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1906–07 Southern Football League

Southern Football League Division One
Season 1906–07
Champions Fulham (2nd title)
Promoted none
Relegated none
Matches played 380
Goals scored 1,035 (2.72 per match)
Southern Football League Division Two
Season 1906–07
Champions Southend United
Promoted none
Relegated West Ham United II (resigned)
Fulham II (resigned)
Reading II (resigned)
Royal Engineers Aldershot (resigned)
Matches played 132
Goals scored 513 (3.89 per match)

The 1906–07 season was the 13th in the history of Southern League. Fulham won Division One for the second time in a row and were elected to the Football League. No other teams were applied for election to the Football League. Southend United won Division Two, but there was no promotion or relegation between the divisions.

A total of 20 teams contest the division, including 18 sides from previous season and two teams promoted from Division Two.

Teams promoted from 1905–06 Division Two:

1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used until the 1976-77 season.

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

A total of 12 teams contest the division, including 8 sides from previous season and four new teams, all of them are newly elected teams.

Newly elected teams:

1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used until the 1976-77 season.

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

Only one Southern League club, Fulham, applied for election to Division Two of the Football League. They offered midland clubs £15 and northern clubs £20 in expenses for travelling to London and were successful, topping the ballot, and replaced Burton United in the League.


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