The Football League 1892 - 1893
At the Annual General Meeting in 1892 it was decided to create a Second Division of 12 teams and to expand what would now be called the First Division to 16 members. The Football Alliance, formed in 1889 as a direct rival to the Football League, was already considered as a Second Division in waiting and 11 out its 12 members formed the new division. Darwen, who had failed re-election, took the Second Division place of Alliance club Birmingham St George's, which had gone out of business at the end of the previous season while The Wednesday (now Sheffield Wednesday), Nottingham Forest and Newton Heath (now Manchester United) were elected directly into the new First Division.
