1908–09 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1908–09
Champions	Millwall (Division One) Bristol City Reserves (Division Two)
← 1907–08 1909–10 →

The 1908–09 season was the 17th in the history of the Western Football League.

For the last time, Division One was 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. Brighton & Hove Albion won Section A and reigning champions Millwall won Section B, with Millwall winning the decider 2–1 in a replay after the first match was drawn. At the end of this season, all 14 clubs in Division One resigned from the League, leaving Division Two as the only division in the league. All the member clubs of Division One also competed in the Southern League during this season. As with the previous season, the Division Two champions were Bristol City Reserves.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

One new club joined Division One, which remained at 14 clubs after Tottenham Hotspur left.

Croydon Common

Section A

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Brighton & Hove Albion	12	7	2	3	23	13	1.77	16	All clubs left at the end of the season
2	Queens Park Rangers	12	6	1	5	28	24	1.17	13
3	Crystal Palace	12	5	2	5	23	22	1.04	12
4	Luton Town	12	5	2	5	24	24	1	12
5	Croydon Common	12	5	2	5	16	24	0.67	12
6	Reading	12	4	2	6	19	21	0.9	10
7	Leyton	12	4	1	7	16	21	0.76	9

Section B

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Millwall	12	8	2	2	24	11	2.18	18	All clubs left at the end of the season
2	Southampton	12	7	0	5	20	20	1	14
3	Plymouth Argyle	12	6	1	5	12	13	0.92	13
4	Portsmouth	12	5	2	5	21	21	1	12
5	West Ham United	12	5	0	7	21	23	0.91	10
6	Bristol Rovers	12	4	1	7	16	23	0.7	9
7	Brentford	12	3	2	7	10	13	0.77	8

Championship decider

At the end of the season, the winners of the two sections played a match to decide the overall champions. For the first time, the match was drawn and a replay was arranged.^[1]

Section A v Section B

Section A	v	Section B

Brighton & Hove Albion v Millwall

1909

Brighton & Hove Albion	1 – 1	Millwall

Boleyn Ground, Upton Park

Brighton & Hove Albion v Millwall

1909

Brighton & Hove Albion	1 – 2	Millwall

Boleyn Ground, Upton Park

Division Two

Three new clubs joined Division Two, which was increased from nine to 12 clubs.

Aberdare
Barry District, joining from the South Wales League
Bath City

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bristol City Reserves	22	15	4	3	59	16	3.69	34
2	Bristol Rovers Reserves	22	16	0	6	81	29	2.79	32
3	Aberdare	22	12	5	5	56	30	1.87	29
4	Treharris	22	12	2	8	57	45	1.27	26
5	Staple Hill	22	9	4	9	41	60	0.68	22	Disbanded at the end of the season
6	Radstock Town	22	8	5	9	37	60	0.62	21
7	Weymouth	22	8	4	10	47	64	0.73	20
8	Bath City	22	6	7	9	39	45	0.87	19
9	Barry District	22	8	3	11	42	50	0.84	19
10	Welton Rovers	22	7	3	12	41	54	0.76	17
11	Kingswood Rovers	22	5	3	14	24	55	0.44	13
12	Paulton Rovers	22	5	2	15	39	55	0.71	12

^{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 2 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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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 Blackburn Rovers Bradford City Bristol City Bury Chelsea Everton Leicester Fosse Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Notts County Preston North End Sheffield United Sunderland The Wednesday Woolwich Arsenal

Second Division	Barnsley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Wanderers Bradford Park Avenue Burnley Chesterfield Derby County Fulham Gainsborough Trinity Glossop Grimsby Town Hull City Leeds City Clapton Orient Oldham Athletic Stockport County Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

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

Other	Stoke

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