- Source: Western Football League
The Western Football League is a football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The league's current main sponsor is Jewson, so it is also known as the Jewson Western League for sponsorship reasons.
Recent restructuring of the English football league system has placed the two divisions, known as the Premier Division and Division One (each a maximum of twenty-two clubs) at the ninth and tenth tiers overall, known as Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League System.
The champion club get promoted to a Step 4 league, which in practice will almost certainly be the Southern League Division One South. Below the Western League are four local leagues covering smaller areas, the Gloucestershire County League, the Somerset County League, the Dorset Premier League and the Wiltshire League. The South West Peninsula League Premier Divisions East and West are also feeders to the Western League but due to having Step 6 status (the same level as the Western League Division One), they feed directly into the Western League Premier Division.
List of 2024–25 member clubs
= Premier Division
== Division One
=History
The league was formed in 1892 as the Bristol & District League, and became the Western League in 1895. Another Bristol & District League was later formed, which remains active at a much lower level than the Western League. In the years before World War II, many teams played in both the Southern and Western Leagues; the Western League was considered as secondary to the Southern League.
On four occasions, member clubs have lifted the FA Vase, Tiverton Town twice, Taunton Town once and most recently Truro City, who beat A.F.C. Totton in 2007 at the first final to be held at the new Wembley Stadium before a competition record crowd of 27,754. Truro City were the only one of the three to win the FA Vase while in Division One, while none are current members of the Western League, as all three have since progressed to the Southern League.
= Founder members
=Bedminster (later merged with Bristol South End to form Bristol City)
Clevedon (later Clevedon Town)
Clifton Association
Eastville Rovers (later Bristol Rovers)
Mangotsfield
St. George (later merged with Roman Glass F.C. to form Roman Glass St George)
Trowbridge Town
Warmley
Wells
List of champions
= Bristol & District League
== Western Football League
=Teams promoted to Southern League (since 1946)
References
External links
Official Site
Western League – Fixtures, Results and Tables
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Liga Utama Inggris
- Sistem liga sepak bola di Inggris
- Australian Football League
- Daftar tim sepak bola di Inggris
- Musim AFL 2016
- Western Sydney Wanderers FC
- Real Madrid C.F.
- Michael Beauchamp
- Wests Tigers
- New South Wales Rugby League
- Western Football League
- Western League
- 2024–25 Western Football League
- South Western Football League
- Western Sydney Wanderers FC
- Western Football Netball League
- West Division (CFL)
- 2023–24 Western Football League
- Western United FC
- List of football clubs in England