The 2000–01 season was the 99th in the history of the
Western Football League
The Western Football League is a 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 Toolstation, so it is also known as ...
.
The league champions for the sixth time in their history (and the third season running) were
Taunton Town
Taunton Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Taunton, Somerset. They compete in the , the sixth tier of English football and play their home matches at Wordsworth Drive, which they moved into during the 1953 season. ...
, but runners-up
Chippenham Town took promotion to the
Southern League. The champions of Division One were the newly formed
Team Bath.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Final tables
Premier Division
The Premier Division was increased from 19 clubs to 20 after
Mangotsfield United were promoted to the
Southern League, and two clubs joined:
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Devizes Town, champions of the First Division.
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Welton Rovers, runners-up in the First Division.
First Division
The First Division was increased from 17 clubs to 20 after Devizes Town and Welton Rovers were promoted to the Premier Division, and five clubs joined:
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Bath City Reserves, rejoining the league after leaving in 1992.
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Cadbury Heath, promoted from the
Gloucestershire County League
The Gloucestershire County Football League is a football league in England, founded in 1968. The league is affiliated to the Gloucestershire County FA.
It sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System and is a feeder to Divisio ...
.
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Hallen, transferred and demoted from the
Hellenic League.
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Team Bath, a newly formed club.
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Worle St Johns, promoted from the
Somerset Senior League.
References
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