Western Football League
Season1946–47
ChampionsTrowbridge Town (Division One)
Clandown (Division Two)

The 1946–47 season was the 45th in the history of the Western Football League.

The league was again split into two divisions for the first time since the 1938–39 season, with seventeen new clubs having joined. The champions for the second time in their history were Trowbridge Town, and the winners of Division Two were Clandown. A system of automatic promotion and relegation was introduced for the first time, and due to the severe winter, several fixtures were not fulfilled and the season was abandoned on 5 June 1947.[1]

Division One

Division One consisted of eighteen clubs: eleven from the previous season's single division were joined by seven new clubs. All had been members of the league before the war and had left in 1939, except for Bath City Reserves and Wells City, who had left in 1940.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Relegation
1 Trowbridge Town 31 27 1 3 123 43 2.860 55
2 Poole Town 29 20 5 4 86 26 3.308 45
3 Bristol Rovers Reserves 31 19 4 8 96 53 1.811 42
4 Chippenham Town 31 20 2 9 115 68 1.691 42
5 Yeovil Town Reserves 30 16 4 10 85 56 1.518 36
6 Clevedon 30 15 5 10 87 62 1.403 35
7 Portland United 31 14 4 13 92 69 1.333 32
8 Street 32 13 5 14 75 80 0.938 31
9 Paulton Rovers 31 13 3 15 79 110 0.718 29
10 Glastonbury 29 12 3 14 56 68 0.824 27
11 Bristol Aeroplane Company 29 12 3 14 72 87 0.828 27
12 Wells City 31 8 9 14 52 78 0.667 25
13 Radstock Town 29 9 3 17 66 82 0.805 21
14 Peasedown Miners Welfare 21 7 6 8 43 49 0.878 20
15 Bristol City Reserves 24 7 1 16 50 92 0.543 15
16 Bath City Reserves 26 5 4 17 34 72 0.472 14
17 Frome Town (R) 29 4 3 22 45 129 0.349 11 Relegated to Division Two
18 Welton Rovers (R) 20 2 3 15 40 72 0.556 7
Source:
(R) Relegated

Division Two

Division Two consisted of thirteen clubs: three from the previous season's single division (Clandown, Douglas and Soundwell) were joined by ten new clubs:

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GR Pts Promotion
1 Clandown (P) 23 20 2 1 130 33 3.939 42[lower-alpha 1] Promoted to Division One
2 Soundwell (P) 24 17 3 4 111 44 2.523 37
3 Douglas 23 14 2 7 107 77 1.390 30
4 Trowbridge Town Reserves 22 13 3 6 82 50 1.640 29
5 Swindon Town Reserves 24 11 3 10 91 77 1.182 25
6 Hoffman Athletic 20 11 2 7 62 37 1.676 24
7 RAF Locking 21 11 1 9 83 69 1.203 23
8 RAF Melksham 23 7 4 12 56 83 0.675 18
9 Cinderford Town 21 7 3 11 58 60 0.967 17
10 B.A.C. Reserves 23 6 3 14 50 76 0.658 15
11 Chippenham Town Reserves 20 4 3 13 47 86 0.547 11
12 RAF Colerne 20 2 5 13 48 99 0.485 9
13 Thorney Pitts 18 1 0 17 24 158 0.152 2 Disbanded at the end of the season
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
Notes:
  1. ↑ The tables as published at the time contained errors, hence the totals do not balance in some columns.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006
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