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 ...
season was the 58th in the history of the league, an English
football
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competition.
Oxford United
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Cambridge United
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Merthyr Tydfil
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were all promoted to the Premier Division. Ten Southern League clubs applied to join
the Football League
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at the end of the season, but none were successful.
Romford
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