1975–76 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1975–76
Champions	Falmouth Town
← 1974–75 1976–77 →

The 1975–76 season was the 74th in the history of the Western Football League.

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

This season was the last in which the league consisted of one single division – a second tier was added for 1976–77.^[1]

Final table

The league was increased from 21 clubs to 23 after two new clubs joined:

Bideford, rejoining from the Southern League having last played in the Western League in 1972.
Exeter City Reserves, rejoining after leaving in 1974.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Falmouth Town	44	35	5	4	134	43	3.12	110
2	Taunton Town	44	27	8	9	86	43	2	89
3	Clevedon	44	27	6	11	77	51	1.51	87
4	Bridgwater Town	44	25	10	9	81	44	1.84	85
5	Glastonbury	44	23	10	11	84	49	1.71	79
6	Barnstaple Town	44	21	9	14	95	66	1.44	72
7	Tiverton Town	44	20	12	12	73	70	1.04	72
8	Paulton Rovers	44	19	12	13	60	58	1.03	69
9	Mangotsfield United	44	18	10	16	63	63	1	64
10	Bideford	44	17	12	15	60	56	1.07	63
11	Frome Town	44	17	10	17	76	61	1.25	61
12	Exeter City Reserves	44	16	10	18	64	69	0.93	57*
13	St Luke's College	44	16	7	21	60	70	0.86	55
14	Weston-super-Mare	44	13	15	16	52	57	0.91	54
15	Westland-Yeovil	44	14	11	19	66	82	0.8	53
16	Welton Rovers	44	14	9	21	57	71	0.8	51
17	Bridport	44	13	11	20	49	72	0.68	50
18	Dawlish	44	13	10	21	51	69	0.74	49
19	Devizes Town (R)	44	10	15	19	45	59	0.76	45	Relegated to Division One
20	Chippenham Town (R)	44	12	7	25	66	94	0.7	43
21	Melksham Town (R)	44	12	7	25	66	106	0.62	43
22	Keynsham Town (R)	44	8	6	30	50	86	0.58	30
23	Exmouth Town (R)	44	5	10	29	38	114	0.33	25

* Exeter City Reserves had one point deducted for fielding an ineligible player.

^{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: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 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 Aston Villa Birmingham City Burnley Coventry City Derby County Everton Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Norwich City Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Blackburn Rovers Blackpool Bolton Wanderers Bristol City Bristol Rovers Carlisle United Charlton Athletic Chelsea Fulham Hull City Leyton Orient Luton Town Nottingham Forest Notts County Oldham Athletic Oxford United Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Southampton Sunderland West Bromwich Albion West Ham United York City

Third Division	Aldershot Brighton & Hove Albion Bury Cardiff City Chester Chesterfield Colchester United Crystal Palace Gillingham Grimsby Town Halifax Town Hereford United Mansfield Town Millwall Peterborough United Port Vale Preston North End Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swindon Town Walsall Wrexham

Fourth Division	Barnsley Bournemouth Bradford City Brentford Cambridge United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Rovers Exeter City Hartlepool United Huddersfield Town Lincoln City Newport County Northampton Town Reading Rochdale Scunthorpe United Southport Stockport County Swansea City Torquay United Tranmere Rovers Watford Workington

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