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The 2012–13 season was the 110th in the history of the Southern League since its establishment in 1894. From the previous season onwards, the Southern League was known as The Evo-Stik League Southern, following a sponsorship deal with Evo-Stik.

Due to Step Three leagues increasing their number of teams from 22 to 24 from the 2013–14 season onwards, only two clubs were relegated from the Premier Division, and only one club was relegated from each of Division One Central and South & West this season.^[1]

Premier Division

Southern Football League Premier Division

Season	2012–13
Champions	Leamington
Promoted	Leamington Gosport Borough
Relegated	Bedworth United Kettering Town
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,409 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorer	John Frendo (Hitchin Town) - 31
Biggest home win	Gosport Borough 7 – 0 Kettering Town, 15 December 2012 Stourbridge 8 – 1 Banbury United, 18 September 2012
Biggest away win	Kettering Town 0 – 7 Bashley, 6 October 2012
Highest scoring	Hemel Hempstead Town 8 – 2 Hitchin Town, 15 December 2012
Highest attendance	1027 (Leamington 2–1 St. Albans City, 27 April 2013)
Lowest attendance	80 (Arlesey Town 3–0 Redditch United, 26 March 2013)
Average attendance	312
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and five new clubs:

• 
  Bedworth United, promoted as play-off winners of Division One Central


• 
  Bideford, promoted as champions of Division One South & West


• 
  Gosport Borough, promoted as play-off winners of Division One South & West


• 
  Kettering Town, relegated from the Conference National for financial reasons


• 
  St Neots Town, promoted as champions of Division One Central

Hinckley United and Maidenhead United were originally relegated to this division from the Conference North/South, but were reprieved after the relegation of Darlington and the resignation of Kettering Town from the Conference National.^[2][3] Darlington were relegated to the Northern League, and Kettering applied to join the Southern League, allowing for a further reprieve for Hemel Hempstead Town.^[4]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Leamington (C) (P)	42	30	5	7	85	46	+39	95	Promotion to Conference North
2	Stourbridge	42	25	8	9	94	42	+52	83	Qualification for play-offs
3	Chesham United	42	21	12	9	69	48	+21	75
4	Hemel Hempstead Town	42	22	6	14	95	71	+24	72
5	Gosport Borough (P)	42	19	13	10	78	43	+35	70	Qualification for play-offs, then promoted to the Conference South
6	Arlesey Town	42	21	6	15	70	51	+19	69
7	Barwell	42	19	12	11	67	50	+17	69	Transferred to NPL Premier Division
8	Cambridge City	42	20	6	16	63	57	+6	66
9	Weymouth	42	18	8	16	59	71	−12	62
10	Bedford Town	42	18	7	17	61	56	+5	61
11	St Albans City	42	18	6	18	81	71	+10	60
12	St Neots Town	42	15	7	20	77	77	0	52
13	Hitchin Town	42	15	7	20	62	68	−6	52
14	AFC Totton	42	15	7	20	62	84	−22	52
15	Chippenham Town	42	13	12	17	63	67	−4	51
16	Banbury United	42	14	9	19	60	75	−15	51
17	Bashley	42	13	10	19	47	63	−16	49
18	Frome Town	42	11	12	19	40	55	−15	45
19	Redditch United	42	12	7	23	32	65	−33	43
20	Bideford	42	11	9	22	58	73	−15	42
21	Bedworth United (R)	42	11	9	22	39	73	−34	42	Relegation to NPL Division One South
22	Kettering Town (R)	42	8	8	26	47	102	−55	022*	Relegation to Division One Central

Updated to games played on 30 April 2013.
Source: Southern Football League.
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^* Kettering Town deducted 10 points for financial irregularities.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play-offs

	Semifinals					Final
	2	Stourbridge	1
	5	Gosport Borough	2
						4	Hemel Hempstead Town	2 (4)
						5	Gosport Borough	2 (5)
	3	Chesham United	0
	4	Hemel Hempstead Town	2

