1983–84 Football League

The 1983–84 season was the 85th completed season of the English Football League.

The Football League

Season	1983–84
Champions	Liverpool
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Liverpool had a successful first season under the management of Joe Fagan as they wrapped up their third successive league title and the 15th in their history. They overcame strong competition from Southampton, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United to lift the championship trophy. Liverpool had an extremely strong season, as they also won the European Cup and the League Cup.

Southampton finished second in the league to record their highest-ever final position and achieve a UEFA Cup place, claiming six points from the last two games (both away) to climb up from fifth place.

The First Division relegation places were occupied by Birmingham City, Notts County and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The £1 rescue deal of Chelsea by chairman Ken Bates paid off as they won the Second Division title and were promoted to the First Division along with Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United.

Cambridge United finished bottom of the Second Division and were relegated to the Third Division. They were joined by two clubs who had been enjoying better fortunes only a short time ago — Swansea City, who had finished sixth in the First Division just two years earlier, and Derby County, who had been league champions just nine years earlier. Derby's Peter Taylor retired as manager and his surprise successor was Arthur Cox, who had just taken Newcastle into the First Division.

Dave Bassett agreed to take charge of Crystal Palace at the end of the season, but changed his mind three days later — without signing the contract — and returned to Wimbledon. Palace installed former Manchester United winger Steve Coppell, 29, as their new manager.

Oxford United, Wimbledon and Sheffield United continued their rise through the league by gaining promotion to the Second Division.

Scunthorpe United, Southend United, Port Vale and Exeter City slipped out of the Third Division.

Narrowly avoiding the Third Division drop zone were Plymouth Argyle, who compensated for their league form by reaching the FA Cup semi finals for the first time in their history.

York City, Doncaster Rovers, Reading and Bristol City occupied the Fourth Division promotion places. York City became the first team in English league football to gain more than 100 points in a season, with 101. It was Bristol City's first successful season for a long time and a reversal of fortune after their recent fall from the First to Fourth Division in successive seasons.

The re-election system voted in favour of the bottom four clubs in the Fourth Division once again.

Final league tables and results

The tables and results below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website,^[1] with home and away statistics separated.

During the first five seasons of the league, that is, until the season 1893–94, re-election process concerned the clubs which finished in the bottom four of the league. From the 1894–95 season and until the 1920–21 season the re-election process was required of the clubs which finished in the bottom three of the league. From the 1922–23 season on it was required of the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South. Since the Fourth Division was established in the 1958–59 season, the re-election process has concerned the bottom four clubs in that division.^[2]

First Division

First Division

Season	1983–84
Champions	Liverpool 15th English title
Relegated	Birmingham City Notts County Wolverhampton Wanderers
European Cup	Liverpool
European Cup Winners' Cup	Everton
UEFA Cup	Manchester United Nottingham Forest Queens Park Rangers Southampton Tottenham Hotspur (as defending champions)
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,250 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ian Rush (32 goals)^[3]
Biggest home win	Southampton 8–2 Coventry City (28 April 1984)
Biggest away win	Luton Town 0–5 Manchester United (12 February 1984)
Highest scoring	Southampton 8–2 Coventry City (28 April 1984)
Longest winning run	6 matches Queens Park Rangers
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches Manchester United
Longest losing run	7 matches Ipswich Town Notts County
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Liverpool won the league title for a third successive season, although it was a much closer contest than the previous season. They also lifted a fourth consecutive League Cup and also their fourth European Cup in eight seasons to become the first English team to win three major trophies in the same season.

Their biggest rivals in the title race were Manchester United, who led the table at several stages of the season before dropping points in several crucial games later in the season to finish fourth. Southampton enjoyed their best league season to date with a second place finish, while Nottingham Forest finished third and also reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. QPR, newly promoted, finished top of all the London clubs with a fifth place final position - which saw manager Terry Venables offered the job as manager of FC Barcelona, which he duly accepted. Tottenham Hotspur were unable to sustain a title challenge but lifted the UEFA Cup in Keith Burkinshaw's final season as manager.

Luton Town were surprise title contenders during the first half of the season before a dismal second half of the season saw them finish 16th.

