1905–06 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1905–06
Champions	Queens Park Rangers (Division One) Bristol Rovers Reserves (Division Two)
← 1904–05 1906–07 →

The 1905–06 season was the 14th in the history of the Western Football League.

Queens Park Rangers were the champions of Division One for the first time, after finishing bottom of the league the previous season. Along with all the other members of Division One, they also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions for the second season in succession were Bristol Rovers Reserves.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

No new clubs joined Division One, which remained at 11 clubs.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Queens Park Rangers	20	11	4	5	33	27	1.22	26
2	Southampton	20	10	5	5	41	35	1.17	25
3	Plymouth Argyle	20	8	8	4	34	23	1.48	24
4	Tottenham Hotspur	20	7	7	6	28	17	1.65	21
5	Bristol Rovers	20	8	3	9	34	34	1	19
6	Millwall	20	7	5	8	28	29	0.96	19
7	Portsmouth	20	6	7	7	26	29	0.9	19
8	West Ham United	20	7	5	8	32	35	0.91	19
9	Reading	20	6	6	8	28	35	0.8	18
10	Fulham	20	5	5	10	23	32	0.72	15
11	Brentford	20	6	3	11	25	36	0.69	15

Division Two

Two new clubs joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Swindon Town Reserves left the league and Warmley disbanded.

Paulton Rovers, rejoining from the Somerset Senior League
Salisbury City, joining from the Hampshire League. This is not the same club as the later incarnation of Salisbury City F.C.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bristol Rovers Reserves	18	16	1	1	90	19	4.74	33
2	Bristol City Reserves	18	14	2	2	79	13	6.08	30
3	Welton Rovers	18	10	1	7	40	45	0.89	21
4	Radstock Town	18	8	2	8	37	31	1.19	18
5	Salisbury City	18	8	2	8	29	34	0.85	18	Left to join the Southern League
6	Staple Hill	18	8	1	9	32	38	0.84	17
7	Paulton Rovers	18	7	2	9	26	41	0.63	16
8	Chippenham Town	18	5	2	11	23	47	0.49	12	Left at the end of the season
9	Bristol East	17	3	1	13	14	41	0.34	7	Left at the end of the season
10	Trowbridge Town	17	2	2	13	13	73	0.18	6

Bristol East did not travel to Trowbridge Town to play on 17 March 1906.^[1]

^{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 2 3 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

Western League

Premier Division	Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Cribbs Gillingham Town Hallen Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Odd Down Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Wells City Willand Rovers

Division One	Almondsbury UWE Ashton & Backwell United Bishops Lydeard Bishop Sutton Calne Town Chard Town Cheddar Chippenham Park Corsham Town Devizes Town Hengrove Athletic Keynsham Town Malmesbury Victoria Oldland Abbotonians Portishead Town Radstock Town Roman Glass St George Warminster Town Wellington Welton Rovers Westbury United Wincanton Town

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Club seasons

First Division	Aston Villa Birmingham Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Bury Derby County Everton Liverpool Manchester City Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Notts County Preston North End Sheffield United Stoke Sunderland The Wednesday Wolverhampton Wanderers Woolwich Arsenal

Second Division	Barnsley Blackpool Bradford City Bristol City Burnley Burslem Port Vale Chelsea Burton United Chesterfield Gainsborough Trinity Glossop Grimsby Town Hull City Leeds City Leicester Fosse Clapton Orient Lincoln City Manchester United Stockport County West Bromwich Albion

Southern League	Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Crystal Palace Fulham Luton Town Millwall New Brompton Northampton Town Norwich City Plymouth Argyle Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Reading Southampton Swindon Town Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Ham United

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