2014–15 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	2014–15
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The 2014–15 Western Football League season (known as the 2014–15 Toolstation Western Football League for sponsorship reasons) is the 113th in the history of the Western Football League, a football competition in England. Teams are divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.

The league champions for the first time in their history were Melksham Town. Slimbridge finished in a promotion position and were promoted to the Southern League. The champions of Division One were Barnstaple Town.

Premier Division

The Premier Division features two new clubs in a league of 19, reduced from 21 after the promotion of Larkhall Athletic to the Southern League, and the relegation of Hengrove Athletic and Radstock Town to the First Division. Ilfracombe Town also left, resigning from the league shortly before the start of the season:^[1]

Bradford Town, champions of Division One.
Shepton Mallet, runners-up in Division One.

Exmouth Town finished runners-up in the South West Peninsula League but were refused promotion due to ground grading issues.

The following clubs applied for promotion to Step 4: Brislington, Bristol Manor Farm, Melksham Town and Slimbridge.^[2] Melksham Town's new stadium was not ready and their existing stadium failed the ground grading.

There is not certain to be any relegation this season as the division is not full.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Melksham Town !Melksham Town (C)	36	23	7	6	89	41	+48	76
2	Buckland Athletic !Buckland Athletic	36	23	2	11	90	41	+49	71
3	Slimbridge !Slimbridge (P)	36	20	6	10	55	36	+19	66	Promotion to Southern League Division One S&W
4	Bristol Manor Farm !Bristol Manor Farm	36	18	9	9	67	40	+27	63
5	Odd Down !Odd Down	36	18	8	10	78	56	+22	62
6	Willand Rovers !Willand Rovers	36	18	7	11	78	60	+18	61
7	Bitton !Bitton	36	17	7	12	67	52	+15	58
8	Bradford Town !Bradford Town	36	17	6	13	71	61	+10	57
9	Shepton Mallet !Shepton Mallet	36	16	7	13	70	70	0	55
10	Brislington !Brislington	36	14	10	12	64	45	+19	52
11	Sherborne Town !Sherborne Town	36	13	11	12	62	53	+9	50
12	Cadbury Heath !Cadbury Heath	36	15	5	16	71	83	−12	50
13	Street !Street	36	12	8	16	64	64	0	44
14	Bridport !Bridport	36	13	5	18	44	66	−22	44
15	Gillingham Town !Gillingham Town	36	13	4	19	66	68	−2	43
16	Longwell Green Sports !Longwell Green Sports	36	12	5	19	49	67	−18	41
17	Hallen !Hallen	36	8	7	21	41	70	−29	31
18	Winterbourne United !Winterbourne United	36	8	4	24	49	93	−44	28
19	Bishop Sutton !Bishop Sutton (R)	36	4	2	30	30	139	−109	14	Relegation to the First Division

Source: .
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.

