1981–82 Football League

Football League
Second Division
Season	1981–82
Champions	Luton Town (1st title)
Promoted	Norwich City,; Watford
Relegated	Cardiff City,; Orient,; Wrexham
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,171 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ronnie Moore (Rotherham United), 22
Biggest home win	QPR –Bolton Wanderers 7–1 (1 May 1982); Rotherham –Chelsea 6–0 (31 October 1981); Luton –Grimsby Town 6–0 (17 October 1981)
Biggest away win	Cardiff City –Newcastle 0–4 (3 October 1981); Newcastle –QPR 0–4 (5 May 1982)
Highest scoring	Cardiff City –Cambridge United 5–4 (20 March 1982)
	← 1980–81 1982–83 →

Football League
First Division
Season	1981–82
Champions	Liverpool (13th English title)
Relegated	Leeds United,; Middlesbrough,; Wolverhampton Wanderers
European Cup 1982–83	Liverpool,; Aston Villa
FA Cup winners; European Cup Winners' Cup 1982–83	Tottenham Hotspur (7th FA Cup title),; Swansea City (Welsh Cup winners)
UEFA Cup 1982–83	Arsenal,; Ipswich Town,; Manchester United,; Southampton
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,173 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kevin Keegan (Southampton), 26
Biggest home win	Coventry – Sunderland 6–1 (27 April 1982); Tottenham – Wolverhampton 6–1 (6 February 1982); Manchester United –Wolverhampton 5–0 (3 October 1982)
Biggest away win	Manchester City – Liverpool 0–5 (10 April 1982)
Highest scoring	Southampton – Coventry 5–5 (4 May 1982)
	← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The Football League
Season	1981–82
Champions	Liverpool
	← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The 1981–1982 season was the 83rd completed season (84th overall) of The Football League.

Overview

3 points for a win was introduced for the first time in England. Champions Aston Villa finished a disappointing 11th but made up for this by triumphing in the European Cup at the first attempt.

Liverpool made up for the previous season's slip in league form by winning the league championship for the 13th time in their history, fighting off competition from Ipswich Town, Manchester United and Spurs. Liverpool also won the Football League Cup for the second season in succession. The league triumph was made all the more significant by the fact that they had occupied 10th place on Christmas Day.

Their season of triumph was overshadowed, however, by the death of legendary former manager Bill Shankly, 67, following a heart attack in late September.

Middlesbrough and Wolves were relegated as financial problems at both clubs began to mount. They were joined by Leeds United, who had gradually fallen apart in the eight years since Don Revie's departure.

West Bromwich Albion felt the loss of manager Ron Atkinson and key players Bryan Robson and Remi Moses as they slumped to 19th in the league and narrowly avoided relegation. This was just the beginning of a sharp decline for a club who three seasons earlier had reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals and almost won the league title.

Swansea City were tipped for relegation by most observers as they reached the First Division for the first time in their history, having just completed their third promotion in four seasons. But John Toshack's men had a brilliant first game in the top flight, crushing Leeds United 5-1 and setting the tone for a season which would end with Leeds going down. Swansea, meanwhile, were the most unlikely title contenders, topping the league at several stages of the season before finishing sixth in the final table.

Manchester United paid a British record fee of £1.75million for West Bromwich Albion's 24-year-old England midfielder Bryan Robson. Robson's record-breaking move reflected on how the size of transfer fees had risen dramatically in a relatively short period of time. Less than four years earlier, the British record fee had been the £516,000 that West Bromwich Albion had paid for David Mills. In such a short amount of time, the British record had more than tripled.

Everton, who had struggled in the league for the past few seasons, turned to their former player Howard Kendall and appointed him as manager in hope of restoring the club to its former glory.

Final league tables and results

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] with home and away statistics separated.

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. From the 1922–23 season on it was required of the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South. Since the Fourth Division was established in the 1958–59 season, the re-election process has concerned the bottom four clubs in that division.^[2]

First Division

The First Division title race saw many teams take the lead throughout the season, including traditional favourites like Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, as well as thriving Ipswich Town and Southampton, and most incredibly a Swansea City side who had never been in the First Division before, and who had been in the Fourth Division just a few seasons previously. In the end, however, it was Liverpool who clinched the title after a surge in the second half of the campaign which took them from mid table at Christmas to clinching the title on the final day of the season. They also retained the League Cup. Defending champions Aston Villa only finished mid-table but finished the season as European Cup winners, three months after Ron Saunders stood down as manager and was succeeded by his assistant Tony Barton.

Wolves went down to the Second Division for the second time in seven seasons, while Middlesbrough went down after eight years in the First Division. Leeds United, who had gradually lost touch with the First Division's elite since Don Revie left in 1974, lost their top flight status after 18 years.

