Club: | Manchester City F.C. |
Season: | 1936–37 |
Chairman: | Bob Smith |
Mgrtitle: | Secretary / Manager |
Manager: | Wilf Wild |
Stadium: | Maine Road |
League: | First Division |
League Result: | 1st |
Cup1: | FA Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Sixth round |
League Topscorer: | Peter Doherty (30) |
Season Topscorer: | Peter Doherty (32) |
Highest Attendance: | 75,000 (vs Arsenal, 10 April 1937) |
Lowest Attendance: | 16,000 (vs Grimsby Town, 28 December 1936) |
Average Attendance: | 34,000 |
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Prevseason: | 1935–36 |
Nextseason: | 1937–38 |
The 1936–37 season was Manchester City Football Club's forty-sixth season of league football, with the club winning its first-ever league title and scoring a record 107 goals.
Win | Draw | Loss |
width=42 | Game | width=90 | Date | width=190 | Opponents | width=42 | Venue | width=42 | Result | width=56 | Score – | width=90 | Goalscorers | width=90 | Attendance |
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1 | 29 August | Middlesbrough | A | L | 0–2 | 23,000 | |||||||||
2 | 2 September | Leeds United | H | W | 4–0 | Herd, Brook, Tilson, Doherty | 25,000 | ||||||||
3 | 5 September | West Bromwich Albion | H | W | 6–2 | Herd 2, Brook, Heale, Doherty 2 | 25,000 | ||||||||
4 | 9 September | Leeds United | A | D | 1–1 | Heale | 14,000 | ||||||||
5 | 12 September | Manchester United | A | L | 2–3 | Herd, Bray | 69,000 | ||||||||
6 | 16 September | Birmingham | H | D | 1–1 | Doherty | 20,000 | ||||||||
7 | 19 September | Portsmouth | A | L | 1–2 | McLeod | 25,000 | ||||||||
8 | 26 September | Chelsea | H | D | 0–0 | 30,000 | |||||||||
9 | 3 October | Stoke City | A | D | 2–2 | Heale, Doherty | 36,000 | ||||||||
10 | 10 October | Charlton Athletic | H | D | 1–1 | Heale | 28,000 | ||||||||
11 | 17 October | Derby County | H | W | 3–2 | Toseland, Heale, Doherty | 21,000 | ||||||||
12 | 24 October | Wolverhampton Wanderers | A | L | 1–2 | Doherty | 21,000 | ||||||||
13 | 31 October | Sunderland | H | L | 2–4 | McLeod, Doherty | 39,444 | ||||||||
14 | 7 November | Huddersfield Town | A | D | 1–1 | Brook | 18,000 | ||||||||
15 | 14 November | Everton | H | W | 4–1 | Rodger 2, Brook, Toseland | 28,000 | ||||||||
16 | 21 November | Bolton Wanderers | A | W | 2–0 | Herd, Brook | 32,000 | ||||||||
28 November | Brentford | H | 0a0 | 20,000 | |||||||||||
17 | 5 December | Arsenal | A | W | 3–1 | Rodger 2, Doherty | 42,000 | ||||||||
18 | 12 December | Preston North End | H | W | 4–1 | Brook, Toseland 2, Doherty | 15,000 | ||||||||
19 | 19 December | Sheffield Wednesday | A | L | 1–5 | Doherty | 30,000 | ||||||||
20 | 25 December | Grimsby Town | A | L | 3–5 | Rodger, Brook, Doherty | 18,000 | ||||||||
21 | 26 December | Middlesbrough | H | W | 2–1 | Rodger, Brook | 56,000 | ||||||||
22 | 28 December | Grimsby Town | H | D | 1–1 | Tilson | 16,000 | ||||||||
23 | 2 January | West Bromwich Albion | A | D | 2–2 | Herd, Tilson | 18,000 | ||||||||
24 | 9 January | Manchester United | H | W | 1–0 | Herd | 65,000 | ||||||||
25 | 23 January | Portsmouth | H | W | 3–1 | 25,000 | |||||||||
26 | 3 February | Chelsea | A | D | 4–4 | Tilson, Bray, Doherty 2 | 12,000 | ||||||||
27 | 6 February | Stoke City | H | W | 2–1 | Tilson, Doherty | 30,000 | ||||||||
28 | 13 February | Charlton Athletic | A | D | 1–1 | Herd | 45,000 | ||||||||
29 | 24 February | Derby County | A | W | 5–0 | Rodger, Brook, Tilson 3 | 13,000 | ||||||||
