1950–51 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1950–51
Champions	Glastonbury (Division One); Stonehouse (Division Two)
	← 1949–50 1951–52 →

The 1950–51 season was the 49th in the history of the Western Football League.

Division Three was scrapped after only one season, and the league reverted to the previous two-division format. The champions for the second time in their history were Glastonbury, and the winners of Division Two were Stonehouse.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Soundwell and Bath City Reserves, who were relegated to Division Two.

Barnstaple Town, champions of Division Two
Dorchester Town, runners-up in Division Two

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Glastonbury	34	26	6	2	102	27	3.78	58
2	Wells City	34	22	9	3	83	39	2.13	53
3	Chippenham Town	34	18	8	8	86	48	1.79	44
4	Chippenham United	34	18	6	10	72	44	1.64	42
5	Trowbridge Town	34	17	7	10	83	49	1.69	41
6	Barnstaple Town	34	18	4	12	71	62	1.14	40
7	Poole Town	34	18	3	13	71	71	1	39
8	Salisbury	34	14	7	13	65	55	1.18	35
9	Dorchester Town	34	13	8	13	64	58	1.1	34
10	Street	34	13	8	13	74	69	1.07	34
11	Weymouth Reserves	34	13	6	15	54	56	0.96	32
12	Cheltenham Town Reserves	34	12	7	15	56	46	1.22	31
13	Bristol Rovers Colts	34	11	8	15	60	85	0.71	30
14	Clandown	34	10	9	15	49	58	0.84	29
15	Paulton Rovers	34	9	9	16	62	75	0.83	27
16	Portland United	34	6	7	21	56	112	0.5	19
17	Yeovil Town Reserves (R)	34	8	3	23	38	79	0.48	19
18	Peasedown Miners Welfare (R)	34	1	3	30	25	123	0.2	5

Division Two

Division Two was increased from eighteen clubs to twenty, after Barnstaple Town and Dorchester Town were promoted to Division One, and Bristol Aeroplane Company and Douglas left the league. Six new clubs joined:

Bath City Reserves, relegated from Division One.
Bideford Town, promoted as champions of Division Three.
Chipping Sodbury
Ilfracombe Town, promoted as runners-up of Division Three.
Minehead, promoted as third-placed club in Division Three.
Soundwell, relegated from Division One.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Stonehouse (P)	38	29	7	2	133	36	3.69	65
2	Bath City Reserves (P)	38	28	5	5	114	44	2.59	61
3	Bideford Town	38	27	6	5	158	54	2.93	60
4	Cinderford Town	38	21	12	5	112	51	2.2	54
5	Bridgwater Town	38	24	5	9	124	50	2.48	53
6	Ilfracombe Town	38	23	5	10	105	68	1.54	51
7	Clevedon	38	18	6	14	95	81	1.17	42
8	Welton Rovers	38	18	5	15	103	95	1.08	41
9	Minehead	38	16	8	14	73	74	0.99	40
10	Hoffman Athletic	38	16	4	18	74	66	1.12	36
11	Frome Town	38	12	10	16	81	102	0.79	34
12	Bristol City Colts	38	14	5	19	75	84	0.89	33
13	Radstock Town	38	11	9	18	85	112	0.76	31
14	Chippenham Town Reserves	38	12	6	20	83	115	0.72	30
15	Swindon Town Colts	38	10	9	19	88	95	0.93	29
16	Trowbridge Town Reserves	38	11	6	21	69	100	0.69	28
17	Chipping Sodbury	38	10	3	25	75	113	0.66	28
18	Weston-super-Mare	38	8	7	23	46	100	0.46	23
19	Soundwell	38	6	3	29	46	164	0.28	15	Left at the end of the season
20	National Smelting Company	38	3	2	33	50	184	0.27	8	Left at the end of the season

^{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.}

^{3 The tables as published at the time contained errors, hence the totals do not balance in some columns.}^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

[Robinson-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

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