Locations

Locations of the 2014–15 Western League Premier Division teams

Results

Home ╲ Away	Bishop Sutton !BIS	Bitton !BIT	Bradford Town !BRA	Bridport !BRI	Brislington !BRI	Bristol Manor Farm !BMF	Buckland Athletic !BUC	Cadbury Heath !CAD	Gillingham Town !GIL	Hallen !HAL	Longwell Green Sports !LGS	Melksham Town !MEL	Odd Down !ODD	Shepton Mallet !SHE	Sherborne Town !SHE	Slimbridge !SLI	Street !STR	Willand Rovers !WIL	Winterbourne United !WIN
Bishop Sutton !Bishop Sutton		1–2	1–11	2–5	0–11	1–0	0–5	2–3	2–3	2–0	0–9	0–3	0–3	0–5	0–4	1–2	0–3	4–5	0–2
Bitton !Bitton	0–2		3–4	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–4	5–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	4–3	2–4	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–4	2–2	3–0
Bradford Town !Bradford Town	0–4	1–2		1–2	1–2	1–2	0–4	3–2	1–2	5–2	3–3	1–2	2–1	2–6	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–1
Bridport !Bridport	5–1	0–3	0–3		0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–4	0–3	2–0	3–2	3–2	0–1	2–5	2–4	3–1
Brislington !Brislington	5–0	0–0	1–2	0–0		1–1	1–1	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–3	1–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	4–0	0–1
Bristol Manor Farm !Bristol Manor Farm	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–2	1–1	3–1	5–0	3–0	1–4	1–2	3–1	2–2	5–1	2–0	3–1	1–1
Buckland Athletic !Buckland Athletic	3–0	0–2	5–0	3–0	2–3	0–4		3–0	5–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	5–0	5–0	1–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	4–2
Cadbury Heath !Cadbury Heath	2–0	0–2	2–3	4–1	1–0	1–1	3–4		0–3	1–3	2–1	1–4	4–4	2–2	4–3	2–1	3–2	1–2	0–4
Gillingham Town !Gillingham Town	13–0	1–3	1–2	3–0	2–4	1–3	4–1	2–4		0–4	0–0	0–3	2–3	2–3	3–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–2
Hallen !Hallen	5–0	1–2	2–5	1–0	2–2	0–1	0–4	1–3	0–1		0–1	0–4	1–3	2–4	0–3	1–1	0–4	2–1	4–1
Longwell Green Sports !Longwell Green Sports	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–3	3–1	2–3	2–1	0–2		1–3	0–3	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–5	1–2
Melksham Town !Melksham Town	1–1	3–0	0–3	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–3	4–1	3–1	1–1	3–0		4–3	5–1	1–0	0–3	6–4	0–0	6–1
Odd Down !Odd Down	6–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	1–3	3–1	1–2	2–4	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2		5–3	0–0	0–3	4–0	3–1	3–0
Shepton Mallet !Shepton Mallet	3–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–5	3–4	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–3		2–2	0–0	1–0	2–4	2–1
Sherborne Town !Sherborne Town	5–0	1–0	1–3	1–2	2–3	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	2–2	2–1		3–0	3–2	1–3	2–1
Slimbridge !Slimbridge	3–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	4–4	1–2		2–0	2–1	2–0
Street !Street	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–3	3–0	2–2	3–2	3–1	0–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0		0–0	2–2
Willand Rovers !Willand Rovers	4–1	1–2	1–1	4–0	4–1	1–1	4–3	5–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–5	6–2		4–0
Winterbourne United !Winterbourne United	2–1	1–7	0–1	0–2	3–2	1–5	0–1	1–5	2–1	1–4	1–2	0–4	3–4	1–2	3–3	1–2	5–3	2–3

Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

First Division

The First Division features two new clubs in a league of 22, after the promotion of Bradford Town and Shepton Mallet to the Premier Division:

Hengrove Athletic, relegated from the Premier Division.
Radstock Town, relegated from the Premier Division.

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barnstaple Town !Barnstaple Town (C) (P)	42	30	10	2	128	27	+101	0100^¶	Promotion to the Premier Division
2	Welton Rovers !Welton Rovers (P)	42	28	9	5	85	41	+44	93
3	Cribbs !Cribbs (P)	42	26	12	4	88	43	+45	90
4	Wincanton Town !Wincanton Town	42	24	4	14	101	77	+24	76
5	Chard Town !Chard Town	42	21	7	14	74	68	+6	70
6	Almondsbury UWE !Almondsbury UWE	42	21	6	15	77	67	+10	69
7	Wellington !Wellington	42	20	8	14	70	62	+8	68
8	Ashton & Backwell United !Ashton & Backwell United	42	19	10	13	81	62	+19	67
9	Corsham Town !Corsham Town	42	19	7	16	79	67	+12	64
10	Cheddar !Cheddar	42	19	9	14	92	85	+7	063^‡
11	Chippenham Park !Chippenham Park	42	15	10	17	68	62	+6	55
12	Hengrove Athletic !Hengrove Athletic	42	15	10	17	75	75	0	55
13	Radstock Town !Radstock Town	42	15	10	17	73	73	0	55
14	Oldland Abbotonians !Oldland Abbotonians	42	15	10	17	58	70	−12	55
15	Calne Town !Calne Town	42	13	12	17	63	85	−22	51
16	Warminster Town !Warminster Town	42	12	9	21	63	74	−11	45
17	Keynsham Town !Keynsham Town	42	11	9	22	62	109	−47	42
18	Devizes Town !Devizes Town	42	11	6	25	59	83	−24	039^¶
19	Wells City !Wells City	42	9	10	23	62	84	−22	37
20	Roman Glass St George !Roman Glass St George	42	7	15	20	39	74	−35	36
21	Portishead Town !Portishead Town	42	8	5	29	39	88	−49	29
22	Westbury United !Westbury United	42	6	8	28	52	112	−60	26

Updated to games played on 16:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC).
Source: .
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^‡ Cheddar had three points deducted for fielding an ineligible player against Roman Glass St George on 22 November.
^¶Barnstaple Town were awarded a home win after Devizes Town failed to arrive for the match on 2 May.^[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.

