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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1931–32

Liverpool completed the 1931–32 Division 1 campaign in 10th, taking 44 points from 42 matches. The record comprised 19 wins, 6 draws and 17 defeats, with 81 goals scored and 93 conceded for a goal difference of -12.

CompetitionDivision 1
League finish10th
ManagerGeorge Patterson
Leading scorerGordon Hodgson (27 goals)

League record

42Played
19Won
6Drawn
17Lost
81Goals for
93Goals against
44Points
10thPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 45.2% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 25 of 42. The side averaged 1.93 goals scored and 2.21 conceded per match; the resulting -12 goal difference gives more context to the 10th finish than position alone.

Compared with 1930–31, the recorded league position fell by 1 place, while goal difference moved from +1 to -12.

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 27 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.