2023–24 Southern Combination Football League Premier Division

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Southern Combination Premier Division 2023–24
Season information
Dates	29 July 2023–
Season statistics
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The 2023–24 Southern Combination Football League season was the 99th in the history of the competition, which lies at levels 9, 10 and 11 (steps 5 and 6, and county feeder) of the English football league system.

The constitution was announced on 15 May 2023. Starting this season, the Premier Division (Step 5) in the league will promote two clubs; one as champions and one via a four-team play-off. This replaces the previous inter-step play-off system. For this season only, there was only one club relegated from the division.

The Premier Division comprised 20 clubs from the previous season, 17 of which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To the Premier Division Promoted from Division One Shoreham Transferred from Wessex Football League Premier Division Pagham Relegated from the Isthmian League South East Division Haywards Heath Town

From the Premier Division Promoted to the Isthmian League South East Division Broadbridge Heath Relegated to Division One Alfold Roffey

Stadia and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Varndeanians	Brighton (Withdean)	Withdean Stadium (groundshare with Brighton Electricity)	8,850
AFC Uckfield Town	Framfield	The Oaks	600
Bexhill United	Bexhill-on-Sea	The Polegrove	1,000
Crawley Down Gatwick	Crawley Down	The Haven Centre	1,000
Crowborough Athletic	Crowborough	Crowborough Community Stadium	2,000
Eastbourne Town	Eastbourne	The Saffrons	4,500
Eastbourne United Association	Eastbourne	The Oval	1,200
Hassocks	Hassocks	The Beacon	1,000
Haywards Heath Town	Haywards Heath	Hanbury Park	2,000
Horsham YMCA	Horsham	Gorings Mead	1,500
Lingfield	Horley	The New Defence (groundshare with Horley Town)	1,800
Little Common	Bexhill-on-Sea (Little Common)	Little Common Recreation Ground	1,200
Loxwood	Loxwood	Plaistow Road	1,000
Midhurst & Easebourne	Easebourne	Rotherfield	1,000
Newhaven	Newhaven	The Trafalgar Ground	3,000
Pagham	Pagham	Nyetimber Lane	1,500
Peacehaven & Telscombe	Peacehaven	The Sports Park	3,000
Saltdean United	Brighton (Saltdean)	Hill Park	1,000
Shoreham	Shoreham-by-Sea	Middle Road	2,000
Steyning Town	Steyning	The Shooting Field	2,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Crowborough Athletic	15	12	2	1	38	14	+24	38	Promotion to the Isthmian League
2	Newhaven	15	9	5	1	40	20	+20	32	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Steyning Town	12	9	2	1	36	11	+25	29
4	Peacehaven & Telscombe	14	9	2	3	25	11	+14	29
5	Hassocks	13	8	4	1	28	11	+17	28
6	Eastbourne Town	13	9	1	3	21	11	+10	28
7	Haywards Heath Town	14	7	2	5	36	22	+14	23
8	Eastbourne United Association	13	6	4	3	20	17	+3	22
9	Little Common	16	6	2	8	21	37	−16	20
10	Midhurst & Easebourne	13	5	4	4	25	26	−1	19
11	Lingfield	13	4	5	4	23	25	−2	17
12	Pagham	13	4	3	6	22	20	+2	15
13	Horsham YMCA	12	3	4	5	13	21	−8	13
14	Crawley Down Gatwick	12	4	0	8	25	22	+3	12
15	Loxwood	14	3	3	8	20	36	−16	12
16	AFC Varndeanians	15	3	2	10	13	38	−25	11
17	AFC Uckfield Town	15	2	4	9	16	29	−13	10
18	Saltdean United	14	2	3	9	17	28	−11	9
19	Bexhill United	13	2	2	9	21	33	−12	8
20	Shoreham	13	1	2	10	14	42	−28	5	Relegation to Division One

Updated to match(es) played on 6 November 2023. Source: scfl.org.uk
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of matches won; 5) head-to-head results

Results table

Home \ Away	UCK	VAR	BEX	CDG	CRO	EBT	EBU	HHT	HSK	HYM	LIN	LCM	LOX	MID	NEW	PAG	PAT	SDU	SHO	STT
AFC Uckfield Town		3–1	1–2				1–4					0–1	2–2		0–1					1–1
AFC Varndeanians	1–1		2–1				1–3						1–0		0–5					0–3
Bexhill United					0–5						3–3				3–4		0–1
Crawley Down Gatwick	4–2	1–2						2–3	0–1			6–0					1–3
Crowborough Athletic		3–1		3–1			3–0	2–1			1–0		1–1	2–2				3–1
Eastbourne Town	1–0	2–1	2–0		1–2											2–0		3–0
Eastbourne United Association			3–1					1–1	3–0			1–0			1–2				1–1	1–1
Haywards Heath Town			3–2			0–1				1–1	2–1			8–0					7–1
Hassocks	1–1	5–0				1–1				0–0	4–1			3–1					3–1
Horsham YMCA	0–3			0–5	1–2										1–1	3–0		3–1
Lingfield	2–0	2–2											3–0			2–2	1–1	2–1
Little Common		2–1			3–2	1–2			1–4	2–1							1–4	2–1	2–1
Loxwood						1–4		4–3	0–3			3–2			2–4	2–2				0–4
Midhurst & Easebourne			4–2	3–2			5–0			1–1	2–2		2–1		1–1		1–2
Newhaven				4–2				3–2	1–1		2–3	1–1				2–2			6–1
Pagham	4–0	2–0		0–1				0–3	1–2										4–0
Peacehaven & Telscombe		5–0			1–2	0–1	0–0			4–0		1–0	2–0			2–1		2–1
Saltdean United	4–1		2–2	1–0			1–2	0–1				2–2			0–3
Shoreham			0–4		0–4	3–1				1–2			3–4	0–2				2–2
Steyning Town			3–1		1–3	2–0		4–1			5–1	7–1		2–1			3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 6 Novemember 2023. Source: SCFL Fixture Grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 6 November 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alfie Rogers	Newhaven	14
2	Hayden Skerry	Haywards Heath Town	10
3	Liam Benson	Hassocks	9
	Oli Leslie	Crawley Down Gatwick
	Daniel Simmonds	Pagham
6	James Stone	Eastbourne Town (previously Bexhill United)	8
7	Cameron James Dobell	Haywards Heath Town	7
	Mark Philip John Goldson	Steyning Town
	Harvey Killick	Crowborough Athletic
	Alex Patching	Shoreham

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