Football : Season Details : 1966

Final English Top Division Football (soccer) Table and Cup Final(s)

[Season 1965] [Season 1967]

Position	Club	Points	History	Notes
1	Liverpool	61	4-4	CWC-F
2	Leeds United	55	5-2
3	Burnley	55	4-19
4	Manchester United	51	5-21
5	Chelsea	51	4-3
6	West Bromwich Albion	50	5-17	LC-W
7	Leicester City	49	5-9
8	Tottenham Hotspur	44	4-16
9	Sheffield United	43	4-5
10	Stoke City	42	5-3
11	Everton	41	3-12	FAC-W
12	West Ham United	39	2-8	LC-F
13	Blackpool	37	2-22
14	Arsenal	37	2-40
15	Newcastle United	37	3-1
16	Aston Villa	36	3-6
17	Sheffield Wednesday	36	7-7	FAC-F
18	Nottingham Forest	36	4-9
19	Sunderland	36	2-2
20	Fulham	35	2-7
21	Northampton Town	33	1-1
22	Blackburn Rovers	20	3-8

Legend and Abbreviations
Points: 2 for a win : 1 for a draw. Clubs: Blue Qualified for Europe Red Relegated
History is in the form A-B: A is the number of occasions that the club has been in the Top Division. B is the current number of consecutive seasons in the Top Division.
Notes: FAC FA Cup; LC League Cup; CWC Cup Winners Cup; W Winners - F Finalists

League Cup Final First Leg	West Ham United 2 West Bromwich Albion 1
League Cup Final Second Leg	West Bromwich Albion 4 West Ham United 1 (agg 5 - 3)
FA Cup Final	Everton 3 Sheffield Wednesday 2

European Cup Final	Real Madrid 2 Partizan Belgrade 1
Fairs Cup Final First Leg	Barcelona 0 Real Zaragosa 1
Fairs Cup Final Second Leg	Real Zaragosa 2 Barcelona 4 aet (agg 3 - 4)
Cup Winners Cup Final	Borussia Dortmund 2 Liverpool 1 aet

aet After Extra Time : agg Aggregate Score

History (England)

Liverpool equalled Arsenal's 7 Championships.

Northampton Town were relegated after a succession of promotions from the fourth level beginning in 1960. They would return back to that level in 1969.

Everton won the FA Cup 3-2 after going 0-2 down. The final was a repeat oif 1907.

Substitutes were allowed for any reason.

This was the last two-legged League Cup final.

History (Europe)

Two legged European matches are decided by the Away Goals Rule if the scores are level. The team with the more away goals wins.

The Fairs Cup final was the third to be between clubs from the same country - Spain in all cases. The clubs were Barcelona and Real Zaragosa.

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The 1966 World Cup in England
England win the eighth World Cup.

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