1902–03 Football League
| Season | 1902–03 |
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| Champions | The Wednesday |
| Relegated | Doncaster Rovers |
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| Season | 1902–03 |
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| Champions | The Wednesday (1st English title) |
| Relegated |
Bolton Wanderers Grimsby Town |
| FA Cup winners | Bury (2nd FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 885 (2.89 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Sam Raybould (Liverpool), 31 |
| Biggest home win |
Liverpool – Grimsby Town 9–2 (6 Dec 1902) Aston Villa – Newcastle 7–0 (29 Nov 1902) |
| Biggest away win | Nottingham Forest – The Wednesday 1–4 (1 Nov 1902) |
| Highest scoring | Liverpool – Grimsby Town 9–2 (6 Dec 1902) |
| Longest winning run | 6 matches West Bromwich Albion (18 Oct 1902 – 22 Nov 1902) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches Sunderland (29 Nov 1902 – 14 Mar 1903) |
| Longest losing run | 10 matches Bolton Wanderers (18 Oct 1902 – 22 Nov 1902) |
| Highest attendance | 50,000 Aston Villa -West Bromwich Albion (1 Nov 1902) |
| Lowest attendance | 500 Derby County -Grimsby Town F.C. (22 Apr 1903) |
| Average attendance | 11,656 |
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1903–04 →
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| Season | 1902–03 |
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| Champions | Manchester City (2nd title) |
| Failed re-election | Doncaster Rovers |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 940 (3.07 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Billie Gillespie, (Manchester City), 30 |
| Biggest home win | Small Heath – Doncaster Rovers 12–0 (11 Apr 1903) |
| Biggest away win | Burton United – Manchester City 0–5 (7 Mar 1903) |
| Highest scoring | Small Heath – Doncaster Rovers 12–0 (11 Apr 1903) |
| Longest winning run | 6 matches Manchester City F.C. (24 Jan 1903 – 7 Mar 1903) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 10 matches Manchester City F.C. (17 Jan 1903 – 4 Apr 1903) Woolwich Arsenal (27 Dec 1902 – 7 Mar 1903) |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches Barnsley (11 Oct 1902 – 24 Nov 1902) (6 Dec 1902 – 1 Jan 1903) Leicester Fosse (7 Feb 1903 – 7 Mar 1903) |
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The 1902–1903 season was the 15th season of The Football League.
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at 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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