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1893-94

Football League 1894-95

1895-96
  
Final League Table - Division One
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1894-95
Teams denoted with ▼ were relegated to the second division for the following season after losing a test match
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Sunderland 30 13 2 0 51 14 8 3 4 29 23 47
Everton 30 12 2 1 47 18 6 4 5 35 32 42
Aston Villa 30 12 2 1 51 12 5 3 7 31 31 39
Preston North End 30 9 3 3 32 14 6 2 7 30 32 35
Blackburn Rovers 30 9 5 1 40 15 2 5 8 19 34 32
Sheffield United 30 10 2 3 33 17 4 2 9 24 38 32
Nottingham Forest 30 10 1 4 33 22 3 4 8 17 34 31
Wednesday 30 10 2 3 36 19 2 2 11 14 36 28
Burnley 30 8 2 5 28 24 3 2 10 16 32 26
Bolton Wanderers 30 8 3 4 45 23 1 4 10 16 39 25
Wolverhampton Wanderers 30 7 4 4 24 25 2 3 10 19 38 25
Small Heath 30 6 6 3 35 28 3 1 11 15 46 25
West Bromwich Albion 30 9 2 4 38 21 1 2 12 13 45 24
Stoke 30 7 3 5 35 25 2 3 10 15 42 24
Derby County 30 4 5 6 23 23 3 4 8 22 45 23
Liverpool 30 6 4 5 38 28 1 4 10 13 42 22

Everton won their first eight games:
Wednesday (h) 3-1, Small Heath (h) 5-0, Stoke (a) 3-1, Nottingham F. (h) 6-1 and then (a) 3-2, West Brom (h) 4-1, Bolton (a) 3-1, Liverpool (h) 3-0, before losing 4-3 at Blackburn on 20 October 1894. Sunderland's biggest winning sequence was of four matches, though they were unbeaten at home again and had lost just one of their last 67 league games at Newcastle Road (3-2 to Blackburn in December 1893).


 
How The League Was Won 1894-95 Season
Timeline
22 consecutive Saturdays from 1 September 1894 to 26 January 1895 (ending a week later than the previous season), plus Boxing Day (Wednesday, 26 December 1894), New Year's Day (Tuesday, 1 January 1895), Good Friday, 12 April 1895 and Easter Monday, 15 April 1895
Four additional games were played on the first Monday of the season (3 September), plus one on a Thursday in September, six on Mondays in October, November and December, one on a Thursday in October and one on a Wednesday in December (in addition to Boxing Day). There were three games played on Christmas Day, two on the day after Boxing Day and one on the day after New Year's Day. All midweek days were utilised in the new year, but mostly Mondays. FA Cup replays were no longer played on Saturdays, so the competition only took precedence on five weekends from the first round on 2 February 1895 (a week later than the previous season) to the final on 20 April 1895, three weeks later than the previous season and five weeks after the semi-finals (it was held in April for the first time). The last league game was played on Wednesday, 24 April 1895 (Aston Villa 2-2 Everton), with test matches to decide promotion and relegation, three days later, on the following Saturday.

Saturday, 13 April 1895
Burnley 0 Sunderland 3
  
Turf Moor, Burnley (8,000)
McCreadie, Gillespie (2)
Everton's first home defeat of the season left them only able to catch Sunderland on goal average with two games left, with their next game, away at Sunderland, the last game of the season for the league leaders. That would be their best chance to bridge the goal-average gap, though, realistically, with Everton's final game away at third-placed Aston Villa, it was already all over. Everton's was 1.7, whilst Sunderland's was 2.1. Sunderland, of course, only needed to maintain their unbeaten home record which stretched back 16 months.
Everton 2 Derby County 3
  
Goodison Park, Liverpool (10,000)
Geary, Milward ~ J.Goodall, Bloomer (2)

  
Top Two 13 April 1895
Team P
Sunderland 29 45
Everton 28 41

  
Saturday, 20 April 1895
Sunderland 2 Everton 1
  
Newcastle Road, Sunderland (20,000)

McCreadie, Campbell
~ Chadwick
With all eyes on the Crystal Palace where Aston Villa were winning the FA Cup, Sunderland secured their third title in four years, extending their lead at the top to an unassailable six points. Everton reduced it to five in their last game.

 
The Elite League 1894-95 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Everton 6 2 1 0 10 6 1 1 1 5 5 8
Sunderland 6 2 1 0 8 5 1 1 1 4 4 8
Aston Villa 6 1 1 1 7 5 1 1 1 7 8 6
Preston North End 6 1 0 2 2 3 0 0 3 3 10 2
Everton and Preston North End replaced Blackburn Rovers and Derby County from the previous season's top four, having relinquished their top-four placings to the same two clubs in the previous season
 

Games played between the top two:-
 
Saturday, 27 October 1894
 Everton 2 Sunderland 2
  
Goodison Park, Liverpool (30,000)
McInnes, Boyle
~ Millar (2)
Saturday, 20 April 1895
Sunderland 2 Everton 1
   Newcastle Road, Sunderland (20,000)

McCreadie, Campbell
~
Chadwick

 
The Continuous League 1888-95 (first seven seasons)
Team P Wins
Preston North End 182 105 232
Everton 182 98 219
Aston Villa 182 93 214
Sunderland 138 91 200
Everton reduced Preston's lead to 13 points, but this was the third season of thirty games each, following three of 22 and one of 26 games each, so comparisons with other seasons have little relevance. Sunderland still had the highest average points per game from their five seasons.
The Continuous 'Thirty Games' League  1892-95 (last three seasons)
Team P Wins
Sunderland 90 60 133
Aston Villa 90 52 118
Everton 90 49 111
Preston North End 90 42 95
Sunderland extended their lead to 15 points.

 
Champions: Sunderland
Manager: Tom Watson
1894-95 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals

No England internationals played for Sunderland in the 1894-95 season.

1894-95 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals

No England players scored for Sunderland in the 1894-95 season.

Scotsman, John Campbell, was top scorer for the third time, with 21 in thirty games.
Second on the list was Liverpool's Harry Bradshaw, who scored 17, with Albert Carnelly of Nottingham Forest and Villa's Jack Devey scoring 16.

 
England and the Football League 1894-95 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1894-95 season, Football League players provided twenty of them, and of the 13 goals scored, League players scored ten of them (two were own goals).
Ten of the 16 first division clubs were represented.
Three Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 9 March and 6 April.
As a result, on 9 March, England took Sheffield United's Rab Howell, whilst another game was abandoned, thus negating the impact of other players. On 6 April, Aston Villa were without Jack Reynolds and Steve Smith, Burnley were without Jimmy Crabtree and England also took Derby's Steve Bloomer and John Goodall.
 
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