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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1927–28

Liverpool completed the 1927–28 Division 1 campaign in 16th, taking 39 points from 42 matches. The record comprised 13 wins, 13 draws and 16 defeats, with 84 goals scored and 87 conceded for a goal difference of -3.

CompetitionDivision 1
League finish16th
ManagersMatt McQueen and George Patterson
Leading scorerGordon Hodgson (23 goals)

League record

42Played
13Won
13Drawn
16Lost
84Goals for
87Goals against
39Points
16thPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 31.0% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 26 of 42. The side averaged 2.00 goals scored and 2.07 conceded per match; the resulting -3 goal difference gives more context to the 16th finish than position alone.

Compared with 1926–27, the recorded league position fell by 7 places, while goal difference moved from +8 to -3.

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. Gordon Hodgson led the season scoring record with 23 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.