1947–48 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1947–48
Champions	Trowbridge Town (Division One) Salisbury (Division Two)
← 1946–47 1948–49 →

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

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]

Final tables

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.

Clandown, champions of Division Two
Soundwell, runners-up in Division Two

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Trowbridge Town	34	29	3	2	131	33	3.97	61
2	Glastonbury	34	26	3	5	119	40	2.97	55
3	Street	34	23	7	4	98	40	2.45	53
4	Bristol Rovers Reserves	34	21	6	7	121	60	2.02	48	Left at the end of the season
5	Clevedon	34	20	4	10	117	66	1.77	44
6	Clandown	34	16	5	13	84	80	1.05	37
7	Poole Town	33	14	6	13	73	72	1.01	34
8	Yeovil Town Reserves	34	14	4	16	70	79	0.89	32
9	Paulton Rovers	34	13	5	16	78	93	0.84	31
10	Portland United	34	11	7	16	64	72	0.89	29
11	Bristol City Reserves	34	11	7	16	69	104	0.66	29	Left at the end of the season
12	Bath City Reserves	34	10	8	16	56	82	0.68	28
13	Wells City	34	11	5	18	58	71	0.82	27
14	Peasedown Miners Welfare	34	11	5	18	74	96	0.77	27
15	Soundwell	32	8	7	17	64	103	0.62	23
16	Chippenham Town	33	8	6	19	65	97	0.67	22
17	Radstock Town (R)	34	8	3	23	64	108	0.59	19
18	Bristol Aeroplane Company (R)	34	4	1	29	56	165	0.34	9

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:

Cheltenham Town Reserves
Dorchester Town
Frome Town, relegated from Division One.
National Smelting Company
Salisbury
Stonehouse
Welton Rovers, relegated from Division One.
Weymouth, rejoining after leaving the league in 1939.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Salisbury (P)	34	29	1	4	145	33	4.39	59
2	Weymouth (P)	34	26	4	4	148	37	4	56
3	Cheltenham Town Reserves	34	25	3	6	142	42	3.38	53
4	Welton Rovers	34	21	3	10	85	49	1.73	45
5	Frome Town	33	22	0	11	114	76	1.5	44
6	Hoffman Athletic	34	19	5	10	79	50	1.58	43
7	Trowbridge Town Reserves	33	17	5	11	92	59	1.56	39
8	Swindon Town Reserves	34	17	4	13	95	76	1.25	38
9	Douglas	34	18	2	14	104	88	1.18	38
10	Dorchester Town	34	13	6	15	64	79	0.81	32
11	Cinderford Town	34	12	7	15	87	103	0.84	31
12	National Smelting Company	34	13	5	16	80	102	0.78	31
13	Stonehouse	34	7	7	20	64	113	0.57	21
14	Chippenham Town Reserves	34	8	4	22	63	117	0.54	20
15	RAF Locking	33	9	1	23	52	126	0.41	19	Left at the end of the season
16	RAF Melksham	34	7	4	23	63	136	0.46	18
17	RAF Colerne	33	6	4	23	64	146	0.44	16	Left at the end of the season
18	B.A.C. Reserves	34	2	1	31	48	157	0.31	5	Left at the end of the season

^{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

↑ 1.0 1.1 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

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