2025–26 Southern Football League Division One Central

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Southern Football League Division One Central 2025–26
Season information
Season statistics
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The 2025–26 Southern Football League season is the 123rd 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.

Division One Central comprises 22 teams, 16 of which competed in the previous season.

Team changes

To Division One Central Promoted from the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division London Lions Milton Keynes Irish Relegated from the Premier Division Central Biggleswade Town Hitchin Town Relegated from the Premier Division South Marlow Transferred from the Isthmian League South Central Division Rayners Lane

From Division One Central Promoted to the Premier Division Central Real Bedford Promoted to the Premier Division South Berkhamsted Relegated to the Combined Counties League Premier Division North Kidlington North Leigh Relegated to the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division Kings Langley

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Dunstable	Dunstable	Creasey Park	3,065
Aylesbury United	Chesham	The Meadow (groundshare with Chesham United)	5,000
Barton Rovers	Barton-le-Clay	Sharpenhoe Road	4,000
Beaconsfield Town	Beaconsfield	Holloways Park	3,500
Biggleswade	Biggleswade	The Eyrie (groundshare with Bedford Town)	3,000
Biggleswade Town	Biggleswade	Langford Road	3,000
Enfield	Bishop's Stortford	Woodside Park (groundshare with Bishop's Stortford)	4,525
Flackwell Heath	Flackwell Heath	Wilks Park	2,000
Hadley	London (Arkley)	Brickfield Lane	2,000
Hertford Town	Hertford	Hertingfordbury Park	6,500
Hitchin Town	Hitchin	Top Field	3,529
Leighton Town	Leighton Buzzard	Bell Close	2,800
Leverstock Green	Leverstock Green	Pancake Lane	1,500
London Lions	Chipping Barnet	Rowley Lane	1,500
Marlow	Marlow	Alfred Davis Memorial Ground	3,000
Milton Keynes Irish	Milton Keynes (Fenny Stratford)	Manor Fields	1,500
Northwood	Northwood	Northwood Park	3,075
Rayners Lane	Rayners Lane	The Tithe Farm Social Club	1,000
Stotfold	Stotfold	The JSJ Stadium	1,500
Thame United	Thame	Meadow View Park	2,500
Ware	Ware	Wodson Park	3,300
Welwyn Garden City	Welwyn Garden City	Herns Way	3,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Leighton Town	16	12	4	0	39	12	+27	40	Promotion to Premier Division Central
2	Hertford Town	16	10	1	5	35	22	+13	31	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Biggleswade	15	8	6	1	30	18	+12	30
4	Hitchin Town	15	8	5	2	27	14	+13	29
5	Barton Rovers	15	8	5	2	28	17	+11	29
6	Ware	15	9	2	4	36	28	+8	29
7	Biggleswade Town	15	7	4	4	38	20	+18	25
8	Hadley	14	7	4	3	32	24	+8	25
9	Stotfold	16	8	0	8	36	32	+4	24
10	Welwyn Garden City	16	6	5	5	23	22	+1	23
11	Beaconsfield Town	15	5	7	3	27	22	+5	22
12	Thame United	15	7	1	7	26	27	−1	22
13	Milton Keynes Irish	15	6	1	8	28	36	−8	19
14	Marlow	14	5	1	8	22	32	−10	16
15	London Lions	16	5	1	10	29	40	−11	16
16	Flackwell Heath	13	4	3	6	20	17	+3	15
17	Leverstock Green	16	2	8	6	23	30	−7	14
18	Aylesbury United	15	3	3	9	18	32	−14	12
19	AFC Dunstable	15	2	4	9	16	29	−13	10	Relegation to Step 5
20	Northwood	15	1	7	7	18	35	−17	10
21	Enfield	15	2	3	10	21	34	−13	9
22	Rayners Lane	13	2	1	10	10	39	−29	7

Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2025. 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

Results table

Home \ Away	DUN	AYU	BAR	BEA	BGW	BWT	ENF	FLA	HAD	HER	HIT	LEI	LSG	LOL	MLW	MKI	NWD	RLA	STO	THM	WAR	WGC
AFC Dunstable	—	2–0	1–3	1–1				0–2	1–1							1–2	2–2
Aylesbury United		—			2–3	0–3		0–2				0–1	0–0				2–2					2–2
Barton Rovers			—			2–2				2–2				1–0	2–0			4–0	4–0	0–4
Beaconsfield Town		2–3	1–1	—	2–2			1–1			2–2			2–1		4–1						0–1
Biggleswade			1–1		—		2–0	3–2			1–1	1–1		2–2
Biggleswade Town					0–0	—	2–1		1–1				5–3					7–0	2–3	0–1		1–1
Enfield	5–2	0–3	1–3				—			1–2			1–1		2–2				2–3		0–4
Flackwell Heath			1–2				1–1	—		1–3		1–2	1–1	4–0					3–1	1–2
Hadley				1–1			4–3		—		0–2					2–5			4–2	4–3	6–1
Hertford Town	3–1	5–1			0–3				1–3	—			3–1			3–1	1–2			2–0
Hitchin Town	1–0		1–1			0–1				1–3	—		2–1				1–1					2–1
Leighton Town				4–0		3–2			1–0		0–0	—			4–1	1–0					4–1	1–1
Leverstock Green			1–2		2–4				1–1			2–2	—					2–2		2–1	1–2
London Lions	2–1	4–1				2–7				2–0		2–5		—	0–4			5–1			0–3
Marlow		3–0		2–3		2–1			2–3		1–4				—							3–2
Milton Keynes Irish		1–4	2–0		1–3									4–3		—	1–1		1–5		3–4	2–4
Northwood						1–4	0–2		0–2			0–5	1–1	2–5	1–2		—	2–4			1–1
Rayners Lane	1–0				1–2					0–4	0–2					0–2		—				1–2
Stotfold	4–1			0–3	3–1					3–1		0–1	2–3		2–0			4–0	—
Thame United	2–2			1–4			3–1				0–4	1–4		2–1	4–0	1–2			1–0	—
Ware		2–0		1–1						0–2	2–4				4–0			3–0	5–4		—
Welwyn Garden City	0–1				0–2		2–1	1–0					1–1	1–0			2–2				2–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 12 November 2025. Source: Southern League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

External links

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