| Competition: | The Football League |
| Season: | 1959–60 |
| Winners: | Burnley |
| Relegated: | Gateshead |
| Prevseason: | 1958–59 |
| Nextseason: | 1960–61 |
The 1959–60 season was the 61st completed (62nd overall) season of The Football League.
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[1] with home and away statistics separated.
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. 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.
Since the Fourth Division was established in the 1958–59 season, the bottom four teams of that division have been required to apply for re-election.
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 1959–60 |
| Winners: | Burnley 2nd English title |
| Continentalcup2: | Cup Winners' Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Wolverhampton Wanderers |
| Continentalcup3: | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Birmingham City |
| League Topscorer: | Dennis Viollet (32 goals)[2] |
| Biggest Home Win: | (16 September 1959) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (27 February 1960) (18 April 1960) |
| Highest Scoring: | (5 September 1959) (7 November 1959) (2 January 1960) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1618 |
| Prevseason: | 1958–59 |
| Nextseason: | 1960–61 |
| Competition: | Second Division |
| Season: | 1959–60 |
| Winners: | Aston Villa |
| Promoted: | Aston Villa Cardiff City |
| Relegated: | Hull City Bristol City |
| League Topscorer: | Brian Clough (39 goals) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1565 |
| Prevseason: | 1958–59 |
| Nextseason: | 1960–61 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division |
| Season: | 1959–60 |
| Winners: | Southampton (1st title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Promoted |
| Continentalcup2: | Relegated |
| League Topscorer: | Derek Reeves (Southampton), 39 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1816 |
| Nextseason: | 1960–61 |
| Competition: | Football League Fourth Division |
| Season: | 1959–60 |
| Winners: | Walsall (1st title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Promoted |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| League Topscorer: | Cliff Holton (Watford), 42 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1734 |
| Nextseason: | 1960–61 |