1988–89 Football League

The Football League
Season	1988–89
Champions	Arsenal
Relegated	Darlington
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–1989 season was the 90th completed season of the Football League.^[1]

No European qualification took place due to the Heysel Stadium disaster suspension in place.

Prior to the 1986–87 season membership of the Football League was dependent on a system of election by the other member teams. From 1986 that system came to an end, and instead, the club finishing last in the Fourth Division was automatically demoted to Conference. This season the casualty was Darlington.

First Division 1
- First division Results table 1.1
- First Division maps 1.2
Second Division 2
- Second Division play-offs 2.1
- Second Division results 2.2
- Second Division maps 2.3
Third Division 3
- Third Division play-offs 3.1
- Third Division results 3.2
- Third Division maps 3.3
Fourth Division 4
- Fourth Division play-offs 4.1
- Fourth Division results 4.2
- Fourth Division maps 4.3
See also 5
References 6

First Division

Football League, First Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Arsenal (9th English title)
Relegated	Middlesbrough Newcastle United West Ham United
European Cup 1989–90	No qualifications^[2]
FA Cup winners	Liverpool
European Cup Winners' Cup 1989–90	No qualifications^[2]
UEFA Cup 1989–90	No qualifications^[2]
Matches played	380
Goals scored	926 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	A. Smith (Arsenal), 23 ^[3]
Biggest home win	Luton Town – Southampton 6–1 (2 Jan 1989)
Biggest away win	Millwall – Tottenham Hotspur 0–5 (29 Apr 1989)
Highest scoring	Luton Town – Southampton 6–1 (2 Jan 1989); Luton Town – Charlton 5–2 (2 May 1989); Queens Park Rangers – Wimbledon 4–3 (8 Apr 1989); Coventry –Middlesbrough 3–4 (1 Oct 1988); Middlesbrough – Nottingham Forest 3–4 (22 Apr 1989)
Longest winning run	Liverpool (9 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Liverpool (18 games)
Longest losing run	Southampton (5 games)
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Arsenal	38	10	6	3	35	19	12	4	3	38	17	73	36	37	76	Champions^{[notes 1]}
2	Liverpool	38	11	5	3	33	11	11	5	3	32	17	65	28	37	76	FA Cup Winners
3	Nottingham Forest	38	8	7	4	31	16	9	6	4	33	27	64	43	21	64	League Cup Winners
4	Norwich City	38	8	7	4	23	20	9	4	6	25	25	48	45	3	62
5	Derby County	38	9	3	7	23	18	8	4	7	17	20	40	38	2	58
6	Tottenham Hotspur	38	8	6	5	31	24	7	6	6	29	22	60	46	14	57
7	Coventry City	38	9	4	6	28	23	5	9	5	19	19	47	42	5	55
8	Everton	38	10	7	2	33	18	4	5	10	17	27	50	45	5	54
9	Queens Park Rangers	38	9	5	5	23	16	5	6	8	20	21	43	37	6	53
10	Millwall	38	10	3	6	27	21	4	8	7	20	31	47	52	- 5	53
11	Manchester United	38	10	5	4	27	13	3	7	9	18	22	45	35	10	51
12	Wimbledon	38	10	3	6	30	19	4	6	9	20	27	50	46	4	51
13	Southampton	38	6	7	6	25	26	4	8	7	27	40	52	66	–14	45
14	Charlton Athletic	38	6	7	6	25	24	4	5	10	19	34	44	58	–14	42
15	Sheffield Wednesday	38	6	6	7	21	25	4	6	9	13	26	34	51	–17	42
16	Luton Town	38	8	6	5	32	21	2	5	12	10	31	42	52	–10	41
17	Aston Villa	38	7	6	6	25	22	2	7	10	20	34	45	56	–11	40
18	Middlesbrough	38	6	7	6	28	30	3	5	11	16	31	44	61	–17	39
19	West Ham United	38	3	6	10	19	30	7	2	10	18	32	37	62	–25	38
20	Newcastle United	38	3	6	10	19	28	4	4	11	13	35	32	63	–31	31

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

^ English teams were banned by UEFA from its competitions from the season 1985–86 on until the season 1990–91 because of the Heysel Disaster in 1985, involving Liverpool fans.