Locations

Almondsbury UWE

Ashton & Backwell United

Roman Glass
St George

Locations of the 2014–15 Western League First Division teams

Results

Home ╲ Away	Almondsbury UWE !ALM	Ashton & Backwell United !ASH	Barnstaple Town !BAR	Calne Town !CAL	Chard Town !CHA	Cheddar !CHE	Chippenham Park !CHI	Corsham Town !COR	Cribbs !CRI	Devizes Town !DEV	Hengrove Athletic !HEN	Keynsham Town !KEY	Oldland Abbotonians !OLD	Portishead Town !POR	Radstock Town !RAD	Roman Glass St George !ROM	Warminster Town !WAR	Wellington !WLL	Wells City !WLS	Welton Rovers !WLT	Westbury United !WES	Wincanton Town !WIN
Almondsbury UWE !Almondsbury UWE		4–0	0–1	4–4	1–1	4–2	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–5	0–1	2–1	4–0	1–0	2–6	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–5
Ashton & Backwell United !Ashton & Backwell United	2–1		0–5	3–0	2–2	4–5	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	3–2	0–0	4–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	0–2	4–0	0–3
Barnstaple Town !Barnstaple Town	5–3	3–3		7–0	4–3	5–0	2–1	3–0	1–1		2–1	5–0	1–1	4–0	7–0	8–0	3–1	7–1	4–1	0–0	8–0	1–3
Calne Town !Calne Town	1–2	0–1	0–4		2–2	3–3	1–4	2–1	0–0	5–1	0–1	0–1	4–0	2–1	3–3	2–5	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–0
Chard Town !Chard Town	1–0	3–3	0–0	3–1		0–1	1–2	1–2	1–3	2–0	2–1	4–1	3–0	2–0	1–7	1–2	0–4	4–3	3–2	0–1	3–1	3–0
Cheddar !Cheddar	2–3	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–3		2–1	4–3	1–2	2–0	2–3	3–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	3–0	3–1	3–4	2–2	1–3	1–0	3–3
Chippenham Park !Chippenham Park	0–1	2–0	0–3	0–0	1–2	3–3		2–2	3–4	1–0	0–1	2–4	1–2	6–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–2	1–1	4–1	1–3
Corsham Town !Corsham Town	4–2	4–3	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–0	0–0		4–2	4–3	0–4	5–2	5–2	4–1	0–1	1–0	5–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	4–2	0–3
Cribbs !Cribbs	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	6–0	2–0	1–1	4–2		5–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	7–1	3–2
Devizes Town !Devizes Town	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–4	0–0	1–0	3–1		3–0	3–2	0–3	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–5	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–0
Hengrove Athletic !Hengrove Athletic	1–2	2–2	0–4	1–1	2–1	2–4	0–4	1–2	1–1	4–1		2–2	2–1	1–1	4–1	4–1	1–2	2–2	7–2	0–3	2–2	3–2
Keynsham Town !Keynsham Town	1–4	2–9	1–3	2–2	1–3	3–3	1–2	1–1	1–6	4–2	1–0		2–4	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–3	2–5	2–0	3–3
Oldland Abbotonians !Oldland Abbotonians	3–1	0–3	1–0	4–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–3	1–3	1–1	2–2	4–1		2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	4–1	2–0
Portishead Town !Portishead Town	2–0	1–2	1–6	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1		0–3	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–4	0–0	3–0	2–4
Radstock Town !Radstock Town	1–2	2–0	0–5	1–1	2–0	3–3	5–6	1–2	0–0	2–1	5–4	1–2	1–4	2–0		0–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	3–0	4–2
Roman Glass St George !Roman Glass St George	0–2	1–1	0–4	1–1	2–3	1–6	1–1	0–4	0–2	0–3	3–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	3–1		0–0	1–2	4–0	1–3	1–1	0–2
Warminster Town !Warminster Town	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	3–4	2–0	6–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	5–0	2–0	4–1	0–2	1–1		2–2	4–3	0–1	4–2	2–4
Wellington !Wellington	2–4	3–2	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	3–1		2–0	2–3	1–0	2–1
Wells City !Wells City	0–4	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–3	2–4	2–2	3–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	3–0		0–2	3–0	2–2
Welton Rovers !Welton Rovers	3–2	1–0	0–0	7–0	4–3	1–0	4–3	2–1	1–1	2–5	2–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	3–0	3–2	4–1		3–0	2–1
Westbury United !Westbury United	0–2	1–4	0–2	0–2	3–3	6–2	1–3	0–2	0–3	4–1	2–4	5–1	2–0	2–1	0–4	0–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	2–3		3–2
Wincanton Town !Wincanton Town	3–2	3–5	2–5	5–4	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–0	1–2	5–3	2–1	3–1	2–0	5–0	2–1	3–2	4–2	3–1	2–1	0–2	5–2

