Third Division 1955-1956

Third Division 1955-1956
Competizione	Third Division
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	29ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 20 agosto 1955 al 4 maggio 1956
Luogo	Inghilterra  Galles
Partecipanti	48
Formula	2 gironi all'italiana A/R
Cronologia della competizione
1954-1955 1956-1957

La Third Division 1955-1956 è stato il 29º campionato inglese di calcio di terza divisione, il 28º con la suddivisione in 2 gironi (North e South). Ad aggiudicarsi il titolo ed a salire in Second Division furono: Grimsby Town (Third Division North) e Leyton Orient (Third Division South).

Stagione

Selezione dei club

• Esito della votazione per l'elezione dei club in Third Division

Club	Lega	Voti	Verdetto
Grimsby Town	Third Division North	49	Rieletto
Chester	Third Division North	47	Rieletto
Colchester United	Third Division South	44	Rieletto
Walsall	Third Division South	33	Rieletto
Peterborough United	Midland League	16	Non eletto
Worcester City	Southern League	3	Non eletto
Headington United	Southern League	2	Non eletto
Wigan Athletic	Lancashire Combination	2	Non eletto
Bedford Town	Southern League	0	Non eletto
Burton Albion	Birmingham & District League	0	Non eletto
Nelson	Lancashire Combination	0	Non eletto
North Shields	North Eastern League	0	Non eletto
Yeovil Town	Southern League	0	Non eletto

Third Division North

Third Division North 1955-1956
Competizione	Third Division North
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	28ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 20 agosto 1955 al 4 maggio 1956
Partecipanti	24
Formula	girone all'italiana A/R
Risultati
Vincitore	Grimsby Town (2º titolo)
Promozioni	Grimsby Town
Statistiche
Miglior marcatore	Bob Crosbie (36)
Incontri disputati	552
Gol segnati	1 771 (3,21 per incontro)
Cronologia della competizione
1954-1955 1956-1957

Squadre partecipanti

Squadra	Città	Stadio	Stagione precedente
Accrington Stanley	Accrington	Peel Park	2º posto in Third Division North
Barrow	Barrow-in-Furness	Holker Street	17º posto in Third Division North
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	21º posto in Third Division North
Bradford Park Avenue	Bradford	Park Avenue	16º posto in Third Division North
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	20º posto in Third Division North
Chester	Chester	Sealand Road	24º posto in Third Division North, rieletto
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Saltergate	6º posto in Third Division North
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Gresty Road	22º posto in Third Division North
Darlington	Darlington	Feethams Ground	15º posto in Third Division North
Derby County	Derby	Baseball Ground	22º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Gateshead	Gateshead	Redheugh Park	7º posto in Third Division North
Grimsby Town	Grimsby	Blundell Park	23º posto in Third Division North, rieletto
Halifax Town	Halifax	The Shay	14º posto in Third Division North
Hartlepool United	Hartlepool	Victoria Park	5º posto in Third Division North
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	13º posto in Third Division North
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	10º posto in Third Division North
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	12º posto in Third Division North
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	Scunthorpe	Old Showground	3º posto in Third Division North
Southport	Southport	Haigh Avenue	11º posto in Third Division North
Stockport County	Stockport	Edgeley Park	9º posto in Third Division North
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	19º posto in Third Division North
Workington	Workington	Borough Park	8º posto in Third Division North
Wrexham	Wrexham	Racecourse Ground	18º posto in Third Division North
York City	York	Bootham Crescent	4º posto in Third Division North

Classifica finale

	Pos.	Squadra	Pt	G	V	N	P	GF	GS	QR
	1	Grimsby Town	68	46	31	6	9	76	29	2.621
	2	Derby County	61	46	28	7	11	110	55	2.000
	3	Accrington Stanley	59	46	25	9	12	92	57	1.614
	4	Hartlepool Utd	57	46	26	5	15	81	60	1.350
	5	Southport	57	46	23	11	12	66	53	1.245
	6	Chesterfield	54	46	25	4	17	94	66	1.424
	7	Stockport County	51	46	21	9	16	90	61	1.475
	8	Bradford City	49	46	18	13	15	78	64	1.219
	9	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	48	46	20	8	18	75	63	1.190
	10	Workington	47	46	19	9	18	75	63	1.190
	11	York City	47	46	19	9	18	85	72	1.181
	12	Rochdale	47	46	17	13	16	66	84	0.786
	13	Gateshead	45	46	17	11	18	77	84	0.917
	14	Wrexham	42	46	16	10	20	66	73	0.904
	15	Darlington	41	46	16	9	21	60	73	0.822
	16	Tranmere	41	46	16	9	21	59	84	0.702
	17	Chester	40	46	13	14	19	52	82	0.634
	18	Mansfield Town	39	46	14	11	21	84	81	1.037
	19	Halifax Town	39	46	14	11	21	66	76	0.868
	20	Oldham Athletic	38	46	10	18	18	76	86	0.884
	21	Carlisle Utd	38	46	15	8	23	71	95	0.747
	22	Barrow	33	46	12	9	25	61	83	0.735
	23	Bradford PA	33	46	13	7	26	61	122	0.500
	24	Crewe Alexandra	28	46	9	10	27	50	105	0.476

