1956–57 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1956–57
Champions	Poole Town (Division One) Cinderford Town (Division Two)
← 1955–56 1957–58 →

The 1956–57 season was the 55th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Poole Town, and the winners of Division Two were Cinderford Town.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One was increased from seventeen to nineteen clubs after no clubs were relegated the previous season. Two clubs joined:

Taunton Town, runners-up in Division Two
Torquay United Reserves, champions of Division Two

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Poole Town	36	26	4	6	115	48	2.4	56	Joined the Southern League
2	Trowbridge Town	36	21	5	10	83	55	1.51	47
3	Salisbury	36	20	5	11	98	60	1.63	45
4	Torquay United Reserves	36	18	8	10	91	55	1.65	44
5	Portland United	36	18	8	10	84	64	1.31	44
6	Bridgwater Town	36	17	7	12	58	54	1.07	41
7	Dorchester Town	36	16	7	13	83	70	1.19	39
8	Chippenham Town	36	16	7	13	77	67	1.15	39
9	Yeovil Town Reserves	36	18	2	16	79	73	1.08	38
10	Glastonbury	36	16	3	17	82	102	0.8	35
11	Bristol Rovers Colts	36	14	6	16	67	90	0.74	34
12	Weymouth Reserves	36	16	1	19	87	94	0.92	33
13	Barnstaple Town	36	14	4	18	76	70	1.09	32
14	Bideford Town	36	12	8	16	70	71	0.99	32
15	Taunton Town	36	11	9	16	59	71	0.83	31
16	Chippenham United	36	12	6	18	80	97	0.82	30
17	Bristol City Colts	36	13	4	19	58	74	0.78	30
18	Frome Town	36	10	2	24	46	91	0.5	22
19	Wells City (R)	36	4	4	28	46	133	0.35	12

Division Two

Division Two was reduced from twenty to eighteen clubs after Taunton Town and Torquay United Reserves were promoted to Division One, Chippenham Town Reserves and Frome Town Reserves left the league, and no clubs were relegated from Division One. Two new clubs joined:

Bath City Reserves, rejoining the league after leaving Division One in 1955.
Dorchester Town Reserves

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Cinderford Town (P)	34	28	2	4	114	31	3.68	58
2	Trowbridge Town Reserves	34	25	4	5	112	35	3.2	54
3	Poole Town Reserves	34	23	6	5	87	39	2.23	52
4	Minehead (P)	34	20	5	9	83	52	1.6	45
5	Dorchester Town Reserves	34	18	6	10	113	69	1.64	42
6	Gloucester City Reserves	34	17	7	10	81	50	1.62	41
7	Welton Rovers	34	18	3	13	87	74	1.18	39
8	Stonehouse	34	14	10	10	98	70	1.4	38
9	Bath City Reserves	34	16	6	12	91	82	1.11	38
10	Weston-super-Mare	34	11	7	16	68	80	0.85	29
11	Peasedown Miners Welfare	34	10	6	18	69	99	0.7	26
12	Hoffman Athletic	34	8	10	16	52	92	0.56	26
13	Street	34	9	7	18	48	68	0.71	25
14	Clevedon	34	10	4	20	64	85	0.75	24
15	Ilfracombe Town	34	7	8	19	43	82	0.52	22
16	Radstock Town	34	9	3	22	65	141	0.46	21
17	Paulton Rovers	34	7	3	24	50	111	0.45	17
18	Clandown	34	6	3	25	49	114	0.43	15

^{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

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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