2020–21 Southern Counties East Football League

The 2020–21 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 55th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, a football competition in England, and the fifth year the competition has had two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at Steps 5 and 6 respectively in the English football league system.

Southern Counties East League

Season	2020–21
Promoted	Corinthian
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

The allocations for Steps 5 and 6 for season 2020–21 were announced by the FA on 21 July,^[1] and were subject to appeal.

On account of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in England, the season was curtailed on 27 February along with all other leagues from Steps 3–6.^[2] The scheduled restructuring of non-League football took place at the end of the season, with new divisions added to the Combined Counties and the United Counties Leagues at Step 5 for 2021–22, along with an additional division in the Northern Premier League at Step 4.^[3] Promotions from Steps 5 to 4 and 6 to 5 were based on points per game across all matches over the two cancelled seasons (2019–20 and 2020–21), while teams were promoted to Step 6 on the basis of a subjective application process.^[3] As a result, three SCEL clubs were moved to the new Combined Counties Premier Division South.

Premier Division

The Premier Division comprised 21 teams, two more than the number which were still playing at the time of the abandonment of the previous season's competition:

• Balham – relocated from the Combined Counties League
• Tower Hamlets – relocated from the Essex Senior League

Premier Division table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Chatham Town	11	10	0	1	60	18	+42	30
2	Corinthian (P)	11	10	0	1	38	16	+22	30	Promotion to the Isthmian League South East Division[a]
3	Tunbridge Wells	12	8	2	2	24	14	+10	26
4	Sheppey United	9	8	1	0	28	14	+14	25
5	Beckenham Town	13	7	3	3	33	18	+15	24	Transfer to the Combined Counties League
6	Balham	12	6	3	3	18	13	+5	21
7	Hollands & Blair	11	6	3	2	15	12	+3	21
8	Erith Town	12	6	2	4	26	20	+6	20
9	Glebe	12	5	2	5	23	22	+1	17
10	Deal Town	11	4	4	3	14	11	+3	16
11	Bearsted	13	5	1	7	28	39	−11	16
12	Fisher	11	4	3	4	15	15	0	15
13	Welling Town	11	4	1	6	18	25	−7	13
14	Punjab United	12	4	1	7	20	29	−9	13
15	Crowborough Athletic	11	3	3	5	14	20	−6	12
16	Canterbury City	12	3	1	8	17	34	−17	10
17	Erith & Belvedere	11	2	3	6	18	23	−5	9
18	AFC Croydon Athletic	12	2	3	7	14	27	−13	9	Transfer to the Combined Counties League
19	Lordswood	13	2	2	9	13	29	−16	8
20	K Sports	11	1	4	6	10	18	−8	7
21	Tower Hamlets	13	0	2	11	17	46	−29	2

Source: FA Full-Time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results^[4]
(P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Promoted based on points per game calculations from 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons combined.^[3]

Results table

Home \ Away	ACA	BAL	BEA	BEC	CAN	CHA	COR	CRW	DEA	ERB	ERT	FIS	GLB	H&B	KSP	LOR	PUN	SHE	TOW	TUN	WEL
AFC Croydon Athletic	—		2–1	0–0	3–0		2–4			1–1		2–3				0–2
Balham		—	5–2						0–0		2–1		2–1	2–1							1–2
Bearsted			—			2–5					2–2		2–5					2–5	2–1
Beckenham Town			3–4	—		1–5					3–1	2–1	2–2			3–0				3–0
Canterbury City					—	2–7	0–2						0–2	1–2	2–1		3–2				1–2
Chatham Town	8–3					—								6–0			5–0		6–1	2–3
Corinthian			4–2				—		2–1			4–2				2–1		3–4	6–2
Crowborough Athletic								—
Deal Town				0–2					—					0–0		2–0	5–2	1–3	2–1
Erith & Belvedere		1–2		2–2	3–0	3–4	1–5			—							1–2
Erith Town	2–0					3–6					—	0–0						2–4	5–0	4–0
Fisher		0–1							0–0	2–0		—	3–2						3–1	1–3
Glebe							1–2		1–1				—		0–4	3–2			2–0		3–2
Hollands & Blair										0–0				—	2–1					0–0	2–0
K Sports	1–1								0–2		0–1				—	1–1		1–1		2–1
Lordswood		0–0	2–4		1–2					4–3						—				0–5	0–3
Punjab United	4–0	2–1		0–7										1–3	5–0		—			1–2
Sheppey United		3–2		3–2	4–1											1–0		—			2–0
Tower Hamlets				0–3	5–5									1–3			1–1		—		2–3
Tunbridge Wells	1–0		4–0										2–1		2–0					—	2–2
Welling Town			1–4				0–4				1–2										—

Source: FA Full-Time Grid
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Division One

Division One comprised the same 17 teams which were still competing when the previous season's competition was aborted.

Division One table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Sporting Club Thamesmead	8	7	0	1	24	10	+14	21
2	Kennington (P)	6	6	0	0	27	3	+24	18	Promotion to the Premier Division[a]
3	Rochester United	7	5	2	0	16	6	+10	17
4	Holmesdale (P)	6	5	0	1	20	9	+11	15	Promotion to the Premier Division[a]
5	Rusthall (P)	8	5	0	3	21	14	+7	15
6	Greenways	7	4	0	3	13	12	+1	12
7	Croydon	7	3	2	2	17	19	−2	11
8	Snodland Town	7	3	1	3	9	16	−7	10
9	Kent Football United	8	2	2	4	8	14	−6	8
10	Stansfeld	6	2	1	3	18	18	0	7
11	Lydd Town	5	2	1	2	14	15	−1	7
12	Forest Hill Park	7	2	1	4	9	13	−4	7
13	Sutton Athletic	7	2	1	4	11	19	−8	7
14	Lewisham Borough	7	1	3	3	6	9	−3	6
15	FC Elmstead	8	1	1	6	10	23	−13	4
16	Bridon Ropes	7	0	2	5	5	16	−11	2
17	Meridian VP	7	0	1	6	6	18	−12	1

Source: FA Full-time
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of matches won; 5) Head-to-head results^[4]
(P) Promoted
Notes:

1. Promoted based on points per game calculations from 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons combined.^[3]