 |
| Brockenhurst's club gate. |
This season belonged to Winchester City (of whom I have precisely no photos as yet!) - Wessex League champions at the first attempt, but more impressively, the first senior Hampshire club side to win a national cup trophy in the current century, beating Sudbury in the FA Vase final at St Andrews. Pompey and Saints were neck-and-neck in the former's first season in the Premiership, with the latter just edging it by one position. It was to be Saints' last top ranking spot to date. In the battle of the bragging rights in the Blackwater Valley, Aldershot Town finished ahead of their local rivals Farnborough Town in Conference National. Lower down the pyramid, Havant & Waterlooville and Basingstoke Town qualified for the newly-formed Conference South by the narrowest of squeaks.
Top Twenty ranked clubs in Hampshire, 2003/2004:
1. (1) Southampton 1/12
2. (2) Portsmouth 1/13
3. (4) Aldershot Town 5/5
4. (3) Farnborough Town 5/20
5. (6) Havant & Waterlooville 6/12
6. (5) Basingstoke Town 6/14
7. (9) Eastleigh 7/4
8. (7) Bashley 7/11
9. (8) Fleet Town 7/22
10. (NE) Winchester City 8/1
11. (10) Gosport Borough 8/3
12. (13) Lymington & New Milton 8/4
13. (14) Andover 8/6
14. (12) Fareham Town 8/7
15. (11) AFC Totton 8/8
16. (19) Brockenhurst 8/9
17. (17) Hamble ASSC 8/13
18. 16) BAT Sports 8/15
19. (15) Moneyfields 8/17
20. (18) Alton Town 8/18
The club to drop out at Winchester's expense was Blackfield & Langley. Onwards we go to 2004/2005 next week.
No comments:
Post a Comment