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The Football League 1938-39

The Football League
Season 1938–39
Champions Everton
Football League
First Division
Season 1938–39
Champions Everton (5th English title)
Relegated Birmingham
Leicester City
FA Cup winners Portsmouth (1st FA Cup title)
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,418 (3.07 per match)
Top goalscorer Tommy Lawton (Everton), 35
Biggest home win MiddlesbroughBlackpool 9–2 (10 Dec 1938)
WolverhamptonEverton 7–0 (22 Feb 1939)
Biggest away win LeicesterCharlton 1–5 (9 Feb 1939)
SunderlandAston Villa 1–5 (26 Dec 1938)
CharltonWolverhampton 0–4 (10 Dec 1938)
Highest scoring MiddlesbroughBlackpool 9–2 (10 Dec 1938)
Football League
Second Division
Season 1938–39
Champions Blackburn Rovers (1st title)
Relegated Norwich City
Tranmere Rovers
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,441 (3.12 per match)
Top goalscorer Hugh Billington (Luton Town), 28
Biggest home win Sheffield WednesdayNorwich City 7–0 (19 Nov 1938)
Biggest away win TranmereManchester City 3–9 (26 Dec 1938)
Highest scoring TranmereManchester City 3–9 (26 Dec 1938)
Football League
Third Division North
Season 1938–1939
Champions Barnsley (2nd title)
Failed re-election None
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,609 (3.48 per match)
Top goalscorer Wally Hunt (Carlisle United), 32
Football League
Third Division South
Season 1938–1939
Champions Newport County (1st title)
Failed re-election None
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,319 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer Ben Morton (Swindon Town), 28

The 19381939 season was the 47th season of The Football League.

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.

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 and for the two Third Divisions.

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, if the teams had a positive goal difference. 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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