Legenda:

      Promosso in Second Division 1956-1957.

      Rieletto nella Football League.

Regolamento:

Due punti a vittoria, uno a pareggio, zero a sconfitta.

A parità di punti le squadre venivano classificate secondo il quoziente reti.

Note:

Bradford Park Avenue costretto alla rielezione per peggior quoziente reti nei confronti della ex aequo Barrow.

Risultati

Tabellone

	ACC	BRW	BRC	BPA	CRL	CHE	CHF	CRE	DAR	DER	GAT	GRI	HAL	HPL	MFT	OLD	ROC	SCU	SOP	STC	TRA	WOR	WRE	YOR
Accrington Stanley		2-0	2-0	7-0	1-0	4-0	5-1	5-1	2-1	2-0	2-2	0-1	2-2	1-0	3-1	2-2	3-0	2-0	4-2	3-1	0-0	5-1	3-1	1-3
Barrow	3-1		3-1	2-2	0-0	1-2	3-1	5-0	0-1	1-2	4-0	0-0	2-2	3-2	4-1	4-1	2-0	2-2	0-2	2-0	1-1	2-0	0-3	0-1
Bradford City	2-1	1-1		5-0	0-0	1-1	3-5	3-1	3-0	2-1	3-1	0-2	2-0	2-0	4-2	0-0	2-2	4-3	2-0	4-1	5-0	2-0	4-3	3-1
Bradford Park Avenue	1-0	3-2	1-1		2-1	1-1	0-5	2-0	3-0	2-4	3-1	2-1	1-1	1-3	0-3	4-1	3-3	2-0	0-3	2-0	4-5	4-0	4-2	2-1
Carlisle United	0-4	2-0	0-0	4-1		4-1	1-1	4-1	2-0	0-3	2-1	1-2	2-2	0-3	5-2	3-1	1-2	1-2	4-0	4-1	0-3	2-4	0-1	3-1
Chester	1-1	1-0	1-1	0-0	3-3		2-1	0-0	2-1	2-5	3-0	2-0	1-0	0-1	4-3	3-2	0-0	3-5	1-3	1-4	0-0	1-0	2-1	2-2
Chesterfield	0-1	2-0	1-1	5-1	2-1	2-1		8-0	2-1	2-0	3-0	1-0	3-0	2-3	2-1	1-0	7-2	2-0	5-1	2-3	2-0	2-4	2-0	3-1
Crewe Alexandra	0-3	0-1	1-4	4-2	3-1	0-0	0-3		1-1	2-1	1-0	0-0	1-4	1-3	2-1	1-2	2-0	1-2	1-1	3-1	4-0	2-1	1-2	1-:2
Darlington	2-0	4-2	1-1	4-1	3-5	0-1	2-1	4-1		1-0	0-0	0-1	1-2	0-0	3-1	2-1	2-0	1-0	0-1	0-0	6-2	2-2	2-2	1-4
Derby County	6-2	2-1	4-1	4-0	3-0	3-1	3-0	3-3	6-2		4-1	1-3	4-1	3-2	4-0	2-0	2-0	2-2	2-0	2-0	0-0	2-2	2-0	3-2
Gateshead	4-0	3-2	4-1	3-0	2-3	1-1	3-3	4-1	0-1	2-4		2-0	1-1	2-1	3-0	1-3	4-1	1-0	2-0	2-1	3-3	4-3	2-1	3-2
Grimsby Town	3-0	3-0	2-0	2-0	1-0	6-1	3-0	5-1	1-0	2-1	3-1		4-0	1-0	2-0	5-1	1-1	0-1	2-0	3-0	1-0	1-2	1-0	2-1
Halifax Town	2-0	1-0	3-2	6-0	2-2	0-1	3-0	2-0	3-0	2-2	3-3	0-1		0-2	1-1	5-1	1-1	0-3	0-1	1-0	0-2	2-0	1-1	2-4
Hartlepool United	0-0	1-0	1-0	3-1	3-0	3-1	3-0	6-1	3-0	2-0	3-1	1-2	3-2		4-2	1-0	1-0	0-2	1-0	0-0	4-0	1-0	3-2	0-1
Mansfield Town	3-2	4-0	0-0	5-0	0-1	3-0	0-1	1-1	3-3	1-1	3-1	0-2	3-1	5-1		2-0	6-0	3-2	0-1	2-2	6-0	0-0	6-1	3-1
Oldham Athletic	1-3	6-1	1-1	5-1	2-2	4-1	2-2	1-1	3-3	1-1	1-2	1-1	1-3	3-2	1-1		2-2	2-1	1-1	3-2	4-1	0-1	1-1	2-2
Rochdale	1-1	5-1	3-1	4-2	5-2	4-2	1-5	1-0	1-0	0-5	1-1	2-0	2-1	1-4	1-1	4-4		3-2	1-3	0-0	1-3	1-0	1-0	3-1
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	2-3	2-0	2-0	4-2	4-0	2-1	2-0	1-1	0-1	0-2	1-1	0-1	1-0	5-1	3-0	2-1	1-2		0-1	1-5	2-1	3-1	1-1	1-1
Southport	1-1	2-1	3-1	3-0	3-0	1-0	1-0	5-0	0-1	2-5	2-0	2-0	2-0	0-0	1-1	1-1	2-0	2-2		1-1	1-0	0-0	1-1	3-3
Stockport County	1-2	4-1	1-0	0-0	8-1	2-1	2-1	2-1	2-1	2-1	1-2	0-0	3-1	4-0	7-2	0-0	0-0	3-2	4-0		7-0	4-5	4-0	4-1
Tranmere Rovers	4-1	1-1	1-1	4-1	0-1	4-0	0-1	2-1	0-1	0-1	1-1	0-1	2-1	2-2	1-0	0-3	2-1	2-1	1-2	2-1		2-0	0-2	2-1
Workington	0-0	6-1	2-1	4-0	4-0	0-0	0-1	1-0	2-0	0-3	6-1	0-0	2-0	5-1	2-1	4-3	0-1	1-2	2-3	0-1	3-0		3-1	0-0
Wrexham	1-4	0-0	2-1	1-0	5-2	0-0	3-0	4-2	2-1	3-1	1-1	1-0	1-2	1-3	2-0	1-1	0-0	0-1	2-1	0-1	3-1	0-1		4:5
York City	0-1	3-2	0-2	5-0	3-1	3-0	3-1	1-1	4-0	1-0	1-0	3-4	5-0	3-0	1-1	2-0	1-2	0-0	0-1	1-0	2-4	1-1	1-3

