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1938–39 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season

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Manager
  
Major Frank Buckley

FA Cup
  
Runners-up

First Division
  
2nd

Top goalscorer
  
League: Dennis Westcott (32) All: Dennis Westcott (43)

Highest home attendance
  
61,305 (vs Liverpool, 11 February 1939; club record)

Lowest home attendance
  
18,420 (vs Charlton, 15 April 1939)

The 1938–39 season was the 47th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. They played in the top tier of the English football system, the Football League First Division.

The team finished as runners-up for a second consecutive season and also finished as FA Cup runners-up when they lost the FA Cup Final to outsiders Portsmouth. This was to be the final full league campaign until 1946–47 as the following season was cancelled and annulled in September 1939 after the outbreak of World War II.

Football League First Division

Final table

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

References

1938–39 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season Wikipedia