Semi-finals

Final

Stadia and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Kettering Town	Nene Park	6,441
Weymouth	Bob Lucas Stadium	6,600
Chesham United	The Meadow	3,000
Redditch United	The Valley	5,000
Gosport Borough	Privett Park	4,500[5]
St Albans City	Clarence Park	4,500
Bashley	The Recreation Ground	4,250
Bedford Town	The New Eyrie	4,000
Hitchin Town	Top Field	4,000
Hemel Hempstead Town	Vauxhall Road	3,152
AFC Totton	Testwood Stadium	3,000
Bedworth United	The Oval Ground	3,000
Arlesey Town	aRMadillo Stadium	2,920
Chippenham Town	Hardenhuish Park	2,815
Barwell	Kirkby Road	2,500
Cambridge City	City Ground	2,300
Leamington	New Windmill Ground	2,300
Stourbridge	War Memorial Athletic Ground	2,014
Banbury United	Spencer Stadium	2,000
Bideford	The Sports Ground	2,000
Frome Town	Badgers Hill	2,000
St Neots Town	New Rowley Park	2,000

Results

Home Away[1]

TOT

ARL

BAN

BAR

BAS

BED

BWU

BID

CAM

CHE

CHI

FRO

GOS

HEM

HIT

KET

LEA

RED

SAC

STN

STB

WEY

AFC Totton

3–3

2–3

2–1

2–0

2–0

3–2

2–0

1–5

1–1

0–5

2–0

3–2

2–0

2–2

4–0

0–2

2–0

3–0

2–1

2–4

5–2

Arlesey Town

5–0

2–1

0–1

1–2

2–1

1–0

2–2

1–2

2–0

4–0

0–1

1–1

3–1

3–1

3–0

0–2

3–0

1–3

4–3

2–4

3–0

Banbury United

2–1

1–3

1–2

3–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–2

1–2

1–0

1–1

2–4

4–0

0–4

2–0

3–0

0–0

2–2

3–1

0–2

1–3

Barwell

1–0

2–0

4–1

0–0

2–1

2–0

1–1

1–0

1–3

0–0

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–0

1–2

1–3

0–0

1–3

2–3

2–1

0–1

Bashley

0–3

1–0

2–0

0–5

0–1

1–0

4–1

0–0

1–3

2–1

2–1

1–1

0–6

0–1

3–1

0–2

0–1

2–0

2–2

0–1

1–0

Bedford Town

4–1

0–0

3–1

3–0

0–1

0–1

3–1

2–1

0–1

1–1

0–1

1–0

0–3

1–4

1–1

2–2

2–1

2–0

3–0

2–0

0–2

Bedworth United

2–0

2–1

0–4

1–1

0–3

2–0

2–1

0–2

1–1

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–2

1–0

0–1

0–3

0–0

1–3

1–3

0–3

2–0

Bideford

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–2

0–0

0–3

3–0

2–1

2–1

1–2

0–0

0–2

3–2

3–2

4–0

0–1

3–2

1–0

0–0

2–2

2–1

Cambridge City

0–0

1–2

1–0

2–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

1–0

1–0

2–3

1–2

0–4

0–1

0–0

1–1

1–4

1–0

2–1

0–5

2–2

2–0

Chesham United

6–0

1–0

3–1

2–2

3–0

2–2

3–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–3

0–0

1–1

0–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

2–1

1–1

1–2

Chippenham Town

3–0

0–0

0–2

1–1

1–0

0–2

1–1

1–7

4–3

2–3

2–2

0–0

1–2

2–4

3–0

0–2

2–3

4–3

2–2

4–0

2–2

Frome Town

3–1

0–1

0–0

2–3

1–1

2–3

1–3

0–1

0–3

0–0

2–0

1–1

1–3

2–1

3–1

0–2

1–0

0–3

1–2

0–1

2–0

Gosport Borough

1–0

0–1

3–2

1–2

0–0

4–0

1–0

2–0

1–2

3–1

2–3

0–0

3–3

0–0

7–0

3–0

2–3

0–1

1–0

1–3

0–0

Hemel Hempstead Town

4–1

1–2

1–2

1–1

4–2

4–3

6–1

4–1

1–0

1–2

2–1

0–3

1–1

8–2

5–2

1–3

4–0

1–1

2–4

2–1

1–3

Hitchin Town

4–0

0–1

1–2

0–1

3–2

2–0

1–1

1–0

0–3

1–3

2–1

2–0

1–0

3–2

3–4

0–1

3–0

0–2

2–2

0–1

1–2

Kettering Town

1–1

1–3

1–1

1–2

0–7

3–0

1–4

3–1

1–2

3–1

2–4

1–1

1–3

1–2

3–1

1–3

0–1

2–6

1–0

0–1

1–6

Leamington

2–1

4–3

4–1

0–6

4–1

3–0

6–1

2–1

1–0

0–1

1–0

2–0

1–3

3–2

3–0

2–1

2–0

2–1

3–0

1–1

1–1

Redditch United

2–1

0–2

0–2

0–1

0–0

0–3

0–0

2–1

2–4

0–2

1–0

2–1

0–2

1–4

0–2

4–1

1–1

0–2

1–0

0–4

0–0

St Albans City

3–0

1–0

4–0

4–4

2–2

2–2

3–0

4–3

3–2

2–6

0–2

4–0

1–6

0–1

1–1

2–1

3–0

3–0

0–1

2–4

2–3

St Neots Town

1–3

1–2

3–2

2–2

2–2

1–3

3–2

5–3

2–3

3–1

0–1

0–1

2–3

6–1

2–3

4–3

0–1

1–2

3–2

0–0

4–2

Stourbridge

3–0

4–1

8–1

0–2

3–0

0–1

0–1

3–1

4–1

5–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

2–3

4–1

0–0

5–1

1–0

2–1

0–1

5–0

Weymouth

3–3

2–1

1–0

2–1

1–0

0–4

2–1

4–2

0–1

0–3

0–0

2–1

3–3

0–1

3–2

0–0

0–4

0–2

2–0

3–1

1–5

Updated to games played on 27 April 2013.
Source: Southern Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Division One Central

Southern Football League Division One Central

Season	2012–13
Champions	Burnham
Promoted	Burnham Biggleswade Town
Relegated	Woodford United
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,645 (3.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ryan Bird (Burnham) - 42
Biggest home win	Ashford Town 10 – 0 Woodford United, 30 March 2013
Biggest away win	Woodford United 0 – 10 Biggleswade Town, 19 March 2013
Highest scoring	Woodford United 3 – 7 Chertsey Town, 1 December 2012
Highest attendance	448 (Burnham 1 – 0 Slough Town, 1 April 2013)
Lowest attendance	32 (Woodford United 0 – 5 Northwood, 2 February 2013)
Average attendance	113
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Division One Central consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:

• 
  Godalming Town, transferred from Isthmian League Division One South
  


• 
  Guildford City, promoted as champions of the Combined Counties League
  


• 
  Royston Town, promoted as champions of the Spartan South Midlands League
  


• 
  Thatcham Town, transferred from Division One South & West

Burnham won the division on the final day of the season and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Biggleswade Town. Woodford United lost all their matches and were the only team relegated from Division One Central after this season.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Burnham (C) (P)	42	31	6	5	108	39	+69	99	Promotion to Premier Division
2	Rugby Town	42	31	3	8	103	45	+58	96	Qualification for play-offs
3	Godalming Town	42	28	8	6	94	39	+55	92	Qualification for play-offs, then transferred to Division One South & West
4	Biggleswade Town (P)	42	26	7	9	97	50	+47	85	Qualification for play-offs, then promoted to the Premier Division
5	Beaconsfield SYCOB	42	26	6	10	81	47	+34	84	Qualification for play-offs
6	Slough Town	42	26	5	11	103	50	+53	83
7	Royston Town	42	24	10	8	86	49	+37	82
8	Daventry Town	42	22	10	10	81	47	+34	76
9	Guildford City	42	20	6	16	86	75	+11	66	Transferred to Division One South & West
10	Ashford Town	42	17	10	15	85	79	+6	61
11	Uxbridge	42	19	4	19	78	85	−7	61
12	Aylesbury	42	16	10	16	76	73	+3	58
13	Northwood	42	17	6	19	80	73	+7	57
14	Barton Rovers	42	16	5	21	62	78	−16	53
15	A.F.C. Hayes	42	13	8	21	73	81	−8	47
16	Chalfont St Peter	42	18	7	17	76	74	+2	046‡
17	Thatcham Town	42	10	5	27	59	86	−27	35	Transferred to Division One South & West
18	Fleet Town	42	10	5	27	47	76	−29	35
19	North Greenford United	42	9	6	27	56	95	−39	33
20	Chertsey Town	42	9	4	29	50	98	−48	31
21	Leighton Town	42	6	5	31	43	121	−78	23
22	Woodford United (R)	42	0	0	42	21	185	−164	0	Relegation to United Counties League

