1907–08 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1907–08
Champions	Millwall (Division One) Bristol City Reserves (Division Two)
← 1906–07 1908–09 →

The 1907–08 season was the 16th in the history of the Western Football League.

Division One continued to be split into two sections of six clubs, reorganised from the previous season, with the winner of each section playing each other in a Championship decider. Southampton won Section A and Millwall won Section B, with Millwall winning the decider 1–0. Tottenham Hotspur left the league at the end of the season as they were elected to the Football League for 1908–09. All the member clubs of Division One also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were Bristol City Reserves.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Four new clubs joined Division One, which was increased from 12 to 14 clubs after Chelsea and Fulham left.

Section A

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Southampton	12	8	1	3	30	12	2.5	17
2	Portsmouth	12	7	1	4	25	18	1.39	15
3	Brighton & Hove Albion	12	6	2	4	19	19	1	14
4	Plymouth Argyle	12	5	2	5	14	14	1	12
5	Queens Park Rangers	12	5	1	6	20	23	0.87	11
6	Brentford	12	2	5	5	13	21	0.62	9
7	Leyton	12	2	2	8	11	27	0.41	6

Section B

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Millwall	12	9	2	1	31	13	2.38	20
2	Tottenham Hotspur	12	7	0	5	26	15	1.73	14	Elected to the Football League
3	Bristol Rovers	12	6	2	4	26	29	0.9	14
4	Luton Town	12	4	4	4	16	21	0.76	12
5	Reading	12	4	3	5	20	25	0.8	11
6	Crystal Palace	12	3	4	5	16	17	0.94	10
7	West Ham United	12	1	1	10	16	27	0.59	3

Championship decider

At the end of the season, the winners of the two sections played a match to decide the overall champions.^[1]

Section A v Section B

Section A	v	Section B

Southampton v Millwall

13 April 1908

Southampton	0 – 1	Millwall

White Hart Lane, Tottenham

Division Two

Two new clubs joined Division Two, which was reduced from 10 to nine clubs after Trowbridge Town and 121st R.F.A. left the league, and Newport disbanded.

Kingswood Rovers
Weymouth

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Bristol City Reserves	16	12	1	3	55	13	4.23	25
2	Bristol Rovers Reserves	16	11	3	2	44	15	2.93	25
3	Treharris	16	11	1	4	53	19	2.79	23
4	Kingswood Rovers	16	7	1	8	27	33	0.82	15
5	Paulton Rovers	16	7	1	8	34	46	0.74	15
6	Welton Rovers	16	4	4	8	23	46	0.5	12
7	Weymouth	16	5	2	9	25	23	1.09	12
8	Radstock Town	16	4	3	9	25	39	0.64	11
9	Staple Hill	16	3	0	13	18	40	0.45	6

^{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.}

^{3 The tables as published at the time contained errors, hence the totals do not balance in some columns.}^[1]

References

1 2 3 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

Western League

Premier Division	Barnstaple Town Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Clevedon Town Cribbs Gillingham Town Hallen Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Odd Down Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Welton Rovers Willand Rovers Winterbourne United

Division One	Almondsbury UWE Ashton & Backwell United Bishop Sutton Calne Town Chard Town Cheddar Chippenham Park Chipping Sodbury Town Corsham Town Devizes Town Hengrove Athletic Keynsham Town Oldland Abbotonians Portishead Town Radstock Town Roman Glass St George Warminster Town Wellington Wells City Westbury United Wincanton Town

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

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