Third Division 1952-1953

Third Division 1952-1953
Competizione	Third Division
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	26ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 23 agosto 1952 al 2 maggio 1953
Luogo	Inghilterra  Galles
Partecipanti	48
Formula	2 gironi all'italiana A/R
Cronologia della competizione
1951-1952 1953-1954

La Third Division 1952-1953 è stato il 26º campionato inglese di calcio di terza divisione, il 25º con la suddivisione in 2 gironi (North e South). Ad aggiudicarsi il titolo ed a salire in Second Division furono: Oldham Athletic (Third Division North) e Bristol Rovers (Third Division South).

Stagione

Aggiornamenti

• Port Vale trasferito in Third Division North.

Selezione dei club

• Esito della votazione per l'elezione dei club in Third Division

Club	Lega	Voti	Verdetto
Darlington	Third Division North	49	Rieletto
Exeter City	Third Division South	47	Rieletto
Walsall	Third Division South	45	Rieletto
Workington	Third Division North	40	Rieletto
Wigan Athletic	Lancashire Combination	9	Non eletto
Worcester City	Southern League	3	Non eletto
Bath City	Southern League	1	Non eletto
Merthyr Tydfil	Southern League	1	Non eletto
Peterborough United	Midland League	1	Non eletto
Headington United	Southern League	0	Non eletto
Nelson	Lancashire Combination	0	Non eletto
New Brighton	Lancashire Combination	0	Non eletto
North Shields	North Eastern League	0	Non eletto
Yeovil Town	Southern League	0	Non eletto

Third Division North

Third Division North 1952-1953
Competizione	Third Division North
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	25ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 23 agosto 1952 al 2 maggio 1953
Partecipanti	24
Formula	girone all'italiana A/R
Risultati
Vincitore	Oldham Athletic (1º titolo)
Promozioni	Oldham Athletic
Statistiche
Miglior marcatore	J. Whitehouse (29)
Incontri disputati	552
Gol segnati	1 604 (2,91 per incontro)
Cronologia della competizione
1951-1952 1953-1954

Squadre partecipanti

Squadra	Città	Stadio	Stagione precedente
Accrington Stanley	Accrington	Peel Park	22º posto in Third Division North
Barrow	Barrow-in-Furness	Holker Street	12º posto in Third Division North
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	15º posto in Third Division North
Bradford Park Avenue	Bradford	Park Avenue	8º posto in Third Division North
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	7º posto in Third Division North
Chester	Chester	Sealand Road	19º posto in Third Division North
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Saltergate	13º posto in Third Division North
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Gresty Road	16º posto in Third Division North
Darlington	Darlington	Feethams Ground	23º posto in Third Division North, rieletto
Gateshead	Gateshead	Redheugh Park	5º posto in Third Division North
Grimsby Town	Grimsby	Blundell Park	2º posto in Third Division North
Halifax Town	Halifax	The Shay	20º posto in Third Division North
Hartlepool United	Hartlepool	Victoria Park	9º posto in Third Division North
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	6º posto in Third Division North
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	4º posto in Third Division North
Port Vale	Stoke on Trent (Burslem)	Vale Park	13º posto in Third Division South
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	21º posto in Third Division North
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	Scunthorpe	Old Showground	14º posto in Third Division North
Southport	Southport	Haigh Avenue	17º posto in Third Division North
Stockport County	Stockport	Edgeley Park	3º posto in Third Division North
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	11º posto in Third Division North
Workington	Workington	Borough Park	24º posto in Third Division North, rieletto
Wrexham	Wrexham	Racecourse Ground	18º posto in Third Division North
York City	York	Bootham Crescent	10ºposto in Third Division North

Classifica finale

	Pos.	Squadra	Pt	G	V	N	P	GF	GS	QR
	1	Oldham Athletic	59	46	22	15	9	77	45	1.711
	2	Port Vale	58	46	20	18	8	67	35	1.914
	3	Wrexham	56	46	24	8	14	86	66	1.303
	4	York City	53	46	20	13	13	60	45	1.333
	5	Grimsby Town	52	46	21	10	15	75	59	1.271
	6	Southport	51	46	20	11	15	63	60	1.050
	7	Bradford PA	50	46	19	12	15	75	61	1.230
	8	Gateshead	49	46	17	15	14	76	60	1.267
	9	Carlisle Utd	49	46	18	13	15	82	68	1.206
	10	Crewe Alexandra	48	46	20	8	18	70	68	1.029
	11	Stockport County	47	46	17	13	16	82	69	1.188
	12	Chesterfield	47	46	18	11	17	65	63	1.032
	13	Tranmere	47	46	21	5	20	65	63	1.032
	14	Halifax Town	47	46	16	15	15	68	68	1.000
	15	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	46	46	16	14	16	62	56	1.107
	16	Bradford City	46	46	14	18	14	75	80	0.938
	17	Hartlepool Utd	46	46	16	14	16	57	61	0.934
	18	Mansfield Town	46	46	16	14	16	55	62	0.887
	19	Barrow	44	46	16	12	18	66	71	0.930
	20	Chester	37	46	11	15	20	64	85	0.753
	21	Darlington	34	46	14	6	26	58	96	0.604
	22	Rochdale	33	46	14	5	27	62	83	0.747
	23	Workington	32	46	11	10	25	55	91	0.604
	24	Accrington Stanley	27	46	8	11	27	39	89	0.438

