1903–04 Football League
| Season | 1903–04 |
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| Champions | The Wednesday |
| Relegated | |
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← 1902–03
1904–05 →
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| Season | 1903–04 |
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| Champions | The Wednesday (2nd English title) |
| Relegated |
Liverpool West Bromwich Albion |
| FA Cup winners | Manchester City (1st FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 939 (3.07 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Steve Bloomer (Derby County), 20 |
| Biggest home win |
Middlesbrough – Manchester City 6–0 (24 Oct 1903) Sunderland – Bury 6–0 (23 Jan 1904) |
| Biggest away win |
Nottingham Forest –Aston Villa 3–7 (19 Dec 1903) Nottingham Forest – Everton 0–4 (27 Feb 1904) |
| Highest scoring | Nottingham Forest – Aston Villa 3–7 (19 Dec 1903) |
| Longest winning run | 8 matches Sheffield United (5 Sep 1903 – 24 Oct 1903) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 8 matches Sheffield United (5 Sep 1903 – 24 Oct 1903) Manchester City (31 Oct 1903 – 19 Dec 1903; 1 Jan 1904 - 21 Mar 1904) |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches Liverpool (5 Sep 1903 – 1 Oct 1903) |
| Highest attendance | 40,000 Aston Villa -The Wednesday (26 Dec 1903) Everton -Liverpool (1 Apr 1904) |
| Lowest attendance | 1,500 Nottingham Forest - Stoke (25 Nov 1903) |
| Average attendance | 12,899 |
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1904–05 →
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| Season | 1903–04 |
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| Champions | Preston North End (1st title) |
| Failed re-election | |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 942 (3.08 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Percy Smith (Preston North End), 26 |
| Biggest home win |
Woolwich Arsenal – Burton United 8–0 (19 Sept 1903) Woolwich Arsenal – Leicester Fosse 8–0 (26 Oct 1903) |
| Biggest away win |
Blackpool – Burnley 0–5 (13 Feb 1904) Glossop – Manchester United 0–5 (19 Sept 1903) |
| Highest scoring |
Woolwich Arsenal – Burton United 8–0 (19 Sept 1903) Woolwich Arsenal – Leicester Fosse 8–0 (26 Oct 1903) Glossop – Burnley 6–2 (21 Nov 1903) Burslem Port Vale – Leicester Fosse 6–2 (27 Feb 1904) |
| Longest winning run | 8 matches Woolwich Arsenal (5 Sep 1903 – 26 Oct 1903) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches Preston North End (5 Sep 1903 – 5 Dec 1903) |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches Burnley (29 Feb 1904 – 26 Mar 1904) |
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1904–05 →
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The 1903–1904 season was the 16th 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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