Final League Table -
Division One
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1892-93
Teams denoted with ▼ were relegated to the second division for the
following season after losing a test match |
|
Team |
P |
Home |
Away |
₧
|
|
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
|
Sunderland |
30 |
13 |
2 |
0 |
58 |
17 |
9 |
2 |
4 |
42 |
19 |
48 |
|
Preston North End |
30 |
11 |
2 |
2 |
34 |
10 |
6 |
1 |
8 |
23 |
29 |
37 |
|
Everton |
30 |
9 |
3 |
3 |
44 |
17 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
30 |
34 |
36 |
|
Aston Villa |
30 |
12 |
1 |
2 |
50 |
24 |
4 |
2 |
9 |
23 |
38 |
35 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
30 |
12 |
1 |
2 |
43 |
21 |
1 |
5 |
9 |
13 |
34 |
32 |
|
Burnley |
30 |
10 |
2 |
3 |
37 |
15 |
3 |
2 |
10 |
14 |
29 |
30 |
|
Stoke |
30 |
8 |
2 |
5 |
33 |
16 |
4 |
3 |
8 |
25 |
32 |
29 |
|
West Bromwich Albion |
30 |
9 |
2 |
4 |
35 |
17 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
23 |
52 |
29 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
30 |
5 |
8 |
2 |
29 |
24 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
18 |
32 |
29 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
30 |
7 |
2 |
6 |
30 |
27 |
3 |
6 |
6 |
18 |
25 |
28 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
30 |
11 |
2 |
2 |
32 |
17 |
1 |
2 |
12 |
15 |
51 |
28 |
|
Wednesday |
30 |
8 |
2 |
5 |
34 |
28 |
4 |
1 |
10 |
21 |
37 |
27 |
|
Derby
County |
30 |
5 |
6 |
4 |
30 |
28 |
4 |
3 |
8 |
22 |
36 |
27 |
|
Notts
County▼ |
30 |
8 |
3 |
4 |
34 |
15 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
19 |
46 |
24 |
|
Accrington* |
30 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
29 |
34 |
1 |
6 |
8 |
28 |
47 |
23 |
|
Newton Heath |
30 |
6 |
3 |
6 |
39 |
35 |
0 |
3 |
12 |
11 |
50 |
18 |
|
Everton
recorded an eight-match winning run from 14 January 1893:
West Brom (h) 1-0, Stoke (a) 1-0, Preston (h) 6-0, Wednesday (a) 2-0,
Accrington (a) 3-0, Wolves (a) 4-2, Blackburn (h) 4-0, Bolton (h) 3-0, before losing
3-0 at Burnley on 8 April 1893. Sunderland's biggest winning sequence was of
six matches, though they extended their unbeaten home record to 37 games
(two short of three complete seasons) and became the first club to score a
hundred league goals in a season.
*Accrington
resigned from the Football League after they were relegated to the second
division following a test-match defeat.
Second division
champions, Small Heath also had a player representing England in 1892-93. |
|
How The League Was Won 1892-93 Season |
|
Timeline |
Twenty
consecutive Saturdays from 3 September 1892 to 14 January 1893
(ending a week later than the previous season), plus Boxing Day
(Monday, 26 December 1892), Good Friday, 31 March 1893 and Easter
Monday,
3 April 1893
Four
additional
games were played
across the first three Mondays of the season,
plus two on Mondays in both October and November and two on a
Wednesday in October. Curiously, there were seven games played on
Thursdays in October,
December, January and March and all were in Nottingham. There were
also four games played on Monday, 2nd January and two on consecutive
Tuesdays during the festive period. All remaining games were played
on
Saturdays, apart from four on Mondays (not including Easter) in
February, March and April, one on a Tuesday in February, and two on
a Tuesday and one on a Thursday in April. The FA Cup took
precedence on Saturdays from the first round on 21 January 1893 (a
week later than the previous season) to the final on 25 March 1893. Rounds were played each fortnight with
replays on the Saturday in-between* and a spare third week before the final.
A semi-final replay was played on a Thursday, due to the same two
teams (Everton and Preston) having to contest a Lancashire Senior
Cup quarter-final on the preceding Saturday, and the subsequent
second replay was played on the following Monday, just five days
before the final, due to both clubs having rearranged league games,
on the prior Saturday. The last league game was
played on Monday, 17 April 1893
(Preston 0-1 Derby), with test matches to decide promotion and
relegation on the following Saturday and a replay, five days later,
on the Thursday.
*One cup-tie was voided and rearranged for a Monday, due to a
rearranged league game on the preceding Saturday, and then voided
again and settled three days later, on a Thursday.
|
Easter Saturday, 1 April 1893 |
Bolton Wanderers 2 Sunderland
1
Pike's Lane, Bolton
(13,000)
Bentley, Weir
~ Campbell |
With Preston losing, Sunderland could have clinched the
title on Easter Saturday for the second year in succession with
a late equaliser at Bolton, after grabbing a goal with eight
minutes left in response to a two-goal half-time deficit. As it
was, they maintained their ten-point lead and now Preston only
had five games left to catch them on goal average which was
currently inferior (1.5 to Sunderland's 2.7) and the
Scottish-dominated Wearsiders also still had three games left.
|
Newton Heath 2
Preston North End 1
North
Road, Manchester
(9,000)
Donaldson
(2)
~ Stewart |
|
Easter Monday, 3 April 1893 |
Preston North End 0 Accrington 0
Deepdale, Preston
(5,000)
|
Though the draw
reduced Sunderland's lead to nine points, with only four
more
games to play, Preston had to concede that Sunderland had
retained their title. They increased the lead to eleven points
and, although Preston only picked up one point from their last
three games, they held off the challenges of Aston Villa and
Everton to finish runners-up for the third year in succession. |
|
|
The Elite League 1892-93 Season
(games between the top four) |
Sunderland completed the double over all three of their closest
rivals for the title. Everton replaced Bolton Wanderers in the only
change to the previous season's top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 17 December 1892 |
Sunderland 2
Preston North End 0
Newcastle Road, Sunderland
(20,000)
Campbell,
J.Hannah |
|
Saturday, 7 January 1893 |
Preston North End 1
Sunderland
2
Deepdale, Preston
(14,000)
Russell
~ Gillespie
(2) |
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-93
(first five seasons) |
|
Preston increased their lead to thirty points, but this was the
first
season
of thirty games each, following three of 22 and one of 26 games each, so comparisons with
other seasons have little
relevance. Sunderland had only competed in the last three seasons
and had earned 115 points, putting them in seventh place overall,
but with the highest average points per game. |
|
Champions:
Sunderland |
|
Manager: Tom
Watson |
1892-93
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Tom Porteous |
30 |
0 |
|
Porteous did not play for England this season |
|
1892-93
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
No England players scored for Sunderland in the
1892-93 season. |
John Campbell, a Scotsman,
was again top scorer, with thirty in 27 games.
Second on the list was Scottish
international, Jimmy Hannah, who scored 19, as did Villa's Jack Devey and Fred
Geary of Everton.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1892-93 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1892-93 season, Football League players provided
21 of them, and of the 17 goals scored, League players scored
nine of them.
Ten of the 16 first division clubs were
represented, plus Small Heath from the second division.
Eight Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 25 February and 1 April.
As a
result, on 25 February, England took Nottingham Forest's Albert
Smith and Wolves' Robert Topham, and Small Heath were without Chris
Charsley. On 1 April, Everton were without Edgar Chadwick and Johnny
Holt, and England also took Preston's Bob Holmes, West Brom's Billy
Bassett and Jack Reynolds, and The Wednesday's Fred Spiksley. |
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