NATIONAL STRIKE FORCE

'Goals From All Angles'

Statistics compiled from their League, FA Cup and FA Trophy matches for clubs in
The Blue Square Divisions, Evo Stick Northern & Southern Premier Divisions plus The Ryman Premier
as at 16th February 2012

Margate’s Kwasi Appiah, the player with most goals in senior Non-League football so far this season has now signed for Crystal Palace. He had scored 22 goals in the League, 9 FA Cup goals, plus 3 in the FA Trophy, and this impressive total includes three special individual performances:
5 at Thamesmead in the FA Cup after a 0-0 home draw.
4 v Wingate & Finchley.
3 v Hastings United at home in the league.

Clubs with most goals so far this season:
AFC Totton 78 (55 League + 20 FA Cup + 2 FA Trophy)
Chester F.C. 78 (65 League) + 13 FA Trophy)
Dartford 77 (60 League + 8 FSAC and 9 FAT)

Club which has conceded most this season:
Burscough 80 in 29 games

The clubs with most individual goalscorers this season:
St Albans City 24+1og, Kendal Town 20+3 ogs and Corby Town 21+1og.

The most consecutive scoring games this season has been registered by:
Damien Reeves of Altrincham with a run of NINE.
Andy Pugh (Welling United) and Jon Shaw (Gateshead) both scored in their first 6 league games of the season and Chris Clements (Hednesford Town), Shaun McAuley (Basingstoke Town) and Tony Stokes (Concord Rangers) have also achieved six scoring games in a row this season.

Players to have scored in most games so far this season are:
Jon Shaw (Gateshead) 22 of 35 games
Damien Reeves (Altrincham) 20 of 28 games

The players with most goals from the penalty spot are:
9 - Mike Gosney (AFC Totton), Matty McGinn (Chester)
and Scott Walker (Truro City).
7 - Warren Byerley (Weymouth), Jon Geddes (Stourbridge)
and Nat Pepperall (Weston-s-Mare).

Clubs with most goals scored from the penalty spot:
AFC Totton 11, Chester 10, Truro City and Salisbury City 9,
Weston-s-Mare, Weymouth & Worcester City 8.

Clubs with no Goals from the Penalty Spot this season:
AFC Hornchuch, Cray Wanderers and Wingate & Finchley (Ryman Premier), Gloucester City (Blue Square North) and Cirencester Town (Evo Stik Southern Premier)

The club with least individual goalscorers this season:
Canvey Island and Carshalton Athletic 9 each.

Clubs to have failed to score in most games:
Eastwood Town 14, Eastleigh 12, Bath City 11 and Hemel Hempstead Town 10.

Club to have kept most ‘clean sheets’
Wrexham 17,
Chester (15) including consecutive runs of 7 and 6 clean sheets earlier in the season.
Luton Town have kept a clean sheet in 9 out of their last 12 games.

Clubs who have won most matches this season:
Fleetwood Town: 24 from 38 fixtures
Northwich Victoria: 22 from 33 fixtures.
Chester FC 23 from 33 fixtures including consecutive runs of 7 and 8 victories

The only club who hasn’t yet kept a clean sheet this season:
Tooting & Mitcham United (28 games)

Clubs with most hat tricks:
Grimsby Town 4: Liam Hearn
4 v Alfreton Town (home)
3 v Barrow (home)
3 v Stockport County (home)
3 v Bath City (home)
Bedford Town 3: Drew Roberts
4 v Leamington (away)
3 v Brackley (home)
3 v Evesham United (home)
Bradford PA 3:
Nicky Boshell 3 v Burscough (home)
Tom Greaves 3 v Harrogate Railway (FA Cup - home)
Aiden Savory 3 v Harrogate Railway (FA Cup - home)
Hitchin Town 3: John Frendo
3 v Cirencester Town (home)
3 v Eastboune Town (FA Cup - away)
3 v Redditch United (away)
Margate 3: Kwasi Appiah
5 v Thamesmead (FA Cup - away)
4 v Wingate & Finchley (home)
3 v Hastings United (home)
Sutton United 3:
Fola Orilonish 3 v Tonbridge Angels (away)
Craig Watkins 3 v Maidenhead United (home)
Leroy Griffiths 4 v Dulwich Hamlet (FACup-home)

Club to have received most’own goals’ from their opponents:
Marine 5: Cotterill and Williams (Worksop Town), Lukic (Matlock Town),
Everitt-Elliott (Mickleover Sports) and Jones (Vauxhall Motors).

Did you know ?

The Ryman League’s Premier Division is producing some outstanding goalscorers who are on great form:-
Tony Stokes of Concord Rangers has scored 18 goals in the last 20 games including consecutive scoring runs of four and six.
Kwesi Appiah (Margate) has scored 8 goals in the last 6 games including a hat trick.
Sam Higgins (East Thurrock United) has scored 11 in the last 9 games
Tommy Whitnell (Cray Wanderers) has scored in 6 of the last 8 games.
Richard Jolly (Wealdstone) recently scored 11 goals in 7 games
Paul Vines (Carshalton Athletic) has scored 5 in 5 games and Greg Ngoyi (Hendon) 5 in the last 6 matches

Stocksbridge Park Steels, in 19th position in the Evo Styk Northern Premier League, beat North Ferriby United 7-0 with seven individual goalscorers.

The first club this season to score more than one goal away to Stourbridge was Weymouth, who recorded their first goals in four games when Warren Byerley scored twice to give them a 2-1 away victory in Stourbridge’s thirteenth home league game of the season.

North Ferriby United haven’t scored in their last five games and Chasetown haven’t managed a goal in four.

Stalybridge Celtic were unbeaten in the Blue Square North until their unlucky 13th game brought a 0-2 scoreline at Colwyn Bay. However, Celtic’s form was not so good when the two clubs met for their return game, so a 0-4 home defeat was possibly not so surprising. It was the second placed club’s seventh match without a victory, but proved t be a personal triumph for Seagulls’ Rob Hopley who scored a nine minute hat trick.

Having scored two excellent hat tricks in his clubs consecutive 3-0 victories three months ago, Danny Kelly of Cambridge City had to wait fifteen matches to increase his total.

Bedford Town’s Drew Roberts has scored 26 of his clubs 43 goals in 30 games this season including three hat-tricks, two of which were scored against clubs in the Southern League’s promotion race.

Dan Holman has scored in Histon’s last four games with a total of six goals.

Forest Green Rovers had only scored once in seven games when they faced league leaders Wrexham - and won 1-0.

After scoring 27 goals in an unbeaten run of 10 games at the beginning of the season, Hyde United hit the top of the table as they also achieved 5 consecutive clean sheets. But just one win in six games and no goals in the last three matches have put ‘The Tigers’ under pressure, although their original challengers and local rivals Stalybridge Celtic have also ‘wobbled’ and are without a victory in their last seven games.

Top Striking Partnerships in Senior Non-League Football
4th February 2012 (Minimum qualification 10 goals )

The Best Defences in Senior Non-League Football
11th February 2012

Clubs with least LEAGUE Goals conceded, but ‘clean sheets’ statistics
also include FA Cup and FA Trophy matches.

BSP = Blue Square Premier. BSN = Blue Square North and BSS = Blue Square South.
SPL and NPL = The Evo-Stik sponsored Northern Premier and Southern Leagues.
RPL = Ryman Premier Division.