1891–92 Football League

The Football League
Season 1891–92
Champions Sunderland
(1st English title)
Relegated None
FA Cup winners West Bromwich Albion
(2nd FA Cup title)
Matches played 182
Goals scored 777 (4.27 per match)
Top goalscorer John Campbell (Sunderland), 31 [1]
Biggest home win West Brom 12 –Darwen 0
(4 April 1892)
Biggest away win Darwen 1 –Sunderland 7
(23 April 1892)
Highest scoring Aston Villa 12 –Accrington 2
(12 March 1892)

The Football League 18911892 was the fourth season of English league football, and the last season of the football league running in a single division. Sunderland were the winners of the league which was their first ever league success. At the beginning of the season Stoke had left the Football Alliance and rejoined the Football League. Darwen also joined from the Alliance but they conceded 112 goals and finished bottom.[2]

Final league table[3][4]

The table below is reproduced here in the exact form that it can be found at the The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[3] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[4] 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.[4]

Pos Team Pld W D L F A W D L F A F A GA GD Pts
1Sunderland2613005511805382593362.583+5742
2Preston North End261201428616192361311.968+3037
3Bolton Wanderers269222914805222351371.378+1436
4Aston Villa2610036323508263389561.589+3330
5Everton268233222427172749491.000±028
6Wolverhampton Wanderers268233415328253159461.283+1326
7Burnley269133414238153149451.089+426
8Notts County2693141122110143955511.078+426
9Blackburn Rovers268323926238193958650.892–726
10Derby County266342818418183446520.885–624
11Accrington2673324201111165840780.513–3820
12West Bromwich Albion [notes 1]2663437240310143451580.879–718
13Stoke265081919049194238610.623–2314
14Darwen [notes 2]2641831430211769381120.339–7411
  1. FA Cup winners — no re-election required.
  2. Not re-elected, invited to join Second Division.
Key
League Champions
FA Cup Winners
New club in the league (see Darwen)
Re-elected
Failed re-election

Results

Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[3] and from Rothmans Book of
Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79.[4]

Home ╲ Away ACC AST BLBBOLBURDRWDEREVENTCPNESTKSUNWBAWOL
Accrington F.C. 32 10 03 10 11 11 11 20 13 30 35 42 32
Aston Villa 122 51 12 61 70 60 34 51 31 21 53 51 36
Blackburn Rovers 22 43 40 33 40 02 22 54 24 53 31 32 20
Bolton Wanderers 34 12 42 20 10 31 10 20 30 11 43 11 30
Burnley 21 41 30 12 90 24 10 10 20 41 12 32 11
Darwen 52 15 35 12 26 20 31 23 04 93 17 11 14
Derby County 31 42 11 32 01 70 03 30 12 33 01 11 21
Everton 30 51 31 25 11 53 12 40 11 10 04 43 21
Notts County 90 52 22 20 51 50 21 13 20 11 10 40 22
Preston North End 41 01 32 40 51 40 30 40 60 32 31 10 20
Stoke 31 23 01 01 30 51 21 01 13 01 13 10 13
Sunderland 41 21 61 41 21 70 71 21 40 41 41 40 52
West Bromwich Albion 31 03 22 02 10 120 42 40 22 12 22 25 43
Wolverhampton Wanderers 50 20 61 12 00 22 13 51 21 30 41 13 21

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

Re-election process

Two new clubs were elected to the League in the re-election process. West Bromwich Albion, although finishing in the bottom four teams, were not required to seek re-election as they were the FA Cup holders. Two of the other three teams were duly re-elected. As a result, three new teams were elected to the League. The voting went as follows:[5]

Team Votes Result
The Wednesday 10 Elected to the League
Nottingham Forest 9 Elected to the League
Accrington 7 Re-elected to the League
Stoke 6 Re-elected to the League
Newton Heath 6 Elected to the League
Sheffield United 5 Not elected to the League
Darwen 4 Not re-elected to the League
Burton Swifts 1 Not elected to the League
Newcastle East End 1 Not elected to the League
Middlesbrough / Middlesbrough Ironopolis (combined) 1 Not elected to the League
Liverpool Caledonian 0 Not elected to the League
Key
Re-elected to the League
Elected to the League
Not (re-)elected to the League; later invited to participate in the Second Division
Not elected to the League

When a second division was later added to the league, Darwen were elected to participate, though they only lasted there a single season, never to appear in the league again. The other teams to participate in the Second Division were drawn from the Football Alliance.

References

  1. "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  2. "Football League 1891-92". FCHD-info. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  3. 1 2 3 "England 1891–92". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
  5. footballsite.co.uk

See also

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