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1906–07 Southern Football League

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Season
  
1906–07

Promoted
  
none

Matches played
  
380

Champions
  
Fulham (2nd title)

Relegated
  
none

Goals scored
  
1035 (2.72 per match)

The 1906–07 season was the 13th in the history of Southern League. Fulham won Division One for the second time in a row and were elected to the Football League. No other teams were applied for election to the Football League. Southend United won Division Two, but there was no promotion or relegation between the divisions.

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Division One

A total of 20 teams contest the division, including 18 sides from previous season and two teams promoted from Division Two.

Teams promoted from 1905–06 Division Two:

  • Crystal Palace
  • Leyton
  • 1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used until the 1976-77 season.

    2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.

    Division Two

    A total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.

    Newly elected teams:

  • Tunbridge Wells Rangers - transferred from Kent League
  • Southend United
  • Salisbury City
  • Royal Engineers Aldershot
  • 1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used until the 1976-77 season.

    2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.

    Football League elections

    Only one Southern League club, Fulham, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. They offered midland clubs £15 and northern clubs £20 in expenses for travelling to London and were successful, topping the ballot, and replaced Burton United in the League.

    References

    1906–07 Southern Football League Wikipedia