Football : Season Details : 1973

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

Legend
Clubs in RED qualified for European football.
Clubs in BLUE were relegated.
Points: 2 for a win; 1 for a draw.
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 number of consecutive seasons in the Top Division.
Abbreviations:
LC League Cup; FAC FA Cup;
CWC Cup Winners' Cup; UEFA UEFA / Fairs Cup
W Winner(s); F Finalist(s).

Position Club Points History Notes
1
 Liverpool
60
4-11
 UEFA-W
2
 Arsenal
57
2-47
  
3
 Leeds United
53
5-9
 CWC-F; FAC-F
4
 Ipswich Town
48
2-5
  
5
 Wolverhampton Wanderers
47
3-6
  
6
 West Ham United
46
2-15
  
7
 Derby County
46
5-4
  
8
 Tottenham Hotspur
45
4-23
 LC-W
9
 Newcastle United
45
3-8
  
10
 Birmingham City
42
7-1
  
11
 Manchester City
41
7-7
  
12
 Chelsea
40
4-10
  
13
 Southampton
40
1-7
  
14
 Sheffield United
40
5-2
  
15
 Stoke City
38
5-10
  
16
 Leicester City
37
6-2
  
17
 Everton
37
3-19
  
18
 Manchester United
37
5-28
  
19
 Coventry City
35
1-6
  
20
 Norwich City
32
1-1
 LC-F
21
 Crystal Palace
30
1-4
  
22
 West Bromwich Albion
28
5-24
  

League Cup Final Tottenham Hotspur 1 Norwich City 0
FA Cup Final Sunderland 1 Leeds United 0

History

Liverpool become Champions for the 8th time, equalling Arsenal's record. Liverpool also won the UEFA Cup becoming the sixth English club in six years to win it (or its previous incarnation, the Fairs Cup). This is the first time that the Champions have also won a European trophy.

Tottenham Hotspur become the first club to win the League Cup twice. This gains them qualification into the UEFA Cup. Because of the "one city, one club" rule (inherited from the Fairs Cup), Tottenham's UEFA Cup qualification precludes Arsenal, who finished 2nd in the League. This anomaly made the European football authorities abolish the "one city, one club" rule.

Sunderland became the first Second Division club since 1931 to win the FA Cup.

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