The Wednesday officially changed their name to Sheffield Wednesday prior to the start of this season.

[1] Blackpool claimed their only championship to date on the final day of the Division Two season, 3 May, with a goalless draw at Nottingham Forest.

Runners-up Chelsea could have won the title themselves the same afternoon if they had won and Blackpool had lost, but the Londoners were defeated at Bury by a single goal.

Blackpool forward, Jimmy Hampson, finished the season as the top goal scorer in England, with 46 goals in all competitions.

[2] Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour.