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Football League First Division; Season: 1971–72: Champions: Derby County 1st English title: Relegated: Nottingham Forest Huddersfield Town: European Cup: Derby County: European Cup Winners' Cup: Leeds United: UEFA Cup: Liverpool Manchester City Tottenham Hotspur Stoke City: Watney Cup: Wolverhampton Wanderers Sheffield United: Matches played ...
1971–72 Scottish Football League. ... Team. Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts ... Promotion to the 1972–73 First Division: 2 Arbroath: 36 22 8 6 71 41 +30 52 3
Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield Town lost their First Division status. By the end of the decade, Forest had made an explosive comeback to the top flight. 1971-1972 was Huddersfield's last season in the top flight until their promotion in 2016-17, and within a few seasons they would be in the Fourth Division — most of their existence since ...
1 December 1971: England win their European Championship qualifying group with a 2-0 win in Greece. Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters score the goals. 31 December 1971: At the end of the year, Manchester United are top of the First Division, three points ahead of Manchester City and four ahead of Leeds United.
Aberdeen F.C. 1971–72 season; Chairman: Dick Donald: Manager: Jimmy Bonthrone: Scottish First Division: 2nd: Scottish Cup: Quarter-finalists: Scottish League Cup
During the 1971–72 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came third out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division and reached the final of the Scottish Cup ending up losing 6–1 to Celtic.
Arsenal won the First Division title for the eighth time in the club's history that season. They also won the FA Cup to complete the club's first double. Arsenal wrapped up the title on 3 May, with a 1–0 win at North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Blackpool were relegated on 12 April, after only holding Tottenham Hotspur to a 0–0 draw at ...
Aberdeen, with 15 straight wins of which the last 12 were without conceding, led the league from December until the last week of the season. Aberdeen faced Celtic in their penultimate game needing a win to almost certainly clinch the title, but could only draw 1-1: and then they lost their last game, at Falkirk, allowing Celtic to take the championship by 2 points.