1947–48 Western Football League

The 1947–48 season was the 46th in the history of the Western Football League.

Western Football League

Season	1947–48
Champions	Trowbridge Town (Division One) Salisbury (Division Two)
← 1946–47 1948–49 →

The champions for the third time in their history and for the second consecutive season were Trowbridge Town, and the winners of Division Two were new club Salisbury, formed after the previous Salisbury club disbanded.

Two games in each division were left unplayed at the end of the season, and were ignored.

Division One

Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Frome Town and Welton Rovers, who were relegated to Division Two.

• Clandown, champions of Division Two
• Soundwell, runners-up in Division Two

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Relegation
1	Trowbridge Town	34	29	3	2	131	33	3.970	61
2	Glastonbury	34	26	3	5	119	40	2.975	55
3	Street	34	23	7	4	98	40	2.450	53
4	Bristol Rovers Reserves	34	21	6	7	121	60	2.017	48	Left at the end of the season
5	Clevedon	34	20	4	10	117	66	1.773	44
6	Clandown	34	16	5	13	84	80	1.050	37
7	Poole Town	33	14	6	13	73	72	1.014	34
8	Yeovil Town Reserves	34	14	4	16	70	79	0.886	32
9	Paulton Rovers	34	13	5	16	78	93	0.839	31
10	Portland United	34	11	7	16	64	72	0.889	29
11	Bristol City Reserves	34	11	7	16	69	104	0.663	29	Left at the end of the season
12	Bath City Reserves	34	10	8	16	56	82	0.683	28
13	Wells City	34	11	5	18	58	71	0.817	27
14	Peasedown Miners Welfare	34	11	5	18	74	96	0.771	27
15	Soundwell	32	8	7	17	64	103	0.621	23
16	Chippenham Town	33	8	6	19	65	97	0.670	22
17	Radstock Town (R)	34	8	3	23	64	108	0.593	19	Relegated to Division Two
18	Bristol Aeroplane Company (R)	34	4	1	29	56	165	0.339	9

Source:
(R) Relegated

Division Two

Division Two was increased from thirteen to eighteen clubs, after Clandown and Soundwell were promoted to Division One, and Thorney Pitts disbanded. Eight new clubs joined:

• Cheltenham Town Reserves
• Dorchester Town
• Frome Town, relegated from Division One.
• National Smelting Company
• Salisbury
• Stonehouse
• Welton Rovers, relegated from Division One.
• Weymouth, rejoining after leaving the league in 1939.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Promotion
1	Salisbury (P)	34	29	1	4	145	33	4.394	59	Promoted to Division One
2	Weymouth (P)	34	26	4	4	148	37	4.000	56
3	Cheltenham Town Reserves	34	25	3	6	142	42	3.381	53
4	Welton Rovers	34	21	3	10	85	49	1.735	45
5	Frome Town	33	22	0	11	114	76	1.500	44
6	Hoffman Athletic	34	19	5	10	79	50	1.580	43
7	Trowbridge Town Reserves	33	17	5	11	92	59	1.559	39
8	Swindon Town Reserves	34	17	4	13	95	76	1.250	38
9	Douglas	34	18	2	14	104	88	1.182	38
10	Dorchester Town	34	13	6	15	64	79	0.810	32
11	Cinderford Town	34	12	7	15	87	103	0.845	31
12	National Smelting Company	34	13	5	16	80	102	0.784	31
13	Stonehouse	34	7	7	20	64	113	0.566	21
14	Chippenham Town Reserves	34	8	4	22	63	117	0.538	20
15	RAF Locking	33	9	1	23	52	126	0.413	19	Left at the end of the season
16	RAF Melksham	34	7	4	23	63	136	0.463	18
17	RAF Colerne	33	6	4	23	64	146	0.438	16	Left at the end of the season
18	B.A.C. Reserves	34	2	1	31	48	157	0.306	5

Source:
Rules for classification: The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season. The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
(P) Promoted