Other memorable events of the season included the early season transfer of Bryan Robson from West Bromwich Albion to Manchester United for a national record £1.5million, and the death of legendary former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Liverpool	42	14	3	4	39	14	12	6	3	41	18	80	32	+48	87	European Cup 1982–83 First round ^{[notes 1]}
2	Ipswich Town	42	17	1	3	47	25	9	4	8	28	28	75	53	+22	83	UEFA Cup 1982–83 First round
3	Manchester United	42	12	6	3	27	9	10	6	5	32	20	59	29	+30	78	UEFA Cup 1982–83 First round
4	Tottenham Hotspur	42	12	4	5	41	26	8	7	6	26	22	67	48	+19	71	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1982–83 First round
5	Arsenal	42	13	5	3	27	15	7	6	8	21	22	48	37	+11	71	UEFA Cup 1982–83 First round
6	Swansea City	42	13	3	5	34	16	8	3	10	24	35	58	51	+7	69	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1982–83 First round ^{[notes 2]}
7	Southampton	42	15	2	4	49	30	4	7	10	23	37	72	67	+5	66	UEFA Cup 1982–83 First round
8	Everton	42	11	7	3	33	21	6	6	9	23	29	56	50	+6	64
9	West Ham United	42	9	10	2	42	29	5	6	10	24	28	66	57	+9	58
10	Manchester City	42	9	7	5	32	23	6	6	9	17	27	49	50	–1	58
11	Aston Villa	42	9	6	6	28	24	6	6	9	27	29	55	53	+2	57	European Cup 1982–83 First round ^{[notes 3]}
12	Nottingham Forest	42	7	7	7	19	20	8	5	8	23	28	42	48	–6	57
13	Brighton & Hove Albion	42	8	7	6	30	24	5	6	10	13	28	43	52	–9	52
14	Coventry City	42	9	4	8	31	24	4	7	10	25	38	56	62	–6	50
15	Notts County	42	8	5	8	32	33	5	3	13	29	36	61	69	–8	47
16	Birmingham City	42	8	6	7	29	25	2	8	11	24	36	53	61	–8	44
17	West Bromwich Albion	42	6	6	9	24	25	5	5	11	22	32	46	57	–11	44
18	Stoke City	42	9	2	10	27	28	3	6	12	17	35	44	63	–19	44
19	Sunderland	42	6	5	10	19	26	5	6	10	19	32	38	58	–20	44
20	Leeds United	42	6	11	4	23	20	4	1	16	16	41	39	61	–22	42
21	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	8	5	8	19	20	2	5	14	13	43	32	63	–31	40
22	Middlesbrough	42	5	9	7	20	24	3	6	12	14	28	34	52	–18	39

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

^ Liverpool were also this season's League Cup Winners.
^ Swansea City qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as 1982 Welsh Cup winners.
^ Aston Villa won the European Cup this year, and thus qualified for the following season's competition as defending champions.

Key
	League Champions, qualified for European Cup
	Qualified for European Cup
	FA Cup winners, qualified for Cup Winners' Cup
	Welsh Cup winners, qualified for Cup Winners' Cup
	Qualified for UEFA Cup
	League Cup Winners, see Liverpool
	Relegated

Results

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Locations of the Football League First Division 1981–1982 teams

Locations of the Football League First Division London teams 1981–1982

Second Division

Luton Town clinched the Second Division as their cosmopolitan side ended the club's seven-year exile from the First Division, joined by runners-up Watford (in the First Division for the first time under inspirational manager Graham Taylor) and a Norwich City side who had surged from 10th place to the final promotion place during the final quarter of the campaign. Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and Leicester City just missed out on promotion, as did two surprise contenders still yet to play in the First Division - Barnsley and Rotherham United.

Orient, Wrexham and Cardiff City went down to the Third Division.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Luton Town	42	16	3	2	48	19	9	10	2	38	27	86	46	+40	88
2	Watford	42	13	6	2	46	16	10	5	6	30	26	76	42	+34	80
3	Norwich City	42	14	3	4	41	19	8	2	11	23	31	64	50	+14	71
4	Sheffield Wednesday	42	10	8	3	31	23	10	2	9	24	28	55	51	+4	70
5	Queens Park Rangers	42	15	4	2	40	9	6	2	13	25	34	65	43	+22	69
6	Barnsley	42	13	4	4	33	14	6	6	9	26	27	59	41	+18	67
7	Rotherham United	42	13	5	3	42	19	7	2	12	24	35	66	54	+12	67
8	Leicester City	42	12	5	4	31	19	6	7	8	25	29	56	48	+8	66
9	Newcastle United	42	14	4	3	30	14	4	4	13	22	36	52	50	+2	62
10	Blackburn Rovers	42	11	4	6	26	15	5	7	9	21	28	47	43	+4	59
11	Oldham Athletic	42	9	9	3	28	23	6	5	10	22	28	50	51	–1	59
12	Chelsea	42	10	5	6	37	30	5	7	9	23	30	60	60	±0	57
13	Charlton Athletic	42	11	5	5	33	22	2	7	12	17	43	50	65	–15	51
14	Cambridge United	42	11	4	6	31	19	2	5	14	17	34	48	53	–5	48
15	Crystal Palace	42	9	2	10	25	26	4	7	10	9	19	34	45	–11	48
16	Derby County	42	9	8	4	32	23	3	4	14	21	45	53	68	–15	48
17	Grimsby Town	42	5	8	8	29	30	6	5	10	24	35	53	65	–12	46
18	Shrewsbury Town	42	10	6	5	26	19	1	7	13	11	38	37	57	–20	46
19	Bolton Wanderers	42	10	4	7	28	24	3	3	15	11	37	39	61	–22	46
20	Cardiff City	42	9	2	10	28	32	3	6	12	17	29	45	61	–16	44
21	Wrexham	42	9	4	8	22	22	2	7	12	18	34	40	56	–16	44
22	Orient	42	6	8	7	23	24	4	1	16	13	37	36	61	–25	39

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Relegated

Results

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Maps

Locations of the Football League Second Division 1981–1982 teams

Locations of the Football League Second Division London teams 1981–1982

Third Division

Burnley, Carlisle United and Fulham enjoyed some success after a string of disappointments by winning promotion to the Second Division.

Going down were Wimbledon, Swindon Town, Bristol City and Chester. Bristol had completed a unique succession of three relegations, while Swindon had been League Cup winners little over a decade earlier. Wimbledon, meanwhile, would not be enduring any more disappointing season for many years after 1982.

Joe Royle, the 33-year-old former Everton striker, began his managerial career at Oldham Athletic.

Football League
Third Division
Season	1981–82
Champions	Burnley (1st title)
Promoted	Carlisle United, Fulham
Relegated	Bristol City, Chester, Swindon Town, Wimbledon
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,422 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gordon Davies (Fulham), 24 ^[3]
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Burnley	46	13	7	3	37	20	8	10	5	29	25	66	45	+21	80
2	Carlisle United	46	17	4	2	44	21	6	7	10	21	29	65	50	+15	80
3	Fulham	46	12	9	2	44	22	9	6	8	33	29	77	51	+26	78
4	Lincoln City	46	13	7	3	40	16	8	7	8	26	24	66	40	+26	77
5	Oxford United	46	10	8	5	28	18	9	6	8	35	31	63	49	+14	71
6	Gillingham	46	14	5	4	44	26	6	6	11	20	30	64	56	+8	71
7	Southend United	46	11	7	5	35	23	7	8	8	28	28	63	51	+12	69
8	Brentford	46	8	6	9	28	22	11	5	7	28	25	56	47	+9	68
9	Millwall	46	12	4	7	36	28	6	9	8	26	34	62	62	±0	67
10	Plymouth Argyle	46	12	5	6	37	24	6	6	11	27	32	64	56	+8	65
11	Chesterfield	46	12	4	7	33	27	6	6	11	24	31	57	58	–1	64
12	Reading	46	11	6	6	43	35	6	5	12	24	40	67	75	–8	62
13	Portsmouth	46	11	10	2	33	14	3	9	11	23	37	56	51	+5	61
14	Preston North End	46	10	7	6	25	22	6	6	11	25	34	50	56	–6	61
15	Bristol Rovers	46	12	4	7	35	28	6	5	12	23	37	58	65	–7	61
16	Newport County	46	9	10	4	28	21	5	6	12	26	33	54	54	±0	58
17	Huddersfield Town	46	10	5	8	38	25	5	7	11	26	34	64	59	+5	57
18	Exeter City	46	14	4	5	46	34	2	5	16	25	51	71	85	–14	57
19	Doncaster Rovers	46	9	9	5	31	24	4	8	11	24	44	55	68	–13	56
20	Walsall	46	10	7	6	32	23	3	7	13	19	32	51	55	–4	53
21	Wimbledon	46	10	6	7	33	27	4	5	14	28	48	61	75	–14	53
22	Swindon Town	46	9	5	9	37	36	4	8	11	18	35	55	71	–16	52
23	Bristol City	46	7	6	10	24	29	4	7	12	17	36	41	65	–24	46
24	Chester	46	2	10	11	16	30	5	1	17	20	48	36	78	–42	32

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Relegated

Results

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Locations of the Football League Third Division teams 1981–1982

Locations of the Football League Third Division London teams 1981–1982

Fourth Division

Sheffield United began the first phase of their revival by winning the Fourth Division championship, which marked a superb start to the management career of Ian Porterfield. Also promoted were Bradford City, Wigan Athletic and Bournemouth.

Crewe Alexandra endured a terrible season and propped up the league with just 27 league points, but the other league members voted in their favour and they maintained their league status.

