The 1979–80 season was the 78th in the history of the
Western Football League.
The league champions for the second time in their history were
Barnstaple Town. The champions of Division One were
Melksham Town.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
This season marked a return to the system of two points for a win, after five seasons using the three-point system. The Western League returned to the three-point system after ten seasons, in
1989–90.
Premier Division
The Premier Division remained at twenty clubs after Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet Town were relegated to the First Division, and two clubs joined:
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A.F.C. Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth () is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest division of English club football. Formed in 1899 as B ...
Reserves, champions of the First Division.
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Portway Bristol, runners-up in the First Division.
League table
First Division
The First Division increased from nineteen to twenty-two clubs after A.F.C. Bournemouth Reserves and Portway Bristol were promoted to the Premier Division. Five new clubs joined:
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Bath City Reserves, returning to the league after leaving in 1971.
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury (, ) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,932 in the 2011 census. Glastonbury ...
, relegated from the Premier Division.
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Liskeard Athletic, from the
South Western League
The South Western Football League was an English association football league composed of clubs from Cornwall and west and north Devon. It consisted of a single division at the eleventh overall tier of the English football league system, the seven ...
.
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Radstock Town, from the
Somerset Senior League
The Somerset County League is a football competition based in England. The Premier Division sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. It is a feeder to the Western League Division One and has promoted a club in seven of the ...
– returning to the league after leaving in 1960.
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Shepton Mallet Town, relegated from the Premier Division.
League table
References
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