Watford, the previous season's runners-up, began the season struggling near the foot of the table, before manager Graham Taylor brought Scottish striker Mo Johnston to the club as successor to Luther Blissett, and his new signing scored 20 goals as Watford climbed to a secure 11th place finish.

Everton were in the bottom half of the table and fans were calling for manager Howard Kendall to be sacked by November 1983, but the board stuck by their manager and gave the go-ahead for him to sign Wolves striker Andy Gray, who revived Everton's season as they climbed up to seventh place in the final table and ended their 14-year wait for a major trophy by beating Watford 2-0 in the final of the FA Cup. Gray was cup-tied for Everton's League Cup fixtures, but they still reached the final and took Liverpool to a replay before losing 1-0.

Just one season after winning promotion back to the First Division, Wolves went straight back down to the Second Division in bottom place. Notts County were next to go down, having survived for three seasons in the First Division. The final relegation place went to Birmingham City.

Final table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Liverpool (C)	42	22	14	6	73	32	+41	80	Qualification for the European Cup first round
2	Southampton	42	22	11	9	66	38	+28	77	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round
3	Nottingham Forest	42	22	8	12	76	45	+31	74
4	Manchester United	42	20	14	8	71	41	+30	74
5	Queens Park Rangers	42	22	7	13	67	37	+30	73
6	Arsenal	42	18	9	15	74	60	+14	63
7	Everton	42	16	14	12	44	42	+2	62	Qualification for the European Cup Winners' Cup first round^[a]
8	Tottenham Hotspur	42	17	10	15	64	65	−1	61	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^[b]
9	West Ham United	42	17	9	16	60	55	+5	60
10	Aston Villa	42	17	9	16	59	61	−2	60
11	Watford	42	16	9	17	68	77	−9	57
12	Ipswich Town	42	15	8	19	55	57	−2	53
13	Sunderland	42	13	13	16	42	53	−11	52
14	Norwich City	42	12	15	15	48	49	−1	51
15	Leicester City	42	13	12	17	65	68	−3	51
16	Luton Town	42	14	9	19	53	66	−13	51
17	West Bromwich Albion	42	14	9	19	48	62	−14	51
18	Stoke City	42	13	11	18	44	63	−19	50
19	Coventry City	42	13	11	18	57	77	−20	50
20	Birmingham City (R)	42	12	12	18	39	50	−11	48	Relegation to the Second Division
21	Notts County (R)	42	10	11	21	50	72	−22	41
22	Wolverhampton Wanderers (R)	42	6	11	25	27	80	−53	29

Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Everton qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as the 1983–84 FA Cup winners.
2. Tottenham Hotspur qualified for the UEFA Cup as the 1983–84 UEFA Cup winners.