Third Division South

Third Division South 1955-1956
Competizione	Third Division South
Sport	Calcio
Edizione	28ª
Organizzatore	Football League
Date	dal 20 agosto 1955 al 4 maggio 1956
Partecipanti	24
Formula	girone all'italiana A/R
Risultati
Vincitore	Leyton Orient (1º titolo)
Promozioni	Leyton Orient
Statistiche
Miglior marcatore	Sammy Collins (40)
Incontri disputati	552
Gol segnati	1 772 (3,21 per incontro)
Cronologia della competizione
1954-1955 1956-1957

Squadre partecipanti

Squadra	Città	Stadio	Stagione precedente
Aldershot	Aldershot	Recreation Ground	14º posto in Third Division South
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	Bournemouth	Dean Court	17º posto in Third Division South
Brentford	Londra (Hounslow)	Griffin Park	11º posto in Third Division South
Brighton & Hove Albion	Brighton	Goldstone Ground	6º posto in Third Division South
Colchester United	Colchester	Layer Road	24º posto in Third Division South, rieletto
Coventry City	Coventry	Highfield Road	9º posto in Third Division South
Crystal Palace	Londra (Croydon)	Selhurst Park	20º posto in Third Division South
Exeter City	Exeter	St James Park	22º posto in Third Division South
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	4º posto in Third Division South
Ipswich Town	Ipswich	Portman Road	21º posto in Second Division, retrocesso
Leyton Orient	Londra (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	2º posto in Third Division South
Millwall	Londra (Bermondsey)	The Den	5º posto in Third Division South
Newport County	Newport	Somerton Park	19º posto in Third Division South
Northampton Town	Northampton	County Ground	13º posto in Third Division South
Norwich City	Norwich	Carrow Road	12º posto in Third Division South
Queens Park Rangers	Londra (Hammersmith and Fulham)	Loftus Road	15º posto in Third Division South
Reading	Reading	Elm Park	18º posto in Third Division South
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	Gay Meadow	16º posto in Third Division South
Southampton	Southampton	The Dell	3º posto in Third Division South
Southend United	Southend on Sea	Roots Hall	10º posto in Third Division South
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	21º posto in Third Division South
Torquay United	Torquay	Plainmoor	8º posto in Third Division South
Walsall	Walsall	Fellows Park	23º posto in Third Division South, rieletto
Watford	Watford	Vicarage Road	7º posto in Third Division South

