1970–71 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1970–71
Champions	Bideford
← 1969–70 1971–72 →

The 1970–71 season was the 69th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the second time in their history were Bideford.^[1]

Final table

The league was reduced from twenty clubs to eighteen after Portland United, Weymouth Reserves and Yeovil Town Reserves left, and one new club joined:

Plymouth City

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bideford	34	26	4	4	96	39	2.46	56
2	Andover	34	21	8	5	65	24	2.71	50	Joined the Southern League
3	Bridgwater Town	34	20	9	5	63	38	1.66	49
4	Glastonbury	34	18	8	8	78	52	1.5	44
5	Minehead	34	18	5	11	66	40	1.65	41
6	Taunton Town	34	17	7	10	66	42	1.57	41
7	Plymouth City	34	17	6	11	67	41	1.63	40	Left at the end of the season
8	Welton Rovers	34	17	6	11	60	56	1.07	40
9	Dorchester Town	34	16	6	12	58	50	1.16	38
10	Devizes Town	34	12	11	11	53	50	1.06	35
11	Barnstaple Town	34	13	7	14	60	61	0.98	33
12	Bridport	34	11	8	15	43	49	0.88	30
13	Weston-super-Mare	34	9	6	19	36	73	0.49	24
14	Torquay United Reserves	34	8	6	20	43	54	0.8	22
15	Bristol City Colts	34	7	8	19	40	78	0.51	22	Left at the end of the season
16	Frome Town	34	8	3	23	50	91	0.55	19
17	Bath City Reserves	34	7	5	22	33	77	0.43	19	Left at the end of the season
18	St Luke's College	34	2	5	27	21	83	0.25	9

^{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

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

Western League

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Third Division	Aston Villa Barnsley Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Bury Chesterfield Doncaster Rovers Fulham Gillingham Halifax Town Mansfield Town Plymouth Argyle Preston North End Port Vale Reading Rochdale Rotherham United Shrewsbury Town Swansea City Torquay United Tranmere Rovers Walsall Wrexham

Fourth Division	Aldershot Barrow Bournemouth Brentford Cambridge United Chester Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Exeter City Grimsby Town Hartlepool United Lincoln City Newport County Northampton Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Scunthorpe United Southend United Southport Stockport County Workington York City

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