1889–90 Football League

The 1889–90 Football League was the second season of English league football, with Preston North End being crowned as the champions for the second successive season. The clubs competing were the 12 original clubs which were the founders of the league the previous year. Unlike the modern system, two points were awarded for a win, with one for a draw and no points for a loss; this system remained until three points for a win were awarded beginning with the 1981–82 season.

Final league table

During the first five seasons of the league (until the 1893–94 season), the re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.

Results

Maps

Re-election process

At the Football League election meeting no vote was taken, and it was agreed that Burnley and Notts County were re-elected and that Sunderland was elected in place of Stoke, who played in the Football Alliance the following season but returned to the Football League after a year's absence.

The applications of Football Alliance sides Bootle, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Newton Heath and Sunderland Albion were rejected.

See also

• 1889–90 in English football
• 1889 in association football
• 1890 in association football

References

External links

• "Final 1889/1890 English Division 1 (old) Table". Soccerbase. Archived from the original on 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
• "England 1889-90". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
• Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane's, London & Sydney, 1980.