First Division results

Home \ Away	ARS	AST	BIR	COV	EVE	IPS	LEI	LIV	LUT	MUN	NWC	NOT	NTC	QPR	SOU	STK	SUN	TOT	WAT	WBA	WHU	WOL
Arsenal		1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	2–3	3–0	4–1	1–1	0–2	2–2	3–1	1–2	3–2	3–1	0–1	3–3	4–1
Aston Villa	2–6		1–0	2–0	0–2	4–0	3–1	1–3	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	4–3	1–0	4–0
Birmingham City	1–1	2–1		1–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0
Coventry City	1–4	3–3	0–1		1–1	1–2	2–1	4–0	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	2–1	2–4	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–1
Everton	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0		1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	4–1	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0
Ipswich Town	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–1	3–0		0–0	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–3	5–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	3–4	0–3	3–1
Leicester City	3–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	2–0	2–0		3–3	0–3	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–4	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	0–3	4–1	1–1	4–1	5–1
Liverpool	2–1	2–1	1–0	5–0	3–0	2–2	2–2		6–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	6–0	0–1
Luton Town	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–0		0–5	2–2	2–3	3–2	0–0	3–1	0–1	4–1	2–4	1–2	2–0	0–1	4–0
Manchester United	4–0	1–2	1–0	4–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0		0–0	1–2	3–3	3–1	3–2	1–0	2–1	4–2	4–1	3–0	0–0	3–0
Norwich City	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–0	3–3		2–3	0–1	0–3	1–0	2–2	3–0	2–1	6–1	2–0	1–0	3–0
Nottingham Forest	0–1	2–2	5–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	3–0		3–1	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	5–1	3–1	3–0	5–0
Notts County	0–4	5–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–2	2–5	0–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	0–0		0–3	1–3	1–1	6–1	0–0	3–5	1–1	2–2	4–0
Queens Park Rangers	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0		4–0	6–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1
Southampton	1–0	2–2	2–1	8–2	3–1	3–2	2–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–0		3–1	1–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0
Stoke City	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–4	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1		2–1	1–1	0–4	3–1	3–1	4–0
Sunderland	2–2	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	2–2		1–1	3–0	3–0	0–1	3–2
Tottenham Hotspur	2–4	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	3–0		2–3	0–1	0–2	1–0
Watford	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–3	4–4	2–2	3–3	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–3	3–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–3		3–1	0–0	0–0
West Bromwich Albion	1–3	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–5	2–0	1–2	0–2	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–0		1–0	1–3
West Ham United	3–1	0–1	4–0	5–2	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–3	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–0	2–2	0–1	3–0	0–1	4–1	2–4	1–0		1–1
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–4	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–5	0–0	0–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Coventry City	Dave Sexton	Sacked	27 May 1983	Pre-season	Bobby Gould	12 June 1982
Liverpool	Bob Paisley	Retired	1 June 1983		Joe Fagan	1 June 1983
Notts County	Howard Wilkinson	Signed by Sheffield Wednesday	2 June 1982		Larry Lloyd	7 July 1982
Stoke City	Richie Barker	Sacked	9 December 1983	21st	Bill Asprey	9 December 1983
Arsenal	Terry Neill		16 December 1983	15th	Don Howe	16 December 1983
West Bromwich Albion	Ron Wylie		13 February 1984	17th	Johnny Giles	14 February 1984
Sunderland	Alan Durban		2 March 1984	16th	Len Ashurst	5 March 1984
Wolverhampton Wanderers	Graham Hawkins		2 April 1984	22nd	Jim Barron (caretaker)	2 April 1984

First Division maps

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arsenal

Tottenham

Queens Park Rangers

Watford

West Ham

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Locations of the Football League First Division London teams 1983–1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Birmingham

Coventry

Everton

Ipswich Town

Leicester City

Liverpool

Luton Town

Manchester United

Norwich City

Nottingham Forest

Notts County

QPR

Southampton

Stoke

Sunderland

Tottenham

Watford

West Bromwich Albion

West Ham

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Locations of the Football League First Division 1983–1984 teams

Second Division

Second Division

Season	1983–84
Champions	Chelsea
Promoted	Chelsea Sheffield Wednesday Newcastle United
Relegated	Derby County Swansea City Cambridge United
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,233 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kerry Dixon (28 goals)^[3]
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Chelsea (C, P)	42	25	13	4	90	40	+50	88	Promotion to the First Division
2	Sheffield Wednesday (P)	42	26	10	6	72	34	+38	88
3	Newcastle United (P)	42	24	8	10	85	53	+32	80
4	Manchester City	42	20	10	12	66	48	+18	70
5	Grimsby Town	42	19	13	10	60	47	+13	70
6	Blackburn Rovers	42	17	16	9	57	46	+11	67
7	Carlisle United	42	16	16	10	48	41	+7	64
8	Shrewsbury Town	42	17	10	15	49	53	−4	61
9	Brighton & Hove Albion	42	17	9	16	69	60	+9	60
10	Leeds United	42	16	12	14	55	56	−1	60
11	Fulham	42	15	12	15	60	53	+7	57
12	Huddersfield Town	42	14	15	13	56	49	+7	57
13	Charlton Athletic	42	16	9	17	53	64	−11	57
14	Barnsley	42	15	7	20	57	53	+4	52
15	Cardiff City	42	15	6	21	53	66	−13	51
16	Portsmouth	42	14	7	21	73	64	+9	49
17	Middlesbrough	42	12	13	17	41	47	−6	49
18	Crystal Palace	42	12	11	19	42	52	−10	47
19	Oldham Athletic	42	13	8	21	47	73	−26	47
20	Derby County (R)	42	11	9	22	36	72	−36	42	Relegation to the Third Division
21	Swansea City (R)	42	7	8	27	36	85	−49	29
22	Cambridge United (R)	42	4	12	26	28	77	−49	24

