2008–09 Southern Football League

The 2008-09 season was the 106th in the history of the Southern League since its establishment in 1894.

Premier Division

Southern Football League Premier Division
Season	2008–09
Champions	Corby Town
Promoted	Corby Town Gloucester City
Relegated	Hitchin Town Yate Town Mangotsfield United
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1328 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	David Kolodynski (Rugby Town) - 24
Biggest home win	Stourbridge 6 – 1 Clevedon Town, 30 August 2008 Cambridge City 5 – 0 Bashley, 20 September 2008 Brackley Town 5 – 0 Corby Town, 27 December 2008 Bedford Town 5 – 0 Hitchin Town, 20 January 2009 Corby Town 5 – 0 Banbury United, 25 April 2009
Biggest away win	Banbury United 0 – 6 Evesham United, 14 February 2009
Highest scoring	Stourbridge 8–4 Yate Town, 20 December 2008
Highest attendance	2230 (Farnborough 3 – 3 Corby Town, 21 March 2009)
Lowest attendance	71 (Evesham United 3 – 1 Mangotsfield United, 27 January 2009)
Average attendance	310
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 17 clubs from previous season, four clubs promoted from the Division Ones plus one club who had been relegated from the Conference South:

Cambridge City, relegated from Conference South
Evesham United, promoted as champions of Division One Midlands
Farnborough, promoted as champions of Division One South & West
Oxford City, promoted as play-off winners in Division One South & West
Stourbridge, promoted as play-off winners in Division One Midlands

Corby Town won the Southern League Premier Division and along with play-off winners Gloucester Town got a places in the Conference North next year.

Mangotsfield United, Yate Town and Hitchin Town relegated to the Division Ones, while Banbury United were reprieved from relegation after two Conference South clubs folded.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Corby Town !Corby Town (C) (P)	42	25	9	8	85	38	+47	84	Promotion to Conference North
2	Farnborough !Farnborough	42	23	14	5	67	36	+31	83	Qualification to playoffs
3	Gloucester City !Gloucester City (P)	42	21	12	9	80	45	+35	75	Qualification to playoffs, then promoted to the Conference North
4	Cambridge City !Cambridge City	42	21	10	11	62	40	+22	73	Qualification to playoffs
5	Hemel Hempstead Town !Hemel Hempstead Town	42	21	7	14	71	48	+23	70	Qualification to playoffs
6	Oxford City !Oxford City	42	19	10	13	76	55	+21	67
7	Merthyr Tydfil !Merthyr Tydfil	42	19	10	13	66	55	+11	67
8	Chippenham Town !Chippenham Town	42	20	8	14	64	51	+13	065¹
9	Evesham United !Evesham United	42	16	13	13	48	39	+9	61
10	Halesowen Town !Halesowen Town	42	19	6	17	65	73	−8	060²
11	Brackley Town !Brackley Town	42	15	12	15	69	62	+7	57
12	Tiverton Town !Tiverton Town	42	16	9	17	51	50	+1	57
13	Swindon Supermarine !Swindon Supermarine	42	15	12	15	59	61	−2	57
14	Bashley !Bashley	42	15	12	15	52	58	−6	57
15	Bedford Town !Bedford Town	42	14	8	20	44	55	−11	50
16	Stourbridge !Stourbridge	42	13	11	18	62	78	−16	50
17	Rugby Town !Rugby Town	42	11	10	21	63	71	−8	43
18	Clevedon Town !Clevedon Town	42	11	10	21	51	80	−29	43
19	Banbury United !Banbury United	42	11	8	23	43	83	−40	41	Reprieved from relegation †
20	Hitchin Town !Hitchin Town (R)	42	10	10	22	57	79	−22	40	Relegation to Division One Midlands
21	Yate Town !Yate Town (R)	42	9	9	24	54	91	−37	36	Relegation to Division One South & West
22	Mangotsfield United !Mangotsfield United (R)	42	10	6	26	39	80	−41	36	Relegation to Division One South & West

Source: Southern Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Chippenham were docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player.
²Halesowen were docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player
² (subject to appeal).
^†Banbury United reprieved from relegation^[1]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final