Classifica finale

	Pos.	Squadra	Pt	G	V	N	P	GF	GS	QR
	1	Leyton Orient	66	46	29	8	9	106	49	2.163
	2	Brighton	65	46	29	7	10	112	50	2.240
	3	Ipswich Town	64	46	25	14	7	106	60	1.767
	4	Southend Utd	53	46	21	11	14	88	80	1.100
	5	Torquay Utd	52	46	20	12	14	86	63	1.365
	6	Brentford	52	46	19	14	13	69	66	1.045
	7	Norwich City	51	46	19	13	14	86	82	1.049
	8	Coventry City	49	46	20	9	17	73	60	1.217
	9	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	48	46	19	10	17	63	51	1.235
	10	Gillingham	48	46	19	10	17	69	71	0.972
	11	Northampton Town	47	46	20	7	19	67	71	0.944
	12	Colchester Utd	47	46	18	11	17	76	81	0.938
	13	Shrewsbury Town	46	46	17	12	17	69	66	1.045
	14	Southampton	44	46	18	8	20	91	81	1.123
	15	Aldershot	40	46	12	16	18	70	90	0.778
	16	Exeter City	40	46	15	10	21	58	77	0.753
	17	Reading	39	46	15	9	22	70	79	0.886
	18	QPR	39	46	14	11	21	64	86	0.744
	19	Newport County	39	46	15	9	22	58	79	0.734
	20	Walsall	38	46	15	8	23	68	84	0.810
	21	Watford	37	46	13	11	22	52	85	0.612
	22	Millwall	36	46	15	6	25	83	100	0.830
	23	Crystal Palace	34	46	12	10	24	54	83	0.651
	24	Swindon Town	30	46	8	14	24	34	78	0.436

Legenda:

      Promosso in Second Division 1956-1957.

      Rieletto nella Football League.

Regolamento:

Due punti a vittoria, uno a pareggio, zero a sconfitta.

A parità di punti le squadre venivano classificate secondo il quoziente reti.

