1927–28 Football League

Football League
Second Division
Season	1927–28
Champions	Manchester City (4th title)
Relegated	Fulham; South Shields
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,607 (3.48 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jimmy Cookson (West Bromwich), 38
Biggest home win	Notts County –Barnsley 9–0 (19 Nov 1927)
Biggest away win	Grimsby Town – West Bromwich 0–6 (7 Jan 1928)
Highest scoring	Barnsley –Fulham 8–4 (28 Jan 1928)
	← 1926–27 1928–29 →

Football League
First Division
Season	1927–28
Champions	Everton (3rd English title)
Relegated	Middlesbrough ; Tottenham Hotspur
FA Cup winners	Blackburn Rovers (6th and as of 2016 the last FA Cup title)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,765 (3.82 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dixie Dean (Everton), 60
Biggest home win	Everton –West Ham 7–0 (22 Oct 1927)
Biggest away win	Manchester United –Newcastle 1–7 (10 Sept 1927); Sheffield United –Huddersfield 1–7 (12 Nov 1927)
Highest scoring	Newcastle –Aston Villa 7–5 (10 Mar 1928)
	← 1926–27 1928–29 →

The Football League
Season	1927–28
Champions	Everton
	← 1926–27 1928–29 →

The 1927–28 season was the 36th season of The Football League.

Final league tables

The tables and results 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 1922–23 season on Re-election was required of the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South.^[2]

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Everton	42	11	8	2	60	28	9	5	7	42	38	102	66	1.545	+36	53
2	Huddersfield Town	42	15	1	5	57	31	7	6	8	34	37	91	68	1.338	+23	51
3	Leicester City	42	14	5	2	66	25	4	7	10	30	47	96	72	1.333	+24	48
4	Derby County	42	12	4	5	59	30	5	6	10	37	53	96	83	1.157	+13	44
5	Bury	42	13	1	7	53	35	7	3	11	27	45	80	80	1.000	0	44
6	Cardiff City	42	12	7	2	44	27	5	3	13	26	53	70	80	0.875	–10	44
7	Bolton Wanderers	42	12	5	4	47	26	4	6	11	34	40	81	66	1.227	+15	43
8	Aston Villa	42	13	3	5	52	30	4	6	11	26	43	78	73	1.068	+5	43
9	Newcastle United	42	9	7	5	49	41	6	6	9	30	40	79	81	0.975	–2	43
10	Arsenal	42	10	6	5	49	33	3	9	9	33	53	82	86	0.953	–4	41
11	Birmingham	42	10	7	4	36	25	3	8	10	34	50	70	75	0.933	–5	41
12	Blackburn Rovers	42	13	5	3	41	22	3	4	14	25	56	66	78	0.846	–12	41
13	Sheffield United	42	12	4	5	56	42	3	6	12	23	44	79	86	0.919	–7	40
14	The Wednesday	42	9	6	6	45	29	4	7	10	36	49	81	78	1.038	+3	39
15	Sunderland	42	9	5	7	37	29	6	4	11	37	47	74	76	0.974	–2	39
16	Liverpool	42	10	6	5	54	36	3	7	11	30	51	84	87	0.966	–3	39
17	West Ham United	42	9	7	5	48	34	5	4	12	33	54	81	88	0.920	–7	39
18	Manchester United	42	12	6	3	51	27	4	1	16	21	53	72	80	0.900	–8	39
19	Burnley	42	12	5	4	55	31	4	2	15	27	67	82	98	0.837	–16	39
20	Portsmouth	42	13	4	4	40	23	3	3	15	26	67	66	90	0.733	–24	39
21	Tottenham Hotspur	42	12	3	6	47	34	3	5	13	27	52	74	86	0.860	–12	38
22	Middlesbrough	42	7	9	5	46	35	4	6	11	35	53	81	88	0.920	–7	37

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
	Welsh Cup winners
	Relegated

