1938–39 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1938–39
Champions	Lovells Athletic (Division One) Trowbridge Town (Division Two)
← 1937–38 1939–40 →

The 1938–39 season was the 42nd in the history of the Western Football League.

The Division One champions for the second time in their history were Lovells Athletic, after finishing bottom the previous season. The winners of Division Two for the second consecutive season were Trowbridge Town. There was again no promotion or relegation between the two divisions this season, and the league was restructured before the 1939–40 season following the outbreak of World War II.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One was increased from five to six clubs, with one new club joining:

Bath City, rejoining after leaving the league in 1936.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Lovells Athletic	10	7	2	1	27	14	1.93	16	Left at the end of the season
2	Yeovil and Petters United	10	6	2	2	32	20	1.6	14	Left at the end of the season
3	Bristol City Reserves	10	4	1	5	24	24	1	9
4	Bath City	10	2	5	3	16	22	0.73	9	Left at the end of the season
5	Torquay United Reserves	10	2	4	4	14	17	0.82	8	Left at the end of the season
6	Bristol Rovers Reserves	10	1	2	7	9	25	0.36	4	Left at the end of the season

Division Two

Division Two remained at eighteen clubs with no clubs leaving or joining.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Trowbridge Town	34	27	3	4	166	49	3.39	57
2	Yeovil and Petters United Reserves	34	22	4	8	112	66	1.7	48	Left at the end of the season
3	Street	34	21	5	8	93	57	1.63	47	Left at the end of the season
4	Poole Town	34	21	4	9	106	67	1.58	46	Left at the end of the season
5	Weymouth	34	19	5	10	105	51	2.06	43	Left at the end of the season
6	Radstock Town	34	19	5	10	97	64	1.52	43
7	Portland United	34	18	4	12	107	64	1.67	40	Left at the end of the season
8	Bristol City "A"	34	17	6	11	87	58	1.5	40	Left at the end of the season
9	Welton Rovers	34	14	4	16	64	118	0.54	32
10	Glastonbury	34	13	5	16	76	89	0.85	31
11	Frome Town	34	11	9	14	76	104	0.73	31	Left at the end of the season
12	Bath City Reserves	34	8	8	18	64	100	0.64	24
13	Wells City	34	10	3	21	63	104	0.61	23
14	Warminster Town	34	8	7	19	49	105	0.47	23	Left at the end of the season
15	Bristol Rovers "A"	34	9	4	21	58	92	0.63	22	Left at the end of the season
16	Paulton Rovers	34	8	6	20	57	117	0.49	22
17	Salisbury City	34	7	7	20	50	93	0.54	21	Left at the end of the season
18	Chippenham Town	34	8	3	23	56	87	0.64	19

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

Western League

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