# 2015–16 Southern Counties East Football League

The 2015–16 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 50th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League (the 3rd since it was renamed from the Kent Football League), a football competition in England. At the end of the season, the league merged with the Kent Invicta League with the latter becoming the lower division of the merged league.

## League table

The league consisted of 17 clubs from the previous season along with two new clubs:
* AFC Croydon Athletic, promoted from Combined Counties League Division One
* Hollands & Blair, promoted from the Kent Invicta League
Six clubs applied for promotion to Step 4: AFC Croydon Athletic, Ashford United, Beckenham Town, Corinthian, Greenwich Borough and Hollands & Blair.

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Greenwich Borough | 36 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 121 | 50 | +71 | 85 | Promoted to the Isthmian League Division One South |
| 2 | Hollands & Blair | 36 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 108 | 40 | +68 | 73 | |
| 3 | Ashford United | 36 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 95 | 46 | +49 | 66 | |
| 4 | Lordswood | 36 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 62 | 44 | +18 | 59 | |
| 5 | Sevenoaks Town | 36 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 61 | 50 | +11 | 58 | |
| 6 | Corinthian | 36 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 73 | 61 | +12 | 56 | |
| 7 | Crowborough Athletic | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 65 | 77 | −12 | 51 | |
| 8 | Canterbury City | 36 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 64 | 59 | +5 | 50 | |
| 9 | Deal Town | 36 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 76 | 73 | +3 | 50 | |
| 10 | Cray Valley Paper Mills | 36 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 57 | 58 | −1 | 50 | |
| 11 | AFC Croydon Athletic | 36 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 58 | 64 | −6 | 46 | |
| 12 | Beckenham Town | 36 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 68 | 93 | −25 | 44 | |
| 13 | Erith Town | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 53 | 73 | −20 | 43 | |
| 14 | Tunbridge Wells | 36 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 57 | 61 | −4 | 39 | |
| 15 | Rochester United | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 43 | 77 | −34 | 39 | |
| 16 | Erith & Belvedere | 36 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 54 | 66 | −12 | 38 | |
| 17 | Fisher | 36 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 40 | 79 | −39 | 37 | |
| 18 | Croydon | 36 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 46 | 61 | −15 | 35 | |
| 19 | Holmesdale | 36 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 45 | 114 | −69 | 20 | Relegated to Division One |
* ↑ Ashford United deducted ten points following receivers being called in.

### Results

| Home \ Away | ACA | ASH | BEC | CAN | COR | CVP | CRW | CRD | DEA | E&B | ERI | FIS | GRE | H&B | HOL | LOR | ROC | SEV | TUN |
| AFC Croydon Athletic | | 1–2 | 2–6 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 5–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| Ashford United | 3–4 | | 6–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 5–3 | 4–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Beckenham Town | 3–3 | 3–3 | | 5–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–4 | 0–4 | 1–5 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| Canterbury City | 0–1 | 0–2 | 6–1 | | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–6 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 2–3 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2–0 |
| Corinthian | 5–3 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Cray Valley Paper Mills | 1–1 | 0–5 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 | | 4–5 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 5–3 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 |
| Crowborough Athletic | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–5 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 4–3 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–4 | 0–6 | 6–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Croydon | 1–2 | 0–4 | 7–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–3 | | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 0–4 | 1–0 |
| Deal Town | 2–0 | 2–6 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–6 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | | 3–0 | 7–0 | 4–1 | 4–3 | 0–3 | 5–0 | 4–4 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 |
| Erith & Belvedere | 0–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 7–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 |
| Erith Town | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | | 0–2 | 1–7 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Fisher | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–5 | | 2–5 | 3–6 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Greenwich Borough | 2–0 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 4–3 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–0 | | 4–4 | 7–0 | 1–3 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 |
| Hollands & Blair | 1–0 | 0–1 | 6–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 0–0 | | 7–0 | 3–3 | 7–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Holmesdale | 5–2 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 4–7 | 0–6 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–7 |
| Lordswood | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 4–0 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| Rochester United | 1–1 | 0–7 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | | 1–2 | 0–4 |
| Sevenoaks Town | 0–1 | 3–3 | 7–1 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 2–0 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 1–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–4 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | |

### Top scorers

Correct as of 30 April 2016
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | James McDonald | Hollands & Blair | 32 |
| 2 | Mohamed Eisa | Greenwich Borough | 31 |
| 3 | Shaun Welford | Ashford United | 30 |
| 4 | Paul Booth | Ashford United | 21 |
| 5 | Michael Power | Greenwich Borough | 20 |
| 5 | Josh Biddlecombe | Crowborough Athletic | 20 |
| 7 | Rene Rivera | Deal Town | 18 |
| 7 | Raheem Sterling-Parker | AFC Croydon Athletic | 18 |
| 7 | Connor Coyne | Deal Town | 18 |