2014–15 Southern Football League


The 2014–15 season was the 112th in the history of the Southern League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales. From the current season onwards, the Southern League is known as Evo-Stik Southern Premier, following a sponsorship deal with Evo-Stik.
Following the liquidation of Premier Division club Hinckley United and the resignation of Thatcham Town from Division One South & West at the end of the season, plus the resignation of Vauxhall Motors from the Conference North, Fleet Town were reprieved from relegation in Division One South & West.
There were subsequently further movements after Worksop Town resigned from the Northern Premier League. Wingate & Finchley had initially been relegated to Isthmian League Division One North, but were readmitted to the Premier Division. Knock-on effects included Ware moving back to the Isthmian after first being placed in the Southern League Division One Central, and Hayes & Yeading United moving to the Southern Premier after initially being placed in the Isthmian Premier. Hayes & Yeading replaced Halesowen Town who had been moved from the Northern to the Southern, and were moved back. Corby Town returned to the Southern after first being placed in the Northern, and Stourbridge moved the other way. Ware were replaced in Division One Central by Bedworth United, who were transferred from the Northern Premier League Division One South.
However, Hayes & Yeading United were once again moved, this time back to the Conference South, when Hereford United were expelled from the Football Conference, and demoted to the Southern Premier.

Premier Division

The Premier Division consisted of 24 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and seven new clubs:
Hereford United F.C. was wound up in the high court in London on 19 December 2014, after it could not be satisfactorily proven that the club's owner had sufficient funding to pay the club's creditors. The main creditor was HM Revenue and Customs. The club's record in the Southern League was officially expunged on 5 January 2015.

League table

Play-offs

Semi-finals
Final

Results

Stadia and locations

ClubStadiumCapacity
Arlesey TownHitchin Road2,920
Banbury UnitedSpencer Stadium2,000
BidefordThe Sports Ground2,000
Biggleswade TownThe Carlsberg Stadium3,000
BurnhamThe Gore2,500
Cambridge CityBridge Road 4,300
Chesham UnitedThe Meadow5,000
Chippenham TownHardenhuish Park2,815
Cirencester TownCorinium Stadium4,500
Corby TownSteel Park3,893
Dorchester TownThe Avenue Stadium5,009
Dunstable TownCreasey Park3,200
Frome TownBadgers Hill2,000
HerefordEdgar Street4,913
HistonBridge Road4,300
Hitchin TownTop Field4,000
Hungerford TownBulpit Lane2,500
Paulton RoversAthletic Field2,500
Poole TownTatnam Ground2,500
Redditch UnitedThe Valley5,000
Slough TownHolloways Park 3,500
St Neots TownNew Rowley Park3,500
Truro CityTreyew Road3,200
WeymouthBob Lucas Stadium6,600

Division One Central

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

Play-offs

Results

Stadia and locations

ClubStadiumCapacity
A.F.C. HayesFarm Park1,500
AylesburyHaywood Way1,300
Aylesbury UnitedBell Close 2,800
Barton RoversSharpenhoe Road4,000
Beaconsfield SYCOBHolloways Park3,500
Bedford TownThe Eyrie3,000
Bedworth UnitedThe Oval Ground3,000
Chalfont St PeterMill Meadow1,500
Daventry TownCommunications Park5,000
Egham TownThe Runnymede Stadium5,565
Godalming TownWeycourt3,000
Hanwell TownReynolds Field3,000
Kettering TownLatimer Park 2,400
Leighton TownBell Close2,800
MarlowAlfred Davis Memorial Ground3,000
North Greenford UnitedBerkeley Fields2,000
NorthwoodNorthwood Park3,075
Potters Bar TownParkfield2,000
Royston TownGarden Walk5,000
Rugby TownButlin Road6,000
St Ives TownWestwood Road2,000
UxbridgeHoneycroft3,770

Division One South & West

Division One South & West consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from previous season and five new clubs:
Sholing resigned from the league for ground grading reasons. Clevedon Town were later demoted as their floodlights were not to the required standard. Thus, Bishops Cleeve and Bashley were subsequently reprieved from relegation.

League table

Play-offs

Results

Stadia and locations

ClubStadiumCapacity
AFC TottonTestwood Stadium3,000
BashleyBashley Road2,000
Bishops CleeveKayte Lane1,500
Bridgwater TownFairfax Park2,500
Cinderford TownCauseway Ground3,500
Clevedon TownHand Stadium3,500
Didcot TownDraycott Engineering Loop Meadow Stadium3,000
Evesham UnitedSpiers and Hartwell Jubilee Stadium3,000
Fleet TownCalthorpe Park2,000
Larkhall AthleticThe Plain Ham Ground1,000
Mangotsfield UnitedCossham Street2,500
Merthyr TownPenydarren Park10,000
North LeighEynsham Hall Park Sports Ground2,000
SholingSilverlake Arena1,000
Shortwood UnitedMeadowbank Ground2,000
Stratford TownDCS Stadium1,400
Swindon SupermarineHunts Copse Ground3,000
Taunton TownWordsworth Drive2,500
Tiverton TownLadysmead3,500
Wantage TownAlfredian Park1,500
Wimborne TownThe Cuthbury3,250
Yate TownLodge Road2,000

League Cup

The Southern League Cup 2014–15 is the 77th 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-Finals

Final

First leg

Second leg