| Continentalcup1: | New clubs in League |
| Nextseason: | 1895–96 |
The 1894–95 season was the seventh season of The Football League.
During the first five seasons of the league the re-election process had concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league, but as of the 1894–95 season the re-election requirement was reduced to the last three clubs in Division Two.
However, as Lincoln City (fourth from last) and Walsall Town Swifts (third from last) both finished with 20 points, they were both subjected to the re-election process, and Walsall eventually resigned from the league. After this, and until the 1976–77 season, goal average (explained below) was used to determine a club's exact position and there were no more anomalies in the re-election processes.
Goal average was calculated by dividing the goals scored with goals conceded, and would more appropriately be called goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 1894–95 |
| Winners: | Sunderland 3rd title |
| Relegated: | Liverpool |
| League Topscorer: | John Campbell (22 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (1 September 1894) (5 January 1895) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (22 December 1894) |
| Highest Scoring: | (5 January 1895) |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 917 |
| Longest Wins: | 8 matches Everton |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 10 matches Sunderland |
| Longest Losses: | 7 matches Burnley |
| Highest Attendance: | 35,000 (27 October 1894) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 1,000 (29 September 1894) (27 October 1894) (22 December 1894) (19 January 1895) (26 January 1895) |
| Average Attendance: | 7,431 |
| Prevseason: | 1893–94 |
| Nextseason: | 1895–96 |
| Competition: | Second Division |
| Season: | 1894–95 |
| Winners: | Bury |
| Promoted: | Bury |
| League Topscorer: | David Skea (22 goals)[1] |
| Biggest Home Win: | (26 February 1895) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (2 March 1895) |
| Highest Scoring: | (23 March 1895) |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 1023 |
| Longest Wins: | 8 matches Bury |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 13 matches Burton Wanderers Leicester Fosse |
| Longest Losses: | 9 matches Crewe Alexandra Walsall Town Swifts |
| Prevseason: | 1893–94 |
| Nextseason: | 1895–96 |
The Football League test matches were a set of play-offs, in which the bottom First Division teams faced the top Second Division teams. The First Division teams, if coming out as winners, would retain their places in the division. If a Second Division team won, it would be considered for First Division membership through an election process. Losing Second Division teams would stay in the Second Division.
As a result of these matches, Bury, Derby County and Stoke were placed in the First Division the following season, while Liverpool, Notts County and Newton Heath went into the Second Division.