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	42	18	2	1	70	27	7	7	7	30	32	100	59	1.695	+41	59
2	Leeds United	42	16	2	3	63	15	9	5	7	35	34	98	49	2.000	+49	57
3	Chelsea	42	15	2	4	46	15	8	6	7	29	30	75	45	1.667	+30	54
4	Preston North End	42	15	3	3	62	24	7	6	8	38	42	100	66	1.515	+34	53
5	Stoke City	42	14	5	2	44	17	8	3	10	34	42	78	59	1.322	+19	52
6	Swansea Town	42	13	6	2	46	17	5	6	10	29	46	75	63	1.190	+12	48
7	Oldham Athletic	42	15	3	3	55	18	4	5	12	20	33	75	51	1.471	+24	46
8	West Bromwich Albion	42	10	7	4	50	28	7	5	9	40	42	90	70	1.286	+20	46
9	Port Vale	42	11	6	4	45	20	7	2	12	23	37	68	57	1.193	+11	44
10	Nottingham Forest	42	10	6	5	54	37	5	4	12	29	47	83	84	0.988	–1	40
11	Grimsby Town	42	8	6	7	41	41	6	6	9	28	42	69	83	0.831	–14	40
12	Bristol City	42	11	5	5	42	18	4	4	13	34	61	76	79	0.962	–3	39
13	Barnsley	42	10	5	6	43	36	4	6	11	22	49	65	85	0.765	–20	39
14	Hull City	42	9	8	4	25	19	3	7	11	16	35	41	54	0.759	–13	39
15	Notts County	42	10	4	7	47	26	3	8	10	21	48	68	74	0.919	–6	38
16	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	11	5	5	43	31	2	5	14	20	60	63	91	0.692	–28	36
17	Southampton	42	11	3	7	54	40	3	4	14	14	37	68	77	0.883	–9	35
18	Reading	42	9	8	4	32	22	2	5	14	21	53	53	75	0.707	–22	35
19	Blackpool	42	11	3	7	55	43	2	5	14	28	58	83	101	0.822	–18	34
20	Clapton Orient	42	9	7	5	32	25	2	5	14	23	60	55	85	0.647	–30	34
21	Fulham	42	12	7	2	46	22	1	0	20	22	67	68	89	0.764	–21	33
22	South Shields	42	5	5	11	30	41	2	4	15	26	70	56	111	0.505	–55	23

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Relegated

Football League
Third Division North
Season	1927–28
Champions	Bradford Park Avenue (1st title)
Failed re-election	Durham City
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,676 (3.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Joe Smith (Stockport), 38 ^[3]
← 1926–27 1928–29 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bradford Park Avenue	42	18	2	1	68	22	9	7	5	33	23	101	45	2.244	+56	63
2	Lincoln City	42	15	4	2	53	20	9	3	9	38	44	91	64	1.422	+27	55
3	Stockport County	42	16	5	0	62	14	7	3	11	27	37	89	51	1.745	+38	54
4	Doncaster Rovers	42	15	4	2	59	18	8	3	10	21	26	80	44	1.818	+36	53
5	Tranmere Rovers	42	14	6	1	68	28	8	3	10	37	44	105	72	1.458	+33	53
6	Bradford City	42	15	4	2	59	19	3	8	10	26	41	85	60	1.417	+25	48
7	Darlington	42	15	1	5	63	28	6	4	11	26	46	89	74	1.203	+15	47
8	Southport	42	15	2	4	55	24	5	3	13	24	46	79	70	1.129	+9	45
9	Accrington Stanley	42	14	4	3	49	22	4	4	13	27	45	76	67	1.134	+9	44
10	New Brighton	42	10	7	4	45	22	4	7	10	27	40	72	62	1.161	+10	42
11	Wrexham	42	15	1	5	48	19	3	5	13	16	48	64	67	0.955	–3	42
12	Halifax Town	42	11	7	3	47	24	2	8	11	26	47	73	71	1.028	+2	41
13	Rochdale	42	13	4	4	45	24	4	3	14	29	53	74	77	0.961	–3	41
14	Rotherham United	42	11	6	4	39	19	3	5	13	26	50	65	69	0.942	–4	39
15	Hartlepools United	42	10	3	8	41	35	6	3	12	28	46	69	81	0.852	–12	38
16	Chesterfield	42	10	4	7	46	29	3	6	12	25	49	71	78	0.910	–7	36
17	Crewe Alexandra	42	10	6	5	51	28	2	4	15	26	58	77	86	0.895	–9	34
18	Ashington	42	10	5	6	54	36	1	6	14	23	67	77	103	0.748	–26	33
19	Barrow	42	10	8	3	41	24	0	3	18	13	78	54	102	0.529	–48	31
20	Wigan Borough	42	8	5	8	30	32	2	5	14	26	65	56	97	0.577	–41	30
21	Durham City	42	10	5	6	37	30	1	2	18	16	70	53	100	0.530	–47	29
22	Nelson	42	8	4	9	50	49	2	2	17	26	87	76	136	0.559	–60	26

Final league tables

First Division

Results

Maps

Second Division

Results

Maps

Third Division North

Results

Maps

Third Division South

Results

Maps

See also

References