1992–93 Football League

94th season of the Football League The Football League 1992–93 Newcastle United Newcastle UnitedWest Ham UnitedSwindon Town Halifax Town Folded Maidstone United New club in League Colchester United 1991–92 1993–94 The 1992–93 season was the 94th completed season of the Football League. This season saw the birth of the Premier League. In 1992, all of the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League and, on 27 May 1992, the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company, which worked out of an office at the Football Association’s then headquarters, Lancaster Gate. Hence, the 104-year-old Football League was reduced from four divisions to three, with the old Second, Third and Fourth Divisions becoming the new First, Second and Third Divisions respectively. The league was sponsored this season by Barclays. Final league tables and results The tables and results below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website. Play-off results are from the same website. First Division First Division 1992–93 Newcastle United Newcastle UnitedWest Ham UnitedSwindon Town BrentfordCambridge UnitedBristol Rovers Guy Whittingham(42 goals)https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html English League Leading Goalscorers RSSSF 31 October 2010 552 1449 1991–92 (Second Division) 1993–94 Newcastle United, who won their first 10 league games, clinched the Division One title with an impressive 96 points to end a four-year exile from the top flight of English football. West Ham United sealed an instant return to the top flight a year after relegation, edging ahead of Portsmouth on 'Goals Scored' to finished second. Portsmouth's promotion bid, dominated by the form of 42-goal striker Guy Whittingham, ended in the playoff semi-finals when they were beaten by Leicester City, who prevailed thanks to goals by Ian Ormondroyd and Steve Thompson, the Ormondroyd goal having been offside but missed by the officials. Leicester then went on to lose the final 4–3 to Swindon Town after clawing back from 3–0 down before a late penalty from Paul Bodin saw Swindon clinch victory and a place in the top flight for the first time ever. The other losing semi-finalists in the playoffs were Tranmere Rovers, playing only their second season at this level in the postwar era. Millwall finished one place outside the playoff zone in the first season in management for Mick McCarthy, while pre-season promotion favourites Derby County could only manage an eighth-place finish despite having spent millions on new players over the previous two years. Unfancied Grimsby Town and Peterborough United finished in the top half of the table, comfortably above bigger clubs like Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City. Luton Town and Notts County, newly relegated from the top flight, spent the season battling at the wrong end of the division but managed to avoid a second successive relegation, as did a Sunderland side who had been FA Cup finalists one season earlier and members of the top flight two seasons earlier. Bristol Rovers went down in bottom place after a dismal season. Cambridge United, playoff semi-finalists the previous season, struggled after the sale of Dion Dublin and went down on the last day of the season, as did a Brentford side who had been on the fringe of the playoff places at Christmas before a slump in form during the second half of the season cost the Bees their Division One status and manager Phil Holder his job. main WDL First Division rsssf.com NEW, WHU, POR, TRA, SWI, LEI, MIL, DER, GRI, PET, WOL, CHA, BAR, OXF, BRC, WAT, NTC, SND, BIR, LUT, SUN, BRE, CAM, BRV PRO PRO PPO PPO PPO PPO REL REL REL complete 17 9 20 56 60 13 12 21 50 72 13 10 23 52 71 14 14 18 49 67 10 11 25 55 87 11 16 19 48 69 16 13 17 49 46 19 9 18 68 57 19 7 20 58 57 22 10 14 71 64 10 21 15 48 62 18 16 12 65 53 29 9 8 92 38 12 16 18 55 70 14 14 18 53 56 16 14 16 55 63 26 10 10 80 46 13 13 20 54 64 13 11 22 50 64 21 13 12 74 59 23 10 13 72 56 14 13 19 57 71 26 10 10 81 41 16 13 17 57 56 C, P P O, P R R R Barnsley Birmingham City