2	Farnborough	0 (4)

5	Hemel Hempstead Town	0 (3)
			2	Farnborough	0

			3	Gloucester City	1
3	Gloucester City	3

4	Cambridge City	1

Results

Home ╲ Away	Banbury United !BAN	Bashley !BAS	Bedford Town !BED	Brackley Town !BRK	Cambridge City !CAM	Chippenham Town !CHI	Clevedon Town !CLE	Corby Town !COR	Evesham United !EVE	Farnborough !FAR	Gloucester City !GLO	Halesowen Town !HAL	Hemel Hempstead Town !HEM	Hitchin Town !HIT	Mangotsfield United !MAN	Merthyr Tydfil !MER	Oxford City !OXC	Rugby Town !RUG	Stourbridge !STB	Swindon Supermarine !SWI	Tiverton Town !TIV	Yate Town !YAT
Banbury United !Banbury United		1–0	4–0	3–1	2–2	0–5	3–1	0–4	0–6	0–2	1–5	2–1	3–0	1–4	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–5	0–3	3–0
Bashley !Bashley	1–0		1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	4–0	0–1	1–3	3–2	3–1	4–1	2–2	0–3	1–1
Bedford Town !Bedford Town	3–0	0–2		0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–5	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	5–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1
Brackley Town !Brackley Town	1–2	2–4	2–0		2–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	4–1	3–2	1–2	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	3–0	0–3	1–2	0–1
Cambridge City !Cambridge City	3–1	5–0	1–0	1–0		0–1	0–1	3–2	2–3	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	3–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–2
Chippenham Town !Chippenham Town	1–0	2–3	1–0	3–1	3–1		2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	3–0
Clevedon Town !Clevedon Town	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	3–2		1–3	2–0	1–1	1–4	1–2	0–3	1–2	2–3	1–5	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	4–3
Corby Town !Corby Town	5–0	3–1	1–2	2–0	0–0	3–0	4–0		0–0	3–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–4	1–1
Evesham United !Evesham United	2–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1		0–0	2–2	0–0	4–1	2–1	3–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	4–1
Farnborough !Farnborough	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	3–1	3–3	2–1		2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	2–0
Gloucester City !Gloucester City	1–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–0		1–2	2–1	4–1	5–2	1–1	2–2	3–0	4–0	3–1	2–1	4–0
Halesowen Town !Halesowen Town	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–2	2–2	3–5	0–5	3–1	0–1	1–2		2–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	5–2	0–4	1–3	2–4	0–1	5–3
Hemel Hempstead Town !Hemel Hempstead Town	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	4–0	3–1	2–1	1–1		4–2	3–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–3	1–1	0–1	1–0
Hitchin Town !Hitchin Town	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–2	1–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	2–1		3–2	2–2	0–4	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	3–1
Mangotsfield United !Mangotsfield United	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–3	0–3	0–4	2–0	0–3	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–1		0–3	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–1	3–2	1–2
Merthyr Tydfil !Merthyr Tydfil	3–0	0–2	3–0	1–4	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	3–2	1–0		2–2	3–3	4–1	1–2	1–2	2–1
Oxford City !Oxford City	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	5–3	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	4–1	2–3	2–3	4–0	1–4		3–2	1–1	1–2	3–0	4–0
Rugby Town !Rugby Town	0–0	2–3	3–0	3–3	2–3	0–1	4–0	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–3	0–2	0–5	4–3	2–1	3–0	1–1		4–0	0–0	2–0	2–2
Stourbridge !Stourbridge	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	6–1	0–2	0–2	0–3	1–1	2–2	1–6	1–0	4–1	1–2	2–0	1–1		2–1	3–0	8–4
Swindon Supermarine !Swindon Supermarine	4–4	3–2	2–1	4–4	0–2	1–3	0–1	1–4	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–4	0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1		1–0	3–0
Tiverton Town !Tiverton Town	2–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	0–2	0–1	0–2	2–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1		3–2
Yate Town !Yate Town	3–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–3	1–3	2–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	2–3	2–1	2–1	4–0	2–3	2–4	2–4	0–0	0–0

Source: Southern Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Locations

Locations of the 2008–09 Southern Premier League teams

Division One Midlands

Southern Football League Division One Midlands
Season	2008–09
Champions	Leamington
Promoted	Leamington Nuneaton Town
Relegated	Dunstable Town Malvern Town
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1344 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mark Bellingham (Leamington) - 45
Biggest home win	Marlow 9 – 1 Malvern Town, 27 September 2008 Bury Town 8 – 0 Rothwell Town, 10 March 2009 Leamington 8 – 0 Malvern Town, 18 April 2009
Biggest away win	Woodford United 0 – 8 Sutton Coldfield Town, 11 October 2008
Highest scoring	Marlow 9 – 1 Malvern Town, 27 September 2008 Dunstable Town 3 – 7 Bury Town, 20 January 2009
Highest attendance	2302 (Bedworth United 1 – 2 Nuneaton Town, 27 December 2008)
Lowest attendance	30 (Malvern Town 2 – 2 Barton Rovers, 17 March 2009)
Average attendance	234
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 14 clubs from previous season, one club transferred from Division One South & West, three clubs transferred from Isthmian League Division One North, two clubs promoted from each Midland Football Alliance and Eastern Counties League, and two clubs relegated from each Premier Division and Conference South:

AFC Sudbury, transferred from Isthmian League Division North
Arlesey Town, transferred from Isthmian League Division North
Atherstone Town, promoted as champions of Midland Football Alliance
Bury Town, transferred from Isthmian League Division North
Bromsgrove Rovers, relegated from Premier Division
Marlow, transferred from Division South & West
Nuneaton Town, relegated from Conference South
Soham Town Rangers, promoted as champions of Eastern Counties League

Nuneaton Borough, finished 7th in the Conference North went into liquidation due to financial difficulties, were immediately reformed under the name Nuneaton Town and relegated 2 divisions down to get a place in Midlands division.

Leamington won the division in the second attempt and got a place in Premier Division along with play-off winners Nuneaton Town. Dunstable and Malvern finished bottom of the table and were relegated to the lower leagues.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Leamington !Leamington (C) (P)	42	32	5	5	114	44	+70	101	Promotion to Premier Division
2	Nuneaton Town !Nuneaton Town (P)	42	28	8	6	85	31	+54	92	Qualification to playoffs, then promoted to the Premier Division
3	Atherstone Town !Atherstone Town	42	24	13	5	82	45	+37	85	Qualification to playoffs
4	Chasetown !Chasetown	42	25	9	8	67	31	+36	84	Qualification to playoffs, then transferred to NPL Division One South
5	Chesham United !Chesham United	42	22	10	10	70	38	+32	76	Qualification to playoffs
6	Sutton Coldfield Town !Sutton Coldfield Town	42	24	4	14	79	62	+17	76
7	Bury Town !Bury Town	42	22	9	11	88	41	+47	75
8	Leighton Town !Leighton Town	42	18	13	11	57	46	+11	67
9	Marlow !Marlow	42	19	9	14	65	53	+12	66
10	Aylesbury United !Aylesbury United	42	19	7	16	65	58	+7	64
11	Romulus !Romulus	42	17	10	15	60	42	+18	61
12	A.F.C. Sudbury !A.F.C. Sudbury	42	17	10	15	66	65	+1	61
13	Bromsgrove Rovers !Bromsgrove Rovers	42	15	8	19	58	53	+5	53
14	Bedworth United !Bedworth United	42	14	7	21	50	66	−16	49
15	Soham Town Rangers !Soham Town Rangers	42	13	7	22	48	79	−31	46
16	Stourport Swifts !Stourport Swifts	42	10	10	22	46	74	−28	40
17	Barton Rovers !Barton Rovers	42	12	4	26	50	79	−29	40
18	Arlesey Town !Arlesey Town	42	11	5	26	40	70	−30	38
19	Rothwell Town !Rothwell Town	42	8	12	22	35	79	−44	36
20	Woodford United !Woodford United	42	9	7	26	38	80	−42	34
21	Dunstable Town !Dunstable Town (R)	42	11	3	28	54	89	−35	23*	Relegation to Spartan South Midlands League
22	Malvern Town !Malvern Town (R)	42	2	10	30	27	119	−92	16	Relegation to Midland Football Alliance

Source: Southern Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

^{* Dunstable Town deducted 13 points deducted for fielding an ineligible player and other irregularities (Subject to Rright of Appeal)^[2]}

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final


2	Nuneaton Town	2

5	Chesham United	1
			2	Nuneaton Town	1

			4	Chasetown	0
3	Atherstone Town	0

4	Chasetown	5

Results

Home ╲ Away	A.F.C. Sudbury !SUD	Arlesey Town !ARL	Atherstone Town !ATH	Aylesbury United !AYL	Barton Rovers !BAR	Bedworth United !BWU	Bromsgrove Rovers !BRO	Bury Town !BUR	Chasetown !CHA	Chesham United !CHE	Dunstable Town !DUN	Leamington !LEA	Leighton Town !LEI	Malvern Town !MAL	Marlow !MAR	Nuneaton Town !NUN	Romulus !ROM	Rothwell Town !RTH	Soham Town Rangers !SOH	Stourport Swifts !SPS	Sutton Coldfield Town !SUT	Woodford United !WFU
A.F.C. Sudbury !A.F.C. Sudbury		0–0	0–3	2–2	4–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	4–2	0–4	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–1
Arlesey Town !Arlesey Town	2–3		0–1	2–0	1–3	1–2	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–2	3–2	1–4	0–2	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–0	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	2–0
Atherstone Town !Atherstone Town	2–0	3–3		3–5	5–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–3	2–1	0–0	1–1	7–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	5–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	2–2
Aylesbury United !Aylesbury United	0–3	1–0	1–1		0–1	1–3	1–2	1–2	3–0	2–1	4–0	1–2	0–0	5–1	0–3	0–4	2–1	2–0	4–1	1–0	3–0	1–0
Barton Rovers !Barton Rovers	3–2	1–2	0–1	1–2		1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	2–5	2–3	0–1
Bedworth United !Bedworth United	3–4	1–0	1–4	1–1	0–2		0–1	0–4	1–0	1–3	3–0	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–3	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–3	3–3
Bromsgrove Rovers !Bromsgrove Rovers	2–0	5–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	4–1		0–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–4	0–0	2–1	0–2	7–0	2–0	1–2
Bury Town !Bury Town	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0		2–0	0–1	3–1	2–2	4–0	7–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	8–0	5–0	7–2	0–2	2–0
Chasetown !Chasetown	3–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–0		0–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	4–0	4–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–0
Chesham United !Chesham United	3–2	3–1	0–1	2–3	8–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–2		2–1	1–2	2–1	3–0	3–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	4–0
Dunstable Town !Dunstable Town	1–3	4–0	1–2	2–1	4–2	2–0	3–1	3–7	0–1	0–1		0–4	2–4	4–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	3–2	2–3	0–0	0–1	2–0
Leamington !Leamington	3–5	3–1	3–0	1–2	4–1	4–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	2–0	2–0		3–3	8–0	7–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	0–3	7–1
Leighton Town !Leighton Town	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–5		3–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–0
Malvern Town !Malvern Town	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–0	0–4	1–1	0–3	1–4	0–1	0–3	2–2		1–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–1
Marlow !Marlow	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–4	2–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	9–1		1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2
Nuneaton Town !Nuneaton Town	3–1	4–1	2–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	0–1	6–1	0–2	2–1	3–1	2–4		2–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–0
Romulus !Romulus	2–0	3–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–2	2–0	7–0	2–1	0–2		1–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–2
Rothwell Town !Rothwell Town	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–2	0–7	1–2	0–1	3–2	0–6	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–2		1–2	3–1	1–1	1–1
Soham Town Rangers !Soham Town Rangers	3–3	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–3	1–0	0–2	0–3	1–3	3–2	2–3	3–4	4–2	1–1	0–2	0–3	1–0		1–3	0–1	0–3
Stourport Swifts !Stourport Swifts	0–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–3	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	2–1	2–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–2		1–2	2–3
Sutton Coldfield Town !Sutton Coldfield Town	1–4	1–2	1–2	4–2	2–0	0–3	3–3	2–1	0–3	0–5	2–0	3–3	2–1	5–2	4–1	1–2	2–1	4–1	4–0	3–1		2–1
Woodford United !Woodford United	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–2	1–3	3–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–6	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–2	0–8

