Billericay beat Hemel 5–0 on the day Danny Scopes signed a new contract

Sunday 1 November 2026 · By Quentin Sandgate

Billericay Town beat Hemel Hempstead Town 5–0 at home on Saturday, on the afternoon manager Danny Scopes signed a new contract with the club, according to Billericay’s match report. The club did not give the length of the deal. The BBC gave the attendance as 920.

Clark scored in the seventh minute, with Charlie Ruff setting up the opener, and Louis Lomas made it 2–0 in stoppage time at the end of the first half (45+2), against his former club. Jon Benton scored a penalty in the 52nd minute after Ryan Scott was fouled by Josh Steele, Ruff scored in the 60th and substitute Nico Valentine added the fifth in the 65th or 67th minute, depending on the source. Lomas and Valentine both scored their first goals for the club.

There were injury worries. Macauley Bonne limped off after about 20 minutes, and goalkeeper Finley Woodham was also hurt early on but carried on.

The win leaves Billericay fifth on 25 points from 13 games, with eight league games unbeaten. They have scored 32 goals, the most in the division, and conceded 16. They have played one fewer game than Truro City and Salisbury, level with Ebbsfleet United and Chelmsford City, and two fewer than Maidstone United, Tonbridge Angels and Dagenham & Redbridge. Only the champions are promoted automatically, with second to seventh going into the play-offs.

On Tuesday 27 October Billericay drew 2–2 at home with Hampton & Richmond Borough, Bonne scoring a penalty in first-half stoppage time and Ruff adding the second in the 53rd minute. Waweru and Barrett scored for Hampton. Woodham saved a Waweru penalty at around the 23rd minute, according to both clubs’ reports, and Scott was sent off for a second yellow card at about 73 minutes.

Billericay’s next league game is away at Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday 7 November. They host Waltham Abbey in the FA Trophy second round on Saturday 14 November and travel to Truro on Tuesday 17 November, with Slough Town due at Billericay on Saturday 21 November.

There is also a replay to come. The league game at Weston-super-Mare that was abandoned on Saturday 24 October after 27 minutes, with Billericay leading 1–0 through a Bonne volley from 18 yards, will be played again at the Optima Stadium on Tuesday 15 December at 7.45pm. Weston said on their website that the game was called off because heavy rainfall had affected the pitch. In their preview of the Farnborough game, Weston said Bonne’s goal “will count for nothing and the two sides will try again later in the season”.

Billericay have won five of their eight home games, for 18 points, and two of five away, for seven. They are a point ahead of Tonbridge Angels in sixth. Hemel, the beaten side, are 20th on 15 points and winless in five.