The 2021–22 season was the 51st in the history of the Essex Senior Football League, a football competition in England.
The proposed constitution for this season was published on 22 May 2021, based on allocations for Steps 5 and 6 announced by the FA five days earlier, and it was subject to appeal. The constitution was ratified at the league's annual general meeting (AGM) on 24 June.
After the abandonment of the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, numerous promotions were decided on a points per game basis over the previous two seasons.
The league featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with five new clubs. Promoted from the Eastern Counties League Division One South: Athletic Newham Little Oakley White Ensign Transferred from the Eastern Counties League Premier Division: FC Clacton Stanway Rovers Cockfosters were initially moved to the Spartan South Midlands League, but they won their appeal and the transfer was reversed.
Walthamstow were champions, winning their first Essex Senior League title and were promoted to the Southern League. Runners-up Saffron Walden Town lost interstep playoff match.
League table
Inter-step play-off
Results
Stadia and locations
Club Location Stadium CapacityAthletic Newham Plaistow Terence McMillan Stadium 2,000ClaptonCockfosters Cockfosters Chalk Lane 1,000Enfield Bishop's Stortford Woodside Park (groundshare with Bishop's Stortford) 4,525 (525 seated)FC Clacton Clacton-on-Sea Austin Arena 3,000 (200 seated)Hoddesdon Town Hoddesdon Lowfield 3,000 (100 seated)Ilford Ilford Cricklefield Stadium 3,500 (216 seated)Little Oakley Little Oakley Memorial Ground Redbridge Barkingside Oakside Stadium 3,000 (316 seated)Saffron Walden Town Saffron Walden Catons Lane 2,000Sawbridgeworth Town Sawbridgeworth Crofters End 2,500 (175 seated)Sporting Bengal United Mile End Mile End Stadium 2,000 (439 seated)Southend Manor Southend-on-Sea Southchurch Park 2,000 (500 seated)St Margaretsbury Stanstead Abbotts Recreation Ground 1,000 (60 seated)Stansted Stansted Mountfitchet Hargrave Park 2,000 (200 seated)Stanway Rovers Stanway Hawthorns 1,500 (100 seated)Takeley Takeley Station Road 2,000Walthamstow Walthamstow Wadham Lodge 3,500West EssexWhite Ensign Great Wakering Burroughs Park (groundshare with Great Wakering Rovers) 3,000 (250 seated)Woodford Town Woodford Ashton Playing Fields
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