30 | 27 February | Wolverhampton Wanderers | H | W | 4–1 | Herd, Tilson 3 | 40,000 | ||||||||
31 | 13 March | Huddersfield Town | H | W | 3–0 | Brook, Doherty 2 | 28,000 | ||||||||
32 | 20 March | Everton | A | D | 1–1 | Percival | 32,000 | ||||||||
33 | 26 March | Liverpool | A | W | 5–0 | Herd, Brook 3, Doherty | 32,000 | ||||||||
34 | 27 March | Bolton Wanderers | H | D | 2–2 | Herd, Doherty | 52,000 | ||||||||
35 | 29 March | Liverpool | H | W | 5–1 | Herd 2, Brook, Tilson, Neilson | 25,000 | ||||||||
36 | 3 April | Brentford | A | W | 6–2 | Herd, Brook, Toseland, Tilson, Doherty 2 | 37,000 | ||||||||
37 | 7 April | Brentford | H | W | 2–1 | Brook, Doherty | 25,000 | ||||||||
38 | 10 April | Arsenal | H | W | 2–0 | Toseland, Doherty | 75,000 | ||||||||
39 | 14 April | Sunderland | A | W | 3–1 | Brook, Doherty 2 | 15,000 | ||||||||
40 | 17 April | Preston North End | A | W | 5–2 | Herd, Donnelly, Doherty 3 | 16,000 | ||||||||
41 | 24 April | Sheffield Wednesday | H | W | 4–1 | Brook 2, Tilson, Doherty | 55,000 | ||||||||
42 | 1 May | Birmingham | A | D | 2–2 | Tilson, Doherty | 25,000 |
Source:[1]
Note: game vs Brentford on 28 November abandoned after 40 minutes.
See main article: 1936–37 FA Cup.
width=42 | Round | width=90 | Date | width=190 | Opponents | width=42 | Venue | width=42 | Result | width=56 | Score – | width=90 | Goalscorers | width=90 | Attendance |
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3 | 16 January | Wrexham | A | W | 3–1 | Herd, Tilson, Brook | 21,000 | ||||||||
4 | 30 January | Accrington Stanley | H | W | 2–0 | Tilson, Doherty | 39,000 | ||||||||
5 | 20 February | Bolton Wanderers | A | W | 5–0 | Herd 2, Doherty, Brook, Tilson | 61,000 | ||||||||
6 | 6 March | Millwall | A | L | 0–2 | 42,000 |
Source:[1]
League | FA Cup | Total | |||||||||||||
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width=42 | width=190 | Name | width=42 | width=42 | Goals | width=42 | width=42 | Goals | width=42 | width=42 | Goals | ||||
GK | Frank Swift | 42 | 4 | 46 | |||||||||||
DF | Billy Dale | 36 | 3 | 39 | |||||||||||
DF | Gordon Clark | 13 | 1 | 14 | |||||||||||
DF | 30 | 4 | 34 | ||||||||||||
DF | Bobby Marshall | 40 | 4 | 44 | |||||||||||
DF | Bob Donnelly | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
DF | Dick Neilson | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
MF | Jack Percival | 42 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 1 | |||||||||
MF | Jackie Bray | 40 | 2 | 4 | 44 | 2 | |||||||||
MF | Joe Rogers | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
MF | Keiller McCullough | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
FW | Ernie Toseland | 42 | 7 | 4 | 46 | 7 | |||||||||
FW | Alec Herd | 32 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 18 | ||||||||
FW | Jimmy Heale | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||||
FW | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | |||||||||||
FW | Fred Tilson | 23 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 18 | ||||||||
FW | Peter Doherty | 41 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 32 | ||||||||
FW | Eric Brook | 42 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 22 | ||||||||
FW | Bobby Regan | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
FW | John McLeod | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
FW | Jim Cassidy | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
FW | Raymond Freeman | 1 | 1 |