Season 1891–92 Start date 1891 Goals scored 777 | Relegated None Champion Sunderland A.F.C. Matches played 182 | |
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Champions Sunderland
(1st English title) FA Cup winners West Bromwich Albion
(2nd FA Cup title) Top goalscorer John Campbell (Sunderland), 31 Biggest home win West Bromwich Albion – Darwen 12–0 (4 April 1892) People also search for 1890–91 Football League | ||
The Football League 1891–1892 was the fourth season of English league football, and the last season of the football league running in a single division. Sunderland were the winners of the league which was their first ever league success. At the beginning of the season Stoke had left the Football Alliance and rejoined the Football League. Darwen also joined from the Alliance but they conceded 112 goals and finished bottom.
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Final league table
The table below is reproduced here in the exact form that it can be found at the The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website 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.
During the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893–94 re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.
Results
Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website and from Rothmans Book of
Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79.
Source: [1]
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Re-election process
Two new clubs were elected to the League in the re-election process. West Bromwich Albion, although finishing in the bottom four teams, were not required to seek re-election as they were the FA Cup holders. Two of the other three teams were duly re-elected. As a result, three new teams were elected to the League. The voting went as follows:
When the Second Division was later added to the league, Darwen were elected to participate. The other teams to participate in the Second Division were drawn from the Football Alliance.