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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1935–36

Liverpool completed the 1935–36 Division 1 campaign in 19th, taking 38 points from 42 matches. The record comprised 13 wins, 12 draws and 17 defeats, with 60 goals scored and 64 conceded for a goal difference of -4.

CompetitionDivision 1
League finish19th
ManagerGeorge Patterson
Leading scorerFred Howe (17 goals)

League record

42Played
13Won
12Drawn
17Lost
60Goals for
64Goals against
38Points
19thPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 31.0% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 25 of 42. The side averaged 1.43 goals scored and 1.52 conceded per match; the resulting -4 goal difference gives more context to the 19th finish than position alone.

Compared with 1934–35, the recorded league position fell by 12 places, while goal difference moved from -3 to -4.

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. Fred Howe led the season scoring record with 17 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.