The 1938–39 season was the 42nd 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 ...
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The Division One champions for the second time were
Lovells Athletic, after finishing bottom the previous season. The winners of Division Two for the second consecutive season were
Trowbridge Town. There was again no promotion or relegation between the two divisions this season, and the league was restructured before the 1939–40 season following the outbreak of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Division One
Division One was increased from five to six clubs, with one new club joining:
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Bath City, rejoining after leaving the league in 1936.
Division Two
Division Two remained at eighteen clubs with no clubs leaving or joining.
References
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