Key
	League Champions, excluded from the European Cup
	FA Cup Winners, but excluded from the Cup Winners' Cup
	League Cup winners, excluded from UEFA Cup
	Relegated

First division Results table

Home ╲ Away			width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30	width=30
Arsenal !Arsenal		2–3	2–2	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	5–0	1–3	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–2
Aston Villa !Aston Villa	0–3		1–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–1
	2–3	2–2		0–0	3–0	1–2	0–3	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–3	2–2	1–2	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	1–0
	1–0	2–1	3–0		0–2	0–1	1–3	1–0	1–0	3–4	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	0–3	5–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1
	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–0		3–2	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	4–1
Everton !Everton	1–3	1–1	3–2	3–1	1–0		0–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	3–1	1–1
Liverpool !Liverpool	0–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1		5–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	5–1	2–0	1–1	5–1	1–1
	1–1	1–1	5–2	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–0		0–2	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–3	0–0	0–1	6–1	1–3	4–1	2–2
Manchester United !Manchester United	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	3–1	2–0		1–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0
Middlesbrough !Middlesbroughclude>	0–1	3–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	3–3	0–4	2–1	1–0		4–2	1–1	2–3	3–4	1–0	0–1	3–3	2–2	1–0	1–0
	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–1	0–0	2–0		4–0	2–3	2–2	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–5	0–1	0–1
	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1		0–2	0–1	1–2	1–3	3–3	2–2	1–2	2–1
	0–0	2–2	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	0–2		2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–0
	1–4	4–0	4–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–1	1–1	2–0		0–0	1–1	3–0	1–2	1–2	0–1
	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–2		2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	4–3
	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	3–0	1–2	2–2	0–3	0–2		1–1	0–2	0–2	1–1
	1–3	3–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–4	1–2		0–2	4–0	0–0
Tottenham Hotspur !Tottenham Hotspur	2–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	3–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–2		3–0	3–2
West Ham United !West Ham United	1–4	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–3	1–2	3–0	2–0	0–2	3–3	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–2		1–2
	1–5	1–0	1–1	0–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	4–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–1

Source: require('Module:No globals')

local p = {}

-- articles in which traditional Chinese preceeds simplified Chinese local t1st = { ["228 Incident"] = true, ["Chinese calendar"] = true, ["Lippo Centre, Hong Kong"] = true, ["Republic of China"] = true, ["Republic of China at the 1924 Summer Olympics"] = true, ["Taiwan"] = true, ["Taiwan (island)"] = true, ["Taiwan Province"] = true, ["Wei Boyang"] = true, }

-- the labels for each part local labels = { ["c"] = "Chinese", ["s"] = "simplified Chinese", ["t"] = "traditional Chinese", ["p"] = "pinyin", ["tp"] = "Tongyong Pinyin", ["w"] = "Wade–Giles", ["j"] = "Jyutping", ["cy"] = "Cantonese Yale", ["poj"] = "Pe̍h-ōe-jī", ["zhu"] = "Zhuyin Fuhao", ["l"] = "literally", }

-- article titles for wikilinks for each part local wlinks = { ["c"] = "Chinese language", ["s"] = "simplified Chinese characters", ["t"] = "traditional Chinese characters", ["p"] = "pinyin", ["tp"] = "Tongyong Pinyin", ["w"] = "Wade–Giles", ["j"] = "Jyutping", ["cy"] = "Yale romanization of Cantonese", ["poj"] = "Pe̍h-ōe-jī", ["zhu"] = "Bopomofo", }

