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Orange football stats

Post-War Statistics English Leagues from 1946-47 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	Manchester United	56	20.1	10.8	10.3	73.2	49.6	71.1	5.5
2	Arsenal	56	18.5	10.9	11.8	65.5	50.4	66.4	6.4
3	Liverpool	56	20.6	10.5	10.0	70.6	44.8	72.5	7.4
4	Tottenham Hotspur	56	17.2	10.5	13.4	66.8	56.4	62.2	10.1
5	Everton	56	16.0	11.2	13.9	59.8	55.0	59.4	11.2
6	Chelsea	56	15.8	11.3	14.1	62.8	60.3	58.9	13.9
7	Aston Villa	56	16.0	10.6	14.8	58.6	56.3	58.6	14.9
8	Leeds United	56	17.8	11.2	12.4	62.3	51.6	64.9	15.9
9	Newcastle United	56	16.3	10.5	14.7	64.3	59.6	59.6	16.2
10	Manchester City	56	16.1	11.0	14.9	62.7	59.1	59.6	16.4
11	West Ham United	56	15.4	10.5	15.5	61.2	60.6	56.9	18.3
12	Nottingham Forest	56	16.7	10.9	14.3	61.4	55.2	61.0	18.8
13	Wolverhampton Wanderers	56	17.7	10.8	14.6	69.7	60.0	64.1	19.9
14	West Bromwich Albion	56	16.0	11.5	15.4	62.9	60.4	59.6	20.3
15	Leicester City	56	15.0	11.4	15.6	61.7	63.5	56.4	20.8
16	Sunderland	56	15.7	11.5	15.0	59.6	59.0	58.8	22.3
17	Sheffield Wednesday	56	15.3	11.1	15.4	60.7	60.2	57.3	22.6
18	Southampton	56	15.8	10.6	15.2	64.1	61.6	58.2	22.7
19	Derby County	56	15.8	10.5	15.5	61.5	60.2	58.1	23.3
20	Middlesbrough	56	16.0	10.6	15.4	60.1	57.6	58.6	24.2
21	Ipswich Town	56	17.5	10.5	14.8	64.0	59.1	63.3	24.7
22	Birmingham City	56	15.8	11.2	15.9	59.2	59.4	58.6	25.6
23	Stoke City	56	15.6	11.3	16.0	56.9	58.5	58.3	25.8
24	Sheffield United	56	16.8	10.9	15.2	64.2	60.8	61.5	26.3
25	Blackburn Rovers	56	16.9	10.8	14.6	61.8	56.8	61.7	26.3
26	Coventry City	56	14.6	11.4	16.1	56.2	59.6	55.4	26.4
27	Charlton Athletic	56	15.0	10.7	16.7	61.3	66.4	55.8	29.1
28	Bolton Wanderers	56	16.0	11.1	15.8	59.6	59.2	59.2	29.4
29	Wimbledon	25	15.9	12.2	13.8	59.2	56.3	60.1	29.6
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
30	Norwich City	56	15.8	11.9	15.2	59.4	59.6	59.3	30.6
31	Burnley	56	16.9	11.1	15.3	62.2	59.5	61.9	31.9
32	Queens Park Rangers	56	16.4	11.6	15.1	62.1	58.1	61.0	32.0
33	Portsmouth	56	15.3	11.4	16.7	62.1	63.8	57.4	33.1
34	Luton Town	56	15.8	11.1	15.9	61.1	60.5	58.5	34.6
35	Fulham	56	15.9	11.2	16.0	62.1	61.4	58.9	37.0
36	Blackpool	56	16.1	11.5	15.8	62.0	59.5	60.1	37.1
37	Huddersfield Town	56	16.1	11.6	15.9	58.6	59.0	59.9	38.6
38	Crystal Palace	56	15.1	12.1	16.3	56.7	60.2	57.5	38.9
39	Preston North End	56	16.7	11.3	15.6	64.0	61.1	61.5	40.0
40	Bristol City	56	16.8	11.7	15.6	63.4	59.3	62.3	43.8
41	Cardiff City	56	15.5	11.6	16.0	58.4	61.6	58.3	44.1
42	Watford	56	16.4	11.8	16.3	61.8	61.0	61.3	45.3
43	Millwall	56	17.3	11.6	15.3	62.8	59.6	63.6	45.7
44	Oxford United	40	14.9	12.4	17.4	56.9	60.1	57.2	47.1
45	Barnsley	56	15.8	12.0	16.7	60.8	64.2	59.5	47.5
46	Notts County	56	16.5	11.2	16.4	62.7	63.5	60.9	48.2
47	Bristol Rovers	56	17.0	11.6	15.8	65.1	61.9	62.9	48.3
48	Grimsby Town	56	16.4	11.1	17.1	60.6	63.3	60.5	48.7
49	Oldham Athletic	56	15.6	11.8	16.9	62.7	65.2	58.7	49.3
50	Hull City	56	15.9	12.1	16.0	60.4	60.3	60.1	49.4
