2022 Mercury League

The 2022 Mercury League will be the twelfth season of the Mercury League. It will be contested over four divisions.

2022 Changes

• Promoted to Premier League:
  • Made in Heaven
  • Mercury Armed Forces FC
  • The Red Specials (via play-offs)
• Relegated from Premier League:
  • A Night at the Football
  • Flash FC
  • One Vision
• Promoted to Second League:
  • Fenhouse United (via play-offs)
  • Railminster Robins
  • Show Must Go On
• Relegated from Second League:
  • Fulditch United
  • Holham Park FC
  • Yorkwell Town
• Promoted to Third League:
  • Kincester City
  • Settington Rovers
  • Upton FC (via play-offs)
• Relegated from Third League:
  • Besford Town
  • FC Henscar
  • Mercury City Messengers
• Promoted to Fourth League:
  • Erdethorne FC
  • Sinningham FC
• Relegated from Fourth League:
  • Compton Motors FC
  • Gyeongju FC

In addition, 18 new clubs were added to the Fourth League, all 16 teams from the West division, and two teams from the East division, Port Harlby FC and Whitby Voyagers.

Premier League

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Cook Island FC (Q)	32	21	6	5	55	23	+32	69	Qualification to FMF Champions' League
Tow Law FC	32	19	10	3	59	23	+36	67
Mercury City	32	19	4	9	57	28	+29	61	Qualification to EMUFA Champions' League
Bohemian Rhapsodies	32	19	4	9	48	23	+25	61
Dynamo Deacon	32	16	7	9	49	39	+10	55
Taylor Sporting Club	32	15	9	8	48	41	+7	54
Port Barret FC	32	15	8	9	36	30	+6	53
May Wanderers	32	13	10	9	41	32	+9	49
West Grinstead FC	32	13	8	11	30	25	+5	47
Queen Athletic	32	11	6	15	33	30	+3	39
Kuiper Town FC	32	11	4	17	33	43	−10	37
AFC Heartpool	32	10	6	16	22	39	−17	36
The Red Specials	32	10	5	17	31	45	−14	35
Mercury Armed Forces FC	32	8	7	17	25	42	−17	31
Mullen Albion	32	8	7	17	26	46	−20	31
Made in Heaven	32	9	4	19	19	45	−26	31	Relegation to Second League
Breakthru FC	32	6	7	19	21	52	−31	25
St John's FC (R)	32	4	10	18	23	50	−27	22
Status notes: (Q) – Qualified to the competition/stage indicated;  (R) – Relegated Qualification for the 2022–23 EMUFA Champions' League is determined at the commencement of the 2022–23 season. The qualification berths indicated are based on the predicted allocations for the 2021–22 season and are subject to change. An additional EMUFA Champions' League berth is awarded to the winners of the 2022 Mercury FA Cup.

Results

	HEA	BRH	BRK	CKI	DEA	KUI	MIH	MAY	MAF	MRC	MUL	PBA	QUE	STJ	TAY	TRS	TOW	WGR
AFC Heartpool	–	0–1	1–1	1–3	0–3	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–2
Bohemian Rhapsodies	1–0	–	1–2	1–3	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–0		0–1
Breakthru FC		1–6	–	0–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	1–4	0–2
Cook Island FC	4–0	0–1	2–1	–	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0		2–1	4–0	3–1	1–0	1–0
Dynamo Deacon	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	–	3–3	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–3	0–0	1–0	4–3	1–1	3–5		0–3	1–0
Kuiper Town FC	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	–	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–3		0–1	2–1	2–3	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–2
Made in Heaven	1–0	1–1		2–1	0–1	0–0	–	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–3	0–3	0–3
May Wanderers	0–2		0–1	3–2	0–1	4–2	2–0	–	0–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–3	2–3	3–1
Mercury Armed Forces FC	2–0	0–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	2–0	1–0		–	0–1	3–3	0–2	1–0	0–4	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–2
Mercury City	3–0	2–1	2–1		2–0	4–1	7–1	0–1	2–0	–	1–4	1–2	1–0	2–0	5–0	1–2	0–1	1–0
Mullen Albion	1–0	1–3	2–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–1	–	1–2	2–1		1–1	2–1	1–5	0–1
Port Barret FC	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	1–0	2–1	0–0		3–1	2–0	–	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	2–2
Queen Athletic	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	5–1	1–4	0–1	1–0	–	0–0		3–0	0–1	0–0
St John's FC	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–3	1–4	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–4	0–0		1–2	–	0–0	0–2	1–3	0–1
Taylor Sporting Club	0–2	2–2	1–2	4–4	2–0		4–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	–	1–0	0–0	0–0
The Red Specials	0–1	0–2	3–2	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–3	1–0		2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	–	0–2	0–0
Tow Law FC	1–1	0–2	5–1	1–0	1–1	1–2		0–0	1–0	1–1	5–1	2–2	0–0	1–1	4–1	1–0	–	3–1
West Grinstead FC	1–0	1–0	1–3	0–1		0–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	–

Second League

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
A Kind of Magic (C, P)	26	15	4	7	30	22	+8	49	Promotion to Premier League
Soxceter FC (P)	26	15	3	8	36	21	+15	48
Flash FC (Q)	26	13	8	5	27	17	+10	47	Qualification to play-offs
Innuendo FC (Q)	26	12	6	8	30	19	+11	42
Mercury Phoenix (Q)	26	11	7	8	27	22	+5	40
Break Free Athletic (Q)	26	11	6	9	33	25	+8	39
Fenhouse United	26	10	9	7	37	35	+2	39
Ponthorne Town	26	9	8	9	23	22	+1	35
A Night at the Football	26	9	8	9	24	25	−1	35
One Vision	26	7	8	11	27	35	−8	29
Show Must Go On	26	6	10	10	18	30	−12	28
Hammond Rangers	26	6	8	12	22	29	−7	26
Penbury Electric FC (R)	26	7	5	14	24	37	−13	26	Relegation to Third League
Railminster Robins (R)	26	3	6	17	16	35	−19	15
Status notes: (C) – Champions;  (P) – Promoted;  (Q) – Qualified to the competition/stage indicated;  (R) – Relegated

Play-offs

Semi-finals

Break Free Athletic v Flash FC

27 April 2022

Break Free Athletic	–	Flash FC

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Flash FC v Break Free Athletic

30 April 2022

Flash FC	–	Break Free Athletic

Mercury Phoenix v Innuendo FC

27 April 2022

Mercury Phoenix	–	Innuendo FC

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Innuendo FC v Mercury Phoenix

30 April 2022

Innuendo FC	–	Mercury Phoenix

Final

v

7 May 2022

	–

Freddie Mercury Memorial Arena, Mercury

Third League

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Holham Park FC	25	12	7	6	27	20	+7	43	Promotion to Second League
Nafferton Town	25	12	6	7	30	20	+10	42
Halley Comets	25	12	5	8	27	21	+6	41
Kincester City	25	12	4	9	26	23	+3	40	Qualification to play-offs
Yorkwell Town	25	11	5	9	21	20	+1	38
Bisminster Harriers	25	9	10	6	25	18	+7	37
Dunleigh Eagles	25	10	6	9	37	29	+8	36
Fulditch United	25	9	9	7	26	21	+5	36
Hawking Black Holes	25	8	9	8	22	24	−2	33
Cunston Rovers	25	7	11	7	27	30	−3	32
Settington Rovers	25	10	1	14	26	32	−6	31
Olbers Paradoxes	25	7	10	8	32	39	−7	31
Arleness FC (R)	25	7	5	13	21	30	−9	26	Relegation to Fourth League
Upton FC (R)	25	3	4	18	24	44	−20	13
Status notes: (R) – Relegated

Fourth League

East

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Whitby Voyagers (C, P)	29	20	4	5	38	16	+22	64	Promotion to Third League
Mercury City Messengers	29	14	8	7	37	23	+14	50
Port Harlby FC	29	14	5	10	34	27	+7	47	Qualification to play-offs
FC Henscar	29	13	8	8	29	25	+4	47
Sinningham FC	29	13	6	10	30	27	+3	45
Besford Town	29	12	6	11	31	26	+5	42
Bybridge Town FC	29	13	3	13	27	29	−2	42
Dissingham Town	29	11	8	10	33	28	+5	41
Longstoke City	29	11	5	13	31	34	−3	38
Erdethorne FC	29	10	7	12	25	32	−7	37
Lowhouse FC	29	9	8	12	30	31	−1	35
Keyfoss Knights	29	10	5	14	18	25	−7	35
Enderby Town Rockets	29	8	9	12	29	35	−6	33
Torburn Miracles	29	8	8	13	20	31	−11	32
Coulomb Chargers	29	7	9	13	21	32	−11	30
Castleton Lions	29	8	3	18	26	38	−12	27	Relegation to Conference
Status notes: (C) – Champions;  (P) – Promoted

West

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Oxair City FC (C, P)	29	15	7	7	37	21	+16	52	Promotion to Third League
Hull Metropolitan	29	13	9	7	22	19	+3	48
Hull Athletic	29	12	11	6	29	21	+8	47	Qualification to play-offs
Haselruir Keltian	29	12	10	7	36	20	+16	46
Carran Town	29	12	10	7	24	24	0	46
Fereby United	29	13	6	10	26	22	+4	45
Kinverton Bridge Athletic	29	10	11	8	32	24	+8	41
Rothbrey Mountainside	29	10	10	9	19	19	0	40
Rippen Rovers	29	10	8	11	29	25	+4	38
Hayfield City	29	9	10	10	25	23	+2	37
Høgmårkians Alfheim	29	10	6	13	29	31	−2	36
Haselruir Rangers	29	9	9	11	20	24	−4	36
Stonebourg Forest	29	8	9	12	26	33	−7	33
Eastmoor County	29	7	11	11	22	32	−10	32
North Eastmoor United	29	9	5	15	18	35	−17	32
Bandine FC	29	2	10	17	18	39	−21	16
Status notes: (C) – Champions;  (P) – Promoted