The South West Peninsula League was formed following an amalgamation of the South Western Football League and the Devon County Football League in June 2007 and consists of 3 divisions.
Division 1 East Clubs are all from Devon and placed at Step 7 of the National League System.
At the end of each season:
One club can be promoted from the Premier Division to the Western League Premier, the bottom 2 clubs can be relegated to Division 1 East & West. One club from each of Division 1 East & West can be promoted to the Premier Division. The bottom side in each of the Division 1's can be relegated to one of 6 feeder leagues beneath the league.  

DIVISION 1 EAST MATCH REPORTS 
Saturday 6th March
Divisional leaders Stoke Gabriel had to settle for justa draw for the 2nd time this week as they followed the midweek 2-2 draw at Ottery St Mary with a 1-1 draw at home to visiting Appledore today. Galmpton Gents who started the day in 2nd spot suffered just their 3rd defeat of the season as they were beaten 1-2 at home by Exmouth Town which allowed Liverton United to move up a place from 3rd following their 2-0 win away at bottom side Bickleigh. in Exeter their were mixed fortunes as Alphington surprisingly lost 0-1 at home to the University of Exeter and over at Foxhayes, Exeter Civil Service got back to winning ways with a 4-2 win over visiting Okehampton Argyle. The three remaining matches all saw home wins with Budleigh Salterton following up their 6-1 midweek result at Greenway Lane with another home win today, 4-1 over Newton Abbot Spurs. Crediton United who had not played a home league fixture for an unwelcome league record of some 140 days strethcing back to the 17th October celebrated by collecting the points from a 3-0 win over an Ottery St Mary side who have now conceeded 100 goals this season. Teignmouth climbed a place to 11th after they gained revenge for a recent defeat at Sector Lane as they made full use of home advantage to beat Axminster Town 4-0 today.
Wednesday 3rd March
Table topping Stoke Gabriel were held to a 2-2 draw away at lowly Ottery St Mary tonight with the 17th placed Otters taking the lead through Bradley Cooke before a goal either side of the half time break from Tyrone Hawken gave the leaders the lead. Cooke was on hand 5 minutes from time to level and earn a well deserved point for the battling Otters. Budleigh Salterton had a very comfortable home win over Crediton United with the Robins running out 6-1 winners having been 4 nil up at half time. Danny Williams in particular boosted his goal tally with 4 of his side’s goals.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
STOKE GABRIEL	23	15	3	5	68	32	36	48
LIVERTON UNITED	22	13	5	4	60	32	28	44
GALMPTON GENTS	21	12	6	3	49	23	26	42
ROYAL MARINES	17	12	2	3	56	27	29	38
ALPHINGTON	21	11	2	8	51	38	13	35
EXETER CIVIL SERVICE	18	11	1	6	40	30	10	34
EXMOUTH TOWN	22	10	3	9	46	44	2	33
APPLEDORE	18	10	2	6	48	33	15	32
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON	23	10	2	11	47	39	8	32
TOTNES & DARTINGTON	19	9	4	6	44	27	17	31
TEIGNMOUTH	18	9	2	7	49	39	10	29
EXETER UNIVERSITY	22	8	3	11	34	44	-10	27
NEWTON ABBOT SPURS	23	8	3	12	43	56	-13	27
AXMINSTER TOWN	21	8	2	11	38	59	-21	26
CREDITON UNITED	21	7	3	11	44	53	-9	24
OKEHAMPTON ARGYLE	21	4	2	15	31	69	-38	14
OTTERY ST MARY	24	3	4	17	35	100	-65	13
BICKLEIGH	22	2	3	17	33	71	-38	9