# Second Division 1896-1897

La Second Division 1896-1897 fu il quinto campionato avente questa dicitura, e vide la vittoria del Notts County.
Tom Boucher (Notts County) e J. Murphy (Notts County) sono i migliori marcatori del torneo con 22 reti.

## Squadre partecipanti

* Blackpool
* Burton Swifts
* Burton Wanderers
* Darwen
* Gainsborough Trinity
* Grimsby Town
* Leicester Fosse
* Lincoln City
* Loughborough
* Manchester City
* Newcastle Utd
* Newton Heath
* Notts County
* Small Heath
* Walsall
* Woolwich Arsenal

## Classifica finale

| Pos. | Squadra | Pt | G | V | N | P | GF | GS | MED |
| 1. | Notts County | 42 | 30 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 92 | 43 | 2,140 |
| 2. | Newton Heath | 39 | 30 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 56 | 34 | 1,647 |
| 3. | Grimsby Town | 38 | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 66 | 45 | 1,467 |
| 4. | Small Heath | 37 | 30 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 69 | 47 | 1,468 |
| 5. | Newcastle Utd | 35 | 30 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 56 | 52 | 1,077 |
| 6. | Manchester City | 32 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 58 | 50 | 1,160 |
| 7. | Gainsborough Trinity | 31 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 50 | 47 | 1,064 |
| 8. | Blackpool | 31 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 59 | 56 | 1,054 |
| 9. | Leicester Fosse | 30 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 59 | 56 | 1,054 |
| 10. | Woolwich Arsenal | 30 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 68 | 70 | 0,971 |
| 11. | Darwen | 28 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 67 | 61 | 1,098 |
| 12. | Walsall | 26 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 53 | 69 | 0,768 |
| 13. | Loughborough | 25 | 30 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 50 | 64 | 0,781 |
| 14. | Burton Swifts | 24 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 46 | 61 | 0,754 |
| 15. | Burton Wanderers | 20 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 31 | 67 | 0,463 |
| 16. | Lincoln City | 12 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 27 | 85 | 0.318 |

## Play-off

| | Risultati | | Luogo e data |
| Notts County | 1 - 0 | Sunderland | Nottingham, 17 aprile 1897 |
| Sunderland | 0 - 0 | Notts County | Sunderland, 19 aprile 1897 |
| Burnley | 2 - 0 | Newton Heath | Burnley, 19 aprile 1897 |
| Newton Heath | 2 - 0 | Burnley | Manchester, 21 aprile 1897 |
| Newton Heath | 1 - 1 | Sunderland | Manchester, 24 aprile 1897 |
| Burnley | 0 - 1 | Notts County | Burnley, 26 aprile 1897 |
| Sunderland | 2 - 0 | Newton Heath | Sunderland, 26 aprile 1897 |
| Pos. | Squadra | Pt | G | V | N | P | GF | GS | Med |
| 1. | Notts County | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 |
| 2. | Sunderland | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 |
| 3. | Burnley | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 |
| 4. | Newton Heath | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 |

## Verdetti

* Ai play-off il Notts County ottenne la promozione in First Division e il Sunderland ottenne la permanenza in First Division.
* Burnley retrocesso in Second Division 1897-1898.
* Newton Heath, squadra della Second Division, rimase nella sua categoria.
* In seguito il Burton Wanderers non rinnovò la sua partecipazione a questo campionato.

## Tabellone

| | Blp | Brs | Brw | Drw | Gbt | Gri | Lef | Lin | Lou | Mcy | New | Nwh | Ntc | Smh | Wal | Woo |
| Blackpool | –––– | 3-0 | 5-0 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 4-1 | 2-2 | 4-1 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 3-2 | 1-1 |
| Burton Swifts | 2-2 | –––– | 1-1 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 4-0 | 3-1 | 5-0 | 3-0 | 3-5 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-2 |
| Burton Wanderers | 3-1 | 1-0 | –––– | 1-0 | 3-2 | 5-1 | 2-1 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 2-6 | 1-0 | 0-3 |
| Darwen | 2-3 | 5-1 | 3-0 | –––– | 3-2 | 3-1 | 4-1 | 4-1 | 5-1 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 2-1 | 2-0 | 12-0 | 4-1 |
| Gainsborough Trinity | 2-0 | 4-1 | 2-1 | 2-4 | –––– | 1-1 | 0-2 | 7-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 2-0 | 3-2 | 1-3 | 2-0 | 4-1 |
| Grimsby Town | 2-2 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 4-2 | 1-1 | –––– | 4-1 | 3-1 | 8-1 | 3-1 | 3-2 | 2-0 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| Leicester Fosse | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 4-2 | –––– | 4-1 | 4-2 | 3-3 | 5-0 | 1-0 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 6-3 |
| Lincoln City | 3-1 | 1-1 | 2-3 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 2-1 | –––– | 0-2 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 2-1 | 2-3 |
| Loughborough | 4-1 | 0-2 | 6-0 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 3-0 | –––– | 2-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 8-0 |
| Manchester City | 4-2 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 4-1 | 4-1 | 3-1 | 4-0 | 3-0 | 1-1 | –––– | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 3-0 | 5-0 | 1-1 |
| Newcastle United | 4-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 5-1 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 4-1 | 3-0 | –––– | 2-0 | 2-2 | 4-3 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
| Newton Heath | 2-0 | 1-1 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 2-0 | 4-2 | 2-1 | 3-1 | 6-0 | 2-1 | 4-0 | –––– | 1-1 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 1-1 |
| Notts County | 3-1 | 6-1 | 5-0 | 4-0 | 2-0 | 1-3 | 6-0 | 8-0 | 3-1 | 3-3 | 3-1 | 3-0 | –––– | 1-2 | 5-2 | 7-4 |
| Small Heath | 1-3 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 5-1 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 1-0 | 3-1 | –––– | 3-3 | 5-2 |
| Walsall | 2-0 | 5-2 | 2-0 | 4-0 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 5-0 | 5-1 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 1-3 | 1-6 | –––– | 5-3 |
| Woolwich Arsenal | 4-2 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 1-0 | 6-1 | 4-2 | 2-1 | 6-2 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 5-1 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 1-1 | –––– |

## Fonti e bibliografia

* Gordon Smailes, The Breedon Book of Football League Records, Derby (UK), The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, 1992, ISBN 1-873626-33-9.