2022–23 Southern Football League Premier Central

Southern Football League Premier Central 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Tamworth
Promoted	Tamworth Rushall Olympic
Relegated	Kings Langley Hednesford Town AFC Rushden & Diamonds Bedford Town
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.

Premier Division Central comprises 22 teams, one more than the set of 21 which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To the Premier League Central

Promoted from the Division One Central

• Bedford Town

Promoted from the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands

• Ilkeston Town

Transferred from the Northern Premier League Premier Division

• Basford United
• Mickleover

Transferred from the Premier Division South

• Kings Langley

From the Premier Division Central

Promoted to the National League North

• Banbury United
• Peterborough Sports

Relegated to Division One Central

• Biggleswade Town

Relegated to the Isthmian League North Division

• Lowestoft Town

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Rushden & Diamonds	Rushden	Hayden Road	2,000
Alvechurch	Alvechurch	Lye Meadow	3,000
Barwell	Barwell	Kirkby Road	2,500
Basford United	Nottingham (Basford)	Greenwich Avenue	2,200
Bedford Town	Bedford	The Eyrie	3,000
Bromsgrove Sporting	Bromsgrove	Victoria Ground	4,893
Coalville Town	Coalville	Owen Street Sports Ground	2,000
Hednesford Town	Hednesford	Keys Park	6,039
Hitchin Town	Hitchin	Top Field	4,554
Ilkeston Town	Ilkeston	New Manor Ground	3,029
Kings Langley	Kings Langley	Sadiku Stadium	1,963
Leiston	Leiston	Victory Road	2,250
Mickleover	Derby (Mickleover)	Station Road	1,500
Needham Market	Needham Market	Bloomfields	4,000
Nuneaton Borough	Nuneaton	Liberty Way	4,614
Redditch United	Redditch	The Valley	5,000
Royston Town	Royston	Garden Walk	5,000
Rushall Olympic	Walsall (Rushall)	Dales Lane	2,000
St Ives Town	St Ives	Westwood Road	2,000
Stourbridge	Stourbridge	War Memorial Athletic Ground	2,626
Stratford Town	Stratford-upon-Avon	Knights Lane	2,000
Tamworth	Tamworth	The Lamb Ground	4,565

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Tamworth (C, P)	42	27	8	7	93	40	+53	89	Promoted to the National League North
2	Coalville Town	42	27	8	7	92	42	+50	89	Qualified for the play-offs
3	Leiston	42	24	13	5	84	47	+37	85
4	Nuneaton Borough	42	23	10	9	67	45	+22	79
5	Rushall Olympic (O, P)	42	22	7	13	71	52	+19	73
6	Mickleover	42	22	6	14	82	66	+16	72
7	Ilkeston Town	42	16	13	13	79	66	+13	61	Transferred to the Northern Premier League Premier
8	Barwell	42	17	10	15	69	63	+6	61
9	Redditch United	42	18	7	17	57	59	−2	61
10	Stourbridge	42	15	14	13	69	56	+13	59
11	Alvechurch	42	17	8	17	63	65	−2	59
12	Hitchin Town	42	16	11	15	52	60	−8	59
13	Royston Town	42	15	10	17	63	73	−10	55
14	Stratford Town	42	13	13	16	58	70	−12	52
15	Basford United	42	14	10	18	49	62	−13	52	Transferred to the Northern Premier League Premier
16	St Ives Town	42	14	8	20	64	72	−8	50
17	Needham Market	42	13	9	20	46	54	−8	48
18	Bromsgrove Sporting	42	13	9	20	58	78	−20	48
19	Kings Langley (R)	42	10	9	23	45	69	−24	39	Relegated to Division One Central
20	Hednesford Town (R)	42	7	10	25	45	76	−31	31	Relegated to the Northern Premier League West
21	AFC Rushden & Diamonds (R)	42	8	7	27	40	87	−47	31	Relegated to the Northern Premier League Midlands
22	Bedford Town (R)	42	8	6	28	49	93	−44	30	Relegated to Division One Central

