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1992–93 Football League Second Division

The Football League
Season 1992–93
Champions Newcastle United
Promoted Newcastle United
West Ham United
Swindon Town
Relegated Halifax Town
Football League, First Division
Season 1992–93
Champions Newcastle United (2nd second tier title)
Direct promotion to FA Premier League Newcastle United,
West Ham United
Promoted to FA Premier League through play-offs Swindon Town
Relegated Brentford,
Bristol Rovers,
Cambridge United
Matches played 552
Goals scored 1,449 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer Guy Whittingham (Portsmouth), 42
Football League, Second Division
Season 1992–93
Champions Stoke City (3rd third tier title)
Direct promotion Stoke City,
Bolton Wanderers
Promoted through play-offs West Bromwich Albion
Relegated Chester,
Mansfield Town,
Preston North End,
Wigan Athletic
Matches played 552
Goals scored 1,479 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer Bob Taylor (West Bromwich Albion), 30
Football League, Third Division
Season 1992–93
Champions Cardiff City (1st fourth tier title)
Direct promotion Barnet,
Cardiff City,
Wrexham
Promoted through play-offs York City
Relegated Halifax Town
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,311 (2.84 per match)
Top goalscorer Darren Foreman (Scarborough),27;
Carl Griffiths (Shrewsbury Town), 27

The 19921993 season was the 94th completed season of the Football League.

This season saw the birth of the FA Premier League. This meant a break-up of the 104-year-old Football League that had operated until then with four divisions.

In 1992 all of the First Division Clubs resigned from the Football League and, on 27 May 1992, the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company, which worked out of an office at the Football Association’s then headquarters, Lancaster Gate.

The three divisions which remained in the Football League were renamed. The old Division Two was now called Division One. The old Division Three was now called Division Two, and the old Division Four was now Division Three. The league was sponsored this season by Barclays.

Newcastle United’s first full season under the management of Kevin Keegan ended in Division One championship glory and promotion to the Premier League, where they remained for 16 seasons until relegation at the end of the 2008–09 season. Following the Geordies into football’s big-money league were West Ham United and Swindon Town. West Ham had suffered relegation just one season earlier, and had been many people’s favourites for an automatic return to the elite. Swindon, meanwhile, had finally reached the top flight after 73 years of trying — they had actually won promotion via the play-offs three years earlier, but promotion had been denied a few weeks later due to financial irregularities.


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