1909–10 Southern Football League

The 1909–10 season was the 16th in the history of Southern Football League. Brighton & Hove Albion won Division One for the first time, Stoke and Hastings & St Leonards finished top of the Division Two groups, though they were not promoted to Division One.^[1] Stoke were the only club to apply for election to the Football League, but were unsuccessful.

Season	1909–10
Champions	Brighton & Hove Albion (1st title)
Promoted	none
Relegated	Croydon Common Reading
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,362 (2.95 per match)
← 1908–09 1910–11 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Relegation
1	Brighton & Hove Albion	42	23	13	6	69	28	2.464	59
2	Swindon Town	42	22	10	10	92	46	2.000	54
3	Queens Park Rangers	42	19	13	10	56	47	1.191	51
4	Northampton Town	42	22	4	16	90	44	2.045	48
5	Southampton	42	16	16	10	64	55	1.164	48
6	Portsmouth	42	20	7	15	70	63	1.111	47
7	Crystal Palace	42	20	6	16	69	50	1.380	46
8	Coventry City	42	19	8	15	71	60	1.183	46
9	West Ham United	42	15	15	12	69	56	1.232	45
10	Leyton	42	16	11	15	60	46	1.304	43
11	Plymouth Argyle	42	16	11	15	61	54	1.130	43
12	New Brompton	42	19	5	18	76	74	1.027	43
13	Bristol Rovers	42	16	10	16	37	48	0.771	42
14	Brentford	42	16	9	17	50	58	0.862	41
15	Luton Town	42	15	11	16	72	92	0.783	41
16	Millwall	42	15	7	20	45	59	0.763	37
17	Norwich City	42	13	9	20	59	78	0.756	35
18	Exeter City	42	14	6	22	60	69	0.870	34
19	Watford	42	10	13	19	51	76	0.671	33
20	Southend United	42	12	9	21	51	90	0.567	33
21	Croydon Common	42	13	5	24	52	96	0.542	31	Relegated to Division Two
22	Reading	42	7	10	25	38	73	0.521	24	Relegated to Division Two

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Stoke	10	10	0	0	48	9	5.333	20
2	Ton Pentre	10	4	2	4	17	21	0.810	10
3	Merthyr Town	9	4	1	4	16	21	0.762	9
4	Salisbury City	8	2	1	5	7	18	0.389	5
5	Burton United	6	2	0	4	8	21	0.381	4	Left league at end of season
6	Aberdare	7	1	0	6	6	11	0.545	2

Season	1909–10
Champions	Hastings & St Leonards
Promoted	none
Relegated	Hastings & St Leonards (resigned) Peterborough City (resigned) South Farnborough Athletic (resigned) Romford (resigned)
Matches played	30
Goals scored	133 (4.43 per match)
← 1908–09 1910–11 →

Division One