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1937–38 Football League

The Football League
Season 1937–38
Champions Arsenal
Football League
First Division
Season 1937–38
Champions Arsenal (5th English title)
Relegated Manchester City
West Bromwich Albion
FA Cup winners Preston North End (2nd FA Cup title)
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1430 (3.1 per match)
Top goalscorer Tommy Lawton (Everton), 28
Biggest home win Wolverhampton Wanderers 10–1 Leicester City (15 Apr 1938)
Biggest away win Derby County 1–7 Manchester City (29 Jan 1938)
Highest scoring Wolverhampton Wanderers 10–1 Leicester City (15 Apr 1938)
Football League
Second Division
Season 1937–38
Champions Aston Villa (1st title)
Relegated Barnsley
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1346 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer George Henson (Bradford Park Avenue), 27
Biggest home win FulhamSwansea 8–1 (22 Jan 1938)
Biggest away win ChesterfieldManchester United 1–7 (13 Nov 1937)
Highest scoring Luton – 6–4 (1 Jan 1938)
Football League
Third Division North
Season 1937–1938
Champions Tranmere Rovers (1st title)
Failed re-election None
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1401 (3.03 per match)
Top goalscorer Jack Roberts (Port Vale), 28
Football League
Third Division South
Season 1937–1938
Champions Millwall (2nd title)
Failed re-election Gillingham
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1264 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer Harold Crawshaw (Mansfield Town), 25

The 19371938 season was the 46th 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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