Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1924-25
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 |
|
Huddersfield Town |
42 |
10 |
8 |
3 |
31 |
10 |
11 |
8 |
2 |
38 |
18 |
58 |
|
West Bromwich Albion |
42 |
13 |
6 |
2 |
40 |
17 |
10 |
4 |
7 |
18 |
17 |
56 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
42 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
61 |
13 |
4 |
9 |
8 |
15 |
21 |
55 |
|
Liverpool |
42 |
13 |
5 |
3 |
43 |
20 |
7 |
5 |
9 |
20 |
35 |
50 |
|
Bury |
42 |
13 |
4 |
4 |
35 |
20 |
4 |
11 |
6 |
19 |
31 |
49 |
|
Newcastle United |
42 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
43 |
18 |
5 |
10 |
6 |
18 |
24 |
48 |
|
Sunderland |
42 |
13 |
6 |
2 |
39 |
14 |
6 |
4 |
11 |
25 |
37 |
48 |
|
Birmingham |
42 |
10 |
8 |
3 |
27 |
17 |
7 |
4 |
10 |
22 |
36 |
46 |
|
Notts County |
42 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
29 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
9 |
13 |
19 |
45 |
|
Manchester City |
42 |
11 |
7 |
3 |
44 |
29 |
6 |
2 |
13 |
32 |
39 |
43 |
|
Cardiff City |
42 |
11 |
5 |
5 |
35 |
19 |
5 |
6 |
10 |
21 |
32 |
43 |
|
Tottenham Hotspur |
42 |
9 |
8 |
4 |
32 |
16 |
6 |
4 |
11 |
20 |
27 |
42 |
|
West Ham United |
42 |
12 |
7 |
2 |
37 |
12 |
3 |
5 |
13 |
25 |
48 |
42 |
|
Sheffield
United |
42 |
10 |
5 |
6 |
34 |
25 |
3 |
8 |
10 |
21 |
38 |
39 |
|
Aston Villa |
42 |
10 |
7 |
4 |
34 |
25 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
24 |
46 |
39 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
42 |
7 |
6 |
8 |
31 |
26 |
4 |
7 |
10 |
22 |
40 |
35 |
|
Everton |
42 |
11 |
4 |
6 |
25 |
20 |
1 |
7 |
13 |
15 |
40 |
35 |
|
Leeds United |
42 |
9 |
8 |
4 |
29 |
17 |
2 |
4 |
15 |
17 |
42 |
34 |
|
Burnley |
42 |
7 |
8 |
6 |
28 |
31 |
4 |
4 |
13 |
18 |
44 |
34 |
|
Arsenal |
42 |
12 |
3 |
6 |
33 |
17 |
2 |
2 |
17 |
13 |
41 |
33 |
|
Preston North End |
42 |
8 |
2 |
11 |
29 |
35 |
2 |
4 |
15 |
8 |
39 |
26 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
42 |
5 |
6 |
10 |
17 |
23 |
1 |
6 |
14 |
12 |
42 |
24 |
|
West Bromwich
Albion recorded a
six-match
winning run from 13 December 1924:
Nottingham F.
(h) 5-1, Bury (a) 2-0, Manchester C. (a) 2-1, (h) 3-1, Notts C. (a) 2-0,
Everton (h) 3-0, and then won an FA Cup tie, before
losing 3-0 at Sunderland on 17 January 1925. Tottenham also had
a six-match winning sequence in league games from 24 January 1925, before losing at
home to Huddersfield
on 14 March 1925. Huddersfield's biggest winning sequence was their first
four matches of the season.
Blackpool, Clapton Orient, Derby County, Millwall, Southampton,
Stockport County and
The Wednesday, from the second division,
and Brighton & Hove Albion, from the third division (south) also had
players representing England. |
|
How The League Was Won 1924-25 Season |
|
Timeline |
36 Saturdays from 30 August 1924 (a week later than the previous
season) to 2 May 1925, plus
the first three days in September 1924 (Monday to Wednesday), Monday
8th and Wednesday 10th September 1924, Christmas Day
(Thursday, 25th December 1924), Boxing Day (Friday, 26th December 1924),
New Year's Day (Thursday, 1st January 1925), Good Friday,
10 April 1925 and Easter Monday, 13 April 1925
There were
four other games played on Mondays, and three on Wednesdays in
September, one on a Monday, two on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in October, and one on
a Monday, one on a Wednesday and one on a Thursday in November. One game was played on a Monday
in December, and
one on a Wednesday in January. Games
were played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in March, and on
every day, except Sunday, in
April.
