2023–24 Southern Counties East Football League

The 2023–24 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 58th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, and the eighth 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 provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by The Football Association on 15 May 2023. Starting this season, the Premier Division (step 5) in the league promotes two clubs; one as champions and one via a four-team play-off. This replaced the previous inter-step play-off system. For this season only, there was only one club relegated from the division.

Premier Division

The Premier Division comprised 16 clubs from the previous season, along with five new clubs after Erith & Belvedere and Phoenix Sports were promoted to Isthmian League South East Division and Canterbury City and K Sports were relegated to Division One.

The five clubs joining the division were:

Corinthian - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
Faversham Town - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
Lydd Town - Promoted from Division One
Snodland Town - Promoted from Division One
VCD Athletic - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division

Premier Division table

Play-offs

Semifinals

Final

Results table

Division One

Division One consisted of sixteen teams, down from eighteen teams in the previous season. Teams that left Division One from the previous season were Snodland Town and Lydd Town who had been promoted to the Premier Division and Bermondsey Town who were relegated to the Kent County League

The two new teams that joined the division were:

Canterbury City - Relegated from Premier Division
K Sports - Relegated from Premier Division

Division One table

Play-offs

Semifinals

Final

Results table

League Challenge Cup

The 2023–24 SCEFL Challenge Cup was contested by all 37 clubs from both the Premier and First divisions (indicated by '(PD)' and '(FD)' respectively in the results listings below).

Defending champions Hollands & Blair (who defeated Fisher in the previous season's final) were knocked-out in the second round.

The cup was won by Erith Town for the second occasion in their history (having previously been winners in the 2007–08 season). The final match was played at a neutral venue, this season at Star Meadow the home of Hollands & Blair F.C.

Calendar

First round

Ten clubs participated in five first round ties, with byes for the other 27 clubs.

Second round

Thirty-two clubs competed in sixteen second round times.

Third round

Sixteen clubs competed in eight third round times.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

sources:

Final: "SCEFL Challenge Cup 2023/24 Final". SCEFL. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
Other matches: "SCEFL Challenge Cup: 2023–24". SCEFL. Retrieved 10 May 2024.

Division One Cup

The 2023–24 SCEFL Division One Cup was contested by the sixteen clubs of Division One. This was a re-introduction of a cup competition for the league's second tier clubs, previously contested as the Reserves Division cup in the 2012–13 season.

The competition was organised with an initial phase comprising four groups of four teams who played on a home and away basis with the group winners progressing to the semi-finals. Lewisham Borough were the cup winners.