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Season | 1893–94 |
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Champions | Aston Villa |
Relegated | Middlesbrough Ironopolis Northwich Victoria |
New Clubs in League | Liverpool, Newcastle United, Woolwich Arsenal, Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Rotherham Town |
← 1892–93 1894–95 → |
The 1893–94 season was the sixth season of The Football League.
Final league tables
Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded). 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.
During the first five seasons of the league, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.[1]
Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and Rothmans[1] for the First Division and from Rothmans for the Second Division. The result of the match on 25 November 1893 between Wolves and Stoke is given in many newspapers as a win for Wolves by 4–2, which is the result included in these tables and in the book published by the Football League in 1937–38. Most subsequent lists of scores depend on that publication. The Times on Monday, 27th gives the score as 5–2 and local Midland newspapers also show 5–2, listing the five goal scorers. This curious discrepancy has never been explained.
The Second Division was expanded from twelve to fifteen teams, with the election of Liverpool, Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Newcastle United, Rotherham Town and Woolwich Arsenal and the resignation of Accrington and Bootle. Woolwich Arsenal became the first team from the south of England to participate in the Football League.
First Division
Season | 1893–94 |
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Champions | Aston Villa 1st title |
Relegated | Darwen Newton Heath |
Matches played | 240 |
Goals scored | 939 (3.91 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Jack Southworth (27 goals) |
Biggest home win | Aston Villa 9–0 Darwen (26 December 1893) |
Biggest away win | Wolverhampton Wanderers 0–8 West Bromwich Albion (27 December 1893) |
Highest scoring | Everton 8–1 Darwen (21 October 1893) West Bromwich Albion 3–6 Aston Villa (21 October 1893) Everton 8–1 The Wednesday (23 December 1893) Aston Villa 9–0 Darwen (26 December 1893) Burnley 3–6 Aston Villa (7 April 1894) |
Longest winning run | 6 matches Aston Villa Sheffield United Sunderland |
Longest unbeaten run | 7 matches Nottingham Forest Sheffield United Wolverhampton Wanderers |
Longest losing run | 11 matches Newton Heath |
Highest attendance | 27,500 Everton 7–1 Sunderland (30 September 1893) |
Lowest attendance | 400 Derby County 2–1 Darwen (18 November 1893) |
Average attendance | 7,012 |
← 1892–93 1894–95 → |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts | Relegation |
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1 | Aston Villa (C) | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 84 | 42 | 2.000 | 44 | |
2 | Sunderland | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 72 | 44 | 1.636 | 38 | |
3 | Derby County | 30 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 73 | 62 | 1.177 | 36 | |
4 | Blackburn Rovers | 30 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 69 | 53 | 1.302 | 34 | |
5 | Burnley | 30 | 15 | 4 | 11 | 61 | 51 | 1.196 | 34 | |
6 | Everton | 30 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 90 | 57 | 1.579 | 33 | |
7 | Nottingham Forest | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 57 | 48 | 1.188 | 32 | |
8 | West Bromwich Albion | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 66 | 59 | 1.119 | 32 | |
9 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 52 | 63 | 0.825 | 31 | |
10 | Sheffield United | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 47 | 61 | 0.770 | 31 | |
11 | Stoke | 30 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 65 | 79 | 0.823 | 29 | |
12 | The Wednesday | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 48 | 57 | 0.842 | 26 | |
13 | Bolton Wanderers | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 38 | 52 | 0.731 | 24 | |
14 | Preston North End (O) | 30 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 44 | 56 | 0.786 | 23 | Qualification for test matches |
15 | Darwen (R) | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 37 | 83 | 0.446 | 19 | |
16 | Newton Heath (R) | 30 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 36 | 72 | 0.500 | 14 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated