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Football League 1934-35
1935-36
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1934-35
 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 15 4 2 74 17 8 8 5 41 29 58
Sunderland 42 13 4 4 57 24 6 12 3 33 27 54
Sheffield Wednesday 42 14 7 0 42 17 4 6 11 28 47 49
Manchester City 42 13 5 3 53 25 7 3 11 29 42 48
Grimsby Town 42 13 6 2 49 25 4 5 12 29 35 45
Derby County 42 10 4 7 44 28 8 5 8 37 38 45
Liverpool 42 13 4 4 53 29 6 3 12 32 59 45
Everton 42 14 5 2 64 32 2 7 12 25 56 44
West Bromwich Albion 42 10 8 3 55 33 7 2 12 28 50 44
Stoke City 42 12 5 4 46 20 6 1 14 25 50 42
Preston North End 42 11 5 5 33 22 4 7 10 29 45 42
Chelsea 42 11 5 5 49 32 5 4 12 24 50 41
Aston Villa 42 11 6 4 50 36 3 7 11 24 52 41
Portsmouth 42 10 5 6 41 24 5 5 11 30 48 40
Blackburn Rovers 42 12 5 4 42 23 2 6 13 24 55 39
Huddersfield Town 42 11 5 5 52 27 3 5 13 24 44 38
Wolverhampton Wanderers 42 13 3 5 65 38 2 5 14 23 56 38
Leeds United 42 10 6 5 48 35 3 6 12 27 57 38
Birmingham 42 10 3 8 36 36 3 7 11 27 45 36
Middlesbrough 42 8 9 4 38 29 2 5 14 32 61 34
Leicester City 42 9 4 8 39 30 3 5 13 22 56 33
Tottenham Hotspur 42 8 8 5 34 31 2 2 17 20 62 30

Arsenal recorded two four-match winning runs, firstly from 5 January 1935:
Liverpool (a) 2-0, Leeds (h) 3-0, West Brom (a) 3-0, Sheffield Wednesday (h) 4-1, also winning two FA Cup matches during the period, before losing 3-0 at Birmingham on 9 February 1935. Then, from 19 April 1935:
Middlesbrough (h) 8-0, Huddersfield (h) 1-0, Middlesbrough (a) 1-0, Leicester (a) 5-3, before losing 1-0 at home to Derby on 4 May 1935. Four other teams also had four-match winning sequences:
Manchester City from 8 September 1934, before drawing at home to Blackburn on 6 October 1934, and from 24 November 1934, before losing at Wolverhampton on 22 December 1934,
Sunderland from 27 October 1934, before losing at home to West Brom on 24 November 1934,
West Bromwich Albion from 10 November 1934, before losing at Derby on 8 December 1934, and
Huddersfield Town from 9 February 1935, before drawing at Sheffield Wednesday on 9 March 1935.

Bolton Wanderers, from the second division, also had players representing England.

How The League Was Won 1934-35 Season
Timeline
37 Saturdays from 25 August 1934 to 4 May 1935, plus the first two midweeks of the season (including the last Tuesday in August, for the first time), Christmas Day (Tuesday, 25th December 1934), Boxing Day (Wednesday, 26th December 1934), New Year's Day (Tuesday, 1st January 1935), Good Friday, 19 April 1935 and Easter Monday, 22 April 1935
 There was one other game played on a Monday in September and one on the last Monday in November. In the last week of January, two games were played on the Monday, two on the Wednesday and one on the Thursday. Six games were played on Wednesdays in February. In March, there were games played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and in April, there was one game played on a Tuesday and five on Wednesdays. with the last midweek game on 1 May (a Wednesday). The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 12 January 1935 to the final on 27 April 1935. 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, 4 May 1935.
Easter Saturday, 20 April 1935
Arsenal 1 Huddersfield Town 0
   Arsenal Stadium, London (41,892)
 Beasley		 Huddersfield held out until the 74th minute at Highbury, but their efforts to prevent Arsenal from emulating their unique feat of three titles in a row, nine years earlier, were looking increasingly in vain, especially as Sunderland were unable to take maximum points at Birmingham.
Birmingham 2 Sunderland 2
   St Andrew's, Birmingham (21,841)
 White, Jones ~ Gallacher, Gurney
Top Two 20 April 1935
Team P ₧
Arsenal 39 54
Sunderland 39 50
  
