1939–40 Sussex County Football League
# 1939–40 Sussex County Football League

The 1939–40 Sussex County Football League season was the 20th in the history of the competition.

Due to the Second World War, a war-time emergency competition was announced and 16 teams were placed into two separate leagues, 8 teams in the Eastern Division and 8 in the Western Division. With the winners of each league playing in a play-off to decide the overall winner.

## Clubs

The league featured 16 clubs, 14 which competed in the last season, along with two new clubs:

* Hastings & St Leonards
* Eastbourne

## Eastern Division

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hastings & St Leonards | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 46 | 21 | 2.190 | 18 | Division champions and then left the League |
| 2 | Haywards Heath | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 49 | 35 | 1.400 | 17 | |
| 3 | Newhaven | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 26 | 1.231 | 16 | |
| 4 | East Grinstead | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 40 | 32 | 1.250 | 15 | |
| 5 | Bexhill | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 41 | 0.488 | 13 | Left the League |
| 6 | Eastbourne | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 35 | 0.857 | 12 | Left the League |
| 7 | Lewes | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 35 | 53 | 0.660 | 11 | |
| 8 | Eastbourne Comrades | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 29 | 38 | 0.763 | 10 | Left the League |

## Western Division

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GR | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Worthing | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 58 | 26 | 2.231 | 23 | Division champions |
| 2 | Bognor Regis | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 47 | 26 | 1.808 | 20 | |
| 3 | Horsham | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 55 | 27 | 2.037 | 19 | |
| 4 | Southwick | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 48 | 37 | 1.297 | 17 | |
| 5 | Littlehampton Town | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 41 | 40 | 1.025 | 14 | |
| 6 | Hove | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 62 | 0.435 | 11 | |
| 7 | Shoreham | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 33 | 52 | 0.635 | 5 | |
| 8 | Chichester | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 15 | 54 | 0.278 | 3 | Left the League |

## Play-off Final

Worthing 1 — 0 Hastings & St Leonards

Source= Sussex County league - Historic League Tables