Updated to games played on 6 May 2013.
Source: Southern Football League
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^‡ Chalfont St Peter deducted 15 points for fielding an ineligible player.^[6]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play-offs

	Semifinals					Final
	2	Rugby Town	1
	5	Beaconsfield SYCOB	0
						2	Rugby Town	1
						4	Biggleswade Town	3
	3	Godalming Town	1
	4	Biggleswade Town	2

Semi-finals

Final

Stadia and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Rugby Town	Butlin Road	6,000
Daventry Town	Communications Park	5,000
Barton Rovers	Sharpenhoe Road	4,000
Royston Town	Garden Walk	4,000
Uxbridge	Honeycroft	3,770
Beaconsfield Town	Holloways Park	3,500
Slough Town	Holloways Park#	3,500
Northwood	Chestnut Avenue (Northwood Park)	3,075
Biggleswade Town	The Carlsberg Stadium	3,000
Godalming Town	Weycourt	3,000
Woodford United	Byfield Road	3,000
Leighton Town	Bell Close	2,800
Ashford Town	The Robert Parker Stadium	2,550
Burnham	The Gore	2,500
Chertsey Town	Alwyns Lane	2,500
Fleet Town	Calthorpe Park	2,000
Guildford City	Guildford Spectrum	2,000
North Greenford United	Berkeley Fields	2,000
A.F.C. Hayes	Farm Park	1,500
Chalfont St Peter	Mill Meadow	1,500
Thatcham Town	Waterside Park	1,500
Aylesbury	Haywood Way	1,300

^#Slough Town ground-shared with Beaconsfield SYCOB.

Division One South & West

Southern Football League Division One South & West

Season	2012–13
Champions	Poole Town
Promoted	Poole Town Hungerford Town
Relegated	Winchester City Sholing (resigned) Abingdon United (resigned)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,359 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lee Wort (Sholing) - 33
Biggest home win	Merthyr Town 10–0 Winchester City, 6 April 2013
Biggest away win	Cirencester Town 1–6 Bridgwater Town, 15 December 2012 Bridgwater Town 0–5 Shortwood United, 7 March 2013
Highest attendance	726 (Wimborne Town 0–2 Poole Town, 1 January 2013)
Lowest attendance	33 (Winchester City 0–4 Cirencester Town, 30 March 2013)
Average attendance	148
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Division One South & West consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season, three teams relegated from the Premier Division and three new teams:

• 
  Cirencester Town, relegated from the Premier Division


• 
  Evesham United, relegated from the Premier Division


• 
  Merthyr Town, promoted as champions of the Western League
  


• 
  Shortwood United, promoted as runners-up in the Hellenic League
  


• 
  Swindon Supermarine, relegated from the Premier Division


• 
  Winchester City, promoted as champions of the Wessex League
  

Poole Town won the division in their second season in the league, and were promoted to the Premier Division along with play-off winners Hungerford Town. Winchester City finished bottom and left the Southern League for the Wessex League for the second time in four seasons.