Easter Monday, 22 April 1935
10.45am BST Preston North End 1 Sunderland 1
   Deepdale, Preston (26,163)
 Bargh 56 ~ Goddard 51		 With Sunderland again failing to pick up two points in the morning kick-off, Arsenal knew that a win at struggling Middlesbrough, would gave them a third successive championship, whilst a draw would mean that only a highly unlikely set of scores in the remaining games would allow Sunderland to overhaul them on goal average. In the end, they got the win and the early goal was enough for George Allison to cement his first full season as manager with Arsenal's fourth title in five years.
3.00pm BST Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 1
   Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough (29,171)
 Drake 5
 
The Elite League 1934-35 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Arsenal 6 2 1 0 7 1 0 2 1 2 3 7
Sunderland 6 2 1 0 7 5 0 2 1 2 3 7
Manchester City 6 2 1 0 6 2 0 0 3 2 7 5
Sheffield Wednesday 6 1 2 0 3 2 0 1 2 4 10 5
For the second year in succession, Arsenal were the only team from the previous season's top four to retain their status. Derby County, Huddersfield Town and Tottenham Hotspur all dropped out of the top four, with Spurs finishing bottom of the first division.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 27 October 1934
 Sunderland 2 Arsenal 1
    Roker Park, Sunderland (43,744)
Carter (2) ~ Drake
Saturday, 9 March 1935
 Arsenal 0 Sunderland 0
   Arsenal Stadium, London (73,295)

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-35 (16 seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Arsenal 672 303 748
Aston Villa 672 294 735
Sunderland 672 293 729
Liverpool 672 279 728
Arsenal's relentless run of success took them to the top for the first time.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1930-35
Team P Wins ₧
Arsenal 210 123 295
Sheffield Wednesday 210 99 243
Aston Villa 210 95 240
Huddersfield Town 210 92 227
Arsenal increased their lead to 52 points after four titles in five years.


Champions: Arsenal
Manager: George Allison
1934-35 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Ted Drake 41 42
George Male 39  
Jack Crayston 37 3
Cliff Bastin 36 20
Herbie Roberts 36  
Eddie Hapgood 34 1
Frank Moss 33 1
Wilf Copping 31  
Ray Bowden 24 14
Herbie Roberts did not play for England in the 1934-35 season, and Jack Crayston did not play for England until the following season.
1934-35 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Ted Drake 41 42
Cliff Bastin 36 20
Ray Bowden 24 14
Welsh international, Pat Glover, of Grimsby Town, was second on the list, with 34 goals. Sunderland's Bobby Gurney was third, with thirty.

England and the Football League 1934-35 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Including the additional game at the end of the 1934-35 season, 13 of the 22 first division clubs were represented.
16 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 29 September 1934 and 6 April 1935.
As a result, on 29 September, England took Arsenal's Ray Bowden and Eddie Hapgood, Aston Villa's Tom Gardner, Birmingham's Harry Hibbs, Bolton's Ray Westwood, Derby's Jack Barker and Tom Cooper, Everton's Cliff Britton and Jimmy Cunliffe, Manchester City's Jackie Bray, Eric Brook and Fred Tilson, and Stan Matthews of Stoke. On 6 April, Barker, Britton, Brook, Gardner, Hapgood, Hibbs and Westwood were again missing from their clubs, as were Arsenal's Cliff Bastin and George Male, Everton's Albert Geldard, Sunderland's Bobby Gurney and Raich Carter, and Walter Alsford of Tottenham.
 
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