton Road 4,000Haringey Borough Tottenham Coles Park 2,500Hornchurch Hornchurch Hornchurch Stadium 3,500Horsham Horsham The Camping World Community Stadium 1,300Kingstonian Kingston upon Thames King George's Field (groundshare with Corinthian-Casuals) 2,700Leatherhead Leatherhead Fetcham Grove 3,400Lewes Lewes The Dripping Pan 3,000Margate Margate Hartsdown Park 3,000Merstham Merstham Moatside 2,000Potters Bar Town Potters Bar Parkfield 2,000Wingate & Finchley Finchley The Maurice Rebak Stadium 1,500Worthing Worthing Woodside Road 4,000
North Division The North Division comprised the same set of 20 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Club Location Stadium CapacityAFC Sudbury Sudbury King's Marsh 2,500Aveley Aveley Parkside 3,500Basildon United Basildon Gardiners Close 2,000Brentwood Town Brentwood The Brentwood Centre Arena 1,800Bury Town Bury St Edmunds Ram Meadow 3,500Cambridge City Cambridge Bridge Road (groundshare with Histon) 2,000Canvey Island Canvey Island Park Lane 4,500Coggeshall Town Coggeshall West Street 2,000Dereham Town Dereham Aldiss Park 3,000Felixstowe & Walton United Felixstowe Dellwood Avenue 2,000Grays Athletic Grays Parkside (groundshare with Aveley) 3,500Great Wakering Rovers Great Wakering Burroughs Park 2,500Heybridge Swifts Heybridge Scraley Road 3,000Histon Impington Bridge Road 4,300Hullbridge Sports Hullbridge Lower Road 1,500Maldon & Tiptree Maldon Wallace Binder Ground 2,000Romford Romford Mayesbrook Park (groundshare with Barking) 2,500Soham Town Rangers Soham Julius Martin Lane 2,000Tilbury Tilbury Chadfields 4,000Witham Town Witham Spa Road 2,500
South Central Division The South Central Division comprised the same set of 20 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Club Location Stadium CapacityAshford Town Ashford, Surrey Robert Parker Stadium 2,550Barking Barking Mayesbrook Park 2,500Bedfont Sports Bedfont Bedfont Recreation Ground 3,000Bracknell Town Bracknell Larges Lane 2,500Chalfont St Peter Chalfont St Peter Mill Meadow 1,500Chertsey Town Chertsey Alwyns Lane 2,500Chipstead Chipstead High Road 2,000FC Romania Cheshunt Cheshunt Stadium (groundshare with Cheshunt) 3,000Hanwell Town Perivale Reynolds Field 3,000Harlow Town Harlow The Harlow Arena 3,500Hertford Town Hertford Hertingfordbury Park 6,500Marlow Marlow Alfred Davis Memorial Ground 3,000Northwood Northwood Northwood Park 3,075South Park Reigate King George's Field 2,000Staines Town Staines-upon-Thames Wheatsheaf Park 3,000Tooting & Mitcham United Mitcham Imperial Fields 3,500Uxbridge West Drayton Honeycroft 3,770Waltham Abbey Waltham Abbey Capershotts 3,500Ware Ware Wodson Park 3,300Westfield Woking Woking Park 1,000
South East Division The South East Division comprised 19 of the 20 teams which competed in the aborted competition the previous season. Guernsey withdrew from this season due to travel restrictions.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Club Location Stadium CapacityAshford United Ashford, Kent The Homelands 3,200Burgess Hill Town Burgess Hill Leylands Park 2,500Chichester City Chichester Oaklands Park 2,000Cray Valley Paper Mills Eltham Badgers Sports Ground 1,000East Grinstead Town East Grinstead East Court 1,500Faversham Town Faversham Salters Lane 2,000Hastings United Hastings The Pilot Field 4,050Haywards Heath Town Haywards Heath Hanbury Park 2,000Herne Bay Herne Bay Winch's Field 4,000Hythe Town Hythe Reachfields Stadium 3,000Phoenix Sports Barnehurst Victory Road 2,000Ramsgate Ramsgate Southwood Stadium 2,500Sevenoaks Town Sevenoaks Greatness Park 1,000Sittingbourne Sittingbourne Woodstock Park 3,000Three Bridges Crawley Jubilee Field 1,500VCD Athletic Crayford Oakwood 1,400Whitehawk Brighton The Enclosed Ground 3,126Whitstable Town Whitstable The Belmont Ground 3,000Whyteleafe Whyteleafe Church Road 2,000
League Cup
The 2020–21 Velocity Trophy (formerly the Isthmian League Cup) was to be the 47th season of the Alan Turvey Trophy, the cup competition of the whole Isthmian League. It would have been the second season since the group stage was introduced. The cup was not held.
See also Isthmian League 2020–21 Northern Premier League 2020–21 Southern Football League
References
External links Official website