The 1977–78 season was the 76th 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 ...
.
The league champions for the fourth time in their history, and the fourth season in succession, were
Falmouth Town. They became the first club to win the Western League four times in a row. The champions of Division One were
Keynsham Town.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
This season was the first in which
goal difference
Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...
decided places for teams which were level on points.
Final tables
Premier Division
The Premier Division remained at eighteen clubs after
Taunton Town left to join the
Southern League, and Westland-Yeovil were relegated to the First Division. Two clubs joined:
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Saltash United, champions of the First Division.
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Shepton Mallet Town, runners-up in the First Division.
*Clevedon changed their name to
Clevedon Town.
First Division
The First Division was increased from eighteen to nineteen clubs, after Saltash United and Shepton Mallet Town were promoted to the Premier Division. Three clubs joined:
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Bristol Manor Farm, from the
Somerset Senior League.
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Odd Down
Odd Down is an electoral ward in the City of Bath, England. A suburb of the city, Odd Down is located west and south of the city centre. The city ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,681.
History
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Westland-Yeovil, relegated from the Premier Division.
References
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