Southern League may mean:
- Southern League (baseball), a United States minor league baseball league
- Southern Association, a United States minor league baseball league, was known as the Southern League from 1901–1919
- Southern Football League, a semi-professional football league in England currently known as the Evo-stik League South
- Southern League (ice hockey), a former top-flight ice hockey league in southern England
- Southern League (speedway), one of two British speedway leagues from 1929 to 1931
- Southern Leagues, the various tournaments for association football, cricket, field hockey, on the South Island of New Zealand
- League of the South, a United States Southern nationalist organization, formerly known as the Southern League
- Southern League Ausonia, an Italian political party based in Campania
Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or league:
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)
“We’re the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C’mon be a glorified wreck like me.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)