Legenda:

      Promosso in Second Division 1953-1954.

      Rieletto nella Football League.

Regolamento:

Due punti a vittoria, uno a pareggio, zero a sconfitta.

A parità di punti le squadre venivano classificate secondo il quoziente reti.

Risultati

Tabellone

	ACC	BAR	BRC	BPA	CRL	CHE	CHF	CRE	DAR	GAT	GRI	HAL	HPL	MFT	OLD	PVA	ROC	SCU	SOP	STC	TRA	WOR	WRE	YOR
Accrington Stanley		1-0	1-1	3-2	1-0	1-1	1-1	1-1	1-0	1-1	1-2	1-1	1-1	2-2	0-2	1-1	2-1	2-1	1-2	1-4	0-2	0-1	1-2	1-0
Barrow	2-0		5-1	2-0	0-0	3-0	2-1	1-2	2-2	2-2	1-1	5-1	2-1	3-0	4-3	1-2	2-1	2-1	1-1	1-0	2-0	3-0	1-1	1-0
Bradford City	3-2	2-2		2-1	7-2	2-2	2-1	1-3	4-3	3-1	1-0	5-0	1-1	2-1	0-0	1-0	0-3	0-0	2-2	3-0	5-3	4-0	3-1	1-1
Bradford Park Avenue	4:0	1:0	2:2		2:2	1:0	0:1	1:0	3:0	3:0	0:3	1:2	1:1	1:1	0:0	2:2	2:1	1:1	1:0	1:1	1:0	6:1	1:2	2:3
Carlisle United	4-4	0-0	4-4	1-3		1-1	3-0	1-2	4-2	2-2	3-0	1-2	4-1	1-0	0-0	2-0	5-0	8-0	2-0	2-1	4-0	3-1	1-0	1-1
Chester	2-0	2-1	2-0	0-3	1-2		2-0	2-2	6-3	2-0	0-2	2-1	0-1	2-2	0-1	2-2	3-0	1-1	0-0	4-0	3-2	1-1	1-2	1-1
Chesterfield	3-0	1-1	1-1	1-1	4-2	2-1		1-0	3-0	1-1	3-2	2-1	2-0	4-1	1-2	1-0	1-0	1-1	1-2	2-1	1-2	1-1	2-1	1-2
Crewe Alexandra	3-2	1-1	1-1	2-3	2-2	4-1	2-1		0-1	4-3	1-2	1-1	2-0	1-0	0-1	1-4	4-2	2-0	2-0	2-0	1-0	4-0	3-3	3-0
Darlington	1-0	1-0	4-1	1-3	0-0	3-2	3-1	1-1		1-0	1-1	0-2	3-0	2-1	0-5	0-2	3-2	1-0	3-1	1-0	1-2	1-0	2-2	0-1
Gateshead	5-0	3-1	2-2	3-2	2-0	4-1	2-4	6-1	5-1		2-0	3-1	1-1	1-2	1-0	1-1	3-1	1-1	1-2	2-0	0-1	1-1	1-0	1-1
Grimsby Town	3-0	2-1	0-0	2-3	2-3	5-4	0-0	1-0	2-0	0-0		2-0	7-0	5-1	1-1	1-1	3-2	1-0	1-0	0-1	3-1	2-0	2-0	2-1
Halifax Town	3-0	1-0	1-1	2-4	2-1	3-1	3-1	1-3	3-2	1-3	3-2		3-2	1-2	2-2	1-2	3-1	2-1	4-1	3-0	0-0	5-2	0-0	0-0
Hartlepool United	4-1	2-0	0-0	0-1	1-0	2-2	2-0	2-1	1-0	0-0	2-0	0-0		2-0	4-1	2-0	2-1	1-1	3-0	0-2	4-1	2-2	1-2	2-1
Mansfield Town	0-0	2-2	3-1	1-1	2-1	2-2	1-4	3-0	3-2	2-0	1-1	2-1	2-0		0-2	1-0	2-1	1-0	2-2	2-2	1-0	0-0	0-2	1-1
Oldham Athletic	3-0	3-0	2-0	2-1	2-4	2-1	1-1	0-1	5-0	1-1	1-1	1-0	4-2	1-0		0-1	1-0	0-1	3-0	1-1	5-2	4-1	4-2	2-1
Port Vale	0-1	3-0	0-0	1-0	0-0	1-1	3-0	3-1	2-1	1-1	4-0	1-1	3-0	1-1	1-1		5-2	4-0	0-0	2-0	2-0	2-0	0-0	2-0
Rochdale	1-0	6-2	2-1	1-0	1-2	3-1	0-2	0-1	3-1	2-3	0-2	1-1	3-1	1-0	3-1	1-1		2-2	0-0	2-2	3-0	2-0	4-1	0-3
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	5-2	1-2	4-0	1-2	1-2	1-1	1-0	2-0	2-0	0-0	0-1	1-1	0-0	0-1	1-1	1-2	5-1		3-0	2-2	2-0	2-1	1-2	2-0
Southport	1-0	3-2	3-0	2-2	2-0	2-0	1-0	3-0	3-0	3-2	4-3	1-1	0-0	1-3	1-0	0-0	1-0	2-3		3-0	1-2	2-0	1-0	3-1
Stockport County	3-1	6-1	6-1	2-0	3-0	4-1	4-1	2-4	2-2	3-1	2-2	1-1	1-1	2-2	1-1	0-2	2-0	1-1	3-0		3-2	6-0	3-1	1-1
Tranmere Rovers	2-0	2-0	3-1	4-0	4-1	4-0	3-1	1-0	5-2	2-0	2-1	0-0	0-2	1-0	0-0	1-1	1-0	0-1	1-1	1-0		3-0	4-2	1-3
Workington	3-0	3-1	3-2	2-2	1-1	1-2	2-3	4-0	3-1	0-2	3-1	2-0	1-1	0-1	1-1	1-1	1-2	0-3	2-4	0-2	2-0		4-0	1-3
Wrexham	3-1	4-0	2-1	0-3	3-0	7-0	2-2	1-0	4-2	1-0	3-1	2-1	3-2	1-0	2-2	3-1	3-0	2-3	3-2	5-2	1-0	3-0		1-1
York City	2-0	1-1	0-0	3-1	1-0	0-0	0-0	2-1	3-0	1-2	2-0	2-2	1-0	2-0	1-2	1-0	2-0	0-2	3-1	3-0	2-0	1-3	2-1

