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All-Time Statistics English Leagues from 1888-89 to 2002-03

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Historical tables show details for all clubs ever to have played in the English football league since its inception in 1888. Club names have been changed to their current name where appropriate. Unless otherwise stated, points are given as defined in each season; i.e. 2 points for a win prior to 1981-82 and 3 points for a win thereafter.

Average Position Table
HISTORICAL: AT | PW | T1 | T2 | T3 | T4	Minimum 5 seasons (3pts for a Win)

	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
1	Liverpool	98	18.7	9.7	11.4	68.5	50.3	66.0	8.7
2	Arsenal	98	17.6	10.0	12.2	65.7	51.7	63.0	9.4
3	Accrington	5	7.0	6.6	10.8	45.2	62.6	27.6	9.8
4	Everton	103	16.0	9.6	13.4	63.0	55.7	57.8	9.9
5	Aston Villa	103	16.6	9.1	13.6	65.4	57.1	58.9	11.3
6	Manchester United	99	18.3	9.7	11.8	68.1	52.5	64.6	11.4
7	Tottenham Hotspur	83	17.0	10.1	14.0	67.2	58.1	61.1	13.1
8	Newcastle United	98	16.6	9.3	14.2	64.3	57.4	59.1	14.5
9	Manchester City	99	16.4	9.7	14.1	65.8	59.0	59.0	15.0
10	Chelsea	86	15.9	10.9	14.2	61.9	59.2	58.7	15.2
11	Sunderland	101	16.4	9.8	13.9	64.0	57.5	59.1	15.2
12	Leeds United	75	17.4	10.9	13.3	62.8	54.6	63.1	16.5
13	West Bromwich Albion	103	15.6	9.8	14.7	62.6	59.3	56.8	17.9
14	Sheffield Wednesday	99	15.6	10.0	14.6	61.2	58.8	56.9	18.4
15	Derby County	103	15.5	9.5	14.5	62.1	59.0	56.0	18.7
16	West Ham United	76	15.8	10.2	15.5	63.2	62.0	57.9	19.4
17	Blackburn Rovers	103	15.6	9.7	14.4	62.2	59.4	56.8	19.5
18	Wolverhampton Wanderers	103	16.4	9.2	14.6	65.8	60.0	58.4	20.0
19	Sheffield United	99	16.1	10.0	14.6	63.4	60.1	58.5	20.3
20	Middlesbrough	92	15.5	10.0	15.4	62.0	60.2	56.7	20.8
21	Nottingham Forest	99	15.1	10.1	15.0	58.7	58.2	55.4	21.0
22	Bolton Wanderers	103	15.7	9.6	14.8	60.7	57.9	56.9	21.4
23	Leicester City	97	14.9	10.2	15.3	61.4	63.0	55.1	22.2
24	Birmingham City	99	15.4	10.0	15.2	59.7	58.3	56.4	22.5
25	Stoke City	95	14.9	9.9	15.6	55.9	57.8	54.8	23.1
26	Darwen	8	9.3	3.3	16.2	50.1	65.0	31.5	23.6
27	Ipswich Town	57	17.5	10.5	14.8	63.9	59.0	63.2	25.1
28	Burton Swifts	5	10.6	3.6	13.8	52.6	62.4	35.4	25.6
29	Southampton	75	15.8	10.7	15.3	62.8	61.1	58.1	26.0
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
30	Burnley	103	15.7	9.7	14.9	60.5	59.8	57.0	26.6
31	Preston North End	103	15.8	10.0	14.6	61.1	57.7	57.5	29.0
32	Wimbledon	25	15.9	12.2	13.8	59.2	56.3	60.1	29.6
33	Portsmouth	75	15.6	11.2	16.2	62.8	63.3	58.3	30.5
