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1931-32

Football League 1932-33

1933-34
  
Final League Table - Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1932-33
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
Arsenal 42 14 3 4 70 27 11 5 5 48 34 58
Aston Villa 42 16 2 3 60 29 7 6 8 32 38 54
Sheffield Wednesday 42 15 5 1 46 20 6 4 11 34 48 51
West Bromwich Albion 42 16 1 4 50 23 4 8 9 33 47 49
Newcastle United 42 15 2 4 44 24 7 3 11 27 39 49
Huddersfield Town 42 11 6 4 32 17 7 5 9 34 36 47
Derby County 42 11 8 2 49 25 4 6 11 27 44 44
Leeds United 42 10 6 5 39 24 5 8 8 20 38 44
Portsmouth 42 14 3 4 39 22 4 4 13 35 54 43
Sheffield United 42 14 3 4 50 30 3 6 12 24 50 43
Everton 42 13 6 2 54 24 3 3 15 27 50 41
Sunderland 42 8 7 6 33 31 7 3 11 30 49 40
Birmingham 42 13 3 5 40 23 1 8 12 17 34 39
Liverpool 42 10 6 5 53 33 4 5 12 26 51 39
Blackburn Rovers 42 11 6 4 48 41 3 4 14 28 61 38
Manchester City 42 12 3 6 47 30 4 2 15 21 41 37
Middlesbrough 42 8 5 8 35 33 6 4 11 28 40 37
Chelsea 42 9 4 8 38 29 5 3 13 25 44 35
Leicester City 42 9 9 3 43 25 2 4 15 32 64 35
Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 10 4 7 56 48 3 5 13 24 48 35
Bolton Wanderers 42 10 7 4 49 33 2 2 17 29 59 33
Blackpool 42 11 2 8 44 35 3 3 15 25 50 33

Arsenal recorded five-match winning runs three times, firstly from 15 October 1932:
Blackburn (a) 3-2, Liverpool (a) 3-2, Leicester (h) 8-2, Wolves (a) 7-1, Newcastle (h) 1-0, before losing 5-3 at Aston Villa on 19 November 1932. They then won their next five matches (making it ten out of eleven), from 26 November 1932:
MIddlesbrough (h) 4-2, Portsmouth (a) 3-1, Chelsea (h) 4-1, Huddersfield (a) 1-0, Sheffield United (h) 9-2, before losing 2-1 at home to Leeds on 26 December 1932.

Then, from 1 April 1933:
Aston Villa (h) 5-0, Middlesbrough (a) 4-3, Sheffield Wednesday (h) 4-2, Portsmouth (h) 2-0, Chelsea (a) 3-1, before drawing 2-2 at Huddersfield on 29 April 1933. Four other teams
also had five-match winning sequences:
Sheffield Wednesday from 12 November 1932, before losing at Bolton on 17 December 1932,
Sheffield United from 19 November 1932, before losing at Arsenal on 24 December 1933,
Newcastle United from 24 December 1932, before losing at Liverpool on 7 January 1933, and

Aston Villa from 27 December 1932, before losing at Leicester on 9 February 1933.

Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur, from the second division, also each had a player representing England.


How The League Was Won 1932-33 Season
Timeline
37 Saturdays from 27 August 1932 to 6 May 1933, plus the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Boxing Day (Monday, 26th December 1932), Tuesday, 27 December 1932, Monday, 2 January 1933, Good Friday, 14 April 1933 and Easter Monday, 17 April 1933
There was one other game played on a Monday and one on a Wednesday in September, and then no more midweek games in the first division until February, when there were games played on Wednesdays and Thursdays. In March, there were games played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and on every day except Sunday in April, with the last two midweek games on the first Wednesday in May. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 14 January 1933 to the final on 29 April 1933 (a week later than the previous season). There were two weeks between each round, apart from three weeks before the fifth round, and six weeks before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 6 May 1933.
Tuesday, 18 April 1933
Aston Villa 3 Newcastle United 0
  
