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.[1]
| Competition: | Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Winners: | Erith & Belvedere |
| Promoted: | Erith & Belvedere Phoenix Sports |
| Relegated: | Canterbury City K Sports |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
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:
Inter-step play-off
| Competition: | Southern Counties East Football League Division One |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Winners: | Snodland Town |
| Promoted: | Snodland Town Lydd Town |
| Relegated: | Bermondsey Town |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
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: