Friday 2nd June 2023
The provisional constitution for the 2023-24 South West Regional Women's Football League has now been released by the Football Association.
After finishing bottom of the Premier Division last season, Royal Wootton Bassett Town will take their place in Division One Eastern for the new campaign.
For the forthcoming season, Bassett will be one of ten sides competing in the division. Indeed, Bassett will be one of seven teams who are new to the division.
Bassett will be joined by 2022-23 Premier Division rivals Poole Town, who are also relegated after finishing ninth.
There will then be a big local derby to look forward to as Purton make the step up to tier six after finishing as undefeated champions of the Wiltshire County Women's League.
Also joining the division as promoted teams are Shaftesbury and Ridgeway - who respectively finished as winners and runners-up of the Dorset Women's League in 2022-23, as well as Pen Mill and Bath City - the top two teams in the 2022-23 Somerset County Women's League Division One.
Remaining in the division from last season are Frome Town (who finished third), Weymouth (7th) and Stockwood Wanderers (8th).
Of the teams they will come up against, Bassett have faced just Frome, Poole and Purton in competitive action before.
It's therefore set to be a fresh start in multiple ways for Bassett as Simon Harrison and his team aim for an immediate return to tier five.
The full constitution for the 2023-24 South West Regional Women's Football League Division One Eastern is as follows:
Bath City
Frome Town
Pen Mill
Poole Town
Purton
Ridgeway
Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Shaftesbury
Stockwood Wanderers
Weymouth