Squad Photo from the 1925/26 season that saw Exeter finish 20th in Division Three South and exit the FA Cup in the First Round.

League Position: 20th
P 42 W 15, D 5, L 22  F-A 72-70 Points: 35

FA Cup First Round: Swansea Town (H), 1-3

Top Row-D Bolam, H Hawkins, W McDevitt, F Maven (Manager), W Lowton, A Matthews, A Tucker (Trainer)
2nd Row- C Myers, A Crawshaw, A Potter, H Bailey, S Pavey, R Pullan, W Lievesley, E Crompton
3rd Row- F Newman, G Shelton,R Pollard, S Charlton (Capt.), H Kirk, A Flynn, W Compton.

4th Row-W Casson, H Blackmore.

Exeter City

First Team Results 

29/08/25	Reading	A	L	2-3	12834	Compton 2
31/08/25	Bristol Rovers	H	W	1-0	10000	Matthews (p)
05/09/25	Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic	H	L	0-1	5000
09/09/25	Bristol Rovers	H	W	3-0	5500	Myers	Casson	Compton
12/09/25	Charlton Athletic	A	L	0-1	5000
19/09/25	Gillingham	H	W	2-1	5000	Compton	Casson
23/09/25	Queens Park Rangers	H	W	3-0	5000	Myers	Kirk	Lowton (p)
26/09/25	Merthyr Town	A	L	1-3	8000	Myers
03/10/25	Newport County	H	W	1-2	7000	Compton	Casson
08/10/25	Queens Park Rangers	A	D	0-0	3000
10/10/25	Luton Town	A	D	1-1	5000	Blackmore
17/10/25	Bristol City	H	D	1-1	8000	Charlton (p)
24/10/25	Crystal Palace	A	L	2-3	5000	Shelton	Kirk
31/10/25	Norwich City	H	L	0-1	6000
07/11/25	Southend United	A	L	1-3	5000	Blackmore
14/11/25	Brighton and Hove Albion	H	L	2-4	5000	Charlton (p)	Kirk
21/11/25	Aberdare Athletic	A	L	0-5	5000
05/12/25	Millwall	A	L	0-3	8000
19/12/25	Watford	A	L	1-3	7500	Blackmore
25/12/25	Plymouth Argyle	H	W	4-0	10000	Blackmore	Lievesley	Price (og)	Compton
26/12/25	Plymouth Argyle	A	D	2-2	20000	Compton	Blackmore
28/12/25	Brentford	H	W	6-1	7000	Shelton	Blackmore 3	Matthews	Potter
02/01/26	Reading	H	W	3-2	5000	McDevitt	Lievesley 2
16/01/26	Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic	A	L	1-2	2000	Charlton (p)
23/01/26	Charlton Athletic	H	W	5-3	5000	Blackmore 2	Lievesley 2	McDevitt
30/01/26	Gillingham	A	L	0-2	4000	:
06/02/26	Merthyr Town	H	W	6-2	7000	Lievesley 3	Blackmore	Shelton	Charlton (p)
13/02/26	Newport County	A	L	0-3	6000
20/02/26	Luton Town	H	D	2-2	7000	Lievesley	Compton
27/02/26	Bristol City	A	L	0-1	15000
06/03/26	Crystal Palace	H	L	0-1	6000
13/03/26	Norwich City	A	L	1-3	7000	Newman
20/03/26	Southend United	H	L	0-1	5000	:
27/03/26	Brighton and Hove Albion	A	W	3-1	6000	Kirk	Compton	Lievesley
02/04/26	Swindon Town	H	L	1-2	9000	Compton
03/04/26	Aberdare Athletic	A	W	4-0	7000	Lievesley 3	Shelton
05/04/26	Swindon Town	H	L	1-2	11000	Lievesley
10/04/26	Northampton Town	A	L	1-2	4000	Charlton (p)
14/04/26	Northampton Town	H	W	1-0	3500	Lievesley
17/04/26	Millwall	H	W	3-1	6000	Compton	Lievesley	Kirk
24/04/26	Brentford	A	L	0-2	5000	:
01/05/26	Watford	H	W	6-1	6000	Lievesley 2	Blackmore 3	Compton

