Isthmian Premier League News

[Disco Stu]

Might as well get ready for next season It won’t be long before we know who is lining up in the Isthmian Premier in August.

It’s the last day of the Isthmian Premier League season on the weekend and only one playoff place and one relegation place to be confirmed. Although the relegation spot looks done and dusted really.

Champions – Hornchurch
Playoff place guaranteed – Chatham Town, Enfield Town
Playoff place TBC (two places up for grabs) – Wingate and Finchley, Horsham or Billericay

Wingate and Finchley and Horsham need just a point to qualify
Billericay need to win and hope either Wingate and Finchley or Horsham lose
Should Billericay win and both Wingate and Finchley and Horsham lose then it will be down to goal difference between W&F (+13 / 75 goals scored) and Horsham (+12 / 62 goals scored).

At the bottom Margate need to win and Cheshunt to lose with a 14 goal swing!

Haringey Borough, Concord Rangers and Kingstonian already down

Billericay Town (6th) v Margate (19th)
Hashtag United (13th) v Cheshunt (18th)
Horsham (5th) v Concord Rangers (21st)
Wingate and Finchley (4th) v Carshalton Athletic (9th)

Isthmian League South East title is yet to be decided and the champions will be promoted to the premier

Cray Valley Paper Mills need a point,
Ramsgate need to win and hope Cray Valley lose with a goal swing of 3

Horndean (12th) v Cray Valley PM (1st)
Ramsgate (2nd) v Three Bridges (4th)

Whoever finishes second out of Cray Valley and Ramsgate will join Sittingbourne, Three Bridges and Chichester City in the playoffs

Isthmian North is settled with a game to go..
Champions – Lowestoft Town
Playoffs – Bowers and Pitsea, Bury Town, Felixstowe and Walton United, Brentwood Town

[Pedro]

This season's leading goalscorers - a few familiar names in there.

1 Marcus Wyllie Enfield Town 30
2 Davide Rodari Hastings United 28
3 Femi Akinwande Hastings United / Hornchurch 23
4 Sam Youngs Enfield Town 23
5 Ruben Carvalho Wingate & Finchley 21
6 Liam Nash Hornchurch 21
7 Elliot Long Wingate & Finchley 20
8 Oluwabunmi Babajide Carshalton Athletic 19
9 Eddie Dsane Kingstonian 19
10 Luke Wanadio Dulwich Hamlet 19
11 Brandon Adams Potters Bar Town 18
12 Dan Gifford Bognor Regis Town 18
13 Steve Cawley Margate 17
14 Nnamdi Nwachuku Cheshunt 17
15 Anointed Chukwu Wingate & Finchley 16
16 Bradley Stevenson Billericay Town 16
17 Jamie Yila Chatham Town 16
18 Alfie Cerulli Billericay Town 15
19 David Smith Folkestone Invicta 15
20 Charlie Walker Whitehawk 15

[Skip]

Might as well get ready for next season It won’t be long before we know who is lining up in the Isthmian Premier in August.

It’s the last day of the Isthmian Premier League season on the weekend and only one playoff place and one relegation place to be confirmed. Although the relegation spot looks done and dusted really.

Champions – Hornchurch
Playoff place guaranteed – Chatham Town, Enfield Town
Playoff place TBC (two places up for grabs) – Wingate and Finchley, Horsham or Billericay

Wingate and Finchley and Horsham need just a point to qualify
Billericay need to win and hope either Wingate and Finchley or Horsham lose
Should Billericay win and both Wingate and Finchley and Horsham lose then it will be down to goal difference between W&F (+13 / 75 goals scored) and Horsham (+12 / 62 goals scored).

At the bottom Margate need to win and Cheshunt to lose with a 14 goal swing!

