After dominating and being crowned champions for the first two football league seasons Preston North End slipped to second and Everton won the league with a two-point gap.
The table below is reproduced here in the exact form that it can be found at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website[2] and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79,[3] with home and away statistics separated.
The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
Since the goal average was used for this purpose for such a long time, it is presented in the tables below even for the seasons prior to 1894–95.
The number of clubs in the Football League was to be increased by two for the 1891–92 season.