1950–51 Western Football League
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Season | 1950–51 |
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Champions | Glastonbury (Division One) Stonehouse (Division Two) |
← 1949–50 1951–52 → |
The 1950–51 season was the 49th in the history of the Western Football League.
Division Three was scrapped after only one season, and the league reverted to the previous two-division format. The champions for the second time in their history were Glastonbury, and the winners of Division Two were Stonehouse.[1]
Division One
[edit]Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Soundwell and Bath City Reserves, who were relegated to Division Two.
- Barnstaple Town, champions of Division Two
- Dorchester Town, runners-up in Division Two
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Relegation |
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1 | Glastonbury | 34 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 102 | 27 | 3.778 | 58 | |
2 | Wells City | 34 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 83 | 39 | 2.128 | 53 | |
3 | Chippenham Town | 34 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 86 | 48 | 1.792 | 44 | |
4 | Chippenham United | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 72 | 44 | 1.636 | 42 | |
5 | Trowbridge Town | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 83 | 49 | 1.694 | 41 | |
6 | Barnstaple Town | 34 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 71 | 62 | 1.145 | 40 | |
7 | Poole Town | 34 | 18 | 3 | 13 | 71 | 71 | 1.000 | 39 | |
8 | Salisbury | 34 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 65 | 55 | 1.182 | 35 | |
9 | Dorchester Town | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 64 | 58 | 1.103 | 34 | |
10 | Street | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 74 | 69 | 1.072 | 34 | |
11 | Weymouth Reserves | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 54 | 56 | 0.964 | 32 | |
12 | Cheltenham Town Reserves | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 56 | 61 | 0.918 | 31 | |
13 | Bristol Rovers Colts | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 60 | 85 | 0.706 | 30 | |
14 | Clandown | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 49 | 58 | 0.845 | 29 | |
15 | Paulton Rovers | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 62 | 75 | 0.827 | 27 | |
16 | Portland United | 34 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 56 | 112 | 0.500 | 19 | |
17 | Yeovil Town Reserves (R) | 34 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 38 | 79 | 0.481 | 19 | Relegated to Division Two |
18 | Peasedown Miners Welfare (R) | 34 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 25 | 123 | 0.203 | 5 |
Division Two
[edit]Division Two was increased from eighteen clubs to twenty, after Barnstaple Town and Dorchester Town were promoted to Division One, and Bristol Aeroplane Company and Douglas left the league. Six new clubs joined:
- Bath City Reserves, relegated from Division One.
- Bideford Town, promoted as champions of Division Three.
- Chipping Sodbury
- Ilfracombe Town, promoted as runners-up of Division Three.
- Minehead, promoted as third-placed club in Division Three.
- Soundwell, relegated from Division One.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion |
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1 | Stonehouse (P) | 38 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 133 | 36 | 3.694 | 65 | Promoted to Division One |
2 | Bath City Reserves (P) | 38 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 114 | 44 | 2.591 | 61 | |
3 | Bideford Town | 38 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 158 | 54 | 2.926 | 60 | |
4 | Cinderford Town | 38 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 112 | 51 | 2.196 | 54 | |
5 | Bridgwater Town | 38 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 124 | 50 | 2.480 | 53 | |
6 | Ilfracombe Town | 38 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 105 | 68 | 1.544 | 51 | |
7 | Clevedon | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 95 | 81 | 1.173 | 42 | |
8 | Welton Rovers | 38 | 18 | 5 | 15 | 103 | 95 | 1.084 | 41 | |
9 | Hoffman Athletic | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 74 | 66 | 1.121 | 40 | |
10 | Minehead | 38 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 73 | 74 | 0.986 | 40 | |
11 | Frome Town | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 81 | 102 | 0.794 | 34 | |
12 | Bristol City Colts | 38 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 75 | 84 | 0.893 | 33 | |
13 | Radstock Town | 38 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 85 | 112 | 0.759 | 31 | |
14 | Chippenham Town Reserves | 38 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 83 | 115 | 0.722 | 30 | |
15 | Swindon Town Colts | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 88 | 95 | 0.926 | 29 | |
16 | Trowbridge Town Reserves | 38 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 69 | 100 | 0.690 | 28 | |
17 | Chipping Sodbury | 38 | 10 | 3 | 25 | 75 | 113 | 0.664 | 23 | |
18 | Weston-super-Mare | 38 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 46 | 100 | 0.460 | 23 | |
19 | Soundwell | 38 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 46 | 165 | 0.279 | 14 | Left at the end of the season |
20 | National Smelting Company | 38 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 50 | 184 | 0.272 | 8 |
Source: [citation needed]
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
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
[edit]- ^ Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006