The 2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 57th in the history of the

Southern Counties East Football League The Southern Counties East Football League is an English association football, football league established in 1966, which has teams based in Kent and Southeast London. Its two divisions are allocated at Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League ...

, and the seventh year the competition has two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the

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. The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by

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on 12 May 2022.

Premier Division

The Premier Division comprised 16 clubs from the previous season, along with four new clubs after Sheppey United and Chatham Town were promoted to Isthmian League South East Division, Crowborough Athletic's transfer to

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and Tower Hamlets' relegation to Eastern Counties League Division One South The four clubs that joined the division were: * Phoenix Sports - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division * Stansfeld - Promoted from Division One * Sutton Athletic - Promoted from Division One * Whitstable Town - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division

Premier Division table

Play-off

Inter-step play-off

Results table

Division One

Division One consisted of eighteen teams, down from twenty teams in the previous season. Teams that left Division One from the previous season were Stansfeld and Sutton Athletic who had been promoted to the Premier Division, Chessington & Hook United's relegation was reprieved and transferred to the

Division One and Westside who were relocated to the

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. The two new teams that joined the division were: * AFC Whyteleafe - Applied from Surrey South Eastern Combination Intermediate Division One * Bermondsey Town - Applied from Bromley & South London Football League

Division One table

Play-offs

References

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