2022–23 Southern Football League Premier South

Southern Football League Premier South 2022–23
Season information
Winners	Weston-super-Mare
Promoted	Weston-super-Mare Truro City
Relegated	Metropolitan Police North Leigh Yate Town Hartley Wintney
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 South comprises 22 teams, 17 of which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To the Premier Division South

Promoted from Division One Central

• North Leigh

Promoted from Division One South

• Plymouth Parkway
• Winchester City

Promoted from the Isthmian League South Central Division

• Bracknell Town
• Hanwell Town

From the Premier Division South

Promoted to the National League South

• Farnborough
• Taunton Town

Relegated to Division One South

• Wimborne Town

Club folded

• Walton Casuals

Transferred back to the Premier Division Central

• Kings Langley

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Beaconsfield Town	Beaconsfield	Holloways Park	3,500
Bracknell Town	Sandhurst	SB Stadium	1,950
Chesham United	Chesham	The Meadow	5,000
Dorchester Town	Dorchester	The Avenue Stadium	5,000
Gosport Borough	Gosport	Privett Park	4,500
Hanwell Town	Perivale	Powerday Stadium	3,000
Harrow Borough	Harrow	Earlsmead Stadium	3,000
Hartley Wintney	Hartley Wintney	The Memorial Playing Fields	2,000
Hayes & Yeading United	Hayes, Hillingdon	SkyEx Community Stadium	3,000
Hendon	Hendon	Silver Jubilee Park	2,000
Merthyr Town	Merthyr Tydfil	Penydarren Park	4,000
Metropolitan Police	East Molesey	Imber Court	3,000
North Leigh	North Leigh	Eynsham Hall Park Sports Ground	2,000
Plymouth Parkway	Plymouth	Bolitho Park	3,500
Poole Town	Poole	The BlackGold Stadium	2,500
Salisbury	Salisbury	Raymond McEnhill Stadium	5,000
Swindon Supermarine	Swindon (South Marston)	Hunts Copse Ground	3,000
Tiverton Town	Tiverton	Ladysmead	3,500
Truro City	Plymouth	Bolitho Park (groundshare with Plymouth Parkway)	3,500
Weston-super-Mare	Weston-super-Mare	Woodspring Stadium	3,500
Winchester City	Winchester	The City Ground	4,500
Yate Town	Yate	Lodge Road	2,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Weston-super-Mare (C, P)	42	28	9	5	89	32	+57	93	Promoted to the National League South
2	Bracknell Town	42	28	6	8	100	53	+47	90	Qualified for the play-offs
3	Truro City (O, P)	42	27	8	7	88	41	+47	89
4	Poole Town	42	23	11	8	86	51	+35	80
5	Chesham United	42	23	10	9	88	57	+31	79
6	Swindon Supermarine	42	23	8	11	88	66	+22	77
7	Hayes & Yeading United	42	21	8	13	80	58	+22	71
8	Metropolitan Police (R)	42	18	7	17	61	59	+2	61	Relegated to the Isthmian League South
9	Merthyr Town	42	18	6	18	73	64	+9	60
10	Plymouth Parkway	42	16	10	16	63	62	+1	58
11	Beaconsfield Town	42	15	12	15	75	73	+2	57
12	Tiverton Town	42	15	10	17	62	77	−15	55
13	Dorchester Town	42	16	6	20	57	79	−22	54
14	Hanwell Town	42	14	8	20	55	65	−10	50
15	Salisbury	42	14	7	21	55	71	−16	49
16	Winchester City	42	12	12	18	56	72	−16	48
17	Gosport Borough	42	14	5	23	58	78	−20	47
18	Hendon	42	9	11	22	55	81	−26	38
19	Harrow Borough	42	9	10	23	44	80	−36	37
20	North Leigh (R)	42	9	7	26	50	86	−36	34	Relegated to Division One Central
21	Yate Town (R)	42	9	7	26	50	92	−42	34	Relegated to Division One South
22	Hartley Wintney (R)	42	8	8	26	40	76	−36	32	Relegated to the Isthmian League South

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

• Metropolitan Police chose to relegate themselves.

