The 1949–50

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 47th in the history of the league, an English

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competition. The league consisted of 24 clubs, including all 22 clubs from the previous season, and two newly elected clubs –

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and Weymouth.

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were champions, winning their second Southern League title. At the end of the season

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expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Six Southern League clubs applied to join, with

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and Gillingham succeeding.

League table

Football League elections

As the Football League's

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was expanded from 20 to 22 clubs, no League clubs put up for re-election, but two places were available for non-League clubs. Six Southern League clubs applied, with Gillingham and Colchester United topping the ballot,A history of admission to the Football League
/ref> despite Merthyr winning the league.

References

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