1914–15 Football League

Football League
Second Division
Season	1914–15
Champions	Derby County (2nd title)
Failed re-election	Glossop
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,135 (2.99 per match)
Top goalscorer	Joe Lane (Blackpool), 28
Biggest home win	Birmingham – Glossop 11–1 (6 Jan 1915)
Biggest away win	Leicester Fosse – Derby County 0–6 (28 Dec 1914)
Highest scoring	Birmingham – Glossop 11–1 (6 Jan 1915)
	← 1913–14 1919–20 →

Football League
First Division
Season	1914–15
Champions	Everton (2nd English title)
Relegated	Tottenham Hotspur
FA Cup winners	Sheffield United (3rd FA Cup title)
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,201 (3.16 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bobby Parker (Everton), 35
Biggest home win	The Wednesday – Bolton 7–0 (1 Mar 1915)
Biggest away win	Aston Villa – Bolton 1–7 (26 Dec 1914); Tottenham – Sunderland 0–6 (19 Dec 1914)
Highest scoring	Middlesbrough –Tottenham 7–5 (13 Feb 1915)
	← 1913–14 1919–20 →

The Football League
Season	1914–15
Champions	Everton
	← 1913–14 1919–20 →

The 1914–1915 season was the 27th 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.

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	Everton	38	8	5	6	44	29	11	3	5	32	18	76	47	1.617	+29	46
2	Oldham Athletic	38	11	5	3	46	25	6	6	7	24	31	70	56	1.250	+14	45
3	Blackburn Rovers	38	11	4	4	51	27	7	3	9	32	34	83	61	1.361	+22	43
4	Burnley	38	12	1	6	38	18	6	6	7	23	29	61	47	1.298	+14	43
5	Manchester City	38	9	7	3	29	15	6	6	7	20	24	49	39	1.256	+10	43
6	Sheffield United	38	11	5	3	28	13	4	8	7	21	28	49	41	1.195	+8	43
7	The Wednesday	38	10	7	2	43	23	5	6	8	18	31	61	54	1.130	+7	43
8	Sunderland	38	11	3	5	46	30	7	2	10	35	42	81	72	1.125	+9	41
9	Bradford Park Avenue	38	11	4	4	40	20	6	3	10	29	45	69	65	1.062	+4	41
10	West Bromwich Albion	38	11	5	3	31	9	4	5	10	18	34	49	43	1.140	+6	40
11	Bradford City	38	11	7	1	40	18	2	7	10	15	31	55	49	1.122	+6	40
12	Middlesbrough	38	10	6	3	42	24	3	6	10	20	50	62	74	0.838	–12	38
13	Liverpool	38	11	5	3	45	34	3	4	12	20	41	65	75	0.867	–10	37
14	Aston Villa	38	10	5	4	39	32	3	6	10	23	40	62	72	0.861	–10	37
15	Newcastle United	38	8	4	7	29	23	3	6	10	17	25	46	48	0.958	–2	32
16	Notts County	38	8	7	4	28	18	1	6	12	13	39	41	57	0.719	–16	31
17	Bolton Wanderers	38	8	5	6	35	27	3	3	13	33	57	68	84	0.810	–16	30
18	Manchester United	38	8	6	5	27	19	1	6	12	19	43	46	62	0.742	–16	30
19	Chelsea^[4]	38	8	6	5	32	25	0	7	12	19	40	51	65	0.785	–14	29
20	Tottenham Hotspur^[5]	38	7	7	5	30	29	1	5	13	27	61	57	90	0.633	–33	28

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Derby County^[6]	38	14	3	2	40	11	9	4	6	31	22	71	33	2.152	+38	53
2	Preston North End^[6]	38	14	4	1	41	16	6	6	7	20	26	61	42	1.452	+19	50
3	Barnsley	38	16	2	1	31	10	6	1	12	20	41	51	51	1.000	±0	47
4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	38	12	4	3	47	13	7	3	9	30	39	77	52	1.481	+25	45
5	Arsenal^[6]^[7]^[8]	38	15	1	3	52	13	4	4	11	17	28	69	41	1.683	+28	43
6	Birmingham ^[7]	38	13	3	3	44	13	4	6	9	18	26	62	39	1.590	+23	43
7	Hull City	38	12	2	5	36	23	7	3	9	29	31	65	54	1.204	+11	43
8	Huddersfield Town	38	12	4	3	36	13	5	4	10	25	29	61	42	1.452	+19	42
9	Clapton Orient	38	12	5	2	36	17	4	4	11	14	31	50	48	1.042	+2	41
10	Blackpool	38	11	3	5	40	22	6	2	11	18	35	58	57	1.018	+1	39
11	Bury	38	11	5	3	39	19	4	3	12	22	37	61	56	1.089	+5	38
12	Fulham	38	12	0	7	35	20	3	7	9	18	27	53	47	1.128	+6	37
13	Bristol City	38	11	2	6	38	19	4	5	10	24	37	62	56	1.107	+6	37
14	Stockport County	38	12	4	3	33	19	3	3	13	21	41	54	60	0.900	–6	37
15	Leeds City	38	9	3	7	40	25	5	1	13	25	39	65	64	1.016	+1	32
16	Lincoln City	38	9	4	6	29	23	2	5	12	17	42	46	65	0.708	–19	31
17	Grimsby Town	38	10	4	5	36	24	1	5	13	12	52	48	76	0.632	–28	31
18	Nottingham Forest	38	9	7	3	32	24	1	2	16	11	53	43	77	0.558	–34	29
19	Leicester Fosse	38	6	4	9	31	41	4	0	15	16	47	47	88	0.534	–41	24
20	Glossop^[9]	38	5	5	9	21	33	1	1	17	10	54	31	87	0.356	–56	18

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Final league tables

First Division

Results

Maps

Second Division

Results

Maps

See also

References

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