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BLB	B&HA	CAM	CAR	CRL	CHA	CHE	CRY	DER	FUL	GRI	HUD	LEE	MCI	MID	NEW	OLD	POR	SHW	SHR	SWA
Barnsley		0–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	5–1	3–0	3–1	2–2	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	3–2
Blackburn Rovers	1–1		2–2	1–0	1–1	4–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	5–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	4–1
Brighton & Hove Albion	1–0	1–1		3–0	3–1	1–1	7–0	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	4–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–1
Cambridge United	0–3	2–0	3–4		0–2	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–1
Cardiff City	0–3	0–1	2–2	5–0		2–0	2–1	3–3	0–2	1–0	0–4	3–1	3–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	3–2
Carlisle United	4–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	1–1		3–0	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Charlton Athletic	3–2	2–0	2–0	5–2	2–0	1–0		1–1	1–0	1–0	3–4	3–3	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–4	2–2
Chelsea	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–2		2–2	5–0	4–0	2–3	3–1	5–0	0–1	0–0	4–0	3–0	2–2	3–2	3–0	6–1
Crystal Palace	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1		0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–0
Derby County	0–2	1–1	0–3	1–0	2–3	1–4	0–1	1–2	3–0		1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1
Fulham	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	0–0	0–1	3–5	1–1	2–2		1–1	0–2	2–1	5–1	2–1	2–2	3–0	0–2	1–1	3–0	5–0
Grimsby Town	1–0	3–2	5–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	3–4	1–0	1–1	3–0
Huddersfield Town	0–1	0–2	0–1	3–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	2–1	3–0	2–0	0–0		2–2	1–3	2–2	2–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0
Leeds United	1–2	1–0	3–2	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2		1–2	4–1	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0
Manchester City	3–2	6–0	4–0	5–0	2–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–1		2–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	2–1
Middlesbrough	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0		3–2	3–2	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–0
Newcastle United	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	5–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	4–0	3–2	0–1	5–2	1–0	5–0	3–1		3–0	4–2	0–1	0–1	2–0
Oldham Athletic	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–3	0–0	1–1	3–2	3–0	3–0	2–1	0–3	3–2	2–2	2–1	1–2		3–2	1–3	0–1	3–3
Portsmouth	2–1	2–4	5–1	5–0	1–1	0–1	4–0	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–4	4–0	1–1	2–3	1–2	0–1	1–4	3–4		0–1	4–1	5–0
Sheffield Wednesday	2–0	4–2	2–1	1–0	5–2	2–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–2	4–2	3–0	2–0		1–1	6–1
Shrewsbury Town	3–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–4	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	5–1	1–3	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–1		2–0
Swansea City	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	0–3	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–2	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second Division maps

 

 

 

 

 

Charlton Athletic

Chelsea

Crystal Palace

Fulham

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Locations of the Football League Second Division London teams 1983–1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barnsley

Brighton & Hove

Blackburn Rovers

Cambridge Utd

Cardiff City

Carlisle United

Charlton

Chelsea

Crystal Palace

Derby County

Fulham

Grimsby Town

Huddersfield

Leeds United

Manchester City

Middlesbrough

Newcastle

Oldham

Portsmouth

Sheffield Wednesday

Shrewsbury

Swansea City

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Locations of the Football League Second Division 1983–1984 teams