-- for those parts which are to be treated as languages their ISO code local ISOlang = { ["c"] = "zh", ["t"] = "zh-Hant", ["s"] = "zh-Hans", ["p"] = "zh-Latn-pinyin", ["tp"] = "zh-Latn", ["w"] = "zh-Latn-wadegile", ["j"] = "yue-jyutping", ["cy"] = "yue", ["poj"] = "hak", ["zhu"] = "zh-Bopo", }

local italic = { ["p"] = true, ["tp"] = true, ["w"] = true, ["j"] = true, ["cy"] = true, ["poj"] = true, } -- Categories for different kinds of Chinese text local cats = { ["c"] = "", ["s"] = "", ["t"] = "", }

function p.Zh(frame) -- load arguments module to simplify handling of args local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs local args = getArgs(frame) return p._Zh(args) end function p._Zh(args) local uselinks = not (args["links"] == "no") -- whether to add links local uselabels = not (args["labels"] == "no") -- whether to have labels local capfirst = args["scase"] ~= nil

        local t1 = false -- whether traditional Chinese characters go first
        local j1 = false -- whether Cantonese Romanisations go first
        local testChar
        if (args["first"]) then
                 for testChar in mw.ustring.gmatch(args["first"], "%a+") do
          if (testChar == "t") then
           t1 = true
           end
          if (testChar == "j") then
           j1 = true
           end
         end
        end
        if (t1 == false) then
         local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
         t1 = t1st[title.text] == true
        end

-- based on setting/preference specify order local orderlist = {"c", "s", "t", "p", "tp", "w", "j", "cy", "poj", "zhu", "l"} if (t1) then orderlist[2] = "t" orderlist[3] = "s" end if (j1) then orderlist[4] = "j" orderlist[5] = "cy" orderlist[6] = "p" orderlist[7] = "tp" orderlist[8] = "w" end -- rename rules. Rules to change parameters and labels based on other parameters if args["hp"] then -- hp an alias for p ([hanyu] pinyin) args["p"] = args["hp"] end if args["tp"] then -- if also Tongyu pinyin use full name for Hanyu pinyin labels["p"] = "Hanyu Pinyin" end if (args["s"] and args["s"] == args["t"]) then -- Treat simplified + traditional as Chinese if they're the same args["c"] = args["s"] args["s"] = nil args["t"] = nil elseif (not (args["s"] and args["t"])) then -- use short label if only one of simplified and traditional labels["s"] = labels["c"] labels["t"] = labels["c"] end local body = "" -- the output string local params -- for creating HTML spans local label -- the label, i.e. the bit preceeding the supplied text local val -- the supplied text -- go through all possible fields in loop, adding them to the output for i, part in ipairs(orderlist) do if (args[part]) then -- build label label = "" if (uselabels) then label = labels[part] if (capfirst) then label = mw.language.getContentLanguage():ucfirst(
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

