| Nextseason: | 1950–51 |
The 1949–50 season was the 51st completed 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[1] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79, 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.
From the 1922–23 season, the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South were required to apply for re-election.[2]
| Competition: | First Division |
| Season: | 1949–50 |
| Winners: | Portsmouth 2nd English title |
| Relegated: | Manchester City Birmingham City |
| League Topscorer: | Dickie Davis (25 goals)[3] |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1247 |
| Prevseason: | 1948–49 |
| Nextseason: | 1950–51 |
Portsmouth retained the First Division title, finishing level on points with Wolverhampton Wanderers. Sunderland finished a single point behind the leading pair, with Manchester United and Newcastle United completing the top five. Sixth placed Arsenal, the 1948 champions, finished four points off the top of the table but beat Liverpool to win their first postwar FA Cup.
Manchester City and Birmingham City went down to the Second Division.
| Competition: | Second Division |
| Season: | 1949–50 |
| Winners: | Tottenham Hotspur |
| Promoted: | Tottenham Hotspur Sheffield Wednesday |
| Relegated: | Plymouth Argyle Bradford Park Avenue |
| League Topscorer: | Tommy Briggs (35 goals) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1231 |
| Prevseason: | 1948–49 |
| Nextseason: | 1950–51 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division North |
| Season: | 1949–50 |
| Winners: | Doncaster Rovers (3rd title) |
| League Topscorer: | Reg Philips (Crewe Alexandra), Peter Doherty (Doncaster Rovers), 26 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | none |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1315 |
| Nextseason: | 1950–51 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division South |
| Season: | 1949–50 |
| Winners: | Notts County (2nd title) |
| League Topscorer: | Tommy Lawton (Notts County), 31 |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | none |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1336 |
| Nextseason: | 1950–51 |