1889–90 Football League

The Football League
Season 1889–90
Champions Preston North End
(2nd successive English title)
Relegated Stoke
FA Cup winners Blackburn Rovers (4th FA Cup title)
Matches played 132
Goals scored 611 (4.63 per match)
Top goalscorer Jimmy Ross (Preston North End), 24 [1]
Biggest home win Preston North End – Stoke 10–0 (14 Sept 1889)
Biggest away win Accrington – Notts County 1–8 (12 Oct 1889)
Highest scoring Preston North End – Stoke 10–0 (14 Sept 1889)
Blackburn Rovers – Notts County 9–1 (16 Nov 1889)
Wolverhampton – Burnley 9–1 (7 Dec 1889)
Longest winning run 6 – Everton and Preston North End
Longest unbeaten run 7 – Preston North End (twice), Accrington and Blackburn Rovers
Longest losing run 10 – Stoke
Average attendance 5,466

The Football League 1889–1890 was the second season of English league football, with Preston North End being crowned as the champions for the second successive season. The clubs competing were the 12 original clubs which were the founders of the league the previous year. Unlike the modern system, two points were awarded for a win, with one for a draw and no points for a loss; this system was carried on until the 1980s when teams were awarded three points for a win.

Final league table

The table below is reproduced here in the exact form that it can be found at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[3] with home and away statistics separated.

Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.

Since the goal average was used for this purpose for such a long time, it is presented in the tables below even for the seasons prior to 1894–95, and since the goal difference is a more informative piece of information for a modern reader than the goal average, the goal difference is added in this presentation after the goal average.

During the first five seasons of the league, that is until the season 1893–94 re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.[3]

Pos Team Pld W D L F A W D L F A F A GA GD Pts
1Preston North End228124112722301871302.367+4133
2Everton228214015614252565401.625+2531
3Blackburn Rovers229025918335192378411.902+3727
4Wolverhampton Wanderers226322814425232451381.342+1325
5West Bromwich Albion228123720326103047500.940–325
6Accrington226413325326203153560.946–324
7Derby County228213213119114243550.782–1221
8Aston Villa[4]226233015137133643510.843–819
9Bolton Wanderers[4]226143724308174154650.831–1119
10Notts County224342019227233243510.843–817
11Burnley223172021146164436650.554–2913
12Stoke[5]22236182011994927690.391–4210

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against;
GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Key
League Champions
FA Cup Winners
Re-elected
Failed re-election

Results

Match results are drawn from the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and Rothmans.[3]

Home ╲ Away ACC AST BLBBOLBURDEREVENTCPNESTKWBAWOL
Accrington F.C. 4–2 2–2 3–1 2–2 6–1 5–3 1–8 2–2 2–1 0–0 6–3
Aston Villa 1–2 3–0 1–2 2–2 7–1 1–2 1–1 5–3 6–1 1–0 2–1
Blackburn Rovers 3–2 7–0 7–1 7–1 4–2 2–4 9–1 3–4 8–0 5–0 4–3
Bolton Wanderers 2–4 2–0 3–2 2–2 7–1 3–4 0–4 2–6 5–0 7–0 4–1
Burnley 2–2 2–6 1–2 7–0 2–0 0–1 3–0 0–3 1–3 1–2 1–2
Derby County 2–3 5–0 4–0 3–2 4–1 2–2 2–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 3–3
Everton 2–2 7–0 3–2 3–0 2–1 3–0 5–3 1–5 8–0 5–1 1–1
Notts County 3–1 1–1 1–1 3–5 1–1 3–1 4–3 0–1 3–1 1–2 0–2
Preston North End 3–1 3–2 1–1 3–1 6–0 5–0 1–2 4–3 10–0 5–0 0–2
Stoke 7–1 1–1 0–3 0–1 3–4 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–2 1–3 2–1
West Bromwich Albion 4–1 3–0 3–2 6–3 6–1 2–3 4–1 4–2 2–2 2–1 1–4
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–1 1–1 2–4 5–1 9–1 2–1 2–1 2–0 0–1 2–2 1–1

Source:
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Maps

Re-election process

At the Football League election meeting no vote was taken, and it was agreed that Burnley and Notts County were re-elected and that Sunderland was elected in place of Stoke, who played in the Football Alliance the following season but returned to the Football League after a year’s absence.

The applications of Football Alliance sides Bootle, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Newton Heath and Sunderland Albion were rejected.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
  2. 1 2 "England 1889-90". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
  4. 1 2 Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers finished equal on 19 points and it was agreed that neither would need to face re-election.
  5. ↑ Not re-elected, joined Football Alliance. Sunderland elected in their place.
  6. ↑ footballsite.co.uk
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