First Division maps

Arsenal

Aston Villa

Charlton

Coventry

Derby County

Everton

Liverpool

Luton Town

Manchester United

Millwall

Middlesbrough

Newcastle

Norwich City

Nottingham Forest

QPR

Sheffield Wednesday

Southampton

Tottenham

West Ham

Wimbledon

Locations of the Football League First Division 1988–1989 teams

Arsenal

Charlton Athletic

Millwall

Tottenham

Queens Park Rangers

West Ham

Wimbledon

Locations of the Football League First Division London teams 1988–1989

Second Division

Football League, Second Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Chelsea (2nd title)
Promoted	Crystal Palace, Manchester City
Relegated	Birmingham City, Shrewsbury Town, Walsall
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1465 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Keith Edwards (Hull City), 26 ^[3]
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Chelsea	46	15	6	2	50	25	14	6	3	46	25	96	50	+46	99
2	Manchester City	46	12	8	3	48	28	11	5	7	29	25	77	53	+24	82
3	Crystal Palace	46	15	6	2	42	17	8	6	9	29	32	71	49	+22	81	^{[notes3 1]}
4	Watford	46	14	5	4	41	18	8	7	8	33	30	74	48	+26	78
5	Blackburn Rovers	46	16	4	3	50	22	6	7	10	24	37	74	59	+15	77
6	Swindon Town	46	13	8	2	35	15	7	8	8	33	38	68	53	+15	76
7	Barnsley	46	12	8	3	37	21	8	6	9	29	37	66	58	+8	74
8	Ipswich Town	46	13	3	7	42	23	9	4	10	29	38	71	61	+10	73
9	West Bromwich Albion	46	13	7	3	43	18	5	11	7	22	23	65	41	+24	72
10	Leeds United	46	12	6	5	34	20	5	10	8	25	30	59	50	+9	67
11	Sunderland	46	12	8	3	40	23	4	7	12	20	37	60	60	±0	63
12	Bournemouth	46	13	3	7	32	20	5	5	13	21	42	53	62	–9	62
13	Stoke City	46	10	9	4	33	25	5	5	13	24	47	57	72	–15	59
14	Bradford City	46	8	11	4	29	22	5	6	12	23	37	52	59	–7	56
15	Leicester City	46	11	6	6	31	20	2	10	11	25	43	56	63	–7	55
16	Oldham Athletic	46	9	10	4	49	32	2	11	10	26	40	75	72	+3	54
17	Oxford United	46	11	6	6	40	34	3	6	14	22	36	62	70	–8	54
18	Plymouth Argyle	46	11	4	8	35	22	3	8	12	20	44	55	66	–11	54
19	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	11	5	7	36	24	3	4	16	21	42	57	66	–9	51
20	Portsmouth	46	10	6	7	33	21	3	6	14	20	41	53	62	–9	51
21	Hull City	46	7	9	7	31	25	4	5	14	21	43	52	68	–16	47
22	Shrewsbury Town	46	4	11	8	25	31	4	7	12	15	36	40	67	–27	42
23	Birmingham City	46	6	4	13	21	33	2	7	14	10	43	31	76	–45	35
24	Walsall	46	3	10	10	27	42	2	6	15	14	38	41	80	–39	31

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

^ Crystal Palace won the play-offs and were promoted.

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Participated in play-offs
	Promoted through play-offs
	Relegated

Second Division play-offs

Both the semifinals and the finals were decided over two legs.
The full results can be found at: Football League Division Two play-offs 1989.

Second Division results

Home ╲ Away			width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25Chelsea !CHE	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25West Bromwich Albion !WBA
		0–0	0–1	5–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	4–3	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–1
Birmingham City !Birmingham City	3–5		2–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–4	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	3–2	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–4
Charlton Athletic !Charlton Athletic	2–1	3–0		2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	5–4	4–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	4–0	3–1	3–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	4–3	2–2	0–0	3–0	2–1	1–2
	3–2	0–1	2–1		3–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	5–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–3	2–1	0–1	2–1
	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–1		0–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	2–1	2–0
	0–1	4–0	3–0	1–2	1–3		0–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–2	1–0	0–1
Chelsea !Chelsea	5–3	3–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	2–0		1–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–2	1–1	5–0	3–3	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	2–2	1–1
	1–1	4–1	2–2	2–3	2–0	2–1	1–1		3–1	2–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	4–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	0–2	1–0
	0–0	1–1	1–3	4–0	1–1	5–2	3–0	0–1		1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–4	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	0–1
	2–0	4–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–2	1–1		0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	2–0	5–1	2–0	1–2	3–1	3–2	2–1
	2–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–3	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	2–4		1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–3	4–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–1
	0–1	2–0	4–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–1	1–2		0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	3–3	1–0	2–2	1–1
Manchester City !Manchester City	1–2	0–0	1–0	3–3	4–0	2–1	2–3	1–1	4–1	4–0	0–0	4–2		1–4	2–1	2–0	4–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–1	1–1
	1–1	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–4	2–3	2–2	4–0	2–2	1–1	0–1		3–0	2–2	5–3	3–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	3–0	3–1	1–3
	2–0	3–0	1–1	3–1	3–4	3–2	2–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	2–4	1–1		0–1	1–0	4–1	3–2	2–4	1–1	1–0	0–4	1–1
	1–2	0–1	4–3	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–0	3–1		0–1	0–0	4–0	1–4	4–1	2–0	1–0	1–1
Portsmouth !Portsmouth	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	2–3	1–1	1–3	0–1	4–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0		2–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–2	0–0
	2–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–5	3–3	3–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–2		1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1
	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–3	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–0		2–0	2–1	0–3	2–0	0–0
Sunderland !Sunderland	1–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	2–1	2–2	2–4	3–2	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–1		4–0	0–3	1–1	1–1
	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	4–1		1–0	1–1	0–0
	1–3	5–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–7	0–0	1–1	2–4	0–3	0–1	3–3	2–2	1–5	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–2		0–1	0–0
	4–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	0–1	2–3	5–0		2–0
West Bromwich Albion !West Bromwich Albion	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	5–3	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	3–2	2–2	3–0	4–0	6–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	0–1

