Southern Football League 1901-02
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The 1901-02 season was the eighth in the history of the Southern League
. Portsmouth
were Division One champions for the first time. No clubs applied for election to the Football League
.
1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.
2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.
2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
Southern Football League
The Southern League is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales...
. Portsmouth
Portsmouth F.C.
Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey. Portsmouth's home matches have been played at Fratton Park since the club's formation in 1898. The team currently play in the Football League Championship after being relegated from...
were Division One champions for the first time. No clubs applied for election to the Football League
The Football League
The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...
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Division One
Division One featured three new clubs:- Brentford (promoted from Division Two)
- Northampton Town (from the Midland LeagueMidland Football LeagueThere have been at least two different football competitions in England which used the name Midland Football League.One existed until 1982 before merging with the Yorkshire League to form the Northern Counties League....
) - Wellingborough (from the Midland LeagueMidland Football LeagueThere have been at least two different football competitions in England which used the name Midland Football League.One existed until 1982 before merging with the Yorkshire League to form the Northern Counties League....
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| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv1 | Pts2 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portsmouth Portsmouth F.C. Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey. Portsmouth's home matches have been played at Fratton Park since the club's formation in 1898. The team currently play in the Football League Championship after being relegated from... |
30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 67 | 24 | 2.79 | 47 | |
| 2 | 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.... |
30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 61 | 22 | 2.77 | 42 | |
| 3 | Southampton Southampton F.C. Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club... |
30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 71 | 28 | 2.54 | 42 | |
| 4 | West Ham United West Ham United F.C. West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current... |
30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 45 | 28 | 1.61 | 40 | |
| 5 | Reading Reading F.C. Reading Football Club is an English association football club based in the town of Reading, Berkshire who currently play in the Championship... |
30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 57 | 24 | 2.38 | 39 | |
| 6 | Millwall Athletic Millwall F.C. Millwall Football Club is an English professional football club based in South Bermondsey, south east London, that plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded as Millwall Rovers in 1885, the club has retained its name despite having last played in the... |
30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 46 | 31 | 1.48 | 32 | |
| 7 | Luton Town Luton Town F.C. Luton Town Football Club is an English professional football club based since 1905 at Kenilworth Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. The club currently competes in the fifth tier of English football, the Conference National, for the third consecutive season during the 2011–12 season.Formed in 1885, it was... |
30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 36 | 0.86 | 32 | |
| 8 | Kettering Kettering Town F.C. Kettering Town Football Club are a football club originating in Kettering, Northamptonshire but currently based in the nearby village of Irthlingborough. The club play in the Conference National after winning the Conference North in 2007–08... |
30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 44 | 39 | 1.13 | 29 | |
| 9 | Bristol Rovers Bristol Rovers F.C. Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Bristol, that competes in Football League Two. The team plays its home matches at the Memorial Stadium, in the Horfield area of the city.... |
30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 43 | 39 | 1.1 | 29 | |
| 10 | New Brompton Gillingham F.C. Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium... |
30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 39 | 38 | 1.03 | 27 | |
| 11 | Northampton Town Northampton Town F.C. Northampton Town Football Club are an English professional football club based in Northampton, Northamptonshire. They currently play in Football League Two, the lowest league division, after being relegated from League One on the last day of the 2008–09 season... |
30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 53 | 65 | 0.82 | 27 | |
| 12 | Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers F.C. Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years... |
30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 34 | 55 | 0.62 | 24 | |
| 13 | Watford Watford F.C. Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as Watford F.C., Watford, or by the team's nickname The Hornets . Watford Rovers, Founded in 1881, entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade... |
30 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 36 | 58 | 0.62 | 22 | |
| 14 | Wellingborough | 30 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 34 | 72 | 0.47 | 21 | |
| 15 | Brentford Brentford F.C. Brentford Football Club are a professional English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. They are currently playing in Football League One.... |
30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 34 | 61 | 0.56 | 20 | Relegation test matches |
| 16 | Swindon Town Swindon Town F.C. Swindon Town Football Club are a team based in Swindon, Wiltshire. Currently in League Two, Swindon have been managed by Paolo Di Canio since 23 May 2011... |
30 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 92 | 0.18 | 7 |
1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.
2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
Division Two
Division Two featured two new clubs, Brighton & Hove Albion and West Hampstead.| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv1 | Pts2 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fulham Fulham F.C. Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season... |
16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 51 | 19 | 2.68 | 26 | Promotion test matches |
| 2 | Grays United Grays United F.C. Grays United F.C. was an English football club based in Grays, Essex. The club played at the Recreation Ground.The club joined Division Two of the Southern League in 1899. In 1900–01 they finished second and qualified for the promtion-relegation test matches... |
16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 49 | 14 | 3.5 | 25 | |
| 3 | Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club are an English association football club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. They currently play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.... |
16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 34 | 17 | 2 | 22 | |
| 4 | Wycombe Wanderers Wycombe Wanderers F.C. Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional football team from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which has been promoted to Football League One after finishing third in Football League Two in the season 2010–11. The club's nicknames are "The Chairboys" and "The Blues", and they play... |
16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 30 | 1.2 | 17 | |
| 5 | West Hampstead | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 39 | 29 | 1.34 | 16 | Left league at end of season |
| 6 | Shepherds Bush | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 31 | 31 | 1 | 13 | Left league at end of season |
| 7 | Southall Southall F.C. Southall F.C. is a semi-professional football club based in the Southall area of west London, in the London Borough of Ealing, England. Football has been played in Southall from at least 1871.-History:... |
16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 28 | 52 | 0.54 | 12 | |
| 8 | Maidenhead | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 23 | 59 | 0.39 | 7 | Left league at end of season |
| 9 | Chesham Town Chesham Town F.C. Chesham Town Football Club were an English football club from Chesham, Buckinghamshire.Originally founded as plain Chesham FC, in 1894 they became founder members of the Southern League in 1894. They were renamed Chesham Town in 1899 and continued to play in the Southern League until 1904, when... |
16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 64 | 0.38 | 6 |
1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season.
2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.