Play-offs

		Semifinals				Final
	2	Bracknell Town	1
	5	Chesham United	0
						2	Bracknell Town	2
						3	Truro City	3
	3	Truro City	1 (4)
	4	Poole Town	1 (1)

Semi-finals

26 April 2023	Bracknell Town	1–0	Chesham United	Sandhurst
19:45	Abisogun  104'	Report		Stadium: SB Stadium Attendance: 734 Referee: Charles Martland

26 April 2023	Truro City	1–1 (4–1 pen)	Poole Town	Plymouth
19:45	Harvey  61'	Report	Lee  49'	Stadium: Bolitho Park Attendance: 338 Referee: James Gould
		Penalties
	Harvey Dean Greenslade Sullivan		Hutchinson Daws Pardoe

Final

1 May 2023	Bracknell Town	2–3	Truro City	Sandhurst
15:00	Sanders  53' (Pen) Abisogun  62'	Report	Harvey  45' Neal  58' Riley-Lowe  90+4'	Stadium: SB Stadium Attendance: 1,554

Results

Home \ Away	BEA	BRA	CHE	DOR	GOS	HAN	HAB	HAR	HAY	HEN	MER	MET	NOR	PLY	POO	SAL	SWI	TIV	TRU	WSM	WIN	YAT
Beaconsfield Town	—	2–3	5–2	0–1	3–2	2–2	1–3	1–0	5–2	1–1	3–5	2–2	3–3	3–1	0–2	2–1	2–3	1–2	3–2	1–0	0–1	3–2
Bracknell Town	3–1	—	0–3	2–0	3–1	1–1	4–1	5–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	3–2	6–0	0–0	0–2	6–1	4–2	2–1	0–3	2–2	3–1	0–3
Chesham United	4–2	2–1	—	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–2	1–0	0–3	2–0	1–2	3–2	1–0	4–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	5–1
Dorchester Town	0–2	1–2	1–3	—	2–2	3–0	3–2	4–2	1–3	3–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–6	1–0	3–4	1–2	1–0	0–3	2–1	2–0
Gosport Borough	3–2	0–4	2–3	2–2	—	0–2	1–3	1–0	3–2	1–0	3–2	0–2	2–0	5–1	1–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–4	2–2	0–1
Hanwell Town	1–1	2–3	2–0	2–1	4–1	—	1–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	5–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	1–3	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–2	3–1
Harrow Borough	1–0	0–4	2–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	—	1–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–4	1–5	1–1	3–1
Hartley Wintney	0–3	1–2	1–5	2–4	3–1	2–1	1–0	—	0–0	2–3	1–2	1–1	1–0	4–4	1–1	1–3	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–0
Hayes & Yeading United	2–2	2–1	0–3	4–0	3–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	—	1–0	3–2	3–2	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	7–0	3–4	0–1	4–0	3–0
Hendon	1–1	3–4	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	—	1–1	2–3	0–2	3–1	0–4	1–4	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–3	0–2	0–1
Merthyr Town	3–2	1–3	0–1	1–3	2–3	3–1	2–2	4–1	1–3	1–2	—	1–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	5–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–3	5–2	1–2
Metropolitan Police	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	1–3	3–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	—	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–3	1–0	4–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–1
North Leigh	0–2	0–5	2–3	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	—	1–2	0–4	1–1	1–2	4–2	1–2	2–0	2–4	3–3
Plymouth Parkway	1–1	1–3	2–2	3–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	6–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	—	4–0	3–1	2–1	4–2	3–3	1–4	1–0	2–1
Poole Town	2–2	2–2	3–3	3–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	—	1–2	2–2	2–4	3–0	1–3	1–0	5–0
Salisbury	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–3	2–0	0–0	1–3	0–2	3–3	1–2	1–4	4–2	0–1	1–3	—	2–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	0–0
Swindon Supermarine	1–1	1–2	5–3	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–5	4–1	2–1	4–2	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	—	3–3	3–2	0–0	1–2	2–0
Tiverton Town	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–4	1–3	—	1–1	0–2	2–4	4–2
Truro City	1–1	1–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	2–0	6–0	1–3	1–1	4–0	4–0	3–2	—	0–0	3–0	4–0
Weston-super-Mare	2–2	1–3	1–3	3–1	3–0	3–0	7–0	4–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	—	3–1	3–2
Winchester City	4–0	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–6	1–2	1–3	0–1	—	1–0
Yate Town	0–2	0–2	0–3	0–0	5–4	2–3	3–3	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–3	4–0	2–3	0–4	1–2	0–0	1–2	0–4	3–3	—

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

External links

• Official website

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