1932–33 Football League

Final league tables

Match results are drawn from The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website and Rothmans for the First Division and from Rothmans for the Second Division and for the two Third Divisions.

From the 1922–23 season onwards, re-election was required of the bottom two teams of both the Third Division North and Third Division South leagues.

First Division

2nd English title Blackpool (35 goals) (25 February 1933) (5 November 1932) (20 October 1932) Arsenal 9–2 Sheffield United (24 December 1932) Blackburn Rovers 6–5 Blackpool (2 January 1933) Liverpool 7–4 Everton (11 February 1933)

Results

• The Blackpool v Chelsea match at Bloomfield Road on the 29th of October was played in terrible conditions, with a quagmire pitch and ferocious rain and wind. Only eight Chelsea players started the second half, and they finished the match with only six players.

Maps

Arsenal Chelsea

Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham Blackburn Rovers Blackpool Bolton Chelsea Derby County Everton Huddersfield Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester City Middlesbrough Newcastle Portsmouth Sheffield United Sheffield Wednesday Sunderland West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division

Tottenham Hotspur Charlton Athletic (37 goals) (24 September 1932) (3 September 1932) Preston North End 2–6 Tottenham Hotspur (8 October 1932) Oldham Athletic 0–4 Stoke City (31 January 1933) Oldham Athletic 1–5 Tottenham Hotspur (11 February 1933) Bradford City 1–5 Millwall (18 February 1933) (15 October 1932) West Ham United 7–3 Charlton Athletic (26 November 1932) Grimsby Town 5–5 Charlton Athletic (7 January 1933)

Results

Maps

Charlton Athletic Fulham Millwall Tottenham West Ham

Bradford City Bradford Park Avenue Burnley Bury Charlton Chesterfield Fulham Grimsby Town Lincoln City Manchester United Millwall Nottingham Forest Notts County Oldham Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Preston North End Southampton Swansea Town Stoke Tottenham West Ham

Third Division North

Third Division North

Results

Maps

Accrington Stanley Barnsley Barrow Carlisle United Chester Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Gateshead Halifax Town Hartlepool Hull Mansfield Town New Brighton Rochdale Rotherham Southport Stockport Tranmere Walsall Wrexham York City

Third Division South

Third Division South

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Results

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Maps

Brentford Clapton Orient Crystal Palace Queens Park Rangers Watford

Aldershot Bournemouth Brentford Brighton & Hove Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cardiff City Clapton Orient Coventry Crystal P. Exeter City Gillingham Luton Town Newport County Northampton Town Norwich City QPR Southend Reading Torquay Swindon Watford

Attendances

Source:

Division One

Division Two

Division Three

References

• Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.

References

1. "England 1932-33". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
2. Ian Laschke: ''Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79''. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
3. "English League Leading Goalscorers".
4. (2010). "Football's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of football". Portico.
5. https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/eng/aveeng1933.htm