Football League First Division

Football League First Division a reprezentat cea mai importantă întrecere fotbalistică internă din Anglia după fuziunea a Football Alliance cu Football League în anul 1892.

Urmând procedurile jurdice ale forului englez de fotbal FA Football Association, Football League a fondată în anul în 1888 după mai multe întruniri inițiate de către președintele clubului Aston Villa Football Club (Birmingham), William McGregor.

Primul sezon a început la 8 spetembrie 1888 și a reunit 12 cluburi din regiunile Midlands și Northern England: Accrington Football Club, Aston Villa FC, Blackburn Rovers FC, Bolton Wanderers FC, Burnley FC, Derby County FC, Everton FC, Notts County FC, Preston North End FC, Stoke Football Club. (redenumit Stoke City FC în 1928), West Bromwich Albion FC și Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.

La sfârșitul primului sezon, 1888-99, Preston North End Football Club a cucerit primul titlu de campioni.

Concomitent cu Football League mai exista o competiție, Football Alliance prezidată de John Holmes, președintele clubului The Wednesday (Sheffield).

În 1892, cele două competiții au fuzionat creându-se astfel o competiție mai puternică ierarhizată pe două eșaloane: Football League First Division (care cuprinde majoritatea echipelor din Football League și cele mai puternice trei echipe din Football Alliance) și Football League Second Division (majoritatea din "Football Alliance").

