2001–02 Football Conference

Football Conference

Season	2001–02
Champions	Boston United (1st Football Conference title)
Direct promotion	Boston United
Conference League Cup winners	Competition not held
FA Trophy winners	Yeovil Town (1st FA Trophy title)
Relegated to Level 6	Dover Athletic, Hayes, Stalybridge Celtic
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,289 (2.79 per match)
Top goalscorer	Daryl Clare (Boston United), 24 Mark Stein (Dagenham & Redbridge), 24
Biggest home win	Margate – Stalybridge Celtic 8–0 (27 April 2002)
Biggest away win	Dagenham & Redbridge – Telford 1–5 (22 December 2001); Hayes – Doncaster 1–5 (15 September 2001); Morecambe – Yeovil 1–5 (9 February 2002); Hayes – Yeovil 0–4 (26 January 2002); Stalybridge Celtic – Chester 0–4 (9 March 2002)
Highest scoring	Margate – Stalybridge Celtic 8–0 (27 April 2002)
Longest winning run	?
Longest unbeaten run	?
Longest losing run	?
Highest attendance	Yeovil Town v Boston United, 5,061 (26 March 2002)
Lowest attendance	?
Average attendance	1,370 (– 12% compared with the previous season)
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

The 2001–02 Football Conference season was the twenty-third season of the Football Conference, also known as the Nationwide Conference for sponsorship reasons.

The manager of Boston United, Steve Evans, and former chairman, Pat Malkinson, were charged with breaking the Football Association's rules over the registration of players. Both men received bans from the FA, and the club were fined and docked four points from their first season in the League. This angered some, especially the Conference runners up Dagenham & Redbridge, who believed that any points deduction should have applied to the previous season, which would have meant Dagenham being promoted instead.

Source: Glenda Rollin and Jack Rollin (eds.), Rothmans Football Yearbook 2002–2003. Headline, 2002
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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