The 1948–49
Southern Football League
The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English fo ...
season was the 46th in the history of the league, an English
football
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competition.
The league consisted of 22 clubs, including all 18 clubs from the previous season, and four newly elected clubs.
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Hastings United, a new club
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Kidderminster Harriers
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, joined from the
Birmingham & District League
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Tonbridge
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, a new club
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Chingford Town, a new club
Gillingham were champions, winning their second Southern League title. Four Southern League clubs applied to join
the Football League
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at the end of the season, but none was successful.
League table
Football League elections
Eight Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League, but all four League clubs were re-elected.
A history of admission to the Football League
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References
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Southern Football League seasons
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