Sezonul	Champioana Nr. de Titluri	Vice-Campioana	Locul Trei	Golgheter	Nr. Goluri
1892–93	Sunderland	Preston	Everton	John Campbell (Sunderland A.F.C.)	31
1893–94	Aston Villa	Sunderland	Derby County	Jack Southworth (Everton F.C.)	27
1894–95	Sunderland	Everton	Aston Villa	John Campbell (Sunderland A.F.C.)	22
1895–96	Aston Villa	Derby County	Everton	John Campbell (Aston Villa F.C.) Steve Bloomer (Derby County F.C.)	20
1896–97	Aston Villa	Sheffield United	Derby County	Steve Bloomer (Derby County F.C.)	22
1897-98	Sheffield United	Sunderland	Wolverhampton	Fred Wheldon (Aston Villa F.C.)	21
1898-99	Aston Villa	Liverpool	Burnley	Steve Bloomer (Derby County F.C.)	23
1899-1900	Aston Villa	Sheffield United	Sunderland	Billy Garraty (Aston Villa F.C.)	27
1900-01	Liverpool	Sunderland	Notts County	Steve Bloomer (Derby County F.C.)	23
1901-02	Sunderland	Everton	Newcastle	Jimmy Settle (Everton F.C.)	18
1902-03	The Wednesday F.C.[8]	Aston Villa	Sunderland	Sam Raybould (Liverpool F.C.)	31
1903-04	The Wednesday F.C.	Manchester City	Everton	Steve Bloomer (Derby County F.C.)	20
1904-05	Newcastle	Everton	Manchester City	Arthur Brown (Sheffield United F.C.)	22
1905-006	Liverpool	Preston	Sheffield Wednesday	Albert Shepherd (Bolton Wanderers F.C.)	26
1906-07	Newcastle	Bristol City	Everton	Alex Young (Everton F.C.)	30
1907-08	Manchester United	Aston Villa	Manchester City	Enoch West (Nottingham Forest F.C.)	27
1908-09	Newcastle	Everton	Sunderland	Bert Freeman (Everton F.C.)	38
1909-10	Aston Villa	Liverpool	Blackburn Rovers	Jack Parkinson (Liverpool F.C.)	30
1910-11	Manchester United	Aston Villa	Sunderland	Albert Shepherd (Newcastle United F.C.)	25
1911-12	Blackburn Rovers	Everton	Newcastle	Harry Hampton (Aston Villa F.C.) George Holley (Sunderland A.F.C.) David McLean (The Wednesday)	25
1912-13	Sunderland	Aston Villa	The Wednesday F.C.	David McLean (The Wednesday F.C.)	30
1913-14	Blackburn Rovers	Aston Villa	Middlesbrough	George Elliott (Middlesbrough F.C.)	32
1914–15	Everton	Oldham	Blackburn Rovers	Bobby Parker (Everton F.C.)	35
1915/16–1918/19	Competiția suspendată în timpul Primului Război Mondial.
1919–20	West Bromwich	Burnley	Chelsea	Fred Morris (West Bromwich Albion F.C.)	37
1920–21	Burnley	Manchester City	Bolton Wanderers	Joe Smith (Bolton Wanderers F.C.)	38
1921–22	Liverpool	Tottenham	Burnley	Andrew Wilson (Middlesbrough F.C.)	31
1922–23	Liverpool	Sunderland	Huddersfield	Charlie Buchan (Sunderland A.F.C.)	30
1923–24	Huddersfield	Cardiff City	Sunderland	Wilf Chadwick (Everton F.C.)	28
1924–25	Huddersfield	West Bromwich	Bolton Wanderers	Frank Roberts (Manchester City F.C.)	31
1925–26	Huddersfield	Arsenal	Sunderland	Ted Harper (Blackburn Rovers F.C.)	43
1926–27	Newcastle	Huddersfield	Sunderland	Jimmy Trotter (The Wednesday F.C.)	37
1927–28	Everton	Huddersfield	Leicester City	Dixie Dean (Everton F.C.)	60
1928–29	The Wednesday F.C.	Leicester City	Aston Villa	Dave Halliday (Sunderland A.F.C.)	43
1929–30	Sheffield Wednesday	Derby County	Manchester City	Vic Watson (West Ham United F.C.)	41
1930–31	Arsenal	Aston Villa	Sheffield Wednesday	Tom Waring (Aston Villa F.C.)	49
1931–32	Everton	Arsenal	Sheffield Wednesday	Dixie Dean (Everton F.C.)	44
1932–33	Arsenal	Aston Villa	Sheffield Wednesday	Jack Bowers (Derby County F.C.)	35
1933–34	Arsenal	Huddersfield	Tottenham	Jack Bowers (Derby County F.C.)	34
1934–35	Arsenal	Sunderland	Sheffield Wednesday	Ted Drake (Arsenal F.C.)	42
1935–36	Sunderland	Derby County	Huddersfield	W. G. Richardson (West Bromwich Albion F.C.)	39
1936–37	Manchester City	Charlton	Arsenal	Freddie Steele (Stoke City F.C.)	33
1937–38	Arsenal	Wolverhampton	Preston	Tommy Lawton (Everton F.C.)	28
1938–39	Everton	Wolverhampton	Charlton	Tommy Lawton (Everton F.C.)	35
1939–40	Liga a fost suspendată în timpul celui de Al Doilea Război Mondial (Blackpool FC era în fruntea clasamentului)
1940/41–1945/46	Liga a fost suspendată în timpul celui de Al Doilea Război Mondial
1946–47	Liverpool	Manchester United	Wolverhampton	Dennis Westcott (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.)	37
1947–48	Arsenal	Manchester United	Burnley	Ronnie Rooke (Arsenal F.C.)	33
