They began the season well, not dropping out of the top two until December, but gradually fell away until finishing in 11th position in the 20-team division.

Alex Watson succeeded Alf Jones as secretary-manager at the start of the season.

Jones began acting as unpaid secretary for Small Heath Alliance in 1885, the year the club turned professional, became their first paid secretary with responsibility for team matters in 1892, when the club first joined the Football League, and had held the post of secretary-manager ever since.

Twenty-nine players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were fifteen different goalscorers.

In October, Walter Corbett, who had made his debut for the England senior team earlier in the year,[1] was a member of the gold medal-winning Great Britain Olympic football team at the London Olympics.