The 2013–14 season was the 99th season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. The season saw all three divisions increase from 22 to 24 clubs. The regular season started on 10 August 2013 and finished on 26 April 2014 with the play-off semi-finals scheduled for the week beginning 28 April 2014 and the three finals scheduled for 3–5 May 2014. The fixture list was released during the week beginning 15 July 2013.
Following the resignation of Vauxhall Motors from the Conference North, and the liquidation of Southern League Premier Division club Hinckley United, Redhill and Wroxham were reprieved at the end of the season. Wingate & Finchley were also reprieved from relegation when Worksop Town resigned from the Northern Premier League in late May 2014.
Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 18 clubs from the previous season and six new clubs in a division expanded from 22 to 24 clubs: AFC Hornchurch, relegated from the Conference South Billericay Town, relegated from the Conference South Dulwich Hamlet, promoted as champions of Division One South Grays Athletic, promoted as champions of Division One North Maidstone United, promoted as play-off winners in Division One South Thamesmead Town, promoted as play-off winners in Division One North Thurrock originally finished above the relegation places in 2012–13, and Carshalton Athletic were relegated. However, Thurrock were subsequently deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player, and were thus relegated to Division One North, with Carshalton staying in the Premier Division. A knock-on effect was that Sittingbourne, who had provisionally been switched to Division One North, stayed in Division One South. Thurrock appealed, but the appeal was rejected.
Wealdstone won the division and were promoted to the Conference South, while Lowestoft Town won the play-offs after three consecutive play-off final defeats and were promoted to the Conference North. The Premier Division switched back to four relegation places this season, though Wingate & Finchley were eventually reprieved after Worksop Town resigned from the Northern Premier League.
League table
Top scorers PlayerClubGoals Charles MooneHampton & Richmond Borough34 Jefferson LouisMargate31 George PurcellAFC Hornchurch30 Erhun OztumerDulwich Hamlet28 Stefan PayneAFC Hornchurch27 Andre McCollinKingstonian Ryan MossKingstonian25 Scott McGleishWealdstone23 Francis CollinMaidstone United Terry DoddBognor Regis Town21
Play-offs Semi-finals
Final
Results grid
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Capacity AFC Hornchurch Hornchurch Stadium 3,500 Billericay Town New Lodge 3,500 Bognor Regis Town Nyewood Lane 4,000 Bury Town Ram Meadow 3,500 Canvey Island Park Lane 4,308 Carshalton Athletic War Memorial Sports Ground 5,000 Cray Wanderers Hayes Lane (groundshare with Bromley) 6,000 Dulwich Hamlet Champion Hill 3,000 East Thurrock United Rookery Hill 4,000 Enfield Town Queen Elizabeth II Stadium 2,500 Grays Athletic The Mill Field (groundshare with Aveley) 1,100 Hampton & Richmond Borough Beveree Stadium 3,500 Harrow Borough Earlsmead Stadium 3,070 Hendon Earlsmead Stadium (groundshare with Harrow Borough) 3,070 Kingstonian Kingsmeadow (groundshare with AFC Wimbledon) 5,194 Leiston Victory Road 2,500 Lewes The Dripping Pan 3,000 Lowestoft Town Crown Meadow 2,250 Maidstone United Gallagher Stadium 2,226 Margate Hartsdown Park 2,100 Metropolitan Police Imber Court 3,000 Thamesmead Town Bayliss Avenue 6,000 Wealdstone Grosvenor Vale 2,640 Wingate & Finchley The Harry Abrahams Stadium 1,500
Division One North
Division One North consisted of 18 clubs from the previous season and six new clubs in a division expanded from 22 to 24 clubs: Barkingside, promoted as runners-up in the Essex Senior League Burnham Ramblers, promoted as champions of the Essex Senior League Dereham Town, promoted as champions of the Eastern Counties League Erith & Belvedere, promoted as champions of the Kent League Thurrock, relegated from the Premier Division VCD Athletic, promoted as runners-up in the Kent League
VCD Athletic won the division to earn a second consecutive title and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Witham Town. After the league expansion, the Division One sections switched to three relegation places, although Wroxham were reprieved from relegation after the resignation of Vauxhall Motors and the liquidation of Hinckley United higher up the pyramid.
