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Liverpool Football Club season archive

1937–38

Liverpool completed the 1937–38 Division 1 campaign in 11th, taking 41 points from 42 matches. The record comprised 15 wins, 11 draws and 16 defeats, with 65 goals scored and 71 conceded for a goal difference of -6.

CompetitionDivision 1
League finish11th
ManagerGeorge Kay
Leading scorerAlf Hanson (15 goals)

League record

42Played
15Won
11Drawn
16Lost
65Goals for
71Goals against
41Points
11thPosition

What the league record shows

Liverpool won 35.7% of their league matches and avoided defeat in 26 of 42. The side averaged 1.55 goals scored and 1.69 conceded per match; the resulting -6 goal difference gives more context to the 11th finish than position alone.

Compared with 1936–37, the recorded league position improved by 7 places, while goal difference moved from -22 to -6.

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. Alf Hanson led the season scoring record with 15 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.