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The Football League
Season	1992–93
Champions	Newcastle United
Promoted	Newcastle United West Ham United Swindon Town
Relegated	Halifax Town
Folded	Maidstone United
New club in League	Colchester United
← 1991–92 1993–94 →

The 1992–93 season was the 94th completed season of the Football League.

This season saw the birth of the Premier League. In 1992, all of the First Division clubs resigned from the Football League and, on 27 May 1992, the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company, which worked out of an office at the Football Association’s then headquarters, Lancaster Gate. Hence, the 104-year-old Football League was reduced from four divisions to three, with the old Second, Third and Fourth Divisions becoming the new First, Second and Third Divisions respectively.

The league was sponsored this season by Barclays.

Final league tables and results

The tables and results below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website. Play-off results are from the same website.

First Division

Football league season

First Division
Season	1992–93
Champions	Newcastle United
Promoted	Newcastle United West Ham United Swindon Town
Relegated	Brentford Cambridge United Bristol Rovers
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,449 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Guy Whittingham (42 goals)
← 1991–92 (Second Division) 1993–94 →

Newcastle United, who won their first 10 league games, clinched the Division One title with an impressive 96 points to end a four-year exile from the top flight of English football. West Ham United sealed an instant return to the top flight a year after relegation, edging ahead of Portsmouth on goal difference to finished second. Portsmouth's promotion bid, dominated by the form of 42-goal striker Guy Whittingham, ended in the playoff semi-finals when they were beaten by Leicester City, who prevailed thanks to an offside goal by Ian Ormondroyd but went on to lose the final 4-3 to Swindon Town after clawing back from 3-0 down before a late penalty from Paul Bodin saw Swindon clinch victory and a place in the top flight for the first time ever. The other losing semi-finalists in the playoffs were Tranmere Rovers, playing only their second season at this level in the postwar era.

Millwall finished one place outside the playoff zone in the first season in management for Mick McCarthy, while pre-season promotion favourites Derby County could only manage an eighth-place finish despite having spent millions on new players over the previous two years. Unfancied Grimsby Town and Peterborough United finished in the top half of the table, comfortably above bigger clubs like Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City.

Luton Town and Notts County, newly relegated from the top flight, spent the season battling at the wrong end of the division but managed to avoid a second successive relegation, as did a Sunderland side who had been FA Cup finalists one season earlier and members of the top flight two seasons earlier.

Bristol Rovers went down in bottom place after a dismal season. Cambridge United, playoff semi-finalists the previous season, struggled after the sale of Dion Dublin and went down on the last day of the season, as did a Brentford side who had been on the fringe of the playoff places at Christmas before a slump in form during the second half of the season cost the Bees their Division One status and manager Phil Holder his job.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Newcastle United (C, P)	46	29	9	8	92	38	+54	96	Promotion to the Premier League
2	West Ham United (P)	46	26	10	10	81	41	+40	88	Promotion to the Premier League
3	Portsmouth	46	26	10	10	80	46	+34	88	Qualification for the First Division play-offs
4	Tranmere Rovers	46	23	10	13	72	56	+16	79
5	Swindon Town (O, P)	46	21	13	12	74	59	+15	76
6	Leicester City	46	22	10	14	71	64	+7	76
7	Millwall	46	18	16	12	65	53	+12	70
8	Derby County	46	19	9	18	68	57	+11	66
9	Grimsby Town	46	19	7	20	58	57	+1	64
10	Peterborough United	46	16	14	16	55	63	−8	62
11	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	16	13	17	57	56	+1	61
12	Charlton Athletic	46	16	13	17	49	46	+3	61
13	Barnsley	46	17	9	20	56	60	−4	60
14	Oxford United	46	14	14	18	53	56	−3	56
15	Bristol City	46	14	14	18	49	67	−18	56
16	Watford	46	14	13	19	57	71	−14	55
17	Notts County	46	12	16	18	55	70	−15	52
18	Southend United	46	13	13	20	54	64	−10	52
19	Birmingham City	46	13	12	21	50	72	−22	51
20	Luton Town	46	10	21	15	48	62	−14	51
21	Sunderland	46	13	11	22	50	64	−14	50
22	Brentford (R)	46	13	10	23	52	71	−19	49	Relegation to the Second Division
23	Cambridge United (R)	46	11	16	19	48	69	−21	49
24	Bristol Rovers (R)	46	10	11	25	55	87	−32	41