League table
Top scorers PlayerClubGoals Alexander ReadHarlow Town41 David KnightThurrock32 Luke StanleySoham Town Rangers31 Kristopher NewbyWitham Town22 Junior DadsonHarlow Town
Play-offs
Semi-finals
Final
Results grid
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Capacity AFC Sudbury King's Marsh 2,500 Aveley The Mill Field (groundshare with Grays Athletic) 1,100 Barkingside Oakside (groundshare with Redbridge) 3,000 Brentwood Town The Brentwood Centre Arena 1,800 Burnham Ramblers Leslie Fields 2,000 Chatham Town The Sports Ground 5,000 Cheshunt Cheshunt Stadium 3,000 Dereham Town Aldiss Park 3,000 Erith & Belvedere Park View Road (groundshare with Welling United) 5,000 Harlow Town Barrows Farm 3,500 Heybridge Swifts Scraley Road 3,000 Maldon & Tiptree Wallace Binder Ground 2,000 Needham Market Bloomfields 4,000 Redbridge Oakside 3,000 Romford Ship Lane (groundshare with Thurrock) 3,500 Soham Town Rangers Julius Martin Lane 2,000 Thurrock Ship Lane 3,500 Tilbury Chadfields 4,000 VCD Athletic The Oakwood 1,180 Waltham Abbey Capershotts 3,500 Waltham Forest Wadham Lodge 3,500 Ware Wodson Park 3,300 Witham Town Spa Road 2,500 Wroxham Trafford Park 2,000
Division One South
Division One South consisted of 20 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs in a division expanded from 22 to 24 clubs: Guernsey, promoted as runners-up in the Combined Counties League Hastings United, relegated from the Premier Division Peacehaven & Telscombe, promoted as champions of the Sussex County League Redhill, promoted as runners-up in the Sussex County League
Peacehaven & Telscombe won the division to earn a second consecutive title and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Leatherhead. After the league expansion, the Division One sections switched to three relegation places, although Redhill were reprieved from relegation after the resignation of Vauxhall Motors and the liquidation of Hinckley United higher up the pyramid.
League table
Top scorers PlayerClubGoals Ross AllenGuernsey46 Charlie WalkerPeacehaven & Telscombe36 Shaun WelfordHythe Town34 Thomas BradbrookLeatherhead30 Jamie ByattCorinthian-Casuals29
Play-offs
Semi-finals
Final
Results grid
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Capacity Burgess Hill Town Leylands Park 2,000 Chipstead High Road 2,000 Corinthian-Casuals King George's Field 2,700 Crawley Down Gatwick The Haven Sportsfield 1,000 Eastbourne Town The Saffrons 3,000 Faversham Town Shepherd Neame Stadium 2,000 Folkestone Invicta Cheriton Road 4,000 Guernsey Footes Lane 5,000 Hastings United The Pilot Field 4,050 Herne Bay Winch's Field 4,000 Horsham Gorings Mead 1,500 Hythe Town Reachfields Stadium 3,000 Leatherhead Fetcham Grove 3,400 Merstham Moatside 2,000 Peacehaven & Telscombe The Sports Park 1,500 Ramsgate Southwood Stadium 2,500 Redhill Kiln Brow 2,000 Sittingbourne Woodstock Park (groundshare with Woodstock Sports) 3,000 Three Bridges Jubilee Field 1,500 Tooting & Mitcham United Imperial Fields 3,500 Walton & Hersham The Sports Ground 2,000 Walton Casuals Waterside Stadium 2,000 Whitstable Town The Belmont Ground 3,000 Worthing Worthing Stadium 4,000
League Cup
The Isthmian League Cup 2013–14 (billed as the Robert Dyas Cup 2013–14 for sponsorship reasons) was the 40th season of the Isthmian League Cup, the cup competition of the whole Isthmian League.The Isthmian archive
Calendar Round Dates Matches Clubs Preliminary round 18 September to 9 October 2 66 → 64 First round 3 September to 19 November 32 64 → 32 Second round 4 November to 4 December 16 32 → 16 Third round 3 December to 14 January 8 16 → 8 Quarterfinals 28 January to 6 March 4 8 → 4 Semi-finals 25 February to 13 March 2 4 → 2 Final 8 April 1 2 → 1
Sixty-six clubs took part in the competition, while six clubs refused to participate: Bognor Regis Town Canvey Island Dereham Town Guernsey VCD Athletic Wroxham
Preliminary round Four clubs participated in the Premilinary round, while all other clubs received a bye to the first round. TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)1Eastbourne Town (S)0–3Burgess Hill Town (S)902Leatherhead (S)0–2Walton & Hersham (S)107
First round The two clubs to have made it through the preliminary round were entered into the draw with every other Isthmian League club, making sixty-four teams.
