Third-placed AFC Whyteleafe handed title after top two are docked points

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Third-placed AFC Whyteleafe handed title after top two are docked points

It means the trophy has been handed Whyteleafe, who would have finished third with 95 points, and the club have been awarded automatic promotion to the eighth-tier Isthmian League Division One South East.

Meanwhile, Jersey will take on Fleet Town and Redhill will face Cobham in the play-offs.

“I feel great that we’ve been crowned champions and been promoted to Step Four, but at the same time it’s a very strange way to go about it,” Whyteleafe boss Kelly Waters told BBC Radio Surrey.

“I feel quite sorry for Jersey and Redhill in the situation that they’ve had, I’ve experienced it myself before when I was managing at Balham and it’s painful.

“But they have to enforce the rules to make sure people don’t use them inappropriately and in the end we’ve been a beneficiary of that and we couldn’t be happier to be back in Step Four.”

The original Whyteleafe FC folded in 2021 and the current version of the club was formed shortly after by chairman and co-manager Waters.

‘Leafe entered the Surrey South Eastern Combination League in 2021-22. The club are now back at the same level Whyteleafe FC had been at at the time it folded.

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