2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division

2022–23 East Football League Premier Division 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Erith & Belvedere
Promoted	Erith & Belvedere Phoenix Sports
Relegated	Canterbury City K Sports
Season statistics
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The 2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 57th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, and the seventh year the competition has two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system.

The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by The Football Association on 12 May 2022.

The Premier Division comprised 16 clubs from the previous season, along with four new clubs after Sheppey United and Chatham Town were promoted to Isthmian League South East Division, Crowborough Athletic's transfer to Southern Combination Football League and Tower Hamlets' relegation to Eastern Counties League Division One South

The four clubs that joined the division were:

• Phoenix Sports - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
• Stansfeld - Promoted from Division One
• Sutton Athletic - Promoted from Division One
• Whitstable Town - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Erith & Belvedere (C, P)	38	25	8	5	94	43	+51	83	Promotion to Isthmian League
2	Phoenix Sports (O, P)	38	24	9	5	89	33	+56	81	Qualification for an inter-step play-off
3	Deal Town	38	24	8	6	79	36	+43	80
4	Erith Town	38	23	5	10	79	49	+30	74
5	Whitstable Town	38	19	6	13	73	56	+17	63
6	Rusthall	38	16	10	12	70	57	+13	58
7	Glebe	38	17	7	14	73	62	+11	58
8	Tunbridge Wells	38	15	9	14	53	47	+6	54
9	Stansfeld	38	15	8	15	64	61	+3	53
10	Punjab United	38	15	8	15	72	74	−2	53
11	Fisher	38	15	7	16	61	57	+4	52
12	Kennington	38	16	3	19	68	73	−5	51
13	Bearsted	38	13	9	16	44	51	−7	48
14	Sutton Athletic	38	13	9	16	75	83	−8	48
15	Hollands & Blair	38	11	12	15	55	71	−16	45
16	Lordswood	38	13	5	20	49	79	−30	44
17	Holmesdale	38	8	10	20	34	57	−23	34
18	Welling Town	38	10	4	24	48	91	−43	34
19	Canterbury City (R)	38	7	10	21	53	97	−44	31	Relegation to Division One
20	K Sports (R)	38	7	1	30	54	110	−56	22

Source: The FA Full-Time
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

Results table

Home \ Away	BEA	CAN	DEA	ERB	ERT	FIS	GLB	H&B	HOL	KSP	KEN	LOR	PHO	PUN	RUS	STA	SUT	TUN	WEL	WHI
Bearsted	—	1–3	1–1	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–0	3–5	2–0	1–1	0–3	1–1	1–2
Canterbury City	1–2	—	0–1	1–1	3–3	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–8	2–2	0–0	1–4	1–5	1–2	0–3	4–4	0–3	3–4	0–3
Deal Town	2–0	3–1	—	1–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	5–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–1
Erith & Belvedere	3–0	2–0	0–3	—	1–0	3–3	4–2	1–2	4–0	5–1	6–1	3–3	2–1	6–2	2–0	1–1	4–4	1–5	4–0	1–2
Erith Town	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	—	1–1	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–2	3–2	1–0	1–3	3–2	1–3	4–2	2–1	2–0	3–2	5–2
Fisher	1–0	4–2	0–1	1–3	0–1	—	5–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–2	4–0	0–2	1–2	3–0	1–0	5–0	1–1	3–1	0–1
Glebe	3–1	8–1	2–2	1–2	3–0	1–3	—	1–2	2–1	3–1	2–2	4–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–3	2–0	3–1	4–0	2–4
Hollands & Blair	0–3	0–0	1–3	0–4	1–2	1–1	1–0	—	1–2	7–1	0–4	0–1	1–2	4–1	3–3	1–3	0–5	1–2	1–0	2–3
Holmesdale	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–1	4–0	1–2	1–1	—	2–0	0–3	0–1	0–2	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–0
K Sports	1–2	1–5	3–2	0–4	1–7	1–3	1–2	1–3	0–2	—	4–0	2–3	0–2	1–4	0–4	3–4	2–2	4–1	0–3	0–4
Kennington	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–2	1–3	3–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	5–2	—	1–2	2–1	0–4	1–3	0–2	5–0	2–0	6–2	1–6
Lordswood	2–0	0–2	0–4	0–1	0–5	3–0	0–4	0–2	0–3	0–1	4–0	—	0–5	3–2	1–5	1–2	1–5	0–2	0–1	3–1
Phoenix Sports	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	6–0	4–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	—	4–3	0–2	4–0	5–0	1–2	3–0	2–1
Punjab United	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–4	2–2	1–1	3–1	4–2	3–7	1–2	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–3	2–1	0–0
Rusthall	0–2	3–0	2–2	1–5	2–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–2	0–2	2–2	1–1	5–2	—	1–0	2–2	2–0	4–1	2–1
Stansfeld	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–2	1–2	2–0	5–0	1–1	1–1	6–0	0–6	1–3	1–1	4–1	1–0	—	2–4	0–2	1–2	0–2
Sutton Athletic	2–2	4–1	1–3	0–3	1–4	2–3	1–1	3–3	2–0	4–1	3–1	3–1	2–2	1–3	5–1	3–2	—	0–3	4–1	1–2
Tunbridge Wells	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–4	0–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	—	1–0	0–2
Welling Town	0–3	2–2	4–3	1–3	0–3	1–0	0–2	4–1	2–4	0–4	0–3	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	5–4	1–3	0–4	—	2–2
Whitstable Town	0–2	4–2	0–2	2–2	0–4	1–2	4–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–2	3–2	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–3	—

Source: FA Full-Time Grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Play-off

Inter-step play-off

29 April 2023	VCD Athletic	0–1	Phoenix Sports	Crayford
15:00			Hayes  90+4'	Stadium: Oakwood Attendance: 820

External links

• Southern Counties East Football League Official Website