1889–90 Football League Explained

Competition:The Football League
Season:1889–90
Winners:Preston North End
2nd English title
League Topscorer:Jimmy Ross
(24 goals)[1]
Biggest Home Win:
(14 September 1889)
Biggest Away Win:
(12 October 1889)
Highest Scoring:
(14 September 1889)

(16 November 1889)

(7 December 1889)
Matches:132
Total Goals:611
Longest Wins:6 matches
Everton
Preston North End
Longest Unbeaten:7 matches
Accrington
Blackburn Rovers
Preston North End
Longest Losses:10 matches
Stoke
Average Attendance:5,466
Prevseason:1888–89
Nextseason:1890–91

The 188990 Football League was the second season of English league football, with Preston North End being crowned as the champions for the second successive season. The clubs competing were the 12 original clubs which were the founders of the league the previous year. Unlike the modern system, two points were awarded for a win, with one for a draw and no points for a loss; this system remained until three points for a win were awarded beginning with the 1981–82 season.

Final league table

During the first five seasons of the league (until the 1893–94 season), the re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.[2]

Maps

Re-election process

At the Football League election meeting no vote was taken, and it was agreed that Burnley and Notts County were re-elected and that Sunderland was elected in place of Stoke, who played in the Football Alliance the following season but returned to the Football League after a year's absence.

The applications of Football Alliance sides Bootle, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Newton Heath and Sunderland Albion were rejected.[3]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: English League Leading Goalscorers. RSSSF. 2010-10-31.
  2. Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
  3. http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/NonLeagueTables/FA1889-90.htm footballsite.co.uk