2022–23 Southern Combination Football League Division Two

Southern Combination Division Two 2022–23
Season information
Dates	20 August 2022–1 May 2023
Winners	Jarvis Brook
Promoted	Copthorne
Season statistics
Matches played	182
Goals scored	789
Top goalscorer	Chris Darwin (27 goals)
Biggest home win	St Francis Rangers 7–0 Brighton Electricity (20 August 2022)
Biggest away win	Rustington 0–7 Copthorne (24 September 2022)
Highest scoring	Worthing Town 4–9 St Francis Rangers (10 December 2022)
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The 2022–23 Southern Combination Football League season was the 98th in the history of the competition, which lies at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system.

Division Two remained at 14 teams after Capel were promoted from the West Sussex Football League and Storrington were relegated from Division One. Littlehampton United left the league

Promotion from this division depended on ground grading as well as league position.

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bosham	Bosham	Walton Lane	—
Brighton Electricity	Brighton (Withdean)	Withdean Stadium (groundshare with AFC Varndeanians)	8,850
Capel	Capel	Newdigate Road	—
Charlwood	Charlwood	Glovers Road	—
Copthorne	Copthorne	Camping World Community Stadium (groundshare with Horsham)	1,300
Ferring	Ferring	The Glebelands	—
Jarvis Brook	Crowborough	Limekiln	—
Rottingdean Village	Brighton (Rottingdean)	Rottingdean Sports Centre	—
Rustington	Rustington	Rustington Recreation Ground	—
Southwater	Southwater	Southwater Sports Club	—
St Francis Rangers	Haywards Heath	Colwell Ground	1000
Storrington	Storrington	The Recreation Ground, Storrington	—
Upper Beeding	Upper Beeding	Memorial Playing Field	—
Worthing Town	Worthing	Palatine Park	—

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Jarvis Brook (C)	26	21	2	3	80	18	+62	65
2	Copthorne (P)	26	16	4	6	73	44	+29	52	Promoted to Division One
3	Capel	26	16	2	8	88	53	+35	50
4	Storrington	26	14	5	7	72	36	+36	47
5	Bosham	26	14	4	8	58	50	+8	46
6	Southwater	26	13	5	8	57	51	+6	44
7	Ferring	26	12	5	9	52	48	+4	41
8	St Francis Rangers	26	10	6	10	61	48	+13	36
9	Charlwood	26	11	2	13	53	49	+4	35
10	Rustington	26	8	4	14	42	75	−33	28
11	Rottingdean Village	26	8	2	16	37	58	−21	26
12	Worthing Town	26	7	4	15	57	86	−29	25
13	Upper Beeding	26	4	5	17	32	82	−50	17
14	Brighton Electricity	26	2	2	22	27	91	−64	8

Source: The FA Full-Time SCFL Division 2 Table
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted

Results table

Home \ Away	BOS	BRE	CAP	CHA	COP	FER	JAR	ROT	RUS	SOU	STF	STO	UBD	WOR
Bosham		5–3	1–4	3–0	2–1	6–2	2–1	5–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–3
Brighton Electricity	0–1		1–6	H/W	2–4	2–4	0–4	0–2	5–0	0–3	0–4	0–5	0–1	0–0
Capel	5–2	3–0		0–1	2–3	7–3	3–2	0–0	8–1	5–1	5–4	2–5	4–4	8–2
Charlwood	1–3	2–0	1–5		3–1	0–2	0–1	3–2	8–0	2–2	0–2	0–6	4–0	4–1
Copthorne	5–0	3–2	1–3	3–2		1–1	0–3	3–0	3–2	5–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	6–1
Ferring	3–1	3–2	1–2	2–1	3–4		0–1	4–0	3–0	2–3	4–4	1–0	2–0	1–2
Jarvis Brook	2–0	7–2	3–2	5–0	7–1	0–0		7–0	1–4	4–0	5–0	3–0	7–3	4–0
Rottingdean Village	0–4	7–1	3–0	0–3	2–1	0–1	0–0		1–2	1–2	0–3	1–3	1–2	3–0
Rustington	1–2	2–1	1–5	1–1	0–7	5–2	1–0	4–1		1–1	0–0	1–4	2–3	4–3
Southwater	1–1	3–2	2–3	1–0	2–4	1–2	0–1	2–1	4–2		1–1	5–2	8–1	5–3
St Francis Rangers	6–0	7–0	4–0	2–1	1–2	2–4	0–1	1–2	1–4	1–3		1–5	2–2	2–1
Storrington	2–6	6–0	4–0	2–3	1–1	3–1	2–3	4–0	0–1	3–0	0–0		3–1	6–1
Upper Beeding	0–3	3–3	0–4	1–5	0–6	0–0	0–1	2–5	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–3		0–6
Worthing Town	3–0	6–1	3–2	4–7	2–4	1–1	1–4	1–4	4–4	1–3	4–9	1–1	3–1

Source: SCFL Fixtures and Results
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Chris Darwin	Rustington	27
2	Stephen Smith	Jarvis Brook	24
3	Lewis Rustell	Bosham	23
4	Toby Funnell	Copthorne	22
	Lloyd Jermy	Capel
6	Ben Lewis	Southwater	20
	Jordan Suter	Storrington
8	Sean Culley	Storrington (previously Worthing Town)	18
9	Daniel Sullivan	Copthorne	17
10	George Cumming	Capel	15

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