1907–08 Western Football League
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The 1907–08 season was the 16th 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 ...
. Division One continued to be split into two sections of six clubs, reorganised from the previous season, with the winner of each section playing each other in a Championship decider.
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won Section A and
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won Section B, with Millwall winning the decider 1–0.
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left the league at the end of the season as they were elected to the
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for 1908–09. All the member clubs of Division One also competed in the Southern League during this season. The Division Two champions were
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Reserves.Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006


Division One

Four new clubs joined Division One, which was increased from 12 to 14 clubs after Chelsea and
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Section A


Section B


Championship decider

At the end of the season, the winners of the two sections played a match to decide the overall champions.


Division Two

Two new clubs joined Division Two, which was reduced from 10 to nine clubs after Trowbridge Town and 121st R.F.A. left the league, and Newport disbanded. * Kingswood Rovers * Weymouth


References

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