Third Division

Football League, Third Division

Season	1983–84
Champions	Oxford United (2nd title)
Promoted	Sheffield United, Wimbledon
Relegated	Exeter City, Port Vale, Scunthorpe United, Southend United
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,586 (2.87 per match)
Top goalscorer	Keith Edwards (Sheffield United), 33^[3]
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Pos	Team	Pld	HW	HD	HL	HGF	HGA	AW	AD	AL	AGF	AGA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Oxford United	46	17	5	1	58	22	11	6	6	33	28	+41	95	Division Champions, promoted
2	Wimbledon	46	15	5	3	58	35	11	4	8	39	41	+21	87	Promoted
3	Sheffield United	46	14	7	2	56	18	10	4	9	30	35	+33	83
4	Hull City	46	16	5	2	42	11	7	9	7	29	27	+33	83
5	Bristol Rovers	46	16	5	2	47	21	6	8	9	21	33	+14	79
6	Walsall	46	14	4	5	44	22	8	5	10	24	39	+7	75
7	Bradford City	46	11	9	3	46	30	9	2	12	27	35	+8	71
8	Gillingham	46	13	4	6	50	29	7	6	10	24	40	+5	70
9	Millwall	46	16	4	3	42	18	2	9	12	29	47	+6	67
10	Bolton Wanderers	46	13	4	6	36	17	5	6	12	20	43	−4	64
11	Orient	46	13	5	5	40	27	5	4	14	31	54	−10	63
12	Burnley	46	12	5	6	52	25	4	9	10	24	36	+15	62
13	Newport County	46	11	9	3	35	27	5	5	13	23	48	−17	62
14	Lincoln City	46	11	4	8	42	29	6	6	11	17	33	−3	61
15	Wigan Athletic	46	11	5	7	26	18	5	8	10	20	38	−10	61
16	Preston North End	46	12	5	6	42	27	3	6	14	24	39	0	56
17	Bournemouth	46	11	5	7	38	27	5	2	16	25	46	−10	55
18	Rotherham United	46	10	5	8	29	17	5	4	14	28	47	−7	54
19	Plymouth Argyle	46	11	8	4	38	17	2	4	17	18	45	−6	51
20	Brentford	46	8	9	6	41	30	3	7	13	28	49	−10	49
21	Scunthorpe United	46	9	9	5	40	31	0	10	13	14	42	−19	46	Relegated
22	Southend United	46	8	9	6	34	24	2	5	16	21	52	−21	44
23	Port Vale	46	10	4	9	33	29	1	6	16	18	54	−32	43
24	Exeter City	46	4	8	11	27	39	2	7	14	23	45	−34	33

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	BOL	BOU	BRA	BRE	BRR	BUR	EXE	GIL	HUL	LIN	MIL	NPC	ORI	OXF	PLY	PTV	PNE	ROT	SCU	SHU	STD	WAL	WIG	WDN
Bolton Wanderers		0–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–3	3–2	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	8–1	0–1	2–0
Bournemouth	2–2		4–1	0–3	0–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	4–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–3
Bradford City	0–2	5–2		1–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	3–2	0–0	0–0	3–3	1–0	4–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	6–2	5–2
Brentford	3–0	1–1	1–4		2–2	0–0	3–0	2–3	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	4–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	3–4
Bristol Rovers	2–1	1–3	1–0	3–1		2–1	2–0	3–0	1–3	3–1	3–2	4–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	4–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	2–1	1–1
Burnley	2–2	5–1	2–1	2–2	0–0		4–0	2–3	0–2	4–0	1–0	2–0	2–3	1–1	2–1	7–0	2–1	2–2	5–0	2–1	3–0	0–2	3–0	0–2
Exeter City	2–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1		0–0	2–1	0–3	3–2	1–2	3–4	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–3	0–1	1–1	0–3
Gillingham	2–0	2–1	0–0	4–2	1–2	0–1	3–1		1–2	2–0	3–3	4–1	3–1	2–3	2–1	1–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	4–2	5–1	1–3	3–0	0–1
Hull City	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	0–0		2–0	5–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	5–0	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0
Lincoln City	0–0	3–0	2–3	2–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	4–0	1–3		2–2	2–3	3–1	2–2	2–0	3–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–2
Millwall	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	1–0	0–2		1–1	4–3	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–1
Newport County	2–3	2–1	4–3	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1		0–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–4	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	5–3	1–1
Orient	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	1–1	5–3	2–2		1–2	3–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–6
Oxford United	5–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	4–2	2–0	5–2		5–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	6–3	0–0	2–0
Plymouth Argyle	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–1	0–1	3–1	2–1		3–0	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–1	4–0	3–1	0–0	1–2
Port Vale	1–2	2–1	1–2	4–3	2–0	2–3	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–3	0–1		1–1	2–3	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–0
Preston North End	2–1	2–0	1–2	3–3	1–0	4–2	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	1–2	2–1	4–0		1–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–1	2–3	2–3
Rotherham United	1–1	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–1		3–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	4–1	1–2
Scunthorpe United	1–0	1–2	2–1	4–4	2–2	4–0	3–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–3	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–5	1–2		1–1	1–6	0–0	0–0	5–1
Sheffield United	5–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	0–0	2–2	4–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	6–3	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	5–3		5–0	2–0	2–2	1–2
Southend United	0–1	0–0	2–1	6–0	1–2	2–2	0–3	3–1	2–2	2–0	3–2	3–1	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–1		0–0	1–0	1–1
Walsall	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	4–0		3–0	4–0
Wigan Athletic	0–1	1–3	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–1		3–2
Wimbledon	4–0	3–2	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–4	2–1	1–3	1–4	3–1	4–3	6–0	2–2	3–1	1–0	4–2	2–2	3–1	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–0	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third Division maps