34	Huddersfield Town	81	16.5	11.1	15.1	61.3	57.8	60.9	30.8
35	Glossop North End	17	11.5	8.0	16.7	48.7	60.4	42.7	31.1
36	Leeds City	10	14.0	7.7	16.3	57.5	61.6	49.7	31.2
37	Gainsborough Trinity	16	10.9	7.3	16.9	44.8	64.3	40.1	31.5
38	Coventry City	76	15.0	10.9	16.2	59.8	61.6	56.0	31.6
39	Charlton Athletic	74	15.4	10.6	16.2	61.9	65.0	57.0	31.8
40	Loughborough	5	6.8	4.0	20.8	34.0	82.0	24.4	32.0
41	Burton United	10	9.4	6.2	18.8	39.4	68.2	34.4	33.4
42	Blackpool	94	15.4	10.3	15.9	60.6	61.3	56.6	34.1
43	Norwich City	75	15.5	11.5	15.6	60.5	61.5	58.1	36.0
44	Fulham	84	16.0	10.6	15.7	62.6	60.3	58.7	36.2
45	Notts County	103	15.1	10.0	15.6	59.0	60.2	55.5	36.7
46	Queens Park Rangers	75	16.6	11.0	15.1	63.1	59.1	60.9	37.6
47	Luton Town	78	16.1	10.6	15.5	64.7	61.5	59.0	38.1
48	Bury	97	15.6	10.0	16.2	61.0	61.5	57.0	40.2
49	Grimsby Town	98	15.9	9.4	16.3	60.8	62.5	57.2	40.2
50	Bristol City	90	16.4	10.9	15.2	61.3	58.7	60.2	40.8
51	Crystal Palace	75	15.8	11.6	15.7	60.6	61.0	59.0	41.1
52	Cardiff City	75	15.5	11.0	16.3	59.1	63.2	57.5	41.8
53	Barnsley	93	15.4	10.7	16.3	60.1	63.7	57.0	42.2
54	Oldham Athletic	84	15.8	11.0	16.3	62.2	63.5	58.5	42.3
55	Hull City	86	16.1	11.3	15.4	61.3	59.1	59.7	44.4
56	Millwall	75	17.3	11.4	14.9	63.2	58.2	63.4	45.4
57	Rotherham County	6	13.6	8.8	19.5	46.0	62.1	49.8	45.8
58	Oxford United	40	14.9	12.4	17.4	56.9	60.1	57.2	47.1
59	Plymouth Argyle	75	16.9	11.3	15.5	65.1	61.1	62.2	47.1
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
60	Bradford City	88	16.0	11.0	16.3	62.2	62.3	59.0	47.7
61	Watford	75	16.4	11.4	16.1	62.8	61.4	60.7	47.7
62	Bradford Park Avenue	51	16.4	9.3	17.1	68.9	70.2	58.5	48.5
63	Port Vale	89	15.2	11.1	16.4	58.4	61.4	56.8	49.3
64	Leyton Orient	86	14.4	11.0	17.5	54.6	61.9	54.2	50.0
65	Brighton & Hove Albion	75	17.3	11.0	15.5	64.2	59.9	63.1	50.3
66	Gateshead	34	16.4	10.6	16.0	67.4	68.6	59.9	50.4
67	Swansea City	75	15.9	10.6	17.1	61.5	65.7	58.5	50.7
68	Bristol Rovers	75	16.4	11.1	16.3	64.3	64.0	60.4	50.9
69	Swindon Town	75	16.4	11.6	16.3	64.2	64.3	60.8	51.2
70	Rotherham United	70	16.7	10.8	16.2	66.2	65.2	60.9	52.3
71	Brentford	75	17.1	11.3	16.1	64.4	62.0	62.6	53.4
72	Reading	75	17.9	11.1	15.6	67.4	62.6	64.9	53.6
73	Nelson	10	15.4	7.3	18.5	66.8	79.6	53.5	54.9
74	Chesterfield	84	16.7	10.5	16.0	61.8	59.8	60.7	55.2
75	Lincoln City	95	15.0	9.9	16.7	61.6	65.0	55.0	55.5
76	Walsall	82	15.3	10.3	17.2	62.7	66.2	56.4	55.5
77	Wigan Borough	10	14.5	9.4	17.3	63.5	70.6	52.9	57.0
78	Shrewsbury Town	52	15.6	12.3	17.2	60.7	63.7	59.1	57.5
79	Stockport County	90	15.9	10.5	16.9	61.0	63.0	58.2	57.7
