| Pos | Team | Pld | Pts | GD | Home | Away | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | |||||||
| 1 | Halifax Town | 8 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||
| 2 | Grimsby Town | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | |||
| 3 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Ath. | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | Norwich City | 8 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 6 | Coventry City | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | |||
| 7 | Southampton | 8 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | |||
| 8 | Queens Park Rangers | 8 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | |||
| 9 | Shrewsbury Town | 8 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | |||
| 10 | Newport County | 8 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||
| 11 | Barnsley | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | |||
| 12 | Brentford | 8 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | |||
| 13 | Tranmere Rovers | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |||
| 14 | Bradford City | 8 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |||
| 15 | Swindon Town | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 16 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 17 | Colchester United | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 14 | |||
| 18 | Port Vale | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 19 | |||
| 19 | Chesterfield | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |||
| 20 | Mansfield Town | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |||
| 21 | Wrexham | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | |||
| 22 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| 23 | Accrington Stanley | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | |||
| 24 | Reading | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | |||