The Southern Alliance was a short-lived football league competition for teams in the South of England.
At the time, there were no Southern teams in the Football League and no equivalent competition existed for clubs in the south. The Southern Alliance was set up in 1892 and ran for just one season, in 1892-93. The league featured seven leading amateur teams from the Home Counties, namely:
- Erith
- Old St Stephen's
- Polytechnic
- Slough Town
- Tottenham Hotspur
- Upton Park
- Windsor & Eton
Notable in their absence were leading Southern sides such as Woolwich Arsenal (who had turned professional in 1891 and were banned from local competitions) and Millwall Athletic.
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