| Continentalcup1: | New Team in League |
| Nextseason: | 1929–30 |
The 1928–29 season was the 37th season of The Football League.
The tables and results below are reproduced here with home and away statistics separated, as per RSSSF[1] and Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79.[2]
Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. When two 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.
From the 1922–23 season, re-election was required of the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South.
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 1928–29 |
| Winners: | The Wednesday 3rd English title |
| Relegated: | Bury Cardiff City |
| League Topscorer: | Dave Halliday (43 goals)[3] |
| Biggest Home Win: | (20 October 1928) (19 January 1929) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (29 April 1929) |
| Highest Scoring: | (20 October 1928) (19 January 1929) (9 February 1929) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1688 |
| Prevseason: | 1927–28 |
| Nextseason: | 1929–30 |
| Competition: | Football League Second Division |
| Season: | 1928–29 |
| Winners: | Middlesbrough (2nd title) |
| League Topscorer: | Jimmy Hampson (Blackpool), 40 |
| Biggest Home Win: | Port Vale – West Bromwich Albion 8–1 (9 Mar 1929) Blackpool – Reading 7–0 (10 Nov 1929) Preston North End – Reading 7–0 (27 Apr 1929) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Millwall – Wolverhampton Wanderers 0–5 (3 Sept 1928) |
| Highest Scoring: | Middlesbrough – Wolverhampton Wanderers 8–3 (9 Feb 1929) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1576 |
| Nextseason: | 1929–30 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division North |
| Season: | 1928–29 |
| Winners: | Bradford City (1st title) |
| League Topscorer: | Jimmy McConnell (Carlisle United), 42 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1696 |
| Nextseason: | 1929–30 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division South |
| Season: | 1928–29 |
| Winners: | Charlton Athletic (1st title) |
| League Topscorer: | Andy Rennie (Luton Town), 43 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | None |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1614 |
| Nextseason: | 1929–30 |