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      DIVISION 3 (South)  1930/31
     
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  Leading League goalscorer:
Peter Simpson
 (Crystal Palace)
 46  goals

The lowest attendance for a Saturday afternoon Football League match is believed to be the 469 who attended the Division 3 (South) match between Thames and Luton Town played on 6th December 1930. Thames won 1-0 in a match played at the 100,000+ capacity West Ham Stadium, a venue which was also used for greyhound and speedway racing.

Watford reached the last 16 of the FA Cup for the first time and their 5th Round tie at Birmingham saw them play in front of the biggest crowd that had ever seen Watford play up to then - 49,757. Just two days later they were back in League action away to Thames at the West Ham Stadium (see above). The crowd (if that's what it could be called!) - 853.

Clapton Orient played two of their home League matches at Wembley Stadium.
The reason.

There have always been some strange results at Christmas, Christmas tipple I wonder!. On Christmas Day 1930 Brentford beat Crystal Palace 8-2. The following day in the return League fixture it was Crystal Palace 5 Brentford 1. Amazingly in the 48 League and FA Cup matches Palace played in 1930/31 202 goals were either scored or conceded by them. That included three 6-0 scores in the FA Cup. Their results.

   1 Notts County 42 24 11 7 97 46 59 Promoted
   

Results

 2 Crystal Palace 42 22 7 13 107 71 51
   

Results

 3 Brentford 42 22 6 14 90 64 50
   

Results

 4 Brighton & Hove Albion 42 17 15 10 68 53 49
    5 Southend United 42 22 5 15 76 60 49
   

Results

 6 Northampton Town 42 18 12 12 77 59 48
    7 Luton Town 42 19 8 15 76 51 46
    8 Queens Park Rangers 42 20 3 19 82 75 43
   

Results

 9 Fulham 42 18 7 17 77 75 43
   

Results

 10 Bournemouth 42 15 13 14 72 73 43
    11 Torquay United 42 17 9 16 80 84 43
    12 Swindon Town 42 18 6 18 89 94 42
    13 Exeter City 42 17 8 17 84 90 42
    14 Coventry City 42 16 9 17 75 65 41
    15 Bristol Rovers 42 16 8 18 75 92 40
    16 Gillingham 42 14 10 18 61 76 38
    17 Walsall 42 14 9 19 78 95 37 Transfer
   

Results

 18 Watford 42 14 7 21 72 75 35
   

Results

 19 Clapton Orient* 42 14 7 21 63 91 35
   

Results

 20 Thames 42 13 8 21 54 93 34
    21 Newport County 42 11 6 25 69 111 28 Re-election position Left League
   

Results

 22 Norwich City 42 10 8 24 47 76 28 Re-election position
   
    * now Leyton Orient

 Transfer Walsall transferred to Division 3 (North).
   
   
R Four non-league clubs challenged the two clubs needing to seek re-election to Division 3 (South) in the vote for League membership. Voting -
38 votes Norwich City  Re-elected to the League
25 Mansfield Town Elected to the League
19 Newport County Not re-elected to the League
14 Aldershot Not elected to the League
2 Merthyr Town Not elected to the League
0 Llanelly Not elected to the League
Mansfield competed in the Midland League - for their League table click on Midland League 1930/31.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

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No League club could do it until the 1981/82 season but York City were the first to do it - in 1983/84. Fulham were the first club to do it twice while a Premier League club didn't manage it until 2017/18. What?

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