1947–48 Western Football League

The 1947–48 season was the 46th in the history of the Western Football League.

Western Football League
Season1947–48
ChampionsTrowbridge Town (Division One)
Salisbury (Division Two)

The champions for the third time in their history and for the second consecutive season were Trowbridge Town, and the winners of Division Two were new club Salisbury, formed after the previous Salisbury club disbanded.[1]

Two games in each division were left unplayed at the end of the season, and were ignored.[1]

Division One

Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Frome Town and Welton Rovers, who were relegated to Division Two.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Relegation
1 Trowbridge Town 34 29 3 2 131 33 3.970 61
2 Glastonbury 34 26 3 5 119 40 2.975 55
3 Street 34 23 7 4 98 40 2.450 53
4 Bristol Rovers Reserves 34 21 6 7 121 60 2.017 48 Left at the end of the season
5 Clevedon 34 20 4 10 117 66 1.773 44
6 Clandown 34 16 5 13 84 80 1.050 37
7 Poole Town 33 14 6 13 73 72 1.014 34
8 Yeovil Town Reserves 34 14 4 16 70 79 0.886 32
9 Paulton Rovers 34 13 5 16 78 93 0.839 31
10 Portland United 34 11 7 16 64 72 0.889 29
11 Bristol City Reserves 34 11 7 16 69 104 0.663 29 Left at the end of the season
12 Bath City Reserves 34 10 8 16 56 82 0.683 28
13 Wells City 34 11 5 18 58 71 0.817 27
14 Peasedown Miners Welfare 34 11 5 18 74 96 0.771 27
15 Soundwell 32 8 7 17 64 103 0.621 23
16 Chippenham Town 33 8 6 19 65 97 0.670 22
17 Radstock Town (R) 34 8 3 23 64 108 0.593 19 Relegated to Division Two
18 Bristol Aeroplane Company (R) 34 4 1 29 56 165 0.339 9
Source:
(R) Relegated

Division Two

Division Two was increased from thirteen to eighteen clubs, after Clandown and Soundwell were promoted to Division One, and Thorney Pitts disbanded. Eight new clubs joined:

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion
1 Salisbury (P) 34 29 1 4 145 33 4.394 59 Promoted to Division One
2 Weymouth (P) 34 26 4 4 148 37 4.000 56
3 Cheltenham Town Reserves 34 25 3 6 142 42 3.381 53
4 Welton Rovers 34 21 3 10 85 49 1.735 45
5 Frome Town 33 22 0 11 114 76 1.500 44
6 Hoffman Athletic 34 19 5 10 79 50 1.580 43
7 Trowbridge Town Reserves 33 17 5 11 92 59 1.559 39
8 Swindon Town Reserves 34 17 4 13 95 76 1.250 38
9 Douglas 34 18 2 14 104 88 1.182 38
10 Dorchester Town 34 13 6 15 64 79 0.810 32
11 Cinderford Town 34 12 7 15 87 103 0.845 31
12 National Smelting Company 34 13 5 16 80 102 0.784 31
13 Stonehouse 34 7 7 20 64 113 0.566 21
14 Chippenham Town Reserves 34 8 4 22 63 117 0.538 20
15 RAF Locking 33 9 1 23 52 126 0.413 19 Left at the end of the season
16 RAF Melksham 34 7 4 23 63 136 0.463 18
17 RAF Colerne 33 6 4 23 64 146 0.438 16 Left at the end of the season
18 B.A.C. Reserves 34 2 1 31 48 157 0.306 5
Source:
Rules for classification: The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season. The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
(P) Promoted

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