1907–08 Football League

Football League
Second Division
Season	1907–08
Champions	Bradford City (1st title)
Failed re-election	Lincoln City
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,187 (3.12 per match)
Top goalscorer	John Smith (Hull City), 27
	← 1906–07 1908–09 →

Football League
First Division
Season	1907–08
Champions	Manchester United (1st English title)
Relegated	Birmingham,; Bolton Wanderers
FA Cup winners	Wolverhampton Wanderers (2nd Div.) (2nd FA Cup title)
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,176 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Enoch West (Nottingham Forest), 27
Biggest home win	Newcastle – Birmingham 8–0
Biggest away win	Blackburn – Manchester United 1–5; Liverpool –Newcastle 1–5; 0–4: four different matches
Highest scoring	Liverpool – Manchester United 7–4
	← 1906–07 1908–09 →

The Football League
Season	1907–08
Champions	Manchester United
Relegated	Lincoln City; Stoke
	← 1906–07 1908–09 →

The 1907–08 Football League season was the 20th season of The Football League.

This season saw the only occasion in history of the Football League where two teams have finished with exactly identical records (12 wins, 12 draws, 14 losses, 51 goals scored, 63 goals conceded), resulting in a tied 14th place between Woolwich Arsenal and Blackburn Rovers.

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^[2] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,^[3] 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.^[3]

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	15	1	3	43	19	8	5	6	38	29	81	48	1.688	+33	52
2	Aston Villa	38	9	6	4	47	24	8	3	8	30	35	77	59	1.305	+18	43
3	Manchester City	38	12	5	2	36	19	4	6	9	26	35	62	54	1.148	+8	43
4	Newcastle United	38	11	4	4	41	24	4	8	7	24	30	65	54	1.204	+11	42
5	The Wednesday	38	14	0	5	50	25	5	4	10	23	39	73	64	1.141	+9	42
6	Middlesbrough	38	12	2	5	32	16	5	5	9	22	29	54	45	1.200	+9	41
7	Bury	38	8	7	4	29	22	6	4	9	29	39	58	61	0.951	–3	39
8	Liverpool	38	11	2	6	43	24	5	4	10	25	37	68	61	1.115	+7	38
9	Nottingham Forest	38	11	6	2	42	21	2	5	12	17	41	59	62	0.952	–3	37
10	Bristol City	38	8	7	4	29	21	4	5	10	29	40	58	61	0.951	–3	36
11	Everton	38	11	4	4	34	24	4	2	13	24	40	58	64	0.906	–6	36
12	Preston North End	38	9	7	3	33	18	3	5	11	14	35	47	53	0.887	–6	36
13	Chelsea	38	8	3	8	30	35	6	5	8	23	27	53	62	0.855	–9	36
14	Woolwich Arsenal	38	9	8	2	32	18	3	4	12	19	45	51	63	0.810	–12	36
14	Blackburn Rovers	38	10	7	2	35	23	2	5	12	16	40	51	63	0.810	–12	36
16	Sunderland	38	11	2	6	53	31	5	1	13	25	44	78	75	1.040	+3	35
17	Sheffield United	38	8	6	5	27	22	4	5	10	25	36	52	58	0.897	–6	35
18	Notts County	38	9	3	7	24	19	4	5	10	15	32	39	51	0.765	–12	34
19	Bolton Wanderers	38	10	3	6	35	26	4	2	13	17	32	52	58	0.897	–6	33
20	Birmingham	38	6	6	7	22	28	3	6	10	18	32	40	60	0.667	–20	30

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	Bradford City	38	15	2	2	58	16	9	4	6	32	26	90	42	2.143	+48	54
2	Leicester Fosse	38	14	2	3	41	20	7	8	4	31	27	72	47	1.532	+25	52
3	Oldham Athletic	38	15	4	0	53	14	7	2	10	23	28	76	42	1.810	+34	50
4	Fulham	38	12	2	5	50	14	10	3	6	32	35	82	49	1.673	+33	49
5	West Bromwich Albion	38	13	3	3	38	13	6	6	7	23	26	61	39	1.564	+22	47
6	Derby County	38	15	1	3	50	13	6	3	10	27	32	77	45	1.711	+32	46
7	Burnley	38	14	3	2	44	14	6	3	10	23	36	67	50	1.340	+17	46
8	Hull City	38	15	1	3	50	23	6	3	10	23	39	73	62	1.177	+9	46
9	Wolverhampton Wanderers	38	11	4	4	34	11	4	3	12	16	34	50	45	1.111	+5	37
10	Stoke^[1]	38	11	5	3	43	13	5	0	14	14	39	57	52	1.096	+5	37
11	Gainsborough Trinity	38	9	4	6	31	28	5	3	11	16	43	47	71	0.662	–24	35
12	Leeds City	38	9	6	4	33	18	3	2	14	20	47	53	65	0.815	–12	32
13	Stockport County	38	9	4	6	35	26	3	4	12	13	41	48	67	0.716	–19	32
14	Clapton Orient	38	10	5	4	28	13	1	5	13	12	52	40	65	0.615	–15	32
15	Blackpool	38	11	3	5	33	19	0	6	13	18	39	51	58	0.879	–7	31
16	Barnsley	38	8	3	8	41	31	4	3	12	13	37	54	68	0.794	–14	30
17	Glossop	38	9	5	5	36	26	2	3	14	18	48	54	74	0.730	–20	30
18	Grimsby Town	38	8	5	6	27	24	3	3	13	16	47	43	71	0.606	–28	30
19	Chesterfield	38	6	6	7	33	38	0	5	14	13	54	46	92	0.500	–46	23
20	Lincoln City	38	7	2	10	27	28	2	1	16	19	55	46	83	0.554	–37	21

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Final league tables

First Division

Results

Maps

Second Division

Results

Maps

See also

References