Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1905-06
Teams in
italics 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 |
38 |
14 |
3 |
2 |
49 |
15 |
9 |
2 |
8 |
30 |
31 |
51 |
|
Preston North End |
38 |
12 |
5 |
2 |
36 |
15 |
5 |
8 |
6 |
18 |
24 |
47 |
|
The Wednesday |
38 |
12 |
5 |
2 |
40 |
20 |
6 |
3 |
10 |
23 |
32 |
44 |
|
Newcastle United |
38 |
12 |
4 |
3 |
49 |
23 |
6 |
3 |
10 |
25 |
25 |
43 |
|
Manchester City |
38 |
11 |
2 |
6 |
46 |
23 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
27 |
31 |
43 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
38 |
13 |
1 |
5 |
51 |
22 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
30 |
45 |
41 |
|
Birmingham |
38 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
49 |
20 |
3 |
5 |
11 |
16 |
39 |
41 |
|
Aston Villa |
38 |
13 |
2 |
4 |
51 |
19 |
4 |
4 |
11 |
21 |
37 |
40 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
38 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
34 |
18 |
6 |
3 |
10 |
20 |
34 |
40 |
|
Stoke |
38 |
12 |
5 |
2 |
41 |
15 |
4 |
2 |
13 |
13 |
40 |
39 |
|
Everton |
38 |
12 |
1 |
6 |
44 |
30 |
3 |
6 |
10 |
26 |
36 |
37 |
|
Woolwich Arsenal |
38 |
12 |
4 |
3 |
43 |
21 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
19 |
43 |
37 |
|
Sheffield
United |
38 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
33 |
23 |
5 |
2 |
12 |
24 |
39 |
36 |
|
Sunderland |
38 |
13 |
2 |
4 |
40 |
21 |
2 |
3 |
14 |
21 |
49 |
35 |
|
Derby
County |
38 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
27 |
16 |
4 |
2 |
13 |
12 |
42 |
35 |
|
Notts County |
38 |
8 |
9 |
2 |
34 |
21 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
21 |
50 |
34 |
|
Bury |
38 |
8 |
5 |
6 |
30 |
26 |
3 |
5 |
11 |
27 |
48 |
32 |
|
Middlesbrough |
38 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
41 |
23 |
0 |
7 |
12 |
15 |
48 |
31 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
38 |
11 |
2 |
6 |
40 |
27 |
2 |
3 |
14 |
18 |
52 |
31 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
38 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
38 |
28 |
1 |
2 |
16 |
20 |
71 |
23 |
|
Bolton
Wanderers recorded a nine-match winning run from 1 January 1906:
Woolwich Arsenal (h) 6-1, Aston V. (h) 4-1,
Stoke (a) 2-1, Wolves (h) 3-2, Notts C. (h) 2-0, Sunderland (h) 6-2, Everton
(h) 3-2, Derby (a) 1-0, The Wednesday (h) 1-0, before losing 4-0 at
Nottingham Forest on 24 March 1906. Liverpool's biggest winning sequence was of
five matches.
Second division,
Bradford City also had a player representing England. |
|
How The League Was Won 1905-06 Season |
|
Timeline |
35 Saturdays from 2 September 1905 to 28 April 1906, plus
Christmas Day (Monday, 25th December 1905), Boxing Day (Tuesday, 26th December 1905),
New Year's Day (Monday, 1 January 1906), Good Friday,
13 April 1906 and Easter Monday, 16 April 1906
There
were
six additional games played on the first three Mondays and one each
on the first two Wednesdays in September. One game was played on
a
Thursday
in October,
and one on a Monday in November, with four played on
the two days after Boxing Day and one on the first Tuesday in
January. There was one game on the last day of February (a
Wednesday), three on Mondays and five on Wednesdays in March, and
games played every day of the week (apart from Sundays) in April. The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 13
January 1906 (three weeks earlier than the previous season) to the
final on 21 April 1906 (a week later than the previous season,
avoiding Easter).
There were three weeks between the first three rounds and before the semi-final
and final,
and two before the fourth round (the quarter-finals). The first
round was twice the size of the previous season (32 matches). Last
league game was Newcastle 3-0 Blackburn on
Monday, 30 April 1906.
|
Easter Saturday, 14 April 1906 |
Stoke 3
Preston North End 0
Victoria
Ground, Stoke
(10,000)
Chalmers, Rouse, Baddeley |
Preston's defeat left Liverpool on the brink of clinching the
title. Two more points, either won by them, or dropped by
Preston would do it. Four other clubs were also in contention at
the start of the day, but all dropped out due to Liverpool's
victory, though they could not muster a win between them, in any
case. Blackburn and Manchester City cancelled each other out in
a 1-1 draw, The Wednesday lost 5-1 at Birmingham and defending
champions, Newcastle went down to a single goal at Notts County. |
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Liverpool
2
Molineux, Wolverhampton
(10,000)
Hewitt, Goddard |
|
Easter Monday, 16 April 1906 |
Sunderland 2 Preston North End 0
Roker
Park, Sunderland
(13,000)
Bridgett
81, O'Donnell 90
By the time that Liverpool kicked off in the evening at Bolton,
they had already been crowned champions. They lost 3-2, but
maintained their five-point lead. Preston were only able to
reduce the lead by a point in their last two games, finishing
four points behind Liverpool. |
|
|
The Elite League 1905-06 Season
(games between the top four) |
Only Newcastle United retained their top-four placing from the
previous season. Aston Villa, Everton and Manchester City all
dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 18 November 1905 |
Liverpool 1 Preston North End 1
Anfield, Liverpool
(15,000)
Hewitt
~
Bond |
|
Saturday, 24 March 1906 |
Preston North End 1
Liverpool 2
Deepdale,
Preston
(20,000)
Danson
~
Chorlton, Hewitt |
Though Liverpool won the league and Preston were runners-up,
whilst Everton won the FA Cup, none of them were the best when it
came to local derbies in their native Lancashire.
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-1906
(first 18 seasons) |
|
Aston Villa increased their lead to thirty points. This was the
first season
of 38 games each, following three of 22, one of 26, six of thirty,
and seven of 34 games each. Sunderland
still had the highest average points per game from their 16
seasons.
The first four seasons were of 34 games each. Newcastle jumped two
places to the top, whilst
Sunderland dropped from the top to fourth. |
Manager: Tom
Watson
1905-06
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Sam Hardy |
30 |
|
|
Jack Cox |
28 |
8 |
|
Jack Cox did not play for England in 1905-06, and Sam Hardy did not play for England until 1907. |
|
1905-06
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Jack Cox |
28 |
8 |
Bolton's Albert Shepherd
was top scorer with 26.
Second
on the list was
his Scottish team mate, Walter White, with 25,
followed by Liverpool's Joe Hewitt, with 23.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1905-06 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1905-06 season, Football League players provided
22 of them, and of the seven goals scored, League players scored
four of them.
Ten of the twenty first division clubs were
represented, plus Bradford City from the second division.
Eleven Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 17 February and 7 April.
As a
result, on 17 February, England took Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Derby's Ben Warren,
Middlesbrough's Alf Common, Preston's Dicky Bond,
Sheffield United's Arthur Brown
and Jimmy Ashcroft of
Woolwich Arsenal. On 7 April, Ashcroft, Bond, Crompton and Warren were
again absent from league action, as were Bolton's Albert Shepherd,
Bradford City's James Conlin, Everton's Harry Makepeace, Manchester
City's Herbert Burgess, and Tim Coleman of Woolwich Arsenal. |
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