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BIR	BRE	BRI	BRR	CAM	CHA	DER	GRI	LEI	LUT	MIL	NEW	NTC	OXF	PET	POR	STD	SUN	SWI	TRA	WAT	WHU	WOL
Barnsley		1–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	0–1	0–1
Birmingham City	3–0		1–3	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–3	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–3	2–0	1–0	4–6	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–4
Brentford	3–1	0–2		5–1	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	4–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–2
Bristol City	2–1	3–0	4–1		2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–3	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–3	2–1	1–5	1–0
Bristol Rovers	1–5	3–3	2–1	4–0		1–1	0–2	1–2	0–3	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	3–3	0–1	3–1	1–2	0–2	2–2	3–4	1–0	0–3	0–4	1–1
Cambridge United	1–2	0–3	1–0	2–1	0–1		0–1	1–3	2–0	1–3	3–3	1–1	0–3	3–0	2–2	2–2	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–1
Charlton Athletic	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–1	0–0		2–1	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–3	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–1
Derby County	3–0	3–1	3–2	3–4	3–1	0–0	4–3		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–1	2–3	2–4	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–0
Grimsby Town	4–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–2		1–3	3–1	1–0	0–2	3–3	1–1	1–3	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	1–0
Leicester City	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	3–1	3–2	3–0		2–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	4–1	3–2	4–2	0–1	5–2	1–2	0–0
Luton Town	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–3	1–4	2–0		1–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–4	2–2	0–0	0–0	3–3	2–0	2–0	1–1
Millwall	0–4	0–0	6–1	4–1	0–3	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0		1–2	6–0	3–1	4–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	5–2	2–1	2–0
Newcastle United	6–0	2–2	5–1	5–0	0–0	4–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	7–1	2–0	1–1		4–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1
Notts County	1–3	3–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–2		1–1	1–0	0–1	4–0	3–1	1–1	5–1	1–2	1–0	2–2
Oxford United	0–0	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	4–0	3–0	4–2	1–1		2–1	5–5	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0
Peterborough United	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–3	0–0	0–1	1–3	1–1		1–1	1–0	5–2	3–3	1–1	0–0	1–3	2–3
Portsmouth	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–3	4–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	4–0		2–0	2–0	3–1	4–0	1–0	0–1	2–0
Southend United	3–0	4–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	3–3	1–1	3–1	0–3	0–1	0–0		0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–1
Sunderland	2–1	1–2	1–3	0–0	1–1	3–3	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–2	2–0	1–2	2–2	2–0	3–0	4–1	2–4		0–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0
Swindon Town	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	2–2	4–1	2–2	2–4	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	5–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–0		2–0	3–1	1–3	1–0
Tranmere Rovers	2–1	4–0	3–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–3	0–2	1–1	0–3	3–1	4–0	1–1	0–2	3–0	2–1	3–1		2–1	5–2	3–0
Watford	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–3	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–4	3–2		1–2	3–1
West Ham United	1–1	3–1	4–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	5–3	2–1	2–0	2–0	6–0	0–1	2–0	2–1		3–1
Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	5–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	1–2	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–1	4–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Main article: Football League Championship play-offs § 1993

Semi-finals 1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993					Final at Wembley 31 May 1993

