| Nextseason: | 1966–67 |
The 1965–66 season was the 67th completed season of the Football League.
This season is notable for Liverpool winning the title – their seventh overall – with only 14 squad players. The Second, Third and Fourth Divisions were won by Manchester City, Hull City and Doncaster Rovers respectively.
The tables and results 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,[2] with home and away statistics separated.
Beginning with the 1894–95 season, 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: | 1965–66 |
| Winners: | Liverpool 7th title |
| Relegated: | Northampton Town Blackburn Rovers |
| Continentalcup1: | European Cup |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Liverpool |
| Continentalcup2: | European Cup Winners' Cup |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Everton |
| Continentalcup3: | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | Leeds United Burnley |
| League Topscorer: | Roger Hunt Willie Irvine (29 goals each)[3] |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1457 |
| Prevseason: | 1964–65 |
| Nextseason: | 1966–67 |
| Competition: | Second Division |
| Season: | 1965–66 |
| Winners: | Manchester City |
| Promoted: | Manchester City Southampton |
| Relegated: | Middlesbrough Leyton Orient |
| League Topscorer: | Martin Chivers (30 goals) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1421 |
| Prevseason: | 1964–65 |
| Nextseason: | 1966–67 |
| Competition: | Football League Third Division |
| Season: | 1965–66 |
| Winners: | Hull City (1st title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Promoted |
| Continentalcup2: | Relegated |
| League Topscorer: | Les Allen (Queens Park Rangers), 30 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1628 |
| Nextseason: | 1966–67 |
| Competition: | Football League Fourth Division |
| Season: | 1965–66 |
| Winners: | Doncaster Rovers (1st title) |
| Continentalcup1: | Promoted |
| Continentalcup2: | Failed re-election |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | none |
| Continentalcup3: | New club in the league |
| League Topscorer: | Kevin Hector (Bradford Park Avenue), 44 |
| Matches: | 552 |
| Total Goals: | 1723 |
| Nextseason: | 1966–67 |