Brentford Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cambridge United Charlton Athletic Derby County Grimsby Town Leicester City Luton Town Millwall Newcastle United Notts County Oxford United Peterborough United Portsmouth Southend United Sunderland Swindon Town Tranmere Rovers Watford West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers 5 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference QR green1 Promotion to the Premier League yellow1 Qualification for the First Division play-offs red1 Relegation to the Second Division Results main FBR grey BAR BIR BRE BRI BRR CAM CHA DER GRI LEI LUT MIL NEW NTC OXF PET POR STD SUN SWI TRA WAT WHU WOL Barnsley 1–0 3–2 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–2 2–3 3–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 1–1 3–1 2–0 1–0 3–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 Birmingham City 3–0 1–3 0–1 2–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 0–2 2–1 0–0 2–3 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–3 2–0 1–0 4–6 0–0 2–2 1–2 0–4 Brentford 3–1 0–2 5–1 0–3 0–1 2–0 2–1 1–3 1–3 1–2 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–0 0–1 4–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–2 Bristol City 2–1 3–0 4–1 2–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–3 0–1 0–0 2–2 1–3 2–1 1–5 1–0 Bristol Rovers 1–5 3–3 2–1 4–0 1–1 0–2 1–2 0–3 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–2 3–3 0–1 3–1 1–2 0–2 2–2 3–4 1–0 0–3 0–4 1–1 Cambridge United 1–2 0–3 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–3 2–0 1–3 3–3 1–1 0–3 3–0 2–2 2–2 0–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 Charlton Athletic 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 4–1 0–0 2–1 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 2–2 3–1 1–1 0–1 Derby County 3–0 3–1 3–2 3–4 3–1 0–0 4–3 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–2 1–2 2–0 0–1 2–3 2–4 2–0 0–1 2–1 1–2 1–2 0–2 2–0 Grimsby Town 4–2 1–1 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–3 3–1 1–0 0–2 3–3 1–1 1–3 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 0–0 3–2 1–1 1–0 Leicester City 2–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–2 3–1 3–2 3–0 2–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–2 1–0 4–1 3–2 4–2 0–1 5–2 1–2 0–0 Luton Town 2–2 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–3 1–4 2–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 1–4 2–2 0–0 0–0 3–3 2–0 2–0 1–1 Millwall 0–4 0–0 6–1 4–1 0–3 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 6–0 3–1 4–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 5–2 2–1 2–0 Newcastle United 6–0 2–2 5–1 5–0 0–0 4–1 2–2 1–1 0–1 7–1 2–0 1–1 4–0 2–1 3–0 3–1 3–2 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 Notts County 1–3 3–1 1–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 4–0 3–1 1–1 5–1 1–2 1–0 2–2 Oxford United 0–0 0–0 0–2 2–0 2–1 3–0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–0 4–0 3–0 4–2 1–1 2–1 5–5 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 Peterborough United 1–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–3 0–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 1–1 1–0 5–2 3–3 1–1 0–0 1–3 2–3 Portsmouth 1–0 4–0 1–0 2–3 4–1 3–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 3–0 4–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 4–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 Southend United 3–0 4–0 3–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–1 2–1 3–3 1–1 3–1 0–3 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–2 1–2 1–0 1–1 Sunderland 2–1 1–2 1–3 0–0 1–1 3–3 0–2 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–2 2–0 1–2 2–2 2–0 3–0 4–1 2–4 0–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 2–0 Swindon Town 1–0 0–0 0–2 2–1 2–2 4–1 2–2 2–4 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 5–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 3–2 1–0 2–0 3–1 1–3 1–0 Tranmere Rovers 2–1 4–0 3–2 3–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–3 0–2 1–1 0–3 3–1 4–0 1–1 0–2 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 5–2 3–0 Watford 1–2 1–0 1–0 0–0 4–2 2–2 