Squad photo from the 1971/72 season, Exeter finished in 15th place in Division Four and made the First and Second rounds of the League and FA Cup respectively.

• League Position: 15th Played: 46 Won: 16, Drew: 11, Lost: 19 Goals For: 61, Goals Against: 68 Points: 43
• FA Cup

First Round: Crawley Town (A), 0-0. Replay, 2-0
Second Round: Swansea City (A), 0-0. Replay, 0-1

• League Cup

First Round: Bristol Rovers (H), 3-0.

First Team 
Results

14/08/1971	Southport	A	L	0-4	2467	:
21/08/1971	Grimsby Town	H	L	3-4	4052	Wingate 2	Morrin
28/08/1971	Northampton Town	A	D	1-1	5886	Blain
01/09/1971	Workington	A	D	0-0	2595	:
04/09/1971	Peterborough United	H	W	3-2	4125	Parker	Wingate 2
11/09/1971	Doncaster Rovers	A	L	1-2	3616	Brookes (og)
18/09/1971	Chester	H	D	1-1	4040	Wingate
25/09/1971	Bury	A	L	3-4	2627	Wingate	Gadston	Binney
29/09/1971	Cambridge United	A	W	1-0	4924	Wingate
02/10/1971	Crewe Alexandra	H	W	3-1	3962	Rowan	Gadston	Banks
09/10/1971	Lincoln City	A	L	1-4	5985	Rowan
16/10/1971	Southport	H	L	1-3	3408	Binney
20/10/1971	Gillingham	H	D	1-1	3656	Wingate
23/10/1971	Stockport County	H	W	2-0	3545	Rowan	Morrin
30/10/1971	Reading	A	L	1-3	4877	Binney
06/11/1971	Scunthorpe United	H	W	1-0	3556	Parker
12/11/1971	Southend United	A	L	0-3	10107	:
26/11/1971	Colchester United	A	L	0-3	5116	:
04/12/1971	Brentford	H	L	0-1	3809	:
18/12/1971	Peterborough United	A	D	3-3	5341	Rowan	Banks 2
27/12/1971	Aldershot	H	W	1-0	5144	Morris
01/01/1972	Chester	A	W	2-1	3610	Binney 2
08/01/1972	Northampton Town	H	L	1-3	4485	Binney
15/01/1972	Darlington	A	L	1-2	2127	Morrin
22/01/1972	Cambridge United	H	L	3-4	3649	Morrin	Binney	Jimmy Giles
29/01/1972	Gillingham	A	W	2-0	3755	Rowan 2 (1p)
05/02/1972	Newport County	H	W	1-0	3732	Binney
12/02/1972	Stockport County	A	W	4-0	2166	Gibson	Parker	Binney	Banks
19/02/1972	Reading	H	D	0-0	4971	:
26/02/1972	Scunthorpe United	A	L	0-3	6250	:
04/03/1972	Southend United	H	D	0-0	3336	:
11/03/1972	Lincoln City	H	L	1-2	2970	Rowan
15/03/1972	Darlington	H	W	3-0	3467	Binney 2	Gadston
20/03/1972	Barrow	A	D	0-0	2153	:
25/03/1972	Doncaster Rovers	H	W	1-0	3370	Balson
27/03/1972	Hartlepool United	A	L	0-1	3501	:
31/03/1972	Crewe Alexandra	A	W	1-0	2355	Wingate
01/04/1972	Aldershot	A	D	0-0	2918	:
03/04/1972	Bury	H	W	3-2	4942	Binney 3
08/04/1972	Newport County	A	D	0-0	2362	:
15/04/1972	Colchester United	H	D	3-3	4052	Binney	Rowan	Banks
19/04/1972	Hartlepool United	H	W	1-0	3791	Banks
22/04/1972	Brentford	A	L	0-1	14250	:
26/04/1972	Workington	H	L	0-2	3564	:
29/04/1972	Barrow	H	W	7-1	3050	Knox (og),Binney 2, Parker, Morrin, Neale, Banks
02/05/1972	Grimsby Town	A	L	0-3	22484	:

Final Table 

League Division 4
                              P   W  D  L   F   A   W  D  L   F   A  Pts
 1. GRIMSBY TOWN             46  18  3  2  61  26  10  4  9  27  30   63
 2. SOUTHEND UNITED          46  18  2  3  56  26   6 10  7  25  29   60
 3. BRENTFORD                46  16  2  5  52  21   8  9  6  24  23   59
 4. SCUNTHORPE UNITED        46  13  8  2  34  15   9  5  9  22  22   57
 5. Lincoln City             46  17  5  1  46  15   4  9 10  31  44   56
 6. Workington               46  12  9  2  34   7   4 10  9  16  27   51
 7. Southport                46  15  5  3  48  21   3  9 11  18  25   50
 8. Peterborough United      46  14  6  3  51  24   3 10 10  31  40   50
 9. Bury                     46  16  4  3  55  22   3  8 12  18  37   50
10. Cambridge United         46  11  8  4  38  22   6  6 11  24  38   48
11. Colchester United        46  13  6  4  38  23   6  4 13  32  46   48
12. Doncaster Rovers         46  11  8  4  35  24   5  6 12  21  39   46
13. Gillingham               46  11  5  7  33  24   5  8 10  28  43   45
14. Newport County           46  13  5  5  34  20   5  3 15  26  52   44
15. Exeter City              46  11  5  7  40  30   5  6 12  21  38   43
16. Reading                  46  14  3  6  37  26   3  5 15  19  50   42
17. Aldershot                46   5 13  5  27  20   4  9 10  21  34   40
18. Hartlepool United        46  14  2  7  39  25   3  4 16  19  44   40
19. Darlington               46   9  9  5  37  24   5  2 16  27  58   39
20. Chester City             46  10 11  2  34  16   0  7 16  13  40   38
21. Northampton              46   8  9  6  43  27   4  4 15  23  52   37
22. BARROW                   46   8  8  7  23  26   5  3 15  17  45   37
23. Stockport County         46   7 10  6  33  32   2  4 17  22  55   32
24. Crewe Alexandra          46   9  4 10  27  25   1  5 17  16  44   29

Other matches 


FA Cup

20/11/1971	Crawley Town	Away	0-0	3000	:	R1
24/11/1971	Crawley Town	Home	2-0	3967	Binney, Rowan	R1 Replay
11/11/ 1971	Swansea City	Away	0-0	8397	:	R2
15 November 1971	Swansea City	Home	0-1	6858	:	R2 Replay

League Cup

1971/72
18/08/1971	Bristol Rovers	Home	0-3	6418	:	LC 1

Devon Bowl

04/05/1972	Plymouth Argyle	Home	3-0	Banks 2, Wingate	2000	SF
08/05/1972	Torquay United	Away	0-1	:	1871	F

Friendlies

1971/72
			Exeter score 1st
31/07/1971	Plymouth Argyle	Home	1-2	2815		Steve Stacey debut
05/08/1971	Swindon Town	Home	3-0		Binney 2, Morris
07/08/1971	Bournemouth	Home
	Swindon Town	Home
05/05/1972	Heavitree v  Ottery	At SJP	2-5			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy
05/05/1972	Stoneman & Bowker v Stoke Hill	At SJP	3-2			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy
05/05/1972	Tiverton v Prince Albert	At SJP	5-4			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy
05/05/1972	Dawlish v Friernhay	At SJP	6-2			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy
05/05/1972	Stoneman & Bowker v Ottery	At SJP	3-2			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy Semi Final
05/05/1972	Dawlish v Tiverton	At SJP	4-0			The Rothmans Challenge Trophy Semi Final
05/05/1972	Dawlish v Stoneman & Bowker	At SJP	4-1			Rothmans Challenge Final

FA Youth Cup 

Exeter had disbanded their reserves and youth teams and did not compete.

1970s, 1971/72, Alan Banks, Anthony Morrin, Barry Rowan, Campbell Crawford, David Gibson, Fred Binney, Graham Parker, Jimmy Blain, Jimmy Giles, John Giles, John Neale, John Newman, John Wingate, Joseph Gadston, Michael Balson, Robert Wilson, Squad Photograph, Stephen Morris, Steve Stacey, Timeline