[talkSAFT]

Posn Total Pts
1 8,565 Liverpool
2 8,498 Arsenal
3 8,401 Everton
4 8,346 Manchester United
5 8,142 Aston Villa
6 7,938 Manchester City
7 7,841 Newcastle United
8 7,748 Tottenham Hotspur
9 7,712 Chelsea
10 7,566 Sunderland
11 7,405 West Bromwich Albion
12 7,133 Blackburn Rovers
13 7,066 Derby County
14 7,066 Wolverhampton Wanderers
15 6,964 Sheffield Wednesday
16 6,958 Middlesbrough
17 6,922 West Ham United
18 6,911 Sheffield United
19 6,889 Leicester City
20 6,847 Bolton Wanderers
21 6,802 Birmingham City
22 6,791 Leeds United
23 6,771 Nottingham Forest
24 6,669 Stoke City
25 6,367 Burnley
26 6,266 Southampton
27 5,917 Preston North End
28 5,598 Fulham
29 5,551 Portsmouth
30 5,534 Huddersfield Town
31 5,422 Charlton Athletic
32 5,253 Blackpool
33 5,233 Coventry City
34 5,176 Norwich City
35 4,969 Queens Park Rangers
36 4,901 Ipswich Town
37 4,858 Crystal Palace
38 4,823 Cardiff City
39 4,648 Bristol City
40 4,561 Barnsley
41 4,554 Hull City
42 4,353 Luton Town
43 4,297 Notts County
44 4,197 Millwall
45 4,188 Watford
46 4,171 Swansea City
47 4,043 Bury
48 4,022 Oldham Athletic
49 3,916 Brighton
50 3,911 Plymouth Argyle

No consideration is given to points accumulated, games won, or goals scored.
Based purely on League position since The Football League's.
inauguration (1888) these are the top 50 Clubs.

The League champions are awarded 92 League pts, runners-up 91, etc
and the bottom team in League 2/Div 4 get 1 point.
(Between 1924 and 1950, there were only 88 Clubs in the League,
and so the League champions get 88 League pts.)
Between 1888 (12 Clubs) and 1923 (86 Clubs) there were varying
nos of League members. The Champs get 12 pts (for example) for
winning the 1888-89 season,
When there were 2 Division 3s (North & South), the winners would have
each received 49 pts, whilst the runners-up both got 47.

1951 to present 92
1924 to 1950: 88
1922 to 1923 86
1921 66
1920 44
1906 to 1915 40
1899 to 1905 36
1895 to 1898 32
1894 31
1893 28
1892 14
1888 to 1891 12

Name Changes have been taken into account and combined -
(eg Swansea Town and Swansea City )

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Wow well done you, a lot of hard work there.  And above the Dingles starts the day off nicely.

[talkSAFT]

Ta, Bob.
I first got these stats together about 10 years ago, because my Dingle workmate kept going on about how they had outshone us through history. (Funny, I thought, W*lves have only really excelled in the 50s). Anyway, it shut him up once and for all, especially when I showed him that they would have to finish a full Division (say 20 places) above us for the next 20 years before I'd accept they were a bigger* force.

* I know it's no reflection of greatness by today's definition. (Just ask Chelsea and Man City fans who think it's to do with Owners' Bank Account!).
Where will we be in 20, 50 years time???