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This article is about the British league. For the American league with the same name see Western Football League (US).
The
Western Football League is a
football league in the south west of
England. The league's current main sponsor is
Toolstation, so it's also known as the
Toolstation League.
Recent restructuring of the
English football league system has placed the two divisions, known as the Premier Division and Division One (which each consist of twenty-two clubs) at the ninth and tenth tiers overall, known as Step 5 and Step 6 of the
National League System.
The Champion club may apply for promotion to a Step 4 league, which in practice will almost certainly be the
Southern League Division One South and West. Below the Western League are four local leagues covering even smaller areas, the
Somerset Senior League, the
Wiltshire League,
Gloucestershire County League, and the
South West Peninsula League Premier Division, which feeds directly into the Western League Premier Division.
List of current clubs
History
The league was formed in 1892 as the Bristol & District League, and became the Western League in 1895. (There is also a Bristol & District League today, but this is a feeder league to the Gloucestershire County League). In the years before
World War II, many teams played in both the Southern and Western Leagues; the Western League was considered as secondary to the Southern League.
On four occasions, member clubs have lifted the
FA Vase,
Tiverton Town twice,
Taunton Town once and most recently
Truro City, who beat
A.F.C. Totton at the first final to be held at the new
Wembley Stadium before a competition record crowd of 27,754. Truro City were the only one of the three to win the FA Vase while in Division One. Neither of the former clubs are current members of the Western League, as both have since progressed to the
Southern League.
Founder members
Bedminster | Clevedon (later
Clevedon Town) |
Clifton Association | Eastville Rovers (later
Bristol Rovers) | Mangotsfield | St. George |
Trowbridge Town |
Warmley |
Wells
List of champions
Teams promoted to Southern League (since 1946)
Further Information
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