Third Division South

Third Division South 1952-1953
Competizione	Third Division South
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	25ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 23 agosto 1952 al 2 maggio 1953
Partecipanti	24
Formula	girone all'italiana A/R
Risultati
Vincitore	Bristol Rovers (1º titolo)
Promozioni	Bristol Rovers
Statistiche
Miglior marcatore	Geoff Bradford (33)
Incontri disputati	552
Gol segnati	1 745 (3,16 per incontro)
Cronologia della competizione
1951-1952 1953-1954

Squadre partecipanti

Squadra	Città	Stadio	Stagione precedente
Aldershot	Aldershot	Recreation Ground	12º posto in Third Division South
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	Bournemouth	Dean Court	14º posto in Third Division South
Brighton & Hove Albion	Brighton	Goldstone Ground	5º posto in Third Division South
Bristol City	Bristol	Ashton Gate	15º posto in Third Division South
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Eastville Stadium	7º posto in Third Division South
Colchester United	Colchester	Layer Road	10º posto in Third Division South
Coventry City	Coventry	Highfield Road	21º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Crystal Palace	Londra (Croydon)	Selhurst Park	19º posto in Third Division South
Exeter City	Exeter	St James Park	23º posto in Third Division South, rieletto
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	22º posto in Third Division South
Ipswich Town	Ipswich	Portman Road	17º posto in Third Division South
Leyton Orient	Londra (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	18º posto in Third Division South
Millwall	Londra (Bermondsey)	The Den	4º posto in Third Division South
Newport County	Newport	Somerton Park	6º posto in Third Division South
Northampton Town	Northampton	County Ground	8º posto in Third Division South
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	3º posto in Third Division South
Queens Park Rangers	Londra (Hammersmith and Fulham)	Loftus Road	22º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Reading	Reading	Elm Park	2º posto in Third Division South
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	Gay Meadow	20º posto in Third Division South
Southend United	Southend on Sea	Greyhound Park	9º posto in Third Division South
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	16º posto in Third Division South
Torquay United	Torquay	Plainmoor	11º posto in Third Division South
Walsall	Walsall	Fellows Park	24º posto in Third Division South, rieletto
Watford	Watford	Vicarage Road	21º posto in Third Division South

