2023–24 Isthmian League Premier Division

Isthmian League Premier Division 2023–24
Season information
Winners	Hornchurch
Promoted	Hornchurch Enfield Town
Relegated	Margate Haringey Borough Kingstonian Concord Rangers
Season statistics
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The 2023–24 season was the 109th season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. The league operates four divisions, the Premier Division at Step 3 and three divisions, North, South Central and South East at Step 4 of the National League System. This is the sixth season since the former South Division was subdivided into the South Central and South East divisions. The league is also known as the Pitching In League under a sponsorship deal with Entain, formerly GVC Holdings.

The allocations for Step 4 this season were announced by The Football Association (FA) on 15 May 2023.

The Premier Division comprised sixteen teams from the previous season, as well as six clubs who newly joined the division.

Team changes

To the Premier Division Promoted from the North Division Hashtag United Promoted from the South East Division Chatham Town Whitehawk Relegated from the National League South Cheshunt Concord Rangers Dulwich Hamlet

From the Premier Division Promoted to the National League North Bishop's Stortford Promoted to the National League South Aveley Relegated to the North Division Bowers & Pitsea Brightlingsea Regent Relegated to the South Central Division Corinthian-Casuals Relegated to the South East Division Herne Bay

Stadiums and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Billericay Town	Billericay	New Lodge	3,500
Bognor Regis Town	Bognor Regis	Nyewood Lane	4,500
Canvey Island	Canvey Island	Park Lane	4,500
Carshalton Athletic	Carshalton	War Memorial Sports Ground	5,000
Chatham Town	Chatham, Kent	The Bauvil Stadium	5,000
Cheshunt	Cheshunt	Theobalds Lane	3,000
Concord Rangers	Canvey Island	Thames Road	3,300
Cray Wanderers	St Mary Cray	Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley)	6,000
Dulwich Hamlet	London (East Dulwich)	Champion Hill	3,000
Enfield Town	Enfield	Queen Elizabeth II Stadium	2,500
Folkestone Invicta	Folkestone	Cheriton Road	4,000
Haringey Borough	Tottenham	Coles Park	2,500
Hashtag United	Pitsea	Len Salmon Stadium	2,661
Hastings United	Hastings	The Pilot Field	4,050
Hornchurch	Hornchurch	Hornchurch Stadium	3,500
Horsham	Horsham	The Camping World Community Stadium	1,300
Kingstonian	Kingston upon Thames	Imperial Fields (groundshare with Tooting & Mitcham United)	2,700
Lewes	Lewes	The Dripping Pan	3,000
Margate	Margate	Hartsdown Park	3,000
Potters Bar Town	Potters Bar	Parkfield	2,000
Whitehawk	Brighton (Whitehawk)	The Enclosed Ground	3,126
Wingate & Finchley	Finchley	The Maurice Rebak Stadium	1,500

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Hornchurch (C, P)	42	31	7	4	95	34	+61	100	Promotion to the National League South
2	Chatham Town	42	24	7	11	87	61	+26	79	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Enfield Town (O, P)	42	22	11	9	81	54	+27	77
4	Wingate & Finchley	42	23	7	12	78	62	+16	76
5	Horsham	42	23	7	12	64	50	+14	76
6	Billericay Town	42	23	4	15	78	52	+26	73
7	Hastings United	42	19	10	13	71	54	+17	67
8	Lewes	42	20	7	15	68	70	−2	67
9	Whitehawk	42	17	14	11	63	54	+9	65
10	Bognor Regis Town	42	16	14	12	78	63	+15	62
11	Carshalton Athletic	42	17	11	14	73	59	+14	62
12	Dulwich Hamlet	42	17	11	14	77	72	+5	62
13	Hashtag United	42	15	14	13	82	75	+7	59
14	Canvey Island	42	16	6	20	62	74	−12	54
15	Potters Bar Town	42	14	9	19	65	70	−5	51
16	Folkestone Invicta	42	13	11	18	60	71	−11	50
17	Cray Wanderers	42	13	11	18	54	66	−12	50
18	Cheshunt	42	12	7	23	58	72	−14	43
19	Margate (R)	42	10	9	23	50	80	−30	39	Relegated to step 4
20	Haringey Borough (R)	42	6	9	27	32	88	−56	27
21	Concord Rangers (R)	42	6	8	28	34	82	−48	26
22	Kingstonian (R)	42	5	6	31	55	102	−47	21

Source: Isthmian League
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

		Semi-finals				Final
	2	Chatham Town	1 (4)
	5	Horsham	1 (3)
						2	Chatham Town	0
						3	Enfield Town	3
	3	Enfield Town	1
	4	Wingate & Finchley	0

