1900–01 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1900–01
Champions	Portsmouth (Division One) Bristol East (Division Two)
← 1899–1900 1901–02 →

The 1900–01 season was the ninth in the history of the Western Football League.

Portsmouth were the new champions of Division One, and also competed in the Southern League during this season, along with all the other members of Division One. The new clubs from London dominated the season, although Bristol City were elected to the Football League, being the first Western League club to achieve this. The Division Two champions for the second season running were Bristol East.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Six new clubs joined Division One, which was increased to nine clubs from four after Bedminster merged with Bristol City.

Millwall Athletic
Portsmouth
Queens Park Rangers
Tottenham Hotspur
Reading and Southampton rejoined from the Southern League though, like the other clubs, they played in both leagues.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Portsmouth	16	11	2	3	36	23	1.56	24
2	Millwall Athletic	16	9	5	2	33	14	2.36	23
3	Tottenham Hotspur	16	8	5	3	37	19	1.95	21
4	Queens Park Rangers	16	7	4	5	39	24	1.62	18
5	Bristol City	16	6	4	6	27	24	1.12	16	Elected to the Football League
6	Reading	16	5	5	6	23	31	0.74	15
7	Southampton	16	5	2	9	19	29	0.65	12
8	Bristol Rovers	16	4	1	11	18	42	0.43	9
9	Swindon Town	16	2	2	12	9	35	0.26	6

Division Two

Three new clubs joined Division Two, which was increased to eight clubs from five. It was the first season not to be fully completed, with several games remaining unplayed at the end of the season.

Bedminster St Francis
Paulton Rovers, also playing in the Somerset Senior League
Weston-super-Mare

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Bristol East	12	11	0	1	41	8	5.12	22
2	Paulton Rovers	9	6	2	1	32	12	2.67	14
3	Staple Hill	10	6	1	3	34	17	2	13
4	Cotham	11	3	2	6	20	49	0.41	8
5	Bedminster St Francis	6	3	1	2	16	13	1.23	7	Left the league at the end of the season
6	Weston-super-Mare	10	2	0	8	18	22	0.82	4
7	Fishponds	12	1	0	11	6	40	0.15	0*	Left the league at the end of the season
8	Weston (Bath)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Resigned during the season without playing a game

The unplayed games were ignored.^[1]

* Fishponds had two points deducted for fielding an ineligible player.

^{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

Seasons	1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

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FA competitions

FA Cup (Qualifying rounds
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Charity Shield

Football and Southern Leagues

Lower leagues

Related to national team

Home Championship

Club seasons

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

Second Division	Barnsley Blackpool Burnley Burslem Port Vale Burton United Chesterfield Gainsborough Trinity Glossop Grimsby Town Leicester Fosse Lincoln City New Brighton Tower Newton Heath Middlesbrough Small Heath Stockport County Walsall Woolwich Arsenal

Southern League	Brentford Bristol City Bristol Rovers Gravesend United Kettering Town Luton Town Millwall New Brompton Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Reading Southampton Swindon Town Tottenham Hotspur Watford West Ham United

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