Division One South & West

Southern Football League Division One South & West
Season	2008–09
Champions	Truro City
Promoted	Truro City Didcot Town
Relegated	Winchester City
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1521 (3.29 per match)
Top goalscorer	Stewart Yetton (Truro City) - 31
Biggest home win	AFC Totton 6 – 0 AFC Hayes, 18 August 2008 Didcot Town 6 – 0 Bishops Cleeve, 27 September 2008 Bridgwater Town 6 – 0 Slough Town, 26 March 2009
Biggest away win	Andover 1 – 9 Truro City, 4 November 2008
Highest scoring	Andover 1 – 9 Truro City, 4 November 2008
Highest attendance	1119 (Truro City 4 – 2 Windsor & Eton, 24 March 2009)
Lowest attendance	27 (AFC Hayes 4 – 3 Gosport Borough, 27 January 2009)
Average attendance	171
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 15 clubs from previous season, two teams transferred from Midlands Division, one team relegated from Premier Division and one team promoted from each Hellenic, Spartan South Midlands, Wessex and Western leagues:

AFC Totton, promoted as champions of Wessex League
Beaconsfield SYCOB, promoted as champions of Spartan South Midlands League
Bishops Cleeve, transferred from Midlands Division
Cinderford Town, transferred from Midlands Division
Cirencester Town, relegated from Premier Division
North Leigh, promoted as champions of Hellenic League
Truro City, promoted as champions of Western League

Truro City won the division in an inaugural season and got a place in Premier Division along with play-off winners Didcot Town. Bracknell Town finished second bottom but were reprieved from relegation due to higher league clubs' problems. Winchester City finished bottom of the table and were relegated to the lower league.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Truro City !Truro City (C) (P)	42	29	8	5	120	49	+71	95	Promotion to Premier Division
2	Windsor & Eton !Windsor & Eton	42	26	7	9	77	44	+33	85	Qualification to playoffs
3	A.F.C. Totton !A.F.C. Totton	42	23	13	6	89	39	+50	82	Qualification to playoffs
4	Beaconsfield SYCOB !Beaconsfield SYCOB	42	24	9	9	77	44	+33	81	Qualification to playoffs, then transferred to the Division One Midlands
5	Didcot Town !Didcot Town (P)	42	21	10	11	91	52	+39	73	Qualification to playoffs, then promoted to the Premier Division
6	Thatcham Town !Thatcham Town	42	20	8	14	74	58	+16	68
7	Bridgwater Town !Bridgwater Town	42	19	8	15	69	56	+13	65
8	North Leigh !North Leigh	42	17	10	15	68	64	+4	61
9	A.F.C. Hayes !A.F.C. Hayes	42	18	7	17	80	92	−12	61
10	Paulton Rovers !Paulton Rovers	42	16	10	16	65	62	+3	58
11	Cinderford Town !Cinderford Town	42	15	11	16	71	75	−4	56
12	Gosport Borough !Gosport Borough	42	15	10	17	64	67	−3	55
13	Uxbridge !Uxbridge	42	15	9	18	76	72	+4	54
14	Cirencester Town !Cirencester Town	42	14	10	18	78	79	−1	52
15	Abingdon United !Abingdon United	42	15	7	20	63	77	−14	52
16	Slough Town !Slough Town	42	11	12	19	62	91	−29	45	Transferred to the Division One Midlands
17	Burnham !Burnham	42	12	9	21	52	83	−31	45	Transferred to the Division One Midlands
18	Bishop's Cleeve !Bishop's Cleeve	42	10	13	19	51	71	−20	43
19	Andover !Andover	42	10	12	20	58	102	−44	42
20	Taunton Town !Taunton Town	42	9	9	24	50	85	−35	36
21	Bracknell Town !Bracknell Town	42	9	8	25	39	75	−36	35	Reprieved from relegation †
22	Winchester City !Winchester City (R)	42	10	8	24	47	84	−37	035¹	Relegation to Wessex League

Source: Southern Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Winchester were docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player (subject to appeal).
^†Bracknell Town reprieved from relegation^[3]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Playoffs

