Management Changes
Beckenham Town have appointed Adam Griffin as their new First Team Manager. He joins the club with 15 years experience working within professional football and non league football including Crystal Palace, Southampton, Charlton and Bristol City.
Player Movements/Retentions
An updated list of moves involving players who played for SCEFLP clubs in 2025/26 and any moving to SCEFLP clubs for this coming season can be found here.
Thompson Adeyemi is to return to Rusthall for his third season with the club. In 2025/26 he made 41 appearances. 24 starts, and scored five goals, including a brace in their 4-3 win at SC Thamesmead in the Challenge Cup.
Gil Carvalho Hollands & Blair to Merstham. Details of clubs played for in 2025/26 included in a previous post.
Joe Chalker Beckenham Town to Phoenix Sports. Spent the last three seasons at Beckenham Town and last season he made around 30 appearances and scored two goals. He has previous SCEFLP experience with both Erith Town and Erith & Belvedere.
Sinn’Kaye Christie Whitstable Town to Merstham. Started last season with VCD Athletic and made around 30 appearances, scoring two goals. He joined Whitstable Town in March and made three appearances for them with one start.
Isaac Currie joined Whitstable Town in December on dual registration from Welling United having earlier in the season made five appearances for Hythe Town. He made three appearances for Welling and 16 for Whitstable, including 13 starts. He is now looking for a club ideally close to North/East London.
Michael Fenn VCD Athletic to Petts Wood & Holmesdale. Spent the last three seasons at VCD Athletic and in 2025/26 he made over 30 appearances and scored two goals. Also made three appearances last season for Rusthall as a dual registration.
Frankie Griffin is returning to Rusthall for a third season, having made around 80 appearances for the club. In 2025/26 he made 44 appearances with 42 starts.
Tom Hanfrey Hythe Town to Whitstable Town. Made over 30 appearances for Sevenoaks Town, scoring three goals, before joining Hythe Town in March. Made two appearances for Hythe and received a red card in the second of these, a 2-5 defeat at Kennington.
Jack Kirby will start his fourth season at Rusthall. Last season he made 50 appearances, 48 starts, and scored 21 goals, including five braces.
Theo Lukyamuzi will be staying at Phoenix Sports for the 2026/27 campaign. He joined the club in March having made one appearance in August for Hollands & Blair as a substitute in their FA Cup win over Herne Bay. He also played for Bakers 963 (Essex Alliance League), making eight appearances and scoring three goals. He made nine appearances for Phoenix, two starts, and scored two goals.
Armani-Jordan Martin Fisher to Petts Wood & Holmesdale. Started 2025/26 with Hythe Town and made 28 appearances, 27 starts, and scored six goals. Joined Fisher in February for whom he had played the previous season and made a further 13 appearances, ten starts, with five more goals.
Fyn Rutherford will remain with Petts Wood & Holmesdale for this season. He joined Holmesdale in December from VCD Athletic for whom he made 18 appearances and then clocked up another 14 appearances and scored one goal for Holmesdale.
Rob Strachan, captain of Erith & Belvedere, appears to be leaving the club from a statement issued on 10 June. Over the last three seasons he has made just over 160 appearances and scored nine goals, of which 43 appearances and four goals came in 2025/26.
Pre-season Fixtures
A list of matches involving SCEFLP clubs can be found here.
Other Leagues' News
The National League have scheduled their fixture release day as Friday 10 July. The lower Step Leagues will hopefully follow fairly soon after that date but it doesn’t leave a lot of time with SCEFLP, and most other Step 5 Leagues, scheduled to start on Saturday 1 August. However, it should be noted that the Essex Senior League have published their opening two rounds of fixtures.
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