Source: require('Module:No globals')

local p = {}

        local t1 = false -- whether traditional Chinese characters go first
        local j1 = false -- whether Cantonese Romanisations go first
        local testChar
        if (args["first"]) then
                 for testChar in mw.ustring.gmatch(args["first"], "%a+") do
          if (testChar == "t") then
           t1 = true
           end
          if (testChar == "j") then
           j1 = true
           end
         end
        end
        if (t1 == false) then
         local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
         t1 = t1st[title.text] == true
        end

Second Division maps

Barnsley

Birmingham

Bournemouth

Bradford City

Brighton & Hove

Blackburn Rovers

Chelsea

Crystal Palace

Hull

Ipswich Town

Leeds U.

Leicester City

Manchester City

Oldham

Oxford

Plymouth Argyle

Portsmouth

Shrewsbury

Stoke

Sunderland

Swindon

Walsall

Watford

West Bromwich Albion

Locations of the Football League Second Division 1988–1989 teams

Chelsea

Crystal Palace

Watford

Locations of the Football League Second Division London teams 1988–1989

Third Division

Football League, Third Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Wolverhampton Wanderers (1st title)
Promoted	Port Vale, Sheffield United
Relegated	Aldershot, Chesterfield, Gillingham, Southend United
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1495 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Steve Bull (Wolverhampton Wanderers), 37 ^[3]
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	18	4	1	61	19	8	10	5	35	30	96	49	+47	92
2	Sheffield United	46	16	3	4	57	21	9	6	8	36	33	93	54	+39	84
3	Port Vale	46	15	3	5	46	21	9	9	5	32	27	78	48	+30	84	^{[notes4 1]}
4	Fulham	46	12	7	4	42	28	10	2	11	27	39	69	67	+2	75
5	Bristol Rovers	46	9	11	3	34	21	10	6	7	33	30	67	51	+16	74
6	Preston North End	46	14	7	2	56	31	5	8	10	23	29	79	60	+19	72
7	Brentford	46	14	5	4	36	21	4	9	10	30	40	66	61	+5	68
8	Chester City	46	12	6	5	38	18	7	5	11	26	43	64	61	+3	68
9	Notts County	46	11	7	5	37	22	7	6	10	27	32	64	54	+10	67
10	Bolton Wanderers	46	12	8	3	42	23	4	8	11	16	31	58	54	+4	64
11	Bristol City	46	10	3	10	32	25	8	6	9	21	30	53	55	–2	63
12	Swansea City	46	11	8	4	33	22	4	8	11	18	31	51	53	–2	61	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1989–90 First round
13	Bury	46	11	7	5	27	22	5	6	12	28	45	55	67	–12	61
14	Huddersfield Town	46	10	8	5	35	25	7	1	15	28	48	63	73	–10	60
15	Mansfield Town	46	10	8	5	32	22	4	9	10	16	30	48	52	–4	59
16	Cardiff City	46	10	9	4	30	16	4	6	13	14	40	44	56	–12	57
17	Wigan Athletic	46	9	5	9	28	22	5	9	9	27	31	55	53	+2	56
18	Reading	46	10	6	7	37	29	5	5	13	31	43	68	72	–4	56
19	Blackpool	46	10	6	7	36	29	4	7	12	20	30	56	59	–3	55
20	Northampton Town	46	11	2	10	41	34	5	4	14	25	42	66	76	–10	54
21	Southend United	46	10	9	4	33	26	3	6	14	23	49	56	75	–19	54
22	Chesterfield	46	9	5	9	35	35	5	2	16	16	51	51	86	–35	49
23	Gillingham	46	7	3	13	25	32	5	1	17	22	49	47	81	–34	40
24	Aldershot	46	7	6	10	29	29	1	7	15	19	49	48	78	–30	37

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

^ Port Vale won the play-offs and were promoted.

