1922–23 Southern Football League

Ebbw Vale were declared Southern League champions after beating Bristol City reserves 2–1 in a championship play-off.

[2] Boscombe, Pontypridd and Torquay United were the only Southern League clubs to apply for election to the Football League, with Boscombe being successful.

[3] The club was renamed Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic the following year.

In addition to the two clubs finishing bottom of Football League Third Division South, four non-League clubs joined the election process, of which three were from the Southern League.

Boscombe from the English section were successful and joined the League the following season.

The table from the 17 April 1923 edition of the South Wales Argus, before the expunging of the records of four clubs