1901/02 First Division

First Team Overall First Team Appearances & Scorers Reserves
President: Sir Alfred Hickman MP.

Committee: Colonel GW Walker (Chairman); Others directors unknown.
Secretary Manager: Jack Addenbrooke.
Trainers: Albert Fletcher.
Captain: Billy Wooldridge.

Playing Staff: Billy Annis, Tom Baddeley, Billy Beats, Dick Betteley, Joseph Bonner, John Bowen, Sam Broome, Bryant, Ernest Butler, Champion, J Crabtree, John Dean, Charles Eccleston, Archie Fellows, Richard Guilliam, Hallett, Harris, Albert Hartshorne, Adam Haywood, George Holden, Holding, Joseph Holyhead, James Jeavons, Ernest Jones, Jackery Jones, Joseph Jones, William Jones, Edward Kyte, Lea, Walter Lewis, John Miller, Moody, William Morris, Jack Pedley, Ed Pheasant, Frankie Pope, James Poppitt, Harry Preston, Horace Robotham, Smith, Jimmy Stringer, Benjamin Swift, Harry Turley, William Walker, John Walton, Arthur Warner, Benjamin Whitehouse, John Whitehouse, G Whitehouse, William Wooldridge, John Yates.

Club Finances: Income £4,627, Expenditure £4,102, Profit £524, Actual Balance £159, Gate Receipts £4,148, Players Wages £2,357, Travelling Expenses £400, Ground Rent and Summary Items £1,159.

 
August

21 (H) Pre-Season Practice Match Details
23 (H) Pre-Season Practice Match Details
27 (H) Pre-Season Practice Match Details
31 (H) Pre-Season Practice Match Details

September

2 (H) Nottingham Forest W 2-0 Details
7 (a) Everton L 1-6 Details
14 (H) Sunderland W 4-2 Details
21 (a) Small Heath W 2-1 Details
23 (H) West Bromwich Albion L 1-2 Details [SC1]
28 (H) Derby County D 0-0 Details
30  (H) West Bromwich Albion W 1-0 Details [BC1]

October

5 (a) The Wednesday D 1-1 Details
12 (H) Notts County W 3-1 Details
14 (N) Burslem Port Vale D 1-1 Details [BCsf]
19 (a) Bolton Wanderers D 2-2 Details
21 (a) Aston Villa L 1-6 Details [BCCsf]
26 (H) Manchester City D 0-0 Details
28 (H) Oxford University W 4-3 Details [Friendly]

November

2 (H) Grimsby Town W 2-0 Details
4 (N) Burslem Port Vale A-A Details [BCsfR]
9 (a) Liverpool L 1-4 Details
11 (a) Stoke L 0-3 Details
16 (H) Newcastle United P-P
18 (H) Liverpool L 1-2 Details [Friendly]
23 (a) Aston Villa L 1-2 Details
25 (a) Oxford University P-P Details [Friendly]
30 (H) Sheffield United D 1-1 Details

December

2 (N) Burslem Port Vale W 2-0 Details [BCsfR]
7 (a) Nottingham Forest L 0-2 Details
14 (H) Bury W 1-0 Details
21 (a) Blackburn Rovers L 0-2 Details
25 (a) Derby County L 1-3 Details
26 (H) Everton W 2-1 Details
28 (H) Stoke W 4-1 Details
30 (H) Notts County W 5-2 Details [Friendly]

January

11 (a) Sunderland L 0-2 Details
18 (H) Small Heath W 2-1 Details
25 (H) Bolton Wanderers L 0-2 Details [FAC1]

February

1 (H) The Wednesday W 1-0 Details
8 (N) Aston Villa P-P [BCf]
15 (H) Bolton Wanderers W 1-0 Details
22 (a) Manchester City L 0-3 Details

March

1 (a) Grimsby Town L 0-3 Details
8 (H) Liverpool W 3-1 Details
10 (H) Newcastle United W 3-0 Details
15 (a) Newcastle United L 1-3 Details
22 (H) Aston Villa L 0-2 Details
28 (a) Notts County L 3-5 Details
29 (a) Sheffield United D 0-0 Details
31 (H) Blackburn Rovers W 3-1 Details

April

4 (N) Aston Villa W 1-0 Details [BCf]
5 (H) Nottingham Forest M-M
12 (a) Bury L 1-2 Details

May

1 (H) West Bromwich Albion L 0-4 Details [Friendly]