2025–26 Southern Football League Premier Central

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Southern Football League Premier 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.

Team changes

To the Premier Division Central Promoted from Division One Central Real Bedford Promoted from the Isthmian League North Division Bury Town Promoted from the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands Quorn Worcester City Relegated from the National League North Needham Market

From the Premier Division Central Promoted to the National League North AFC Telford United Bedford Town Relegated to Division One Central Biggleswade Town Hitchin Town Relegated to the Isthmian League North Division Lowestoft Town

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Sudbury	Sudbury	King's Marsh	2,500
Alvechurch	Alvechurch	Lye Meadow	3,000
Banbury United	Banbury	Spencer Stadium	3,116
Barwell	Barwell	Kirkby Road	2,500
Bishop's Stortford	Bishop's Stortford	Woodside Park	4,525
Bromsgrove Sporting	Bromsgrove	Victoria Ground	3,500
Bury Town	Bury St Edmunds	Ram Meadow	3,500
Halesowen Town	Halesowen	The Grove	3,150
Harborough Town	Market Harborough	Bowden Park	1,000
Kettering Town	Kettering	Latimer Park (groundshare with Burton Park Wanderers)	3,029
Leiston	Leiston	Victory Road	2,250
Needham Market	Needham Market	Bloomfields	4,000
Quorn	Quorn	Farley Way Stadium	1,477
Real Bedford	Bedford	McMullen Park	1,500
Redditch United	Redditch	The Valley	5,000
Royston Town	Royston	Garden Walk	5,000
Spalding United	Spalding	Sir Halley Stewart Field	2,700
St Ives Town	St Ives	Westwood Road	2,000
Stamford	Stamford	Borderville Sports Centre	2,000
Stourbridge	Stourbridge	War Memorial Athletic Ground	2,035
Stratford Town	Stratford-upon-Avon	Knights Lane	2,000
Worcester City	Worcester	Sixways Stadium	12,067

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Harborough Town	15	10	5	0	25	7	+18	35	Promotion to the National League North
2	Spalding United	17	10	4	3	40	22	+18	34	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Real Bedford	15	9	3	3	27	16	+11	30
4	Needham Market	17	8	5	4	31	23	+8	29
5	Redditch United	16	9	2	5	27	20	+7	29
6	Worcester City	17	7	6	4	30	15	+15	27
7	Quorn	17	8	3	6	32	25	+7	27
8	Halesowen Town	17	7	6	4	27	21	+6	27
9	Leiston	17	6	7	4	28	23	+5	25
10	Bishop's Stortford	16	8	1	7	28	24	+4	25
11	St Ives Town	17	6	6	5	24	19	+5	24
12	Kettering Town	16	7	3	6	22	21	+1	24
13	Barwell	16	6	3	7	27	26	+1	21
14	Banbury United	16	6	3	7	28	28	0	21
15	Alvechurch	16	6	2	8	16	17	−1	20
16	Stratford Town	18	5	5	8	23	30	−7	20
17	Bury Town	17	6	2	9	19	26	−7	20
18	Bromsgrove Sporting	17	6	2	9	21	31	−10	20
19	Stourbridge	16	2	6	8	20	31	−11	12	Relegation to Step 4
20	AFC Sudbury	16	3	3	10	14	39	−25	12
21	Royston Town	17	2	5	10	15	37	−22	11
22	Stamford	16	1	4	11	9	32	−23	7

Updated to match(es) played on 18 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	SUD	ALV	BAN	BAR	BIS	BRO	BRY	HAL	HAR	KET	LEI	NHM	QRN	RBE	RED	ROY	SPA	SIT	STA	STO	STR	WOR
AFC Sudbury	—		2–1	1–3									0–4		2–0	1–1		2–1			1–1	0–6
Alvechurch	2–0	—				1–2		1–0		2–0			3–4				0–2				1–2
Banbury United			—			3–0		0–3		0–2	1–1		3–2	1–4			4–1			3–2		1–1
Barwell		1–2		—		0–2						1–1			0–1			3–2		2–0	5–2	0–2
Bishop's Stortford	6–1		1–4		—						0–1		3–4		3–2	2–0	1–4		1–0	0–1
Bromsgrove Sporting			3–0		0–2	—	2–2				2–1	0–3				2–0	2–3	0–4	2–0
Bury Town	1–0	0–1	2–1				—	2–1	1–3					0–1		1–0	1–2	1–0
Halesowen Town		2–0		3–1				—				2–0		3–2	2–3		2–2	1–0			1–0	0–3
Harborough Town	2–2	1–0				1–0		1–1	—			4–0	1–0				1–1	2–0			0–0
Kettering Town				2–1	3–1				0–1	—	3–0	0–1					2–4	0–0	1–1
Leiston	3–1			2–2	0–1			2–2	2–2		—		2–3		2–0			2–2	3–0
Needham Market					0–4		4–2				1–2	—		0–0	2–1	6–1			4–1	3–0		1–0
Quorn				0–1		2–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	0–2			—			1–2				1–1	5–2
Real Bedford				2–2			2–0			0–2				—	0–2	2–0	2–1			3–1
Redditch United		1–0				3–0	3–2		0–3	4–0					—	2–2				3–1	1–0
Royston Town		0–3	2–2					1–1	0–2	3–4	1–3	1–1				—					1–0
Spalding United	5–1									2–0			1–1			4–0	—	2–3
St Ives Town	2–0	2–0	2–1		1–1							2–2		0–0				—	1–0	2–2
Stamford		0–0		0–4			0–2	1–1						1–3	1–1		0–3		—		1–2	0–3
Stourbridge						3–3	2–0				1–1						0–1		1–3	—		2–2
Stratford Town	1–0		0–3	4–1	1–2							2–2		2–3			2–2			1–1	—	1–0
Worcester City		0–0			2–0	3–0	2–2			1–1	1–1		0–1	1–3						3–2		—

Updated to match(es) played on 18 November 2025. Source: Southern League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

External links

• Official website