Classifica finale

	Pos.	Squadra	Pt	G	V	N	P	GF	GS	QR
	1	Bristol Rovers	64	46	26	12	8	92	46	2.000
	2	Millwall	62	46	24	14	8	82	44	1.864
	3	Northampton Town	62	46	26	10	10	109	70	1.557
	4	Norwich City	60	46	25	10	11	99	55	1.800
	5	Bristol City	59	46	22	15	9	95	61	1.557
	6	Coventry City	50	46	19	12	15	77	62	1.242
	7	Brighton	50	46	19	12	15	81	75	1.080
	8	Southend Utd	49	46	18	13	15	69	74	0.932
	9	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	47	46	19	9	18	74	69	1.072
	10	Watford	47	46	15	17	14	62	63	0.984
	11	Reading	46	46	19	8	19	69	64	1.078
	12	Torquay Utd	45	46	18	9	19	87	88	0.989
	13	Crystal Palace	43	46	15	13	18	66	82	0.805
	14	Leyton Orient	42	46	16	10	20	68	73	0.932
	15	Newport County	42	46	16	10	20	70	82	0.854
	16	Ipswich Town	41	46	13	15	18	60	69	0.870
	17	Exeter City	40	46	13	14	19	61	71	0.859
	18	Swindon Town	40	46	14	12	20	64	79	0.810
	19	Aldershot	39	46	12	15	19	61	77	0.792
	20	QPR	39	46	12	15	19	61	82	0.744
	21	Gillingham	39	46	12	15	19	55	74	0.743
	22	Colchester Utd	38	46	12	14	20	59	76	0.776
	23	Shrewsbury Town	36	46	12	12	22	68	91	0.747
	24	Walsall	24	46	7	10	29	56	118	0.475

Legenda:

      Promosso in Second Division 1953-1954.

      Rieletto nella Football League.

Regolamento:

Due punti a vittoria, uno a pareggio, zero a sconfitta.

A parità di punti le squadre venivano classificate secondo il quoziente reti.

