1972–73 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1972–73
Champions	Devizes Town
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

The 1972–73 season was the 71st in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Devizes Town.^[1]

Final table

The league was increased from fourteen clubs to sixteen after Bideford, Dorchester Town and Minehead joined the Southern League, and five new clubs joined:

Ashtonians United
Avon Bradford
Bristol City Colts, rejoining the league after leaving in 1971.
Exeter City Reserves, rejoining the league after leaving in 1968.
Mangotsfield United (not the original Mangotsfield club which was a league member during the 1890s)

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Devizes Town	30	21	5	4	68	27	2.52	47
2	Taunton Town	30	19	7	4	69	26	2.65	45
3	Mangotsfield United	30	21	3	6	69	35	1.97	45
4	Bridgwater Town	30	17	7	6	65	24	2.71	41
5	Weston-super-Mare	30	13	9	8	42	36	1.17	35
6	Glastonbury	30	14	6	10	45	44	1.02	34
7	Barnstaple Town	30	13	7	10	57	52	1.1	33
8	Bridport	30	10	10	10	40	30	1.33	30
9	Torquay United Reserves	30	11	6	13	53	47	1.13	28	Left at the end of the season
10	Frome Town	30	9	9	12	30	44	0.68	27
11	Welton Rovers	30	9	8	13	35	41	0.85	26
12	Exeter City Reserves	30	7	11	12	39	47	0.83	25
13	St Luke's College	30	9	3	18	33	73	0.45	21
14	Avon Bradford	30	6	3	21	27	68	0.4	15
15	Bristol City Colts	30	5	4	21	35	76	0.46	14	Left at the end of the season
16	Ashtonians United	30	4	6	20	26	63	0.41	14

^{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 Birmingham City Chelsea Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Everton Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Southampton Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Aston Villa Blackpool Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Carlisle United Fulham Huddersfield Town Hull City Leyton Orient Luton Town Middlesbrough Millwall Nottingham Forest Oxford United Portsmouth Preston North End Sheffield Wednesday Sunderland Swindon Town West Bromwich Albion West Ham United

Third Division	Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Rovers Charlton Athletic Chesterfield Grimsby Town Halifax Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Rochdale Rotherham United Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swansea City Tranmere Rovers Walsall Watford Wrexham York City

Fourth Division	Aldershot Barnsley Bradford City Bury Cambridge United Chester Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Rovers Exeter City Gillingham Hartlepool United Hereford United Lincoln City Mansfield Town Newport County Northampton Town Peterborough United Reading Southport Stockport County Torquay United Workington

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