| Pos | Team | Pld | Pts | GD | Home | Away | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | |||||||
| 1 | Northampton Town | 8 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | |||
| 2 | Notts. County | 7 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | |||
| 3 | Reading | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | |||
| 4 | Norwich City | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |||
| 5 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 13 | ||||
| 6 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Ath. | 7 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 7 | Nottingham Forest | 8 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||
| 8 | Southend United | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 9 | Port Vale | 7 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||
| 10 | Bristol City | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 11 | Millwall | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 12 | Leyton Orient | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |||
| 13 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 8 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 14 | Crystal Palace | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
| 15 | Aldershot | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||
| 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 17 | Exeter City | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | |||
| 18 | Bristol Rovers | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |||
| 19 | Ipswich Town | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||
| 20 | Walsall | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 21 | Watford | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 22 | Newport County | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 21 | |||