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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1920–21

Liverpool completed the 1920–21 Division 1 campaign in 4th, taking 51 points from 42 matches. The record comprised 18 wins, 15 draws and 9 defeats, with 63 goals scored and 35 conceded for a goal difference of +28.

CompetitionDivision 1
League finish4th
ManagerDavid Ashworth
Leading scorerHarry Chambers (24 goals)

League record

42Played
18Won
15Drawn
9Lost
63Goals for
35Goals against
51Points
4thPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 42.9% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 33 of 42. The side averaged 1.50 goals scored and 0.83 conceded per match; the resulting +28 goal difference gives more context to the 4th finish than position alone.

Compared with 1919–20, the recorded league position was unchanged, while goal difference moved from +15 to +28.

Place in Liverpool’s wider history

The campaign sits in the interwar record, an era that included consecutive championships in the early 1920s and longer stretches of uneven First Division form.

Cup and scoring picture

The recorded cup programme did not produce a final appearance; the competition-by-competition outcomes are listed alongside this analysis. Harry Chambers led the season scoring record with 24 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.