1905–06 Southern Football League

The 1905–06 season was the 12th in the history of Southern League. Fulham won Division One and Crystal Palace finished top of Division Two. No clubs were relegated from Division One as it was expanded to 20 clubs the following season.^[1] No clubs applied to join the Football League.

Division One

Southern Football League Division One
Season	1905–06
Champions	Fulham (1st title)
Promoted	none
Relegated	none
Matches played	306
Goals scored	812 (2.65 per match)
← 1904–05 1906–07 →

A total of 18 teams contest the division, including 17 sides from previous season and one new team.

Newly elected team:

Norwich City

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Fulham	34	19	12	3	44	15	2.93	50
2	Southampton	34	19	7	8	58	39	1.49	45
3	Portsmouth	34	17	9	8	61	35	1.74	43
4	Luton Town	34	17	7	10	64	40	1.6	41
5	Tottenham Hotspur	34	16	7	11	46	29	1.59	39
6	Plymouth Argyle	34	16	7	11	52	33	1.58	39
7	Norwich City	34	13	10	11	46	38	1.21	36
8	Bristol Rovers	34	15	5	14	56	56	1	35
9	Brentford	34	14	7	13	43	52	0.83	35
10	Reading	34	12	9	13	53	46	1.15	33
11	West Ham United	34	14	5	15	42	39	1.08	33
12	Millwall	34	11	11	12	38	41	0.93	33
13	Queens Park Rangers	34	12	7	15	58	44	1.32	31
14	Watford	34	8	10	16	38	57	0.67	26
15	Swindon Town	34	8	9	17	31	52	0.6	25
16	Brighton & Hove Albion	34	9	7	18	30	55	0.55	25
17	New Brompton	34	7	8	19	20	62	0.32	22
18	Northampton Town	34	8	5	21	32	79	0.40	21

^{1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.}

^{2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

Division Two

Southern Football League Division Two
Season	1905–06
Champions	Crystal Palace
Promoted	Crystal Palace Leyton
Relegated	Southern United (resigned) Watford II (resigned) Grays United (resigned)
Matches played	156
Goals scored	590 (3.78 per match)
← 1904–05 1906–07 →

A total of 13 teams contest the division, including 9 sides from previous season and four new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.

Newly elected teams:

Crystal Palace
Leyton
St Leonards United
Southern United

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Crystal Palace	24	19	4	1	66	14	4.71	42	Promoted to Division One
2	Leyton	24	16	6	2	61	18	3.38	38	Promoted to Division One
3	Portsmouth II	24	12	8	4	52	24	2.17	32
4	Fulham II	24	11	6	7	52	39	1.33	28
5	Southampton II	24	7	9	8	39	41	0.95	23
6	Southern United	24	8	7	9	45	49	0.92	23	Left league at end of season
7	St Leonards United	24	9	4	11	54	50	1.08	22	Changed name to Hastings & St Leonards at end of season
8	Watford II	24	8	5	11	43	47	0.91	21	Left league at end of season
9	West Ham United II	24	7	5	12	46	48	0.96	19
10	Grays United	24	8	3	13	24	77	0.31	19	Left league at end of season
11	Reading II	24	6	5	13	36	49	0.73	17
12	Swindon Town II	24	5	5	14	36	51	0.71	15
13	Wycombe Wanderers	24	5	3	16	36	83	0.43	13

^{1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.}

^{2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

References

↑ England - Southern League Final Tables RSSSF

Southern League

Premier Division	Bedworth United Bideford Biggleswade Town Cambridge City Chesham United Chippenham Town Cirencester Town Dorchester Town Dunstable Town Frome Town Histon Hitchin Town Hungerford Town Kettering Town King's Lynn Town Leamington Merthyr Town Paulton Rovers Poole Town Redditch United Slough Town St Neots Town Stratford Town Weymouth

Division One Central	AFC Rushden & Diamonds Arlesey Town Aylesbury Aylesbury United Barton Rovers Beaconsfield SYCOB Bedford Town Chalfont St. Peter Egham Town Fleet Town Godalming Town Hanwell Town Kings Langley Leighton Town North Greenford United Northwood Petersfield Town Potters Bar Town Royston Town St Ives Town Uxbridge Ware

Division One South & West	AFC Totton Banbury United Bashley Bishop's Cleeve Bridgwater Town Burnham Cinderford Town Didcot Town Evesham United Larkhall Athletic Mangotsfield United Marlow North Leigh Shortwood United Slimbridge Swindon Supermarine Taunton Town Tiverton Town Wantage Town Wimborne Town Winchester City Yate Town

Seasons	1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

1905–06 in English football

« 1904–05

1906–07 »

FA competitions

FA Cup (Qualifying Rounds
Final)
Charity Shield

Football and Southern Leagues

Lower leagues

Related to national team

Home Championship

Club seasons

First Division	Aston Villa Birmingham Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bury Derby County Everton Liverpool Manchester City Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Notts County Preston North End Sheffield United Stoke Sunderland The Wednesday Wolverhampton Wanderers Woolwich Arsenal

Second Division	Barnsley Blackpool Bradford City Bristol City Burnley Burslem Port Vale Chelsea Burton United Chesterfield Gainsborough Trinity Glossop Grimsby Town Hull City Leeds City Leicester Fosse Clapton Orient Lincoln City Manchester United Stockport County West Bromwich Albion

Southern League	Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Crystal Palace Fulham Luton Town Millwall New Brompton Northampton Town Norwich City Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Reading Southampton Swindon Town Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Ham United

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, August 24, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.