The Invincibles is a label given to a football league team that plays a whole season unbeaten. Arsenal achieved it most recently, but which team did it in 1888-89?
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James Trainer James Trainer (born 7 January 1863, Wrexham - died 5 August 1915, Paddington, Central London, England) was a Welsh association football player of the Victorian era. He was named the best goalkeeper of the English Football League several years in a row starting with the initial season of 1888–89, when he was part of the unbeaten Preston North End team nicknamed "The Invincibles".
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The Invincibles (football) In English football, "The Invincibles" has been used to refer to the Arsenal team of the 2003–04 season managed by Arsène Wenger, and the Preston North End team of the 1880s managed by William Sudell. Preston earned the nickname after completing an entire season undefeated in league and cup competition, while Arsenal were undefeated in the league.
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Blackpool F.C. Blackpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in the seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England. For the 2017–18 season, they are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. Founded in 1887, Blackpool's home ground has been Bloomfield Road since 1901. Their main nickname is "the Seasiders", but they are also called "the 'Pool" and "the Tangerines", the last in reference to the colour of their home kit, which is often referred to as orange (but really tangerine).
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1970–71 FA Cup The 1970–71 FA Cup was the 90th season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. First Division champions Arsenal won the competition for the fourth time, beating Liverpool 2–1 in the final at Wembley. In doing so, Arsenal were the fourth team to complete a double of League and Cup victories, following Preston North End, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur.
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1890–91 Football Alliance The 1890–1891 Football Alliance was the second season of the Football Alliance, an association football league which was set up in England as a rival to The Football League, which had begun in the 1888–89 season.
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Manchester United F.C.–Arsenal F.C. brawl (1990) On 20 October 1990, Manchester United Football Club faced Arsenal Football Club in a Football League First Division fixture at Old Trafford, during the 1990–91 season. Arsenal won by a single goal, but the game was best remembered for a brawl between both teams. The Football Association (FA) took the unprecedented step of deducting league points from the two clubs.
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List of Everton F.C. seasons The following lists Everton's League performances, top goalscorers and average attendances from 1888, when the Football League was formed, to the end of the most recent completed season. For a more detailed history see History of Everton F.C..
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1888–89 St. Mary's F.C. season 1888–89 was the fourth season for St. Mary's Football Club (St. Mary's F.C.) based in Southampton in southern England. The club retained the Hampshire Junior Cup for the second consecutive year.
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List of Liverpool F.C. records and statistics Liverpool Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, who currently play in the Premier League. They have played at their current home ground, Anfield, since their foundation in 1892. Liverpool joined the Football League in 1894, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992.
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1988–89 Blackpool F.C. season The 1988-89 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 81st season (78th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 24-team Division Three, then the third tier of English league football, finishing nineteenth.
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1907–08 in English football The 1907–08 season was the 37th season of competitive football in England. Manchester United were Football League champions for the first time, while Bradford City won the Second Division and Wolverhampton Wanderers won the FA Cup. The Home Championship was shared between England and Scotland.
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1928–29 Leicester City F.C. season The 1928–29 season was Leicester City's 31st season in the Football League and their 5th in the First Division. Led by their formidable strike force of Ernie Hine, Arthur Chandler and Arthur Lochhead (all three of whom are still placed today among Leicester's top five goalscorers of all-time) and inspirational captain and creative lynch-pin Johnny Duncan, Leicester finished runners-up in the First Division, just one point behind winners The Wednesday. It was the club's highest ever league finish until the 2015-16 Season where the team won their first ever top division championship.
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1992–93 Arsenal F.C. season The 1992–93 season was the 95th season of competitive football played by Arsenal.
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David Wykes David Wykes (15 September 1867 – 1895) was an English footballer who played for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Football League, making his debut in its inaugural season in 1888-1889. He scored his first goals for Wolves in a 2-2 draw against Blackburn Rovers that season, and struck four times for the club in their run to the 1889 FA Cup Final, which they lost 3-0 to Preston North End's 'Invincibles'. However, Wykes was on the winning side in 1893, when Wolves beat Everton.
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2016–17 FA Women's Cup The 2016–17 Women's FA Cup was the 47th staging of the FA Women's Cup, a knockout cup competition for women's football teams in England. Arsenal were the defending champions having beaten Chelsea 1–0 in the previous final. Manchester City were the champions beating Birmingham City 4-1 in the final.
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1934–35 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season Huddersfield Town's 1934-35 campaign was a season of despair for Town. After the previous season's 2nd-place finish, some fans were even thinking that Town could deny Arsenal their chance to emulate their own successes in the mid-1920s of winning 3 titles in a row. Instead, a dreadful season saw Town finish in 16th place, only 5 points off the relegation zone.
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List of undefeated association football clubs This page lists all association football national teams which managed to remain undefeated in either a FIFA World Cup main tournament, the qualifying process for that tournament, or both.
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History of the Australian Football League The Australian Football League is the top professional Australian rules football league in the world. The league consists of eighteen teams: nine based in the city of Melbourne, one from regional Victoria, and eight based on other Australian states. The reason for this unbalanced geographic distribution lies in the history of the league, which was based solely within Victoria from the time it was established in 1897, until the time the league expanded through the addition of clubs from interstate to the existing starting in the 1980s; until this expansion, the league was known as the "Victorian Football League". Afl is also known as "Aussie rules"
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History of Preston North End F.C. Preston North End Football Club is an English football club in Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the second tier of English league football, Championship. They were a founder member of the English Football League in 1888 and were the first English football champions.
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1988–89 Liverpool F.C. season The 1988–89 season was the 97th season in Liverpool F.C.'s existence, and was their 26th consecutive year in the First Division, and covers the period from 20 August 1988 to 26 May 1989.
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1992–93 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season The 1992–93 season was the 94th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. They played the season in the second tier of the English football system, which was now titled Football League First Division after the reorganisation of the leagues following the introduction of the Premier League.
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1902–03 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season The 1902–03 season was Burslem Port Vale's fifth consecutive season (ninth overall) of football in the Football League. Finishing in ninth place for the second time in three years, it would take just over two decades for the club to again reach the heights of a top ten second tier finish. Their success was down mainly due to their home form, and in fact a club record 29 away games without a win began on 17 January 1903. Adrian Capes would become the club's top scorer for the third successive season.