3rd	Portsmouth	0	2	2

6th	Leicester City	1	2	3
					5th	Swindon Town	4

					6th	Leicester City	3
4th	Tranmere Rovers	1	3	4

5th	Swindon Town	3	2	5

Maps

Barnsley Birmingham Brentford Bristol City Bristol Rovers Cambridge Utd Charlton Derby County Grimsby Town Leicester City Luton Town Millwall Newcastle Notts County Oxford Peterborough Portsmouth Southend Sunderland Swindon Tranmere Watford West Ham Wolverhampton Wanderers class=notpageimage| Locations of the First Division teams

Brentford Charlton Athletic Millwall Watford West Ham class=notpageimage| Locations of the London-based First Division teams

Second Division

Football league season

Second Division
Season	1992–93
Champions	Stoke City
Promoted	Stoke City Bolton Wanderers West Bromwich Albion
Relegated	Preston North End Mansfield Town Wigan Athletic Chester City
Matches played	463
Goals scored	1,479 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bob Taylor (30 goals)
← 1991–92 (Third Division) 1993–94 →

Stoke City sealed promotion as Division Two champions in Lou Macari's second season as manager, having topped the table for most of the season, as did Bolton Wanderers under their new manager Bruce Rioch. The third promotion place went to playoff winners West Bromwich Albion, who beat Port Vale 3-0 in the Wembley promotion decider to secure their first promotion for 17 years and end their two-year spell in the league's third tier, as well as recording a first Wembley victory for 25 years.

Swansea City and Stockport County were the losing semi-finalists.

Leyton Orient missed out on the playoff places as they had scored fewer goals than Stockport. Managing director and former manager Frank Clark then left the club after accepting the offer to return to Nottingham Forest as manager as successor to Brian Clough.

Chester City's first season at the new Deva Stadium saw them relegated in bottom place and also spelled the end of Harry McNally's seven-year reign as manager in October, with his successor Mike Pejic being unable to steer the club to safety. Wigan Athletic finished second from bottom and suffered their first relegation as a Football League side. Mansfield Town finished third from bottom and suffered an immediate return to the league's fourth tier. The final relegation place went to Preston North End, who had replaced Les Chapman with John Beck as manager in October, but not even the man who was fresh from a successful spell in charge of Cambridge United could save the Lancashire side from relegation. Hull City narrowly avoided a second relegation in three seasons, while once again England World Cup winner Alan Ball was able to guide Exeter City to safety.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Stoke City (C, P)	46	27	12	7	73	34	+39	93	Promotion to the First Division
2	Bolton Wanderers (P)	46	27	9	10	80	41	+39	90	Promotion to the First Division
3	Port Vale	46	26	11	9	79	44	+35	89	Qualification for the Second Division play-offs
4	West Bromwich Albion (O, P)	46	25	10	11	88	54	+34	85
5	Swansea City	46	20	13	13	65	47	+18	73
6	Stockport County	46	19	15	12	81	57	+24	72
7	Leyton Orient	46	21	9	16	69	53	+16	72
8	Reading	46	18	15	13	66	51	+15	69
9	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	20	9	17	63	59	+4	69
10	Bradford City	46	18	14	14	69	67	+2	68
11	Rotherham United	46	17	14	15	60	60	0	65
12	Fulham	46	16	17	13	57	55	+2	65
13	Burnley	46	15	16	15	57	59	−2	61
14	Plymouth Argyle	46	16	12	18	59	64	−5	60
15	Huddersfield Town	46	17	9	20	54	61	−7	60
16	Hartlepool United	46	14	12	20	42	60	−18	54
17	Bournemouth	46	12	17	17	45	52	−7	53
18	Blackpool	46	12	15	19	63	75	−12	51
19	Exeter City	46	11	17	18	54	69	−15	50
20	Hull City	46	13	11	22	46	69	−23	50
21	Preston North End (R)	46	13	8	25	65	94	−29	47	Relegation to the Third Division
22	Mansfield Town (R)	46	11	11	24	52	80	−28	44
23	Wigan Athletic (R)	46	10	11	25	43	72	−29	41
24	Chester City (R)	46	8	5	33	49	102	−53	29

