Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1900-01
Teams denoted with ▼ were
relegated to the second division for the following season |
|
Team |
P |
Home |
Away |
₧
|
|
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
|
Liverpool |
34 |
12 |
2 |
3 |
36 |
13 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
23 |
22 |
45 |
|
Sunderland |
34 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
43 |
11 |
3 |
10 |
4 |
14 |
15 |
43 |
|
Notts County |
34 |
13 |
2 |
2 |
39 |
18 |
5 |
2 |
10 |
15 |
28 |
40 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
34 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
32 |
14 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
21 |
22 |
39 |
|
Bury |
34 |
11 |
3 |
3 |
31 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
8 |
22 |
27 |
39 |
|
Newcastle United |
34 |
10 |
5 |
2 |
27 |
13 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
15 |
24 |
38 |
|
Everton |
34 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
37 |
17 |
6 |
1 |
10 |
18 |
25 |
37 |
|
The Wednesday |
34 |
13 |
2 |
2 |
38 |
16 |
0 |
8 |
9 |
14 |
26 |
36 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
34 |
9 |
4 |
4 |
24 |
18 |
3 |
5 |
9 |
15 |
29 |
33 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
34 |
10 |
5 |
2 |
21 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
18 |
43 |
33 |
|
Manchester City |
34 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
32 |
16 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
16 |
42 |
32 |
|
Derby
County |
34 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
43 |
18 |
2 |
3 |
12 |
12 |
24 |
31 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
34 |
6 |
10 |
1 |
21 |
15 |
3 |
3 |
11 |
18 |
40 |
31 |
|
Sheffield
United |
34 |
8 |
4 |
5 |
22 |
23 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
13 |
29 |
31 |
|
Aston Villa |
34 |
8 |
5 |
4 |
32 |
18 |
2 |
5 |
10 |
13 |
33 |
30 |
|
Stoke |
34 |
8 |
3 |
6 |
23 |
15 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
23 |
42 |
27 |
|
Preston North End▼ |
34 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
29 |
30 |
3 |
3 |
11 |
20 |
45 |
25 |
|
West Bromwich Albion▼ |
34 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
21 |
27 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
14 |
35 |
22 |
|
Nottingham Forest
recorded a five-match winning run from 20 October 1900:
West Brom (a) 6-1, Everton (h) 2-1,
Sunderland (a) 1-0, Derby (h) 1-0, Notts C. (h) 5-0, before drawing 1-1 at
Preston on 1 December 1900.
Liverpool's biggest winning sequence was of
three matches.
Second division,
Burnley also had a player representing England in 1900-01. |
|
How The League Was Won 1900-01 Season |
|
Timeline |
35 Saturdays from 1 September 1900 to 27 April 1901, plus
Christmas Day (Tuesday, 25th December 1900), Boxing Day (Wednesday, 26th December 1900),
New Year's Day (Tuesday, 1 January 1901), Good Friday,
5 April 1901 and Easter Monday, 8 April 1901
Five
additional games were played on the first two Mondays in September, plus one on
a Monday and one on a Thursday in October,
one on each of the first two Mondays in November and one on the
first Wednesday of the new year. Two
games were played on Mondays and four on Wednesdays in March, and games were played on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays in April. The
FA Cup was scheduled to take precedence on five weekends from the first round on 26
January 1901 to the
final on 20 April 1901, but because of the death of Queen Victoria
on 22 January 1901, the first round was postponed for two weeks
(though a first division game was rearranged in its place). This
meant that the second round was two weeks later than scheduled and
the third round was four weeks later, on the scheduled date for the
semi-finals. These were played two weeks later, on the Easter
weekend, with the second of them being played on Easter Monday, as
Tottenham had two scheduled Southern League fixtures on Good Friday
and Easter Saturday. The final was played on its original date, two
weeks later, and the replay seven days after that, on Saturday, 27
April 1901 (the latest in the season that the competition had ever
been concluded). No games were played on Saturday, 2nd February
1901, because of the Queen's funeral. Last
league game was West Brom 0-2 Sheffield United on Tuesday, 30 April 1901.
|
Saturday,
27
April 1901 |
Liverpool 2
Nottingham Forest 0
Anfield,
Liverpool
(20,000)
Cox, Goldie
|
Sunderland had completed their fixtures, three days
earlier, by winning 2-0 at Newcastle, leaving Liverpool two
points behind, with two games to play. Whilst Tottenham were
becoming the first non-league club to win the FA Cup after the
formation of the Football League, Liverpool were drawing level
on points with Sunderland. They had an inferior goal average, so
needed another point from their final game. |
|
Monday,
29 April 1901 |
West Bromwich Albion
0 Liverpool 1
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich
(8,974)
Walker |
Liverpool clinched their first title by two points from
Sunderland and manager, Tom Watson, who had previously led
Sunderland to three championships, now became the first man to
win the league with two different clubs. |
|
|
The Elite League 1900-01 Season
(games between the top four) |
Only Sunderland retained their top-four placing from the previous season.
Aston Villa, Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers all dropped
out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 29 September 1900 |
Liverpool 1 Sunderland 2
Anfield, Liverpool
(20,000)
Wilson
~ Millar, Hogg |
|
Saturday, 23 February 1901 |
Sunderland 0 Liverpool
1
Roker Park,
Sunderland
(11,249)
Cox |
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-1901
(first thirteen seasons) |
Everton reduced
Aston Villa's lead to 32 points. This was the
third
season
of 34 games each, following three of 22, one of 26 and six of thirty
games each. Despite only playing in eleven of the 13 seasons, Sunderland
moved into third place and once more had the highest average points per game.
Preston had led this table for the first eight seasons, but now
dropped into the second division for the first time.
|
Liverpool moved into second place and reduced Aston Villa's lead to
four points. |
|
The first two seasons were of thirty games each. Sheffield
United reduced Aston Villa's lead to 19 points. |
|
1900-01
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Jack Cox |
32 |
10 |
|
1900-01
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Jack Cox |
32 |
10 |
Derby's Steve Bloomer was top
scorer for the third time with 24.
Liverpool's Sam Raybould was second on
the list with 17 from 31 games, followed by Notts County's Jack
Morris and two Scots; Stoke's Willie Maxwell and Newcastle's Jack
Peddie, with 16..
|
|
England and the Football
League 1900-01 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1900-01 season, Football League players provided
twenty of them, and of the eleven goals scored, League players scored
nine of them.
Ten of the 18 first division clubs were
represented, plus Burnley from the second division.
Six Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 9 March and 30 March.
As a
result, on 9 March, England took Liverpool's Jack Cox, Sheffield
United's George Hedley and Ernest Needham, and The Wednesday's Tommy
Crawshaw. On 30 March, Needham was again released, alongside
team-mate, Walter Bennett, Aston Villa were without Albert Wilkes
and England took Blackburn's Fred Blackburn, Bolton's John Sutcliffe
and Derby's Steve Bloomer. |
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