51	Plymouth Argyle	56	16.0	11.7	16.7	62.1	63.8	59.7	49.5
52	Brighton & Hove Albion	56	17.0	11.6	15.9	63.2	61.3	62.7	49.8
53	Swindon Town	56	16.3	12.1	16.5	61.9	62.5	61.2	50.3
54	Rotherham United	56	17.2	11.4	15.6	65.8	61.5	63.1	50.6
55	Leyton Orient	56	14.9	11.6	17.5	57.2	62.6	56.5	53.7
56	Swansea City	56	16.0	10.7	17.5	61.9	67.0	58.7	54.5
57	Bury	56	16.0	11.5	16.8	63.0	63.0	59.8	54.7
58	Reading	56	18.3	11.5	15.7	67.8	62.4	66.5	55.2
59	Port Vale	56	16.0	13.0	16.4	59.7	59.3	61.1	57.2
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
60	Brentford	56	17.0	12.0	16.3	63.0	61.6	63.1	57.2
61	Shrewsbury Town	52	15.6	12.3	17.2	60.7	63.7	59.1	57.5
62	Gateshead	14	17.9	10.6	16.2	70.6	68.3	64.4	57.6
63	AFC Bournemouth	56	17.2	12.2	16.1	60.5	56.6	64.0	57.8
64	Bradford City	56	16.7	11.6	16.8	64.0	64.5	61.7	58.4
65	Carlisle United	56	15.8	11.1	17.2	60.6	63.6	58.5	58.5
66	Walsall	56	16.3	11.5	17.3	63.0	64.1	60.7	58.5
67	Wycombe Wanderers	9	16.1	13.6	15.7	56.0	55.0	62.0	59.2
68	Tranmere Rovers	56	16.7	11.7	17.1	63.9	64.0	62.1	59.7
69	Accrington Stanley	15	16.6	8.8	19.5	67.0	78.6	58.6	59.8
70	Southend United	56	17.0	11.6	17.0	64.1	64.1	62.6	61.0
71	Chesterfield	56	16.9	11.7	16.6	60.1	59.3	62.5	62.1
72	Gillingham	52	16.9	12.5	16.1	62.2	61.3	63.3	62.5
73	Cambridge United	32	15.5	12.5	17.1	59.0	62.8	59.3	62.6
74	Wrexham	56	16.6	11.6	17.0	64.9	64.6	61.5	62.6
75	Wigan Athletic	24	18.2	12.3	15.0	63.5	56.6	67.2	62.9
76	New Brighton	5	12.2	8.6	22.0	45.2	73.8	45.2	63.0
77	Bradford Park Avenue	24	15.3	10.3	19.6	67.5	80.8	56.4	65.6
78	Mansfield Town	56	16.8	11.8	16.7	65.2	64.0	62.2	65.6
79	Lincoln City	55	15.9	11.7	17.0	63.7	65.4	59.6	66.5
80	Peterborough United	42	17.4	13.0	15.5	66.4	60.8	65.4	66.7
81	Northampton Town	56	16.7	10.9	17.4	65.0	65.1	61.2	67.0
82	Doncaster Rovers	53	15.2	11.3	18.0	59.5	67.5	57.1	67.2
83	Stockport County	56	16.2	11.6	17.8	60.8	64.1	60.3	67.6
84	Colchester United	50	16.6	12.1	16.9	65.0	66.7	62.1	67.7
85	Scunthorpe United	52	16.2	12.4	16.5	62.3	62.9	61.1	68.2
86	York City	56	15.7	11.6	17.9	62.3	64.6	59.0	68.7
87	Newport County	42	15.3	10.7	19.5	63.0	75.0	56.8	69.5
88	Southport	33	14.0	12.0	19.1	56.4	69.6	54.3	69.7
89	Barrow	26	14.8	10.7	19.7	60.0	72.9	55.2	69.9
	Team	Sns	WpS	DpS	LpS	FpS	ApS	PpS	Avg Pos
90	Crewe Alexandra	56	15.4	10.9	19.0	58.8	68.5	57.3	70.0
91	Chester City	55	14.8	11.6	18.9	59.0	66.9	56.3	70.2
92	Barnet	11	16.4	11.7	16.3	60.0	59.8	61.0	71.9
93	Torquay United	56	16.0	12.0	17.4	60.7	65.3	60.2	71.9
94	Exeter City	56	14.9	12.1	18.5	58.5	67.7	57.0	72.6
95	Aldershot	45	15.5	11.8	18.2	63.5	69.7	58.4	73.3
96	Workington	26	14.8	11.9	19.1	58.6	69.6	56.3	73.8
97	Halifax Town	51	13.5	12.0	19.8	55.1	70.6	52.7	74.0
98	Rochdale	56	14.7	12.4	18.1	57.1	66.0	56.6	75.4
99	Hereford United	26	14.5	12.5	18.0	54.4	60.2	56.0	75.4
100	Macclesfield Town	5	16.2	12.2	17.6	52.8	56.4	60.8	76.4
101	Darlington	55	14.8	11.7	18.8	59.4	69.1	56.2	76.8
102	Hartlepool United	56	15.1	10.7	19.6	57.1	70.0	56.1	77.1
103	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