Because the Covid-19 pandemic, Nationwide League South has seen some runaway winners.
Final season Yeovil City gained the title by 11 factors, whereas Ebbsfleet United have been 20 factors away from second place in 2023 and Maidstone United completed first it by six factors the 12 months earlier than.
So why is it so shut this season?
“Genuinely I feel it is a poor division,” Dorking Wanderers supervisor and proprietor Marc White advised BBC Radio Surrey.
His facet are three factors off the highest of the desk having been relegated from the Nationwide League final season.
“I feel we’re a part of that poor division, I feel we’re not nice. It is a very common league and common groups.”
However is it actually that unhealthy? Not essentially, in keeping with Worthing fan Hayden Baker.
“It is bizarre to say it is a decrease high quality league this 12 months as a result of you do not have a group working away with it in the identical approach that is occurred in our earlier two seasons – Ebbsfleet battered this league, Yeovil battered this league,” he tells BBC Sussex.
“The general high quality of the league is much more constant throughout the whole divisions.
“I feel the distinction between a group within the prime six and a group that is say sixteenth or seventeenth, actually is not an amazing deal any extra.
“There’s a lot ambition throughout the league the place I feel each group looks like they have some form of proper or some form of ambition to get into the Nationwide League.”
Even when the standard of the soccer shouldn’t be what it ought to be, the thrill of such an in depth title race makes up for it.
And with so many sides in with an opportunity, who’s to say who will probably be lifting the title come the ultimate day of the season on 26 April.