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BOU	BLP	BOL	BRA	B&HA	BUR	CHE	EXE	FUL	HAR	HUD	HUL	LEY	MAN	PLY	PTV	PNE	REA	ROT	STP	STK	SWA	WBA	WIG
AFC Bournemouth		5–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–3	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	4–1	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–0
Blackpool	2–0		1–1	3–3	2–2	1–3	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	5–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–4	2–3	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	0–0	2–1	2–1
Bolton Wanderers	1–1	3–0		5–0	0–1	4–0	5–0	4–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	2–1
Bradford City	0–1	2–0	2–1		1–1	1–0	3–1	3–1	3–2	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	4–0	3–0	0–3	2–3	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–1
Brighton & Hove Albion	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1		3–0	3–2	3–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	3–1	1–0
Burnley	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–3		5–0	3–1	5–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–1
Chester City	1–0	1–2	2–2	2–5	2–1	3–0		0–3	2–3	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–4	0–3	1–2	0–3	1–1	3–2	1–3	1–2
Exeter City	1–1	0–1	1–3	0–1	2–3	2–2	2–0		1–2	3–1	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	2–2	0–2	2–3	0–0
Fulham	1–1	1–0	1–4	1–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	1–1		1–3	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Hartlepool United	0–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–3	0–3		1–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	3–2	1–2	0–1	2–2	0–0
Huddersfield Town	0–1	5–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0	3–0		3–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–1
Hull City	3–0	3–2	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–1	4–0	1–1	3–2	2–3		0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–4	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0
Leyton Orient	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–2	3–2	3–2	4–3	5–0	0–0	0–0	4–1	0–0		5–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–2
Mansfield Town	0–2	2–2	1–1	5–2	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–3	2–0	1–2	3–1	3–0		0–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–0	0–4	3–3	0–3	2–0
Plymouth Argyle	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	0–3	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	2–0	3–2		0–1	4–0	2–2	2–1	3–4	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0
Port Vale	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–2	3–1	3–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–0		2–2	3–1	4–2	0–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–2
Preston North End	1–1	3–3	2–2	3–2	1–0	2–0	4–3	2–2	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–4	1–5	1–2	2–5		2–0	5–2	2–3	1–2	1–3	1–1	2–0
Reading	3–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	4–0		3–1	2–4	0–1	2–0	1–1	4–0
Rotherham United	1–2	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–2	4–1	1–0	3–2		0–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	2–3
Stockport County	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	4–1	5–0	5–3	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	2–2		1–1	1–1	5–1	3–0
Stoke City	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1		2–1	4–3	2–1
Swansea City	2–1	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–2	0–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–2		0–0	2–1
West Bromwich Albion	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	2–0	2–0	2–5	0–1	3–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–2	3–0		5–1
Wigan Athletic	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	0–4	2–3	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–3	1–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Main article: Football League One play-offs § 1993

Semi-finals 1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993					Final at Wembley 30 May 1993

3rd	Port Vale	1	1	2

6th	Stockport County	1	0	1
					3rd	Port Vale	0

					4th	West Bromwich Albion	3
4th	West Bromwich Albion	1	2	3

5th	Swansea City	2	0	2

Maps

Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford City Brighton & Hove Burnley Chester Exeter City Fulham Hartlepool Huddersfield Hull Leyton Orient Mansfield Town Plymouth Argyle Port Vale Preston North End Reading Rotherham Stockport Stoke Swansea City West Bromwich Albion Wigan Athletic class=notpageimage| Locations of the Second Division teams

Fulham Leyton Orient class=notpageimage| Locations of the London-based Second Division teams

