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The 1969–70 season was the 71st completed season of The Football League. Everton won their seventh league title, finishing nine points clear of Leeds United with Chelsea in third and newly promoted Derby County in fourth. Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland were both relegated.
They won the first post-war Midland League title [1] – and were expelled from that season's FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player [a] – but when the football authorities made clear their opposition to municipal ownership of clubs, the council's involvement ceased and the club was renamed Chesterfield F.C. [1] It was a founder member of ...
Chesterfield climbed out of the Fourth Division as champions, proceeding along with Wrexham, Swansea City and Port Vale. Bradford Park Avenue were voted out of the Football League and replaced by Cambridge United. In February, Swansea Town were renamed Swansea City after Swansea received city status. [1]
Football League First Division; Season: 1969–70: Champions: Everton 7th English title: Relegated: Sunderland Sheffield Wednesday: European Cup: Everton: European Cup Winners' Cup: Chelsea Manchester City: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: Leeds United Liverpool Coventry City Newcastle United Arsenal: Watney Cup: Derby County Manchester United: Matches ...
Chesterfield won the Fourth Division in 1969–70, ... After relegation from the Football League, Chesterfield had three unsuccessful play-off attempts, ...
Geoffrey Martin (9 March 1940 – 6 November 2021) was an English footballer who scored 41 goals from 295 appearances in the Football League playing as a left winger for Chesterfield (in two spells), Darlington, Carlisle United, Workington and Grimsby Town. [1] [4] He was on the books of Leeds United, but his only appearance was in the League ...
His total of 749 league appearances puts him in the top 25 all-time list for Football League appearances. With Chesterfield he won the Fourth Division title in 1969–70 and 1984–85 . He was also promoted out of the fourth tier with Port Vale in 1982–83 and with Doncaster Rovers in 1983–84 .
Promotion to 1969–70 Second Division: 2 ... Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79 ... Chesterfield: 46 13 15 18 43 50 ...