Source: Southern League, 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	Coalville Town	1 (3)
	5	Rushall Olympic	1 (4)
						5	Rushall Olympic	0 (4)
						4	Nuneaton Borough	0 (3)
	3	Leiston	1
	4	Nuneaton Borough	2

Semi-finals

26 April 2023	Coalville Town	1–1 (3–4 pen)	Rushall Olympic	Coalville
19:45	McGlinchey  88'	Report	Landell  46'	Stadium: Owen Street Sports Ground Attendance: 1,610 Referee: Richard Eley
		Penalties
	Putman Thanoj Shaw Smith Berridge		Fletcher Cook Whittall Shorrock Batchelor

26 April 2023	Leiston	1–2	Nuneaton Borough	Leiston
19:45	Quantrell  75'	Report	Richards  49' Waite  102'	Stadium: Victory Road Attendance: 464

Final

1 May 2023	Nuneaton Borough	0–0 (3–4 pen)	Rushall Olympic	Nuneaton
15:00		Report		Stadium: Liberty Way Attendance: 3,563
		Penalties
	Beswick Storer Benbow Rowe-Turner Dinanga		Whittall Cook Carvalho-Landell Shorrock Green

Results

Home \ Away	RUD	ALV	BAR	BAS	BDT	BRO	COA	HED	HIT	ILK	KLL	LEI	MIC	NEE	NUN	RED	ROY	RUS	STI	STO	STR	TAM
AFC Rushden & Diamonds	—	0–2	0–1	2–0	4–0	1–1	0–7	0–1	1–2	1–1	4–2	0–0	1–4	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–3	0–2	1–3
Alvechurch	2–0	—	2–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	3–3	2–1	1–1	1–3	3–3	2–1	1–2	4–1	3–0	4–2	1–3
Barwell	1–2	1–1	—	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	2–3	2–5	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–1	0–2
Basford United	2–1	3–0	0–4	—	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–4	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–3
Bedford Town	6–1	0–3	3–2	0–2	—	3–4	2–1	1–3	3–0	2–2	2–0	3–4	0–3	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–3	2–4	0–3	1–8
Bromsgrove Sporting	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	—	0–4	3–1	2–1	2–3	2–0	1–7	1–3	2–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	3–4	0–1	0–1
Coalville Town	3–0	4–1	3–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	—	3–2	5–1	1–4	2–1	0–0	4–1	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–2	3–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–0
Hednesford Town	5–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–3	—	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–3	0–3	4–0	1–2	0–1	3–3	0–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–1
Hitchin Town	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	—	3–1	2–4	0–3	4–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1
Ilkeston Town	3–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–2	4–1	3–1	—	3–0	2–2	2–3	3–3	2–3	1–1	3–3	1–1	2–3	0–2	2–1	0–2
Kings Langley	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–5	1–3	2–1	0–1	1–2	—	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	1–1
Leiston	5–1	1–1	2–0	6–2	3–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	—	3–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1
Mickleover	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	4–1	2–4	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	—	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	4–3	2–3
Needham Market	2–0	0–3	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	5–0	0–2	4–2	3–1	0–1	3–2
Nuneaton Borough	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	4–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	—	1–0	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1
Redditch United	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–4	2–3	3–1	2–1	3–1	1–2	—	4–2	2–3	2–0	0–3	2–2	0–3
Royston Town	2–1	1–0	2–4	3–1	3–2	4–0	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	—	2–1	1–3	3–3	4–2	0–2
Rushall Olympic	3–1	1–4	1–1	0–1	1–3	3–1	0–3	3–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–3	1–0	3–0	7–2	2–3	—	1–0	2–0	4–3	2–2
St Ives Town	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–2	—	1–5	5–0	2–0
Stourbridge	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–3	3–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–3	5–1	2–0	2–2	—	4–0	1–1
Stratford Town	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	4–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–5	3–3	1–1	—	0–4
Tamworth	2–2	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–4	9–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	3–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	0–3	2–0	—

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

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