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Welsh Cup winners, qualified for Cup Winners' Cup
	Participated in play-offs
	Promoted through play-offs
	Relegated

Third Division play-offs

Both the semifinals and the finals were decided over two legs.
The full results can be found at: Football League Division Three play-offs 1989.

Semi-finals 1st leg –21/22 May; 2nd leg –25 May 1989					Finals 1st leg –31 May; 2nd leg –3 June 1989

3rd	Port Vale	1	3	4
6th	Preston North End	1	1	2
					3rd	Port Vale	1	1	2

					5th	Bristol Rovers	1	0	1
4th	Fulham F.C.	0	0	0

5th	Bristol Rovers	1	4	5

Third Division results

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		1–0	0–3	0–0	0–1	1–3	4–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–2	0–1	0–0	5–1	2–3	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	1–2
	4–0		2–0	0–3	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	3–2	1–0	2–4	1–2	3–2	0–0	2–0	0–2
Bolton Wanderers !Bolton Wanderers	1–0	2–2		4–2	2–0	1–1	2–4	4–0	0–1	5–0	3–2	2–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2
	2–1	1–0	3–0		3–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	3–2	1–4	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–2
	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1		0–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	1–5	1–0	6–1	2–0	3–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–1
	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1		1–3	0–1	4–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	5–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–0
	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–0		1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	0–6	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–1	3–1
	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	3–0		2–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–2	2–2	1–1
	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–2	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–0		3–1	7–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–0	0–1	2–4	3–1	1–0	1–1
	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–3	1–2	4–0	1–2		4–1	3–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–0	1–2	0–3	2–4	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–3
Fulham !Fulham	5–1	1–1	1–1	3–3	3–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–1		1–2	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2
	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–3	3–4	1–2	0–2	0–1	0–1		1–2	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–3
	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–3	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–1		2–0	1–2	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–2	3–2	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–0
	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–0		1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–1	0–1	4–0	0–0	0–1	3–1
	6–0	4–2	2–3	1–0	1–3	1–2	2–0	3–0	0–2	3–0	2–1	1–2	1–3	2–1		1–3	1–3	1–0	1–3	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	3–1
	4–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	4–0	0–1	1–2	3–0	2–1	0–1		1–4	0–0	3–3	1–4	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
	3–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	1–3	6–1	1–2	5–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	1–0		1–1	3–0	3–3	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0
	2–2	1–0	3–1	5–3	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–3	3–3	6–0	1–4	5–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	3–0	1–3		2–1	2–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	3–3
	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–0	2–2		1–3	4–0	2–0	0–3	0–2
	1–0	4–1	4–0	2–2	3–0	4–1	2–1	0–1	6–1	1–3	1–0	4–2	5–1	1–2	4–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	1–0		1–2	5–1	2–1	2–0
	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–4	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1		0–2	1–2	3–1
	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0		1–2	2–5
Wigan Athletic !Wigan Athletic	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–1	3–0	0–2	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–0	1–2		1–1
Wolverhampton Wanderers !Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	5–2	6–1	4–1	6–2	3–2	0–0	3–3	6–0	2–1	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–1

Source: require('Module:No globals')

local p = {}

        local t1 = false -- whether traditional Chinese characters go first
        local j1 = false -- whether Cantonese Romanisations go first
        local testChar
        if (args["first"]) then
                 for testChar in mw.ustring.gmatch(args["first"], "%a+") do
          if (testChar == "t") then
           t1 = true
           end
          if (testChar == "j") then
           j1 = true
           end
         end
        end
        if (t1 == false) then
         local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
         t1 = t1st[title.text] == true
        end

Third Division maps

Aldershot

Blackpool

Bolton

Brentford

Bristol City

Bristol Rovers

Bury

Cardiff City

Chester

Chesterfield

Fulham

Gillingham

Huddersfield

Mansfield Town

Northampton Town

Notts County

Port Vale

Preston North End

Reading

Sheffield United

Southend

Swansea City

Wigan Athletic

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Locations of the Football League Third Division teams 1988–1989

