The 1909–10 season was the 16th in the history of
Southern Football League
The Southern League is a football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from East Anglia, the South and Midlands of England, and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven a ...
.
Brighton & Hove Albion
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won Division One for the first time,
Stoke
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Places Canada
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Bristol
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Bucking ...
and
Hastings & St Leonards finished top of the Division Two groups, though they were not promoted to Division One. Stoke were the only club to apply for election to
the Football League
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, but were unsuccessful.
Division One
A total of 22 teams contest the division, including 21 sides from previous season and one new team.
Team promoted from
1908–09 Division Two:
* Croydon Common
Division Two A
All the clubs in the new Division Two A were new to the Southern League, except Salisbury City who had participated in the league since 1906.
Division Two B
A total of six teams contest the division, including 3 sides from previous season Division Two and three new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.
Newly elected teams:
* Kettering
* Peterborough City
* Romford
Football League elections
Stoke were the only Southern League club to apply for election to the Football League, but received only three votes.
A history of admission to the Football League
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References
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1909-10
1909–10 in English association football leagues
1909–10 in Welsh football