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1926-27

Football League 1927-28
1928-29
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1927-28
 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
Everton 42 11 8 2 60 28 9 5 7 42 38 53
Huddersfield Town 42 15 1 5 57 31 7 6 8 34 37 51
Leicester City 42 14 5 2 66 25 4 7 10 30 47 48
Derby County 42 12 4 5 59 30 5 6 10 37 53 44
Bury 42 13 1 7 53 35 7 3 11 27 45 44
Cardiff City 42 12 7 2 44 27 5 3 13 26 53 44
Bolton Wanderers 42 12 5 4 47 26 4 6 11 34 40 43
Aston Villa 42 13 3 5 52 30 4 6 11 26 43 43
Newcastle United 42 9 7 5 49 41 6 6 9 30 40 43
Arsenal 42 10 6 5 49 33 3 9 9 33 53 41
Birmingham 42 10 7 4 36 25 3 8 10 34 50 41
Blackburn Rovers 42 13 5 3 41 22 3 4 14 25 56 41
Sheffield United 42 12 4 5 56 42 3 6 12 23 44 40
The Wednesday 42 9 6 6 45 29 4 7 10 36 49 39
Sunderland 42 9 5 7 37 29 6 4 11 37 47 39
Liverpool 42 10 6 5 54 36 3 7 11 30 51 39
West Ham United 42 9 7 5 48 34 5 4 12 33 54 39
Manchester United 42 12 6 3 51 27 4 1 16 21 53 39
Burnley 42 12 5 4 55 31 4 2 15 27 67 39
Portsmouth 42 13 4 4 40 23 3 3 15 26 67 39
Tottenham Hotspur 42 12 3 6 47 34 3 5 13 27 52 38
Middlesbrough 42 7 9 5 46 35 4 6 11 35 53 37

Bolton recorded a five-match winning run from 7 January 1928:
Blackburn (a) 6-1, Bury (h) 2-1, Middlesbrough (a) 5-2, Tottenham (a) 2-1, Birmingham (h) 3-2, before drawing 2-2 at Newcastle on 18 February 1928. Everton's biggest winning sequence was of four matches.

Leeds United, from the second division, also had a player representing England.

How The League Was Won 1927-28 Season
Timeline
37 Saturdays from 27 August 1927 to 5 May 1928, plus the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Boxing Day (Monday, 26th December 1927), Tuesday, 27 December 1927, Monday, 2 January 1928, Good Friday, 6 April 1928 and Easter Monday, 9 April 1928
 There were four other games played on Mondays, two on a Wednesday and one on a Thursday in September, and then none at all in midweek for the next four months, apart from the festive period (Christmas Day and New Year's Day were both on a Sunday). One game was played on a Monday, four on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in February. In March, games were played on Mondays and Wednesdays, every day except Sundays in April, and two games were played on the first Wednesday of May. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 14 January 1928 (a week later than the previous season) to the final on 21 April 1928. There were two weeks before the fourth and sixth rounds, three weeks before the fifth round and semi-finals, and four weeks before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 5 May 1928.
Monday, 30 April 1928
Huddersfield Town 0 Sheffield United 1
  Leeds Road, Huddersfield (22,380)
Johnson
Going into the Easter fixtures, Huddersfield had been three points clear of Everton with a game in hand, and had just beaten Sheffield United, at the third attempt, to reach the FA Cup Final. The league and cup double was a definite possibility, until Blackburn beat them at Wembley, whilst Everton took the opportunity to build up their own three-point lead. Although Huddersfield now had three games in hand, it wasn't enough. As well as beating the Blades in the semi-final, they had won 7-1 at Sheffield back in November, but United took their revenge and inflicted on Huddersfield, their fourth home defeat in five games. The after-effects of reaching Wembley had taken their title hopes out of their hands, leaving them needing to win their last two games and hoping that Everton lost their last game at home which seemed unlikely, with Bill 'Dixie' Dean setting his sights on an all-time Football League goalscoring record.
Top Two 30 April 1928
Team P ₧
Everton 41 52
Huddersfield Town 40 49
  
Wednesday, 2 May 1928
Aston Villa 3 Huddersfield Town 0
  Villa Park, Birmingham (30,173)
Walker, Dorrell, Waring
A demoralised Huddersfield were well beaten and their second defeat in three days gave Everton the title. Dean's hat-trick in their final game gave him a record-breaking sixty goals for the season.
 
The Elite League 1927-28 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Huddersfield Town 6 3 0 0 9 3 1 2 0 4 3 10
Everton 6 1 2 0 11 5 1 0 2 4 5 6
Leicester City 6 2 0 1 6 2 0 0 3 3 12 4
Derby County 6 1 1 1 2 4 0 1 2 3 8 4
Huddersfield Town were the only team from the previous season's top four to retain their status. Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United and Sunderland all dropped out of the top four. After failing to win this league in each of their three title seasons, Huddersfield won it for the first time, in the season in which they finished runners-up.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 24 September 1927
 Everton 2 Huddersfield Town 2
    Goodison Park, Liverpool (37,269)
Dean (2) ~ Smith, Kelly
Saturday, 4 February 1928
 Huddersfield Town 4 Everton 1
   Leeds Road, Huddersfield (50,012)
 Dent, Smith (3) ~ Dean
Though Everton won the league, Bolton finished ahead of them on goal average, when it came to local Lancashire derbies.
Lancashire Derbies League Top Four
 1927-28 Season
Team P ₧
Bolton Wanderers 12 15
Everton 12 15
Bury 12 15
Liverpool 12 12

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-28 (nine seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Liverpool 378 165 433
Bolton Wanderers 378 164 426
Sunderland 378 172 420
Newcastle United 378 162 420
Bolton reduced Liverpool's lead again, from eleven to seven points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1923-28
Team P Wins ₧
Huddersfield Town 210 106 264
Sunderland 210 98 240
Bolton Wanderers 210 92 240
Newcastle United 210 89 233
Huddersfield increased their lead to 24 points.


Champions: Everton
Manager: Tom McIntosh
1927-28 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Bill Dean 39 60
Warney Cresswell 36  
Ted Taylor 26  
Warney Cresswell and Ted Taylor did not play for England in the 1927-28 season.
1927-28 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Bill Dean 39 60
Dean's sixty goals was the English professional record for a season, and it still stands today. Joint-second on the list were Burnley's George Beel, and Scotsman, Dave Halliday of Sunderland, with 'only' 35 goals.

England and the Football League 1927-28 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Including the tour at the end of the 1927-28 season, 14 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus Leeds United from the second division.
13 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 22 October 1927 and 31 March 1928.
As a result, on 22 October, England took Arsenal's Joe Hulme, Blackburn's Herbert Jones, Bolton's Harry Nuttall, Burnley's Jack Hill and Louis Page, Bury's Jack Ball, Derby's Tom Cooper and Harry Storer, Everton's Bill Dean, Middlesbrough's Jackie Carr, Newcastle's Charlie Spencer, and Stan Earle and Ted Hufton of West Ham. On 31 March, Dean, Hufton, Hulme and Jones were again missing from their clubs, as were Birmingham's Joe Bradford and George Briggs, Blackburn's Harry Healless, Huddersfield's Roy Goodall, Bob Kelly, Billy Smith and Tom Wilson, and Willis Edwards of Leeds.
 
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