1–1 0–0 2–3 0–3 0–0 3–1 1–0 1–3 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–4 3–2 1–2 3–1 West Ham United 1–1 3–1 4–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 3–0 2–2 2–2 0–0 2–0 5–3 2–1 2–0 2–0 6–0 0–1 2–0 2–1 3–1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–0 5–1 1–2 2–1 0–2 2–1 3–0 1–2 3–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 4–3 1–1 1–1 2–1 2–2 0–2 2–2 0–0 complete Play-offs Football League Championship play-offs#1993 2/1 y Semi-finals1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993 Final at Wembley 31 May 1993 3rd Portsmouth 0 2 2 6th Leicester City 1 2 3 4th Tranmere Rovers 1 3 4 5th Swindon Town 3 2 5 5th Swindon Town 4 6th Leicester City 3 Maps England left 400 Locations of the First Division teams England 53.55 -1.48 right England 52.48 -1.89 right England 51.486 -0.32 right England 51.42 -2.59 right England 51.47 -2.53 right England 52.21 0.12 right England 51.47 0.07 right England 52.92 -1.476 right England 53.56 -0.068 right England 52.62 -1.14 right England 51.9 -0.433 right England 51.48 -0.048 right England 54.98 -1.62 right England 52.94 -1.137 right England 51.72 -1.21 right England 52.58 -0.25 right England 50.80 -1.06 right England 51.55 0.70 right England 54.91 -1.39 right England 51.56 -1.77 right England 53.37 -3.04 right England 51.65 -0.40 right England 51.54 0.040 right England 52.59 -2.13 right Barnsley Birmingham Brentford Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cambridge Utd Charlton Derby County Grimsby Town Leicester City Luton Town Millwall Newcastle Notts County Oxford Peterborough Portsmouth Southend Sunderland Swindon Tranmere Watford West Ham Wolverhampton Wanderers Greater London right 369 Locations of the London-based First Division teams Greater London 51.486 -0.31 right Greater London 51.486 0.036 right Greater London 51.481 -0.048 right Greater London 51.650 -0.401 right Greater London 51.532 0.039 right Brentford Charlton Athletic Millwall Watford West Ham Attendances { class"wikitable sortable" !#!!Football club!!Home games!!Average attendancehttps://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/eng/aveeng1993.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk July 26, 2026 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Newcastle United 23 29,018 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Sunderland 23 17,258 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count West Ham United 23 16,001 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Leicester City 23 15,362 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Derby County 23 15,020 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Portsmouth 23 13,706 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Wolverhampton Wanderers 23 13,598 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Birmingham City 23 12,328 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Bristol City 23 11,004 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Swindon Town 23 10,716 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Millwall FC 23 9,188 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Brentford FC 23 8,476 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Watford FC 23 8,275 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Luton Town 23 8,212 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Notts County 23 8,151 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Tranmere Rovers 23 8,071 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Peterborough United 23 8,064 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Charlton Athletic 23 7,029 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Barnsley FC 23 6,415 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Oxford United 23 6,356 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Grimsby Town 23 6,088 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Bristol Rovers 23 5,745 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Cambridge United 23 5,545 - style"text-align:center;" _row_count Southend United 23 5,396 } Second Division Second Division 1992–93 Stoke City Stoke