1925–26 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1925–26
Champions	Bristol City Reserves (Division One); Poole (Division Two)
	← 1924–25 1926–27 →

The 1925–26 season was the 29th in the history of the Western Football League.

From this season, the league consisted of two divisions after a number of reserve teams joined. The Division One champions were Bristol City Reserves. The winners of Division Two were Poole, who were promoted to Division One.^[1]

Division One

Division One consisted of three clubs from the old single-division league, plus two new clubs and five new reserve teams. The number of clubs was thus reduced from thirteen to ten after Peasedown St John left the league.

The seven new teams were:

Bristol City Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Bristol Rovers Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Exeter City Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Plymouth Argyle Reserves
Swindon Town Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1921.
Taunton United
Torquay United, rejoining after leaving the league in 1922.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Bristol City Reserves	18	10	7	1	58	19	3.053	27
2	Bristol Rovers Reserves	18	11	2	5	53	36	1.472	24
3	Torquay United	18	9	4	5	28	22	1.273	22
4	Yeovil and Petters United	18	7	7	4	33	27	1.222	21
5	Swindon Town Reserves	18	6	8	4	32	33	0.970	20
6	Weymouth	18	7	4	7	37	45	0.822	18
7	Plymouth Argyle Reserves	18	6	5	7	31	25	1.240	17
8	Exeter City Reserves	18	6	4	8	33	41	0.805	16
9	Taunton United	18	3	3	12	18	45	0.400	9
10	Bath City Reserves	18	1	4	13	20	50	0.400	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Division Two

The new Division Two consisted of the other nine clubs from the old single-division league, and four new teams, three of them reserve teams of Division One clubs.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion
1	Poole (P)	24	17	3	4	76	30	2.533	37	Promoted to Division One
2	Welton Rovers	24	16	4	4	62	37	1.676	36
3	Weymouth Reserves	24	12	4	8	69	47	1.468	28
4	Lovells Athletic (P)	24	8	8	8	52	46	1.130	24	Promoted to Division One
5	Radstock Town	24	9	6	9	31	28	1.107	24
6	Minehead	24	10	4	10	42	53	0.792	24
7	Portland United	24	8	7	9	49	56	0.875	23
8	Trowbridge Town	24	8	6	10	56	68	0.824	22
9	Swindon Victoria	24	9	3	12	55	71	0.775	21	Left at the end of the season
10	Paulton Rovers	24	7	6	11	48	68	0.706	20
11	Bath City Reserves	24	7	5	12	50	53	0.943	19
12	Yeovil and Petters United Reserves	24	7	4	13	48	57	0.842	18
13	Frome Town	24	5	6	13	40	64	0.625	16

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season. The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
(P) Promoted

References

^ Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

[Robinson-1] Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

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