Final League Table
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1889-90 |
|
Team |
P |
Home |
Away |
₧
|
|
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
|
Preston North End |
22 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
41 |
12 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
30 |
18 |
33 |
|
Everton |
22 |
8 |
2 |
1 |
40 |
15 |
6 |
1 |
4 |
25 |
25 |
31 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
22 |
9 |
0 |
2 |
59 |
18 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
19 |
23 |
27 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
22 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
28 |
14 |
4 |
2 |
5 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
|
West Bromwich Albion |
22 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
37 |
20 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
10 |
30 |
25 |
|
Accrington |
22 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
33 |
25 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
20 |
31 |
24 |
|
Derby County |
22 |
8 |
2 |
1 |
32 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
9 |
11 |
42 |
21 |
|
Aston Villa |
22 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
30 |
15 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
13 |
36 |
19 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
22 |
6 |
1 |
4 |
37 |
24 |
3 |
0 |
8 |
17 |
41 |
19 |
|
Notts
County |
22 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
20 |
19 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
23 |
32 |
17 |
|
Burnley |
22 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
20 |
21 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
16 |
44 |
13 |
|
Stoke▼ |
22 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
18 |
20 |
1 |
1 |
9 |
9 |
49 |
10 |
|
Preston extended their
unbeaten run from the previous season by one game (to 23) before losing 5-3
at Aston Villa, but again recorded a six-match winning run, from 2 November
1889:
Blackburn (a)
4-3, Accrington (h) 3-1, Stoke (a) 2-1, Everton (a) 5-1, Bolton (h) 3-1,
Burnley (h) 6-0, before drawing 1-1 at home to Blackburn on 7 December 1889.
Everton also had a six-match winning sequence from 23 November 1889, before
losing at Accrington on 22 February 1890.
▼Sunderland were
elected to the Football League in place of Stoke at the end of the season. |
|
How The League Was Won 1889-90 Season |
|
Timeline |
19
consecutive Saturdays from 7 September 1889 to 11 January 1890
(ending two weeks earlier than the previous season), plus Boxing Day (Thursday, 26 December 1889)
Rearranged games were played on Mondays,
plus one game on each of Christmas Day and New Year's Day. In
January, February and March 1890, remaining games were also played
on
Saturdays (plus one on a Tuesday in February and two on Thursdays in
March). The FA Cup first round was two weeks earlier than the
previous season, on 18 January 1890 and the competition took
precedence on Saturdays up until the final on 29 March 1890 (rounds were played each fortnight with
replays on the Saturday in-between and there was a spare third week
both before and after the semi-finals*). The last league game was
played at the beginning of Easter week on Monday, 31 March 1890
(Aston V. 3-0 Blackburn).
*One cup-tie was
voided twice and rearranged for a Monday rather than the Saturday
before the semi-finals, due to a rearranged league game.
|
Saturday, 22 March 1890 |
West Bromwich Albion 4 Everton 1
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich
(4,000)
Evans (2),
Wilson, Pearson ~
Geary |
Everton's last league game of the season left them level
on points with Preston North End, who still had one game to
play. Unfortunately for Everton, their goal average was 1.625,
whereas Preston's was 2.333, so Preston would have to lose their
last game by, at least, fourteen goals for Everton to win the
title. |
|
Thursday, 27 March 1890 |
Notts
County 0 Preston North End 1
Castle Ground, The Meadows
(3,000)
Thomson
|
Preston retained the League Championship by, again,
beating Notts County, to win the title by two points from
Everton. |
|
|
The Elite League 1889-90 Season
(games between the top four) |
Everton replaced Aston Villa in the only change to the previous
season's top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 16 November 1889 |
Everton 1
Preston North End 5
Anfield,
Liverpool
(18,000)
Geary
~
Thomson (2), Ross, Russell (2) |
|
Saturday, 21 December 1889 |
Preston North End 1 Everton 2
Deepdale, Preston
(7,000)
Drummond
~
Milward, Geary |
|
|
The Continuous League 1888-90
(first two seasons) |
|
Preston extended their lead from eleven to twenty points. |
|
Champions:
Preston North End |
|
Manager: William
Sudell |
1889-90
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Bob Howarth |
21 |
0 |
|
Bob Holmes |
18 |
0 |
|
Howarth and Holmes did not play for England this season |
|
1889-90
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
No England players scored for Preston in the
1889-90 season. |
Preston's Nick Ross
was joint-top scorer, with 22 in 20
matches, along with Blackburn's Jack Southworth.
Third on the list was Everton's Fred Geary
(21).
Jimmy Ross, a Scottish international and
brother of Nick, scored 19 in 21 games for Preston.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1889-90 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 22 playing positions used
during the active 1889-90 season, Football League players provided
sixteen of them, and of the twelve goals scored, League players scored
them all.
Six of the twelve Football League clubs were
represented.
Four Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, both on 15 March.
As a result,
England took Bolton's Kenny Davenport, Everton's Fred Geary and
Johnny Holt, Notts County's Harry Daft and Arthur Shelton, West Brom's Billy Bassett,
Charlie Perry and Bob Roberts, and
Wolves
were without Dick Baugh, Albert Fletcher, Charlie Mason and Harry
Wood. |
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