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1928-29

Football League 1929-30
1930-31
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1929-30
 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
Sheffield Wednesday 42 15 4 2 56 20 11 4 6 49 37 60
Derby County 42 16 4 1 61 32 5 4 12 29 50 50
Manchester City 42 12 5 4 51 33 7 4 10 40 48 47
Aston Villa 42 13 1 7 54 33 8 4 9 38 50 47
Leeds United 42 15 2 4 52 22 5 4 12 27 41 46
Blackburn Rovers 42 15 2 4 65 36 4 5 12 34 57 45
West Ham United 42 14 2 5 51 26 5 3 13 35 53 43
Leicester City 42 12 5 4 57 42 5 4 12 29 48 43
Sunderland 42 13 3 5 50 35 5 4 12 26 45 43
Huddersfield Town 42 9 7 5 32 21 8 2 11 31 48 43
Birmingham 42 13 3 5 40 21 3 6 12 27 41 41
Liverpool 42 11 5 5 33 29 5 4 12 30 50 41
Portsmouth 42 10 6 5 43 25 5 4 12 23 37 40
Arsenal 42 10 2 9 49 26 4 9 8 29 40 39
Bolton Wanderers 42 11 5 5 46 24 4 4 13 28 50 39
Middlesbrough 42 11 3 7 48 31 5 3 13 34 53 38
Manchester United 42 11 4 6 39 34 4 4 13 28 54 38
Grimsby Town 42 8 6 7 39 39 7 1 13 34 50 37
Newcastle United 42 13 4 4 52 32 2 3 16 19 60 37
Sheffield United 42 12 2 7 59 39 3 4 14 32 57 36
Burnley 42 11 5 5 53 34 3 3 15 26 63 36
Everton 42 6 7 8 48 46 6 4 11 32 46 35

Leeds recorded a seven-match winning run from 16 September 1929:
Everton (h) 2-1, Sheffield W. (a) 2-1, Portsmouth (h) 1-0, Burnley (h) 3-0, Sunderland (a) 4-1, Bolton (h) 2-1, Birmingham (h) 1-0, before drawing 2-2 at Leicester on 26 October 1929. Sheffield Wednesday's biggest winning sequence was of three matches.

Fulham from the third division (south), also had a player representing England.

How The League Was Won 1929-30 Season
Timeline
36 Saturdays from 31 August 1929 (a week later than the previous season) to 3 May 1930, plus the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of September, Christmas Day (Wednesday, 25th December 1929), Boxing Day (Thursday, 26th December 1929), New Year's Day (Wednesday, 1st January 1930), Good Friday, 18 April 1930 and Easter Monday, 21 April 1930
 There were five other games played on Mondays, two on Tuesdays and four on Wednesdays in September, one on a Monday, two on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in October, and one on a Wednesday in November. One game was played on a Monday in December, and one on a Monday in January. In February, one game was played on a Monday, seven on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday, and games were played on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March and April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 11 January 1930 to the final on 26 April 1930. There were two weeks before the fourth and sixth rounds, three weeks before the fifth round and semi-finals, and five weeks before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 3 May 1930.
Monday, 21 April 1930
Derby County 4 Sheffield Wednesday 1
  Baseball Ground, Derby (25,446)
 Barclay (3), Robson ~ Hooper		 Although Wednesday took a drubbing at the home of their closest rivals, they still had five games left in which to retain their title. The return fixture was just 24 hours later. Victory would give them the Championship. Wednesday's defeat also gave Manchester City a chance to close the gap, though they would be heavily dependent on other results going their way to be in with a chance.
Manchester City 4 Leeds United 1
   Maine Road, Manchester (23,578)
Tait (3), Ridding ~ Keetley
Top Three 21 April 1930
Team P ₧
Sheffield Wednesday 37 51
Derby County 39 48
Manchester City 39 46
  
Tuesday, 22 April 1930
Sheffield Wednesday 6 Derby County 3
   Hillsborough, Sheffield (41,218)
Allen (3), Millership, Rimmer, Hooper ~ Robson, Barclay, Bedford 
Wednesday clinched the title in style, racing into a six-goal lead after an hour's play. Manchester City were two goals up at Leeds, but ended up losing. Their result was always going to be irrelevant in the title race, once Wednesday started banging in the goals, however. They opened up a five-point gap which was to double by the end of the season.
 
The Elite League 1929-30 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Sheffield Wednesday 6 3 0 0 14 4 1 1 1 7 8 9
Derby County 6 3 0 0 12 3 0 1 2 5 11 7
Manchester City 6 1 1 1 7 5 1 0 2 5 9 5
Aston Villa 6 0 1 2 3 7 1 0 2 2 8 3
Derby County and Manchester City replaced Leicester City and Sunderland from the previous season's top four.

 Though Sheffield Wednesday won the league, when it came to Yorkshire derbies, all of their local rivals fared better than them.
Yorkshire Derbies League
 1929-30 Season
Team P ₧
Huddersfield Town 8 13
Middlesbrough 8 9
Leeds United 8 6
Sheffield United 8 6
Sheffield Wednesday 8 6

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-30 (eleven seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Liverpool 462 198 520
Sunderland 462 210 510
Bolton Wanderers 462 193 505
Newcastle United 462 196 501
Sunderland reduced Liverpool's lead to ten points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1925-30
Team P Wins ₧
Huddersfield Town 210 93 231
Sunderland 210 95 229
Aston Villa 210 95 227
Newcastle United 210 90 222
Sunderland reduced Huddersfield's lead to two points.


Champions: Sheffield Wednesday
Manager: Robert Brown
1929-30 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Jack Brown 41  
Alf Strange 41 3
Tony Leach 40 2
Ellis Rimmer 40 16
Ernie Blenkinsop 39  
Harry Burgess 39 19
Billy Marsden 37 3
Jimmy Seed 32 9
Jimmy Seed did not play for England in the 1929-30 season, and Harry Burgess and Tony Leach did not play for England until the following season.
1929-30 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Harry Burgess 39 19







Vic Watson of West Ham, was top scorer with 42 goals. Second on the list was Irishman, Jimmy Dunne of Sheffield United, with 36 goals. Sheffield Wednesday's Jack Allen was third with 33.

England and the Football League 1929-30 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the 1929-30 season, twelve of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus Fulham from the third division (south).
Twelve Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 19 October 1929 and 5 April 1930.
As a result, on 19 October, England took Birmingham's Joe Bradford, Everton's Warney Cresswell, Fulham's Albert Barrett, Leeds' Willis Edwards and Ernie Hart, Leicester's Hugh Adcock and Ernie Hine, Manchester City's Eric Brook, Middlesbrough's George Camsell and Maurice Webster, and Ernie Blenkinsop and Jack Brown of Sheffield Wednesday. On 5 April, Blenkinsop, Bradford and Webster were again missing from their clubs, as were Arsenal's David Jack, Birmingham's Harry Hibbs, Derby's Sammy Crooks, Huddersfield's Roy Goodall and Bob Kelly, Sheffield Wednesday's Billy Marsden, Ellis Rimmer and Alf Strange, and Vic Watson of West Ham.
 
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