The Football League 1907–08
| Season | 1907–08 |
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| Champions | Manchester United |
| Relegated |
Lincoln City Stoke |
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| Season | 1907–08 |
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| Champions | Manchester United (1st English title) |
| Relegated |
Birmingham, Bolton Wanderers |
| FA Cup winners | Wolverhampton Wanderers (2nd Div.) (2nd FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 1,176 (3.09 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Enoch West (Nottingham Forest), 27 |
| Biggest home win | Newcastle – Birmingham 8–0 |
| Biggest away win | Blackburn – Manchester United 1–5 Liverpool –Newcastle 1–5 0–4: four different matches |
| Highest scoring | Liverpool – Manchester United 7–4 |
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1908–09 →
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| Season | 1907–08 |
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| Champions | Bradford City (1st title) |
| Failed re-election | Lincoln City |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 1,187 (3.12 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | John Smith (Hull City), 27 |
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1908–09 →
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The 1907–08 Football League season was the 20th season of The Football League.
This season saw the only occasion in history of the Football League where two teams have finished with exactly identical records (12 wins, 12 draws, 14 losses, 51 goals scored, 63 goals conceded), resulting in a tied 14th place between Woolwich Arsenal and Blackburn Rovers.
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
Source: www.soccerbase.com
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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