Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1909-10
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 |
|
Aston Villa |
38 |
17 |
2 |
0 |
62 |
19 |
6 |
5 |
8 |
22 |
23 |
53 |
|
Liverpool |
38 |
13 |
3 |
3 |
47 |
23 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
31 |
34 |
48 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
38 |
13 |
6 |
0 |
47 |
17 |
5 |
3 |
11 |
26 |
38 |
45 |
|
Newcastle United |
38 |
11 |
3 |
5 |
33 |
22 |
8 |
4 |
7 |
37 |
34 |
45 |
|
Manchester United |
38 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
41 |
20 |
5 |
5 |
9 |
28 |
41 |
45 |
|
Sheffield
United |
38 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
42 |
19 |
6 |
5 |
8 |
20 |
22 |
42 |
|
Bradford City |
38 |
12 |
3 |
4 |
38 |
17 |
5 |
5 |
9 |
26 |
30 |
42 |
|
Sunderland |
38 |
12 |
3 |
4 |
40 |
18 |
6 |
2 |
11 |
26 |
33 |
41 |
|
Notts County |
38 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
41 |
26 |
5 |
5 |
9 |
26 |
33 |
40 |
|
Everton |
38 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
30 |
28 |
8 |
2 |
9 |
21 |
28 |
40 |
|
The Wednesday |
38 |
11 |
4 |
4 |
38 |
28 |
4 |
5 |
10 |
22 |
35 |
39 |
|
Preston North End |
38 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
36 |
13 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
16 |
45 |
35 |
|
Bury |
38 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
35 |
30 |
4 |
6 |
9 |
27 |
36 |
33 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
38 |
4 |
7 |
8 |
19 |
34 |
7 |
4 |
8 |
35 |
38 |
33 |
|
Tottenham Hotspur |
38 |
10 |
6 |
3 |
35 |
23 |
1 |
4 |
14 |
18 |
46 |
32 |
|
Bristol City |
38 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
28 |
18 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
17 |
42 |
32 |
|
Middlesbrough |
38 |
8 |
4 |
7 |
34 |
36 |
3 |
5 |
11 |
22 |
37 |
31 |
|
Woolwich Arsenal |
38 |
6 |
5 |
8 |
17 |
19 |
5 |
4 |
10 |
20 |
48 |
31 |
|
Chelsea |
38 |
10 |
4 |
5 |
32 |
24 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
15 |
46 |
29 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
38 |
7 |
2 |
10 |
31 |
34 |
2 |
4 |
13 |
13 |
37 |
24 |
|
Notts
County recorded a six-match winning run from 23 October 1909:
Bury (h) 3-1, Tottenham (a) 3-1, Preston (h)
3-1, Middlesbrough (h) 2-1, Newcastle (a) 3-1, Liverpool (h) 3-1, before
drawing 1-1 at Aston Villa on 4 December 1909.
Aston Villa's biggest winning sequence was of five matches.
West
Bromwich Albion, from the second division, also had a player
representing England. |
|
How The League Was Won 1909-10 Season |
|
Timeline |
35 Saturdays from 4 September 1909 to 30 April 1910, plus
Boxing Day (Monday, 27th December 1909), Good Friday, 25 March 1910 and Easter Monday,
28 March 1910
With no
games allowed in August, there
were eight opening games on Wednesday, 1 September 1909, plus five
games on the first three Mondays and one each
on the following Tuesday and Wednesday. There was one game played on
a Monday, a Wednesday and a Thursday in October, one on a Monday and
one on a Wednesday in November, and three on the day after Boxing
Day (Christmas Day and New Year's Day were both Saturdays). Four
games were played on the first two Mondays in January, and across
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March, whilst additional games
were only played on Mondays and Wednesdays in April. The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 15
January 1910 to the
final on 23 April 1910.
There were three weeks between the first two rounds and before the
semi-finals, two before the
third and fourth rounds, and four before the final. Last
league games were on Saturday, 30 April 1910.
|
Wednesday, 13 April 1910 |
Newcastle United
1 Sunderland 0
St James'
Park, Newcastle
(40,000)
Higgins
An 86th-minute winner kept defending champions,
Newcastle in the chasing pack, but they were still seven points
behind Aston Villa, with four games left. Blackburn and
Liverpool also had mathematical chances of overhauling Villa,
but they were each dependent on Villa losing all three of their
remaining games and ending with a better goal average (not to
mention winning all of their own remaining games). |
|
Saturday, 16 April 1910 |
Notts
County 2 Aston Villa
3
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
(13,000)
Waterall, Jones
~ Eyre, Wallace, Hampton
Villa's win secured the title, regardless of any other results,
in which only Liverpool, by winning at Newcastle, showed any
sign of keeping the title race alive. Blackburn lost at The
Wednesday, but stayed second on goal average, from Liverpool,
who beat the new champions, two weeks later, to end the season
as runners-up, five points behind Villa. |
|
|
The Elite League 1909-10 Season
(games between the top four) |
Aston Villa and Liverpool replaced Everton and Sunderland
from the previous season's top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Saturday, 18 December 1909 |
Aston Villa 3 Liverpool 1
Villa
Park, Birmingham
(18,000)
Hampton,
Bache (2) ~ Parkinson
(pen) |
|
Saturday, 30 April 1910 |
Liverpool 2 Aston Villa 0
Anfield,
Liverpool
(25,000)
Orr, Parkinson |
|
|
The Continuous League
1888-1910
(first 22 seasons) |
|
Aston Villa increased their lead to 41 points. This was the
fifth season
of 38 games each, following three of 22, one of 26, six of thirty,
and seven of 34 games each.
Aston Villa reduced Newcastle's lead to 16 points. |
Manager:
George
Ramsay
|
|
Jack Parkinson of
Liverpool
was top scorer with thirty
goals.
Second
on the list was
Newcastle's Albert Shepherd, with 28.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1909-10 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 33 playing positions used
during the active 1909-10 season, Football League players provided
31 of them, and of the two goals scored, a League player scored one of them.
Thirteen of the twenty first division clubs were
represented, plus West Bromwich Albion from the second division.
16 Football League games had a direct impact on
two of England's games, on 12 February and 2 April.
As a
result, on 12 February, England took Aston Villa's Joe Bache and
Bert Hall, Barnsley's Tommy Boyle, Blackburn's Billy Bradshaw and
Arthur Cowell, Bradford City's Dicky Bond, Bristol City's Billy
Wedlock, Chelsea's Vivian Woodward, Liverpool's Sam Hardy, Notts
County's Bert Morley, Sheffield United's Wally Hardinge, and
Andy Ducat of Woolwich Arsenal. On
2 April, Bond, Ducat, Hardinge, Hardy and Wedlock
were again absent from their clubs, as
were Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Bury's Billy Hibbert, Everton's Harry
Makepeace,
Liverpool's Jack Parkinson, Manchester United's George Wall, The
Wednesday's Tom Brittleton, and Jesse Pennington of West Bromwich Albion. |
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