1971–72 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1971–72
Champions	Bideford
← 1970–71 1972–73 →

The 1971–72 season was the 70th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the third time in their history, and the second season in succession, were Bideford.^[1]

Final table

The league was reduced from eighteen clubs to fourteen after Andover joined the Southern League, and Bath City Reserves, Bristol City Colts and Plymouth City all left. No new clubs joined.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bideford	26	19	4	3	63	21	3	42	Joined the Southern League
2	Minehead	26	18	5	3	59	22	2.68	41	Joined the Southern League
3	Glastonbury	26	16	5	5	58	26	2.23	37
4	Devizes Town	26	11	9	6	44	33	1.33	31
5	Welton Rovers	26	10	7	9	38	37	1.03	27
6	Frome Town	26	9	7	10	33	45	0.73	25
7	Dorchester Town	26	9	6	11	39	38	1.03	24	Joined the Southern League
8	Weston-super-Mare	26	9	5	12	39	45	0.87	23
9	Bridport	26	9	5	12	32	47	0.68	23
10	Bridgwater Town	26	7	9	10	28	42	0.67	23
11	Taunton Town	26	7	7	12	50	54	0.93	21
12	Torquay United Reserves	26	5	9	12	29	55	0.53	19
13	Barnstaple Town	26	6	6	14	40	46	0.87	18
14	St Luke's College	26	3	4	19	25	66	0.38	10

^{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

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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Club seasons

First Division	Arsenal Chelsea Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Everton Huddersfield Town Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Southampton Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Birmingham City Blackpool Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Carlisle United Charlton Athletic Fulham Hull City Leyton Orient Luton Town Middlesbrough Millwall Norwich City Oxford United Portsmouth Preston North End Sheffield Wednesday Sunderland Swindon Town Watford

Third Division	Aston Villa Barnsley Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bournemouth Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Chesterfield Halifax Town Mansfield Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Rochdale Rotherham United Shrewsbury Town Swansea City Torquay United Tranmere Rovers Walsall Wrexham York City

Fourth Division	Aldershot Barrow Brentford Bury Cambridge United Chester Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Rovers Exeter City Gillingham Grimsby Town Hartlepool United Lincoln City Newport County Northampton Town Peterborough United Reading Scunthorpe United Southend United Southport Stockport County Workington

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