The Football League Match by Match series

The Match by Match series is an ambitious undertaking to chronicle the results and line-ups of English club football in League and Cup.  Each volume is edited by Tony Brown and compiled with the assistance of many club statisticians and other researchers.  Starting with the first Football League season in 1888/89, Tony intends the series to cover all peacetime seasons to 1969/70.  This latter date is chosen because it is the first season covered by the Rothmans Yearbooks.

The Match by Match books contain all the results, attendances, goal scorers and line-ups for each club in the Football League.  FA Cup ties are also included, as are the Football League Cup (from 1960/61) and the Division Three North and South Cups played in the 1930s. 

Though every care is taken in producing the books, the odd mistakes inevitable escape attention.  Printed copies are sent out from time to time, and are also available here:

Amendment List One: May 2007

Amendment List Two; not yet published, but here is the work in progress

To order any volume, please send a cheque payable to Tony Brown to 4 Adrian Close, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 6FL. Postage and packing is free for each volume ordered unless ordering from outside of mainland Europe, in which case please please add £2 per volume. Non-UK customers can pay by VISA or MasterCard if registered with the PayPal service at www.paypal.com.  

Each volume costs £12.  

The post-war series

There are at present single season' volumes for seasons 1946/47 to 1963/64 inclusive.  

The mid-war series

Seasons 1919/20 and 1920/21 are in a combined volume.  There are 'single season' volumes from 1921/22 to 1932/33, and one for 1935/36.  The series will continue to 1938/39. 

The pre-war series

The first volume covers the first five seasons, 1888/89 to 1892/93.  Subsequent volumes to 1914/15 will be 'two seasons to a book'.  The first, for 1893/94 & 1894/95 is now available.

Sample page from 1950/51

Spurs are champions (Adobe Acrobat Reader required to see this page)