Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1901-02
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 |
|
Sunderland |
34 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
32 |
14 |
7 |
3 |
7 |
18 |
21 |
44 |
|
Everton |
34 |
11 |
2 |
4 |
31 |
11 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
22 |
24 |
41 |
|
Newcastle United |
34 |
11 |
3 |
3 |
41 |
14 |
3 |
6 |
8 |
7 |
20 |
37 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
34 |
12 |
2 |
3 |
36 |
16 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
16 |
32 |
36 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
34 |
11 |
4 |
2 |
32 |
13 |
2 |
5 |
10 |
11 |
30 |
35 |
|
Derby
County |
34 |
11 |
5 |
1 |
26 |
10 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
13 |
31 |
35 |
|
Bury |
34 |
11 |
5 |
1 |
31 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
12 |
13 |
29 |
34 |
|
Aston Villa |
34 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
27 |
13 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
15 |
27 |
34 |
|
The Wednesday |
34 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
30 |
14 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
18 |
38 |
34 |
|
Sheffield
United |
34 |
10 |
5 |
2 |
38 |
13 |
3 |
2 |
12 |
15 |
35 |
33 |
|
Liverpool |
34 |
8 |
3 |
6 |
28 |
16 |
2 |
9 |
6 |
14 |
22 |
32 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
34 |
10 |
6 |
1 |
38 |
17 |
2 |
2 |
13 |
13 |
39 |
32 |
|
Notts County |
34 |
12 |
2 |
3 |
44 |
19 |
2 |
2 |
13 |
7 |
38 |
32 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
34 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
32 |
13 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
14 |
44 |
32 |
|
Grimsby Town |
34 |
11 |
3 |
3 |
33 |
16 |
2 |
3 |
12 |
11 |
44 |
32 |
|
Stoke |
34 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
31 |
12 |
1 |
5 |
11 |
14 |
43 |
31 |
|
Small Heath▼ |
34 |
8 |
5 |
4 |
31 |
14 |
3 |
3 |
11 |
16 |
31 |
30 |
|
Manchester City▼ |
34 |
10 |
3 |
4 |
28 |
17 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
14 |
41 |
28 |
|
Nottingham Forest
recorded a five-match winning run from 18 January 1902:
Bury (h) 2-1, Stoke (h) 2-0, Sunderland (h)
2-1, Derby (h) 3-1, The Wednesday (a) 2-0, before losing 2-0 at home to
Newcastle on 19 March 1902. Sunderland's biggest winning sequence was of
four matches. |
|
How The League Was Won 1901-02 Season |
|
Timeline |
34 Saturdays from 7 September 1901 (beginning a week later than the
previous season, due to it being the first Saturday in September) to 26 April 1902, plus
Christmas Day (Wednesday, 25th December 1901), Boxing Day (Thursday, 26th December 1901),
New Year's Day (Wednesday, 1 January 1902), Good Friday,
28 March 1902 and Easter Monday, 31 March 1902
Five
opening games were played on Monday, 2 September 1901 and a sixth on
the following day. An additional game was played on each of the next
two Mondays, plus one on the first Thursday in October, one on a
Monday in November, one on the first Thursday of the new year and
one on a Monday in January. Two
games were played on Mondays and one on a Tuesday in February, three
on Mondays (not including Easter) and one on a Wednesday 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 25
January 1902 to the
final on 19 April 1902.
There were two weeks between each round, three weeks before the
semi-finals and five before the final which went to a
replay played seven days later, on Saturday, 26
April 1902. One first round tie was re-scheduled for the following
Saturday (1 February 1902). Last league game was Derby 3-1 Sheffield United on
Monday, 28 April 1902.
|
Saturday, 12 April 1902 |
Everton 0 Notts County 1
Goodison
Park, Liverpool
(10,000)
Humphreys |
Everton missed their last chance to get ahead of
Sunderland and remained a point behind with only one match to
play, whilst Sunderland had three remaining fixtures.
Newcastle's hopes ended with their defeat at Sheffield United. |
Sunderland 1 The Wednesday 2
Roker Park, Sunderland
(9,300)
Murray
~ Chapman, Simpson |
|
Wednesday,
16 April 1902 |
Sunderland 3 Bury 0
Roker Park, Sunderland
(10,000)
Millar
(3) |
Jimmy Millar's hat-trick gave Sunderland a three-point
lead over Everton and a fourth title. |
|
|
The Elite League 1901-02 Season
(games between the top four) |
As in the previous season, only Sunderland retained their top-four placing from the season
prior to that.
Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Notts County all dropped
out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 16 November 1901 |
Sunderland 2 Everton 4
Roker Park,
Sunderland
(13,200)
Gemmell,
McLatchie
~ Settle (2), Abbott, Sharp |
|
Saturday, 15 March 1902 |
Everton 2 Sunderland 0
Goodison
Park, Liverpool
(20,000)
Taylor, Young |
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-1902
(first 14 seasons) |
Everton reduced
Aston Villa's lead to 25 points. This was the
fourth
season
of 34 games each, following three of 22, one of 26 and six of thirty
games each. Sunderland
still had the highest average points per game from their twelve
seasons.
|
Sunderland moved up from third to the top. |
|
The first season was of thirty games each. Sunderland climbed from
fourth to the top. |
|
|
Champions: Sunderland |
|
Manager: Alex
Mackie |
1901-02
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Billy
Hogg |
28 |
10 |
|
1901-02
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Billy
Hogg |
28 |
10 |
Scotsman, Jimmy Gemmell also
scored ten for Sunderland.
Everton's Jimmy Settle
was top scorer with 18.
Second
on the list were Villa's
Jasper McLuckie, a Scotsman,
and Fred Priest of Sheffield United
with 17.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1901-02 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1901-02 season, Football League players provided
31 of them, and of the three goals scored, League players scored
all of them.
Eleven of the 18 first division clubs were
represented.
Eleven Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 22 March and 5 April (though declared
void because of the Ibrox disaster).
As a
result, on 22 March, England took Aston Villa's Billy George and
Albert Wilkes, Blackburn's Fred Blackburn and Bob Crompton,
Derby's Steve Bloomer, Everton's Jimmy Settle and Sunderland's Billy
Hogg. On 5 April, Bloomer, Crompton, George and Hogg were again
absent from their clubs, as were Blackburn's Kelly Houlker,
Liverpool's Jack Cox and Frank Forman of Nottingham Forest. |
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