1925–26 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1925–26
Champions	Bristol City Reserves (Division One) Poole (Division Two)
← 1924–25 1926–27 →

The 1925–26 season was the 29th in the history of the Western Football League.

From this season, the league consisted of two divisions after a number of reserve teams joined. The Division One champions were Bristol City Reserves. The winners of Division Two were Poole, who were promoted to Division One.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One consisted of three clubs from the old single-division league, plus two new clubs and five new reserve teams. The number of clubs was thus reduced from thirteen to ten after Peasedown St John left the league.

The seven new teams were:

Bristol City Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Bristol Rovers Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Exeter City Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Plymouth Argyle Reserves
Swindon Town Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Taunton United
Torquay United, rejoining after leaving the league in 1922.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Bristol City Reserves	18	10	7	1	58	19	3.05	27
2	Bristol Rovers Reserves	18	11	2	5	53	36	1.47	24
3	Torquay United	18	9	4	5	28	22	1.27	22
4	Yeovil and Petters United	18	7	7	4	33	27	1.22	21
5	Swindon Town Reserves	18	6	8	4	32	33	0.97	20
6	Weymouth	18	7	4	7	37	45	0.82	18
7	Plymouth Argyle Reserves	18	6	5	7	31	25	1.24	17
8	Exeter City Reserves	18	6	4	8	33	41	0.8	16
9	Taunton United	18	3	3	12	18	45	0.4	9
10	Bath City	18	1	4	13	20	50	0.4	6

Division Two

The new Division Two consisted of the other nine clubs from the old single-division league, and four new teams, three of them reserve teams of Division One clubs.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Poole (P)	24	17	3	4	76	30	2.53	37
2	Welton Rovers	24	16	4	4	62	37	1.68	36
3	Weymouth Reserves	24	12	4	8	69	47	1.47	28
4	Lovells Athletic (P)	24	8	8	8	52	46	1.13	24
5	Radstock Town	24	9	6	9	31	28	1.11	24
6	Minehead	24	10	4	10	42	53	0.79	24
7	Portland United	24	8	7	9	49	56	0.87	23
8	Trowbridge Town	24	8	6	10	56	68	0.82	22
9	Swindon Victoria	24	9	3	12	55	71	0.77	21	Left at the end of the season
10	Paulton Rovers	24	7	6	11	48	68	0.7	20	Left at the end of the season
11	Bath City Reserves	24	7	5	12	50	53	0.94	19	Left at the end of the season
12	Yeovil and Petters United Reserves	24	7	4	13	48	57	0.84	18
13	Frome Town	24	5	6	13	40	64	0.62	16

^{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

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

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