The
1947–48 Football League
The 1947– 48 season was the 49th completed season of The Football League.
Final league tables
The tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found aThe Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundationwebsite and in ''Rothmans Bo ...
season was
Birmingham City Football Club's 45th in
the Football League and their 19th in the
Second Division. They reached first place in the 22-team division after the match played on 6 December and retained that position for the remainder of the season, winning the Second Division title for the third time and gaining
promotion to the
First Division for 1948–49, from which they had been relegated at the end of the last completed pre-war season. They entered the
1947–48 FA Cup
The 1947–48 FA Cup was the 67th staging of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Manchester United won the competition for only the second time, beating Blackpool 4– ...
at the third round proper and lost to
Notts County in that round.
Twenty-four players made at least one appearance in nationally organised competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Forward
Frank Mitchell missed only one of the 43 games over the season, and
Harold Bodle was leading scorer with 14 goals, all of which came in the league.
Football League Second Division
League table (part)
FA Cup
Appearances and goals
:Players marked left the club during the playing season.
:Key to positions: GK –
Goalkeeper; FB –
Full back; HB –
Half back; FW –
Forward
Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.
Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
** Point forward
** Power forward (basketball)
** Sm ...
See also
*
Birmingham City F.C. seasons
Birmingham City Football Club, an association football club based in Birmingham, England, was founded in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance. For the first thirteen years of their existence, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on a ...
References
General
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* Source for match dates and results:
* Source for lineups, appearances, goalscorers and attendances: Matthews (2010), ''Complete Record'', pp. 330–31.
* Source for kit
"Birmingham City" ''Historical Football Kits''. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
Specific
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