The 2024–25 Southern Counties East Football League season is the 59th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, and the ninth year the competition will have two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It is also 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 on 17 May 2024.
Premier Division
The Premier Division comprised eighteen teams from the previous season, along with two new clubs after Deal Town and Erith Town were promoted to the Isthmian League South East Division and Welling Town were relegated to Division One.
The two clubs joining the division were: Erith & Belvedere - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division Larkfield & New Hythe Wanderers - Promoted from Division One
Premier Division table
Play-offs
Semifinals
Final
Results table
Stadia and locations
ClubLocationStadiumCapacityBearsted Otham Honey Lane 1,000Corinthian Longfield Gay Dawn Farm 2,000Erith & Belvedere Welling Park View Road (groundshare with Welling United) 4,000Faversham Town Faversham Salters Lane 2,000Fisher Rotherhithe St Paul's Sports Ground 2,500Glebe Chislehurst Foxbury Avenue 1,200Hollands & Blair Gillingham Star Meadow 1,000Holmesdale Bromley Oakley Road Kennington Kennington The Homelands (groundshare with Ashford United) 3,200Larkfield & New Hythe Wanderers Larkfield Larkfield & New Hythe Sports Club 3,000Lordswood Lordswoood Martyn Grove 600Lydd Town Lydd The Lindsey Field 1,000Punjab United Gravesend Elite Venue 600Rusthall Rusthall The Jockey Farm Stadium 1,500Snodland Town Snodland Potyns Sports Ground 1,000Stansfeld Eltham Badgers Sports Ground (groundshare with Cray Valley Paper Mills) 1,550Sutton Athletic Hextable Lower Road Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells Culverden Stadium 3,750VCD Athletic Crayford The Oakwood 1,180Whitstable Town Whitstable The Belmont Ground 3,000
Division One
Division One consisted of eighteen teams, increased from sixteen the previous season. Teams that left Division One from the previous season were AFC Whyteleafe and Larkfield & New Hythe Wanderers who were promoted to the Combined Counties Premier Division South and SCEFL Premier Division respectively.
The four new teams that joined the division were: Clapton Community - Transferred from Eastern Counties League Division One South Halls Athletic - Promoted from Kent County League Soul Tower Hamlets - Transferred from Eastern Counties League Division One South Welling Town - Relegated from Premier Division
Clapton were initially transferred across from the Eastern Counties League Division One South, before withdrawing from the league on 18 June 2024, resulting in a reprieve for Greenways. on 31 March 2025 Canterbury City have requested relegation from the South Counties East Football League Division One due to issues with finding a groundshare.
Division One table
Play-offs
Semifinals
Final
Results table
Stadia and locations
ClubLocationStadiumCapacityBridon Ropes Charlton Meridian Sports & Social Club Canterbury City Canterbury Hartsdown Park (groundshare with Margate) 3,000Clapton Community Forest Gate The Old Spotted Dog Ground 2,000Croydon 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 (SE Dons) Catford Ladywell Arena (groundshare with Lewisham Borough) Greenways Gravesend Rochester United Sports Ground (groundshare with Rochester United) 1,000Halls Athletic Dartford Erith Leisure Center Lewisham Borough Catford Ladywell Arena Meridian VP Charlton Meridian Sports & Social Club Rochester United Strood Rochester United Sports Ground 1,000Sheppey Sports Isle of Sheppey Holm Park (groundshare with Sheppey United) 1,530Soul Tower Hamlets London Borough of Tower Hamlets Mile End Stadium (groundshare with Sporting Bengal United) 3,000Sporting Club Thamesmead Thamesmead Bayliss Avenue (groundshare with Erith Town) 800Staplehurst Monarchs Staplehurst Jubilee Sports Ground 1,000Tooting Bec Tooting Bec High Road (groundshare with Chipstead) 2,000Welling Town Welling Erith Leisure Center
League Challenge Cup The 2024–25 SCEFL Challenge Cup was contested by all 38 clubs from both the Premier and First divisions (indicated by '(PD)' and '(FD)' respectively in the results listings below).
Defending champions Erith Town were unable to defend their title following their promotion to the Isthmian League South East Division.
First round All 38 clubs across the two divisions were entered into the first-round draw where there would be just six ties.
