Annual reshuffle fires starter gun on next season!

Fans, players and officials can start looking forward to next season’s campaign getting underway after the Football Association announced the make-up of the Ryman League’s three divisions on Thursday.

The allocation of 72 clubs into the Ryman Premier, Ryman North and Ryman South followed the annual end of season reshuffle of football’s Non-League pyramid at Steps 1-4 by the FA’s Leagues Committee at Wembley.

Like those of the Football Conference, Evo-Stik League Southern and Evo-Stik Northern Premier League, the league’s constitution for the 2015-16 season, listed below, is subject to appeal and will be confirmed at the Ryman League’s AGM which takes place on Sunday 14 June at the Hilton London Wembley.

In the Ryman’s top flight, the 2009 Ryman Premier play-off winners Staines Town return along with Farnborough who will replace one of the two clubs bidding to win this season's Ryman Premier play-off final on Sunday – runners-up Hendon or Margate – and join champions Maidstone United as their replacements in the new National League South, formerly Conference South.

The four clubs relegated from the Ryman League - Burnham Ramblers and Redbridge from Ryman North and Redhill and Horsham from Ryman South - are replaced by Molesey who make a welcome return after winning the Combined Counties League and three newcomers, Essex Senior League champions Haringey Borough, Southern Counties East League champions Phoenix Sports and Dorking Wanderers, runners-up in the Sussex County League.

The reshuffle also saw one other major change to improve the geographical positioning of clubs, Chatham Town switching from Ryman North into Ryman South.

Isthmian League Constitution 2015-16

Ryman Premier
Billericay Town,
Bognor Regis Town,
Brentwood Town
Burgess Hill Town
Canvey Island
Dulwich Hamlet
East Thurrock United
Enfield Town
Grays Athletic
Hampton & Richmond Borough
Harrow Borough
Hendon*
Kingstonian
Leatherhead
Leiston
Lewes
Margate*
Merstham
Metropolitan Police
Needham Market
Staines Town
Tonbridge Angels
VCD Athletic
Wingate & Finchley

* Please note, the winner of the Ryman Premier play-offs will be replaced by Farnborough.

Ryman North
AFC Hornchurch
AFC Sudbury
Aveley
Barkingside
Brightlingsea Regent
Bury Town
Cheshunt
Cray Wanderers
Dereham Town
Great Wakering Rovers
Harlow Town
Haringey Borough
Heybridge Swifts
Maldon & Tiptree
Phoenix
Romford
Soham Town Rangers
Thamesmead Town
Thurrock
Tilbury
Waltham Abbey
Ware
Witham Town
Wroxham

Ryman South
Carshalton Athletic
Chatham Town
Chipstead
Corinthian Casuals
Dorking Wanderers
East Grinstead Town
Faversham Town
Folkestone Invicta
Guernsey
Hasting United
Herne Bay
Hythe Town
Molesey
Peacehaven & Telscombe
Ramsgate
Sittingbourne
South Park
Three Bridges
Tooting & Mitcham United
Walton & Hersham
Walton Casuals
Whitstable Town
Whyteleafe
Worthing

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