The 1995–96 season was the 81st season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. The league consisted of four divisions.
Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs: Worthing, promoted as runners-up in Division One Boreham Wood, promoted as champions of Division One Chertsey Town, promoted as third in Division One Yeovil Town, relegated from the Football Conference
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Aylesbury United Buckingham Road Bishop's Stortford Woodside Park Boreham Wood Meadow Park Bromley Hayes Lane Carshalton Athletic War Memorial Sports Ground Chertsey Town Alwyns Lane Enfield Southbury Road Dulwich Hamlet Champion Hill Grays Athletic New Recreation Ground Hayes Church Road Harrow Borough Earlsmead Stadium Hendon Claremont Road Hitchin Town Top Field Kingstonian Kingsmeadow Molesey Walton Road Stadium St Albans City Clarence Park Sutton United Gander Green Lane Thurrock Ship Lane Walton & Hersham The Sports Ground Worthing Woodside Road Yeading The Warren Yeovil Town Huish Park
Division One
Division One consisted of 22 clubs, including 15 clubs from the previous season and seven new clubs:
Three clubs relegated from the Premier Division: Chesham United Marlow Wokingham Town
Three clubs promoted from Division Two: Barton Rovers Oxford City Thame United
Plus: Leyton Pennant replaced Leyton, who merged with Walthamstow Pennant.
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Abingdon Town Culham Road Aldershot Town Recreation Ground Barking Mayesbrook Park Barton Rovers Sharpenhoe Road Basingstoke Town The Camrose Berkhamsted Town Broadwater Billericay Town New Lodge Bognor Regis Town Nyewood Lane Chesham United The Meadow Heybridge Swifts Scraley Road Leyton Pennant Wadham Lodge Maidenhead United York Road Marlow Alfred Davis Memorial Ground Oxford City Marsh Lane Ruislip Manor Grosvenor Vale Staines Town Wheatsheaf Park Thame United Windmill Road Tooting & Mitcham United Imperial Fields Uxbridge Honeycroft Wembley Vale Farm Whyteleafe Church Road Wokingham Town Cantley Park
Division Two
Division Two consisted of 21 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season and five new clubs:
Two clubs relegated from Division One: Wivenhoe Town Dorking
Three clubs promoted from Division Three: Canvey Island Collier Row Bedford Town
Division started the season one club short after Newbury Town folded. At the end of the season Saffron Walden Town resigned from the league due to ground grading problems and joined the Essex Senior League. Thus, no teams were relegated from the Second Division this season.
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Banstead Athletic Merland Rise Bedford Town The Eyrie Bracknell Town Larges Lane Canvey Island Brockwell Stadium Chalfont St Peter Mill Meadow Cheshunt Cheshunt Stadium Croydon Croydon Sports Arena Collier Row & Romford Sungate Dorking Meadowbank Stadium Edgware Town White Lion Egham Town The Runnymede Stadium Hampton Beveree Stadium Hemel Hempstead Vauxhall Road Hungerford Town Bulpit Lane Leatherhead Fetcham Grove Metropolitan Police Imber Court Saffron Walden Town Catons Lane Tilbury Chadfields Ware Wodson Park Witham Town Spa Road Wivenhoe Town Broad Lane
Division Three
Division Three consisted of 21 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and four new teams:
Two clubs relegated from Division Two: Aveley Windsor & Eton
Plus: Wealdstone, transferred from Southern League Southern Division Wingate & Finchley, promoted as runners-up in the South Midlands League
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Aveley The Mill Field Camberley Town Kroomer Park Clapton The Old Spotted Dog Ground Cove Oak Farm East Thurrock United Rookery Hill Epsom & Ewell Merland Rise (groundshare with Banstead Athletic) Flackwell Heath Wilks Park Harefield United Preston Park Harlow Town Harlow Sportcentre Hertford Town Hertingfordbury Park Hornchurch Hornchurch Stadium Horsham Queen Street Kingsbury Town Avenue Park Leighton Town Bell Close Lewes The Dripping Pan Northwood Chestnut Avenue Southall Robert Parker Stadium Tring Town Pendley Ground Wealdstone White Lion (groundshare with Edgware Town) Windsor & Eton Stag Meadow Wingate & Finchley The Harry Abrahams Stadium
See also Isthmian League 1995–96 Northern Premier League 1995–96 Southern Football League
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