1898–99 Football League
| Season | 1898–99 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Aston Villa |
| Relegated |
Blackpool Darwen |
|
← 1897–98 | |
The 1898–1899 season was the eleventh season of The Football League. The race for the First Division title was one of the most exciting yet. Second-placed Liverpool travelled to Villa Park to face league leaders Aston Villa, needing a win to overhaul Villa and take the title on the last day of the season. Villa won 5-0 to take the title in emphatic style.
Final league tables
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at 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.
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.[2]
First Division
| Season | 1898–99 |
|---|---|
| Champions |
Aston Villa (4th English title) |
| Relegated |
Bolton Wanderers The Wednesday |
| FA Cup winners | Sheffield United (1st FA Cup title) |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 868 (2.84 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Steve Bloomer (Derby County), 23 |
| Biggest home win | Derby County – The Wednesday 9–0 (21 Jan 1899) |
| Biggest away win |
Liverpool – Aston Villa 0–3 (15 Oct 1898) Nottingham Forest – Liverpool 0–3 (26 Nov 1898) The Wednesday – Liverpool 0–3 (31 Dec 1898) |
| Highest scoring | Derby County – Everton 5–5 (15 Oct 1898) |
| Longest winning run |
8 matches Aston Villa (8 Oct 1898 – 10 Dec 1898) |
| Longest unbeaten run |
13 matches Aston Villa (17 Sep 1898 – 24 Dec 1898) |
| Longest losing run |
4 matches Everton (18 Mar 1899 – 15 Apr 1899) Sheffield United (31 Mar 1899 – 29 Apr 1899) The Wednesday (21 Jan 1899 – 25 Feb 1899) Sunderland (3 Dec 1898 – 31 Dec 1898) Wolverhampton Wanderers (12 Sep 1898 – 8 Oct 1898 |
| Highest attendance |
41,000 Aston Villa - Liverpool F.C. (29 Apr 1899) |
| Lowest attendance |
1,000 Bury -Newcastle (22 Oct 1898) West Bromwich Albion - Nottingham Forest (24 Dec 1898) West Bromwich Albion - Blackburn Rovers (21 Jan 1899) |
| Average attendance | 10,004 |
|
← 1897–98 | |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | F | A | GA | GD | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aston Villa | 34 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 27 | 76 | 40 | 1.900 | +36 | 45 | ||||
| 2 | Liverpool | 34 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 49 | 33 | 1.485 | +16 | 43 | ||||
| 3 | Burnley | 34 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 45 | 47 | 0.957 | –2 | 39 | ||||
| 4 | Everton | 34 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 28 | 48 | 41 | 1.171 | +7 | 38 | ||||
| 5 | Notts County | 34 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 31 | 47 | 51 | 0.922 | –4 | 37 | ||||
| 6 | Blackburn Rovers | 34 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 41 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 29 | 60 | 52 | 1.154 | +8 | 36 | ||||
| 7 | Sunderland | 34 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 31 | 41 | 41 | 1.000 | ±0 | 36 | ||||
| 8 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 34 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 35 | 54 | 48 | 1.125 | +6 | 35 | ||||
| 9 | Derby County | 34 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 46 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 38 | 62 | 57 | 1.088 | +5 | 35 | ||||
| 10 | Bury | 34 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 31 | 48 | 49 | 0.980 | –1 | 35 | ||||
| 11 | Nottingham Forest | 34 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 24 | 42 | 42 | 1.000 | ±0 | 33 | ||||
| 12 | Stoke | 34 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 47 | 52 | 0.904 | –5 | 33 | ||||
| 13 | Newcastle United | 34 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 30 | 49 | 48 | 1.021 | +1 | 30 | ||||
| 14 | West Bromwich Albion | 34 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 48 | 42 | 57 | 0.737 | –15 | 30 | ||||
| 15 | Preston North End | 34 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 33 | 44 | 47 | 0.936 | –3 | 29 | ||||
| 16 | Sheffield United | 34 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 31 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 31 | 45 | 51 | 0.882 | –6 | 29 | ||||
| 17 | Bolton Wanderers | 34 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 30 | 37 | 51 | 0.725 | –14 | 25 | ||||
| 18 | The Wednesday | 34 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 37 | 32 | 61 | 0.525 | –29 | 24 |
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 | |
| FA Cup Winners | |
| Relegated |
Results
| Home ╲ Away | AST | BLB | BOL | BUR | BRY | DER | EVE | LIV | NEW | NOT | NTC | PNE | SHU | STK | SUN | WED | WBA | WOL |
| Aston Villa | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 7–1 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 6–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 7–1 | 1–1 | |
| Blackburn Rovers | 0–0 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 3–3 | 6–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–2 | |
| Bolton Wanderers | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 6–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | |
| Burnley | 2–4 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | |
| Bury | 2–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 5–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | |
| Derby County | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 5–5 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 9–0 | 4–1 | 6–2 | |
| Everton | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
| Liverpool | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | |
| Newcastle United | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–4 | |
| Nottingham Forest | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | |
| Notts County | 1–0 | 5–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | |
| Preston North End | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | |
| Sheffield United | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | |
| Stoke City | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–4 | |
| Sunderland | 4–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | |
| The Wednesday | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | |
| West Bromwich Albion | 0–1 | 6–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 5–1 |
Source:
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Maps
Second Division
| Season | 1898–99 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Manchester City (1st title) |
| Promoted |
Manchester City Glossop North End |
| Failed re-election |
Blackpool Darwen |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 1103 (3.6 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Walter Abbott (Small Heath), 33 [3] |
