2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League

The 2022–23 Southern Counties East Football League season was the 57th in the history of the Southern Counties East Football League, and the seventh year the competition has two divisions, the Premier Division and Division One, at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system.

The provisional club allocations for steps 5 and 6 were announced by The Football Association on 12 May 2022.

Premier Division
The Premier Division comprised 16 clubs from the previous season, along with four new clubs after Sheppey United and Chatham Town were promoted to Isthmian League South East Division, Crowborough Athletic's transfer to Southern Combination Football League and Tower Hamlets' relegation to Eastern Counties League Division One South

The four clubs that joined the division were:
 * Phoenix Sports - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division
 * Stansfeld - Promoted from Division One
 * Sutton Athletic - Promoted from Division One
 * Whitstable Town - Relegated from Isthmian League South East Division

Play-off
Inter-step play-off

Division One
Division One consisted of eighteen teams, down from twenty teams in the previous season. Teams that left Division One from the previous season were Stansfeld and Sutton Athletic who had been promoted to the Premier Division, Chessington & Hook United's relegation was reprieved and transferred to the Southern Combination Football League Division One and Westside who were relocated to the Combined Counties Football League.

The two new teams that joined the division were:
 * AFC Whyteleafe - Applied from Surrey South Eastern Combination Intermediate Division One
 * Bermondsey Town - Applied from Bromley & South London Football League