{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox football league | name = Great Western Combination | country = England | founded = 1939 | folded = 1964 | most successful club = Ernest Turner's Sports (3) | }}
The '''Great Western Combination''' was a football league in south-central England.
==History== The league was established in 1939, initially as a wartime competition as many other leagues had been abandoned following the outbreak of World War II. Its original membership was amateur clubs from the area west of London.<ref name=NLM>[http://nonleaguematters.co.uk/nlmnet/Regions_2/gwc39.html Great Western Combination 1939–1964] Non-League Matters</ref> Although it ceased in 1945, it was re-established in 1946 and a second division was added in 1947;<ref name=NLM/> this became the reserve division in 1956. The league folded at the end of the 1963–64 season.<ref name=NLM/>
==Champions== {| class=wikitable !Season !colspan=2|Champions |- |1939–40||colspan=2|Hayes |- |1940–41||colspan=2|Oxford City |- |1941–42||colspan=2|Oxford City |- |1942–43||colspan=2|Grenadier Guards |- |1943–44||colspan=2|Windsor Works |- |1944–45||colspan=2|Wycombe Wanderers |- |1946–47||colspan=2|Binfield |- !Season !Division One champions !Division Two champions |- |1947–48||Uxbridge||Harefield United |- |1948–49||Maidenhead United Reserves||RAF Halton |- |1949–50||Slough Centre||Hemel Hempstead Rovers |- |1950–51||Harefield United||Flackwell Heath |- |1951–52||Tring Town||Wingate |- |1952–53||Tring Town||Bell Punch |- |1953–54||Wokingham Town||Hestairco |- !Season !Premier Division champions !Division One champions |- |1954–55||Jackson's Sports||Chalvey |- |1955–56||Ernest Turner's Sports||Loudwater United |- !Season !Premier Division champions !Reserve Division champions |- |1956–57||Vickers Sports|| |- |1957–58||Flackwell Heath|| |- |1958–59||Southall Corinthians|| |- |1959–60||Southall Corinthians|| |- |1960–61||Ernest Turner's Sports|| |- |1961–62||AEC|| |- |1962–63||Flackwell Heath|| |- |1963–64||Ernest Turner's Sports|| |}
==Member clubs== Member clubs during the league's existence included: {{div col|colwidth=25em}} *AEC (1958–1964) *Amersham Town (1949–1956) *Aylesbury Town Corinthians (1958–1964) *Aylesbury United Reserves (1946–1951) *BEA (London) (1954–1964) *BEA (Northholt) (1949–1954) *Bell Punch (1948–1959) *Berkhamsted Town (1946–1951) *Binfield (1946–1951) *Blue Circle (1955–1956) *Bracknell Town (1958–1962) *British Oxygen (1954–1955) *Broomwade (1955–1960) *Bucks NALGO (1950–1951) *Burnham (1947–1964) *Cavendish (1955–1960) *Chalfont St Peter (1948–1958) *Chalvey (1954–1959) *Chelsea Mariners (1955–1956) *Chesham United (1939–1945) *Chesham United Reserves (1946–1948) *Croxley Wanderers (1951–1953) *Eastcote (1951–1953) *Ernest Turner's Sports (1951–1964) *Flackwell Heath (1950–1964) *Ford Sports (1951–1952) *Gerrard's Cross (1954–1956) *Grenadier Guards (1941–1943) *Hanwell Association (1954–1958) *Harefield United (1947–1964) *Harrow Town (1948–1950) *Harrow Town Reserves (1947–1951) *Hayes (1939–1940) *Hazells (1949–1955) *Hemel Hempstead Rovers (1947–1955) *Hemel Hempstead Town (1949–1950) *Henley Town (1939–1940, 1952–1955) *Henley Town Reserves (1951–1952) *Hestairco Sports (1952–1955) *High Duty Alloys (1940–1947) *Huntley & Palmers (1948–1949) *Huntley & Palmer Reserves (1947–1948) *Jackson' Sports (1949–1957) *Kodak (1959–1964) *Loudwater United (1955–1962) *Lyons Club (1948–1950) *Lyons Club Reserves (1947–1948) *Maidenhead North Town (1954–1956) *Maidenhead United (1939–1945) *Maidenhead United Reserves (1946–1949) *Marlow (1939–1945) *Marlow Reserves (1947–1955) *Mill End Sports (1949–1951) *Oxford City (1940–1945) *Pinner (1946–1951) *Princes Risborough (1953–1954) *Queensborough (1958–1964) *RAF Halton (1948–1952) *RAF High Wycombe (1943–1945) *Reading Aerodrome (1953–1957) *Reading Reserves (1940–1945) *Rickmansworth Town Reserves (1954–1956) *Rootes Athletic (1954–1955) *Royal Ascot (1955–1958) *Ruislip Gardens (1952–1955) *Ruislip (1946–1949) *Ruislip Manor Reserves (1947–1949) *{{nowrap|Ruislip Town (1949–1952, 1954–1956, 1961–1964)}} *Seer Green (1958–1964) *Slough (1939–1940) *Slough Centre (1942–1950) *Slough Centre Reserves (1947–1951) *Slough United (1943–1945) *Southall Corinthians (1951–1964) *Staines Town Reserves (1953–1956) *Stokenchurch Reserves (1954–1955) *Terriers Athletic (1963–1964) *Tring Town (1948–1954) *Twickenham Town (1953–1954) *Uxbridge Reserves (1946–1948) *Uxbridge (1939–1945) *Vickers Sports (1952–1957) *Vickers Sports Reserves (1955–1956) *Wendover (1948–1950) *Willesden Reserves (1949–1951) *Windsor & Eton (1939–1945) *Windsor & Eton Reserves (1946–1945) *Windsor Works (1942–1948) *Wingate Reserves (1951–1952) *Wokingham Town (1951–1956) *Wycombe Redfords (1939–1948) *Wycombe Wanderers 'A' (1948–1949) *Wycombe Wanderers Reserves (1947–1948) *Wycombe Wanderers (1939–1945) *Yiewsley (1944–1951) {{div col end}}
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Great Western Combination Category:Defunct football leagues in England Category:1939 establishments in England Category:1964 disestablishments in England