2022–23 Southern Football League Division One South

Southern Football League Division One South 2022–23
Season information
Winners	AFC Totton
Promoted	AFC Totton Sholing
Relegated	Lymington Town Cinderford Town Slimbridge
Season statistics
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The 2022–23 Southern Football League season was the 120th in the history of the Southern League since its establishment in 1894. The league has two Premier divisions (Central and South) at Step 3 of the National League System (NLS) and two Division One divisions (Central and South) at Step 4. These correspond to levels 7 and 8 of the English football league system.

The allocations for Step 4 this season were announced by The Football Association (FA) on 12 May 2022.

Division One South comprises 20 teams, 12 of which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To Division One South

Promoted from the Hellenic League Premier Division

• Bishop's Cleeve
• Westbury United

Promoted from the Wessex League Premier Division

• Bashley
• Hamworthy United

Promoted from the Western League Premier Division

• Exmouth Town
• Tavistock

Relegated from the Premier Division South

• Wimborne Town

From Division One South

Promoted to the Premier Division South

• Plymouth Parkway
• Winchester City

Relegated to the Hellenic League Premier Division

• Mangotsfield United

Relegated to the Western League Premier Division

• Barnstaple Town

Transferred to Division One Central

• Cirencester Town
• Highworth Town

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Totton	Totton	Testwood Stadium	3,000
Bashley	Bashley	Bashley Road	4,250
Bideford	Bideford	The Sports Ground	2,000
Bishop's Cleeve	Bishop's Cleeve	Kayte Lane	1,500
Bristol Manor Farm	Bristol (Sea Mills)	The Creek	2,000
Cinderford Town	Cinderford	Causeway Ground	3,500
Evesham United	Evesham	Jubilee Stadium	3,000
Exmouth Town	Exmouth	Southern Road	n/a
Frome Town	Frome	Badgers Hill	2,000
Hamworthy United	Hamworthy	The Country Ground	2,000
Larkhall Athletic	Bath (Larkhall)	The Plain Ham Ground	1,000
Lymington Town	Lymington	The Sports Ground	n/a
Melksham Town	Melksham	Oakfield Stadium	2,500
Paulton Rovers	Paulton	Athletic Field	2,500
Sholing	Sholing	Universal Stadium	1,000
Slimbridge	Slimbridge	Thornhill Park	1,500
Tavistock	Tavistock	Langsford Park	2,000
Westbury United	Westbury	Meadow Lane	n/a
Willand Rovers	Willand	The Stan Robinson Stadium	1,000
Wimborne Town	Wimborne Minster	The Cuthbury	3,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	AFC Totton (C, P)	38	27	7	4	88	28	+60	88	Promoted to the Premier Division South
2	Sholing (O, P)	38	24	9	5	75	35	+40	81	Qualified for the play-offs
3	Hamworthy United	38	22	8	8	75	51	+24	74
4	Evesham United	38	18	6	14	53	44	+9	60
5	Wimborne Town	38	17	9	12	60	61	−1	60
6	Tavistock	38	18	4	16	66	63	+3	58
7	Bashley	38	15	10	13	49	37	+12	55
8	Frome Town	38	15	9	14	62	50	+12	54
9	Bishop's Cleeve	38	16	4	18	66	74	−8	52
10	Westbury United	38	13	11	14	51	53	−2	50
11	Larkhall Athletic	38	12	13	13	44	58	−14	49
12	Melksham Town	38	13	9	16	64	68	−4	48
13	Paulton Rovers	38	14	5	19	57	68	−11	47
14	Exmouth Town	38	12	10	16	50	51	−1	46
15	Willand Rovers	38	11	11	16	49	47	+2	44
16	Lymington Town (R)	38	12	7	19	50	67	−17	43	Relegated to the Wessex League
17	Bideford	38	10	12	16	41	57	−16	42
18	Bristol Manor Farm (O)	38	11	9	18	56	76	−20	42	Qualified for the inter-step play-off
19	Cinderford Town (R)	38	8	10	20	47	85	−38	34	Relegated to the Hellenic League
20	Slimbridge (R)	38	6	9	23	44	74	−30	27