Football League
Fourth Division
Season	1981–82
Champions	Sheffield United (1st title)
Promoted	Bournemouth, Bradford City, Wigan Athletic
Failed re-election	None
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,512 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Keith Edwards (Hull City / Sheffield United) 36 ^[3]
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Sheffield United	46	15	8	0	53	15	12	7	4	41	26	94	41	+53	96
2	Bradford City	46	14	7	2	52	23	12	6	5	36	22	88	45	+43	91
3	Wigan Athletic	46	17	5	1	47	18	9	8	6	33	28	80	46	+34	91
4	Bournemouth	46	12	10	1	37	15	11	9	3	25	15	62	30	+32	88
5	Peterborough United	46	16	3	4	46	22	8	7	8	25	35	71	57	+14	82
6	Colchester United	46	12	6	5	47	23	8	6	9	35	34	82	57	+25	72
7	Port Vale	46	9	12	2	26	17	9	4	10	30	32	56	49	+7	70
8	Hull City	46	14	3	6	36	23	5	9	9	34	38	70	61	+9	69
9	Bury	46	13	7	3	53	26	4	10	9	27	33	80	59	+21	68
10	Hereford United	46	10	9	4	36	25	6	10	7	28	33	64	58	+6	67
11	Tranmere Rovers	46	7	9	7	27	25	7	9	7	24	31	51	56	–5	60
12	Blackpool	46	11	5	7	40	26	4	8	11	26	34	66	60	+6	58
13	Darlington	46	10	5	8	36	28	5	8	10	25	34	61	62	–1	58
14	Hartlepool United	46	9	8	6	39	34	4	8	11	34	50	73	84	–11	55
15	Torquay United	46	9	8	6	30	25	5	5	13	17	34	47	59	–12	55
16	Aldershot	46	8	7	8	34	29	5	8	10	23	39	57	68	–11	54
17	York City	46	9	5	9	45	37	5	3	15	24	54	69	91	–22	50
18	Stockport County	46	10	5	8	34	28	2	8	13	14	39	48	67	–19	49
19	Halifax Town	46	6	11	6	28	30	3	11	9	23	42	51	72	–21	49
20	Mansfield Town	46	8	6	9	39	39	5	4	14	24	42	63	81	–18	47
21	Rochdale	46	7	9	7	26	22	3	7	13	24	40	50	62	–12	46
22	Northampton Town	46	9	5	9	32	27	2	4	17	25	57	57	84	–27	42
23	Scunthorpe United	46	7	9	7	26	35	2	6	15	17	44	43	79	–36	42
24	Crewe Alexandra	46	3	6	14	19	32	3	3	17	10	52	29	84	–55	27

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	New club in the league (none)
	Re-elected
	Failed re-election (none)

Results

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Locations of the Football League Fourth Division teams 1981–1982

Election/Re-election to the Football League

This year Runcorn, the winners of the Alliance Premier League, could not apply for election because they did not meet Football League requirements. 2nd placed Enfield could not apply either for the same reasons, so 3rd placed Telford United won the right to apply for election to the Football League to replace one of the four bottom sides in the 1981–82 Football League Fourth Division. The vote went as follows:

Club	Final Position	Votes
Northampton Town	22nd (Fourth Division)	53
Crewe Alexandra	24th (Fourth Division)	50
Rochdale	21st (Fourth Division)	48
Hartlepool United	23rd (Fourth Division)	48
Telford United	3rd (Alliance Premier League)	13

As a result of this, all four Football League teams were re-elected, and Telford United were denied membership of the League.

References

^ "England 1981–82". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.

Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.

[4] Liverpool were also this season's League Cup Winners.

[5] Swansea City qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as 1982 Welsh Cup winners.

[6] Aston Villa won the European Cup this year, and thus qualified for the following season's competition as defending champions.

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[2] Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.

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v t e 1981–82 in European football (UEFA)
« 1980–81 1982–83 »
Domestic leagues	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark '81 '82 England Faroe Islands '81 '82 Finland '81 '82 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '81 '82 Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '81 '82 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Scotland Soviet Union '81 '82 Spain Sweden '81 '82 Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Domestic cups	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark England Faroe Islands '81 '82 Finland '81 '82 France East Germany West Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '81 '82 Israel Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '81 '82 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania San Marino Scotland Soviet Union '81 '82 Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Wales Yugoslavia
League cups	England Republic of Ireland Scotland
Super cups	Soviet Union '81
UEFA competitions	European Cup (Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final)
Non-UEFA competitions	Intertoto Cup Balkans Cup '80–'81 '81–'83

Overview

Final league tables and results

First Division

Results

Maps

Second Division

Results

Maps

Third Division

Results

Maps

Fourth Division

Results

Maps

Election/Re-election to the Football League

See also

References