Final League Table -
Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England in 1922-23
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 |
42 |
17 |
3 |
1 |
50 |
13 |
9 |
5 |
7 |
20 |
18 |
60 |
|
Sunderland |
42 |
15 |
5 |
1 |
50 |
25 |
7 |
5 |
9 |
22 |
29 |
54 |
|
Huddersfield Town |
42 |
14 |
2 |
5 |
35 |
15 |
7 |
9 |
5 |
25 |
17 |
53 |
|
Newcastle United |
42 |
13 |
6 |
2 |
31 |
11 |
5 |
6 |
10 |
14 |
26 |
48 |
|
Everton |
42 |
14 |
4 |
3 |
41 |
20 |
6 |
3 |
12 |
22 |
39 |
47 |
|
Aston Villa |
42 |
15 |
3 |
3 |
42 |
11 |
3 |
7 |
11 |
22 |
40 |
46 |
|
West Bromwich Albion |
42 |
12 |
7 |
2 |
38 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
12 |
20 |
39 |
45 |
|
Manchester City |
42 |
14 |
6 |
1 |
38 |
16 |
3 |
5 |
13 |
12 |
33 |
45 |
|
Cardiff City |
42 |
15 |
2 |
4 |
51 |
18 |
3 |
5 |
13 |
22 |
41 |
43 |
|
Sheffield
United |
42 |
11 |
7 |
3 |
41 |
20 |
5 |
3 |
13 |
27 |
44 |
42 |
|
Arsenal |
42 |
13 |
4 |
4 |
38 |
16 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
23 |
46 |
42 |
|
Tottenham Hotspur |
42 |
11 |
3 |
7 |
34 |
22 |
6 |
4 |
11 |
16 |
28 |
41 |
|
Bolton Wanderers |
42 |
11 |
8 |
2 |
36 |
17 |
3 |
4 |
14 |
14 |
41 |
40 |
|
Blackburn Rovers |
42 |
12 |
7 |
2 |
32 |
19 |
2 |
5 |
14 |
15 |
43 |
40 |
|
Burnley |
42 |
12 |
3 |
6 |
39 |
24 |
4 |
3 |
14 |
19 |
35 |
38 |
|
Preston North End |
42 |
12 |
3 |
6 |
41 |
26 |
1 |
8 |
12 |
19 |
38 |
37 |
|
Birmingham |
42 |
10 |
4 |
7 |
25 |
19 |
3 |
7 |
11 |
16 |
38 |
37 |
|
Middlesbrough |
42 |
11 |
4 |
6 |
41 |
25 |
2 |
6 |
13 |
16 |
38 |
36 |
|
Chelsea |
42 |
5 |
13 |
3 |
29 |
20 |
4 |
5 |
12 |
16 |
33 |
36 |
|
Nottingham Forest |
42 |
12 |
2 |
7 |
25 |
23 |
1 |
6 |
14 |
16 |
47 |
34 |
|
Stoke |
42 |
7 |
9 |
5 |
28 |
19 |
3 |
1 |
17 |
19 |
48 |
30 |
|
Oldham Athletic |
42 |
9 |
6 |
6 |
21 |
20 |
1 |
4 |
16 |
14 |
45 |
30 |
|
Huddersfield recorded a six-match
winning run from 17 March 1922:
Burnley
(h) 2-0, Preston (h) 2-0, Burnley (a) 2-0, Newcastle (h) 2-0,
West Brom (a) 2-0, (h) 4-1, before losing 1-0 at
Newcastle on 7 April 1923. Liverpool's
biggest
run of wins was of five matches. Manchester City played their
last season at Hyde Road, again only suffering one league defeat, only their
second in their last 74 first-division games at the ground, prior to their move to
Maine Road.
Blackpool,
Bury, Clapton Orient, Crystal Palace, Derby County, Fulham,
Manchester United, Notts County, Southampton,
The Wednesday and West Ham United, from the second division,
and Charlton Athletic, from the third division (south), also had
players representing England. |
|
How The League Was Won 1922-23 Season |
|
Timeline |
37 Saturdays from 26 August 1922 to 5 May 1923, plus
the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Christmas Day
(Monday, 25th December 1922), Boxing Day (Tuesday, 26th December 1922),
New Year's Day (Monday, 1st January 1923), Good Friday,
30 March 1923 and Easter Monday, 2 April 1923
There were
two other games played on Mondays and one on a Wednesday in
September, one on a Monday in October and one on the day after
Boxing Day. One game was played on the first Tuesday of the year and
one on a later Monday in January. Six games
were played on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in February, there
were three on Mondays and three on Wednesdays in March, one on the
day after Easter Monday, and three on Mondays and six on Wednesdays,
later in April.
