Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1932-33
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 |
|
Arsenal |
42 |
14 |
3 |
4 |
70 |
27 |
11 |
5 |
5 |
48 |
34 |
58 |
|
Aston Villa |
42 |
16 |
2 |
3 |
60 |
29 |
7 |
6 |
8 |
32 |
38 |
54 |
|
Sheffield Wednesday |
42 |
15 |
5 |
1 |
46 |
20 |
6 |
4 |
11 |
34 |
48 |
51 |
|
West Bromwich Albion |
42 |
16 |
1 |
4 |
50 |
23 |
4 |
8 |
9 |
33 |
47 |
49 |
|
Newcastle United |
42 |
15 |
2 |
4 |
44 |
24 |
7 |
3 |
11 |
27 |
39 |
49 |
|
Huddersfield Town |
42 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
32 |
17 |
7 |
5 |
9 |
34 |
36 |
47 |
|
Derby
County |
42 |
11 |
8 |
2 |
49 |
25 |
4 |
6 |
11 |
27 |
44 |
44 |
|
Leeds United |
42 |
10 |
6 |
5 |
39 |
24 |
5 |
8 |
8 |
20 |
38 |
44 |
|
Portsmouth |
42 |
14 |
3 |
4 |
39 |
22 |
4 |
4 |
13 |
35 |
54 |
43 |
|
Sheffield
United |
42 |
14 |
3 |
4 |
50 |
30 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
24 |
50 |
43 |
|
Everton |
42 |
13 |
6 |
2 |
54 |
24 |
3 |
3 |
15 |
27 |
50 |
41 |
|
Sunderland |
42 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
33 |
31 |
7 |
3 |
11 |
30 |
49 |
40 |
|
Birmingham |
42 |
13 |
3 |
5 |
40 |
23 |
1 |
8 |
12 |
17 |
34 |
39 |
|
Liverpool |
42 |
10 |
6 |
5 |
53 |
33 |
4 |
5 |
12 |
26 |
51 |
39 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
42 |
11 |
6 |
4 |
48 |
41 |
3 |
4 |
14 |
28 |
61 |
38 |
|
Manchester City |
42 |
12 |
3 |
6 |
47 |
30 |
4 |
2 |
15 |
21 |
41 |
37 |
|
Middlesbrough |
42 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
35 |
33 |
6 |
4 |
11 |
28 |
40 |
37 |
|
Chelsea |
42 |
9 |
4 |
8 |
38 |
29 |
5 |
3 |
13 |
25 |
44 |
35 |
|
Leicester City |
42 |
9 |
9 |
3 |
43 |
25 |
2 |
4 |
15 |
32 |
64 |
35 |
|
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
42 |
10 |
4 |
7 |
56 |
48 |
3 |
5 |
13 |
24 |
48 |
35 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
42 |
10 |
7 |
4 |
49 |
33 |
2 |
2 |
17 |
29 |
59 |
33 |
|
Blackpool |
42 |
11 |
2 |
8 |
44 |
35 |
3 |
3 |
15 |
25 |
50 |
33 |
|
Arsenal
recorded
five-match
winning runs three times, firstly from 15 October 1932:
Blackburn
(a) 3-2, Liverpool (a) 3-2, Leicester (h) 8-2,
Wolves (a) 7-1, Newcastle (h) 1-0, before
losing 5-3 at Aston Villa on 19 November 1932.
They then won their next five matches (making it ten out of eleven), from 26
November 1932:
MIddlesbrough (h) 4-2, Portsmouth (a) 3-1, Chelsea (h) 4-1,
Huddersfield (a) 1-0, Sheffield United (h) 9-2, before losing 2-1 at home to
Leeds on 26
December 1932.
Then, from 1 April 1933:
Aston Villa (h) 5-0, Middlesbrough (a) 4-3, Sheffield Wednesday (h) 4-2,
Portsmouth (h) 2-0, Chelsea (a) 3-1, before drawing 2-2 at Huddersfield on 29
April 1933. Four other teams also had five-match winning
sequences:
Sheffield Wednesday from 12 November 1932, before losing at Bolton on 17
December 1932,
Sheffield United from 19 November 1932, before losing at Arsenal on 24
December 1933,
Newcastle United from 24 December 1932, before losing at Liverpool on 7
January 1933, and
Aston Villa from 27 December 1932, before losing at Leicester on 9 February 1933.
Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur, from the second
division, also each had a player representing England.
|
|
How The League Was Won 1932-33 Season |
|
Timeline |
37 Saturdays from 27 August 1932 to 6 May 1933, plus the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of
the season, Boxing Day (Monday, 26th December 1932), Tuesday, 27
December 1932, Monday, 2
January 1933, Good Friday,
14 April 1933 and Easter Monday, 17 April 1933
There was
one other game played on a Monday and one on a Wednesday in
September, and then no more midweek games in the first division
until February, when there were games played on Wednesdays and
Thursdays. In March, there were games played on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays, and on every day except Sunday in April, with the
last two midweek games on the first Wednesday in May. The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the
third round on 14 January 1933 to the
final on 29 April 1933 (a week later than the previous season).
There were two weeks between each
round, apart from three weeks before the fifth round,
and six weeks before the
final. Last
league games were on Saturday, 6 May 1933.
|
Tuesday, 18 April 1933 |
Aston Villa 3 Newcastle United 0
Villa Park, Birmingham
(23,700)
Wood, Brown (2) |
|
Whilst
Arsenal were putting together another string of victories,
Villa's recent games had seen a costly 3-1 defeat at Newcastle
on Easter Monday. 24 hours later, they had their revenge, ending
Newcastle's own remote title ambitions in the process. Arsenal's
112 goals were, at this stage, worth an extra point to them, and
meant that two more points would be enough to secure them the
title, with Villa then needing to average over twelve goals a
game in their remaining four fixtures, to beat Arsenal's goal
average (assuming that Arsenal didn't concede a similar amount
in their other two games). |
|
Saturday, 22 April 1933 |
3.00pm
BST
Aston Villa 0 Leeds United 0
Villa Park, Birmingham
(21,238) |
Arsenal proved unstoppable, notching up their fifth successive
victory. Chelsea's George Mills hit the bar from a penalty just
after Arsenal's third, and then Gallacher pulled one back, but
once the final whistle had been sounded at Villa, Arsenal knew
that a victory would wrap up their second championship in three
years. The lead was increased to six points, though it was
reduced to four by Villa at the end of the season. |
3.30pm
BST
Chelsea 1 Arsenal 3
Stamford Bridge, London
(72,260)
Gallacher
70
~ Jack 20, Bastin 28, 67 |
|
|
The Elite League 1932-33 Season
(games between the top four) |
Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion replaced Everton and
Huddersfield Town from the previous
season's top four. The four teams finished in reverse order to their
actual league positions.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 19 November 1932 |
Aston Villa 5 Arsenal 3
Villa Park, Birmingham
(58,066)
Gibson, Houghton (2),
Mandley, Brown
~ Jack, Lambert, Bastin |
|
Saturday, 1 April 1933 |
Arsenal 5 Aston Villa 0
Arsenal Stadium, London
(54,265)
Jack, Lambert
(2), Bowden, James |
|
|
The Continuous Post-War League
1919-33
(14 seasons) |
|
Aston Villa took
over the lead
from Liverpool, but Huddersfield, from a season less, still had the highest
average points.
Sheffield Wednesday's lead was
cut to three points by Arsenal. |
Manager:
Herbert
Chapman
1932-33
Most Appearances
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Cliff Bastin |
42 |
33 |
|
Frank Moss |
41 |
|
|
Joe Hulme |
40 |
20 |
|
Eddie Hapgood |
38 |
|
|
Herbie Roberts |
36 |
|
|
George Male |
35 |
|
|
David Jack |
34 |
18 |
|
Herbie Roberts did not play for England in the 1932-33
season,
Eddie Hapgood did not play for England until the week after the end
of the season, Frank Moss did not play for England until the following
season and George Male did not play for England until 1934. |
|
Jack Bowers of Derby County, was top scorer with
35 goals. Bastin was joint-second with Jack Ball of Sheffield
Wednesday, George Brown of Aston Villa, and Wolves' Billy Hartill.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1932-33 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Including the tour at the end of the 1932-33 season, 15 of the 22 first division clubs were
represented, plus Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur from the second division.
Eight Football League games had a direct impact on
one of England's games, on 1 April 1933.
As a
result, England took Arsenal's Joe Hulme, Aston Villa's Joe
Beresford, Birmingham's Harry Hibbs and Lewis Stoker, Derby's Tom
Cooper,
Fulham's Johnny Arnold, Leeds's Ernie Hart, Newcastle's Sam Weaver,
Sheffield United's Jack Pickering, Sheffield Wednesday's Ernie Blenkinsop,
Ronnie Starling and Alf Strange, and George Hunt of Tottenham. |
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