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* Two
points deducted for fielding ineligible players.
The Football Alliance was considered by many as the Second Division of
the Football League. That reputation was confirmed when 11 of its 12
members joined the Football League when that competition expanded its
membership at the end of the 1891/92 season with the formation of Division
2.
The new First Division increased its membership by 2 clubs. Of the
bottom 4 in 1891/92 seeking re-election West Bromwich Albion were not
required to seek re-election as they were the FA Cup holders but the other
3 were pitched against those seeking election. Voting -
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Newcastle East End
(now Newcastle United) and the combined Middlesbrough
club declined invitations to join the new Division 2. The 12 clubs who did
accept invitations to become founder members of the new Division were
Ardwick (now Manchester City), Bootle, Burton Swifts, Burslem Port
Vale (Port Vale), Crewe Alexandra, Darwen (who had not been
re-elected to Division 1), Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Northwich
Victoria, Sheffield United, Small Heath (Birmingham City), Walsall
Town Swifts (Walsall).
The only Football Alliance club not to join the League - Birmingham St
George's - folded due to financial problems and shorn of its membership the
Football Alliance itself disbanded.
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