Season | 1951–52 |
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Champions |
Chippenham Town (Division One) Bideford Town (Division Two) |
← 1950–51
1952–53 →
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The 1951–52 season was the 50th in the history of the Western Football League.
The champions for the first time in their history were Chippenham Town, and the winners of Division Two were Bideford Town.
Division One remained at eighteen members with two clubs promoted to replace Yeovil Town Reserves and Peasedown Miners Welfare who were relegated to Division Two.
Division Two was reduced from twenty clubs to nineteen, after Stonehouse and Bath City Reserves were promoted to Division One, and National Smelting Company and Soundwell left the league. Three new clubs joined:
1 The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season.
2 The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
3 The tables as published at the time contained errors, hence the totals do not balance in some columns.