The
FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 13 January 1923
(a week later than the previous season) to the
final on 28 April 1923.
There were three weeks between each round,
apart from two weeks before the fourth round and semi-finals, and five before the
final. Last
league games were on Saturday, 5 May 1923.
|
Wednesday, 18 April 1923 |
Bolton Wanderers 1 Liverpool 1
Burnden
Park, Bolton
(30,000)
J.R.Smith
~
Forshaw |
Because of Sunderland's defeat, Liverpool's fourth game in a row
without a win still increased their lead at the top to four
points, with three games left to play.
|
Middlesbrough 2 Sunderland 0
Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough
(20,000)
Birrell, Elliott |
|
Saturday, 21 April 1923 |
Burnley 2 Sunderland 0
Turf
Moor,
Burnley
(12,000)
Kelly 22, Freeman 34 |
Sunderland again crashed to defeat and Harry Chambers' equaliser
ensured that the Championship trophy would remain at Anfield for
another year. The five-point gap would stretch to six at the end
of the season.
Remarkably,
Liverpool manager, David Ashworth had left the club in December to
re-join his first club, Oldham Athletic, who were fighting
against relegation. Matt McQueen replaced him at Anfield, two
months later.
|
Liverpool 1 Huddersfield Town 1
Anfield, Liverpool
(45,000)
Chambers
73 ~
Brown 57 |
|
|
The Elite League 1922-23 Season
(games between the top four) |
Liverpool were the only team from the previous season's
top four to retain their status. Burnley, Cardiff City and
Tottenham Hotspur all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
|
Wednesday, 30 August 1922 |
Sunderland 1 Liverpool 0
Roker Park, Sunderland
(28,000)
Paterson |
|
Wednesday, 6 September 1922 |
Liverpool
5 Sunderland 1
Anfield, Liverpool
(30,000)
Chambers (2),
Forshaw, Johnson, McKinlay
~
Buchan |
|
|
The Continuous Post-War League
1919-23
(four seasons) |
|
Liverpool's second
successive title took them to the top. |
Manager:
David
Ashworth
(first 19 games)/Matt
McQueen
(last 14 games)
|
|
1922-23
Most Goals
by England Players |
|
Name |
Played |
Goals |
|
Harry Chambers |
39 |
22 |
Charlie Buchan of
Sunderland was top scorer with thirty goals.
Second on the
list was Preston's Tommy Roberts, with 28, followed by
Jimmy Broad of Stoke, George Elliott of Middlesbrough, and Villa's
Billy Walker, all with 23 goals.
|
|
England and the Football
League 1922-23 Season |
|
England's impact on the Football League |
Of the 44 playing positions used
during the active 1922-23 season, Football League players provided
43 of them, and of the twelve goals scored, League players scored
ten of them.
Including the tour at the end of the season, 14 of
the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus eleven clubs from
the second division, and Charlton Athletic from the third division
(south).
17 Football League games had a direct impact on
three of England's games, on 21 October 1922, 5 March 1923 and
14 April 1923.
As a
result, on 21 October, England took Aston Villa's Frank Moss,
Chelsea's Jack Harrow, Clapton Orient's Owen Williams, Fulham's
Frank Osborne, Huddersfield's Ted Taylor,
Liverpool's Harry Chambers, Middlesbrough's George Elliott,
Sheffield United's David Mercer, Tottenham's Arthur Grimsdell and
Jimmy Seed, The Wednesday's George
Wilson and West Brom's Joe
Smith. Southampton's Fred Titmuss was absent from his club on 5 March, whilst
on 14 April, Chambers, Taylor and
Wilson
were again missing from their clubs, as were Aston VIlla's
Billy Walker, Birmingham's Percy Barton, Burnley's Bob
Kelly, Everton's Sam Chedgzoy, Huddersfield's Sam Wadsworth, Liverpool's
Eph Longworth, Sheffield United's Fred Tunstall, The Wednesday's
Fred Kean, and Jack Tresadern and Vic Watson of West Ham. |
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