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1924-25

Football League 1925-26
1926-27
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1925-26
 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 14 6 1 50 17 9 5 7 42 43 57
Arsenal 42 16 2 3 57 19 6 6 9 30 44 52
Sunderland 42 17 2 2 67 30 4 4 13 29 50 48
Bury 42 12 4 5 55 34 8 3 10 30 43 47
Sheffield United 42 15 3 3 72 29 4 5 12 30 53 46
Aston Villa 42 12 7 2 56 25 4 5 12 30 51 44
Liverpool 42 9 8 4 43 27 5 8 8 27 36 44
Bolton Wanderers 42 11 6 4 46 31 6 4 11 29 45 44
Manchester United 42 12 4 5 40 26 7 2 12 26 47 44
Newcastle United 42 13 3 5 59 33 3 7 11 25 42 42
Everton 42 9 9 3 42 26 3 9 9 30 44 42
Blackburn Rovers 42 11 6 4 59 33 4 5 12 32 47 41
West Bromwich Albion 42 13 5 3 59 29 3 3 15 20 49 40
Birmingham 42 14 2 5 35 25 2 6 13 31 56 40
Tottenham Hotspur 42 11 4 6 45 36 4 5 12 21 43 39
Cardiff City 42 8 5 8 30 25 8 2 11 31 51 39
Leicester City 42 11 3 7 42 32 3 7 11 28 48 38
West Ham United 42 14 2 5 45 27 1 5 15 18 49 37
Leeds United 42 11 5 5 38 28 3 3 15 26 48 36
Burnley 42 7 7 7 43 35 6 3 12 42 73 36
Manchester City 42 8 7 6 48 42 4 4 13 41 58 35
Notts County 42 11 4 6 37 26 2 3 16 17 48 33

Bury recorded an eight-match winning run from 28 November 1925:
Liverpool (a) 1-0, Leicester (a) 2-0, Burnley (h) 8-1, West Ham (h) 4-1, Manchester C. (h) 6-5, (a) 2-0, Everton (h) 1-0, Blackburn (h) 3-1, and then won an FA Cup tie, before losing 3-2 at Bolton on 16 January 1926. Huddersfield's biggest winning sequence was of six matches.

Chelsea, Clapton Orient, Millwall and The Wednesday, from the second division, and Charlton Athletic, from the third division (south), also each had a player representing England.

How The League Was Won 1925-26 Season
Timeline
36 Saturdays from 29 August 1925 to 1 May 1926, plus the first four Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Christmas Day (Friday, 25th December 1925), New Year's Day (Friday, 1st January 1926), Good Friday, 2 April 1926 and Easter Monday, 5 April 1926
 There was one other game played on a Tuesday in September, four on Mondays, two on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in October, and one on a Monday, and two on Wednesdays in November. Two games were played on Wednesdays in December, two on the last Monday of the year (Boxing Day was a Saturday), and one on a Wednesday in January. Games were played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in February and March, and on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in April. The FA Cup rounds were re-numbered, but still took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 9 January 1926 to the final on 24 April 1926. There were three weeks between each round, apart from two weeks before the sixth round, and four before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 1 May 1926.
Saturday, 10 April 1926
Huddersfield Town 2 West Ham United 1
  Leeds Road, Huddersfield (21,116)
 Jackson (2) ~ Earle		 With Arsenal and West Ham both leading at half-time, it looked as if the Gunners could still catch the Yorkshire club. If the scorelines had stayed the same, then Arsenal would have closed the gap to four points, with four games left, including a game in hand. However, both scorelines were reversed and it left Huddersfield needing a single point for a historic third successive title.
Sunderland 2 Arsenal 1
   Roker Park, Sunderland (20,990)
Gurney (2) ~ Brain
Top Two 10 April 1926
Team P ₧
Huddersfield Town 39 55
Arsenal 38 47
  
Monday, 12 April 1926
Huddersfield Town 3 Bolton Wanderers 0
  Leeds Road, Huddersfield (20,829)
Smith, Jackson, Stephenson
Huddersfield raced into a three-goal lead inside half an hour, and with Bolton going down to ten men because of an injury, the rest of the game became a celebration for their supporters. Though they opened up a ten-point gap at the top, former manager, Herbert Chapman's Arsenal beat them 3-1 in their next game, five days later, and reduced the lead to five points at the end of the season.
 
The Elite League 1925-26 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Arsenal 6 3 0 0 11 2 0 2 1 5 6 8
Sunderland 6 3 0 0 7 2 0 2 1 3 5 8
Huddersfield Town 6 1 2 0 5 4 0 1 2 2 7 5
Bury 6 0 3 0 4 4 0 0 3 2 9 3
Huddersfield Town were the only team from the previous season's top four to retain their status. Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 5 December 1925
 Huddersfield Town 2 Arsenal 2
    Leeds Road, Huddersfield (22,115)
Jackson (2) ~ Neil, Buchan
Saturday, 17 April 1926
 Arsenal 3 Huddersfield Town 1
   Arsenal Stadium, London (34,110)
 Lawson, Hulme, Parker (pen) ~ Devlin

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-26 (seven seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Liverpool 294 134 351
Bolton Wanderers 294 129 335
Sunderland 294 136 332
Newcastle United 294 122 321
Liverpool maintained their 16-point lead.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1921-26
Team P Wins ₧
Huddersfield Town 210 103 254
Liverpool 210 97 252
Sunderland 210 100 246
Bolton Wanderers 210 91 236
Unsurprisingly, following their third successive title, Huddersfield surpassed Liverpool at the top.


Champions: Huddersfield Town
Manager: Cecil Potter
1925-26 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
George Brown 41 35
Tom Wilson 41  
Sam Wadsworth 38  
Clem Stephenson 36 4
Roy Goodall 29 2
Ted Taylor 29  
Billy Smith 28 6
Billy Smith and Clem Stephenson did not play for England in the 1925-26 season, George Brown did not play for England until the following season and Tom Wilson did not play for England until 1928.
1925-26 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
George Brown 41 35
Ted Harper of Blackburn was top scorer with 43 goals, in the first season with the new offside law. Second on the list was Scotsman, Dave Halliday of Sunderland, with 38.

England and the Football League 1925-26 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1925-26 season, Football League players provided 32 of them, and a League player scored the only goal.
Including the game at the end of the season, 16 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus four clubs from the second division, and Charlton Athletic, from the third division (south).
17 Football League games had a direct impact on three of England's games, on 24 October 1925, 1 March 1926 and 17 April 1926.
As a result, on 24 October, England took Aston Villa's Arthur Dorrell, Tommy Smart and Billy Walker, Blackburn's Syd Puddefoot, Charlton's George Armitage, Chelsea's Howard Baker, Liverpool's Tom Bromilow, Manchester City's Sam Austin, Newcastle's Frank Hudspeth, The Wednesday's Fred Kean, and Stan Earle of West Ham. Sheffield United's George Green was absent from his club on 1 March, whilst on 17 April, Green, Puddefoot and Walker were again missing from their clubs, as were Arsenal's Jack Butler, Aston Villa's Tom Mort and Dicky York, Blackburn's Ted Harper, Burnley's Jack Hill, Huddersfield's Roy Goodall and Ted Taylor, Leeds United's Willis Edwards, Tottenham's Jack Elkes, and Jimmy Ruffell of West Ham.
 
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