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 1 Canterbury City (FD) 2–1 Larkfield & New Hythe Wanderers (PD) 2 Lydd Town (PD) 4–0 Sheppey Sports (FD) 3 Clapton Community (FD) 1–3 Bridon Ropes (FD) 4 Forest Hill Park (FD) 0–0 Tunbridge Wells (PD) 5 Tooting Bec (FD) 3–3 Greenways (FD) 6 Fisher (PD) 4–0 FC Elmstead (FD)
Second round The second round saw the remaining 26 teams face the six winners from the previous round.
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 1 Kennington (PD) 1–1 Hollands & Blair (PD) 2 Punjab United (PD) 4–1 SC Thamesmead (FD) 3 Soul Tower Hamlets (FD) 1–3 Glebe (PD) 4 Sutton Athletic (PD) 2–1 Stansfeld (PD) 5 Bearsted (PD) 1–2 Lordswood (PD) 6 Faversham Town (PD) 2–0 Faversham Strike Force (FD) 7 Greenways (FD) 2–0 Fisher (PD) 8 Rusthall (PD) 8–0 Meridian VP (FD)
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 9 Snodland Town (PD) 2–0 Canterbury City (FD) 10 Staplehurst Monarchs (FD) 1–0 Whitstable Town (PD) 11 Bridon Ropes (FD) 0–0 Croydon (FD) 12 Erith & Belvedere (PD) 2–1 Lewisham Borough (FD) 13 Forest Hill Park (FD) 2–1 Welling Town (FD) 14 Halls Athletic (FD) 1–2 Holmesdale (PD) 15 Lydd Town (PD) 0–8 Rochester United (FD) 16 VCD Athletic (PD) 2–1 Corinthian (PD)
Third round
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 1 Lordswood (PD) 0–2 Snodland Town (PD) 2 Kennington (PD) 3–5 Rochester United (FD) 3 Faversham Town (PD) 4–1 Staplehurst Monarchs (FD) 4 Holmesdale (PD) 0–0 Rusthall (PD) 5 Greenways (FD) 1–6 Sutton Athletic (PD) 6 Croydon (FD) 0–1 Punjab United (PD) 7 Glebe (PD) 1–2 VCD Athletic (PD) 8 Erith & Belvedere (PD) 0–2 Forest Hill Park (FD)
Quarter-finals
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 1 Snodland Town (PD) 3–2 Faversham Town (PD) 2 Rochester United (FD) 1–2 Punjab United (PD) 3 Sutton Athletic (PD) 2–1 VCD Athletic (PD) 4 Forest Hill Park (FD) 2–1 Holmesdale (PD)
Semi-finals
TieHome team (tier)ScoreAway team (tier) 1 Forest Hill Park (FD) 2–1 Punjab United (PD) 2 Snodland Town (PD) 3–1 Sutton Athletic (PD)
Final
Division One Cup The 2024–25 SCEFL Division One Cup, a supplementary competition for teams in Division One, was contested by the eighteen clubs of the division. The competition was organised on a knock-out tie basis. First round Four clubs participated in two first round ties, with byes for the other 14 clubs.
TieHome teamScoreAway team 1 Bridon Ropes 2–3 Soul Tower Hamlets 2 Greenways 0–6 FC Elmstead
Second round Sixteen clubs competed in eight second round ties.
TieHome teamScoreAway team 1 Canterbury City 4–1 Staplehurst Monarchs 2 Sheppey Sports 1–1 Faversham Strike Force 3 FC Elmstead 0–1 Rochester United 4 Clapton Community 4–0 Sporting Club Thamesmead 5 Forest Hill Park 2–0 Tooting Bec 6 Soul Tower Hamlets 1–1 Meridian VP 7 Croydon 0–0 Lewisham Borough 8 Halls Athletic 5–0 Welling Town
Quarter-finals
TieHome teamScoreAway team 1 Faversham Strike Force 2–2 Canterbury City 2 Clapton Community 2–0 Halls Athletic 3 Lewisham Borough 0–2 Forest Hill Park 4 Meridian VP 1–0 Rochester United
Semi-finals TieHome teamScoreAway team 1 Clapton Community 2–1 Meridian VP 2 Forest Hill Park 3–1 Faversham Strike Force Final
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