The 1949–50 season was the 48th in the history of the
Western Football League
The Western Football League is a association football, 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 ...
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This was the first and only season in the history of the Western League in which it consisted of three divisions. Division Three was created largely from reserve sides of existing members, but was abandoned at the end of the season.
The champions for the first time in their history were
Wells City, and the winners of Division Two were new club
Barnstaple Town.
Bideford Town won Division Three, only dropping one point.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Division One
Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Clevedon and Bristol City Colts, who were relegated to Division Two.
Weymouth had moved up to the
Southern League and were replaced in Division One by their Reserves.
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Cheltenham Town
Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1887, ...
Reserves, runners-up in Division Two
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Chippenham United, champions of Division Two
Division Two
Division Two remained at eighteen clubs, after Cheltenham Town Reserves and Chippenham United were promoted to Division One, and
RAF Melksham left the league. Three new clubs joined:
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Bridgwater Town
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Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system.
Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...
Colts, relegated from Division One.
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Clevedon
Clevedon (, ) is a seaside town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, England. It recorded a parish population of 21,281 in the United Kingdom Census 2011, estimated at 21,442 in 2019. It lies ...
, relegated from Division One.
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Swindon Town
Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system.
Founded as Swindon A ...
replaced their Reserves with their Colts.
Division Three
Division Three consisted of eleven clubs, all of which were new to the Western League except
Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers FC is a men's professional football club in Bristol. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club is affiliated to Bristol Rovers W.F.C., whose team play in the FA Women's National Leag ...
"A", this side rejoining the league having left in 1939. Seven of the other ten clubs were reserve sides of clubs in Divisions One and Two.
References
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