1995–96 Football Conference

The Vauxhall Conference season of 1995–96 was the seventeenth season of the Conference National.

Overview

Stevenage Borough, won the Conference championship during their second season in this league. However, they did not earn a promotion to the Football League because they did not meet Football League requirements.

New teams in the league this season

• Hednesford Town (promoted 1994–95)
• Morecambe (promoted 1994–95)
• Slough Town (promoted 1994–95)

Final League Table^[1]

Football Conference

Season	1995–96 [1]
Champions	Stevenage Borough (1st Football Conference title)
Promoted to the Football League	None
Conference League Cup winners	Bromsgrove Rovers
FA Trophy winners	Macclesfield Town
Relegated to Level 6	Dagenham & Redbridge, Runcorn
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1384 (3 per match)
Top goalscorer	Barry Hayles (Stevenage Borough), 29
Biggest home win	Macclesfield Town – Halifax Town 7–0 (9 Mar 1996); Morecambe – Altrincham 7–0 (17 Feb 1996)
Biggest away win	Runcorn F.C. Halton – Stevenage Borough 0–8 (25 Nov 1995)
Highest scoring	Slough Town – Kidderminster Harriers 5–4 (28 Aug 1995); Morecambe – Woking 4–5 (13 Jan 1997)
Longest winning run	Woking, 7 matches
Longest unbeaten run	Stevenage Borough, 17 matches
Longest losing run	Dover Athletic, 9 matches
Highest attendance	Woking v Macclesfield Town, 4,583 (6 Apr 1996)
Lowest attendance	?
Average attendance	1,054
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Altrincham

Bath City

Bromsgrove

Dagenham & R

Farnborough

Gateshead

Halifax Town

Hednesford

Kettering Town

Kidderminster Harriers

Macclesfield

Morecambe

Northwich Victoria

Runcorn

Slough Town

Southport

Stalybridge

Stevenage

Telford

Welling

Woking

Dover

Locations of the Football Conference 1995–1996 teams

Dagenham & Redbridge

Welling

Locations of the Football Conference teams 1995–1996

Pos	Team	Pld		W	D	L	F	A		W	D	L	F	A		F	A	GD		Pts	Notes
1	Stevenage Borough	42		13	6	2	51	20		14	4	3	50	24		101	44	+ 57		91
2	Woking	42		16	5	0	47	13		9	3	9	36	41		83	54	+ 29		83
3	Hednesford Town	42		13	3	5	38	21		10	4	7	33	25		71	46	+ 25		76
4	Macclesfield Town	42		12	5	4	32	16		10	4	7	34	33		66	49	+ 17		76
5	Gateshead	42		9	7	5	32	24		9	6	6	26	22		58	46	+ 12		67
6	Southport	42		10	7	4	42	25		8	5	8	35	39		77	64	+ 13		66
7	Kidderminster Harriers	42		13	4	4	49	26		5	6	10	29	40		78	66	+ 12		64
8	Northwich Victoria	42		9	3	9	38	35		7	9	5	34	29		72	64	+ 8		60
9	Morecambe	42		12	2	7	51	33		5	6	10	27	39		78	72	+ 6		59
10	Farnborough Town	42		8	6	7	29	23		7	8	6	34	35		63	58	+ 5		59
11	Bromsgrove Rovers	42		11	6	4	33	20		4	8	9	26	37		59	57	+ 2		59
12	Altrincham	42		9	6	6	33	29		6	7	8	26	35		59	64	– 5		58
13	Telford United	42		8	7	6	27	23		7	3	11	24	33		51	56	– 5		55
14	Stalybridge Celtic	42		9	3	9	29	37		7	4	10	30	31		59	68	– 9		55
15	Halifax Town	42		8	7	6	30	25		5	6	10	19	38		49	63	– 14		52
16	Kettering Town	42		9	5	7	38	32		4	4	13	30	52		68	84	– 16		48
17	Slough Town	42		4	6	11	35	44		9	2	10	28	32		63	76	– 13		47
18	Bath City	42		9	4	8	29	31		4	3	14	16	35		45	66	– 21		46
19	Welling United	42		6	8	7	21	23		4	7	10	21	30		42	53	– 11		45
20	Dover Athletic	42		8	1	12	29	38		3	6	12	22	36		51	74	– 23		40
21	Runcorn	42		4	5	12	25	43		5	3	13	23	44		48	87	– 39		35	Relegated to the Northern Premier League
22	Dagenham & Redbridge	42		5	7	9	31	34		2	5	14	12	39		43	73	– 30		33	Relegated to the Isthmian League

• Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

• Points scored: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

Key
	Football Conference Champions, no promotion to the Football League
	FA Trophy winners
	Conference League Cup winners
	New club in the Conference
	Relegated to Level 6

Results^[1]

Home \ Away1

ALT

BAT

BRO

D&R

DOV

FAR

GAT

HAL

HED

KET

KID

MAC

MOR

NOR

RUN

SLO

SOU

STL

STB

TEL

WEL

WOK

Altrincham

1–2

3–0

3–1

2–2

2–2

1–1

3–2

2–1

1–3

1–1

0–4

3–0

3–4

2–2

0–1

1–0

1–0

0–2

1–0

1–0

2–0

Bath City

2–2

0–1

0–2

2–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

1–0

3–1

1–1

1–1

3–2

0–3

3–0

3–1

4–0

0–4

1–2

0–3

1–1

0–3

Bromsgrove Rovers

0–0

4–1

2–0

3–0

1–2

3–1

0–1

1–4

3–2

2–1

1–0

1–0

1–1

2–0

0–0

4–1

1–1

1–1

0–2

1–1

2–1

Dagenham & Redbridge

1–0

0–1

2–2

3–0

2–2

0–4

1–1

1–2

1–2

4–2

3–0

2–2

0–3

2–3

1–3

1–2

4–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

Dover Athletic

1–4

1–0

0–2

0–1

1–3

1–1

3–2

1–3

2–1

2–1

2–3

2–3

0–1

4–2

0–1

0–1

1–3

1–2

1–0

2–1

4–3

Farnborough Town

1–1

0–0

1–0

2–0

3–2

2–3

0–0

1–3

1–1

3–1

6–1

3–1

0–1

0–1

0–1

1–0

1–1

2–2

2–1

0–1

0–2

Gateshead

2–3

3–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

1–1

3–2

0–3

1–1

4–1

0–1

3–0

1–1

1–0

2–1

2–2

1–0

2–2

1–2

1–1

0–1

Halifax Town

1–1

3–1

1–1

3–0

1–0

0–0

2–0

1–3

2–0

0–2

1–0

1–1

2–0

1–3

1–2

2–2

2–3

2–3

0–0

2–1

2–2

Hednesford Town

2–1

2–1

4–2

0–0

2–2

4–1

0–1

3–0

1–0

1–3

0–1

1–2

2–1

2–0

3–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

4–0

1–1

2–1

Kettering Town

4–2

3–0

2–2

2–0

2–2

0–2

1–0

1–2

2–0

2–0

2–2

2–3

2–2

4–0

2–0

1–1

1–6

1–2

0–3

1–3

3–0

Kidderminster Harriers

1–1

1–2

1–0

5–1

1–1

3–3

1–1

6–1

3–1

1–0

0–4

4–2

2–1

4–1

4–3

2–3

3–0

0–1

2–0

3–0

2–0

Macclesfield Town

2–3

0–1

2–1

3–1

0–1

1–0

1–0

7–0

1–1

1–1

0–2

2–0

0–0

1–0

1–1

3–1

1–0

0–0

1–0

2–1

3–2

Morecambe

7–0

1–0

4–1

2–2

3–1

2–3

2–3

0–1

0–1

5–3

3–1

2–4

2–2

3–1

1–2

4–3

2–0

1–0

2–0

1–0

4–5

Northwich Victoria

2–1

2–2

2–2

1–0

1–2

1–3

1–2

1–1

0–2

6–2

5–2

1–2

2–1

4–3

0–3

1–2

1–0

1–3

2–0

1–2

3–0

Runcorn

0–1

1–0

0–0

2–0

1–3

0–3

1–1

0–1

2–2

4–2

0–1

0–0

1–3

3–4

4–3

1–1

0–1

0–8

