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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1892–93

Liverpool completed the 1892–93 Lancs campaign in 1st, taking 36 points from 22 matches. The record comprised 17 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats, with 66 goals scored and 19 conceded for a goal difference of +47.

CompetitionLancs
League finish1st
ManagersJohn McKenna and William Edward Barclay
Leading scorerJohn Miller (25 goals)

League record

22Played
17Won
2Drawn
3Lost
66Goals for
19Goals against
36Points
1stPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 77.3% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 19 of 22. The side averaged 3.00 goals scored and 0.86 conceded per match; the resulting +47 goal difference gives more context to the 1st finish than position alone.

There is no directly preceding campaign in this archive against which to compare the league finish.

Place in Liverpool’s wider history

This campaign belongs to Liverpool’s foundation period, when the new club was establishing itself at Anfield and moving from regional competition into the Football League.

Cup and scoring picture

The recorded cup programme did not produce a final appearance; the competition-by-competition outcomes are listed alongside this analysis. John Miller led the season scoring record with 25 goals in all competitions.

How this reading was produced: rates, comparisons and competition summaries are calculated from the verified season record shown on this page. They are descriptive analysis rather than claims about matches or events not contained in the dataset.