Risultati

Tabellone

	ALD	BOU	BHA	BRC	BRR	COL	COV	CRY	EXE	GIL	IPS	LEY	MIL	NPC	NHT	NOR	QPR	REA	SHR	SEU	SWI	TOR	WAL	WAT
Aldershot		1-0	1-2	1-2	0-0	0-0	4-1	0-1	1-1	3-2	1-1	2-0	1-2	2-2	2-1	1-2	4-1	2-2	4-2	1-1	2-2	0-2	2-0	1-2
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	0-3		2-1	4-1	1-2	1-0	3-0	4-2	2-1	4-2	2-1	4-1	1-1	1-2	0-1	0-0	1-0	2-0	2-0	5-1	1-1	0-1	5-1	4-1
Brighton & Hove Albion	4-2	2-0		0-1	2-1	0-0	1-1	4-1	4-2	5-0	1-4	3-1	1-0	2-2	1-1	2-3	2-0	1-1	3-1	2-2	1-2	2-1	4-2	1-2
Bristol City	0-0	1-1	2-2		0-0	3-2	1-0	5-0	4-1	4-0	4-2	2-1	0-0	2-0	2-3	0-1	4-4	1-1	3-2	5-0	4-2	4-4	6-1	5-1
Bristol Rovers	4-1	2-1	7-0	0-0		3-1	5-2	2-0	0-0	3-1	3-0	2-1	1-1	3-1	1-1	3-1	2-1	4-0	2-1	2-1	1-2	3-0	2-0	0-3
Colchester United	1-2	1-1	0-0	3-1	0-3		0-1	3-0	3-1	1-1	0-0	3-1	0-0	3-3	1-2	0-4	1-1	2-1	1-0	3-3	3-1	4-1	6-1	1-1
Coventry City	3-0	2-3	3-1	2-2	1-1	2-2		4-2	1-0	2-1	2-0	3-0	4-1	0-1	1-1	2-1	2-0	4-0	0-0	2-1	1-2	7-2	3-1	1-0
Crystal Palace	3-0	1-0	2-1	1-3	1-0	3-1	2-2		2-0	0-0	1-1	2-2	0-1	2-1	4-3	1-1	4-2	0-3	1-2	0-0	3-0	2-2	4-1	1-0
Exeter City	2-2	5-1	1-5	1-1	0-0	2-0	1-0	2-0		0-0	1-1	0-1	1-0	3-2	2-0	1-0	2-2	2-0	2-2	0-2	1-2	4-1	6-1	1-1
Gillingham	2-0	1-2	1-2	0-1	0-4	1-1	0-0	1-0	1-0		1-1	3-2	0-1	1-1	1-1	0-3	3-0	2-1	4-2	1-1	0-0	2-1	3-1	2-1
Ipswich Town	2-1	2-1	1-0	1-0	1-5	2-2	3-0	2-0	0-1	1-1		0-1	1-6	3-0	1-1	2-1	0-1	1-2	2-1	0-0	1-1	2-2	5-0	1-1
Leyton Orient	4-1	2-2	3-0	1-3	3-3	5-3	1-2	0-0	2-0	1-1	3-1		1-4	2-1	0-1	3-1	5-0	1-1	0-0	3-0	2-2	4-1	4-1	2-0
Millwall	0-0	3-1	1-1	1-1	3-0	3-1	2-0	0-0	0-0	3-1	3-2	0-0		3-0	1-2	2-3	2-1	1-0	4-1	4-1	3-0	3-0	3-0	1-1
Newport County	2-1	2-1	0-3	4-3	2-2	0-1	4-4	3-2	1-0	1-2	1-3	0-1	1-3		4-1	1-1	2-0	1-0	4-2	0-1	3-0	3-0	3-2	1-1
Northampton Town	4-0	5-1	5-3	0-2	2-2	2-0	3-1	5-1	3-1	3-1	2-0	3-1	1-1	5-0		3-3	4-2	6-1	3-1	4-3	3-1	3-3	2-1	4-1
Norwich City	5-0	1-1	3-2	0-0	0-0	3-0	1-1	5-1	2-0	3-2	1-0	5-1	2-2	2-0	1-2		2-0	3-0	2-1	3-1	1-1	3-0	3-0	5-2
Queens Park Rangers	2-2	2-1	3-3	2-1	0-1	1-0	0-4	1-1	1-1	1-1	2-2	0-1	1-3	4-2	2-2	3-1		1-0	1-0	3-2	1-1	0-1	4-2	2-2
Reading	2-3	1-3	0-0	4-0	2-0	2-0	1-0	4-1	3-1	3-2	1-1	2-0	5-0	2-1	2-0	0-1	2-0		5-3	1-0	4-1	4-1	0-0	3-0
Shrewsbury Town	2-1	1-0	0-0	0-1	0-1	3-0	1-0	1-1	1-3	3-1	2-2	2-0	2-4	1-1	2-4	1-8	0-3	1-1		7-1	2-1	2-1	1-0	3-1
Southend United	1-1	0-0	1-2	0-4	2-1	4-0	1-0	2-2	1-1	3-1	2-0	1-0	2-1	1-0	3-1	1-2	2-0	3-1	2-2		3-0	3-1	2-1	1-0
Swindon Town	3-2	1-2	3-0	0-0	1-3	0-1	2-3	3-6	5-2	0-0	2-0	1-1	1-2	2-0	3-0	2-1	1-3	2-0	2-2	1-3		2-0	1-2	0-0
Torquay United	1:2	5:1	1:2	1:2	1:0	5:1	2:1	1:1	5:2	3:2	4:1	5:0	1:0	3:3	3:0	4:1	1:1	2:0	4:0	4:2	3:1		0:3	2:2
Walsall	0-0	2-2	3-0	3-3	3-5	0-3	1-1	2-4	2-2	1-3	1-3	1-0	0-2	1-3	1-	3-2	1-1	2-0	4-4	1-1	1-2	2-0		0-0
Watford	1-1	3-0	2-3	4-1	2-3	2-0	1-1	2-0	3-1	0-0	1-0	1-0	1-1	0-1	2-1	3-2	1-1	2-1	1-1	1-1	2-1	1-1	3-0

Voci correlate

• First Division 1952-1953
• Second Division 1952-1953
• FA Cup 1952-1953
• Charity Shield 1953

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Season 1952–53, su englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk, English Football League Tables.
• (EN) Football League 1952-1953 su rsssf.com., su rsssf.com.
• (EN) English League Leading Goalscorers su RSSSF, su rsssf.com.
• (EN) A history of admission to the Football League, su nonleaguematters.co.uk.