2–3

1–3

2–3

Slough Town

1–2

1–1

2–3

5–0

3–2

1–1

1–2

2–3

0–2

1–2

5–4

2–2

1–1

1–1

0–1

2–5

2–1

2–6

1–2

0–0

2–3

Southport

1–2

2–1

1–2

2–1

0–0

7–1

1–0

0–0

2–2

6–1

0–2

2–1

1–1

2–2

1–1

2–0

5–3

0–1

3–2

2–0

2–2

Stalybridge Celtic

1–0

1–0

2–1

2–1

2–0

2–2

0–2

1–0

0–1

3–2

2–2

1–2

0–2

1–5

2–0

0–1

1–4

2–5

2–2

2–1

2–4

Stevenage Borough

1–1

2–0

3–3

1–0

3–2

0–0

1–1

2–0

1–0

5–1

4–1

4–0

1–1

5–1

4–1

3–1

1–3

2–2

0–1

4–1

4–0

Telford United

2–0

3–1

0–0

0–0

1–0

3–2

0–0

1–1

2–1

3–4

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–0

1–2

2–0

2–1

0–1

1–3

0–0

1–2

Welling United

1–1

2–1

5–2

0–0

1–0

0–1

1–2

0–0

1–1

1–0

0–0

1–2

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–3

0–1

1–1

0–3

3–1

1–2

Woking

2–0

2–0

1–1

2–2

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–0

3–0

1–1

0–0

3–2

3–0

0–0

2–1

3–0

4–0

2–1

4–1

5–1

3–2

Source: Glenda Rollin (ed.), Jack Rollin (exec. ed.), Rothmans Football Yearbook 1996–97. Headline, 1996.
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion and relegation

Promoted

• Hayes (from the Isthmian League)
• Rushden & Diamonds (from the Southern Premier League)

Relegated

• Dagenham & Redbridge (to the Isthmian League)
• Runcorn (to the Northern Premier League)

Topscorers in Order of League Goals^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	League	FA Cup	FA Trophy	League Cup	Total
1	Barry Hayles	Stevenage Borough	29	0	5	1	35
2	Joe O'Connor	Hednesford	23	1	0	2	26
3	Carl Alford	Kettering Town	22	2	1	0	25
4	Mark West	Slough Town	21	0	3	4	28
=	Chris Boothe	Farnborough Town	21	5	1	5	32
6	David Leworthy	Dover Athletic	20	1	1	3	25
7	Steve Harkus	Gateshead	19	0	0	1	20
8	Clive Walker	Woking	18	1	0	0	19
9	Carwyn Williams	Northwich Victoria	17	3	0	0	20
10	Andy Whittaker	Southport	16	0	1	3	20
11	Corey Browne	Stevenage Borough	15	1	0	0	16
12	Mike Bignall	Runcorn	14	2	0	0	16
=	Brian Butler	Northwich Victoria	14	2	4	0	20
=	Kim Casey	Kidderminster Harriers	14	1	0	2	17
=	Paul Davies	Kidderminster Harriers	14	0	0	0	14
=	Darran Hay	Woking	14	4	0	0	18
=	Junior Hunter	Woking	14	0	0	0	14

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Glenda Rollin (ed.), Jack Rollin (exec. ed.), Rothmans Football Yearbook 1996–97. Headline, 1996.

External links

• 1995–96 Conference National Results