Season overview
Notts County in 2020–21
- DivisionNational League
- Final position5th
- FA CupQR4
- Points systemThree points for a win
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Full season page
Notts County 2020–21 season
Notts County competed in National League during the 2020–21 campaign. This verified archive page records the complete aggregate final divisional table.
5thNational League · Level 5
Played42
Won20
Drawn10
Lost12
Goals for62
Goals against41
Goal difference21
Points70
Joint leading scorers
Notts County leading scorers
Kyle Wootton15goals
Home and away breakdown
Notts County home and away record
The highlighted club row is summarised below before the complete divisional home-and-away table.
Home record
- P21
- W11
- D3
- L7
- Goals scored33
- Goals conceded20
- Goal difference13
- Win rate52.4%
Away record
- P21
- W9
- D7
- L5
- Goals scored29
- Goals conceded21
- Goal difference8
- Win rate42.9%
Match-by-match results
League fixtures and results
Browse the reconciled league fixtures for this season. Expunged contextual matches are clearly marked and do not alter the official totals.
P42
W20
D10
L12
Goal difference21
Win rate47.6%
Modern home fixture record
P 21W 11D 3L 7GF 33GA 20
Modern away fixture record
P 21W 9D 7L 5GF 29GA 21
First-half and second-half campaign records
Each campaign is split at its fixture midpoint, then the equivalent phases are combined across the modern baseline.
| Campaign phase | P | W | D | L | GD | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First half of season | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 1.81 |
| Second half of season | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1.52 |
Opening and closing ten-match records
Compare the first ten and final ten official league fixtures from every bundled modern campaign.
| Context | P | W | D | L | GD | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening ten fixtures | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| Closing ten fixtures | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1.8 |
Current-data stats
Season momentum
Modern fixture form, common scorelines and monthly pattern for this season.
| Month | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% |
| February | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 50% |
| March | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 28.6% |
| April | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 28.6% |
| May | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 62.5% |
Dover Athletic’s 2020–21 fixture remains visible for historical context but is marked as expunged and excluded from the official league totals.
Final league table
National League 2020–21 final league table
Notts County are highlighted below. Sources and acknowledgements are listed beneath the table.
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sutton United | 42 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 72 | 36 | 36 | 84 | ChampionsPromoted |
| 2 | Torquay United | 42 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 68 | 39 | 29 | 80 | Play-offs |
| 3 | Stockport County | 42 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 69 | 32 | 37 | 77 | Play-offs |
| 4 | Hartlepool United | 42 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 66 | 43 | 23 | 76 | Play-offsPromoted |
| 5 | Notts County | 42 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 62 | 41 | 21 | 70 | Play-offs |
Season context
Historical notes
- Notts County finished 5th in National League.
- The table retains Dover Athletic's expunged record and Macclesfield Town's expelled-club placeholder for historical context.
- This modern archive page records the complete aggregate final divisional table.
- The complete divisional table includes separate home-and-away records reconstructed from acknowledged match-result sources and reconciled against the published aggregate standings.
- The Notts County row has been cross-checked against the bundled season summary.
- Dover Athletic fixtures are excluded from the reconstructed published table splits because the club’s results were expunged; Dover Athletic and Macclesfield Town remain as zero-record contextual rows.
Sources and acknowledgements
Historical references
References and acknowledgements for this season page.
- Wikipedia: 2020–21 final divisional table Aggregate final divisional standings used for this modern archive page. Home-and-away splits are intentionally not claimed by this record.
- football.csv England public-domain match-results dataset Public-domain CSV mirror of the openfootball England dataset. Retained as an acknowledged modern match-results source and cross-check for the completed home-and-away split enrichment pass.
- Football-Data.co.uk England historical match-results CSV archive Structured downloadable match-result CSV files used to reconstruct and reconcile home-and-away table splits across the 2004-05 to 2025-26 modern archive pages.