2024–25 Isthmian League Premier Division

Isthmian League Premier Division 2024–25
Season information
Winners	Horsham
Promoted	Horsham Dover Athletic
Relegated	Bowers & Pitsea Bognor Regis Town Hastings United Hendon
Season statistics
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The 2024–25 season was the 110th 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 17 May 2024.

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 Bowers & Pitsea Promoted from the South East Division Chichester City Cray Valley Paper Mills Relegated from the National League South Dartford Dover Athletic Transferred from the Southern Football League Premier Division South Hendon

From the Premier Division Promoted to the National League South Enfield Town Hornchurch Relegated to the North Division Concord Rangers Haringey Borough Relegated to the South Central Division Kingstonian Relegated to the South East Division Margate

Stadiums and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Billericay Town	Billericay	New Lodge	3,500
Bognor Regis Town	Bognor Regis	Nyewood Lane	4,500
Bowers & Pitsea	Pitsea	Len Salmon Stadium	3,500
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
Chichester City	Chichester	Oaklands Park	2,000
Cray Valley Paper Mills	Eltham	Badgers Sports Ground	1,000
Cray Wanderers	St Mary Cray	Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley)	6,000
Dartford	Dartford	Princes Park	4,100
Dover Athletic	Dover	Crabble Athletic Ground	5,745
Dulwich Hamlet	London (East Dulwich)	Champion Hill	3,334
Folkestone Invicta	Folkestone	Cheriton Road	4,000
Hashtag United	Aveley	Parkside	3,500
Hastings United	Hastings	The Pilot Field	4,050
Hendon	Hendon	Silver Jubilee Park	2,000
Horsham	Horsham	The Camping World Community Stadium	3,000
Lewes	Lewes	The Dripping Pan	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	Horsham (C, P)	42	28	3	11	82	40	+42	87	Promotion to the National League South
2	Billericay Town	42	26	9	7	83	42	+41	87	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Dartford	42	25	9	8	77	49	+28	84
4	Cray Valley Paper Mills	42	23	11	8	80	56	+24	77
5	Dover Athletic (O, P)	42	23	7	12	83	48	+35	76
6	Chichester City	42	22	7	13	72	59	+13	73
7	Carshalton Athletic	42	20	10	12	72	54	+18	70
8	Hashtag United	42	18	10	14	82	71	+11	64
9	Chatham Town	42	17	12	13	74	53	+21	63
10	Cray Wanderers	42	18	7	17	58	52	+6	61
11	Wingate & Finchley	42	17	9	16	76	67	+9	60
12	Folkestone Invicta	42	17	7	18	61	66	−5	58
13	Lewes	42	15	13	14	59	64	−5	58
14	Potters Bar Town	42	17	6	19	57	75	−18	57
15	Cheshunt	42	14	7	21	61	69	−8	49
16	Whitehawk	42	14	7	21	49	66	−17	49
17	Canvey Island	42	13	5	24	48	66	−18	44
18	Dulwich Hamlet	42	12	8	22	58	80	−22	44
19	Hendon (R)	42	9	12	21	61	79	−18	39	Relegation to step 4
20	Hastings United (R)	42	8	10	24	37	75	−38	34	Relegation to South East Division
21	Bognor Regis Town (R)	42	8	8	26	51	100	−49	32
22	Bowers & Pitsea (R)	42	7	5	30	34	84	−50	26	Relegation to North Division

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	Billericay Town	1
	5	Dover Athletic	2
						3	Dartford	0
						5	Dover Athletic	2
	3	Dartford	4
	4	Cray Valley Paper Mills	3

Semifinals

30 April	Billericay Town	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Dover Athletic	Billericay
19:45	Akinwande  95'	Report	Matthews  97', 119'	Stadium: New Lodge Attendance: 2,857

30 April	Dartford	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Cray Valley Paper Mills	Dartford
19:45	Carruthers  70' Odaudu  90+8' Bullas  95' Whitefield  103'	Report	Waldren  7', 48' Coombes  118'	Stadium: Princes Park Attendance: 2,002

Final

5 May	Dartford	0–2	Dover Athletic	Dartford
15:00		Report	Soares-Junior  57' (pen.) Matthews  87'	Stadium: Princes Park Attendance: 3,805

Results

Home \ Away	BIL	BOG	B&P	CAN	CAR	CHA	CHE	CHI	CVP	CRA	DAR	DOV	DUL	FOL	HSH	HAS	HEN	HOR	LEW	POT	WHI	W&F
Billericay Town		4–0	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	4–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–2	1–0	3–0	1–3
Bognor Regis Town	0–3		1–0	1–2	1–1	1–7	0–4	1–4	2–3	3–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	1–0	2–3	2–1
Bowers & Pitsea	1–4	0–1		1–2	0–3	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	4–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–6
Canvey Island	0–3	0–4	2–0		1–0	1–0	0–1	2–3	4–4	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–3	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	4–0	1–2	2–1	2–3
Carshalton Athletic	4–3	4–4	6–1	2–1		2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	5–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–3	0–0	2–1	2–2	3–2
Chatham Town	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–3	3–0		4–1	0–1	0–1	1–4	0–2	1–1	3–1	4–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	5–0	3–1
Cheshunt	1–1	3–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1		2–3	4–4	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	3–4	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–4	3–1
Chichester City	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–0	4–0		2–2	2–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–4	2–3	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–1
Cray Valley Paper Mills	1–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–3	4–2	2–1		2–1	1–2	2–1	3–1	1–2	1–5	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	3–0	5–3
Cray Wanderers	1–1	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–4	2–1	1–0	0–2		2–2	1–2	1–0	3–2	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	4–1
Dartford	4–0	4–0	1–2	2–0	1–4	3–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1		3–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	4–1	2–3
Dover Athletic	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	5–2	2–2	0–1	5–1		1–0	2–3	4–2	1–1	4–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	0–2	1–2
Dulwich Hamlet	0–1	3–4	3–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–2	2–4	2–1	0–3	1–4		2–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	5–2	1–3	3–1	3–3	2–1
Folkestone Invicta	0–3	4–1	0–2	4–2	1–1	1–3	0–4	1–3	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–1		1–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2
Hashtag United	1–2	4–2	1–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–2	3–3	2–1	3–3	5–3		4–0	3–2	1–4	2–1	4–1	2–1	4–1
Hastings United	1–5	2–2	2–4	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–3	0–2	0–1	1–2	0–3	0–2	0–0	1–2	0–0		2–0	2–0	0–1	2–3	2–0	0–2
Hendon	1–4	5–1	2–1	0–1	0–3	3–3	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–3	0–3	3–0	0–2	3–3	9–0		0–4	0–0	0–4	3–0	1–6
Horsham	1–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	1–3	3–0	0–1	5–1	1–0	1–0		2–0	3–2	5–0	1–2
Lewes	2–2	4–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	2–0	2–2	2–3	4–1	4–3	3–1	1–3	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2		2–3	2–1	0–0
Potters Bar Town	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	4–3	0–2	0–4	1–1	0–8	0–1	3–2	1–5	2–0	5–1	0–6	5–0		3–2	0–0
Whitehawk	0–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–0		0–2
Wingate & Finchley	0–1	4–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–2	3–3	1–1	2–1	3–3	0–1	2–2	1–2	3–1

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

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