Villa Park, Birmingham (23,700)
Wood, Brown (2)
Whilst Arsenal were putting together another string of victories, Villa's recent games had seen a costly 3-1 defeat at Newcastle on Easter Monday. 24 hours later, they had their revenge, ending Newcastle's own remote title ambitions in the process. Arsenal's 112 goals were, at this stage, worth an extra point to them, and meant that two more points would be enough to secure them the title, with Villa then needing to average over twelve goals a game in their remaining four fixtures, to beat Arsenal's goal average (assuming that Arsenal didn't concede a similar amount in their other two games).
Top Two 18 April 1933
Team P
Arsenal 39 55
Aston Villa 38 49
  
Saturday, 22 April 1933
3.00pm BST Aston Villa 0 Leeds United 0
  
Villa Park, Birmingham (21,238)
Arsenal proved unstoppable, notching up their fifth successive victory. Chelsea's George Mills hit the bar from a penalty just after Arsenal's third, and then Gallacher pulled one back, but once the final whistle had been sounded at Villa, Arsenal knew that a victory would wrap up their second championship in three years. The lead was increased to six points, though it was reduced to four by Villa at the end of the season.
3.30pm BST Chelsea 1 Arsenal 3
  
Stamford Bridge, London (72,260)
Gallacher 70 ~ Jack 20, Bastin 28, 67
 
The Elite League 1932-33 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
West Bromwich Albion 6 2 1 0 6 2 1 0 2 5 7 7
Sheffield Wednesday 6 2 0 1 6 5 1 0 2 8 9 6
Aston Villa 6 2 0 1 11 11 1 0 2 3 8 6
Arsenal 6 2 0 1 10 4 0 1 2 6 9 5
Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion replaced Everton and Huddersfield Town from the previous season's top four. The four teams finished in reverse order to their actual league positions.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 19 November 1932
 Aston Villa 5 Arsenal 3
  
Villa Park, Birmingham (58,066)
Gibson, Houghton (2)
, Mandley, Brown ~ Jack, Lambert, Bastin
Saturday, 1 April 1933
 Arsenal 5 Aston Villa 0
  
Arsenal Stadium, London (54,265)
Jack, Lambert (2), Bowden, James

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-33 (14 seasons)
Team P Wins
Aston Villa 588 266 654
Liverpool 588 246 645
Sunderland 588 256 631
Huddersfield Town 546 243 630
Aston Villa took over the lead from Liverpool, but Huddersfield, from a season less, still had the highest average points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
1928-33
Team P Wins
Sheffield Wednesday 210 112 265
Arsenal 210 105 262
Aston Villa 210 111 256
Huddersfield Town 210 86 215
Sheffield Wednesday's lead was cut to three points by Arsenal.


Champions: Arsenal
Manager:
Herbert
Chapman
1932-33 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Cliff Bastin 42 33
Frank Moss 41  
Joe Hulme 40 20
Eddie Hapgood 38  
Herbie Roberts 36  
George Male 35  
David Jack 34 18
Herbie Roberts did not play for England in the 1932-33 season, Eddie Hapgood did not play for England until the week after the end of the season, Frank Moss did not play for England until the following season and George Male did not play for England until 1934.
1932-33 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Cliff Bastin 42 33
Joe Hulme 40 20
David Jack 34 18
Jack Bowers of Derby County, was top scorer with 35 goals. Bastin was joint-second with Jack Ball of Sheffield Wednesday, George Brown of Aston Villa, and Wolves' Billy Hartill.

England and the Football League 1932-33 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Including the tour at the end of the 1932-33 season, 15 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur from the second division.
Eight Football League games had a direct impact on one of England's games, on 1 April 1933.
As a result, England took Arsenal's Joe Hulme, Aston Villa's Joe Beresford, Birmingham's Harry Hibbs and Lewis Stoker, Derby's Tom Cooper, Fulham's Johnny Arnold, Leeds's Ernie Hart, Newcastle's Sam Weaver, Sheffield United's Jack Pickering, Sheffield Wednesday's Ernie Blenkinsop, Ronnie Starling and Alf Strange, and George Hunt of Tottenham
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