1969–70 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1969–70
Champions	Glastonbury
← 1968–69 1970–71 →

The 1969–70 season was the 68th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Glastonbury.^[1]

Final table

The league was increased from 19 to 20 clubs after no clubs left and one new club joined:

Weymouth Reserves, rejoining the league after leaving in 1967.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Glastonbury	38	29	5	4	100	37	2.7	63
2	Andover	38	26	6	6	76	20	3.8	58
3	Bridgwater Town	38	23	7	8	97	41	2.37	53
4	Minehead	38	21	10	7	70	37	1.89	52
5	Taunton Town	38	21	8	9	84	56	1.5	50
6	Bideford	38	20	7	11	84	58	1.45	47
7	Dorchester Town	38	18	8	12	78	69	1.13	44
8	Torquay United Reserves	38	15	10	13	70	54	1.3	40
9	Bath City Reserves	38	16	7	15	71	67	1.06	39
10	Welton Rovers	38	17	3	18	72	62	1.16	37
11	Weston-super-Mare	38	14	8	16	53	72	0.74	36
12	Frome Town	38	12	10	16	62	73	0.85	34
13	Portland United	38	14	6	18	63	94	0.67	34	Left at the end of the season
14	Bristol City Colts	38	13	7	18	58	76	0.76	33
15	Devizes Town	38	10	9	19	44	70	0.63	29
16	Barnstaple Town	38	11	6	21	58	73	0.79	28
17	Yeovil Town Reserves	38	9	6	23	38	78	0.49	24	Left at the end of the season
18	Weymouth Reserves	38	10	4	24	34	74	0.46	24	Left at the end of the season
19	Bridport	38	6	9	23	43	86	0.5	21
20	St Luke's College	38	4	6	28	35	93	0.38	14

^{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.}

References

↑ 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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First Division	Arsenal Burnley Chelsea Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Everton Ipswich Town Leeds United Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Queens Park Rangers Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Blackpool Bolton Wanderers Bristol City Cardiff City Carlisle United Charlton Athletic Huddersfield Town Hull City Leicester City Middlesbrough Millwall Norwich City Oxford United Portsmouth Preston North End Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield United Swindon Town Watford

Third Division	Barnsley Barrow Bournemouth Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Bristol Rovers Bury Doncaster Rovers Fulham Gillingham Halifax Town Leyton Orient Luton Town Mansfield Town Plymouth Argyle Reading Rochdale Rotherham United Shrewsbury Town Southport Stockport County Torquay United Tranmere Rovers Walsall

Fourth Division	Aldershot Bradford Park Avenue Brentford Chester Chesterfield Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Darlington Exeter City Grimsby Town Hartlepool United Lincoln City Newport County Northampton Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Port Vale Scunthorpe United Southend United Swansea Town Workington Wrexham York City

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