Brentford

Fulham

Locations of the Football League Third Division London teams 1988–1989

Fourth Division

Football League, Fourth Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Rotherham United (1st title)
Promoted	Crewe Alexandra, Leyton Orient, Tranmere Rovers
Relegated to Conference	Darlington
New club in the league	Lincoln City
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1498 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Phil Stant (Hereford United), 28 ^[3]
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Fourth Division play-offs

Both the semifinals and the finals were decided over two legs.
The full results can be found at: Football League Division Four play-offs 1989.

Semi-finals 1st leg –21 May; 2nd leg –24 May 1989					Finals 1st leg –30 May; 2nd leg –3 June 1989

4th	Scunthorpe United	1	0	1
7th	Wrexham	3	2	5
					7th	Wrexham	0	1	1

					6th	Leyton Orient	0	2	2
5th	Scarborough	1	0	1

6th	Leyton Orient	0	2	2

Fourth Division results

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		2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–3	2–2	1–4	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–3	6–0
	2–1		3–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	6–0	2–1	2–2	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
	0–0	1–1		1–2	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–0
	2–2	1–2	1–1		2–1	1–2	0–1	4–0	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	2–3	2–1	1–0
	4–0	2–0	1–0	3–1		2–0	0–2	2–1	2–2	2–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–3	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–2	1–2
	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	1–1		1–3	2–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	1–3	2–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–3	1–4	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–2
	1–0	1–1	1–3	3–1	0–1	1–0		2–1	2–3	1–4	1–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	2–3	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–2
	3–0	0–3	3–0	4–2	1–2	2–1	3–0		2–1	4–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	5–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–2	2–0
	1–0	4–0	0–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	5–0	2–1		3–2	3–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	0–4	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–0
	1–2	0–0	3–3	3–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–3	2–1		1–0	2–2	2–2	0–1	5–0	4–1	1–1	0–2	5–1	2–2	2–0	2–3	4–0	0–0
	2–2	3–2	0–2	2–1	0–3	2–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–0		1–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–2	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–3	0–1
	0–0	4–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	2–0		1–1	3–2	4–0	4–4	1–1	1–3	1–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–2
	3–0	1–1	2–0	8–0	0–0	1–0	4–0	4–0	5–0	2–0	4–3	1–3		3–1	1–2	3–0	3–1	2–3	4–1	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	4–0
	2–3	3–0	0–2	1–1	2–2	3–2	3–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	0–1		1–1	4–1	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–3	2–1
	3–0	1–5	1–4	3–0	3–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1		1–0	0–3	1–4	1–2	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–1
	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–3	2–2	0–0		0–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	3–3	2–0
	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	4–0	6–0	4–1	2–0	1–1	3–1		1–1	3–3	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–2	0–1
	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	2–3	3–1	2–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–3	1–0		1–0	1–1	5–2	0–0	0–3	0–0
	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	5–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	0–0	3–0	4–0	0–0	0–3		1–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–2
	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–3	2–2	1–2		0–0	1–1	2–2	3–2
	2–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–4	2–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–2	2–1		3–2	0–0	2–0
	2–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	3–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0		2–1	0–1
	4–2	3–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	3–3	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–0	4–3	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–4	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–3		2–1
	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–1	3–1	0–3	5–3	2–3	4–1	1–1	2–1	5–1	3–3	1–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–0

Source: require('Module:No globals')

local p = {}

        local t1 = false -- whether traditional Chinese characters go first
        local j1 = false -- whether Cantonese Romanisations go first
        local testChar
        if (args["first"]) then
                 for testChar in mw.ustring.gmatch(args["first"], "%a+") do
          if (testChar == "t") then
           t1 = true
           end
          if (testChar == "j") then
           j1 = true
           end
         end
        end
        if (t1 == false) then
         local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle()
         t1 = t1st[title.text] == true
        end

