Football League Stats 1888-89 to 1991-92
Football stats of the respective League positions season by season for every club in the four flights
of English football from 1888-89 to 2010-11
Football stats arranged A to Z with all 136 clubs
who have participated in the Football League
from 1888 to 2010 with their League positions
Football stats showing years spent in each of the four
flights of League football, together with the
amount of time spent in the top flight,
arranged club by club
Football League stats showing the total number of
seasons spent in the top flight of English
football from 1888-89 to 2009-10
Football stats detailing the points amassed
by season for every club in the top flight
from 1888-89 to 1938-39
Football stats detailing the points amassed by season for every club in the old First Division from 1946-47 to 1991-92
Full details of every League Club in the Top Four Flights of English Football for 2009-10. Includes links to every club's official web site & Wikipedia.
Football stats showing the Top 5 League
finishes for every season
from 1888-89 to 2009-10
The 105 teams who have participated in the
League from 1992-93 arranged alphabetically
with their League positions
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Football stats detailing the points amassed
by season for every club in the Top Flight
from 1888-89 to 2008-09
A batch of railway locomotives were built and named after famous football clubs in the 1930s
by the London & North-East Railway
FOOTBALL LEAGUE
The Football League is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football.
It was the top level football league in England from its foundation in the 19th century until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split away to form the FA Premier League. Since 1992 it has had 72 clubs evenly divided into three divisions, which are currently known as The Championship, League One, and League Two.
After four years of debate, The Football Association finally legalised professionalism on 20 July 1885. Before that date many clubs made illegal payments to "professional" players to boost the competitiveness of their teams, arousing the contempt of those clubs abiding by the laws of the amateur Football Association code.
As more and more clubs became professional the ad-hoc fixture list of FA Cup, inter-county, and 'friendly' matches was seen by many as an unreliable stream of revenue, and ways were considered of ensuring a consistent income.
A Scottish draper and director of Aston Villa, William McGregor, was the first to set out to bring some order to a chaotic world where clubs arranged their own fixtures.
On 2 March 1888, he wrote to the Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and to the secretary of Aston Villa about the formation of a Football League.
The first meeting was held at Anderson's Hotel in London on 23 March 1888 on the eve of the FA Cup Final with the name of the Football League being settled at a further meeting on 17 April at Manchester's Royal Hotel. The first season of the Football League began a few months later on 8 September with 12 member clubs.
Each club played the other twice, once at home and once away, and two points were awarded for a win and one for a draw. This points system was not agreed upon until after the season had started; the alternative proposal was one point for a win only.
Preston won the first league title without losing a game, and completed the first league & cup double by also taking the FA Cup.
Every one of the original 12 Football League club has at least one relegation in their history, unlike some European leagues such as Spain, Portugal, Scotland or the Republic of Ireland.
Everton currently hold the record for the most seasons spent in the Top Flight of English football - 108 seasons out of a maximum possible 112 up to and including season 2010-11.
Aston Villa are currently on 100 seasons in the Top Flight while Liverpool are on 96 and Arsenal are on 94 seasons.
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