Source: Southern League website, Non League Matters
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	Sholing	2
	5	Wimborne Town	1
						2	Sholing	2
						3	Hamworthy United	0
	3	Hamworthy United	3
	4	Evesham United	0

Semi-finals

26 April 2023	Sholing	2–1	Wimborne Town	Sholing
19:45	Mason  64' Mason  84'	Report	Bartlett  90+3'	Stadium: Universal Stadium Attendance: 393 Referee: Will Briers

26 April 2023	Hamworthy United	3–0	Evesham United	Dorchester
19:45	Fletcher  20' Griffin  35' Rolls  58'	Report		Stadium: The Avenue Stadium Attendance: 283 Referee: Harrison Blair

Final

1 May 2023	Sholing	2–0	Hamworthy United	Sholing
15:00	Wort  58' Mason  61'	Report		Stadium: Universal Stadium Attendance: 1,289

Inter-step play-off

29 April 2023	Bristol Manor Farm	2–0	Saltash United	Sea Mills
15:00	Robbins  34' Nielsen  63'			Stadium: The Creek Attendance: 361 Referee: James Towson

Results

Home \ Away	TOT	BAS	BID	BIS	BMF	CIN	EVE	EXM	FRO	HMW	LAR	LYM	MEL	PAU	SHO	SLI	TAV	WES	WIL	WIM
AFC Totton	—	1–0	8–1	2–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	7–0	0–1	3–0	6–1	5–3	1–0	1–1
Bashley	0–0	—	0–1	0–4	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	5–2
Bideford	1–1	0–1	—	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–4	1–3	0–1
Bishop's Cleeve	1–2	1–0	1–2	—	2–4	2–2	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–5	4–2	2–3	3–1	2–1	0–2	3–2	4–2	2–1	1–0	3–6
Bristol Manor Farm	2–4	0–3	0–0	1–3	—	3–2	1–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–5	4–3	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–0	2–1	0–0
Cinderford Town	1–6	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–3	—	3–1		1–3	5–0	1–1	0–2	0–4	0–4	2–2	2–1	0–4	3–2	0–2	1–2
Evesham United	3–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	0–0	—	2–0	1–0	1–2	5–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–2
Exmouth Town	1–3	3–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–1	—	5–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	0–0	3–3	1–0
Frome Town	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	5–1	1–0	1–0	—	2–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–3	4–1	0–4	3–0	3–3	3–0
Hamworthy United	2–1	1–0	5–1	2–1	5–2	1–1	2–1	3–1	3–2	—	5–0	3–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	6–2	3–2	0–0	2–1
Larkhall Athletic	0–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–4	0–1	—	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–3
Lymington Town	1–2	3–3	0–2	2–2	2–4	1–2	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	—	3–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–7	3–0	3–1	0–2
Melksham Town	0–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	3–3	1–1	2–2	1–3	3–2	3–5	1–1	3–2	—	2–3	1–3	3–2	1–2	3–2	3–0	3–1
Paulton Rovers	0–1	2–1	3–2	2–4	3–1	5–2	3–2	1–0	3–2	0–1	2–4	4–1	1–3	—	0–2	3–2	1–4	1–1	0–0	1–1
Sholing	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	3–2	2–0	0–2	4–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	5–1	2–0	—	1–0	4–1	1–1	2–0	0–0
Slimbridge	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–3	1–1	2–3	2–2	0–4	0–1	4–2	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–3	—	2–4	0–1	0–4	1–0
Tavistock	0–0	0–2	2–0	4–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	3–1	4–3	0–2	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	—	1–2	0–3	1–2
Westbury United	1–2	2–1	2–3	1–0	0–1	4–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	3–0	1–1	—	1–0	2–1
Willand Rovers	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	4–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	3–3	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	0–0	—	1–0
Wimborne Town	0–4	0–5	1–1	2–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–4	2–0	2–0	5–1	1–1	3–2	0–4	3–3	2–0	3–3	2–1	—

Source: Southern League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

External links

• Official website