2022–23 Isthmian League Premier Division

Isthmian League Premier Division 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Bishop's Stortford
Promoted	Bishop's Stortford Aveley
Relegated	Bowers & Pitsea Herne Bay Corinthian Casuals Brightlingsea Regent
Season statistics
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The Premier Division comprised 17 clubs from the previous season, as well as 5 clubs who newly joined the Premier Division this season.

Team changes

To the Premier Division Promoted from the North Division Aveley Canvey Island Promoted from the South East Division Hastings United Herne Bay Relegated from the National League South Billericay Town

From the Premier Division Promoted to the National League South Cheshunt Worthing Relegated to the North Division East Thurrock United Relegated to the South Central Division Leatherhead Merstham

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aveley	Aveley	Parkside	3,500
Billericay Town	Billericay	New Lodge	3,500
Bishop's Stortford	Bishop's Stortford	Woodside Park	4,525
Bognor Regis Town	Bognor Regis	Nyewood Lane	4,500
Bowers & Pitsea	Pitsea	Len Salmon Stadium	2,000
Brightlingsea Regent	Brightlingsea	North Road	2,000
Canvey Island	Canvey Island	Park Lane	4,500
Carshalton Athletic	Carshalton	War Memorial Sports Ground	5,000
Corinthian-Casuals	Tolworth	King George's Field	2,700
Cray Wanderers	St Mary Cray	Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley)	6,000
Enfield Town	Enfield	Queen Elizabeth II Stadium	2,500
Folkestone Invicta	Folkestone	Cheriton Road	4,000
Haringey Borough	Tottenham	Coles Park	2,500
Hastings United	Hastings	The Pilot Field	4,050
Herne Bay	Herne Bay	Winch's Field	4,000
Hornchurch	Hornchurch	Hornchurch Stadium	3,500
Horsham	Horsham	The Camping World Community Stadium	1,300
Kingstonian	Kingston upon Thames	Imperial Fields (groundshare with Tooting & Mitcham United)	2,700
Lewes	Lewes	The Dripping Pan	3,000
Margate	Margate	Hartsdown Park	3,000
Potters Bar Town	Potters Bar	Parkfield	2,000
Wingate & Finchley	Finchley	The Maurice Rebak Stadium	1,500

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Bishop's Stortford (C, P)	42	27	7	8	75	33	+42	88	Promotion to the National League South
2	Hornchurch	42	25	9	8	98	49	+49	84	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Canvey Island	42	24	9	9	80	44	+36	81
4	Aveley (O, P)	42	23	9	10	64	42	+22	78
5	Cray Wanderers	42	20	14	8	78	48	+30	74
6	Lewes	42	20	14	8	82	54	+28	74
7	Horsham	42	20	12	10	84	57	+27	72
8	Hastings United	42	20	11	11	63	42	+21	71
9	Enfield Town	42	19	12	11	73	49	+24	69
10	Billericay Town	42	19	8	15	66	59	+7	65
11	Carshalton Athletic	42	18	10	14	53	53	0	64
12	Folkestone Invicta	42	18	5	19	73	65	+8	59
13	Potters Bar Town	42	16	5	21	56	86	−30	53
14	Bognor Regis Town	42	15	7	20	70	72	−2	52
15	Haringey Borough	42	13	12	17	67	75	−8	51
16	Wingate & Finchley	42	12	12	18	53	64	−11	48
17	Margate	42	11	11	20	48	65	−17	44
18	Kingstonian	42	10	9	23	43	77	−34	39
19	Bowers & Pitsea (R)	42	8	9	25	44	78	−34	33	Relegation to Step 4
20	Herne Bay (R)	42	8	9	25	60	101	−41	33
21	Corinthian-Casuals (R)	42	7	5	30	37	87	−50	26
22	Brightlingsea Regent (R)	42	5	9	28	41	108	−67	24

Source: Isthmian League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of matches won; 5) head-to-head results
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play-offs

		Semifinals				Final
	2	Hornchurch	3 (4)
	5	Cray Wanderers	3 (2)
						2	Hornchurch	0
						4	Aveley	1
	3	Canvey Island	0 (2)
	4	Aveley	0 (4)

