1958–59 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1958–59
Champions	Yeovil Town Reserves (Division One) Bath City Reserves (Division Two)
← 1957–58 1959–60 →

The 1958–59 season was the 57th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Yeovil Town Reserves, and the winners of Division Two were Bath City Reserves.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One remained at nineteen clubs after Chippenham United were relegated the previous season, Trowbridge Town joined the Southern League, and two clubs joined:

Gloucester City Reserves, runners-up in Division Two
Poole Town Reserves, champions of Division Two

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Yeovil Town Reserves	36	26	3	7	115	54	2.13	55
2	Salisbury	36	24	3	9	91	53	1.72	51
3	Dorchester Town	36	23	2	11	110	61	1.8	48
4	Bridgwater Town	36	21	6	9	81	57	1.42	48
5	Barnstaple Town	36	20	5	11	85	68	1.25	45
6	Chippenham Town	36	20	3	13	104	66	1.58	43
7	Bideford Town	36	15	11	10	83	60	1.38	41
8	Torquay United Reserves	36	18	3	15	70	70	1	39
9	Weymouth Reserves	36	18	2	16	84	63	1.33	38
10	Cinderford Town	36	15	4	17	60	63	0.95	34	Left at the end of the season
11	Bristol Rovers Colts	36	14	6	16	73	77	0.95	34
12	Glastonbury	36	15	3	18	63	81	0.77	33
13	Taunton Town	36	15	2	19	53	68	0.78	32
14	Bristol City Colts	36	12	7	17	75	88	0.85	31
15	Portland United	36	13	5	18	68	82	0.83	31
16	Poole Town Reserves	36	10	7	19	63	91	0.69	27
17	Gloucester City Reserves	36	9	5	22	64	91	0.7	23
18	Minehead	36	6	7	23	50	111	0.45	19
19	Frome Town (R)	36	4	4	28	52	140	0.37	12

Division Two

Division Two was reduced from eighteen clubs to seventeen after Gloucester City Reserves and Poole Town Reserves were promoted to Division One, Clevedon left, and two new clubs joined:

Bridgwater Town Reserves
Chippenham United, relegated from Division One.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bath City Reserves (P)	34	20	7	5	95	39	2.43	47
2	Trowbridge Town Reserves (P)	34	20	5	7	88	56	1.57	45
3	Street	32	18	5	9	73	56	1.3	41
4	Bridgwater Town Reserves	32	16	8	8	81	55	1.47	40
5	Welton Rovers	32	18	3	11	80	53	1.51	39
6	Dorchester Town Reserves	32	16	6	10	73	52	1.4	38
7	Weston-super-Mare	32	16	5	11	80	59	1.36	37
8	Paulton Rovers	32	16	5	11	87	71	1.22	37
9	Stonehouse	32	16	4	12	85	47	1.81	36
10	Chippenham United	32	14	7	11	65	54	1.2	35
11	Taunton Town Reserves	32	11	6	15	58	81	0.72	28
12	Peasedown Miners Welfare	32	9	9	14	64	89	0.72	27
13	Clandown	32	10	6	16	58	74	0.78	26
14	Radstock Town	32	10	5	17	61	76	0.8	25
15	Ilfracombe Town	32	7	5	20	48	108	0.44	19	Left at the end of the season
16	Hoffman Athletic	32	4	4	24	49	107	0.46	12	Left at the end of the season
17	Wells City	32	5	2	25	44	112	0.39	12

^{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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