Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1906-07
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 |
|
Newcastle United |
38 |
18 |
1 |
0 |
51 |
12 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
23 |
34 |
51 |
|
Bristol City |
38 |
12 |
3 |
4 |
37 |
18 |
8 |
5 |
6 |
29 |
29 |
48 |
|
Everton |
38 |
16 |
2 |
1 |
50 |
10 |
4 |
3 |
12 |
20 |
36 |
45 |
|
Sheffield
United |
38 |
13 |
4 |
2 |
36 |
17 |
4 |
7 |
8 |
21 |
38 |
45 |
|
Aston Villa |
38 |
13 |
4 |
2 |
51 |
19 |
6 |
2 |
11 |
27 |
33 |
44 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
38 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
35 |
18 |
8 |
4 |
7 |
24 |
29 |
44 |
|
Woolwich Arsenal |
38 |
15 |
1 |
3 |
38 |
15 |
5 |
3 |
11 |
28 |
44 |
44 |
|
Manchester United |
38 |
10 |
6 |
3 |
33 |
15 |
7 |
2 |
10 |
20 |
41 |
42 |
|
Birmingham |
38 |
13 |
5 |
1 |
41 |
17 |
2 |
3 |
14 |
11 |
35 |
38 |
|
Sunderland |
38 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
42 |
31 |
4 |
5 |
10 |
23 |
35 |
37 |
|
Middlesbrough |
38 |
11 |
2 |
6 |
33 |
21 |
4 |
4 |
11 |
23 |
42 |
36 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
38 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
40 |
25 |
4 |
4 |
11 |
16 |
34 |
35 |
|
The Wednesday |
38 |
8 |
5 |
6 |
33 |
26 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
16 |
34 |
35 |
|
Preston North End |
38 |
13 |
4 |
2 |
35 |
19 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
9 |
38 |
35 |
|
Liverpool |
38 |
9 |
2 |
8 |
45 |
32 |
4 |
5 |
10 |
19 |
33 |
33 |
|
Bury |
38 |
9 |
4 |
6 |
30 |
23 |
4 |
2 |
13 |
28 |
45 |
32 |
|
Manchester City |
38 |
7 |
7 |
5 |
29 |
25 |
3 |
5 |
11 |
24 |
52 |
32 |
|
Notts County |
38 |
6 |
9 |
4 |
31 |
18 |
2 |
6 |
11 |
15 |
32 |
31 |
|
Derby
County |
38 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
29 |
19 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
12 |
40 |
27 |
|
Stoke |
38 |
7 |
6 |
6 |
27 |
22 |
1 |
4 |
14 |
14 |
42 |
26 |
|
Everton recorded a
six-match winning run from 29 September 1906:
Liverpool (a) 2-1, Bristol C. (h) 2-0, Notts
C. (a) 1-0, Sheffield U. (h) 4-2, Bolton (a) 3-1, Manchester U. (h) 3-0,
before losing 2-0 at Stoke on 10 November 1906.
Newcastle's biggest winning sequence was of
three matches.
Chelsea and West
Bromwich Albion, from the second division, each also had a player
representing England. |
|
How The League Was Won 1906-07 Season |
|
Timeline |
35 Saturdays from 1 September 1906 to 27 April 1907, plus
Christmas Day (Tuesday, 25th December 1906), Boxing Day (Wednesday, 26th December 1906),
New Year's Day (Tuesday, 1 January 1907), Good Friday,
29 March 1907 and Easter Monday, 1 April 1907
There
were nine
additional games played on the first three Mondays and one on a Monday in November, with four played on
Christmas Eve (Monday, 24 December 1906), one played on New Year's
Eve (Monday, 31 December 1906) and two on the first Wednesday in
January. In February, there was one game on
a Wednesday,
there were four on Mondays and three on Wednesdays in March, and
games played throughout midweek (except Fridays) in April. The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 12
January 1907 to the
final on 20 April 1907.
There were three weeks between the first three rounds, two before the fourth round
and semi-finals, and four before the final. Last
league games were on Saturday, 27 April 1907.
|
Wednesday, 10 April 1907 |
Everton 2 Woolwich Arsenal
1
Goodison
Park, Liverpool
(8,000)
Young
(2)
~ Satterthwaite
Following two defeats in three days, at Birmingham and
Blackburn, Everton reduced Newcastle's lead to six points, but
still needed to win their last three games, with Newcastle
losing both of theirs. |
|
Saturday, 13 April 1907 |
Newcastle United 0 Sheffield
United 0
St James'
Park, Newcastle
(26,000)
With Everton losing 5-2 at Derby, Newcastle would have
won the title even if they had lost. The Merseysiders had
seemingly given up on their chances and, with an eye on their
defence of the trophy in the following week's FA Cup Final, they
only fielded four of the players that had beaten Woolwich
Arsenal. Newcastle dropped a point at home for the only time
that season, but they could still celebrate regaining the
championship. Everton lost the final and only picked up one more
point, as newly-promoted Bristol City took the runners-up spot
and reduced Newcastle's winning margin to three points. |
|
|
The Elite League 1906-07 Season
(games between the top four) |
For the second year in succession, only Newcastle United retained their top-four placing from the
previous season. Liverpool, Preston North End and The Wednesday all
dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 24 November 1906 |
Bristol City 2 Newcastle United 1
Ashton Gate, Bristol
(20,000)
Wedlock,
Burton
~
Brown |
|
Saturday, 30 March 1907 |
Newcastle United 3
Bristol City 0
St James'
Park, Newcastle
(35,000)
Howie, Rutherford
(2) |
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-1907
(first 19 seasons) |
|
Everton reduced
Aston Villa's lead to 29 points. This was the
second 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 17
seasons.
Liverpool drop from the top down to fourth.
The first three seasons were of 34 games each. Newcastle increased
their lead to eight points. |
|
Champions: Newcastle United |
Manager:
Frank
Watt
|
|
1906-07
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Jock Rutherford |
34 |
10 |
Scottish international,
Alex Young of Everton,
was top scorer with 28.
Second
on the list was
Sunderland's Arthur Bridgett, with 25,
followed by Sheffield United's Arthur Brown, with 22.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1906-07 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1906-07 season, Football League players provided
31 of them, and of the three goals scored, League players scored
all of them.
Twelve of the twenty first division clubs were
represented, plus Chelsea and West Bromwich Albion from the second division.
Twenty Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 16 February and 6 April.
As a
result, on 16 February, England took Aston Villa's Joe Bache,
Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Bristol City's Billy Wedlock, Chelsea's
George Hilsdon, Derby's Ben Warren, Liverpool's Sam Hardy,
Manchester City's Irvine Thornley, Newcastle's Jack Carr, Jock
Rutherford and Colin Veitch, and Tim Coleman of Woolwich Arsenal. On
6 April, Crompton, Hardy, Rutherford, Veitch, Warren and Wedlock
were again absent from league action, as
were Everton's Harold Hardman, Manchester United's Dick Duckworth,
Middlesbrough's Steve Bloomer and Alf Common, The Wednesday's James
Stewart and Jesse Pennington of West Bromwich Albion. |
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