 

 

 

 

 

Brentford

Orient

Millwall

Wimbledon

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Locations of the Football League Third Division London teams 1983–1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolton

Bournemouth

Bradford City

Brentford

Bristol Rovers

Burnley

Exeter City

Gillingham

Hull

Orient

Lincoln City

Millwall

Oxford

Newport County

Plymouth Argyle

Port Vale

Preston North End

Rotherham

Scunthorpe United

Sheffield United

Southend

Walsall

Wigan Athletic

Wimbledon

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Locations of the Football League Third Division teams 1983–1984

Fourth Division

Football League, Fourth Division

Season	1983–84
Champions	York City (1st title)
Promoted	Bristol City, Doncaster Rovers, Reading
Failed re-election	None
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,505 (2.73 per match)
Top goalscorer	Trevor Senior (Reading), 36^[3]
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Pos	Team	Pld	HW	HD	HL	HGF	HGA	AW	AD	AL	AGF	AGA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	York City	46	18	4	1	58	16	13	4	6	38	23	+57	101	Division Champions, promoted
2	Doncaster Rovers	46	15	6	2	46	22	9	7	7	36	32	+28	85	Promoted
3	Reading	46	17	6	0	51	14	5	10	8	33	42	+28	82
4	Bristol City	46	18	3	2	51	17	6	7	10	19	27	+26	82
5	Aldershot	46	14	6	3	49	29	8	3	12	27	40	+7	75
6	Blackpool	46	15	4	4	47	19	6	5	12	23	33	+18	72
7	Peterborough United	46	15	5	3	52	16	3	9	11	20	32	+24	68
8	Colchester United	46	14	7	2	45	14	3	9	11	24	39	+16	67
9	Torquay United	46	13	7	3	32	18	5	6	12	27	46	−5	67
10	Tranmere Rovers	46	11	5	7	33	26	6	10	7	20	27	0	66
11	Hereford United	46	11	6	6	31	21	5	9	9	23	32	+1	63
12	Stockport County	46	12	5	6	34	25	5	6	12	26	39	−4	62
13	Chesterfield	46	10	11	2	34	24	5	4	14	25	37	−2	60
14	Darlington	46	13	4	6	31	19	4	4	15	18	31	−1	59
15	Bury	46	9	7	7	34	32	6	7	10	27	32	−3	59
16	Crewe Alexandra	46	10	8	5	35	27	6	3	14	21	40	−11	59
17	Swindon Town	46	11	7	5	34	23	4	6	13	24	33	+2	58
18	Northampton Town	46	10	8	5	32	32	3	6	14	21	46	−25	53
19	Mansfield Town	46	9	7	7	44	27	4	6	13	22	43	−4	52
20	Wrexham	46	7	6	10	34	33	4	9	10	25	41	−15	48	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1984–85 First round^[a]
21	Halifax Town	46	11	6	6	36	25	1	6	16	19	64	−34	48	Re-elected
22	Rochdale	46	8	9	6	35	31	3	4	16	17	49	−28	46
23	Hartlepool United	46	7	8	8	31	28	3	2	18	16	57	−38	40
24	Chester City	46	7	5	11	23	35	0	8	15	22	47	−37	34