Final Table

League Division 3 (South)
                              P   W  D  L   F   A   W  D  L   F   A  Pts
 1. READING                  42  16  5  0  49  16   7  6  8  28  36   57
 2. Plymouth Argyle          42  16  2  3  71  33   8  6  7  36  34   56
 3. Millwall                 42  14  6  1  52  12   7  5  9  21  27   53
 4. Bristol City             42  14  3  4  42  15   7  6  8  30  36   51
 5. Brighton & Hove Albion   42  12  4  5  47  33   7  5  9  37  40   47
 6. Swindon Town             42  16  2  3  48  22   4  4 13  21  42   46
 7. Luton Town               42  16  4  1  60  25   2  3 16  20  50   43
 8. Bournemouth              42  10  5  6  44  30   7  4 10  31  61   43
 9. Aberdare Athletic        42  11  6  4  50  24   6  2 13  24  42   42
10. Gillingham               42  11  4  6  36  19   6  4 11  17  30   42
11. Southend United          42  13  2  6  50  20   6  2 13  28  53   42
12. Northampton              42  13  3  5  47  26   4  4 13  35  54   41
13. Crystal Palace           42  16  1  4  50  21   3  2 16  25  58   41
14. Merthyr Town             42  13  3  5  51  25   1  8 12  18  50   39
15. Watford                  42  12  5  4  47  26   3  4 14  26  63   39
16. Norwich City             42  11  5  5  35  26   4  4 13  23  47   39
17. Newport County           42  11  5  5  39  27   3  5 13  25  47   38
18. Brentford                42  12  4  5  44  32   4  2 15  25  62   38
19. Bristol Rovers           42   9  4  8  44  28   6  2 13  22  41   36
20. Exeter City              42  13  2  6  54  25   2  3 16  18  45   35
21. Charlton Athletic        42   9  7  5  32  23   2  6 13  16  45   35
22. Queens Park Rangers      42   5  7  9  23  32   1  2 18  14  52   21

FA Cup

1925/26
28 November 1925	Swansea Town	Home	1-3	10000	Compton	R1	Format of Rounds changed!

Reserves and Youth Results
Southern League
Results

Southern League (West)
29/08/1925	SL	Ebbw Vale	Home	2-1	Bolam	Lowton
02/09/1925	SL	Bristol Rovers	Home	1-0	Casson
05/09/1925	SL	Torquay United	Away	1-0	Casson
07/09/1925	SL	Bristol Rovers	Away	0-1	:
16/09/1925	SL	Mid-Rhondda	Home	3-1	Bolam	Spencer (og)	Blackmore
26/09/1925	SL	Torquay United	Home	2-2	Lievesley	Blackmore
05/10/1925	SL	Mid-Rhondda	Away	0-1	:
17/10/1925	SL	Bristol City	Away	0-2	:
07/11/1925	SL	Yeovil	Home	6-0	Kirk 2	Way	Casson 2	Bolam
21/11/1925	SL	Weymouth	Home	0-2	:
28/11/1925	SL	Taunton Town	Away	2-4	Newman	Casson
12/12/1925	SL	Weymouth	Away	1-2	Budd
19/12/1925	SL	Pontypridd	Home	3-3	Kirk	Bolam	Davis
25/11/1925	SL	Plymouth Argyle	Away	1-3	Salter
26/11/1925	SL	Plymouth Argyle	Home	3-5	Kirk 2	Casson
02/01/1926	SL	Yeovil	Away	2-4	Kirk	Myers
13/02/1926	SL	Bath City	Home	4-1	Casson	Myers 2	Hawkins
20/02/1926	SL	Bath City	Away	1-3	Casson
27/02/1926	SL	Bristol City	Home	1-1	Newman
13/03/1926	SL	Barry	Home	0-2	:
20/03/1926	SL	Barry	Away	1-3	Shelton
02/04/1926	SL	Swindon	Home	0-0	:
05/04/1926	SL	Swindon	Away	0-4	:
10/04/1926	SL	Taunton Town	Home	2-1	Casson	Blackmore
17/04/1926	SL	Pontypridd	Away	1-1	Casson
30/04/1926	SL	Ebbw Vale	Away	3-2	Chapman 2	Milsom