Risultati

Tabellone

	ALD	BOU	BRE	BHA	COL	COV	CRY	EXE	GIL	IPS	LEY	MIL	NPC	NHT	NOR	QPR	REA	SHR	SOT	SEU	SWI	TOR	WAL	WAT
Aldershot		1-3	4-1	0-3	1-0	2-2	1-1	1-0	2-2	0-3	1-1	2-1	1-0	2-0	0-0	1-2	4-4	2-0	3-2	3-3	1-1	1-2	2-1	1-1
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	2-2		0-0	2-0	3-1	0-1	1-0	0-0	1-2	1-1	3-1	4-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	1-0	2-1	2-0	1-3	4-1	4-0	2-0	2-0	4-0
Brentford	2-0	2-1		4-2	2-2	1-1	3-0	2-0	1-4	3-2	1-0	2-2	1-1	2-1	1-2	2-0	2-2	1-1	2-1	2-1	1-2	1-3	2-2	0-0
Brighton & Hove Albion	5-2	4-1	3-0		2-0	2-1	5-0	1-0	5-0	3-0	1-1	2-1	4-1	4-0	6-0	1-1	3-1	3-2	5-0	4-0	2-0	3-2	3-0	2-3
Colchester United	4-0	1-0	0-3	3-3		2-0	2-4	5-1	1-1	3-3	2-1	1-2	2-1	2-0	3-2	4-1	0-3	2-0	3-2	3-6	5-0	3-2	1-1	4-1
Coventry City	1-1	3-1	2-1	3-2	2-0		1-3	2-2	2-0	3-1	3-0	5-1	3-0	0-1	5-3	4-1	0-0	2-1	2-0	0-0	6-0	1-2	1-0	3-0
Crystal Palace	1-0	1-3	0-2	1-2	1-1	3-0		0-1	1-3	1-0	1-2	2-2	1-0	2-3	2-0	1-1	2-3	0-1	0-2	1-2	0-2	3-0	2-0	1-2
Exeter City	2-1	2-0	2-3	0-5	0-0	2-3	6-1		2-1	2-2	1-1	3-1	2-0	3-1	1-1	2-0	0-2	3-0	3-2	0-1	1-2	0-0	1-1	1-2
Gillingham	2-0	2-1	1-2	1-0	2-1	1-1	1-1	2-1		0-0	0-1	4-3	3-2	0-2	3-1	0-2	2-0	3-1	1-2	2-3	4-0	1-3	0-1	3-0
Ipswich Town	2-1	1-0	1-1	2-1	3-1	1-0	3-3	2-2	1-1		2-0	6-2	3-2	1-0	4-1	4-1	3-3	2-1	4-2	3-0	6-2	0-2	5-2	0-0
Leyton Orient	8-3	3-0	2-1	0-1	6-0	3-1	8-0	1-1	2-0	1-2		2-1	3-1	1-1	2-2	7-1	1-0	5-2	4-0	3-0	4-0	3-2	4-0	3-1
Millwall	3-3	4-0	4-0	2-4	0-1	0-2	1-1	2-0	5-0	0-5	5-0		2-4	4-1	1-0	2-0	4-0	1-2	3-2	5-0	1-1	3-2	3-2	1-1
Newport County	0-1	1-0	1-2	1-0	0-0	4-2	0-1	1-2	3-2	2-1	3-0	1-4		0-1	2-2	2-1	2-3	1-2	1-0	2-0	1-0	2-1	2-0	0-1
Northampton Town	3-2	2-1	1-0	3-0	0-2	2-1	1-1	3-0	0-2	0-5	0-1	4-0	5-0		1-1	5-2	1-2	1-0	3-1	1-1	2-1	2-0	3-1	1-3
Norwich City	0-1	0-2	1-0	3-3	1-1	1-0	3-1	2-1	5-1	3-2	2-2	4-1	2-3	4-1		1-0	2-1	3-1	1-4	7-2	4-1	0-0	3-2	4-1
Queens Park Rangers	2-2	0-1	1-1	2-1	6-2	1-2	0-3	1-0	2-2	1-1	0-1	4-0	0-0	3-2	2-3		3-3	1-1	4-0	1-2	1-0	3-1	3-2	3-2
Reading	0-5	0-2	5-2	0-2	1-3	1-0	1-0	1-2	1-2	1-5	0-1	4-1	3-0	4-1	2-2	3-1		0-1	1-1	4-1	0-1	0-3	2-0	6-1
Shrewsbury Town	3-3	1-1	1-1	2-1	2-1	3-0	2-0	2-0	3-1	1-1	1-4	3-1	5-0	1-1	6-0	1-1	3-0		2-0	1-1	1-1	1-2	2-1	0-0
Southampton	3-1	3-2	1-1	1-2	3-0	3-0	3-1	5-0	1-1	2-2	1-2	3-0	3-3	2-3	2-5	4-0	5-2	1-1		0-0	2-1	6-2	4-1	2-0
Southend United	3-2	4-1	2-2	1-2	4-0	3-0	4-3	6-0	2-2	2-3	0-0	3-1	4-1	2-0	3-1	5-1	1-0	1-0	2-1		0-0	2-3	3-2	1-0
Swindon Town	1-1	2-2	0-1	0-0	3-1	1-1	0-0	0-1	0-1	0-1	1-2	1-0	1-2	0-1	1-1	0-1	0-0	2-1	1-1	1-1		2-1	1-2	0-0
Torquay United	5-0	0-0	3-1	0-0	1-2	0-0	1-1	3-1	1-1	2-2	1-3	3-0	1-1	3-1	1-1	2-0	0-0	5-0	3-2	2-2	4-0		3-2	4-1
Walsall	4-2	0-0	1-2	2-2	0-0	2-0	4-0	3-1	2-1	1-3	0-2	2-1	3-3	2-0	2-0	2-2	1-0	1-0	1-3	3-1	4-0	1-4		2-1
Watford	1-1	0-2	0-2	1-3	1-1	2-1	0-2	2-3	0-1	0-2	0-4	4-2	1-1	2-2	1-1	0-1	1-0	3-4	1-0	3-2	2-1	2-1	4-2

Voci correlate

• First Division 1955-1956
• Second Division 1955-1956
• FA Cup 1955-1956
• Charity Shield 1956

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Season 1955–56, su englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk, English Football League Tables.
• (EN) Football League 1955-1956 su rsssf.com., su rsssf.com.
• (EN) English League Leading Goalscorers su RSSSF, su rsssf.com.
• (EN) A history of admission to the Football League, su nonleaguematters.co.uk.