CityBolton WanderersWest Bromwich Albion Preston North EndMansfield TownWigan AthleticChester City Bob Taylor(30 goals) 463 1479 1991–92 (Third Division) 1993–94 Stoke City sealed promotion as Division Two champions in Lou Macari's second season as manager, having topped the table for most of the season, as did Bolton Wanderers under their new manager Bruce Rioch. The third promotion place went to playoff winners West Bromwich Albion, who beat Port Vale 3–0 in the Wembley promotion decider to secure their first promotion for 17 years and end their two-year spell in the league's third tier, as well as recording a first Wembley victory for 25 years. Swansea City and Stockport County were the losing semi-finalists. Leyton Orient missed out on the playoff places as they had scored fewer goals than Stockport. Managing director and former manager Frank Clark then left the club after accepting the offer to return to Nottingham Forest as manager as successor to Brian Clough. Chester City's first season at the new Deva Stadium saw them relegated in bottom place and also spelled the end of Harry McNally's seven-year reign as manager in October, with his successor Mike Pejic being unable to steer the club to safety. Wigan Athletic finished second from bottom and suffered their first relegation as a Football League side. Mansfield Town finished third from bottom and suffered an immediate return to the league's fourth tier. The final relegation place went to Preston North End, who had replaced Les Chapman with John Beck as manager in October, but not even the man who was fresh from a successful spell in charge of Cambridge United could save the Lancashire side from relegation. Hull City narrowly avoided a second relegation in three seasons, while once again England World Cup winner Alan Ball was able to guide Exeter City to safety. main WDL Second Division STK, BOL, PVL, WBA, SWA, SPC, LEY, REA, BHA, BRA, ROT, FUL, BUR, PLY, HUD, HAR, BOU, BLP, EXE, HUL, PNE, MFT, WIG, CHC PRO PRO PPO PPO PPO PPO REL REL REL REL complete 12 15 19 63 75 27 9 10 80 41 12 17 17 45 52 18 14 14 69 67 20 9 17 63 59 15 16 15 57 59 8 5 33 49 102 11 17 18 54 69 16 17 13 57 55 14 12 20 42 60 17 9 20 54 61 13 11 22 46 69 21 9 16 69 53 11 11 24 52 80 16 12 18 59 64 26 11 9 79 44 13 8 25 65 94 18 15 13 66 51 17 14 15 60 60 19 15 12 81 57 27 12 7 73 34 20 13 13 65 47 25 10 11 88 54 10 11 25 43 72 C, P P O, P R R R R Blackpool Bolton Wanderers Bournemouth Bradford City Brighton & Hove Albion Burnley Chester City Exeter City Fulham Hartlepool United Huddersfield Town Hull City Leyton Orient Mansfield Town Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Preston North End Reading Rotherham United Stockport County Stoke City Swansea City West Bromwich Albion Wigan Athletic 5 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference QR green1 Promotion to the First Division yellow1 Qualification for the Second Division play-offs red1 Relegation to the Third Division Results main FBR grey BOU BLP BOL BRA B&HA BUR CHE EXE FUL HAR HUD HUL LEY MAN PLY PTV PNE REA ROT STP STK SWA WBA WIG AFC Bournemouth 5–1 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–3 2–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 3–0 4–1 1–3 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–0 Blackpool 1–1 2–0 3–3 2–2 1–3 2–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–2 5–1 3–1 1–1 1–1 2–4 2–3 0–1 2–0 2–0 1–3 0–0 2–1 2–1 Bolton Wanderers 3–0 1–1 5–0 0–1 4–0 5–0 4–1 1–0 1–2 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 3–1 0–2 2–1 Bradford City 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 3–1 3–1 3–2 0–2 0–1 1–2 1–0 0–0 0–0 3–2 4–0 3–0 0–3 2–3 3–1 0–0 2–2 2–1 Brighton & Hove Albion 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 3–0 3–2 3–0 0–2 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–3 3–1 2–1 0–2 2–0 0–1 1–2 2–0 2–2 0–2 3–1 1–0 Burnley 2–2 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–3 5–0 3–1 5–2 3–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–0 2–1 0–1 Chester City 1–2 2–2 1–0 2–5 2–1 3–0 0–3 2–3 1–0 0–2 3–0 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–4 