1904–05 Football League

Football League
Second Division
Season	1904–05
Champions	Liverpool (3rd title)
Failed re-election	Doncaster Rovers
Matches played	306
Goals scored	903 (2.95 per match)
Top goalscorer	Samuel Marsh (Bolton Wanderers), 27
Biggest home win	Liverpool – Burslem Port Vale 8–1 (8 Apr 1905); Barnsley – Burton United 7–0 (28 Jan 1905); Manchester United – Bradford City 7–0 (2 Jan 1905)
Biggest away win	Burton United – West Bromwich 0–6 (21 Apr 1905)
Highest scoring	Liverpool – Burslem Port Vale 8–1 (8 Apr 1905)
Longest winning run	14 matches; Manchester United (15 Oct 1904 – 3 Jan 1905)
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches; Manchester United (24 Sep 1904 – 21 Jan 1905)
Longest losing run	9 matches; Doncaster Rovers (14 Jan 1905 – 1 Apr 1905)
	← 1903–04 1905–06 →

Football League
First Division
Season	1904–05
Champions	Newcastle United (1st English title)
Relegated	none
FA Cup winners	Aston Villa (4th FA Cup title)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	904 (2.95 per match)
Top goalscorer	Arthur Brown (Sheffield United), 22
Biggest home win	Bury – Sheffield United 7–1 (12 Nov 1904); Manchester City – Derby County 6–0 (17 Dec 1904)
Biggest away win	Notts County – Woolwich Arsenal 1–5 (17 Dec 1904); Notts County – Sheffield United 1–5 (28 Jan 1905)
Highest scoring	The Wednesday – Everton 5–5 (12 Nov 1904)
Longest winning run	8 matches; Manchester City (7 Jan 1905 – 11 Mar 1905)
Longest unbeaten run	10 matches; Everton (14 Jan 1905 – 15 Apr 1905)
Longest losing run	5 matches; Stoke (10 Dec 1904 – 7 Jan 1905); Derby County (26 Dec 1904 – 7 Jan 1905); Bury (28 Jan 1905 – 18 Mar 1905); Notts County (25 Feb 1905 – 1 Apr 1905)
Highest attendance	50,000; Aston Villa - Small Heath (29 Oct 1904)
Lowest attendance	2,000; The Wednesday - Derby County (3 Apr 1905); Stoke - Small Heath (29 Apr 1905)
Average attendance	13,404
	← 1903–04 1905–06 →

The Football League
Season	1904–05
Champions	Newcastle United
Relegated	Doncaster Rovers
	← 1903–04 1905–06 →

The 1904–05 season was the 17th season of The Football League.

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Newcastle United	34	14	1	2	41	12	9	1	7	31	21	72	33	2.182	+39	48
2	Everton	34	14	2	1	36	11	7	3	7	27	25	63	36	1.750	+27	47
3	Manchester City	34	14	3	0	46	17	6	3	8	20	20	66	37	1.784	+29	46
4	Aston Villa	34	11	2	4	32	15	8	2	7	31	28	63	43	1.465	+20	42
5	Sunderland	34	11	3	3	37	19	5	5	7	23	25	60	44	1.364	+16	40
6	Sheffield United	34	13	0	4	39	20	6	2	9	25	36	64	56	1.143	+8	40
7	Small Heath	34	11	1	5	32	17	6	4	7	22	21	54	38	1.421	+16	39
8	Preston North End	34	9	5	3	28	13	4	5	8	14	24	42	37	1.135	+5	36
9	The Wednesday	34	10	3	4	39	22	4	2	11	22	35	61	57	1.070	+4	33
10	Woolwich Arsenal	34	9	5	3	19	12	3	4	10	17	28	36	40	0.900	–4	33
11	Derby County	34	9	4	4	29	19	3	4	10	8	29	37	48	0.771	–11	32
12	Stoke	34	10	3	4	26	18	3	1	13	14	40	40	58	0.690	–18	30
13	Blackburn Rovers	34	9	3	5	28	18	2	2	13	12	33	40	51	0.784	–11	27
14	Wolverhampton Wanderers	34	10	2	5	30	23	1	2	14	17	50	47	73	0.644	–26	26
15	Middlesbrough	34	7	3	7	21	24	2	5	10	15	32	36	56	0.643	–20	26
16	Nottingham Forest	34	5	3	9	24	28	4	4	9	16	33	40	61	0.656	–21	25
17	Bury^[3]	34	8	2	7	34	26	2	2	13	13	41	47	67	0.701	–20	24
18	Notts County^[3]	34	1	7	9	16	33	4	1	12	20	36	36	69	0.522	–33	18

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 (none)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Liverpool	34	14	3	0	60	12	13	1	3	33	13	93	25	3.720	+68	58
2	Bolton Wanderers	34	15	0	2	53	16	12	2	3	34	16	87	32	2.719	+55	56
3	Manchester United	34	16	0	1	60	10	8	5	4	21	20	81	30	2.700	+51	53
4	Bristol City	34	12	3	2	40	12	7	1	9	26	33	66	45	1.467	+21	42
5	Chesterfield	34	9	6	2	26	11	5	5	7	18	24	44	35	1.257	+9	39
6	Gainsborough Trinity	34	11	4	2	32	15	3	4	10	29	43	61	58	1.052	+3	36
7	Barnsley	34	11	4	2	29	13	3	1	13	9	43	38	56	0.679	–18	33
8	Bradford City	34	8	5	4	31	20	4	3	10	14	29	45	49	0.918	–4	32
9	Lincoln City	34	9	4	4	31	16	3	3	11	11	24	42	40	1.050	+2	31
10	West Bromwich Albion	34	8	2	7	28	20	5	2	10	28	28	56	48	1.167	+8	30
11	Burnley	34	10	1	6	31	21	2	5	10	12	31	43	52	0.827	–9	30
12	Glossop	34	7	5	5	23	14	3	5	9	14	32	37	46	0.804	–9	30
13	Grimsby Town	34	9	3	5	22	14	2	5	10	11	32	33	46	0.717	–13	30
14	Leicester Fosse	34	8	3	6	30	25	3	4	10	10	30	40	55	0.727	–15	29
15	Blackpool	34	8	5	4	26	15	1	5	11	10	33	36	48	0.750	–12	28
16	Burslem Port Vale	34	7	4	6	28	25	3	3	11	19	47	47	72	0.653	–25	27
17	Burton United^[5]	34	7	2	8	20	29	1	2	14	10	55	30	84	0.357	–54	20
18	Doncaster Rovers^[6]	34	3	2	12	12	32	0	0	17	11	49	23	81	0.284	–58	8

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Final league tables

First Division

Results

Maps

Second Division

Results

Maps

See also

References

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