1947/48 First Division

Directors: James S Baker (Chairman), J Evans, CH Hunter, M Matthews, AH Oakley, JT Howley (Assistant Secretary).
Secretary Manager: Ted Vizard (to 12 June).
Assistant manager: Stan Cullis.
Trainer: Jack Gardiner, Jack Dowen, George Palmer, Jack Smith.
Captain: Billy Crook.

Playing Staff: Arthur Abel, JiIm Alderton, Cecil Anderson, Frank Armstrong, Alan Ashley, Sidney Ashmore, Robert Astley, Ivor Bache, James Bache, Edward Barrett, Ted Batchelor, Ellis Batchelor, Billy Baxter, Derrick Beckwith, Ron Bennett, Michael Berry, Wilfried Berry, Edmund Bird, Dennis Bottom, Gordon Boycott, Raymond Bradley, Henry Breakwell, Joseph Brice, Ray Briscoe, Ernest Brown, Albert Bryan, Cameron Buchanan, George Buckley, William Bull, Noel Burton, Richard Buxton, Harry Calvert, Terence Casey, Ray Chatham, John Churchill, Ian Clark, John Clark, Maxie Clews, Norman Clifton, Artur Coley, Douglas Collins, Raymond Commins, Ivan Craddock, Alf Crook, Billy Crook, Cryle, David Cullis, Derek Davies, Lawrence Davies, Neville Davies, John Denton, Ernest Dowen, Ronald Dugmore, Tom Dunn, Reginald Eddowes, Ted Elliott, Raymond Evans, John Everitt, Farley, Robert Ferrier, Willie Forbes, Derek Ford, Horance Foster, Tom Galley, John Galloway, Garne, James Garrie, Len Gibbons, Philip Giles, Giles, Gordon Gill, Wilfred Grainger, Barrie Green, J Green, Billy Green, Greenshields, Horace Griffiths, John Griffiths, Bill Guttridge, Robert Halford, Johnny Hancocks, Cyril Hardstaff, Charles Harley, George Harris, Ronald Harris, Joseph Hartley, Robert Harvey, Ron Hewitt, John Higgins, James Hitchen, Victor Hodgkiss, Edwin Holding, Robert Holford, Robert Homer, George Howarth, Morris Hudson, Derek Hughes, Eric Hughes, Jeffrey Hughes, Leonard Hull, Dennis Hulme, Kenneth Hulse, John Humphreys, John Hunter, David James, Emlyn Jarman, Thomas Jennings, Alan Jones, Ronald Jones, Keith Jordan, Lawrence Kelly, Alex King, Bobby King, Alexander Kirk, Thomas Larkin, Charles Lee, Jimmy Lee, Edward Lempriere, Colin Lincoln, Fred Lloyd, John Malloch, Geoffrey Marshall, Terrance Martin, George Matthews, Matthias, David Matty, Geffrey Mayhall, William McCusker, James McEvoy, Gus McLean, McNard, William McRobie, Peter Miller, Raymond Minor, John Molloy, William Molloy, George Molyneux, Jack Moodie, Harry Morgan, James Morrison, Jimmy Mullen, Les Mynard, Kenneth Oakley, Brendan O’Kelly, Leonard Parsonage, Ronald Parsons, William Paxton, Norman Phillips, Sidney Pierpoint, George Pinner, Raymond Powell, Raymond Powles, Prestige, Thomas Pritchard, Peter Purcell, Jesse Pye, James Ramage, Fred Ramscar, Frederick Ransom, Micky Reid, Eric Reynolds, Cyril Richards, Ernest Rivers, Leslie Rooker, Ken Rowley, Eddie Russell, Jack Short, Bill Shorthouse, Brian Siddall, Alec Simpson, Nigel Sims, Raymond Skidmore, Clifford Skitt, Arthur Smith, Les Smith, Sammy Smyth, Eric Speed, Joseph Springthorpe, Terry Springthorpe, Clark Stanley, Edwin Stephens, Malcolm Stephens, Tom Stevens, Ernie Stevenson, James Stockley, Stones, Roy Swinbourne, Norman Sylvester, Ray Taylor, James Thomas, Dennis Thornhill, Tilley, Raymond Timms, Raymond Townrow, Waddingham, Johnny Walker, Leonard Ward, William Weale, Kenneth Wharton, Whitehead, Ken Whitfield, Alfred Wilkinson, Joseph Willetts, Willey, Bert Williams, George Willis, Billy Wright.

Club Finances: The club made a profit of £9,475; Total Income was £97,486; Wages and Salaries were £26,291.