1965–66 Football League First Division
Statistics of Football League First Division in the 1965–66 season.
Season | 1965–66 |
---|---|
Champions | Liverpool (7th English title) |
Relegated | Northampton Town Blackburn Rovers |
1966–67 European Cup | Liverpool |
FA Cup winners 1966–67 European Cup Winners' Cup | Everton (3rd FA Cup title) |
1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | Chelsea Everton Leeds United |
Matches played | 462 |
Goals scored | 1,457 (3.15 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Willie Irvine (Burnley), 29 Roger Hunt (Liverpool), 29 [1] |
← 1964–65 1966–67 → |
Overview
Liverpool won the First Division title for the seventh time in the club's history that season. They made sure of that with a 2–1 win over Chelsea at Anfield on April 30, and ended the season 6 points clear of Leeds United. Blackburn Rovers were relegated on April 20, after losing 1–0 at home to West Bromwich Albion and Northampton Town's result at White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur (which finished 1–1) going against Blackburn. Northampton Town also went down on May 7, after Nottingham Forest beat Sheffield Wednesday 1–0 at the City Ground, saving Forest from relegation in the process.
League standings
Pos | Team | Pld | HW | HD | HL | HGF | HGA | AW | AD | AL | AGF | AGA | GR | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Liverpool (C) | 42 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 27 | 19 | 2.324 | 61 | Qualified for European Cup |
2 | Leeds United | 42 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 49 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 2.079 | 55 | 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup |
3 | Burnley | 42 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 45 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 27 | 1.681 | 55 | |
4 | Manchester United | 42 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 50 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 34 | 39 | 1.424 | 51 | |
5 | Chelsea | 42 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 32 | 1.226 | 51 | 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup |
6 | West Bromwich Albion | 42 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 58 | 34 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 33 | 35 | 1.319 | 50 | League Cup Winners |
7 | Leicester City | 42 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 40 | 37 | 1.231 | 49 | |
8 | Tottenham Hotspur | 42 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 55 | 37 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 1.136 | 44 | |
9 | Sheffield United | 42 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 37 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 34 | 0.949 | 43 | |
10 | Stoke City | 42 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 42 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 42 | 1.016 | 42 | |
11 | Everton | 42 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 39 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 0.903 | 41 | FA Cup winners, qualified for Cup Winners' Cup and 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup |
12 | West Ham United | 42 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 46 | 33 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 24 | 50 | 0.843 | 39 | |
13 | Blackpool | 42 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 36 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 36 | 0.846 | 37 | |
14 | Arsenal | 42 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 31 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 44 | 0.827 | 37 | |
15 | Newcastle United | 42 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 43 | 0.794 | 37 | |
16 | Aston Villa | 42 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 39 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 46 | 0.863 | 36 | |
17 | Sheffield Wednesday | 42 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 35 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 21 | 48 | 0.848 | 36 | |
18 | Nottingham Forest | 42 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 25 | 46 | 0.778 | 36 | |
19 | Sunderland | 42 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 44 | 0.708 | 36 | |
20 | Fulham | 42 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 37 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 33 | 48 | 0.788 | 35 | |
21 | Northampton Town | 42 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 60 | 0.598 | 33 | Relegated |
22 | Blackburn Rovers | 42 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 30 | 36 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 27 | 52 | 0.648 | 20 |
Source:
(C) League Champions.
(C) League Champions.
Results
Top scorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Liverpool | 29 | |
= | Burnley | 29 | |
2 | Aston Villa | 27 | |
3 | Manchester United | 24 | |
4 | West Ham United | 23 | |
5 | Leicester City | 22 |
gollark: Also, you don't need the `if h then` bit, because it'll just return early if `h` doesn't exist, see?
gollark: If you're okay with hardcoding the time/date you're waiting for, you can generate the Unix timestamp for it with another thing and just get the difference between that and `os.epoch "utc"`.
gollark: It needs to be pastebin.com/**raw**/whatever.
gollark: You can get the time/date in UTC and localtime with `os.date` or something, and Unix time, but I don't think there's a way to parse dates.
gollark: The rest of `pastebin` is mostly just argument parsing. Well, and handling other stuff like `put` and `run`.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.