1908–09 Football League
| Season | 1908–09 |
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| Champions | Newcastle United |
| Relegated | Chesterfield |
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| Season | 1908–09 |
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| Champions | Newcastle United (3rd English title) |
| Relegated |
Leicester Fosse, Manchester City |
| FA Cup winners | Manchester United (1st FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 1185 (3.12 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Bert Freeman (Everton), 38 |
| Biggest home win | Nottingham Forest – Leicester Fosse 12–0 (21 Apr 1909) |
| Biggest away win | Newcastle – Sunderland 1–9 (5 Dec 1908) |
| Highest scoring | Nottingham Forest – Leicester Fosse 12–0 (21 Apr 1909) |
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1909–10 →
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| Season | 1908–09 |
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| Champions | Bolton Wanderers (1st title) |
| Failed re-election | Chesterfield |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 1026 (2.7 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Alf Bentley (Derby County), 24 |
| Biggest home win | West Brom – Grimsby Town 7–0 (2 Jan 1909) |
| Biggest away win | Chesterfield – Hull 0–4 (24 Oct 1909) |
| Highest scoring | Burnley – Wolverhampton 3–5 (7 Nov 1909) |
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1909–10 →
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The 1908–1909 season was the 21st season of The Football League.
Tottenham Hotspur played their first ever season in the Football League, gaining promotion to the First Division in the process. Spurs, along with Bradford Park Avenue entered the Second Division to replace Lincoln City and Stoke.
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.
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
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