1952–53 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1952–53
Champions	Barnstaple Town (Division One); Chippenham Town Reserves (Division Two)
	← 1951–52 1953–54 →

The 1952–53 season was the 51st in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the first time in their history were Barnstaple Town, and the winners of Division Two were Chippenham Town Reserves, although they could not be promoted as the club's first team was already in Division One.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

Division One was reduced from eighteen members to seventeen after Cheltenham Town Reserves left the league, with two clubs promoted to replace Bristol Rovers Colts and Poole Town who were relegated to Division Two.

Bideford Town, champions of Division Two
Bridgwater Town, runners-up in Division Two

Only one club was relegated from Division One this season in order to even up the numbers in each division.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Barnstaple Town	32	18	8	6	77	37	2.08	44
2	Street	32	19	6	7	89	43	2.07	44
3	Trowbridge Town	32	17	7	8	76	48	1.58	41
4	Bideford Town	32	13	13	6	79	52	1.52	39
5	Chippenham Town	32	17	3	12	84	58	1.45	37
6	Weymouth Reserves	32	16	5	11	75	58	1.29	37
7	Chippenham United	32	15	5	12	62	62	1	35
8	Salisbury	32	11	10	11	60	65	0.92	32
9	Glastonbury	32	15	1	16	61	49	1.24	31
10	Bath City Reserves	32	10	11	11	64	63	1.02	31
11	Stonehouse	32	11	8	13	57	58	0.98	30
12	Portland United	32	11	8	13	66	77	0.86	30
13	Bridgwater Town	32	12	4	16	58	73	0.79	28
14	Wells City	32	9	6	17	52	71	0.73	24
15	Clandown	32	7	9	16	40	74	0.54	23
16	Dorchester Town	32	8	5	19	46	74	0.62	21
17	Paulton Rovers (R)	32	6	5	21	42	125	0.34	17

Division Two

Division Two was reduced from nineteen clubs to eighteen after Bideford Town and Bridgwater Town were promoted to Division One, and Chipping Sodbury and Swindon Town Colts left the league. Three new clubs joined:

Bristol Rovers Colts, relegated from Division One.
Poole Town, relegated from Division One.
Stonehouse Reserves

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	Chippenham Town Reserves	34	24	4	6	99	51	1.94	52
2	Ilfracombe Town (P)	34	20	11	3	67	28	2.39	51
3	Poole Town (P)	34	21	7	6	97	42	2.31	49
4	Peasedown Miners Welfare	34	19	3	12	76	63	1.21	41
5	Minehead	34	15	8	11	81	53	1.53	38
6	Clevedon	34	17	3	14	82	92	0.89	37
7	Cinderford Town	34	15	6	13	77	50	1.54	36
8	Bristol City Colts	34	14	6	14	75	56	1.34	34
9	Bristol Rovers Colts	34	12	9	13	74	54	1.37	33
10	Frome Town	34	13	6	15	66	66	1	32
11	Yeovil Town Reserves	34	13	5	16	83	78	1.06	31
12	Gloucester City Reserves	34	11	6	17	81	97	0.83	28
13	Radstock Town	34	11	6	17	74	102	0.72	28
14	Trowbridge Town Reserves	34	11	4	19	70	89	0.79	26
15	Stonehouse Reserves	34	10	6	18	68	107	0.63	26
16	Welton Rovers	34	10	6	18	53	98	0.54	26
17	Weston-super-Mare	34	10	4	20	66	113	0.58	24
18	Hoffman Athletic	34	8	4	22	60	109	0.55	20

Chippenham Town Reserves could not be promoted as the club's first team was already in Division One.^[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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

[Robinson-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

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