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Wrexham lost this year’s Welsh Cup final to Shrewsbury Town, but as the latter are an English side, Wrexham went on to represent Wales in the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	ALD	BLP	BRI	BRY	CHE	CHF	COL	CRE	DAR	DON	HAL	HAR	HER	MAN	NOR	PET	REA	ROC	STP	SWI	TOR	TRA	WRE	YOR
Aldershot		3–2	1–0	1–2	5–2	2–1	5–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	5–2	2–1	1–4	7–1	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–4
Blackpool	5–0		1–0	1–1	3–3	1–0	3–2	3–0	3–1	3–1	4–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	4–0	3–0
Bristol City	2–1	1–1		3–2	4–2	2–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	4–0	4–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	5–0	1–1	2–1	1–0
Bury	0–3	0–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–3	3–0	3–0	1–4	2–2	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–0	1–3
Chester City	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–1		0–2	1–4	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	4–1	0–1	0–4	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–4	0–3	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–1
Chesterfield	3–1	1–1	1–1	1–5	1–1		1–1	1–3	1–1	0–0	0–0	4–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	3–2	3–3	1–1	2–1
Colchester United	4–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0		2–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	6–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	4–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	1–3
Crewe Alexandra	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1		2–1	1–1	6–1	2–0	1–1	1–3	3–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	0–3
Darlington	0–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–0		1–2	3–2	2–0	0–0	3–0	5–3	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–0
Doncaster Rovers	3–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–0	3–2		3–2	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–2
Halifax Town	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–2	1–2		3–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	5–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	1–2
Hartlepool United	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–3	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0		0–0	4–1	2–0	1–1	3–3	1–2	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–3
Hereford United	2–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	5–0		0–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–1
Mansfield Town	5–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	3–3	1–0	1–2	7–1	5–0	1–1		3–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–2	1–3	1–0	3–4	0–1
Northampton Town	1–4	1–5	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–4	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–1		2–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	3–3	1–2
Peterborough United	1–2	4–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	6–0		3–3	2–0	2–0	1–1	5–0	2–0	0–1	0–2
Reading	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	5–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	5–1	3–1	4–0	3–0	1–1		0–0	6–2	2–2	2–2	1–0	4–1	1–0
Rochdale	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–4	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–3	1–1	2–0	3–3	0–0	1–1	2–1	4–1		2–2	3–3	1–0	2–3	1–2	0–2
Stockport County	2–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–3	2–0	0–2	4–0	1–0	1–0	0–4	1–0	4–1	3–0	2–1		1–3	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–2
Swindon Town	0–2	0–0	1–1	0–0	4–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	3–2	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1		2–3	1–1	0–1	3–2
Torquay United	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	4–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–2	4–2	1–1	1–0		1–1	1–1	1–3
Tranmere Rovers	3–0	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	2–1	2–3	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	2–2	1–0	2–1	3–0		2–1	0–1
Wrexham	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–0	2–0	4–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–4	0–0	2–3	0–1	2–2	0–3	5–1	1–2	0–3	2–2	5–1		0–0
York City	2–0	4–0	1–1	3–0	4–1	1–0	3–0	5–2	2–0	1–1	4–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–1	3–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Fourth Division maps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aldershot

Blackpool

Bristol City

Bury

Chester City

Chesterfield

Colchester

Crewe Alexandra

Darlington

Doncaster

Halifax Town

Hartlepool

Hereford United

Mansfield Town

Northampton Town

Peterborough

Reading

Rochdale

Stockport

Swindon

Torquay

Tranmere

Wrexham

York City

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Locations of the Football League Fourth Division teams 1983–1984

Election/Re-election to the Football League

As champions of the Alliance Premier League, Maidstone United (1897) won for the second time the right to apply for election to the Football League, to replace one of the four bottom teams in the 1983–84 Football League Fourth Division. The vote went as follows:

Club	Final Position	Votes
Chester City	24th (Fourth Division)	52
Halifax Town	21st (Fourth Division)	52
Rochdale	22nd (Fourth Division)	50
Hartlepool United	23rd (Fourth Division)	32
Maidstone United (1897)	1st (Alliance Premier League)	22

Hence, all four Football League teams were re-elected, and Maidstone United were again denied membership of the League.

See also

• 1983–84 in English football

References

1. "England 1983–84". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
2. Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.
3. "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

• Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980.