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  Leading League goalscorer:
Walter Abbott
 (Small Heath)
 33  goals

The season after
they had been playing the likes of Kettering and Long Eaton when finishing fourth from bottom of the Midland League Glossop North End finished just behind Manchester City to win a promotion spot from Division 2 with Manchester United (Newton Heath) and Arsenal (Woolwich Arsenal) below them. The Derbyshire town of Glossop became the smallest town to stage League football, a record it held for over a century until Rushden & Diamonds played at Irthlingborough.

At the bottom Darwen entered the record books with the worst defensive record in League history when conceding 141 goals in their 34 Second Division  matches. They lost 10-0 three times away from home and their 109 goals against in their away matches is the only time a century of away goals has been scored against a club in a League season.

   Results 1 Manchester City 34 23 6 5 92 35 52 Promoted
    Results 2 Glossop North End 34 20 6 8 76 38 46 Promoted
    Results 3 Leicester Fosse 34 18 9 7 64 42 45
    Results 4 Newton Heath 34 19 5 10 67 43 43
    Results 5 New Brighton Tower 34 18 7 9 71 52 43
    Results 6 Walsall 34 15 12 7 79 36 42
    Results 7 Woolwich Arsenal 34 18 5 11 72 41 41
    8 Small Heath 34 17 7 10 85 50 41
    9 Burslem Port Vale 34 17 5 12 56 34 39
    10 Grimsby Town 34 15 5 14 71 60 35
    11 Barnsley 34 12 7 15 52 56 31
    12 Lincoln City 34 12 7 15 51 56 31
    Results 13 Burton Swifts 34 10 8 16 51 70 28
    Results 14 Gainsborough Trinity 34 10 5 19 56 72 25
    Results 15 Luton Town 34 10 3 21 51 95 23
    16 Blackpool 34 8 4 22 49 90 20 Re-election position Left League
    Results 17 Loughborough 34 6 6 22 38 92 18 Re-election position
    Results 18 Darwen 34 2 5 27 22 141 9

Re-election position

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The table above lists the clubs in their original names. For the same table but with clubs in their modern names click here.

   

Darwen did not seek re-election. R Seven non-league clubs challenged the remaining two clubs needing to seek re-election to Division 2 in the vote for League membership. Voting -
28 votes Loughborough Re-elected to the League
17 Chesterfield Town Elected to the League
17 Middlesbrough Elected to the League
15 Blackpool Not re-elected to the League
11 Stockport County Not elected to the League
7 Chorley Not elected to the League
7 Wigan County Not elected to the League
0 Coventry City Not elected to the League
0 Ashton North End Not elected to the League
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
     

 

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No League club could do it until the 1981/82 season but York City were the first to do it - in 1983/84. Fulham were the first club to do it twice while a Premier League club didn't manage it until 2017/18. What?

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