Semifinals			Final


2	Windsor & Eton	0

5	Didcot Town	2
			3	A.F.C. Totton	1

			5	Didcot Town	2
3	A.F.C. Totton	2

4	Beaconsfield SYCOB	1

Results

Home ╲ Away	Abingdon United !ABI	A.F.C. Hayes !HAY	A.F.C. Totton !TOT	Andover !AND	Beaconsfield SYCOB !BEA	Bishop's Cleeve !BIS	Bracknell Town !BNT	Bridgwater Town !BRI	Burnham !BUR	Cinderford Town !CIN	Cirencester Town !CIR	Didcot Town !DID	Gosport Borough !GOS	North Leigh !NOR	Paulton Rovers !PAU	Slough Town !SLO	Taunton Town !TAU	Thatcham Town !THA	Truro City !TRU	Uxbridge !UXB	Winchester City !WCC	Windsor & Eton !W&E
Abingdon United !Abingdon United		3–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–2	3–2	2–2	4–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–4	1–2	0–2	2–0
A.F.C. Hayes !A.F.C. Hayes	4–4		1–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	1–4	3–2	0–0	4–3	0–3	4–3	0–4	2–2	2–1	5–2	4–2	1–7	1–3	5–1	0–1
A.F.C. Totton !A.F.C. Totton	4–1	6–0		3–1	0–0	5–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	3–1	3–3	4–0	2–3	4–2	3–0	3–2	0–2	3–2	4–1	1–1
Andover !Andover	1–2	2–2	0–0		2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	0–5	1–2	0–3	3–5	1–2	4–3	1–6	1–9	0–3	3–1	0–3
Beaconsfield SYCOB !Beaconsfield SYCOB	4–0	3–2	2–0	4–0		3–1	4–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	4–3	2–1	0–0	4–0	2–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1
Bishop's Cleeve !Bishop's Cleeve	0–3	2–2	1–1	0–2	1–2		1–2	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–0	4–3	0–4	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–0	0–1
Bracknell Town !Bracknell Town	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–1		2–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–1	0–4	1–3	5–1	1–1	3–2
Bridgwater Town !Bridgwater Town	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–1	3–2	0–0	3–0		3–0	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	6–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	0–2
Burnham !Burnham	4–1	1–1	0–5	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–1		2–0	4–0	0–3	1–1	0–6	1–0	3–0	3–3	1–3	2–6	1–1	1–0	0–2
Cinderford Town !Cinderford Town	1–3	2–3	0–2	5–0	1–1	3–3	3–2	0–4	1–2		2–1	2–1	2–3	1–3	0–0	4–1	1–1	2–2	1–4	1–4	4–0	1–5
Cirencester Town !Cirencester Town	2–2	1–2	2–4	3–3	0–1	5–2	0–0	2–2	2–3	1–2		2–1	1–1	4–1	1–2	4–1	2–0	4–3	2–5	3–2	3–0	3–1
Didcot Town !Didcot Town	5–4	4–0	0–1	3–1	3–3	6–0	3–0	1–2	6–2	0–2	0–0		1–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	5–0	0–0	3–4	1–1	2–2	0–1
Gosport Borough !Gosport Borough	2–2	0–3	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–4	1–2	5–0	2–1	2–1	0–3	1–3		3–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	1–0	2–4	0–1	1–2	1–2
North Leigh !North Leigh	2–0	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–4	3–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	2–1		1–2	6–1	1–1	0–4	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Paulton Rovers !Paulton Rovers	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	3–2	3–2	0–1	2–4	2–3	3–1	1–2	1–3	4–1		1–2	3–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–1
Slough Town !Slough Town	0–3	2–3	0–0	4–3	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–3	3–2	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–0		2–2	1–1	3–3	1–2	4–0	3–2
Taunton Town !Taunton Town	2–2	1–4	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–0	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–3		1–2	1–3	1–0	3–0	1–3
Thatcham Town !Thatcham Town	1–3	2–0	0–5	1–1	4–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	4–2	1–2	0–2	3–1	3–1		0–5	1–0	3–0	1–2
Truro City !Truro City	4–0	3–1	0–0	4–0	1–2	0–0	4–0	3–1	3–0	3–2	1–1	2–4	1–3	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–0		3–2	5–0	4–2
Uxbridge !Uxbridge	2–0	2–3	2–2	2–3	1–3	3–3	5–0	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–2	3–2	1–1	3–3	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	5–2		1–4	0–2
Winchester City !Winchester City	3–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–2		1–2
Windsor & Eton !Windsor & Eton	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	2–2	4–0	1–1	6–2	2–1	1–0	0–4	1–2	2–4