0–3 1–2 0–3 1–1 3–2 1–3 1–2 Exeter City 0–1 1–3 1–1 0–1 2–3 2–2 2–0 1–2 3–1 1–2 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 2–2 2–2 0–2 2–3 0–0 Fulham 1–0 1–4 1–1 1–1 2–0 4–0 1–0 1–1 1–3 0–1 3–3 1–0 0–0 3–1 1–2 2–1 0–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 Hartlepool United 1–0 0–2 0–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–3 0–3 1–0 1–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–2 3–2 1–2 0–1 2–2 0–0 Huddersfield Town 5–2 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 Hull City 3–2 1–2 3–0 0–2 1–0 0–2 1–1 4–0 1–1 3–2 2–3 0–0 1–0 2–0 0–1 2–4 1–1 0–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–0 Leyton Orient 1–0 1–0 1–0 4–2 3–2 3–2 4–3 5–0 0–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 5–1 2–0 0–1 3–1 1–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 4–2 2–0 1–2 Mansfield Town 2–2 1–1 0–2 5–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–3 2–0 1–2 3–1 3–0 0–0 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–3 2–0 0–4 3–3 0–3 2–0 Plymouth Argyle 2–1 2–1 2–1 3–0 3–2 1–2 2–0 0–3 1–1 2–2 1–3 0–0 2–0 3–2 0–1 4–0 2–2 2–1 3–4 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 Port Vale 2–1 0–0 3–0 1–2 3–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 3–0 4–0 2–2 3–1 4–2 0–0 0–2 2–0 2–1 2–2 Preston North End 3–3 2–2 1–1 3–2 1–0 2–0 4–3 2–2 1–2 0–2 2–1 1–2 1–4 1–5 1–2 2–5 2–0 5–2 2–3 1–2 1–3 1–1 2–0 Reading 0–0 1–2 3–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–3 3–0 2–0 2–1 1–2 1–1 3–1 3–0 1–0 4–0 3–1 2–4 0–1 2–0 1–1 4–0 Rotherham United 3–2 2–1 1–2 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 2–2 4–1 1–0 3–2 0–2 0–2 0–0 0–2 2–3 Stockport County 0–0 2–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 2–1 2–0 2–2 0–0 4–1 5–0 5–3 1–1 0–1 3–0 2–0 3–0 2–2 2–2 1–1 1–1 5–1 3–0 Stoke City 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 4–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 3–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–1 4–3 2–1 Swansea City 3–0 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 4–2 0–0 2–2 3–0 3–0 1–0 0–1 4–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–0 2–2 1–2 0–0 2–1 West Bromwich Albion 3–1 3–1 2–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 2–2 3–1 2–0 2–0 2–5 0–1 3–2 3–0 2–2 3–0 1–2 3–0 5–1 Wigan Athletic 2–1 0–2 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–2 0–1 1–3 2–2 1–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 0–2 0–4 2–3 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 complete Play-offs Football League One play-offs#1993 2/1 y Semi-finals1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993 Final at Wembley 30 May 1993 3rd Port Vale 1 1 2 6th Stockport County 1 0 1 4th West Bromwich Albion 1 2 3 5th Swansea City 2 0 2 3rd Port Vale 0 4th West Bromwich Albion 3 Maps England left 400 Locations of the Second Division teams England 53.81 -3.05 right England 53.59 -2.56 right England 50.73 -1.84 right England 53.82 -1.73 right England 50.83 -0.15 right England 53.79 -2.25 right England 53.19 -2.89 right England 50.72 -3.53 right England 51.45 -0.24 right England 54.69 -1.21 right England 53.64 -1.78 right England 53.74 -0.33 right England 51.57 -0.01 right England 53.14 -1.20 right England 50.39 -4.15 right England 53.06 -2.21 right England 53.75 -2.7 right England 51.41 -0.97 right England 53.43 -1.36 right England 53.41 -2.16 right England 53.00 -2.18 right England 51.62 -3.95 right England 52.52 -1.97 right England 53.55 -2.65 right Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford City Brighton & Hove Burnley Chester Exeter City Fulham Hartlepool Huddersfield Hull Leyton Orient Mansfield Town Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Preston North End Reading Rotherham Stockport Stoke Swansea City West Bromwich Albion Wigan Athletic Greater London right 369 Locations of the London-based Second Division teams Greater London 51.475 -0.222 right Greater London 51.570 -0.058 right Fulham Leyton Orient Third Division Third Division 1992–93 Cardiff City (1st fourth tier title) BarnetCardiff CityWrexham Promoted through play-offs