1909–10 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1909–10
Champions	Treharris
← 1908–09 1910–11 →

The 1909–10 season was the 18th in the history of the Western Football League.

After Division One was scrapped at the end of the previous season, the members clubs all having resigned to concentrate on the Southern League, the Western League became a single-division league for the first time since the inaugural 1892–93 season. The champions were Treharris, the first time that the title had been won by a Welsh team, although they left the league at the end of the season.^[1]

Final table

The old Division Two became the only division for this season, and two new clubs joined, increasing the number of clubs from 12 to 13 clubs, after Staple Hill disbanded.

Merthyr Town
Ton Pentre
Aberdare changed their name to Aberdare Town

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Treharris	24	20	2	2	84	21	4	42	Left the league at the end of the season
2	Bristol City Reserves	24	18	3	3	86	23	3.74	39
3	Bristol Rovers Reserves	24	15	3	6	79	25	3.16	33
4	Ton Pentre	24	14	4	6	68	26	2.61	32	Left the league at the end of the season
5	Merthyr Town	24	14	3	7	57	24	2.37	31	Left the league at the end of the season
6	Welton Rovers	24	13	5	6	51	46	1.11	31
7	Aberdare	23	13	2	8	57	30	1.9	28	Left the league at the end of the season
8	Barry District	23	11	1	11	57	57	1	23
9	Bath City	24	5	6	13	31	66	0.47	15*
10	Kingswood Rovers	23	4	2	17	28	80	0.35	10	Left the league at the end of the season
11	Radstock Town	24	4	1	19	24	88	0.27	9	Left the league at the end of the season
12	Weymouth	23	3	2	18	25	93	0.27	8
13	Paulton Rovers	24	2	2	20	28	96	0.29	6

* Bath City had one point deducted for a breach of the rules.^[1]
Two games were left unplayed due to the away team not arriving:^[1]

26 April 1910 – Weymouth v Aberdare Town

27 April 1910 – Barry District v Kingswood Rovers

^{1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season.}

^{2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

References

1 2 3 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

Western League

Premier Division	Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Cribbs Gillingham Town Hallen Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Odd Down Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Wells City Willand Rovers

Division One	Almondsbury UWE Ashton & Backwell United Bishops Lydeard Bishop Sutton Calne Town Chard Town Cheddar Chippenham Park Corsham Town Devizes Town Hengrove Athletic Keynsham Town Malmesbury Victoria Oldland Abbotonians Portishead Town Radstock Town Roman Glass St George Warminster Town Wellington Welton Rovers Westbury United Wincanton Town

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FA competitions

FA Cup (Qualifying rounds
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Related to national team

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Club seasons

First Division	Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bradford City Bristol City Bury Chelsea Everton Liverpool Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Notts County Preston North End Sheffield United Sunderland Tottenham Hotspur The Wednesday Woolwich Arsenal

Second Division	Barnsley Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Park Avenue Burnley Clapton Orient Derby County Fulham Gainsborough Trinity Glossop Grimsby Town Hull City Leeds City Leicester Fosse Lincoln City Manchester City Oldham Athletic Stockport County West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

Southern League	Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Coventry City Croydon Common Crystal Palace Exeter City Leyton Luton Town Millwall New Brompton Northampton Town Norwich City Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Reading SouthamptonSouthend United Swindon Town Watford West Ham United

Other	Stoke

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