The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.
[2] Arsenal, the most successful English club side of the 1930s, picked up their first postwar silverware, finishing top of the First Division by seven points.
Their nearest rivals were Manchester United, who lifted the FA Cup with a dramatic 4–2 win over Blackpool at Wembley to end their 37-year wait for a major trophy.
Derby County, the 1946 FA Cup-winners, finished fourth in the league.
Grimsby Town were relegated in bottom place, 14 points adrift of safety, and were joined in the Second Division by Blackburn Rovers.