York City Relegated Halifax Town Folded Maidstone United New club in League Colchester United Darren Foreman (Scarborough), 27;Carl Griffiths (Shrewsbury Town), 27 462 1311 1991–92 1993–94 The season began with the demise of Maidstone United, who had only reached the Football League three years earlier and were hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt, having been tenants at Dartford since 1988 and having been refused planning permission to build a new stadium on land in Maidstone which had since been purchased. A move to relocate the club to the North-East and merge the with non-league Newcastle Blue Star was vetoed by the Football League, and as the season dawned the club had just two players still registered. Their first league game of the new Division Three season was cancelled and they were given until the following Monday to guarantee that they would be able to fulfill their fixtures. Unable to come up with the necessary backing, they resigned from the league and went into liquidation on 17 August. As the Division Three campaign got underway, the two Welsh based sides in the division emerged as the pace-setters, with Cardiff City finishing as champions and Wrexham as runners-up. Barnet, who had spent much of the season under threat of going the same way as Maidstone due to mounting debts, being banned from the transfer market for failing to pay staff wages, and being threatened with expulsion from the Football League over an unpaid fine, clinched the final automatic promotion place in only their second season in the Football League. The season also brought the end of Stan Flashman's eight-year ownership of the club, when he resigned as chairman of the club he had paid £50,000 to save from receivership in 1985. Just before promotion was clinched, manager Barry Fry left to take charge of Southend United, with his assistant Edwin Stein overseeing the final few games of the season before goalkeeper Gary Phillips took over as player-manager for the 1993–94 season. Halifax Town, after 72 years of league membership, finished bottom of the league and were replaced by Conference champions Wycombe Wanderers. Maidstone United went out of business on 17 August after their first game was postponed, and were not replaced. main WDL Third Division PR 5 CAR Cardiff City WRE Wrexham BAR Barnet YOR York City WAL Walsall CRE Crewe Alexandra BRY Bury LIN Lincoln City SHR Shrewsbury Town COL Colchester United ROC Rochdale CHF Chesterfield SCA Scarborough SCU Scunthorpe United DAR Darlington DON Doncaster Rovers HER Hereford United CRL Carlisle United TOR Torquay United NOR Northampton Town GIL Gillingham HAL Halifax Town MAI Maidstone United 25 8 9 77 47 23 11 8 75 52 23 10 9 66 48 21 12 9 72 45 22 7 13 76 61 21 7 14 75 56 18 9 15 63 55 18 9 15 57 53 17 11 14 57 52 18 5 19 67 76 16 10 16 70 70 15 11 16 59 63 15 9 18 66 71 14 12 16 57 54 12 14 16 48 53 11 14 17 42 57 10 15 17 47 60 11 11 20 51 65 12 7 23 45 67 11 8 23 48 74 9 13 20 48 64 9 9 24 45 68 0 0 0 0 0 CP P P OP R Maidstone United resigned from the Football League on 17 August 1992, and subsequently folded. At the time of their resignation, they had played no matches. green1 Cup Winners' Cup first round and promotion to the Second Division CP green1 Promotion to the Second Division P P yellow1 Qualification for the Third Division play-offs PP PP PP PP red1 Relegation to Football Conference R black1 Club folded X complete https://www.rsssf.org/engpaul/FLA/1992-93.html England 1992–93 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2010-02-24 Results main FBR grey BAR BRY CAR CRL CHF COL CRE DAR DON GIL HAL HER LIN NOR ROC SCA SCU SHR TOR WAL WRE YOR Barnet 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–1 3–1 3–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–1 3–0 2–2 5–4 3–0 3–1 1–5 Bury 0–0 1–0 6–0 3–0 3–2 1–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–2 2–0 1–2 3–3 2–2 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 1–1 Cardiff City 1–1 3–0 2–2 2–1 3–1 1–1 0–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 4–0 2–1 1–2 3–3 Carlisle United 0–1 5–1 1–2 3–1 0–2 1–3 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 2–2 0–2 1–0 0–1 3–4 0–2 1–2 Chesterfield 1–2 2–1 2–1 1–0 4–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–3 2–3 0–3 1–2 2–4 1–0 2–1 2–3 1–1 Colchester United 1–2 0–0 2–4 2–1 3–0 3–2 0–3 2–0 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 4–4 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 3–1 2–4 0–0 Crewe Alexandra 4–1 2–1 2–0 4–0 0–2 7–1 1–0 4–0 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–2 3–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 2–2 4–2 0–1 0–1 3–1 Darlington 1–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–2 1–1 0–3 0–1 1–3 3–1 0–4 2–3 2–2 0–2 4–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 Doncaster Rovers 2–1 2–3 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 4–3 0–1 0–1 2–3 0–3 1–1 0–1 Gillingham 1–1 1–4 0–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 3–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 3–1 2–3 4–2 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 4–1 1–4 Halifax Town 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 2–4 1–2 1–0 2–2 2–0 0–1 2–1 2–2 2–3 3–4 0–0 1–1 0–2 0–4 0–1 0–1 Hereford United 1–1 3–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 3–1 0–1 1–1 0–2 3–1 3–0 0–2 3–2 1–1 1–1 2–2 1–1 3–1 1–3 1–1 1–1 Lincoln City 4–1 1–2 3–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–2 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 0–2 0–0 0–1 Northampton Town 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 2–2 2–5 1–1 0–2 1–0 1–3 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–2 4–3 Rochdale 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–2 2–1 5–2 0–1 3–1 1–1 1–1 2–3 1–3 5–1 0–3 3–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 4–3 1–2 1–0 Scarborough 2–2 1–3 1–3 2–2 2–2 0–1 1–0 0–3 1–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 4–2 1–1 1–2 1–2 1–0 4–1 1–1 4–2 Scunthorpe United 2–0 2–0 0–3 0–0 0–1 3–1 3–3 1–3 0–1 2–2 4–1 3–1 1–1 5–0 5–1 1–2 1–1 2–2 2–0 0–0 1–2 Shrewsbury Town 1–0 2–0 3–2 2–3 2–2 4–3 4–1 1–2 2–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 3–2 2–3 1–2 2–0 2–1 0–1 0–3 0–1 1–1 Torquay United 0–1 0–1 2–1 0–2 2–2 2–2 1–2 0–2 1–2 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 0–2 1–3 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 1–0 Walsall 2–0 4–3 2–3 2–1 3–2 1–3 1–0 2–2 3–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 3–2 3–2 1–1 2–2 1–1 3–1 Wrexham 2–3 4–2 0–2 3–1 5–4 4–3 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 3–1 4–1 0–2 2–0 4–2 3–1 3–0 York City 2–0 1–2 3–1 2–2 0–0 2–0 3–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 4–2 2–0 2–1 3–0 1–0 5–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 4–0 complete Play-offs Football League Two play-offs#1993 2/1 y Semi-finals1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993 Final at Wembley 29 May 1993 4th York City 0 1 1 7th Bury 0 0 0 5th Walsall 1 2 3 6th Crewe Alexandra 5 4 9 4th York City (pens.) 1 (5) 6th Crewe Alexandra 1 (3) Maps England left 400 Locations of the Third Division teams England 51.65 -0.19 right England 53.58 -2.295 right England 51.47 -3.20 right England 54.90 -2.91 right England 53.24 -1.43 right England 51.89 0.90 right England 53.10 -2.44 right England 54.53 -1.55 right England 53.52 -1.133 right England 51.38 0.55 right England 53.72 -1.86 right England 52.06 -2.72 right England 53.23 -0.54 right England 51.11 0.86 right England 52.24 -0.90 right England 53.61 -2.16 right England 54.27 -0.42 right England 53.58 -0.65 right England 52.71 -2.75 right England 50.48 -3.52 right England 52.58 -1.98 right England 53.03 -2.98 right England 53.96 -1.08 right Barnet Bury Cardiff City Carlisle United Chesterfield Colchester Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Gillingham Halifax Town Hereford United Lincoln City Maidstone Northampton Town Rochdale Scarborough Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Torquay Walsall Wrexham York City Greater London right 369 Locations of the London-based Third Division teams 51.65 -0.19 Barnet right See also 1992–93 in English football References 1992–93 2–4