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1983–84 Southern Football League

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Season
  
1983–84

Promoted
  
Dartford

Goals scored
  
1125 (2.96 per match)

Champions
  
Dartford

Matches played
  
380

Relegated
  
Dorchester Town Gosport Borough Stourbridge Sutton Coldfield Town

The 1983–84 season was the 81st in the history of the Southern League.

Contents

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured five new teams:

  • Cheltenham Town, promoted as champions of the Midland Division
  • Fisher Athletic, promoted as champions of the Southern Division
  • Folkestone, promoted as runners-up of the Southern Division
  • King's Lynn, transferred from the Northern Premier League
  • Sutton Coldfield Town, promoted as runners-up of the Midland Division

    • League table

    Source: [1]
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Midland Division

    The Midland Division featured eight new teams.

  • Bridgnorth Town, promoted as champions of the Midland Combination
  • Coventry Sporting, promoted as 16th in the West Midlands (Regional) League
  • Leicester United, relegated from the Premier Division
  • Moor Green, promoted as runners-up of the Midland Combination
  • Rushden Town, promoted as runners-up of the United Counties Football League Premier Division
  • Shepshed Charterhouse, promoted as champions of the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division
  • Tamworth, transferred from the Northern Premier League
  • VS Rugby, promoted as seventh in the West Midlands (Regional) League

    • League table

    Source: [2]
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Southern Division

    The Southern Division featured eight new teams.

  • Addlestone & Weybridge Town, Poole Town and Waterlooville, relegated from the Premier Division
  • Chatham Town, as seventh in the Kent Football League
  • Dover Athletic, as a new club

    • League table

    Source: [3]
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    References

    1983–84 Southern Football League Wikipedia
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