80	AFC Bournemouth	72	16.6	11.8	16.3	61.0	59.8	61.8	57.7
81	Ashington	8	13.6	8.8	18.5	61.1	81.2	49.7	58.0
82	Tranmere Rovers	74	16.8	10.9	16.8	66.8	65.3	61.5	58.0
83	Carlisle United	67	15.6	10.6	17.5	61.8	66.7	57.5	58.4
84	Aberdare Athletic	6	13.0	9.8	19.1	55.6	68.8	48.8	59.0
85	Wycombe Wanderers	9	16.1	13.6	15.7	56.0	55.0	62.0	59.2
86	Accrington Stanley	33	15.4	8.0	19.5	67.1	80.0	54.3	59.3
87	New Brighton	21	13.6	8.9	19.5	56.7	72.7	49.9	59.8
88	Southend United	75	16.5	11.0	17.1	63.9	65.1	60.7	60.1
89	Durham City	7	13.5	7.7	19.5	56.2	75.5	48.4	60.1
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
90	Merthyr Town	10	11.5	10.6	19.9	52.4	77.9	45.1	60.5
91	Wrexham	74	16.5	11.0	16.6	65.7	65.1	60.8	60.8
92	Doncaster Rovers	72	15.4	10.7	17.4	60.6	66.7	57.0	62.0
93	Gillingham	70	15.8	11.8	17.0	59.5	63.7	59.3	62.1
94	Cambridge United	32	15.5	12.5	17.1	59.0	62.8	59.3	62.6
95	Wigan Athletic	24	18.2	12.3	15.0	63.5	56.6	67.2	62.9
96	Northampton Town	75	16.9	10.3	17.0	65.9	65.1	61.1	63.7
97	Crewe Alexandra	78	14.9	10.0	18.5	59.9	70.2	55.0	64.7
98	Mansfield Town	64	16.4	11.5	16.8	66.3	66.2	61.0	64.8
99	Southport	51	14.4	11.4	18.1	59.0	69.3	54.7	64.8
100	Barrow	44	14.1	9.4	20.1	59.2	76.1	51.9	66.0
101	Newport County	60	14.8	10.4	19.3	61.6	75.9	54.8	66.5
102	Peterborough United	42	17.4	13.0	15.5	66.4	60.8	65.4	66.7
103	York City	66	15.6	11.2	17.8	63.9	67.0	58.3	67.0
104	Chester City	63	15.5	11.4	18.0	62.7	66.6	58.0	67.5
105	Colchester United	50	16.6	12.1	16.9	65.0	66.7	62.1	67.7
106	Scunthorpe United	52	16.2	12.4	16.5	62.3	62.9	61.1	68.2
107	Exeter City	75	14.8	11.6	18.2	59.6	68.2	56.0	69.1
108	Halifax Town	69	14.0	11.4	19.0	56.3	69.8	53.4	69.3
109	Torquay United	68	15.5	11.5	17.7	61.1	68.3	58.2	69.9
110	Darlington	73	15.1	10.8	18.5	62.7	70.2	56.2	71.1
111	Rochdale	74	14.7	11.3	18.2	60.0	69.2	55.7	71.2
112	Aldershot	52	15.1	11.6	18.3	61.8	69.8	57.1	71.5
113	Barnet	11	16.4	11.7	16.3	60.0	59.8	61.0	71.9
114	Hartlepool United	74	14.8	10.1	19.5	59.1	72.2	54.8	72.4
115	Workington	26	14.8	11.9	19.1	58.6	69.6	56.3	73.8
116	Hereford United	26	14.5	12.5	18.0	54.4	60.2	56.0	75.4
117	Macclesfield Town	5	16.2	12.2	17.6	52.8	56.4	60.8	76.4
118	Scarborough	13	15.0	11.9	17.4	57.8	64.1	57.1	77.2

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• Sns:	Seasons	• WpS:	Average Wins per Season
• DpS:	Average Draws per Season	• LpS:	Average Losses per Season
• FpS:	Average Goals For per Season	• ApS:	Average Goals Against per Season
• PpS:	Average Points per Season	• Avg Pos:	Average Season Position