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3 unusual facts about Southern Football League


Clifford Grossmark

Soon after the war, Grossmark became a season-ticket holder at Priestfield Stadium, home of Gillingham F.C., then playing in the Southern League.

Cwm, Blaenau Gwent

Cwm Albion spent a single season in the Southern League in 1911–12, but withdrew due to financial problems.

Southern League

Southern Football League, a semi-professional football league in England currently known as the Evo-stik League South


1899–1900 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

To bolster the squad for their first season in Southern League Division One, Arnold Hills supplied a transfer fund of £1,000 to club secretary Francis Payne, who chose to build the team by buying players already familiar with each other.

1915–16 Blackpool F.C. season

A conference was held in Blackpool's Winter Gardens on 3 July 1915, with representatives from the English, Irish, Scottish and Southern Football Leagues to consider whether football should be played in the 1915–16 season.

2005–06 Southern Football League

The 2005–06 season was the 103rd in the history of the Southern League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales.

Beau Waters

Waters grew up in Happy Valley, South Australia, playing for the Happy Valley Football Club in the Southern Football League.

Bill Furby

William "Bill" Furby (b. 1871 – fl. 1969) was an English amateur footballer who played for Southampton St. Mary's in the club's first season in the Southern League.

Frank McAvoy

He also played for Scottish Football League clubs Ayr and St. Mirren, and for Southern League clubs Brighton United, Gravesend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Watford.

Jimmy McIntyre

Engaged as trainer, under secretary Ernest Arnfield who acted as “manager”, McIntyre faced the difficult task of restoring the Saints to their former success in the Southern League.

Kangarilla Football Club

Kangarilla left the Hills Football League and joined the Southern Football League Division 2 competition in 1981, gaining promotion to Division 1 in 1984.

Kingborough Football Club

The Kingborough Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club, based at Kingston, Tasmania and currently playing in the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.

Meadows Football Club

In 1983, Meadows joined the Southern Football League Division 2 competition, remaining until the end of the 2000 season when they shifted back to the Hills Football League Division 2 competition.

Memorial Grounds

In West Ham United's first game at the grounds in front of 2,000 spectators, in the Southern League on 1 September 1900, they won 7-0 against, Gravesend United, with Billy Grassam scoring four.

Mick Farmer

By the time his Grantham career ended some four-and-a-half years and 143 games later, he had won two Midland League titles, a Southern League Division One North title and contributed to the club's Southern League runners-up spot in 1974, though in 1973–74 season he spent time on loan at Oadby Town and took no part in Grantham's run to the Third Round of the FA Cup.

River Murray Football League

From 1958 to 1969 and from 1972 to 1999, the River Murray FL participated in the Lovelock Shield against the Great Southern Football League, Southern Football League and Hills Football League.

Roddy McLeod

A tempting offer from Brighton United then persuaded him to move to the south coast in May 1898 to join them in the Southern League.

Watty Keay

In the spring of 1895, Charles Robson, the newly appointed secretary/manager of Southampton St. Mary's, and Alfred McMinn, one of the club committee, visited the Midlands in search of new players to strengthen the team ready for their second season in the Southern League.


see also

Rugby Town F.C.

League victory: 11–0 v Malvern Town in 1983–84 (In a non-Southern Football League game)