Season | 2016–17 |
---|---|
Champions | Bristol Manor Farm |
Promoted | Bristol Manor Farm |
Relegated | Sherborne Town |
← 2015–16 2017–18 → |
The 2016–17 Western Football League season (known as the 2016–17 Toolstation Western Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 115th in the history of the Western Football League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into two divisions; the Premier and the First.
Premier Division
[edit]The Premier Division was reduced from 21 clubs to 20, and featured two new clubs after Barnstaple Town were promoted to Southern League Division One South & West, Winterbourne United resigned from the league, and Welton Rovers were relegated to the First Division.
- Chipping Sodbury Town, champions of the First Division.
- Wells City, runners-up in the First Division.
Bristol Manor Farm, Buckland Athletic, Clevedon Town, Melksham Town and Street applied for promotion to Step 4 for 2017–18.
With the news that Gillingham Town were resigning from the Western League for financial reasons at the end of the season,[1] and the fact that the Premier Division is already two clubs short, only one club was relegated.
League table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Bristol Manor Farm (C, P) | 38 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 118 | 33 | +85 | 102 | Promotion to Southern League Division One West |
2 | Street | 38 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 112 | 46 | +66 | 92 | |
3 | Melksham Town | 38 | 26 | 7 | 5 | 105 | 43 | +62 | 85 | |
4 | Buckland Athletic | 38 | 26 | 5 | 7 | 98 | 49 | +49 | 83 | |
5 | Bradford Town | 38 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 90 | 56 | +34 | 68 | |
6 | Willand Rovers | 38 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 69 | 52 | +17 | 67 | |
7 | Odd Down | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 89 | 64 | +25 | 64 | |
8 | Cribbs | 38 | 18 | 7 | 13 | 77 | 54 | +23 | 61 | |
9 | Gillingham Town | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 80 | 54 | +26 | 60 | Resigned at the end of the season |
10 | Brislington | 38 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 78 | 74 | +4 | 53 | |
11 | Cadbury Heath | 38 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 75 | 75 | 0 | 53 | |
12 | Shepton Mallet | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 67 | 71 | −4 | 48 | |
13 | Chipping Sodbury Town | 38 | 12 | 6 | 20 | 55 | 83 | −28 | 42 | |
14 | Clevedon Town | 38 | 12 | 4 | 22 | 70 | 87 | −17 | 40 | |
15 | Wells City | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 67 | 90 | −23 | 40 | |
16 | Bridport | 38 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 63 | 86 | −23 | 37 | |
17 | Longwell Green Sports | 38 | 11 | 1 | 26 | 40 | 113 | −73 | 34 | |
18 | Hallen | 38 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 39 | 97 | −58 | 22[a] | |
19 | Bitton | 38 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 41 | 97 | −56 | 19[a] | |
20 | Sherborne Town (R) | 38 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 41 | 150 | −109 | 13 | Relegation to the First Division |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
First Division
[edit]The First Division was increased from 21 clubs to 22, and featured three new clubs after the promotion of Chipping Sodbury and Wells City to the Premier Division:
- Bishops Lydeard, promoted from the Somerset County League.
- Malmesbury Victoria, promoted from the Wiltshire League.
- Welton Rovers, relegated from the Premier Division.
League table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wellington (C, P) | 42 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 92 | 36 | +56 | 92 | Promotion to the Premier Division |
2 | Hengrove Athletic (P) | 42 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 105 | 37 | +68 | 88 | |
3 | Cheddar | 42 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 92 | 52 | +40 | 82 | |
4 | Keynsham Town | 42 | 26 | 3 | 13 | 82 | 50 | +32 | 81 | |
5 | Radstock Town | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 85 | 47 | +38 | 74 | |
6 | Bishops Lydeard | 42 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 76 | 67 | +9 | 68 | |
7 | Ashton & Backwell United | 42 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 71 | 69 | +2 | 64 | |
8 | Chippenham Park | 42 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 74 | 78 | −4 | 63[a] | |
9 | Malmesbury Victoria | 42 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 82 | 82 | 0 | 61 | |
10 | Chard Town | 42 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 74 | 74 | 0 | 59 | |
11 | Devizes Town | 42 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 72 | 81 | −9 | 58 | |
12 | Westbury United | 42 | 18 | 4 | 20 | 60 | 73 | −13 | 58 | |
13 | Wincanton Town | 42 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 83 | 79 | +4 | 56 | |
14 | Portishead Town | 42 | 16 | 7 | 19 | 48 | 58 | −10 | 55 | |
15 | Roman Glass St George | 42 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 72 | 96 | −24 | 52 | |
16 | Bishop Sutton | 42 | 15 | 6 | 21 | 60 | 63 | −3 | 51 | |
17 | Oldland Abbotonians | 42 | 15 | 5 | 22 | 60 | 85 | −25 | 50 | |
18 | Warminster Town | 42 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 68 | 75 | −7 | 47 | |
19 | Corsham Town | 42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 61 | 83 | −22 | 42 | |
20 | Welton Rovers | 42 | 10 | 7 | 25 | 54 | 95 | −41 | 37 | |
21 | Calne Town | 42 | 10 | 4 | 28 | 50 | 98 | −48 | 34[b] | |
22 | Almondsbury UWE | 42 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 67 | 110 | −43 | 28[b] |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:
References
[edit]- ^ "Withdrawal from the Toolstation Western League". Gillingham Town F.C. 1 April 2017. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.