2002–03 Western Football League

Western Football League
Season	2002–03
Champions	Team Bath (Premier Division) Torrington (Division One)
← 2001–02 2003–04 →

The 2002–03 season was the 101st in the history of the Western Football League.

The league champions for the first time in their history were Team Bath, who were promoted to the Southern League. The champions of Division One were Torrington.^[1]

Final tables

Premier Division

The Premier Division was reduced from 20 to 18 clubs after Taunton Town were promoted to the Southern League, Bristol Manor Farm and Westbury United were relegated to the First Division, and Yeovil Town Reserves also left. Two clubs joined:

Bath City Reserves, runners-up in the First Division.
Frome Town, champions of the First Division.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDiff¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Team Bath (C) (P)	34	27	3	4	109	28	+81	84	Promoted to the Southern League
2	Brislington	34	22	7	5	71	28	+43	73
3	Bideford	34	21	7	6	105	35	+70	70
4	Backwell United	34	21	4	9	70	33	+37	67
5	Paulton Rovers	34	18	9	7	68	35	+33	63
6	Bridgwater Town	34	17	8	9	71	43	+28	59
7	Bath City Reserves	34	14	5	15	66	57	+9	47	Left at the end of the season
8	Melksham Town	34	12	7	15	65	68	–3	43
9	Odd Down	34	12	6	16	49	67	–18	42
10	Keynsham Town	34	11	7	16	55	65	–10	40
11	Frome Town	34	11	7	16	49	62	–13	40
12	Bishop Sutton	34	11	5	18	57	83	–26	38
13	Dawlish Town	34	11	5	18	47	107	–60	38
14	Bridport	34	9	8	17	40	54	–14	35
15	Barnstaple Town	34	8	8	18	41	68	–27	32
16	Welton Rovers	34	9	5	20	40	99	–59	32
17	Elmore	34	8	7	19	45	81	–36	31
18	Devizes Town	34	6	8	20	40	75	–35	26

First Division

The First Division was reduced from 20 to 19 clubs after Frome Town and Bath City Reserves were promoted to the Premier Division, Warminster Town were relegated to the Wiltshire League, and two clubs joined:

Bristol Manor Farm, relegated from the Premier Division.
Westbury United, relegated from the Premier Division.

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDiff¹	Pts²	Notes
1	Torrington (C) (P)	36	27	5	4	113	47	+66	86	Promoted to the Premier Division
2	Exmouth Town (P)	36	26	7	3	83	29	+54	85	Promoted to the Premier Division
3	Westbury United	36	20	8	8	92	65	+27	68
4	Hallen	36	19	6	11	70	56	+14	63
5	Calne Town	36	16	9	11	62	43	+19	57
6	Clyst Rovers	36	17	5	14	67	55	+12	56
7	Willand Rovers	36	16	6	14	63	53	+10	54
8	Bitton	36	13	10	13	50	48	+2	49
9	Shepton Mallet	36	13	10	13	53	55	–2	49
10	Chard Town	36	12	10	14	59	60	–1	46
11	Bristol Manor Farm	36	14	4	18	56	71	–15	46
12	Wellington	36	12	8	16	49	57	–8	44
13	Larkhall Athletic	36	13	4	19	48	73	–25	43
14	Cadbury Heath	36	10	11	15	49	61	–12	41
15	Street	36	13	7	16	59	81	–22	40*
16	Corsham Town	36	8	12	16	44	51	–7	36
17	Weston St Johns	36	9	4	23	54	76	–22	31
18	Ilfracombe Town	36	7	9	20	47	85	–38	30
19	Minehead Town	36	7	5	24	34	86	–52	26

* Street had six points deducted.

^{1 The system of using goal difference to separate two teams tied on points was used.}

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

References

↑ Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006

Western League

Premier Division	Bitton Bradford Town Bridport Brislington Bristol Manor Farm Buckland Athletic Cadbury Heath Chipping Sodbury Town Clevedon Town Cribbs Gillingham Town Hallen Longwell Green Sports Melksham Town Odd Down Shepton Mallet Sherborne Town Street Wells City Willand Rovers

Division One	Almondsbury UWE Ashton & Backwell United Bishops Lydeard Bishop Sutton Calne Town Chard Town Cheddar Chippenham Park Corsham Town Devizes Town Hengrove Athletic Keynsham Town Malmesbury Victoria Oldland Abbotonians Portishead Town Radstock Town Roman Glass St George Warminster Town Wellington Welton Rovers Westbury United Wincanton Town

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2002–03 in English football

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FA competitions

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Football Conference

Football Conference

Lower leagues

European competitions

Related to national team

Club seasons

Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Charlton Athletic Chelsea Everton Fulham Leeds United Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Southampton Sunderland Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United

First Division	Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Burnley Coventry City Crystal Palace Derby County Grimsby Town Gillingham Ipswich Town Leicester City Millwall Norwich City Nottingham Forest Portsmouth Preston North End Reading Rotherham United Sheffield United Sheffield Wednesday Stoke City Walsall Watford Wimbledon Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Barnsley Blackpool Brentford Bristol City Cardiff City Cheltenham Town Chesterfield Colchester United Crewe Alexandra Huddersfield Town Luton Town Mansfield Town Northampton Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Peterborough United Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Queens Park Rangers Stockport County Swindon Town Tranmere Rovers Wigan Athletic Wycombe Wanderers

Third Division	Boston United Bournemouth Bristol Rovers Bury Cambridge United Carlisle United Darlington Exeter City Hartlepool United Hull City Kidderminster Harriers Leyton Orient Lincoln City Macclesfield Town Oxford United Rochdale Rushden & Diamonds Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swansea City Torquay United Wrexham York City

Non-League	AFC Wimbledon Gateshead Newport County Yeovil Town

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