Third Division

Football league season

Football League, Third Division
Season	1992–93
Champions	Cardiff City (1st fourth tier title)
Promoted	Barnet, Cardiff City, Wrexham
Promoted through play-offs	York City
Relegated	Halifax Town
Folded	Maidstone United
New club in League	Colchester United
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1,311 (2.84 per match)
Top goalscorer	Darren Foreman (Scarborough), 27; Carl Griffiths (Shrewsbury Town), 27
← 1991–92 1993–94 →

The season began with the demise of Maidstone United, who had only reached the Football League three years earlier and were hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt, having been tenants at Dartford since 1988 and having been refused planning permission to build a new stadium on land in Maidstone which had since been purchased. A move to relocate the club to the North-East and merge the with non-league Newcastle Blue Star was vetoed by the Football League, and as the season dawned the club had just two players still registered. Their first league game of the new Division Three season was cancelled and they were given until the following Monday to guarantee that they would be able to fulfill their fixtures. Unable to come up with the necessary backing, they resigned from the league and went into liquidation on 17 August.

As the Division Three campaign got underway, the two Welsh based sides in the division emerged as the pace-setters, with Cardiff City finishing as champions and Wrexham as runners-up. Barnet, who had spent much of the season under threat of going the same way as Maidstone due to mounting debts, being banned from the transfer market for failing to pay staff wages, and being threatened with expulsion from the Football League over an unpaid fine, clinched the final automatic promotion place in only their second season in the Football League. The season also brought the end of Stan Flashman's eight-year ownership of the club, when he resigned as chairman of the club he had paid £50,000 to save from receivership in 1985. Just before promotion was clinched, manager Barry Fry left to take charge of Southend United, with his assistant Edwin Stein overseeing the final few games of the season before goalkeeper Gary Phillips took over as player-manager for the 1993-94 season.

Halifax Town, after 72 years of league membership, finished bottom of the league and were replaced by Conference champions Wycombe Wanderers. Maidstone United went out of business on 17 August after their first game was postponed, and were not replaced.

Pos	Team	Pld	HW	HD	HL	HGF	HGA	AW	AD	AL	AGF	AGA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Cardiff City	42	13	7	1	42	20	12	1	8	35	27	+30	83	Division Champions, promoted Welsh Cup winners, qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup
2	Wrexham	42	14	3	4	48	26	9	8	4	27	26	+23	80	Promoted
3	Barnet	42	16	4	1	45	19	7	6	8	21	29	+18	79	Promoted
4	York City	42	13	6	2	41	15	8	6	7	31	30	+27	75	Promoted through play-offs
5	Walsall	42	11	6	4	42	31	11	1	9	34	30	+15	73	Participated in play-offs
6	Crewe Alexandra	42	13	3	5	47	23	8	4	9	28	33	+19	70
7	Bury	42	10	7	4	36	19	8	2	11	27	36	+8	63
8	Lincoln City	42	10	6	5	31	20	8	3	10	26	33	+4	63
9	Shrewsbury Town	42	11	3	7	36	30	6	8	7	21	22	+5	62
10	Colchester United	42	13	3	5	38	26	5	2	14	29	50	−9	59
11	Rochdale	42	10	3	8	38	29	6	7	8	32	41	0	58
12	Chesterfield	42	11	3	7	32	28	4	8	9	27	35	−4	56
13	Scarborough	42	7	7	7	32	30	8	2	11	34	41	−5	54
14	Scunthorpe United	42	8	7	6	38	25	6	5	10	19	29	+3	54
15	Darlington	42	5	6	10	23	31	7	8	6	25	22	−5	50
16	Doncaster Rovers	42	6	5	10	22	28	5	9	7	20	29	−15	47
17	Hereford United	42	7	9	5	31	27	3	6	12	16	33	−13	45
18	Carlisle United	42	7	5	9	29	27	4	6	11	22	38	−14	44
19	Torquay United	42	6	4	11	18	26	6	3	12	27	41	−22	43
20	Northampton Town	42	6	5	10	19	28	5	3	13	29	46	−26	41
21	Gillingham	42	9	4	8	32	28	0	9	12	16	36	−16	40
22	Halifax Town	42	3	5	13	20	35	6	4	11	25	33	−23	36	Relegated to Conference
23	Maidstone United	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Club folded

Source:
Notes:

New club in the league
Maidstone United resigned from the Football League on 17 August 1992, and subsequently folded. At the time of their resignation, they had played no matches.

