Tottenham Hotspur played their first ever season in the Football League.
Spurs, along with Bradford Park Avenue entered the Second Division to replace Lincoln City and Stoke.
In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals.
The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
During the first six seasons of the league, (up to the 1893–94 season), re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league.