1959–60 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1959–60
Champions	Torquay United Reserves (Division One) Welton Rovers (Division Two)
← 1958–59 1960–61 →

The 1959–60 season was the 58th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Torquay United Reserves, and the winners of Division Two were Welton Rovers. This season was the last to feature two divisions until 1976–77; many clubs left the league at the end of the season and the league was reduced to one division for 1960–61.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One remained at nineteen clubs after Frome Town were relegated the previous season, Cinderford Town left, and two clubs joined:

Bath City Reserves, champions of Division Two
Trowbridge Town Reserves, runners-up in Division Two

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Torquay United Reserves	36	29	5	2	132	40	3.3	63
2	Salisbury	36	20	7	9	85	43	1.98	47
3	Chippenham Town	36	18	6	12	70	56	1.25	42
4	Bridgwater Town	36	18	5	13	79	62	1.27	41
5	Weymouth Reserves	36	18	4	14	72	58	1.24	40
6	Portland United	36	17	6	13	61	68	0.9	40
7	Bideford Town	36	15	8	13	61	62	0.98	38
8	Bath City Reserves	36	15	7	14	63	61	1.03	37
9	Yeovil Town Reserves	36	17	3	16	74	77	0.96	37
10	Poole Town Reserves	36	15	6	15	73	66	1.11	36
11	Dorchester Town	36	17	2	17	87	88	0.99	36
12	Minehead	36	12	11	13	68	72	0.94	35
13	Bristol Rovers Colts	36	13	8	15	79	80	0.99	34
14	Glastonbury	36	11	10	15	66	78	0.85	32
15	Barnstaple Town	36	13	5	18	50	65	0.77	31
16	Taunton Town	36	11	7	18	67	96	0.7	29
17	Bristol City Colts	36	12	4	20	65	82	0.79	28
18	Gloucester City Reserves	36	9	4	23	49	92	0.53	22	Left at the end of the season
19	Trowbridge Town Reserves	36	5	6	25	36	91	0.4	16

Division Two

Division Two was reduced from seventeen clubs to fourteen after Bath City Reserves and Trowbridge Town Reserves were promoted to Division One, Hoffman Athletic and Ilfracombe Town left, and one new club joined:

Frome Town, relegated from Division One.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Welton Rovers (P)	26	20	2	4	95	40	2.4	42
2	Stonehouse	26	17	4	5	78	43	1.81	38	Left at the end of the season
3	Weston-super-Mare (P)	26	15	6	5	100	42	2.38	36
4	Frome Town	26	14	5	7	63	38	1.66	33	Left at the end of the season
5	Chippenham United	26	14	2	10	64	52	1.23	30
6	Clandown	26	9	9	8	48	43	1.12	27
7	Paulton Rovers	26	11	5	10	58	64	0.91	27
8	Radstock Town	26	12	3	11	48	62	0.77	27
9	Street	26	10	5	11	48	53	0.91	25
10	Wells City	26	8	5	13	46	73	0.63	21
11	Bridgwater Town Reserves	26	8	4	14	58	64	0.91	20
12	Taunton Town Reserves	26	5	7	14	43	59	0.73	17
13	Dorchester Town Reserves	26	5	5	16	43	82	0.52	15
14	Peasedown Miners Welfare	26	1	4	21	38	114	0.33	6

^{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.}

^{3 The tables as published at the time contained errors, hence the totals do not balance in some columns.}^[1]

References

1 2 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

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Second Division	Aston Villa Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Derby County Huddersfield Town Hull City Ipswich Town Leyton Orient Lincoln City Liverpool Middlesbrough Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Rotherham United Scunthorpe United Sheffield United Stoke City Sunderland Swansea Town

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