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BRY	CAR	CRL	CHF	COL	CRE	DAR	DON	GIL	HAL	HER	LIN	NOR	ROC	SCA	SCU	SHR	TOR	WAL	WRE	YOR
Barnet		1–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–2	5–4	3–0	3–1	1–5
Bury	0–0		1–0	6–0	3–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–2	3–3	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	1–1
Cardiff City	1–1	3–0		2–2	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	3–3
Carlisle United	0–1	5–1	1–2		3–1	0–2	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–4	0–2	1–2
Chesterfield	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–0		4–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	2–3	0–3	1–2	2–4	1–0	2–1	2–3	1–1
Colchester United	1–2	0–0	2–4	2–1	3–0		3–2	0–3	2–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	4–4	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	2–4	0–0
Crewe Alexandra	4–1	2–1	2–0	4–0	0–2	7–1		1–0	4–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–3	1–0	2–2	4–2	0–1	0–1	3–1
Darlington	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–0		1–2	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–3	3–1	0–4	2–3	2–2	0–2	4–1	1–2	1–1	0–1
Doncaster Rovers	2–1	2–3	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	0–1		1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	4–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	0–3	1–1	0–1
Gillingham	1–1	1–4	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	3–1	1–1		2–0	3–1	3–1	2–3	4–2	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1	4–1	1–4
Halifax Town	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–4	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–0		0–1	2–1	2–2	2–3	3–4	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–4	0–1	0–1
Hereford United	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	3–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	3–1	3–0		0–2	3–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	1–3	1–1	1–1
Lincoln City	4–1	1–2	3–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0		2–0	1–2	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–1
Northampton Town	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–5	1–1	0–2		1–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	4–3
Rochdale	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–1	5–2	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–3	1–3	5–1	0–3		3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	4–3	1–2	1–0
Scarborough	2–2	1–3	1–3	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	4–2	1–1		1–2	1–2	1–0	4–1	1–1	4–2
Scunthorpe United	2–0	2–0	0–3	0–0	0–1	3–1	3–3	1–3	0–1	2–2	4–1	3–1	1–1	5–0	5–1	1–2		1–1	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–2
Shrewsbury Town	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–3	2–2	4–3	4–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–2	2–3	1–2	2–0	2–1		0–1	0–3	0–1	1–1
Torquay United	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	2–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–1	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–3	0–1	1–0		0–1	1–1	1–0
Walsall	2–0	4–3	2–3	2–1	3–2	1–3	1–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	3–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	2–2		1–1	3–1
Wrexham	2–3	4–2	0–2	3–1	5–4	4–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	0–2	2–0	4–2	3–1		3–0
York City	2–0	1–2	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	5–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	4–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-offs

Main article: Football League Two play-offs § 1993

Semi-finals 1st leg – 16 May; 2nd leg – 19 May 1993					Final at Wembley 29 May 1993

4th	York City	0	1	1

7th	Bury	0	0	0
					4th	York City (pens.)	1 (5)

					6th	Crewe Alexandra	1 (3)
5th	Walsall	1	2	3

6th	Crewe Alexandra	5	4	9

Maps

Barnet Bury Cardiff City Carlisle United Chesterfield Colchester Crewe Alexandra Darlington Doncaster Gillingham Halifax Town Hereford United Lincoln City Maidstone Northampton Town Rochdale Scarborough Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Torquay Walsall Wrexham York City class=notpageimage| Locations of the Third Division teams

Barnet class=notpageimage| Locations of the London-based Third Division teams

References

^ "England 1992–93". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
^ "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

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See also

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