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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
61 season was the 62nd completed season of
The Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from ...
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First Division


Results


Maps


Second Division


Results


Maps


Third Division


Results


Maps


Fourth Division


Results


Maps


Television

This season saw the first ever live television coverage of a Football League game, when ITV broadcast the second half of
Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool ...
versus
Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...
on September 10, 1960, with commentary from Peter Lloyd and Billy Wright


See also

* 1960-61 in English football * 1960 in association football * 1961 in association football


References

*Ian Laschke: ''Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79''. Macdonald and Jane's, London & Sydney, 1980. {{DEFAULTSORT:1960-61 Football League English Football League seasons