The Southern Alliance was a short-lived football

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 league

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 competition for teams in the South of England

Southern England

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At the time, there were no Southern teams in the Football League and no equivalent competition existed for clubs in the south. The Southern Alliance was set up in 1892 and ran for just one season, in 1892-93

1892-93 in English football

The 1892–93 season was the 22nd season of competitive football in England.-Events:The Football League and the Football Alliance formally merged, and so the Football League Second Division was formed, consisting mostly of Football Alliance clubs...

. The league featured seven leading amateur teams from the Home Counties

Home Counties

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, namely:

• Erith
• Old St Stephen's
• Polytechnic
  Polytechnic F.C.
  Polytechnic Football Club, originally, Hanover United Football Club is a football club from England, formed in 1873 or 1875. It is believed to be the first football club to use United in its name. It played its home matches at the Limes, Barnes, London, moving to a ground near Chiswick railway...
  
  
• Slough Town
  Slough Town F.C.
  Slough Town F.C. is an English semi-professional football club. The club was officially founded in 1890 after the amalgamation of three local clubs, Swifts, Slough Albion and Young Men's Friendly Society, who between them forged a new club, Slough F.C....
  
  
• Tottenham Hotspur
  Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
  
  
• Upton Park
  Upton Park F.C.
  Upton Park Football Club were an amateur football club from Upton Park, London in the late 19th and early 20th century, now defunct. As well as being one of the fifteen teams that played in the inaugural FA Cup, they also represented Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics football tournament,...
  
  
• Windsor & Eton
  Windsor & Eton F.C.
  Windsor & Eton F.C. was an English association football club based in Windsor, Berkshire, last playing in the Southern League Premier Division in 2010–11, until it was wound up on 2 February 2011 due to large debts. A new club, Windsor F.C., has been formed to compete in the 2011–12...
  
  

Notable in their absence were leading Southern sides such as Woolwich Arsenal

Arsenal F.C.

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 (who had turned professional in 1891 and were banned from local competitions) and Millwall Athletic

Millwall F.C.

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Final table

Not all matches in the 1892-93 competition were played, however Old St. Stephens topped the final table. The competition was disbanded at the end of the season.

		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Old St Stephen's	12	10	1	1	44	15	21
2	Erith	11	8	1	2	29	14	17
3	Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....	12	7	2	3	29	21	16
4	Polytechnic Polytechnic F.C. Polytechnic Football Club, originally, Hanover United Football Club is a football club from England, formed in 1873 or 1875. It is believed to be the first football club to use United in its name. It played its home matches at the Limes, Barnes, London, moving to a ground near Chiswick railway...	8	4	0	4	18	12	8
5	Slough Town Slough Town F.C. Slough Town F.C. is an English semi-professional football club. The club was officially founded in 1890 after the amalgamation of three local clubs, Swifts, Slough Albion and Young Men's Friendly Society, who between them forged a new club, Slough F.C....	11	2	2	7	21	33	6
6	Windsor & Eton Windsor & Eton F.C. Windsor & Eton F.C. was an English association football club based in Windsor, Berkshire, last playing in the Southern League Premier Division in 2010–11, until it was wound up on 2 February 2011 due to large debts. A new club, Windsor F.C., has been formed to compete in the 2011–12...	10	2	1	7	14	37	5
7	Upton Park Upton Park F.C. Upton Park Football Club were an amateur football club from Upton Park, London in the late 19th and early 20th century, now defunct. As well as being one of the fifteen teams that played in the inaugural FA Cup, they also represented Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics football tournament,...	10	1	0	9	7	36	2