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      FOOTBALL ALLIANCE  1891/92
      For full league and cup results  click on by club required.
      P W D L F A Pts
      1 Nottingham Forest 22 14 5 3 59 22 33
      Season Results 2 Newton Heath 22 12 7 3 69 33 31
      Season Results 3 Small Heath 22 12 5 5 53 36 29
      4 Sheffield Wednesday 22 12 4 6 65 35 28
      5 Burton Swifts 22 12 2 8 54 52 26
      6 Grimsby Town 22 6 6 10 40 39 18
      7 Crewe Alexandra 22 7 4 11 44 49 18
      Season Results 8 Ardwick 22 6 6 10 39 51 18
      9 Bootle 22 8 2 12 42 64 18
      10 Lincoln City 22 6 5 11 37 65 17
      11 Walsall Town Swifts 22 6 3 13 33 59 15
      12 Birmingham St George's 22 5 3 14 34 64 11 *
     
     

* 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 - 

     
10 votes Sheffield Wednesday Elected to the League
9 Nottingham Forest Elected to the League
7 Accrington Re-elected to the League
6 Stoke Re-elected to the League
6 Newton Heath Elected to the League
5 Sheffield United Not elected to the League
4 Darwen Not re-elected to the League
1 Burton Swifts Not elected to the League
1 Newcastle East End Not elected to the League
1 Middlesbrough/ Not elected to the League
  Middlesbrough Ironopolis (combined)
0 Liverpool Caledonian Not elected to the League

Newton Heath is now Manchester United.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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.