1906–07 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	1906–07
Champions	West Ham United (Division One); Staple Hill (Division Two)
	← 1905–06 1907–08 →

The 1906–07 season was the 15th in the history of the Western Football League.

Division One was split into two sections of six clubs, with the winner of each section playing each other in a Championship decider. Fulham won Section A and West Ham United won Section B, with West Ham winning the decider 1–0. Fulham left the league at the end of the season as they were elected to the Football League for 1907–08. Chelsea, who made their first and only appearance in the league this season, were competing in the Football League at the same time. All the other member clubs of Division One also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions for the first and only time were Staple Hill.^[1]

Final tables

Division One

One new club joined Division One, which was increased from 11 to 12 clubs and split into two sections of six.

Chelsea

Section A

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Fulham	10	7	1	2	16	9	1.78	15	Elected to the Football League
2	Queens Park Rangers	10	5	1	4	17	11	1.54	11
3	Brentford	10	5	1	4	19	19	1	11
4	Reading	10	4	1	5	12	18	0.67	9
5	Bristol Rovers	10	3	1	6	17	17	1	7
6	Chelsea	10	2	3	5	7	14	0.5	7	Left at the end of the season

Section B

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²
1	West Ham United	10	7	1	2	25	14	1.79	15
2	Plymouth Argyle	10	5	3	2	16	10	1.6	13
3	Portsmouth	10	4	2	4	16	19	0.84	10
4	Tottenham Hotspur	10	3	3	4	13	15	0.87	9
5	Southampton	10	4	0	6	14	16	0.87	8
6	Millwall	10	1	3	6	5	15	0.33	5

Championship decider

At the end of the season, the winners of the two sections played a match to decide the overall champions.^[1]

Section A v Section B

Section A	v	Section B

Fulham v West Ham United

15 April 1907

Fulham	0 – 1	West Ham United

Stamford Bridge, Fulham

Division Two

Three new clubs joined Division Two, which remained at 10 clubs after Salisbury City, Bristol East and Chippenham Town left the league.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Staple Hill	18	12	2	4	44	28	1.57	26
2	Newport	18	11	3	4	52	38	1.37	25	Disbanded at the end of the season
3	Bristol City Reserves	18	11	2	5	54	19	2.84	24
4	Treharris	18	12	0	6	62	24	2.58	24
5	Bristol Rovers Reserves	18	11	1	6	60	27	2.22	23
6	Radstock Town	18	7	3	8	37	41	0.9	17
7	Welton Rovers	18	7	1	10	33	54	0.61	15
8	Paulton Rovers	18	4	4	10	36	53	0.68	12
9	121st R.F.A.	18	5	2	11	27	53	0.51	12	Left at the end of the season
10	Trowbridge Town	18	1	0	17	18	86	0.21	2	Left to join the Wiltshire County League

^{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

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

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

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1906–07 Western Football League

Contents

Final tables

Division One

Section A

Section B

Championship decider

Division Two

References

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