1952/53 First Division

Directors: James E 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: Bill Wright.

Playing Staff: John Abthorpe, Adcock, Colin Alderson, Ronald Allen, Henry Archer, Tommy Asher, John Bailey, Billy Baxter, John Bayley, Beeby, Brian Birch, Frank Bolton, Joe Bonson, Colin Booth, David Broadbent, Peter Broadbent, Broadhead, Brogan, Wesley Brookes, Gordon Brown, Karry Burkinshaw, Ronald Burkitt, Burns, Ivan Cartwright, Terence Casey, Ray Chatham, Chopper Clamp, Clarke, Maxie Clews, Len Cooper, Reginald Cooper, Gordon Coy, Billy Crook, A Davies, Davis, Fred Deakin, Norman Deeley, Decimus Dicken, Derek Dimmer, Gordon Duggins, Jimmy Dunn, Ebdon, James Evans, Evans, Ronald Fellows, Fisher, Ron Flowers, Derek Ford, David Franklin, Jesse Gaden, Lionel Gaetto, Len Gibbons, Giles, Gill, Gordon Green, Groves, Bill Guttridge, George Hallard, Johnny Hancocks, Wilfred Hannan, Charles Hardy, Ivor Harper, Gerry Harris, Ernest Harrop, Arthur Hodgkiss, William Hodgkiss, Ron Howells, Bryan Jackson, Jacobs, David Jewell, Ernest Jones, Joyce, James Kerr, Lait, J Longworth, William Longworth, Paul Lucas, Alan Machin, Philip Mason, Dennis McDonald, McSorley, Dave Meeson, Mellor, John Metcalfe, Muirhead, Jimmy Mullen, Jimmy Murray, Rick Neal, Keith Neale, Roy Nicholls, Orwin, Peter Owen, Paley, Parkin, Derek Parton, Roy Pearce, John Pemberton, Brian Peplow, Harry Phillips, Trevor Potter, Ronald Powell, Priest, Roy Pritchard, Brian Punter, Jesse Pye, John Rawson, Maurice Richardson, Patrick Roberts, Derek Robinson, Joseph Robinson, Peter Russell, William Russell, Arthur Salter, Robin Sandford, Clifford Shenton, Jack Short, Kenneth Short, Bill Shorthouse, George Showell, David Sims, Maurice Siverns, James Skinner, Bill Slater, Gordon Smith, Henry Smith, Les Smith, Malcolm Spencer, A Spencer, John Stainsby, Lionel Stephenson, Ron Stockin, Eddie Stuart, Roy Swinbourne, Doug Taylor, Jack Taylor, Paul Taylor, C Taylor, John Thomas, John Timmins, Townend, Samuel Townsend, William Wainwright, S Wainwright, Johnny Walker, Robert Walker, Reginald Webb, Peter Weir, White, Edwin Whitehouse, Ken Whitfield, Bert Williams, Graham Williams, Gordon Willis, Gordon Wills, Dennis Wilshaw, Wilson, Wimshurst, John Wolverson, Barrie Wood, Billy Wright,

Club Finances: Profit: Record of £23,598 (Total since the war of £119,730.