1953/54 First Division (League Champions)

Directors: James S Baker (Chairman), AH Oakley (Vice-Chairman), J Evans, CH Hunter, JH Marshall, JT Howley (Secretary).
Manager: Stan Cullis.
Trainers: Jack Dowen, Jack Gardiner, George Palmer.
Captain: Billy Wright.

Playing Staff: James Adams, Allen, Alsopp, Tommy Asher, Baddeley, Billy Baxter, John Bayley, Blakesley, Bolton, Joe Bonson, Colin Booth, Richard Bower, Roy Bradley, S Bradley, Broadbent, Broadhead, Wesley Brookes, James Butler, Richard Calvert, Castro, Ray Chatham, Chatterway, Eddie Clamp, Clark, Maxie Clews, Cockin, Len Cooper, Crenan, Billy Crook, A Davies, Norman Deeley, Duffield, Noel Dwyer, Ellesmore, Keith Evans, Fallon, Thomas Fidler, Fisher, Ron Flowers, Derek Ford, Geoffrey Garratt, Len Gibbons, Terry Greaves, Neville Greenwood, Thomas Griffiths, Bill Guttridge, Haddock, William Haines, Hallam, Johnny Hancocks, Gerry Harris, Arthur Hodgkiss, Thomas Horsnett, Ron Howells, Hughes, E Jones, H Jones, Ronald Jordan, Lawrence, le Leer,  Leake, Alan Machin, Bobby Mason, Philip Mason, McCreadie, Dennis McDonald, Tommy McDonald, McSee, Dave Meeson, Harry Middleton, Michael Moss, Jimmy Mullen, Jimmy Murray, Dick Neal, Roy Nicholls, Noon, Pemberton, Phillips, Roy Pritchard, Brian Punter, Reynolds, Erik Roach, Stanley Round, T Round, William Russell, James Shakespeare, Jack Short, Bill Shorthouse, George Showell, Geoff Sidebottom, David Sims, Bill Slater, Reginald Slater, Henry Smith, J Smith, Les Smith, Gordon Spacey, Lionel Stephenson, Henry Stevenson, Ron Stockin, Eddie Stuart, Roy Swinbourne, Doug Taylor, Jack Taylor, Colin Tether, John Thomas ,John Timmins, Samuel Townsend, Malcolm Wagstaffe, William Wainwright, Bobby Walker, Walmshurst, Thomas Walmsley, Wardle, Watton, Whelan, Edwin Whitehouse, Barrie Whitmore, Welch, Bert Williams, Dennis Wilshaw, Barrie Wood, John Wolverson, Billy Wright.

Club Finances: Profit £16,846, Total Income £113,853, Expenditure £97,007; A dividend of 5 percent was approved.

Floodlights: During the summer of 1953 the club install their first set of Floodlights.