The 2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 57th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, and the seventh year the competition has two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system.
The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by The Football Association 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 Southern Combination Football League 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
Stadia and locations
ClubLocationStadiumCapacityBearsted Otham Honey Lane 1,000Canterbury City Canterbury Woodstock Park (groundshare with Sittingbourne) 1,930Deal Town Deal Charles Sports Ground 2,000Erith & Belvedere Welling Park View Road (groundshare with Welling United) 4,000Erith Town Thamesmead Erith Leisure Center Fisher Rotherhithe St Paul's Sports Ground 2,500Glebe Chislehurst Foxbury Avenue 1,200Hollands & Blair Gillingham Star Meadow 1,000Holmesdale Bromley Oakley Road K Sports Aylesford K Sports Cobdown Kennington Kennington The Homelands (groundshare with Ashford United) 3,200Lordswood Lordswoood Martyn Grove 600Phoenix Sports Barnehurst Phoenix Sports Ground 2,000Punjab United Gravesend Elite Venue 600Rusthall Rusthall The Jockey Farm Stadium 1,500Stansfeld Chislehurst Foxbury Avenue (groundshare with Glebe) 1,200Sutton Athletic Hextable Lower Road Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells Culverden Stadium 3,750Welling Town Welling The Bauvill Stadium (groundshare with Chatham Town) 5,000Whitstable Town Whitstable The Belmont Ground 3,000
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 Southern Combination Football League Division One and Westside who were relocated to the Combined Counties Football League.
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
Semifinals
Final
Stadia and locations
ClubLocationStadiumCapacityAFC Whyteleafe Whyteleafe Church Road 2,000Bermondsey Town Rotherhithe St Paul's Sports Ground (groundshare with Fisher) 2,500Bridon Ropes Charlton Meridian Sports & Social Club Croydon Croydon Croydon Arena 8,000Faversham Strike Force Faversham Salters Lane (groundshare with Faversham Town) 2,000FC Elmstead Hextable Lower Road (groundshare with Sutton Athletic) Forest Hill Park Catford Ladywell Arena (groundshare with Lewisham Borough) Greenways Gravesend K Sports Cobdown (groundshare with K Sports) Larkfield & New Hythe Wanderers Larkfield Larkfield & New Hythe Sports Club 3,000Lewisham Borough Catford Ladywell Arena Lydd Town Lydd The Lindsey Field 1,000Meridian VP Charlton Meridian Sports & Social Club Rochester United Strood Rochester United Sports Ground 1,000Snodland Town Snodland Potyns Sports Ground 1,000Sporting Club Thamesmead Thamesmead Bayliss Avenue 800Staplehurst Monarchs Staplehurst Jubilee Sports Ground 1,000Tooting Bec Tooting Bec High Road (groundshare with Chipstead) 2,000
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