1895–96 Southern Football League

The 1895-96 season was the 2nd in the history of the Southern League.

First Division Teams

• Chatham Town
• Clapton
• Ilford
• Luton Town
• Millwall Athletic
• New Brompton
• Reading
• Royal Ordnance
• Southampton St Mary's
• Swindon Town

Second Division Teams

• 1st Scots Guards
• Bromley
• Chesham
• Guildford
• Maidenhead
• Old St Stephen's
• Sheppey United
• Uxbridge
• Windsor & Eton
• Wolverton LNWR

Division One Final Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average 1	Points 2
1	Millwall Athletic	18	16	1	1	75	16	4.69	33
2	Luton Town	18	13	1	4	68	14	4.86	27
3	Southampton St Mary's	18	12	0	6	44	23	1.91	24
4	Reading	18	11	1	6	45	38	1.18	23
5	Chatham Town	18	9	2	7	43	45	0.96	20
6	New Brompton	18	7	4	7	30	37	0.81	18
7	Swindon Town	18	6	4	8	38	41	0.93	16
8	Clapton	18	4	2	12	30	67	0.45	10
9	Royal Ordnance	18	3	3	12	23	44	0.52	9
10	Ilford	18	0	0	18	10	81	0.12	0

^{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 Final Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average 1	Points 2
1	Wolverton LNWR	16	13	1	2	43	10	4.30	27
2	Sheppey United	16	11	3	2	60	19	3.16	25
3	1st Scots Guards	16	8	5	3	37	22	1.68	21
4	Uxbridge	16	9	1	6	28	23	1.22	19
5	Old St Stephen's	16	6	3	7	34	21	1.62	15
6	Guildford	16	7	1	8	29	41	0.71	15
7	Maidenhead	16	4	1	11	20	49	0.41	9
8	Chesham	16	2	3	11	15	48	0.31	7
9	Bromley	16	2	2	12	16	49	0.33	6
	Windsor & Eton3

^{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.}

^{3 Windsor & Eton resigned from the League after 1 match.}

Promotion and relegation

In the second season of the Southern League First Division teams were still not put forward for election to the Football League nor automatically promoted. Conversely, none of the sides were relegated. However, at the end of the season Luton Town joined the United League while Ilford left the League altogether, to be replaced by newly promoted Second Division sides Wolverton LWRN and Sheppey United. Three further teams were also elected straight into Division One; Tottenham Hotspur, Gravesend United and Northfleet. In addition to this two teams (Guildford and Bromley) left the Second Division at the end of the season; they were replaced by newly-elected teams Dartford, RETB Chesham, Wycombe Wanderers, Freemantle, Southall, West Herts, Warmley Bristol, and the 1st Coldstream Guards.

External links

• Southern League First Division Tables
• Southern League Second Division Tables