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1936–37 Football League

The Football League
Season 1936–37
Champions Manchester City
Football League
First Division
Season 1936–37
Champions Manchester City (1st English title)
Relegated Manchester United
Sheffield Wednesday
FA Cup winners Sunderland (1st FA Cup title)
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1555 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer Freddie Steele (Stoke City), 33
Biggest home win StokeWest Brom 10–3 (4 Feb 1937)
EvertonDerby County 7–0 (7 Dec 1936)
Biggest away win Bolton WanderersArsenal 0–5 (1 Jan 1937)
Derby CountyManchester City 0–5 (24 Feb 1937)
LiverpoolManchester City 0–5 (26 March 1937
Highest scoring StokeWest Brom 10–3 (4 Feb 1937)
Football League
Second Division
Season 1936–37
Champions Leicester City (2nd title)
Relegated Doncaster Rovers
Bradford City
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1479 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorer Jack Bowers (Leicester), 33
Biggest home win BlackburnNottingham Forest 9–1 (10 Apr 1937)
Biggest away win NorwichNewcastle 1–5 (28 Dec 1936)
0–4: seven matches
Highest scoring LeicesterBurnley 7–3 (13 Mar 1937)
Football League, Third Division North
Season 1936–1937
Champions (2nd title)
Failed re-election None
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1602 (3.47 per match)
Top goalscorer Ted Harston (Mansfield Town), 55
Football League
Third Division South
Season 1936–1937
Champions Luton Town (1st title)
Failed re-election None
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1497 (3.24 per match)
Top goalscorer Joe Payne (Luton Town), 55

The 19361937 season was the 45th season of The Football League.

The tables and results 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. From the 1922–23 season on it was required of the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South.

Source: [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.
^ 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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