Third Division 1972-1973

Third Division 1972-1973
Competizione	Third Division
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	46ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 12 agosto 1972 al 1 maggio 1973
Luogo	Inghilterra  Galles
Partecipanti	24
Formula	girone all'italiana A/R
Risultati
Vincitore	Bolton Wanderers (1º titolo)
Altre promozioni	Notts County
Retrocessioni	Brentford Rotherham United Scunthorpe United Swansea City
Statistiche
Miglior marcatore	Arthur Horsfield (26)
Incontri disputati	552
Gol segnati	1 371 (2,48 per incontro)
Cronologia della competizione
1971-1972 1973-1974

La Third Division 1972-1973 è stato il 46º campionato inglese di calcio di terza divisione.

Squadre partecipanti

Squadra	Città	Stadio	Stagione precedente
Blackburn Rovers	Blackburn	Ewood Park	10º posto in Third Division
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	Burnden Park	7º posto in Third Division
Bournemouth	Bournemouth	Dean Court	3º posto in Third Division
Brentford	Londra (Hounslow)	Griffin Park	3º posto in Fourth Division, promosso
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Eastville Stadium	6º posto in Third Division
Charlton Athletic	Londra	The Valley	21º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Saltergate	13º posto in Third Division
Grimsby Town	Grimsby	Blundell Park	1º posto in Fourth Division, promosso
Halifax Town	Halifax	The Shay	17º posto in Third Division
Notts County	Nottingham	Meadow Lane	4º posto in Third Division
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	11º posto in Third Division
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	8º posto in Third Division
Port Vale	Stoke on Trent (Burslem)	Vale Park	15º posto in Third Division
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	18º posto in Third Division
Rotherham United	Rotherham	Millmoor	5º posto in Third Division
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Old Showground	4º posto in Fourth Division, promosso
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	Gay Meadow	12º posto in Third Division
Southend United	Southend on Sea	Roots Hall	2º posto in Fourth Division, promosso
Swansea City	Swansea	Vetch Field	14º posto in Third Division
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	20º posto in Third Division
Watford	Watford	Vicarage Road	22º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Walsall	Walsall	Fellows Park	9º posto in Third Division
Wrexham	Wrexham	Racecourse Ground	16º posto in Third Division
York City	York	Bootham Crescent	19º posto in Third Division

Classifica finale

	Pos.	Squadra	Pt	G	V	N	P	GF	GS	QR
	1	Bolton	61	46	25	11	10	73	39	1.872
	2	Notts County	57	46	23	11	12	67	47	1.426
	3	Blackburn	55	46	20	15	11	57	47	1.213
	4	Oldham Athletic	54	46	19	16	11	72	54	1.333
	5	Bristol Rovers	53	46	20	13	13	77	56	1.375
	6	Port Vale	53	46	21	11	14	56	69	0.812
	7	Bournemouth	50	46	17	16	13	66	44	1.500
	8	Plymouth	50	46	20	10	16	74	66	1.121
	9	Grimsby Town	48	46	20	8	18	67	61	1.098
	10	Tranmere	46	46	15	16	15	56	52	1.077
	11	Charlton	45	46	17	11	18	69	67	1.030
	12	Wrexham	45	46	14	17	15	55	54	1.019
	13	Rochdale	45	46	14	17	15	48	54	0.889
	14	Southend Utd	44	46	17	10	19	61	54	1.130
	15	Shrewsbury Town	44	46	15	14	17	46	54	0.852
	16	Chesterfield	43	46	17	9	20	57	61	0.934
	17	Walsall	43	46	18	7	21	56	66	0.848
	18	York City	41	46	13	15	18	42	46	0.913
	19	Watford	41	46	12	17	17	43	48	0.896
	20	Halifax Town	41	46	13	15	18	43	53	0.811
	21	Rotherham Utd	41	46	17	7	22	51	65	0.785
	22	Brentford	37	46	15	7	24	51	69	0.739
	23	Swansea City	37	46	14	9	23	51	73	0.699
	24	Scunthorpe Utd	30	46	10	10	26	33	72	0.458

Legenda:

      Promosso in Second Division 1973-1974.

      Retrocesso in Fourth Division 1973-1974.

Regolamento:

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

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

Note:

Rotherham United retrocesso in Fourth Division per peggior quoziente reti rispetto agli ex aequo York City, Watford e Halifax Town.

