1895–96 Football League
| Season | 1895–96 |
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| Champions | Aston Villa |
| Relegated |
Crewe Alexandra Burslem Port Vale Rotherham Town |
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1896–97 →
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| Season | 1895–96 |
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| Champions |
Aston Villa (2nd English title) |
| Relegated | Small Heath |
| FA Cup winners | The Wednesday (1st FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 807 (3.36 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
John Campbell (Aston Villa) Steve Bloomer (Derby County), 22 |
| Biggest home win |
Derby County – Small Heath 8–0 (30 Nov 1895) Sheffield United–Bury 8–0 (6 Apr 1896) |
| Biggest away win | The Wednesday – Derby County 0–4 (28 Dec 1895) |
| Highest scoring | Aston Villa – Small Heath 7–3 (7 Sept 1895) |
| Longest winning run | 9 matches Everton (2 Nov 1895 – 11 Jan 1896) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 14 matches Everton (19 Oct 1895 – 18 Feb 1896) |
| Longest losing run | 6 matches Small Heath (2 Sep 1895 – 12 Oct 1895) Burnley (22 Nov 1895 – 21 Dec 1895) |
| Highest attendance | 30,000 Everton - Aston Villa (21 Dec 1895) |
| Lowest attendance | 560 West Bromwich Albion - Blackburn Rovers (29 Apr 1896) |
| Average attendance | 7,682 |
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1896–97 →
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| Season | 1895–96 |
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| Champions | Liverpool (2nd title) |
| Promoted | Liverpool |
| Failed re-election |
Crewe Alexandra Burslem Port Vale Rotherham Town |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 943 (3.93 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | George Allan (Liverpool), 26 |
| Biggest home win | Liverpool – Rotherham 10–1 (18 Feb 1896) |
| Biggest away win |
Burton Swifts – Liverpool 0–7 (29 Feb 1896) Crewe Alexandra – Liverpool 0–7 (28 Mar 1896) |
| Highest scoring | Darwen – Rotherham 10–2 (13 Jan 1896) |
| Longest winning run | 10 matches Liverpool F.C. (7 Dec 1895 – 7 Mar 1896) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 10 matches Burton Wanderers (19 Oct 1895 – 4 Jan 1896) Liverpool F.C. (7 Dec 1895 – 7 Mar 1896) |
| Longest losing run | 6 matches Lincoln City F.C. (21 Sep 1895 – 26 Oct 1895) |
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The 1895–1896 season was the eighth season of The Football League.
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79, 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. From the 1894–95 season and until the 1920–21 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league.
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
Source: [1]
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
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
Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
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