Updated to games played on 2 May 2015.
Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

League tables

↑ "Ilfracombe Town to withdraw from Western League". Western Morning News. 30 July 2014.
↑ "Promotion To Step 4". NWCFL. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
↑ Toolstation Western League awards Barnstaple Town the points after Devizes no-show North Devon Journal, 22 May 2015. Accessed 27 May 2015

External links

Western League Official Site

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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League competitions

Level 1	Premier League

Levels 2–4	Football League (Championship, League One, League Two, play-offs)

Levels 5–6	Football Conference (Premier, North, South)

Levels 7–8	Isthmian League (Premier, North, South) Northern Premier League (Premier, North, South) Southern Football League (Premier, Central, South & West)

Levels 9–10	Combined Counties Football League (Premier, First) East Midlands Counties Football League (level 10 only) Eastern Counties Football League (Premier, First) Essex Senior Football League (level 9 only) Hellenic Football League (Premier, East, West) Kent Invicta League (level 10 only) Midland Football League (Premier, First) Northern Counties East Football League (Premier, First) Northern Football League (First, Second) North West Counties Football League (Premier, First) Southern Counties East Football League (level 9 only) South West Peninsula League Premier Division (level 10 only) Spartan South Midlands Football League (Premier, First) Sussex County Football League (First, Second) United Counties Football League (Premier, First) Wessex Football League (Premier, First) Western Football League (Premier, First) West Midlands (Regional) League (level 10 only)

Cup competitions

FA cups	FA Cup (Qualifying Rounds, Final) FA Community Shield FA Trophy (Final) FA Vase (Final)

Football League cups	Football League Cup (Final) Football League Trophy (Final)

Youth competitions

Women's competitions

Super League ('14, '15)
FA Women's Cup (Final)

National teams

Club seasons

Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Burnley Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Hull City Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Queens Park Rangers Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United

Championship	Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Blackpool Bolton Wanderers Bournemouth Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Cardiff City Charlton Athletic Derby County Fulham Huddersfield Town Ipswich Town Leeds United Middlesbrough Millwall Norwich City Nottingham Forest Reading Rotherham United Sheffield Wednesday Watford Wigan Athletic Wolverhampton Wanderers

League One	Barnsley Bradford City Bristol City Chesterfield Colchester United Coventry City Crawley Town Crewe Alexandra Doncaster Rovers Fleetwood Town Gillingham Leyton Orient Milton Keynes Dons Notts County Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Port Vale Preston North End Rochdale Scunthorpe United Sheffield United Swindon Town Walsall Yeovil Town

League Two	Accrington Stanley AFC Wimbledon Burton Albion Bury Cambridge United Carlisle United Cheltenham Town Dagenham & Redbridge Exeter City Hartlepool United Luton Town Mansfield Town Morecambe Newport County Northampton Town Oxford United Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Shrewsbury Town Southend United Stevenage Tranmere Rovers Wycombe Wanderers York City

Conference Premier	AFC Telford United Aldershot Town Alfreton Town Altrincham Barnet Braintree Town Bristol Rovers Chester Dartford Dover Athletic Eastleigh FC Halifax Town Forest Green Rovers Gateshead Grimsby Town Kidderminster Harriers Lincoln City Macclesfield Town Nuneaton Town Southport Torquay United Welling United Woking Wrexham

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