The
1949–50 Football League
The 1949– 50 season was the 51st 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
Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first tea ...
's 47th in
the Football League and their 28th in the
First Division. They were bottom of the 22-team division by the end of August, a position which they retained for all but three weeks of the season, so were
relegated to the
Second Division for 1950–51. They entered the
1949–50 FA Cup
The 1949–50 FA Cup was the 69th season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Arsenal won the competition for the third time, beating Liverpool 2–0 in the final at ...
at the third round proper and lost in that round to
Swansea Town.
Twenty-nine players made at least one appearance in nationally organised competition, and there were nine different goalscorers. Goalkeeper
Gil Merrick
Gilbert Harold Merrick (26 January 1922 – 3 February 2010) was an English footballer and football manager. Considered one of the best goalkeepers in the UK during the mid-1950s, Merrick was one in a long line of great Birmingham City keepers ...
was ever-present in the 43-game season, and
Jimmy Dailey
James Dailey (8 September 1927 – January 2002) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
Biography
Dailey was born in Glenboig, Lanarkshire. He began his football career during the Second World War as an amateur ...
was leading goalscorer with only nine goals, all scored in the league.
Football League First 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. 334–35.
* Source for kit
"Birmingham City" ''Historical Football Kits''. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
Specific
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