Western
Football League
Overview
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See also Western League 1915-1923 Western League
1927-28 |
The first Western
League started out as a War-time competition. Running from 1915, the league
initially encompassed clubs from the suspended Second Division of the
Scottish League as well as a number of non-League clubs. The league continued
after the War and in 1923 was used as the backbone of the Scottish League’s
ill-fated Third Division. When the Third
Division collapsed in disarray in 1926, the surviving clubs were all entered
into the expanded Scottish Alliance. When that league expelled them a season
later, they formed the Provincial League. After a proposal to rename the new
body the Western League was opposed, the original Western League was
officially dissolved and the Western League Cup trophy was handed over to be
awarded to the Provincial League champions. |