Sholing resigned at the end of the season for financial reasons, and dropped down to the Wessex League.^[7]

On 12 May 2013, Abingdon United also resigned from the league for financial reasons, and dropped down to the Hellenic League.^[8]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Poole Town (C) (P)	42	30	8	4	82	36	+46	98	Promotion to Premier Division
2	Hungerford Town (P)	42	26	6	10	71	44	+27	84	Qualification for play-offs, then promoted to the Premier Division
3	Merthyr Town	42	24	11	7	84	38	+46	83	Qualification for play-offs
4	Swindon Supermarine	42	25	6	11	79	51	+28	81
5	Paulton Rovers	42	23	6	13	64	54	+10	75
6	Yate Town	42	21	6	15	69	63	+6	69
7	Sholing	42	20	8	14	87	56	+31	68	Resigned at the end of the season
8	Shortwood United	42	20	7	15	62	45	+17	67
9	North Leigh	42	19	4	19	70	69	+1	61
10	Cinderford Town	42	17	8	17	61	66	−5	59
11	Cirencester Town	42	15	13	14	54	57	−3	057*
12	Wimborne Town	42	15	10	17	59	60	−1	55
13	Mangotsfield United	42	15	10	17	53	61	−8	55
14	Evesham United	42	14	9	19	49	58	−9	51
15	Clevedon Town	42	12	13	17	61	67	−6	49
16	Tiverton Town	42	11	14	17	51	58	−7	47
17	Didcot Town	42	12	10	20	59	76	−17	46
18	Taunton Town	42	12	8	22	59	85	−26	44
19	Bridgwater Town	42	10	10	22	52	78	−26	40
20	Abingdon United	42	10	8	24	42	66	−24	38	Resigned at the end of the season
21	Bishop's Cleeve	42	10	7	25	49	66	−17	37
22	Winchester City (R)	42	9	2	31	42	105	−63	026‡	Relegation to Wessex League

Updated to games played on 12 May 2013.
Source: Southern Football League
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^‡ Winchester City deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player against Taunton Town on the first day of the season.^[9]
* Cirencester Town deducted one point for fielding an ineligible player.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play-offs

	Semifinals					Final
	2	Hungerford Town	4
	5	Paulton Rovers	2
						2	Hungerford Town	3
						3	Merthyr Town	1
	3	Merthyr Town	2 (3)
	4	Swindon Supermarine	2 (2)

Semi-finals

Final

Stadia and locations

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Seated	Ref
Merthyr Town	Penydarren Park	10,000	–	[10]
Paulton Rovers	Athletic Field	5,000	253	[11]
Evesham United	St George's Lane*	4,749
Winchester City	The City Ground	4,500	180	[12]
Clevedon Town	Hand Stadium	3,500	300	[13]
Cinderford Town	The Causeway	3,500	250	[14]
Tiverton Town	Ladysmead	3,500	520	[15]
Wimborne Town	Cuthbury	3,250	275	[16]
Didcot Town	NPower Loop Meadow Stadium	3,000	150	[17]
Swindon Supermarine	The Webb's Wood Stadium	3,000
Bridgwater Town	Fairfax Park	2,500	128	[18]
Hungerford Town	Bulpit Lane	2,500	170	[14]
Mangotsfield United	Cossham Street	2,500	300	[19]
Taunton Town	Wordsworth Drive	2,500	300	[14]
Abingdon United	Northcourt Road	2,000	158	[14]
Poole Town	Tatnam	2,000	154	[20]
North Leigh	Eynsham Hall Park Sports Ground	2,000	100	[14]
Yate Town	Lodge Road	2,000	236	[21]
Bishop's Cleeve	Kayte Lane	1,500	50	[14]
Sholing	VT Group Sports Ground	1,000	150	[22]
Shortwood United	The Meadowbank Ground	TBC
Cirencester Town	Corinium Stadium	TBC

^*Evesham United ground-shared with Worcester City.

League Cup

2012–13 Southern League Cup

Country	England
Teams	66
Champions	Arlesey Town
Runners-up	Frome Town
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The Southern League Cup 2012–13 (billed as the RedInsure Cup 2012–13 for sponsorship reasons) is the 75th season of the Southern League Cup, the cup competition of the Southern Football League.

Preliminary round

First round

Second round

Third Round

Quarter-finals

Semi-final

Final

First leg

Second leg

See also

• 2012–13 Isthmian League


• 2012–13 Northern Premier League

References

External links

• Official website