The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 10 January 1925 to the
final on 25 April 1925.
There were three weeks between each round,
apart from two weeks before the fourth round, and four before the
final. Last
league games were on Saturday, 2 May 1925.
|
Wednesday, 29 April 1925 |
Notts County 1 Huddersfield Town 1
Meadow
Lane, Nottingham
(8,000)
Kemp
~
C.Wilson |
|
A run of 16 games without defeat gave Huddersfield their second
successive title, barring a most unlikely pair of results on the
final day, three days later. For not only would Huddersfield
have to lose at home to Liverpool, but West Brom would have to
beat third-placed Bolton by, at least, 25 goals, for the
Yorkshire club to lose their title on goal average. Bolton had
only slipped out of contention themselves with Huddersfield's
draw at Notts County. |
|
Saturday, 2 May 1925 |
Huddersfield Town 1 Liverpool 1
Leeds
Road, Huddersfield
(16,000)
Cawthorne
40 ~
T.Wilson o.g. 5 |
|
A low-key end to the season at Leeds Road, in comparison to the
drama of twelve months earlier. Meanwhile, West Brom secured the
runners-up spot in a goalless draw with Bolton, whose run of
five wins in six games had come just too late to mount a
challenge for the title. Surprisingly, with Huddersfield setting
their sights on becoming the first to win a hat-trick of
Championships, their manager, Herbert Chapman left to join
Arsenal in June, a decision that would lead to him proving just what an inspiration he
was. |
|
|
The Elite League 1924-25 Season
(games between the top four) |
Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion replaced Cardiff City and
Sunderland from the previous season's top four. Eight of the twelve
games ended in draws.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 1 November 1924 |
West Bromwich Albion 1 Huddersfield Town 0
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich
(15,683)
James |
|
Wednesday, 11 March 1925 |
Huddersfield Town 1 West Bromwich Albion 1
Leeds Road, Huddersfield
(16,000)
Brown
~
Carter |
|
|
The Continuous Post-War League
1919-25
(six seasons) |
|
Bolton reduced Liverpool's lead to 16 points.
Huddersfield reduced Liverpool's lead to 13 points. |
|
Champions: Huddersfield Town |
Manager:
Herbert
Chapman
1924-25
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Billy Smith |
41 |
9 |
|
Tom Wilson |
40 |
|
|
Roy Goodall |
38 |
|
|
Sam Wadsworth |
33 |
|
|
George Brown |
32 |
20 |
|
Clem Stephenson |
29 |
5 |
|
Billy Smith and Clem Stephenson did not play for England in the 1924-25 season, George
Brown and Roy Goodall did not play for England until 1926 and Tom Wilson did not
play for England until 1928. |
|
Charlie Wilson scored 24 goals from 38
games.
Frank Roberts of Manchester City was top scorer with 31 goals.
Second on the
list was Bolton's David Jack, with 26, followed by
George James of West Brom with 25 goals.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1924-25 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 44 playing positions used
during the active 1924-25 season, Football League players provided
41 of them, and of the nine goals scored, League players scored
all of them.
Including the game at the end of the season, 15 of the 22 first division clubs were
represented, plus seven clubs from the second division, and Brighton
& Hove Albion, from the third division (south).
18 Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 28 February 1925 and
4 April 1925.
As a
result, on 28 February, England took Aston Villa's Arthur Dorrell
and Billy Walker, Bolton's Dick Pym, Brighton's Tommy Cook, Burnley's
Jack Hill and Bob Kelly, Clapton Orient's Jack Townrow, Manchester
City's Frank Roberts, Millwall's Len Graham, Newcastle's Charlie
Spencer, Notts County's Bill Ashurst, and
Joe Carter of West Bromwich Albion.
On 4 April, Ashurst, Graham, Kelly, Pym, Roberts, Townrow and
Walker
were again missing from their clubs, as were Blackburn's
Harry Healless,
Huddersfield's Sam Wadsworth, Sheffield United's Fred Tunstall,
Tottenham's Jack Elkes and Jimmy Seed, and Tommy Magee of West
Bromwich Albion. |
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