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1899-1900

Football League 1900-01

1901-02
  
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.

Top Two 27 April 1901
Team P
Sunderland 34 43
Liverpool 33 43

 
Monday, 29 April 1901
West Bromwich Albion 0 Liverpool 1
  
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich (8,974)

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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)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Liverpool 6 2 0 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 3 7
Nottingham Forest 6 1 2 0 5 0 1 0 2 1 3 6
Notts County 6 2 1 0 6 2 0 1 2 1 7 6
Sunderland 6 0 1 2 1 3 1 2 0 4 3 5
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)

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~ Millar, Hogg
Saturday, 23 February 1901
Sunderland 0 Liverpool 1
   Roker Park, Sunderland (11,249)

Cox

 
The Continuous League 1888-1901 (first thirteen seasons)
Team P Wins
Aston Villa 374 199 464
Everton 374 185 432
Sunderland 330 178 417
Preston North End 374 166 400
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.
The Continuous '34 Games' League
1898-1901 (last three seasons)
Team P Wins
Aston Villa 102 51 125
Liverpool 102 52 121
Sunderland 102 49 120
Everton 102 44 108
Liverpool moved into second place and reduced Aston Villa's lead to four points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
1896-1901
Team P Wins
Aston Villa 162 86 205
Sheffield United 162 69 186
Liverpool 162 75 182
Sunderland 162 72 180
The first two seasons were of thirty games each. Sheffield United reduced Aston Villa's lead to 19 points.

 
Champions: Liverpool
Manager: Tom Watson
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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