Final Table

Final table: 1925-26 SOUTHERN LEAGUE WESTERN SECTION
1	Plymouth Argyle Reserves	26	20	1	5	67	31	2.16	41
2	Bristol City Reserves	26	16	4	6	48	28	1.71	36
3	Bristol Rovers Reserves	26	13	4	9	51	35	1.46	30
4	Swindon Town Reserves	26	13	4	9	57	40	1.43	30
5	Ebbw Vale	26	13	3	10	60	46	1.30	29
6	Torquay United	26	12	5	9	59	46	1.28	29
7	Yeovil & Petters United	26	9	8	9	43	48	0.90	26
8	Mid Rhondda United	26	12	1	13	47	49	0.96	25
9	Weymouth	26	10	3	13	64	60	1.07	23
10	Exeter City Reserves	26	8	5	13	40	49	0.82	21
11	Barry	26	8	4	14	47	55	0.85	20
12	Taunton United	26	9	2	15	44	60	0.73	20
13	Pontypridd	26	7	5	14	44	77	0.57	19
14	Bath City	26	7	1	18	38	86	0.44	15

Western League Division I

Division One of the Western League consisted of three clubs from the old single-division league, plus two new clubs and five new reserve teams.

The number of clubs was thus reduced from thirteen to ten after Peasedown St John left the league.

The seven new teams were:

Bristol City Reserves, re-joining after leaving the league in 1921.

Bristol Rovers Reserves, re-joining after leaving the league in 1921.

Exeter City Reserves, re-joining after leaving the league in 1921.

Plymouth Argyle Reserves

Swindon Town Reserves, re-joining after leaving the league in 1921.

Taunton United and Torquay United, re-joining after leaving the league in 1922.

Western League Division 1
Results

Western League
12/09/1925	WL	Plymouth Argyle	Home	1-1	Quinn
19/09/1925	WL	Yeovil	Away	2-2	Blackmore	Lievesley
30/09/1925	WL	Swindon	Home	2-3	Lowton	Shelton
03/10/1925	WL	Weymouth	Away	2-5	Bolam	Blackmore
10/10/1925	WL	Taunton Town	Home	4-1	Newman	Lowton 3
24/10/1925	WL	Bristol City	Home	0-0	:
14/11/1925	WL	Plymouth Argyle	Away	1-3	Myers
05/12/1925	WL	Bath City	Home	1-0	Budd
09/01/1926	WL	Bristol City	Away	2-8	Kirk	Casson
16/01/1926	WL	Torquay United	Home	1-2	Kirk
30/01/1926	WL	Yeovil	Home	5-3	Casson 4	Kirk
06/03/1926	WL	Bath City	Away	3-0	Kirk 2	Bolam
24/03/1926	WL	Swindon	Away	4-1	Casson 2	Compton 2
03/04/1926	WL	Taunton Town	Away	3-2	Casson	Blackmore	Milsom
06/04/1926	WL	Bristol Rovers	Home	0-2	:
14/04/1926	WL	Torquay United	Away	1-3	Cowley
28/04/1926	WL	Weymouth	Home	1-1	Bolam
25/04/1926	WL	Bristol Rovers	Away	0-4	:

Final Table

Bristol City Reserves	18	10	7	1	58	19	3.053	27
Bristol Rovers Reserves	18	11	2	5	53	36	1.472	24
Torquay United	18	9	4	5	28	22	1.273	22
Yeovil & Petters United	18	7	7	4	33	27	1.222	21
Swindon Reserves	18	6	8	4	32	33	0.970	20
Weymouth	18	7	4	7	37	45	0.822	18
Plymouth Argyle Reserves	18	6	5	7	31	25	1.240	17
Exeter City Reserves	18	6	4	8	33	41	0.805	16
Taunton United	18	3	3	12	18	45	0.400	9
Bath City	18	1	4	13	20	50	0.400	6

1920s, 1925/26, A Tucker, Albert Potter, Alfred Matthews, Andrew Flynn, Colin Myers, David Bolam, Ellis Crompton, Frank Newman, Fred Mavin, George Shelton, Harold Blackmore, Harold Kirk, Harry Bailey, Howard Hawkins, Robert Pollard, Robert Pullan, Squad Photograph, Stan Charlton, Sydney Pavey, Timeline, Walter Casson, Wilfred Lowton, William Compton, William Crawshaw, William McDevitt, William W Lievesley