1948–49	Portsmouth	Manchester United	Derby County	Willie Moir (Bolton Wanderers F.C.)	25
1949–50	Portsmouth	Wolverhampton	Sunderland	Dickie Davis (Sunderland A.F.C.)	25
1950–51	Tottenham	Manchester United	Blackpool	Stan Mortensen (Blackpool F.C.)	30
1951–52	Manchester United	Tottenham	Arsenal	George Robledo (Newcastle United F.C.)	33
1952–53	Arsenal	Preston	Wolverhampton	Charlie Wayman (Preston North End F.C.)	24
1953–54	Wolverhampton	West Bromwich	Huddersfield	Jimmy Glazzard (Huddersfield Town F.C.)	29
1954–55	Chelsea	Wolverhampton	Portsmouth	Ronnie Allen (West Bromwich Albion F.C.)	27
1955–56	Manchester United	Blackpool	Wolverhampton	Nat Lofthouse (Bolton Wanderers F.C.)	33
1956–57	Manchester United	Tottenham	Preston	John Charles (Leeds United A.F.C.)	38
1957–58	Wolverhampton	Preston	Tottenham	Bobby Smith (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	36
1958–59	Wolverhampton	Manchester United	Arsenal	Jimmy Greaves (Chelsea F.C.)	33
1959–60	Burnley	Wolverhampton	Tottenham	Dennis Viollet (Manchester United F.C.)	32
1960–61	Tottenham	Sheffield Wednesday	Wolverhampton	Jimmy Greaves (Chelsea F.C.)	41
1961–62	Ipswich	Burnley	Tottenham	Ray Crawford (Ipswich Town F.C.) Derek Kevan (West Bromwich Albion F.C.)	33
1962–63	Everton	Tottenham	Burnley	Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	37
1963–64	Liverpool	Manchester United	Everton	Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	35
1964–65	Manchester United	Leeds United	Chelsea	Andy McEvoy (Blackburn Rovers F.C.) Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	29
1965–66	Liverpool	Leeds United	Burnley	Willie Irvine (Burnley F.C.)	29
1966–67	Manchester United	Nottingham Forest	Tottenham	Ron Davies (Ron Davies) (Southampton F.C.)	37
1967–68	Manchester City	Manchester United	Liverpool	George Best (Manchester United F.C.) Ron Davies (Southampton F.C.)	28
1968–69	Leeds United	Liverpool	Everton	Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur)	27
1969–70	Everton	Leeds United	Chelsea	Jeff Astle (West Bromwich Albion F.C.)	25
1970–71	Arsenal	Leeds United	Tottenham	Tony Brown (West Bromwich Albion)	28
1971–72	Derby County	Leeds United	Liverpool	Francis Lee (Manchester City F.C.)	33
1972–73	Liverpool	Arsenal	Leeds United	Pop Robson (West Ham United F.C.)	28
1973–74	Leeds United	Liverpool	Derby County	Mick Channon (Southampton F.C.)	21
1974–75	Derby County	Liverpool	Ipswich	Malcolm Macdonald (Newcastle United F.C.)	21
1975–76	Liverpool	Queens Park Rangers	Manchester United	Ted MacDougall (Norwich City F.C.)	23
1976–77	Liverpool	Manchester City	Ipswich	Malcolm Macdonald (Arsenal F.C.) Andy Gray (Aston Villa F.C.)	25
1977–78	Nottingham Forest	Liverpool	Everton	Bob Latchford (Everton F.C.)	30
1978–79	Liverpool	Nottingham Forest	West Bromwich	Frank Worthington (Bolton Wanderers F.C.)	24
1979–80	Liverpool	Manchester United	Ipswich	Phil Boyer (Southampton F.C.)	23
1980–81	Aston Villa	Ipswich	Arsenal	Peter Withe (Aston Villa F.C.) Steve Archibald (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	20
1981–82 [5]	Liverpool	Ipswich	Manchester United	Kevin Keegan (Southampton F.C.)	26
1982–83	Liverpool	Watford	Manchester United	Luther Blissett (Watford F.C.)	27
1983–84	Liverpool	Southampton	Nottingham Forest	Ian Rush (Liverpool F.C.)	32
1984–85	Everton	Liverpool	Tottenham	Kerry Dixon (Chelsea F.C.) Gary Lineker (Leicester City F.C.)	24
1985–86	Liverpool	Everton	West Ham	Gary Lineker (Everton F.C.)	30
1986–87	Everton	Liverpool	Tottenham	Clive Allen (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	33
1987–88	Liverpool	Manchester United	Nottingham Forest	John Aldridge (Liverpool F.C.)	26
1988–89	Arsenal	Liverpool	Nottingham Forest	Alan Smith (Arsenal F.C.)	23
1989–90	Liverpool	Aston Villa	Tottenham	Gary Lineker (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.)	24
1990–91	Arsenal	Liverpool	Crystal Palace	Alan Smith (Arsenal F.C.)	22
1991–92	Leeds United	Manchester United	Sheffield Wednesday	Ian Wright (Crystal Palace F.C. / Arsenal F.C.)	29

• Football League (1888-1892)
• Football Alliance
• Premier League

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