Southern League Cup

Preliminary Round

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Chippenham Town	Prem	2–2	Oxford City	Prem
Chippenham Town won 5–4 on penalties
Sutton Coldfield Town	Div 1 Mid	1–1	Halesowen Town	Prem
Halesowen Town won 6–5 on penalties

Round One

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Abingdon United	Div 1 SW	1–1	Banbury United	Prem
Abingdon United won 5–3 on penalties
Andover	Div 1 SW	2–2	Farnborough	Prem
Andover won 3–0 on penalties
Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid	2–2	Nuneaton Town	Div 1 Mid
Atherstone Town won 4–3 on penalties
Aylesbury United	Div 1 Mid	3–0	Burnham	Div 1 SW
Barton Rovers	Div 1 Mid	0–3	Dunstable Town	Div 1 Mid
Beaconsfield SYCOB	Div 1 SW	4–1	Marlow	Div 1 Mid
Bracknell Town	Div 1 SW	0-1	Windsor & Eton	Div 1 SW
Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW	4–3	Taunton Town	Div 1 SW
Bromsgrove Rovers	Div 1 Mid	0-1	Romulus	Div 1 Mid
Bury Town	Div 1 Mid	2–0	A.F.C. Sudbury	Div 1 Mid
Chasetown	Div 1 Mid	1–3	Leamington	Div 1 Mid
Chippenham Town	Prem	1–3	Brackley Town	Prem
Corby Town	Prem	0–1	Rothwell Town	Div 1 Mid
Didcot Town	Div 1 SW	1–2	Swindon Supermarine	Prem
Evesham United	Prem	0–3	Gloucester City	Prem

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Gosport Borough	Div 1 SW	1–0	A.F.C. Totton	Div 1 SW
Halesowen Town	Prem	1–0	Stourbridge	Prem
Hemel Hempstead Town	Prem	3–0	Bedford Town	Prem
Hitchin Town	Prem	4–0	Arlesey Town	Div 1 Mid
Leighton Town	Div 1 Mid	3–0	Slough Town	Div 1 SW
Malvern Town	Div 1 Mid	1–2	Cirencester Town	Div 1 SW
Mangotsfield United	Prem	3–1	Clevedon Town	Prem
Merthyr Tydfil	Prem	4–2	Bishops Cleeve	Div 1 SW
Paulton Rovers	Div 1 SW	0–1	Yate Town	Prem
Rugby Town	Prem	1–2	Bedworth United	Div 1 Mid
Soham Town Rangers	Div 1 Mid	3–4	Cambridge City	Prem
Stourport Swifts	Div 1 Mid	3–4	Cinderford Town	Div 1 SW
Thatcham Town	Div 1 SW	2-4	Chesham United	Div 1 Mid
Tiverton Town	Prem	3–4	Truro City	Div 1 SW
Uxbridge	Div 1 SW	3–4	A.F.C. Hayes	Div 1 SW
Winchester City	Div 1 SW	3–4	Bashley	Prem
Woodford United	Div 1 Mid	0–1	North Leigh	Div 1 SW

Round Two

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
A.F.C. Hayes	Div 1 SW	2–4	Chesham United	Div 1 Mid
Andover	Div 1 SW	2–1	Bashley	Prem
Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid	2–1	Leamington	Div 1 Mid
Brackley Town	Prem	3–2	Romulus	Div 1 Mid
Cinderford Town	Div 1 SW	4–3	Merthyr Tydfil	Prem
Gloucester City	Prem	3–0	Abingdon United	Div 1 SW
Hitchin Town	Prem	1–0	Cambridge City	Prem
Gosport Borough	Div 1 SW	1–2	Beaconsfield SYCOB	Div 1 SW
Hemel Hempstead Town	Prem	4–4	Dunstable Town	Div 1 Mid
Dunstable Town won 5–4 on penalties
Leighton Town	Div 1 Mid	1–3	Bury Town	Div 1 Mid
Mangotsfield United	Prem	1–2	Yate Town	Prem
North Leigh	Div 1 SW	4–0	Rothwell Town	Div 1 Mid
Bedworth United	Div 1 Mid	0–2	Halesowen Town	Prem
Aylesbury United	Div 1 Mid	1–2	Windsor & Eton	Div 1 SW
Swindon Supermarine	Prem	1–0	Cirencester Town	Div 1 SW
Truro City	Div 1 SW	0–3	Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW

Round Three

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Brackley Town	Prem	3–0	North Leigh	Div 1 SW
Bury Town	Div 1 Mid	2–0	Hitchin Town	Prem
Chesham United	Div 1 Mid	4–1	Beaconsfield SYCOB	Div 1 SW
Cinderford Town	Div 1 SW	2–2	Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW
Bridgwater Town won 5–3 on penalties
Dunstable Town	Div 1 Mid	1–2	Windsor & Eton	Div 1 SW
Gloucester City	Prem	3–0	Yate Town	Prem
Halesowen Town	Prem	0–2	Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid
Andover	Div 1 SW	2–6	Swindon Supermarine	Prem

Quarterfinals

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid	2–0	Brackley Town	Prem
Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW	2–1	Gloucester City	Prem
Bury Town	Div 1 Mid	3–1	Chesham United	Div 1 Mid
Swindon Supermarine	Prem	3–0	Windsor & Eton	Div 1 SW

Semifinals

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid	2–2	Bury Town	Div 1 Mid
Atherstone Town won 3–1 on penalties
Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW	3–0	Swindon Supermarine	Prem

Final

Home Team	Division	Score	Away Team	Division
First Leg
Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid	2–1	Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW
Second Leg
Bridgwater Town	Div 1 SW	1–3	Atherstone Town	Div 1 Mid
Atherstone Town won 5–2 on aggregate

References

↑ "FA Confirm Banbury Reprieved". Banbury United FC. 2009-05-29. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
↑ "Division One Midlands 2008-2009". Southern Football League. Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
↑ "Non-League System – Proposed Allocation of Clubs 2009/10" (pdf). The FA. 2009-05-29. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2013.

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Championship	Barnsley Birmingham City Blackpool Bristol City Burnley Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Doncaster Rovers Ipswich Town Norwich City Nottingham Forest Plymouth Argyle Preston North End Queens Park Rangers Reading Sheffield United Sheffield Wednesday Southampton Swansea City Watford Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Conference Premier	Altrincham Barrow Burton Albion Cambridge United Crawley Town Eastbourne Borough Ebbsfleet United Forest Green Rovers Grays Athletic Histon Kettering Town Kidderminster Harriers Lewes Mansfield Town Northwich Victoria Oxford United Rushden & Diamonds Salisbury City Stevenage Borough Torquay United Weymouth Woking Wrexham York City

Others	AFC Wimbledon Gateshead Newport County

Southern League

Premier Division	Bedworth United Bideford Biggleswade Town Cambridge City Chesham United Chippenham Town Cirencester Town Dorchester Town Dunstable Town Frome Town Histon Hitchin Town Hungerford Town Kettering Town King's Lynn Town Leamington Merthyr Town Paulton Rovers Poole Town Redditch United Slough Town St Neots Town Stratford Town Weymouth

Division One Central	AFC Rushden & Diamonds Arlesey Town Aylesbury Aylesbury United Barton Rovers Beaconsfield SYCOB Bedford Town Chalfont St. Peter Egham Town Fleet Town Godalming Town Hanwell Town Kings Langley Leighton Town North Greenford United Northwood Petersfield Town Potters Bar Town Royston Town St Ives Town Uxbridge Ware

Division One South & West	AFC Totton Banbury United Bashley Bishop's Cleeve Bridgwater Town Burnham Cinderford Town Didcot Town Evesham United Larkhall Athletic Mangotsfield United Marlow North Leigh Shortwood United Slimbridge Swindon Supermarine Taunton Town Tiverton Town Wantage Town Wimborne Town Winchester City Yate Town

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