Haringey Borough, Concord Rangers and Kingstonian already down

Billericay Town (6th) v Margate (19th)
Hashtag United (13th) v Cheshunt (18th)
Horsham (5th) v Concord Rangers (21st)
Wingate and Finchley (4th) v Carshalton Athletic (9th)

Isthmian League South East title is yet to be decided and the champions will be promoted to the premier

Cray Valley Paper Mills need a point,
Ramsgate need to win and hope Cray Valley lose with a goal swing of 3

Horndean (12th) v Cray Valley PM (1st)
Ramsgate (2nd) v Three Bridges (4th)

Whoever finishes second out of Cray Valley and Ramsgate will join Sittingbourne, Three Bridges and Chichester City in the playoffs

Isthmian North is settled with a game to go..
Champions – Lowestoft Town
Playoffs – Bowers and Pitsea, Bury Town, Felixstowe and Walton United, Brentwood Town

I’ll be at Felixstowe on Saturday for the visit of New Salamis with the Seasiders needing a win and hoping both Bowers & Pitsea and Bury lose to clinch runners up spot. If Bowers or Brentwood win the play offs they will be promoted to the Isthmian Premier. If Bury or Felixstowe succeed then they will almost certainly move to the Southern Premier Central and Bishop’s Stortford switched to the Isthmian Premier.

[The Futures White]

This season's leading goalscorers - a few familiar names in there.

1 Marcus Wyllie Enfield Town 30
2 Davide Rodari Hastings United 28
3 Femi Akinwande Hastings United / Hornchurch 23
4 Sam Youngs Enfield Town 23
5 Ruben Carvalho Wingate & Finchley 21
6 Liam Nash Hornchurch 21
7 Elliot Long Wingate & Finchley 20
8 Oluwabunmi Babajide Carshalton Athletic 19
9 Eddie Dsane Kingstonian 19
10 Luke Wanadio Dulwich Hamlet 19
11 Brandon Adams Potters Bar Town 18
12 Dan Gifford Bognor Regis Town 18
13 Steve Cawley Margate 17
14 Nnamdi Nwachuku Cheshunt 17
15 Anointed Chukwu Wingate & Finchley 16
16 Bradley Stevenson Billericay Town 16
17 Jamie Yila Chatham Town 16
18 Alfie Cerulli Billericay Town 15
19 David Smith Folkestone Invicta 15
20 Charlie Walker Whitehawk 15

Four ex Dartford players in the top ten. We could have done with a few of their goals last season!.

[The Futures White]

The Isthmian South Central division is also settled with one game to go..
Champions – Chertsey Town
Playoffs – Marlow, Leatherhead, Southall, Westfield.

It's possible that some or all of the teams promoted from this division will be placed in the Southern Premier South division.

[The Futures White]

I’ll be at Felixstowe on Saturday for the visit of New Salamis with the Seasiders needing a win and hoping both Bowers & Pitsea and Bury lose to clinch runners up spot. If Bowers or Brentwood win the play offs they will be promoted to the Isthmian Premier. If Bury or Felixstowe succeed then they will almost certainly move to the Southern Premier Central and Bishop’s Stortford switched to the Isthmian Premier.

It will be the last ever match for New Salamis on Saturday. They are withdrawing from men's football at the end of season but still maintaining their youth set up.

There is a possibility that Lowestoft will be placed in the Southern Premier Central division which is a shame as it would have made a good day/weekend trip.

[DA Mikey]

I once dated a girl with an Anointed Chukwu!

[Sleightly Deceptive]

I once dated a girl with an Anointed Chukwu!

Is that how you got yours?

[Skip]

I’ll be at Felixstowe on Saturday for the visit of New Salamis with the Seasiders needing a win and hoping both Bowers & Pitsea and Bury lose to clinch runners up spot. If Bowers or Brentwood win the play offs they will be promoted to the Isthmian Premier. If Bury or Felixstowe succeed then they will almost certainly move to the Southern Premier Central and Bishop’s Stortford switched to the Isthmian Premier.

It will be the last ever match for New Salamis on Saturday. They are withdrawing from men's football at the end of season but still maintaining their youth set up.

There is a possibility that Lowestoft will be placed in the Southern Premier Central division which is a shame as it would have made a good day/weekend trip.

All the Suffolk clubs are promoted to the Southern Premier Central so a trip to Lowestoft will have to be reserved for an FA competition.

