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1904-05

Football League 1905-06
1906-07
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1905-06
 Teams in italics were relegated to the second division for the following season
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Liverpool 38 14 3 2 49 15 9 2 8 30 31 51
Preston North End 38 12 5 2 36 15 5 8 6 18 24 47
The Wednesday 38 12 5 2 40 20 6 3 10 23 32 44
Newcastle United 38 12 4 3 49 23 6 3 10 25 25 43
Manchester City 38 11 2 6 46 23 8 3 8 27 31 43
Bolton Wanderers 38 13 1 5 51 22 4 6 9 30 45 41
Birmingham 38 14 2 3 49 20 3 5 11 16 39 41
Aston Villa 38 13 2 4 51 19 4 4 11 21 37 40
Blackburn Rovers 38 10 5 4 34 18 6 3 10 20 34 40
Stoke 38 12 5 2 41 15 4 2 13 13 40 39
Everton 38 12 1 6 44 30 3 6 10 26 36 37
Woolwich Arsenal 38 12 4 3 43 21 3 3 13 19 43 37
Sheffield United 38 10 4 5 33 23 5 2 12 24 39 36
Sunderland 38 13 2 4 40 21 2 3 14 21 49 35
Derby County 38 10 5 4 27 16 4 2 13 12 42 35
Notts County 38 8 9 2 34 21 3 3 13 21 50 34
Bury 38 8 5 6 30 26 3 5 11 27 48 32
Middlesbrough 38 10 4 5 41 23 0 7 12 15 48 31
Nottingham Forest 38 11 2 6 40 27 2 3 14 18 52 31
Wolverhampton Wanderers 38 7 5 7 38 28 1 2 16 20 71 23

Bolton Wanderers recorded a nine-match winning run from 1 January 1906:
Woolwich Arsenal (h) 6-1, Aston V. (h) 4-1, Stoke (a) 2-1, Wolves (h) 3-2, Notts C. (h) 2-0, Sunderland (h) 6-2, Everton (h) 3-2, Derby (a) 1-0, The Wednesday (h) 1-0, before losing 4-0 at Nottingham Forest on 24 March 1906. Liverpool's biggest winning sequence was of five matches.

Second division, Bradford City also had a player representing England.

 
How The League Was Won 1905-06 Season
Timeline
35 Saturdays from 2 September 1905 to 28 April 1906, plus Christmas Day (Monday, 25th December 1905), Boxing Day (Tuesday, 26th December 1905), New Year's Day (Monday, 1 January 1906), Good Friday, 13 April 1906 and Easter Monday, 16 April 1906
 There were six additional games played on the first three Mondays and one each on the first two Wednesdays in September. One game was played on a Thursday in October, and one on a Monday in November, with four played on the two days after Boxing Day and one on the first Tuesday in January. There was one game on the last day of February (a Wednesday), three on Mondays and five on Wednesdays in March, and games played every day of the week (apart from Sundays) in April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 13 January 1906 (three weeks earlier than the previous season) to the final on 21 April 1906 (a week later than the previous season, avoiding Easter). There were three weeks between the first three rounds and before the semi-final and final, and two before the fourth round (the quarter-finals). The first round was twice the size of the previous season (32 matches). Last league game was Newcastle 3-0 Blackburn on Monday, 30 April 1906.
Easter Saturday, 14 April 1906
Stoke 3 Preston North End 0
   Victoria Ground, Stoke (10,000)
 Chalmers, Rouse, Baddeley		 Preston's defeat left Liverpool on the brink of clinching the title. Two more points, either won by them, or dropped by Preston would do it. Four other clubs were also in contention at the start of the day, but all dropped out due to Liverpool's victory, though they could not muster a win between them, in any case. Blackburn and Manchester City cancelled each other out in a 1-1 draw, The Wednesday lost 5-1 at Birmingham and defending champions, Newcastle went down to a single goal at Notts County.
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Liverpool 2
   Molineux, Wolverhampton (10,000)
 Hewitt, Goddard
Top Two 14 April 1906
Team P ₧
Liverpool 36 49
Preston North End 35 44
 
Easter Monday, 16 April 1906
Sunderland 2 Preston North End 0
   Roker Park, Sunderland (13,000)
Bridgett 81, O'Donnell 90
 By the time that Liverpool kicked off in the evening at Bolton, they had already been crowned champions. They lost 3-2, but maintained their five-point lead. Preston were only able to reduce the lead by a point in their last two games, finishing four points behind Liverpool.

 

 
The Elite League 1905-06 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Liverpool 6 2 1 0 6 2 2 0 1 7 6 9
The Wednesday 6 1 2 1 5 4 2 0 1 5 2 8
Newcastle United 6 1 0 2 3 6 0 2 1 1 4 4
Preston North End 6 0 1 2 1 3 0 2 1 2 3 3
Only Newcastle United retained their top-four placing from the previous season. Aston Villa, Everton and Manchester City all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 18 November 1905
 Liverpool 1 Preston North End 1
    Anfield, Liverpool (15,000)
Hewitt ~ Bond
Saturday, 24 March 1906
 Preston North End 1 Liverpool 2
   Deepdale, Preston (20,000)
 Danson ~ Chorlton, Hewitt
Though Liverpool won the league and Preston were runners-up, whilst Everton won the FA Cup, none of them were the best when it came to local derbies in their native Lancashire.
Lancashire Derbies League Top Four 1905-06 Season
Team P ₧
Manchester City 12 17
Preston North End 12 16
Everton 12 12
Liverpool 12 11

 
The Continuous League 1888-1906 (first 18 seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 548 284 662
Everton 548 270 632
Sunderland 504 261 616
Blackburn Rovers 548 212 535
Aston Villa increased their lead to thirty points. This was the first season of 38 games each, following three of 22, one of 26, six of thirty, and seven of 34 games each. Sunderland still had the highest average points per game from their 16 seasons.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1901-06
Team P Wins ₧
Newcastle United 174 87 202
Everton 174 85 200
The Wednesday 174 84 200
Sunderland 174 83 199
The first four seasons were of 34 games each. Newcastle jumped two places to the top, whilst Sunderland dropped from the top to fourth.

 
Champions: Liverpool
Manager: Tom Watson
1905-06 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Sam Hardy 30  
Jack Cox 28 8
Jack Cox did not play for England in 1905-06, and Sam Hardy did not play for England until 1907.
1905-06 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Jack Cox 28 8
Bolton's Albert Shepherd was top scorer with 26.
 Second on the list was his Scottish team mate, Walter White, with 25, followed by Liverpool's Joe Hewitt, with 23.

 
England and the Football League 1905-06 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1905-06 season, Football League players provided 22 of them, and of the seven goals scored, League players scored four of them.
Ten of the twenty first division clubs were represented, plus Bradford City from the second division.
Eleven Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 17 February and 7 April.
As a result, on 17 February, England took Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Derby's Ben Warren, Middlesbrough's Alf Common, Preston's Dicky Bond, Sheffield United's Arthur Brown and Jimmy Ashcroft of Woolwich Arsenal. On 7 April, Ashcroft, Bond, Crompton and Warren were again absent from league action, as were Bolton's Albert Shepherd, Bradford City's James Conlin, Everton's Harry Makepeace, Manchester City's Herbert Burgess, and Tim Coleman of Woolwich Arsenal.
 
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