Football League Second Division 1898/99

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Football League Second Division 1898/99
Football League logo until 1988
master Manchester City
Climbers Manchester City, Glossop North End
Relegated Blackpool FC , FC Darwen
Teams 18th
Games 306
Gates 1,103  (ø 3.6 per game)
Top scorer Walter Abbott ( Small Heath )
Football League Second Division 1897/98
^ Football League First Division 1898/99

The Football League Second Division 1898/99 was the seventh season of the Football League Second Division as the second highest English football league . Second division champions were Manchester City and in addition to the "Citizens", the second-placed Glossop North End rose to the Football League First Division .

For the first time the automatic promotion and relegation rule intervened between the first and second English leagues and so the two first division teams Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday, ranked in the table below, took the places for the two promoted in the following second division season 1899/1900 . FC Blackpool and FC Darwen had to relegate from the Second Division . In addition, Loughborough FC feared to remain in the class, but then received enough votes in the re-election process of the league association to be allowed to participate again in the Second Division in the following season 1899/1900. The places of Blackpool and Darwen took the newly promoted Chesterfield FC and Middlesbrough FC .

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Quota Points
 1. Manchester City  34  23  6th  5 092:350 2.63 52:16
 2. Glossop North End (N)  34  20th  6th  8th 076:380 2.00 46:22
 3. Leicester Fosse  34  18th  9  7th 064:420 1.52 45:23
 4th Newton Heath  34  19th  5  10 067:430 1.56 43:25
 5. New Brighton Tower (N)  34  18th  7th  9 071:520 1.37 43:25
 6th Walsall FC  34  15th  12  7th 079:360 2.19 42:26
 7th Woolwich Arsenal  34  18th  5  11 072:410 1.76 41:27
 8th. Small Heath  34  17th  7th  10 085:500 1.70 41:27
 9. Burslem Port Vale (N)  34  17th  5  12 056:340 1.65 39:29
10. Grimsby Town  34  15th  5  14th 071:600 1.18 35:33
11. Barnsley FC (N)  34  12  7th  15th 052:560 0.93 31:37
12. Lincoln City  34  12  7th  15th 051:560 0.91 31:37
13. Burton Swifts  34  10  8th  16 051:700 0.73 28:40
14th Gainsborough Trinity  34  10  5  19th 056:720 0.78 25:43
15th Luton Town  34  10  3  21st 051:950 0.54 23:45
16. Blackpool FC  34  8th  4th  22nd 049:900 0.54 20:48
17th Loughborough FC  34  6th  6th  22nd 038:920 0.41 18:50
18th FC Darwen  34  2  5  27 022: 141 0.16 09:59
  • Second division champion and promoted to the Football League First Division 1899/1900
  • Promoted to the Football League First Division 1899/1900
  • Relegation from the Football League Second Division
  • (N) Newcomers from the 1897/98 season

    Results table

    The home teams are listed in the left column.

    1898/99 BAR BLP BPV BUS DAR GAI GNE GRI LEI LIN LOU LUT MNC NBT NHE SHE WHALE WOA
    Barnsley FC 2: 1 2: 1 2-0 6-0 1-0 1: 1 2: 2 3: 4 1-0 9-0 2: 1 1: 1 2: 1 0: 2 7: 2 1: 1 2: 1
    Blackpool FC 3: 1 0: 4 3-0 6-0 4-0 1: 2 3: 6 2: 2 3-0 2: 1 2: 3 2: 4 1: 2 0: 1 1: 1 1: 2 1: 1
    Burslem Port Vale 2-0 6: 1 4: 1 3: 1 2: 1 1: 2 2-0 0: 2 2: 1 3-0 4: 1 1: 1 0-0 1-0 1-0 0: 1 3-0
    Burton Swifts 5-0 3: 1 2-0 4-0 2: 1 1: 2 1: 2 1: 1 2: 1 1: 1 1: 1 3: 3 1: 1 5: 1 2: 6 0: 2 1: 2
    FC Darwen 1: 1 0: 2 1: 3 0: 2 0: 3 0: 2 0: 2 3-0 1: 2 0: 1 4: 1 0: 2 2: 4 1: 1 1: 1 1: 1 1: 4
    Gainsborough Trinity 2-0 7-0 3: 2 1: 2 2: 2 2: 4 5: 1 4-0 2: 2 3-0 2: 3 3: 1 3: 1 0: 2 1: 1 0-0 0: 1
    Glossop North End 1-0 4: 1 0-0 5-0 5-0 5: 1 4: 2 1: 3 2-0 4-0 5-0 1: 2 5-0 1: 2 1: 2 2-0 2-0
    Grimsby Town 0: 1 2: 1 3: 1 1: 3 9: 2 0: 2 1: 1 1-0 1: 1 5-0 5-0 1: 2 2: 2 3-0 2-0 2: 1 1-0
    Leicester Fosse 3: 1 4-0 1: 1 1-0 4-0 1-0 4: 2 2-0 3: 2 1-0 1: 1 1: 1 4: 1 1-0 0-0 2: 2 2: 1
    Lincoln City FC 1-0 0-0 1-0 1: 1 2-0 1-0 2: 2 1: 6 3: 1 6-0 2-0 3: 1 1: 2 2-0 2: 2 1: 1 2-0
    Loughborough FC 2-0 1: 3 0: 3 1-0 10-0 0-0 1: 3 1: 3 0: 3 2: 4 4: 1 1: 3 6-0 0: 1 1: 1 1: 1 0-0
    Luton Town 4: 1 3: 2 0: 1 3-0 8: 1 4: 2 0: 2 3: 1 1: 6 2-0 2: 2 0: 3 2: 3 0: 1 2: 3 3: 2 0: 1
    Manchester City 5-0 4: 1 3: 1 6-0 10-0 4-0 0: 2 7: 2 3: 1 3: 1 5-0 2-0 1: 1 4-0 2-0 2-0 3: 1
    New Brighton Tower 2: 1 4-0 1-0 2: 2 7-0 3: 2 2: 2 2-0 1-0 4: 1 3-0 4-0 0: 1 0: 3 4-0 6-0 3: 1
    Newton Heath 0-0 3: 1 2: 1 2: 2 9-0 6: 1 3-0 3: 2 2: 2 1-0 6: 1 5-0 3-0 1: 2 2-0 1-0 2: 2
    Small Heath 3: 1 5-0 1: 2 4: 1 8-0 6: 1 1: 1 2: 1 0: 3 4: 1 6-0 9-0 4: 1 3: 2 4: 1 2: 1 4: 1
    Walsall FC 1: 1 6-0 1: 1 7: 1 10-0 6: 1 2-0 4: 1 1: 1 3: 2 7-0 6-0 1: 1 1: 1 2-0 2-0 4: 1
    Woolwich Arsenal 3-0 6-0 1-0 2: 1 6-0 5: 1 3-0 1: 1 4-0 4: 2 3: 1 6: 2 0: 1 4-0 5: 1 2-0 0-0

    List of goalscorers

    player society Gates
    1 EnglandEngland Walter Abbott Small Heath 33

    literature

    • Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records, 1888 to 1939. SoccerData, Beeston 2002, ISBN 1-899468-63-3 .

    Web links

    References and footnotes

    1. English League Leading Goalscorers (RSSSF)
    2. Season 1898/99. In: wildstat.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .