KENT FOOTBALL 2015/16 - UPDATE

The Southern Counties East League for 2015/16 will run with nineteen teams as below. Leaving the division are 2014/15 champions Pheonix Sports who join the Ryman League Division One (North), Lingfield FC who applied for voluntary relegation and look to be placed in the Southern Combination League (the newly renamed Sussex County League) and Woodstock Sports who unfortunately annoucned they were folding at the end of the 2014/15 campaign. Their website quotes "Quite simply, we do not have a sustainable business plan and the funding is simply not there for another season.This breaks our hearts as we have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to build the foundations of the club over the past few years and our progression is a testament to the monumental time and effort the committee, especially Colin Page, has put into the club on a daily basis" 
  
Joining the division are AFC Croydon Athletic (runner's up in Combined Counties League Division One) and Kent Invicta League champion's Hollands and Blair. 

Southern Counties League 2015/16 (Step 5)

1) AFC CROYDON ATHLETIC
2) ASHFORD UNITED
3) BECKENHAM TOWN
4) CANTERBURY CITY
5) CORINTHIAN
6) CRAY VALLEY PAPER MILLS
7) CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC
8) CROYDON
9) DEAL TOWN
10) ERITH & BELVEDERE
11) ERITH TOWN
12) FISHER
13) GREENWICH BOROUGH
14) HOLLANDS & BLAIR
15) HOLMESDALE
16) LORDSWOOD
17) ROCHESTER UNITED
18) SEVENOAKS TOWN
19) TUNBRIDGE WELLS 

New clubs in the Kent Invicta League are AC London, APM Contrast (finished in fourth placed of the Kent County Premier Division in 14/15), FC Elmstead (who jump up a number of divisions from Kent County Division Two West after securing a ground share agreement with Holmesdale) and Forest Hill Park (another to jump a few levels from Kent County Divison One West along with Phoenix Sports Reserves.

Academic Club London were only formed in 2013 but have grown from park pitches to play at the famous Crystal Palace Sports Centre.  

Kent Invicta League (Step 6)

1) AC LONDON 
2) APM CONTRAST
3) BEARSTED
4) BRIDON ROPES  
5) CROCKENHILL
6) ELTHAM PALACE 
7) FC ELMSTEAD
8) FOREST HILL PARK 
9) GLEBE
10) GRAVERSHAM BOROUGH 
11) KENT FOOTBALL UNITED 
12) LEWISHAM BOROUGH (COMMUNITY)
13) LYDD TOWN 
14) MERIDIAN VP 
15) ORPINGTON 
16) PHOENIX SPORTS RESERVES 
17) RUSTHALL 
18) SEVEN ACRE AND SIDCUP 
19) SHEPPEY UNITED 
20) SUTTON ATHLETIC 

The Kent County League constitution have yet to be released.