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The Football League 1894-95

The Football League
Season 1894–95
Champions Sunderland
Relegated Walsall Town Swifts
Football League
First Division
Season 1894–95
Champions Sunderland
(3rd English title)
Relegated Liverpool
FA Cup winners Aston Villa (2nd title)
Matches played 240
Goals scored 917 (3.82 per match)
Top goalscorer John Campbell (Sunderland), 22
Biggest home win Blackburn 9–1 Small Heath (5 Jan 1895)
Sunderland 8–0 Derby County (1 Sept 1894)
Biggest away win Wanderers 0–4 Aston Villa (22 Dec 1894)
Highest scoring Blackburn 9–1 Small Heath (5 Jan 1895)
Longest winning run 8 matches
Everton (1 Sep 1894 - 20 Oct 1894)
Longest unbeaten run 10 matches
Sunderland (6 Oct 1894 - 27 Dec 1894)
Longest losing run 7 matches
Burnley (16 Mar 1895 - 20 Apr 1895)
Highest attendance 35,000
Everton - Sunderland (27 Oct 1894)
Lowest attendance 1,000
Small Heath - Preston North End (29 Sep 1894)
Stoke -Small Heath (27 Oct 1894)
Blackburn Rovers -West Bromwich Albion (22 Dec 1894)
Derby County - Stoke (19 Jan 1895)
Stoke - Sunderland (26 Jan 1895)
Average attendance 7,431
Football League
Second Division
Season 1894–95
Champions Bury (1st title)
Promoted Bury
Resigned Walsall Town Swifts
Matches played 240
Goals scored 1,023 (4.26 per match)
Top goalscorer David Skea (Leicester Fosse), 22
Biggest home win Notts CountyBurslem Port Vale 10–0 (26 Feb 1895)
Biggest away win Burton SwiftsLeicester Fosse 0–5 (2 Mar 1895)
Highest scoring Manchester CityLincoln City 11–3 (23 Mar 1895)
Longest winning run 8 matches
Bury (29 Sep 1894 - 24 Nov 1894)
Longest unbeaten run 13 matches
Burton Wanderers (12 Jan 1895 - 16 Apr 1895)
Leicester Fosse (26 Jan 1895 - 20 Apr 1895)
Longest losing run 9 matches
Crewe Alexandra F.C. (29 Sep 1894 - 5 Jan 1895)
Walsall Town Swifts (17 Nov 1894 - 26 Jan 1895)

The 18941895 season was the seventh season of The Football League.

During the first five seasons of the league the re-election process had concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league, but as of the 1894–95 season the re-election requirement was reduced to the last three clubs in Division Two.

However, as Lincoln City (fourth from last) and Walsall Town Swifts (third from last) both finished with 20 points, they were both subjected to the re-election process, and Walsall eventually resigned from the league. After this, and until the 1976–77 season, goal average (explained below) was used to determine a club's exact position and there were no more anomalies in the re-election processes.

Goal average was calculated by dividing the goals scored with goals conceded, and would more appropriately be called 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.

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.

Note: 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.

Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website and Rothmans for the First Division and from Rothmans for the Second Division.

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]
^ 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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