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The Football League of England is 125 today (data excitment inside)
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17-04-2013 6:22pm#1(with help from the guardian and wiki!)
The English Football League was founded at the Royal Hotel in Manchester, becoming the first national football league in the world. Twelve teams started into the first season on September 8 1888, which would produce Preston North End as their very first champions.
The first league consisted of
Accrington
Aston Villa
Blackburn Rovers
Bolton Wanderers
Burnley
Derby County
Everton
Notts County
Preston North End
Stoke F.C. (Stoke City)
West Bromwich Albion
Wolverhampton Wanderers
The Second Division was formed in 1892 when a rival league Football Alliance was absorbed into the FL after three years of existence. Clubs included
Newton Heath (later Manchester Utd),
Grimsby Town,
Sunderland Albion
Crewe Alexandra
Nottingham Forest.
The second division would become home to Everton off-shoot Liverpool fc (from Lancashire League) Newcastle United from the Northern League and Woolwich Arsenal. The latter was the sole club from the south and suffered poor attendances as a result.
Its notable just how long it took for southern clubs to become part of the League at any level and the North West bias of the early days has arguably continued to this very day. When one considered the trophy count by region.
The best of the best league table, with each point won contributing to the position as of this week, top 50 only.
Everton are the most top flight club with 110 seasons, followed by Villa on 102 and Liverpool on 103.
The top side in the trophy efficiency index are Manchester Utd followed by Liverpool then Arsenal. (Huddersfield Town are 4th!) This is calculated by combining the number of seasons in the leagues top flight and the number of titles won of same.
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