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1925–26 Southern Football League

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Season
  
1925-26

Promoted
  
none

Goals scored
  
1384 (4.52 per match)

Champions
  
Millwall II

Matches played
  
306

Relegated
  
Fulham II (resigned) Coventry City II (resigned) Nuneaton Town (resigned)

The 1925–26 season was the 28th in the history of the Southern League. The league consisted of Eastern and Western Divisions. Millwall II won the Eastern Division and Plymouth Argyle II won the Western Division. Plymouth were declared Southern League champions after defeating Millwall 1–0 in a championship play-off.

Contents

No clubs from the Southern League applied to join the Football League, whilst four clubs left the league at the end of the season.

Eastern Division

A total of 18 teams contest the division, including 16 sides from previous season and two new teams.

Newly elected teams:

  • Grays Thurrock United
  • Fulham II
  • 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.

    Western Division

    The Western Division featured the same clubs as the previous season, minus the six clubs that had left.

    1 Number of goals for and/or against is inaccurate.

    2 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used until the 1976–77 season.

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

    References

    1925–26 Southern Football League Wikipedia