| Biggest home win |
Loughborough –Darwen 10–0 (1 Apr 1899) Walsall –Darwen 10–0 (4 Mar 1899) |
| Biggest away win |
Lincoln City –Grimsby Town 1–6 (8 Apr 1899) Luton Town –Leicester Fosse 1–6 (14 Jan 1899) |
| Highest scoring | Grimsby Town –Darwen 9–2 (15 Apr 1899) |
| Longest winning run |
7 matches Glossop North End (25 Feb 1899 – 8 Apr 1899) New Brighton Tower (26 Nov 1898 – 7 Jan 1899) |
| Longest unbeaten run |
13 matches Manchester City F.C. (1 Oct 1898 – 27 Dec 1898) |
| Longest losing run |
18 matches Darwen (12 Nov 1898 – 21 Mar 1899) |
|
← 1897–98 | |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | F | A | GA | GD | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester City | 34 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 25 | 92 | 35 | 2.629 | +47 | 52 | ||||
| 2 | Glossop North End | 34 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 48 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 25 | 76 | 38 | 2.000 | +38 | 46 | ||||
| 3 | Leicester Fosse | 34 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 64 | 42 | 1.524 | +22 | 45 | ||||
| 4 | Newton Heath | 34 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 51 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 29 | 67 | 43 | 1.558 | +24 | 43 | ||||
| 5 | New Brighton Tower | 34 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 39 | 71 | 52 | 1.365 | +9 | 43 | ||||
| 6 | Walsall | 34 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 64 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 25 | 79 | 36 | 2.194 | +43 | 42 | ||||
| 7 | Woolwich Arsenal | 34 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 55 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 31 | 72 | 41 | 1.756 | +31 | 41 | ||||
| 8 | Small Heath | 34 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 66 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 33 | 85 | 50 | 1.700 | +35 | 41 | ||||
| 9 | Burslem Port Vale | 34 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 22 | 56 | 34 | 1.647 | +22 | 39 | ||||
| 10 | Grimsby Town | 34 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 39 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 32 | 43 | 71 | 60 | 1.183 | +11 | 35 | ||||
| 11 | Barnsley | 34 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 44 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 38 | 52 | 56 | 0.929 | –4 | 31 | ||||
| 12 | Lincoln City | 34 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 40 | 51 | 56 | 0.911 | –5 | 31 | ||||
| 13 | Burton Swifts | 34 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 45 | 51 | 70 | 0.729 | –19 | 28 | ||||
| 14 | Gainsborough Trinity | 34 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 16 | 50 | 56 | 72 | 0.778 | –16 | 25 | ||||
| 15 | Luton Town | 34 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 37 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 64 | 51 | 95 | 0.537 | –44 | 23 | ||||
| 16 | Blackpool | 34 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 60 | 49 | 90 | 0.544 | –31 | 20 | ||||
| 17 | Loughborough | 34 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 31 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 66 | 38 | 92 | 0.413 | –54 | 18 | ||||
| 18 | Darwen | 34 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 109 | 22 | 141 | 0.156 | –119 | 9 |
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 | |
|---|---|
| Division Champions, promoted | |
| Promoted | |
| New club in the league (see also Glossop North End) | |
| Re-elected | |
| Failed re-election |
Results
| Home ╲ Away | BAR | BLP | BPV | BRS | DRW | GAI | GLP | GRI | LEI | LIN | LOU | LUT | MCI | NBR | NWH | SMH | WAL | WOO |
| Barnsley | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–4 | 1–0 | 9–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 7–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
| Blackpool | 3–1 | 0–4 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 3–6 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | |
| Burslem Port Vale | 2–0 | 6–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | |
| Burton Swifts | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 2–6 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |
| Darwen | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 | |
| Gainsborough Trinity | 2–0 | 7–0 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–4 | 5–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | |
| Glossop | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 5–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| Grimsby Town | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 9–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
| Leicester Fosse | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | |
| Lincoln City | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–6 | 3–1 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| Loughborough | 2–0 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 10–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 2–4 | 4–1 | 1–3 | 6–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
| Luton Town | 4–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 8–1 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–6 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 0–1 | |
| Manchester City | 5–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 6–0 | 10–0 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 7–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | |
| New Brighton Tower | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 7–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 3–1 | |
| Newton Heath | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 9–0 | 6–1 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | |
| Small Heath | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 8–0 | 6–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 4–1 | 6–0 | 9–0 | 4–1 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | |
| Walsall | 1–1 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 7–1 | 10–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 7–0 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 3–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 6–2 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 |
Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Maps
See also
References
- Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
- ↑ "England 1898–99". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- 1 2 Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
- ↑ "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.