1890–91 Football League

The Football League
Season 1890–91
Champions Everton
(1st English title)
Relegated None
FA Cup winners Blackburn Rovers (5th FA Cup title)
Matches played 132
Goals scored 554 (4.2 per match)
Top goalscorer Jack Southworth (Blackburn Rovers), 26 [1]
Biggest home win Derby CountyWolverhampton 9–0 (10 Jan 1891)
Biggest away win BlackburnNotts County 1–7 (14 Mar 1891)
Highest scoring Derby CountyBlackburn 8–5 (6 Sept 1890)

The Football League 18901891 was the third Football league season, after dominating and being crowned champions for the first two football league seasons Preston North End slipped to second and Everton won the league with a two-point gap. Meanwhile, there had been changes in the league since the last football league season, Stoke had not been re-elected to the football league, so joined the rival Football Alliance. They were replaced with Sunderland, who were nicknamed "the team of all talents" at the time.

Final league table[2][3]

The table below is reproduced here in the exact form that it can be found at the The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[3] with home and away statistics separated.

Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.

Since the goal average was used for this purpose for such a long time, it is presented in the tables below even for the seasons prior to 1894–95, and since the goal difference is a more informative piece of information for a modern reader than the goal average, the goal difference is added in this presentation after the goal average.

During the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893–94 re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.[3]

Pos Team Pld W D L F A W D L F A F A GA GD Pts
1Everton229023912515241763292.172+3429
2 Preston North End 22731305506141844231.913+2127
3 Notts County 229113311236192452351.486+1726
4 Wolverhampton Wanderers 22812238416164239500.780–1126
5 Bolton Wanderers 229023614317112047341.382+1325
6 Blackburn Rovers 227132919416232452431.209+924
7 Sunderland 227223113335201851311.645+20231
8 Burnley 227133324227193952630.825–1121
9 Aston Villa 225422918209164045580.776–1318
10 Accrington 22515191913793128500.560–2216
11 Derby County 226143828101095347810.580–3415
12 West Bromwich Albion 223171726218173134570.596–2312

1Sunderland deducted two points for fielding unregistered player.[4]

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against;
GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Key
League Champions
FA Cup Winners
New club in the league
Re-elected
Failed re-election (none)

Results

Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and Rothmans.[3]

Home ╲ Away ACC AST BLBBOLBURDEREVENTCPNESUNWBAWOL
Accrington F.C. 13 04 21 11 40 12 32 13 41 10 12
Aston Villa 31 22 50 44 40 22 32 01 00 04 62
Blackburn Rovers 00 51 02 52 80 21 17 10 32 21 23
Bolton Wanderers 60 40 20 10 31 05 42 10 25 71 60
Burnley 20 21 16 12 61 32 01 62 33 54 42
Derby County 12 54 85 11 24 26 31 13 31 31 90
Everton 32 50 31 20 73 70 42 01 10 23 50
Notts County 50 71 12 31 40 21 31 21 21 32 11
Preston North End 11 41 12 10 70 60 20 00 00 30 51
Sunderland 22 51 31 20 23 51 10 40 30 11 34
West Bromwich Albion 51 03 10 24 31 34 14 11 13 04 01
Wolverhampton Wanderers 30 21 20 10 31 51 01 11 20 03 40

Source:
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

The re-election process

The number of clubs in the Football League was to be increased by two for the 1891–92 season. In addition to the four League sides seeking re-election, six non-league clubs (five of them from the Football Alliance) also sought League membership. The voting went as follows:[5]

Team Votes Result
Accrington 8 Re-elected to the League
Aston Villa 8 Re-elected to the League
Darwen 7 Elected to the League
Stoke 7 Elected to the League
Derby County 6 Re-elected to the League
West Bromwich Albion 6 Re-elected to the League
Ardwick 4 Not elected to the League
Nottingham Forest 1 Not elected to the League
Sunderland Albion 1 Not elected to the League
Newton Heath 0 Not elected to the League

References

  1. "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  2. 1 2 3 "England 1890–91". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
  4. Rothmans Football Yearbook 1970–71, p. 233. The Queen Anne Press Limited, London, 1970.
  5. footballsite.co.uk

See also

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