The 2025–26 Southern Counties East Football League season is the 60th 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 tenth year the competition will have two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the
English football league system
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the ...
. For the second consecutive season, the league will be known as Presence & Co. Southern Counties East League for sponsorship reasons.
The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by
The Football Association
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on 15 May 2025.
Premier Division
The Premier Division comprises sixteen teams from the previous season, along with three new clubs after
Faversham Town and
VCD Athletic were promoted to the
Isthmian League South East Division and
Snodland Town or
Lydd Town, and
Lordswood were relegated to Division One.
The three clubs joining the division were:
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Faversham Strike Force – Promoted from Division One
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Hythe Town – Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
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Phoenix Sports – Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
Premier Division table
Results table
Division One
Division One will consist of eighteen teams. Teams that left Division One from the previous season were
Faversham Strike Force and
Soul Tower Hamlets who were promoted to the Premier Division and the
Essex Senior Football League
The Essex Senior Football League is an English men's football league. It contains clubs from the Essex FA, Hertfordshire FA, London FA, Middlesex FA and the Amateur Football Alliance. It is a feeder league to Division One North of the Isth ...
respectively.
Meridian VP and
Canterbury City, who requested voluntary relegation, were both relegated to the
Kent County League
The Kent County Football League (known as the Kent County League) is a football competition based in Kent, England and adjacent area.
The league was founded in 1922 as the Kent Amateur Football League and comprised Eastern and Western sections w ...
.
The five new teams who joined the division were:
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AFC Greenwich Borough – New club
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Banstead Athletic – Transferred from
Southern Combination Division One
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Chessington & Hook United – Transferred from Southern Combination Division One
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Lordswood – Relegated from Premier Division
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Lydd Town or
Snodland Town – Relegated from Premier Division
Clapton Community were initially allocated to remain in Division One, however successfully won their appeal to be transferred back to the
Eastern Counties League Division One South.
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Division One table
Results table
References
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