Source: World Football Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored (C) Champions; (R) Relegated Notes:
^Leicester City qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round as the 1960–61 FA Cup runners-up, since the winners, Tottenham Hotspur, had already qualified for the European Cup.
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980. Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980. Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980. Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. Macdonald and Jane’s, London & Sydney, 1980. Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Locations of the Football League Fourth Division teams 1960–1961
Television
This season saw the first ever live television coverage of a Football League game, when ITV broadcast the second half of Blackpool versus Bolton Wanderers on September 10, 1960, with commentary from Peter Lloyd and Billy Wright[2][3]