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)3 Metropolitan Police (P) 3–1 Chipstead (S) 574 Redbridge (N) 1–3 Enfield Town (P) 495 Sittingbourne (S) 3–1 Erith & Belvedere (N) 606 Whitstable Town (S) 0–1 Hythe Town (S) 1467 Lewes (P) 2–1 Corinthian-Casuals (S) 2328 Peacehaven & Telscombe (S) 3–1 Worthing (S) 599 Romford (N) 1–0 East Thurrock United (P) 10210 Wealdstone (P) 1–0 Hendon (P) 20711 Billericay Town (P) 7–2 AFC Hornchurch (P) 17112 Chatham Town (N) 4–1 Ramsgate (S) 10813 Hampton & Richmond Borough (P) 3–3 Carshalton Athletic (P) 112Hampton & Richmond Borough advance 5–3 on penalties14 Maldon & Tiptree (N) 3–4 Burnham Ramblers (N) 5115 Three Bridges (S) 0–2 Cray Wanderers (P) 6516 Thurrock (N) 1–2 Aveley (N) 6517 Hastings United (S) 4–0 Faversham Town (S) 24118 Bury Town (P) 0–1 AFC Sudbury (N) 12619 Horsham (S) 2–7 Burgess Hill Town (S) 71
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)20 Waltham Abbey (N) 1–0 Brentwood Town (N) 3021 Wingate & Finchley (P) 1–1 Witham Town (N) 62Witham Town advance 5–3 on penalties22 Merstham (S) 1–2 Kingstonian (P) 8023 Waltham Forest (N) 0–1 Harlow Town (N) 4324 Cheshunt (N) 3–2 Barkingside (N) 5225 Crawley Down Gatwick (S) 1–3 Redhill (S) 6226 Dulwich Hamlet (P) 1–0 Tooting & Mitcham (S) 34927 Lowestoft Town (P) 4–1 Heybridge Swifts (N) 20528 Maidstone United (P) 2–1 Herne Bay (S) 80829 Margate (P) 1–1 Folkestone Invicta (S) 138Margate advance 4–3 on penalties30 Needham Market (N) 2–5 Leiston (P) 22631 Soham Town Rangers (N) 1–4 Harrow Borough (P) 8632 Walton Casuals (S) 1–2 Walton & Hersham (S) 10433 Tilbury (N) 1–1 Grays Athletic (P) 88Grays Athletic advance 4–1 on penalties34 Ware (N) 5–3 Thamesmead Town (P) 36
Second round
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)35 Kingstonian (P) 5–0 Walton & Hersham (S) 19436 Metropolitan Police (P) 3–1 Hampton & Richmond Borough (P) 9237 Peacehaven & Telscombe (S) 0–1 Burgess Hill Town 5438 Waltham Abbey (N) 3–4 Cheshunt (N) 4339 Aveley (N) 2–1 Billericay Town (P) 6940 Burnham Ramblers (N) 1–6 AFC Sudbury (N) 5241 Cray Wanderers (P) 5–1 Dulwich Hamlet (P) 6942 Enfield Town (P) 1–2 Harlow Town (N) 9843 Lowestoft Town (P) 1–4 Leiston (P) 245
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)44 Maidstone United (P) 3–1 Hythe Town (S) 33945 Wealdstone (P) 2–2 Harrow Borough (P) 159Harrow Borough advance 4–3 on penalties46 Romford (N) 0–2 Grays Athletic (P) 10247 Margate (P) 0–3 Hastings United (S) 10348 Sittingbourne (S) 0–2 Chatham Town (N) 7249 Ware (N) 2–2 Witham Town (N) 38Ware advance 4–2 on penalties50 Lewes (P) 3–2 Redhill (S) 136
Third round
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)51 AFC Sudbury (N) 2–2 Leiston (P) 114AFC Sudbury advance 3–1 on penalties52 Maidstone United (P) 2–0 Hastings United (S) 41353 Burgess Hill Town (S) 3–1 Lewes (P) 18354 Harlow Town (N) 3–1 Kingstonian (P) 126
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier)55 Chatham Town (N) 2–1 Cray Wanderers (P) 7656 Cheshunt (N) 1–1 Ware (N) 97Ware advance 9–8 on penalties57 Grays Athletic (P) 2–1 Aveley (N) 8358 Metropolitan Police (P) 0–3 Harrow Borough (P) 44
Quarterfinals