The 2022–23 South West Peninsula League season was the 16th in the history of the South West Peninsula League, a football competition in England, that feeds the Premier Division of the Western Football League. The league was formed in 2007 from the merger of the Devon County League and the South Western League, and, with the exception of Bridport in Dorset, features clubs based in Cornwall and Devon. The two divisions of the South West Peninsula League are on the same level of the National League System as the Western League Division One (Step 6).
The constitution was announced on 12 May 2022.
With a view to a merger between the South West Peninsula League and the Western League in 2023–24, four clubs were to be automatically promoted from each division to Step 5, depending on ground grading. The fifth-placed clubs may also have been promoted, on a PPG (points per game) basis. However, the FA scrapped the merger in February 2023 after a breakdown in negotiations, and promotion was reverted to one club per division.
Premier Division East
Premier Division East featured 19 teams, reduced from 20 the previous season, after Torpoint Athletic were promoted to the Western League Premier Division; Stoke Gabriel & Torbay Police were relegated and Ottery St Mary resigned from the league.
Holsworthy were initially transferred to Premier Division West, but were transferred back after the reprieve of St Dennis.
Two clubs joined the division: Bridport, relegated from the Western League Premier Division. Teignmouth, promoted from the Devon Football League South & West Division.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium Capacity Axminster Town Axminster Tiger Way 3,000 Bovey Tracey Bovey Tracey Mill Marsh Park 3,000 Bridport Bridport St Mary's Field 2,000 Brixham Brixham Wall Park 2,000 Crediton United Crediton Lords Meadow 3,000 Cullompton Rangers Cullompton Speeds Meadow 1,000 Dartmouth Dartmouth Long Cross 1,000 Elburton Villa Plymouth Haye Road 2,000 Elmore Tiverton Horsdon Park 2,000 Holsworthy Holsworthy Upcott Field 2,000 Honiton Town Honiton Mountbatten Park 800 Ivybridge Town Ivybridge Erme Valley 2,000 Newton Abbot Spurs Newton Abbot Recreation Ground 3,000 Okehampton Argyle Okehampton Simmons Park 2,500 Plymouth Marjon Plymouth The Campus 1,000 Sidmouth Town Sidmouth Manstone Lane 2,500 Teignmouth Teignmouth Coombe Valley 2,000 Torridgeside Great Torrington Donnacroft 1,000 Torrington Great Torrington Vicarage Field 500
Premier Division West
Premier Division West featured 18 teams, the same as the previous season after Falmouth Town were promoted to the Western League Premier Division, and Porthleven resigned from the league.
St Dennis had initially been relegated from the league, but were reprieved due to a resignation elsewhere in the pyramid.
Two clubs joined the division: Bude Town, promoted from the St Piran Football League East Division. Mullion, promoted from the St Piran Football League West Division.
League table
Results table
Stadia and locations
Team Location Stadium Capacity AFC St Austell St Austell Poltair Park 6,000 Bodmin Town Bodmin Priory Park 5,000 Bude Town Bude Broadclose Park 2,000 Callington Town Callington Marshfield Parc 1,000 Camelford Camelford Trefrew Park 1,000 Dobwalls Dobwalls Lantoom Park 2,000 Godolphin Atlantic (Newquay) Newquay Godolphin Way 1,000 Launceston Launceston Pennygillam 1,000 Liskeard Athletic Liskeard Lux Park 2,000 Mullion Mullion Clifden Park 1,000 Newquay Newquay Mount Wise Stadium 5,000 Penryn Athletic Penryn Kernick Road 2,000 Penzance Penzance Penlee Park 1,100 St Blazey St Blazey Blaise Park 3,500 St Dennis St Dennis Boscawen Park 2,000 Sticker Sticker Burngullow Lane 2,000 Wadebridge Town Wadebridge Bodieve Park 1,500 Wendron United Wendron Underlane 1,000
References
External links South West Peninsula League