Fourth Division maps

Burnley

Cambridge Utd

Carlisle United

Colchester

Crewe Alexandra

Darlington

Doncaster

Exeter City

Grimsby Town

Halifax Town

Hartlepool

Hereford United

Orient

Lincoln City

Peterborough

Rochdale

Rotherham

Scarborough

Scunthorpe United

Stockport

Torquay

Tranmere

Wrexham

York City

Locations of the Football League Fourth Division teams 1988–1989

References

-- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --

local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno

local p = {}

-- Helper functions

local function getArgs(frame) -- Fetches the arguments from the parent frame. Whitespace is trimmed and -- blanks are removed. mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') return mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true}) end

local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end

function p.findNamespaceId(link, removeColon) -- Finds the namespace id (namespace number) of a link or a pagename. This -- function will not work if the link is enclosed in double brackets. Colons -- are trimmed from the start of the link by default. To skip colon -- trimming, set the removeColon parameter to true. checkType('findNamespaceId', 1, link, 'string') checkType('findNamespaceId', 2, removeColon, 'boolean', true) if removeColon ~= false then link = removeInitialColon(link) end local namespace = link:match('^(.-):') if namespace then local nsTable = mw.site.namespaces[namespace] if nsTable then return nsTable.id end end return 0 end

function p.formatPages(...) -- Formats a list of pages using formatLink and returns it as an array. Nil -- values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local ret = {} for i, page in ipairs(pages) do ret[i] = p._formatLink(page) end return ret end

function p.formatPageTables(...) -- Takes a list of page/display tables and returns it as a list of -- formatted links. Nil values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local links = {} for i, t in ipairs(pages) do checkType('formatPageTables', i, t, 'table') local link = t[1] local display = t[2] links[i] = p._formatLink(link, display) end return links end

function p.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) -- Formats an error message to be returned to wikitext. If -- addTrackingCategory is not false after being returned from -- Module:Yesno, and if we are not on a talk page, a tracking category -- is added. checkType('makeWikitextError', 1, msg, 'string') checkType('makeWikitextError', 2, helpLink, 'string', true) yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle() -- Make the help link text. local helpText if helpLink then helpText = ' (help)' else helpText = end -- Make the category text. local category if not title.isTalkPage and yesno(addTrackingCategory) ~= false then category = 'Hatnote templates with errors' category = string.format( '%s:%s', mw.site.namespaces[14].name, category ) else category = end return string.format( '%s', msg, helpText, category ) end

-- Format link -- -- Makes a wikilink from the given link and display values. Links are escaped -- with colons if necessary, and links to sections are detected and displayed -- with " § " as a separator rather than the standard MediaWiki "#". Used in -- the template.

function p.formatLink(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local link = args[1] local display = args[2] if not link then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no link specified', 'Template:Format hatnote link#Errors', args.category ) end return p._formatLink(link, display) end

function p._formatLink(link, display) -- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the -- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links -- categorise the page and file links display the file. checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string') checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true) link = removeInitialColon(link) local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false) local colon if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then colon = ':' else colon = end -- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the | magic -- word. if not display then local prePipe, postPipe = link:match('^(.-)|(.*)$') link = prePipe or link display = postPipe end -- Find the display value. if not display then local page, section = link:match('^(.-)#(.*)$') if page then display = page .. ' § ' .. section end end -- Assemble the link. if display then return string.format('%s', colon, link, display) else return string.format('%s%s', colon, link) end end

-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.

function p.hatnote(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local s = args[1] local options = {} if not s then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no text specified', 'Template:Hatnote#Errors', args.category ) end options.extraclasses = args.extraclasses options.selfref = args.selfref return p._hatnote(s, options) end

function p._hatnote(s, options) checkType('_hatnote', 1, s, 'string') checkType('_hatnote', 2, options, 'table', true) local classes = {'hatnote'} local extraclasses = options.extraclasses local selfref = options.selfref if type(extraclasses) == 'string' then classes[#classes + 1] = extraclasses end if selfref then classes[#classes + 1] = 'selfref' end return string.format( '

', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )

end

return p-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --

local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno

local p = {}

-- Helper functions

local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end

-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.

', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )

end

return p

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