[Skip]

Link for step 3 leagues maps. No doubting the Isthmian Premier will make for nice local football next season.

Yellow = Isthmian Prem
Red = Southern Prem Central
Green = Southern Prem South
Blue = Northern Premier Prem

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/edit? ... QFM7k-RdQE

[The Duke]

Currently 14 teams will be in our league next season plus 3 who do NOT get promoted via the play offs from the Isthmian Premier to the NLS and 1 who gets promoted from the Isthmian South East through the play offs making a total of 18 teams , where do the remaining 4 come from ??????????

[Pedro]

There are currently 22 teams as the season finished?

[Pedro]

https://www.isthmian.co.uk/match-info/tables

[Disco Stu]

Margate's relegation was confirmed on the weekend and Cray Valley Paper Mills won promotion.

The playoff picture looks like this:

Isthmian Premier League
Chatham Town v Horsham
Enfield Town v Wingate and Finchley

Isthmian South Central
Leatherhead v Southall
Marlow v Westfield

Isthmian South East
Ramsgate v Chichester City
Sittingbourne v Three Bridges

Isthmian North
Bury Town v Brentwood Town
Felixstowe and Walton United v Bowers and Pitsea

[Disco Stu]

Maybe the league will look something like this....
1 - Dartford
2 - Dover
3 - Losing playoff finalist
4 - Losing playoff semi-finalist
5 - Losing playoff semi-finalist
6 - Billericay
7 - Hastings
8 - Carshalton
9 - Hashtag
10 - Dulwich
11 - Lewes
12 - Bognor Regis
13 - Whitehawk
14 - Potters Bar
15 - Folkestone
16 - Cray Wanderers
17 - Canvey Island
18 - Cheshunt
19 - Cray Valley Paper Mills
20 - Ramsgate, Sittingbourne, Three Bridges or Chichester City
21 - Marlow, Westfield, Southall or Leatherhead
22 - Bowers and Pitsea, Brentwood Town, Felixstowe or Bury (although Felixstowe and Bury probably better suited in the Southern Central)

There could be switching between leagues I guess (a Southern League team coming across) and there's also Bishop's Stortford coming down from the National North.

[Dicky Dart]

And if there is anyone who thinks well definitely go up you’ve only got to look at Concord (relegated again), Cheshunt (nearly relegated again) and Dulwich (mid-table).

To win it everything has to fall into place. It could be playoffs, and we know how shit we are at those. And we could easily fall into a rut, forget how to win and be nearer the bottom.

Depends who we bring in, but most likely is we’ll be around the playoffs and fail.

[Lars Resort]

Oh well, I won't go then.

[Mark Sweet]

https://twitter.com/NonLeagueMaps

This is a page I look at every year, they are very good at projecting which divisions teams will go in at every step of non league. They currently have the Isthmian Prem next season down as the following:

Billericay Town
Bognor Regis Town
Canvey Island
Carshalton Athletic
Cheshunt
Cray Wanderers
Dulwich Hamlet
Enfield Town
Folkestone Invicta
Hashtag United
Hastings United
Horsham
Lewes
Potters Bar Town
Whitehawk
Wingate & Finchley
Hendon (Transferred from SPS)
Bishop's Stortford (Relegated from NLN)
Dartford (Relegated from NLS)
Dover Athletic (Relegated from NLS)
Cray Valley (Paper Mills) (Promoted from ILSE)
Ramsgate (Promoted from ILSE; assumed playoff winners)


This is with the assumption that Ramsgate will win their playoff and Hendon transfer from the Southern Premier South.

[The 5th Searcher]

This is also assuming that Chatham beat Horsham in the play offs.

[Taunton Dart]

If that comes to pass then Bishops Stortford and Hendon will be delighted with that outcome. Hendon will have had major travel commitments in the Southern League - as had Hayes & Yeading and Harrow Borough who both were relegated. I can't see how teams in London can compete for the required standard of players to compete at this level when they are in the SL and their local rivals are in the Isthmian - I know if I was a player which league I would prefer to be in for travel