about the all-time league
July 9, 2008
Miscellaneous
*There are more than 10.000 numbers in the stats, inclusive the numbers of the ranking position.
10.712
*Manchester United would be the first to win 2.000 matches…
…if they win all 38 next season (2008/09).
*3 Clubs have a goal difference of over a 1000.
*53 Clubs have a positive goal difference if you include Maidstone’s GD of zero.
*74 Clubs have an all-time negative goal difference.
*Liverpool are on top with 1929, Halifax Town bottom, on -929.
The – becoming a 1, or vice versa.
*Rochdale have been in the same division, now named League 2, since 1974. They came close to winning promotion last season, losing the play-off final.
*Ever present in the Football League are Burnley, Notts County and Preston, the others having played in the Premier$hip, or non-league.
*Stats elsewhere, like @ statto or Toffeeweb, might slightly differ, counting some clubs separately.
*On the list since when clubs are in their current league, there are 14 left that start with 19.
Like in 19 hundred and some year.
*See the Footie IndeX for all links to the stats, including ascending/descending lists
* Grimsby need just 4 more no score or score draws to make a 1.000.
Chelsea need 11, Middlesbrough 14 to make a thousand.
* Top of the winningest list are the Mancunians on 1962, 6 more than Liverpool. Bootle and Ironopolis are shared bottom, on 8.
On the drawn matches list Notts County are top on 1.120, 5 more than Preston. Leicester need just 6 to make 1.100, Nottingham Forest 11 and Barnsley 13.
Bootle are bottom on 3 draws.
On the losing list Notts County are bottom with 1.722 defeats, 2 more than Grimsby.
Bootle are top with 11 defeats.
* Percentage-wise Liverpool top the winningest list on 47,20%, while Loughborough are bottom on 21,51%.
How come they aren’t part of the league any longer?
Wycombe have drawn no less than 30,90% of their 686 matches, while Northwich Victoria have drawn 1 in 10 of their 50 League matches.
Liverpool have lost 28,47% of their matches, closely followed by Manchester United and Arsenal on 28,85% and 29,85% resp..
* Liverpool have conceded 72,68% in comparison to the goals they’ve scored, Manchester United 74,95% and Arsenal 76,52%, thus as a trio staying below the 80% mark.
On the other/wrong end of the table,
Northwich Victoria have scored 46,15% in comparison to the goals they’ve conceded, while bottom place
Loughborough have scored 41,46%, as a duo under 50%.
*Notts County will play their 4.500th match 20 games into the season. Preston will reach that number exactly at the season finale.
@ 46 games a season, Notts County would play their 5.000th match in the 14th game of the 1919/20 season. So probably in 1919.