Semifinals

1 May	Chatham Town	1–1 (4–3 pen)	Horsham	Chatham
19:45	Isiaka  106'	https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/2023-2024/isthmian-football-league-premier-division/chatham-town/horsham/488300 Report]	Hammond  112'	Stadium: The Bauvil Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Jake Hillier
		Penalties
	Beeney Dunne Dickson Evans Yila		Hammond Mazzone Barker Carey Brivio

1 May	Enfield Town	1–0	Wingate & Finchley	Enfield
19:45	McKenzie  67'	Report		Stadium: Queen Elizabeth II Stadium Attendance: 2,225

Final

6 May	Chatham Town	0–3	Enfield Town	Chatham
15:00		[https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/match/2023-2024/isthmian-football-league-premier-division/chatham-town/enfield-town/488375	Knight  48' Wyllie  71' Taaffe  90+3'	Stadium: The Bauvil Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Jake Willmore

Results table

Home \ Away	BIL	BOG	CAN	CAR	CHA	CHE	CON	CRA	DUL	ENF	FOL	HAB	HSH	HAS	HOR	HRM	KIN	LEW	MAR	POT	WHK	W&F
Billericay Town		2–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	6–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–4	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	5–0	5–3	2–1	1–3	1–2
Bognor Regis Town	1–0		1–1	3–3	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–4	4–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	3–3	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–2
Canvey Island	3–0	1–3		0–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	0–3	2–1	3–2	2–2	0–0	4–1	1–2	3–2	0–2	4–1	1–4	1–2	0–2
Carshalton Athletic	1–2	3–3	0–3		2–0	1–4	2–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	4–1	1–1	3–0	5–0	2–1	2–3
Chatham Town	6–3	1–0	5–1	2–2		3–2	2–1	1–5	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–3	1–2	2–0	1–3	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1
Cheshunt	0–1	3–1	1–3	1–0	1–2		2–1	0–1	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–2	1–1	2–3	0–6	1–0	5–4	4–0	0–1	2–4	2–0	0–1
Concord Rangers	2–1	0–4	1–3	1–2	1–3	0–3		0–3	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–4	3–3	0–3	1–1	0–0	4–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–2
Cray Wanderers	0–1	1–5	2–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–1		1–1	2–0	0–1	3–3	1–3	0–0	1–4	1–3	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–2	1–0
Dulwich Hamlet	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–1	2–5	4–2	2–0	2–6		0–4	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	3–2	2–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	3–0
Enfield Town	1–2	2–2	3–0	0–3	2–2	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–2		0–2	1–0	6–3	3–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	4–4	2–2
Folkestone Invicta	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–3	2–3	2–1	1–1	2–2	3–3	1–2		1–1	1–3	0–5	0–2	3–1	3–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–1
Haringey Borough	0–6	0–1	2–1	0–6	0–3	1–0	0–1	0–4	1–1	1–1	0–0		1–4	0–5	1–2	0–2	2–2	0–4	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–2
Hashtag United	2–1	4–5	3–1	2–2	1–1	3–3	2–3	1–0	2–2	3–3	0–0	5–0		1–2	0–3	1–2	2–2	2–3	4–2	2–3	1–1	2–0
Hastings United	1–1	1–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–2	0–3	2–1	2–1	2–0		1–0	0–2	3–2	1–3	4–0	0–1	0–1	2–3
Hornchurch	4–1	4–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	3–0	3–0	4–1		1–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	0–0	1–2
Horsham	0–0	5–4	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–2		3–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1
Kingstonian	1–3	3–2	2–1	2–3	1–3	1–1	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–3	3–0	0–3	3–5	1–3	0–3	1–2		1–3	1–3	0–2	1–4	1–2
Lewes	0–3	1–0	2–2	1–3	0–3	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	4–0	1–3	4–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–1		4–2	3–0	1–1	1–2
Margate	1–3	0–2	3–2	0–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–4	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–3	2–2	2–0		2–1	2–1	2–1
Potters Bar Town	1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	4–3	1–1	1–2	0–2	3–3	2–1	5–0	1–3	0–1	0–1	6–1	1–2	2–3		1–0	3–2
Whitehawk	0–1	3–2	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–4	3–1	3–0	1–2	3–2	2–1		3–3
Wingate & Finchley	2–1	0–1	6–2	3–0	4–2	3–2	2–0	1–3	2–3	1–4	0–4	1–0	0–0	2–2	1–4	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	5–1

Source: Football Web Pages
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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