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1929–30 in English football

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The 1929–30 season was the 55th season of competitive football in England.

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Events

The Wednesday officially changed their name to Sheffield Wednesday prior to the start of this season.

Blackpool claimed their only championship to date on the final day of the Division Two season, 3 May, with a goalless draw at Nottingham Forest. Runners-up Chelsea could have won the title themselves the same afternoon if they had won and Blackpool had lost, but the Londoners were defeated at Bury by a single goal. Blackpool forward, Jimmy Hampson, finished the season as the top goal scorer in England, with 46 goals in all competitions. According to Moving The Goalposts by Rob Jovanovic the 1929-30 team of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is statistically the greatest side English side in history.

Deaths

  • 29 September, Joe Schofield—manager of Port Vale and former England international
  • Honours

    Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition

    Third Division North

  • After this season South Shields moved to Gateshead and became Gateshead F.C.
  • Third Division South

    P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points

    References

    1929–30 in English football Wikipedia


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