1961–62 Southern Football League
The 1961–62 Southern Football League season was the 59th in the history of the league, an English football competition.
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Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, promoted from Division One:
League table
Season | 1961–62 |
---|---|
Champions | Folkestone Town Cheltenham Town |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1,635 (3.54 per match) |
← 1960–61 → |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oxford United | 42 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 118 | 46 | 2.565 | 61 | Elected to the Football League Fourth Division |
2 | Bath City | 42 | 25 | 7 | 10 | 102 | 70 | 1.457 | 57 | |
3 | Guildford City | 42 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 79 | 49 | 1.612 | 56 | |
4 | Yeovil Town | 42 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 97 | 59 | 1.644 | 54 | |
5 | Chelmsford City | 42 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 74 | 60 | 1.233 | 50 | |
6 | Weymouth | 42 | 20 | 7 | 15 | 80 | 64 | 1.250 | 47 | |
7 | Kettering Town | 42 | 21 | 5 | 16 | 90 | 84 | 1.071 | 47 | |
8 | Hereford United | 42 | 21 | 2 | 19 | 81 | 68 | 1.191 | 44 | |
9 | Cambridge City | 42 | 18 | 8 | 16 | 70 | 71 | 0.986 | 44 | |
10 | Bexleyheath & Welling | 42 | 19 | 5 | 18 | 69 | 75 | 0.920 | 43 | |
11 | Romford | 42 | 15 | 9 | 18 | 63 | 70 | 0.900 | 39 | |
12 | Cambridge United | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 76 | 78 | 0.974 | 38 | |
13 | Wellington Town | 42 | 14 | 10 | 18 | 75 | 78 | 0.962 | 38 | |
14 | Gravesend & Northfleet | 42 | 17 | 4 | 21 | 59 | 92 | 0.641 | 38 | |
15 | Bedford Town | 42 | 16 | 5 | 21 | 73 | 79 | 0.924 | 37 | |
16 | Worcester City | 42 | 15 | 7 | 20 | 51 | 64 | 0.797 | 37 | |
17 | Merthyr Tydfil | 42 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 62 | 80 | 0.775 | 37 | |
18 | Clacton Town | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 74 | 91 | 0.813 | 36 | |
19 | Tonbridge | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 71 | 92 | 0.772 | 34 | Relegated to Division One |
20 | King's Lynn | 42 | 12 | 8 | 22 | 59 | 74 | 0.797 | 32 | |
21 | Folkestone Town
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42 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 64 | 103 | 0.621 | 30 | |
22 | Cheltenham Town | 42 | 9 | 7 | 26 | 48 | 86 | 0.558 | 25 |
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal ratio.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal ratio.
Division One
Division One consisted of 20 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs, relegated from the Premier Division:
League table
Season | 1961–62 |
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Champions | Wisbech Town |
Promoted | Wisbech Town Poole Town Dartford Rugby Town |
Matches played | 380 |
Goals scored | 1,319 (3.47 per match) |
← 1960–61 1962–63 → |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wisbech Town | 38 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 76 | 42 | 1.810 | 53 | Promoted to the Premier Division |
2 | Poole Town | 38 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 81 | 47 | 1.723 | 52 | |
3 | Dartford | 38 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 89 | 50 | 1.780 | 50 | |
4 | Rugby Town | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 82 | 49 | 1.673 | 49 | |
5 | Margate | 38 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 74 | 55 | 1.345 | 46 | |
6 | Corby Town | 38 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 82 | 60 | 1.367 | 44 | |
7 | Sittingbourne | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 69 | 51 | 1.353 | 44 | |
8 | Dover | 38 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 66 | 55 | 1.200 | 44 | |
9 | Yiewsley | 38 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 64 | 51 | 1.255 | 42 | |
10 | Barry Town
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38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 55 | 51 | 1.078 | 39 | |
11 | Ashford Town (Kent)
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38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 66 | 70 | 0.943 | 39 | |
12 | Hinckley Athletic | 38 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 75 | 65 | 1.154 | 38 | |
13 | Burton Albion | 38 | 16 | 5 | 17 | 70 | 79 | 0.886 | 37 | |
14 | Nuneaton Borough | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 63 | 71 | 0.887 | 36 | |
15 | Tunbridge Wells United | 38 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 61 | 85 | 0.718 | 31 | |
16 | Canterbury City | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 60 | 82 | 0.732 | 30 | |
17 | Ramsgate Athletic | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 49 | 70 | 0.700 | 29 | |
18 | Trowbridge Town | 38 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 45 | 67 | 0.672 | 27 | |
19 | Gloucester City
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38 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 46 | 104 | 0.442 | 16 | |
20 | Hastings United | 38 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 46 | 115 | 0.400 | 14 |
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal ratio.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal ratio.
Football League elections
Due to the resignation of Accrington Stanley there was a free place in the Football League. Alongside the three League clubs facing re-election, a total of 26 non-League clubs applied for election, including 19 Southern League clubs. Southern League champions Oxford United were the only non-League club to be elected.[1]
Club | League | Votes |
---|---|---|
Chester | Football League |
46 |
Doncaster Rovers | Football League |
45 |
Hartlepools | Football League |
40 |
Oxford United | Southern League | 39 |
Wigan Athletic | Cheshire League | 5 |
Chelmsford City | Southern League | 4 |
Gateshead | Northern Counties League |
4 |
Cambridge City | Southern League | 2 |
Worcester City | Southern League | 2 |
Bath City | Southern League | 1 |
Hereford United | Southern League | 1 |
King's Lynn | Southern League | 1 |
Morecambe | Lancashire Combination | 1 |
New Brighton | Lancashire Combination | 1 |
Bedford Town | Southern League | 0 |
Bexleyheath & Welling | Southern League | 0 |
Corby Town | Southern League | 0 |
Folkestone Town |
Southern League | 0 |
Gravesend & Northfleet | Southern League | 0 |
Guildford City | Southern League | 0 |
Kettering Town | Southern League | 0 |
North Shields | Northern Counties League |
0 |
Poole Town | Southern League | 0 |
Romford | Southern League | 0 |
Scarborough | Northern Counties League |
0 |
Sittingbourne | Southern League | 0 |
South Shields |
Midland League | 0 |
Wellington Town | Southern League | 0 |
Yeovil Town | Southern League | 0 |