Semi-finals

26 April 2023	Hornchurch	3–3 (4–2 pen)	Cray Wanderers	Hornchurch
19:45	Higgins  14', 93' Nash  49'	Report	Ijaha  59' Clunis  89' Wood  108'	Stadium: Hornchurch Stadium Attendance: 710 Referee: Nicholas Dunn
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26 April 2023	Canvey Island	0–0 (2–4 pen)	Aveley	Canvey Island
19:45		Report		Stadium: Park Lane Attendance: 972
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Final

1 May 2023	Hornchurch	0–1	Aveley	Hornchurch
15:00		Report	Scott  31'	Stadium: Hornchurch Stadium Attendance: 2,040 Referee: Emily Heaslip

Results table

Home \ Away	AVE	BIL	BIS	BOG	B&P	BRI	CAN	CAR	COR	CRA	ENF	FOL	HAB	HAS	HER	HOR	HRM	KIN	LEW	MAR	POT	W&F
Aveley		1–0	0–1	1–6	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	1–0
Billericay Town	2–0		2–2	3–2	3–2	4–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–4	2–3	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–3	5–3	5–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	0–1
Bishop's Stortford	2–0	2–0		2–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–3	3–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–3	2–2	1–1	0–0
Bognor Regis Town	1–1	0–1	2–1		2–1	4–2	0–1	3–3	3–2	2–2	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–4	1–4	1–0	1–2	3–0
Bowers & Pitsea	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–4		1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–4	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–2	2–3	0–2	2–0	2–2
Brightlingsea Regent	0–6	2–0	2–0	0–4	0–2		1–5	1–1	4–2	0–1	0–4	3–2	1–1	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–2
Canvey Island	2–2	1–2	2–0	3–2	0–2	3–0		1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	1–3	3–0	1–3	5–2	5–0	0–3
Carshalton Athletic	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–2		1–0	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	5–2	3–1
Corinthian-Casuals	1–3	1–2	0–1	1–2	4–1	2–1	0–0	1–4		1–3	0–3	0–4	0–2	0–2	3–2	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–0
Cray Wanderers	2–1	4–3	2–3	2–2	3–3	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–0		1–1	0–0	5–1	0–1	3–0	0–2	5–3	2–0	2–2	1–0	5–0	0–1
Enfield Town	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–1	2–0	1–1		1–1	2–2	1–0	4–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–4	0–0	4–1	1–1
Folkestone Invicta	2–5	1–1	3–0	4–1	4–1	3–1	1–3	0–0	3–2	2–4	3–0		2–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	3–0	1–3	1–2	4–0	2–3	2–1
Haringey Borough	1–2	0–3	0–3	2–5	4–2	6–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–2	1–2	3–0		2–0	2–4	1–1	2–0	5–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–0
Hastings United	1–2	2–2	0–1	3–2	2–0	4–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	4–1		3–3	0–3	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–1
Herne Bay	1–2	2–2	0–5	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–4	2–3	3–1	3–5	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–3		0–6	3–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–3	1–1
Hornchurch	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–3	1–1	5–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–3	3–0	5–1		3–1	3–0	2–2	2–3	5–0	2–0
Horsham	2–2	3–1	0–2	4–0	4–1	6–1	2–0	1–3	5–0	2–2	3–1	1–3	3–3	0–0	4–1	3–2		1–0	2–0	4–0	3–2	2–0
Kingstonian	0–1	2–1	0–5	2–2	1–0	3–0	1–4	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–3	1–1	1–2	1–4		1–3	0–2	1–3	2–2
Lewes	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–2	4–0	0–0	3–3	2–2	1–1	3–0		2–0	2–1	5–0
Margate	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	0–1	2–0	0–3	2–5	0–1	3–3	1–2	4–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–2		2–3	3–1
Potters Bar Town	0–2	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	3–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–5	2–2	1–4	1–0	2–5	1–1	3–2	4–3	0–1		0–2
Wingate & Finchley	1–2	1–3	0–1	4–2	4–3	5–0	0–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–4	4–1	2–4	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–0

Source: Football Web Pages
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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