1911–12 Football League

Football League, Second Division
Season	1911–12
Champions	Derby County (1st title)
Failed re-election	Gainsborough Trinity
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,032 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bert Freeman (Burnley), 32
Biggest home win	Wolverhampton – Hull 8–0 (4 Nov 1911)
Biggest away win	Leeds City – Burnley 1–5 (9 Dec 1911); Birmingham – Derby County 0–4 (16 Sept 1911)
Highest scoring	Fulham – Leeds City 7–2 (23 Mar 1912)
	← 1910–11 1912–13 →

Football League, First Division
Season	1911–12
Champions	Blackburn Rovers (1st English title)
Relegated	Bury,; Preston North End
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,057 (2.78 per match)
Top goalscorer	Harry Hampton (Aston Villa),; George Holley (Sunderland),; David McLean (The Wednesday), 25
Biggest home win	The Wednesday – Sunderland 8–0 (26 Dec 1911)
Biggest away win	Sheffield United – Bolton 0–5 (9 Sept 1911)
Highest scoring	Sheffield United – Bradford City 7–3 (4 mar 1912)
	← 1910–11 1912–13 →

The Football League
Season	1911–12
Champions	Blackburn Rovers
Relegated	Gainsborough Trinity
	← 1910–11 1912–13 →

The 1911–1912 season was the 24th season of the The Football League.

Blackburn Rovers won the First Division title for the first time.

Bury and Preston North End were relegated to the Second Division, and their places in the First Division were taken by Derby County and Chelsea.

Final league tables

The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at the The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website^[1] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,^[2] 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.^[2]

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Blackburn Rovers	38	13	6	0	35	10	7	3	9	25	33	60	43	1.395	+17	49
2	Everton	38	13	5	1	29	12	7	1	11	17	30	46	42	1.095	+4	46
3	Newcastle United	38	10	4	5	37	25	8	4	7	27	25	64	50	1.280	+14	44
4	Bolton Wanderers	38	14	2	3	35	15	6	1	12	19	28	54	43	1.256	+11	43
5	The Wednesday	38	11	3	5	44	17	5	6	8	25	32	69	49	1.408	+20	41
6	Aston Villa	38	12	2	5	48	22	5	5	9	28	41	76	63	1.206	+13	41
7	Middlesbrough	38	11	6	2	35	17	5	2	12	21	28	56	45	1.244	+11	40
8	Sunderland	38	10	6	3	37	14	4	5	10	21	37	58	51	1.137	+7	39
9	West Bromwich Albion	38	10	6	3	23	15	5	3	11	20	32	43	47	0.915	–4	39
10	Woolwich Arsenal	38	12	3	4	38	19	3	5	11	17	40	55	59	0.932	–4	38
11	Bradford City	38	12	3	4	31	15	3	5	11	15	35	46	50	0.920	–4	38
12	Tottenham Hotspur	38	10	4	5	35	20	4	5	10	18	33	53	53	1.000	±0	37
13	Manchester United	38	9	5	5	29	19	4	6	9	16	41	45	60	0.750	–15	37
14	Sheffield United	38	10	4	5	47	29	3	6	10	16	27	63	56	1.125	+7	36
15	Manchester City	38	10	5	4	39	20	3	4	12	17	38	56	58	0.966	–2	35
16	Notts County	38	9	4	6	26	20	5	3	11	20	43	46	63	0.730	–17	35
17	Liverpool	38	8	4	7	27	23	4	6	9	22	32	49	55	0.891	–6	34
18	Oldham Athletic	38	10	3	6	32	19	2	7	10	14	35	46	54	0.852	–8	34
19	Preston North End	38	8	4	7	26	25	5	3	11	14	32	40	57	0.702	–17	33
20	Bury	38	6	5	8	23	25	0	4	15	9	34	32	59	0.542	–27	21

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

Key
	League Champions
	Relegated

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Derby County	38	15	2	2	55	13	8	6	5	19	15	74	28	2.643	+46	54
2	Chelsea	38	15	2	2	36	13	9	4	6	28	21	64	34	1.882	+30	54
3	Burnley	38	14	5	0	50	14	8	3	8	27	27	77	41	1.878	+36	52
4	Clapton Orient	38	16	0	3	44	14	5	3	11	17	30	61	44	1.386	+17	45
5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	38	12	3	4	41	10	4	7	8	16	23	57	33	1.727	+24	42
6	Barnsley	38	10	5	4	28	19	5	7	7	17	23	45	42	1.071	+3	42
7	Hull City	38	12	3	4	36	13	5	5	9	18	38	54	51	1.059	+3	42
8	Fulham	38	10	3	6	42	24	6	4	9	24	34	66	58	1.138	+8	39
9	Grimsby Town	38	9	6	4	24	18	6	3	10	24	37	48	55	0.873	–7	39
10	Leicester Fosse	38	11	4	4	34	18	4	3	12	15	48	49	66	0.742	–17	37
11	Bradford Park Avenue	38	10	5	4	30	16	3	4	12	14	29	44	45	0.978	–1	35
12	Birmingham	38	11	3	5	44	29	3	3	13	11	30	55	59	0.932	–4	34
13	Bristol City	38	11	4	4	27	17	3	2	14	14	43	41	60	0.683	–19	34
14	Blackpool	38	12	4	3	24	12	1	4	14	8	40	32	52	0.615	–20	34
15	Nottingham Forest	38	9	3	7	26	18	4	4	11	20	30	46	48	0.958	–2	33
16	Stockport County	38	8	5	6	31	22	3	6	10	16	32	47	54	0.870	–7	33
17	Huddersfield Town	38	8	5	6	30	22	5	1	13	20	42	50	64	0.781	–14	32
18	Glossop	38	6	8	5	33	23	2	4	13	9	33	42	56	0.750	–14	28
19	Leeds City	38	7	6	6	21	22	3	2	14	29	56	50	78	0.641	–28	28
20	Gainsborough Trinity^[4]	38	4	6	9	17	22	1	7	11	13	42	30	64	0.469	–34	23

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Final league tables

First Division

First Division results

First Division maps

Second Division

Second Division results

Second Division maps

See also

References