Season | 2016β17 |
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Champions | Bristol Manor Farm |
Promoted | Bristol Manor Farm |
Relegated | Sherborne Town |
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The 2016β17 Western Football League season (known as the 2016β17 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.
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.
Bristol Manor Farm, Buckland Athletic, Clevedon Town, Melksham Town and Street applied for promotion to Step 4 for 2017β18.
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.
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 |
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:
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
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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] |