The 1927–28 season was the 30th in the history of the
Southern League. The league consisted of Eastern and Western Divisions.
Kettering Town
Kettering Town Football Club is a football club based in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Latimer Park. Kettering were the first club to wear sponsorship on their shirts in 1976, and have ...
won the Eastern Division and
Bristol City reserves won the Western Division. Kettering were declared Southern League champions after defeating Bristol City reserves 5–0 in a championship play-off.
Two clubs from the Southern League applied to join
the Football League
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, although neither was successful. Three clubs (all from the Western Division) left the league at the end of the season.
Eastern Division
A total of 18 teams contest the division, including 12 sides from previous season and six new teams.
Newly elected teams:
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Chatham Town - returned to the league after the resignation in
1921
Events
January
* January 2
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Northfleet United
Northfleet United Football Club was a football club based in Northfleet, Kent.
Around 1890 organised team football was being played in the town and in 1892 the Northfleet F.C. club was founded. It flourished for a few years in the mid-1890s unt ...
- returned to the league after the resignation in
1898
Events
January
* January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queen ...
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Sheppey United - returned to the league after the resignation in
1901
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Political and military
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Aldershot Town
Aldershot Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system.
The club was founded in the spr ...
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Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.
The town stands next to th ...
* Gillingham II - returned to the league after the resignation in
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
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Western Division
A total of 16 teams contest the division, including 13 sides from previous season and three new teams.
Team relegated from
1926–27 Football League
The 1926– 27 season was the 35th season of The Football League.
Final league tables
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Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic - relegated from the Football League and renamed
Newly elected teams:
* Merthyr Town II
* Torquay United II - replacing their first team, who had been promoted to the Football League the previous season
Football League election
Two Southern League clubs, Kettering Town and Peterborough & Fletton United, applied to join the Football League. However, both League clubs were re-elected, with Argonauts, a new amateur club who had never played a match winning more votes than either Southern League club.
A history of admission to the Football League
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References
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