Risultati

Tabellone

	BLA	BOL	BOU	BRE	BRR	CHA	CHF	GRI	HAL	NOC	OLD	PLY	PVA	ROC	ROT	SCU	SHR	SEU	SWA	TRA	WAL	WAT	WRE	YOR
Blackburn Rovers	|	0-3	2-1	2-1	0-0	3-1	0-1	0-0	3-0	2-0	1-1	3-1	0-1	1-1	2-1	3-0	0-0	2-1	3-0	2-2	2-0	0-0	1-1	2-0
Bolton Wanderers	0-1	|	3-0	2-0	2-0	3-0	1-0	2-0	3-0	2-2	2-1	2-0	2-0	2-1	2-1	0-0	2-0	1-1	3-0	2-0	3-1	1-1	1-0	3-0
Bournemouth	3-0	2-0	|	3-2	0-0	3-1	2-2	1-1	1-0	1-1	2-0	0-1	4-0	4-2	4-0	1-1	2-0	2-0	2-0	1-1	0-1	3-0	1-0	2-3
Brentford	4-0	2-1	1-1	|	2-1	1-0	3-1	0-1	0-1	1-1	1-1	0-2	5-0	1-0	1-1	1-0	1-2	1-2	0-2	2-0	2-0	1-1	1-0	2-0
Bristol Rovers	3-0	1-1	2-0	3-1	|	2-1	2-2	2-1	4-1	1-0	3-3	2-0	4-1	0-0	3-0	5-1	5-1	1-2	3-1	2-0	2-1	2-1	2-0	1-2
Charlton Athletic	1-2	2-3	1-1	2-1	3-3	|	2-2	1-1	1-0	6-1	4-2	3-0	2-0	1-0	1-2	2-0	1-2	0-0	6-0	1-1	1-1	2-1	2-1	1-0
Chesterfield	3-1	0-1	1-1	3-0	0-1	1-0	|	2-1	2-0	0-2	4-1	2-2	1-2	2-1	3-2	2-1	2-0	2-4	1-0	2-0	3-0	0-0	1-2	0-0
Grimsby Town	2-0	2-0	0-1	4-0	2-0	0-2	2-1	|	0-0	3-1	6-2	1-1	0-1	1-0	2-1	1-0	3-2	3-1	2-0	2-0	6-2	2-0	0-1	1-2
Halifax Town	2-2	1-1	2-0	3-2	3-0	3-0	0-1	1-1	|	0-1	0-3	2-1	2-2	0-0	0-1	1-0	0-1	2-1	1-1	2-1	0-1	1-1	2-2	1-0
Notts County	0-0	1-0	0-2	1-0	2-0	3-1	2-0	4-0	3-0	|	2-4	2-0	1-1	2-2	2-0	2-0	1-0	2-0	2-0	4-1	1-1	1-0	1-0	1-0
Oldham Athletic	1-2	2-0	1-1	1-1	3-0	0-1	3-0	1-2	1-1	1-1	|	7-1	1-0	0-0	1-0	3-0	2-1	0-1	2-0	3-1	2-1	2-1	2-2	1-1
Plymouth Argyle	1-2	1-0	1-0	0-1	3-2	5-0	2-2	3-1	2-1	1-4	1-3	|	2-1	3-2	4-1	3-0	3-0	2-0	3-1	0-1	0-2	1-1	1-0	1-1
Port Vale	2-1	2-2	2-1	1-0	2-1	3-1	2-1	3-0	2-1	1-1	0-2	1-1	|	0-0	4-1	2-0	1-1	3-1	3-1	0-0	1-2	1-0	3-2	2-1
Rochdale	0-1	2-2	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-2	1-2	3-2	0-0	4-1	0-0	0-6	0-0	|	0-1	0-2	1-1	3-2	1-1	1-1	2-1	1-0	1-0	1-0
Rotherham United	1-1	1-0	2-7	2-1	1-1	2-1	1-0	2-0	0-1	1-4	2-3	1-0	7-0	0-0	|	2-1	2-0	1-0	0-2	1-2	2-0	1-0	1-1	1-2
Scunthorpe United	1-1	1-1	1-1	1-0	0-2	0-2	0-1	1-2	0-3	1-0	0-0	1-1	0-1	1-2	2-1	|	1-0	0-0	1-0	1-5	2-1	1-0	1-1	1-0
Shrewsbury Town	2-0	0-2	0-0	2-0	4-2	0-2	2-0	3-2	0-0	0-0	2-2	1-1	2-3	3-2	1-1	4-2	|	1-0	2-1	0-0	1-1	0-0	0-0	1-0
Southend United	0-1	1-1	2-2	4-0	0-0	1-1	5-1	2-0	1-1	2-1	0-1	3-1	5-0	1-2	1-0	1-0	2-0	|	3-1	1-0	2-0	0-0	0-1	3-0
Swansea City	2-2	2-3	1-0	2-1	0-2	2-1	2-1	6-2	2-0	3-0	0-0	1-1	0-1	2-3	0-1	2-1	0-2	1-1	|	1-1	2-1	2-1	3-1	1-3
Tranmere Rovers	1-1	1-1	0-0	6-2	1-1	4-0	1-0	1-1	1-1	0-2	0-1	2-2	2-0	0-1	2-0	2-1	1-0	3-1	1-1	|	3-1	1-0	4-0	1-0
Walsall	0-2	3-2	1-0	3-0	4-3	3-2	3-2	1-0	0-1	1-3	3-0	1-3	2-0	0-2	1-0	1-1	1-0	3-1	1-1	2-0	|	1-3	2-0	0-0
Watford	1-3	2-1	3-2	2-2	2-1	1-1	0-0	1-2	2-1	1-0	2-1	3-2	1-1	0-0	1-1	5-1	0-1	1-0	0-1	1-0	1-0	|	0-0	2-2
Wrexham	0-0	1-3	1-1	4-1	2-2	2-2	1-0	3-2	0-0	2-0	1-1	1-2	5-0	3-3	1-0	1-2	0-0	4-2	1-0	0-0	2-1	1-0	|	3-1
York City	1-0	0-1	0-0	0-1	0-0	1-1	2-0	0-0	2-1	1-1	0-0	1-2	0-0	1-2	0-1	3-1	2-1	2-0	3-0	4-1	0-0	0-0	1-1	|

Voci correlate

• First Division 1972-1973
• Second Division 1972-1973
• Fourth Division 1972-1973
• FA Cup 1972-1973
• Football League Cup 1972-1973
• Charity Shield 1973

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Season 1972–73, su englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk, English Football League Tables.
• (EN) Football League 1972-1973 su rsssf.com., su rsssf.com.
• (EN) English League Leading Goalscorers su RSSSF, su rsssf.com.