1948–49 Aberdeen F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Aberdeen's 37th season in the top flight of Scottish football and their 39th season overall. Aberdeen competed in the Scottish League Division One, Scottish League Cup, and the Scottish Cup.


1948–49 Al Ahly SC season
This season witnessed the first edition of the Egyptian Premier League, which Al Ahly won. In addition to the domestic league, Al Ahly also participated in this season's editions of the domestic cup, the Egypt Cup and won it after defeating Zamalek in the final.


1948–49 Al Ahly SC season, Players
The first team to represent Al Ahly in the competition was composed of: Kamal Hamed – Abdulaziz Hamami – Muhammad Abu Habajah – Abdel Moneim Shatara – Sayed Othman – Hilmi Abu Al-Moaty – Fouad Sidqi – Muhammad Lheta – Ahmed Mekkawi – Saleh Selim – Fathi Khattab. Mokhatr al Tetsh led Al Ahly to win the first championship in the club's history as a player and also led Al Ahly to win the first league in the club's history as a manager.


1948–49 Al Ahly SC season, Cairo Zone League
Cairo league champion was decided by results of Cairo teams in national league with no separate matches for Cairo league competition.


1948–49 Allsvenskan, Overview
The league was contested by 12 teams, with Malmö FF winning the championship.


1948–49 Allsvenskan (men's handball)
The 1948–49 Allsvenskan was the 15th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. IFK Karlskrona won the league, but the title of Swedish Champions was awarded to the winner of Svenska mästerskapet. Skövde AIK and IFK Lidingö were relegated.


1948–49 American Soccer League, Championship playoff series
Since three teams finished the season with the same point totals, a two-match, championship playoff was held. Brooklyn Hispano hosted New York Americans in the first match. The winner of that play-in contest earned the right to face Philadelphia Nationals two weeks later. In the event that either of these matches ended in a draw the following procedures were to be used. Two 15-minute overtime periods to be played in their entirety. If the match was still tied after 120 minutes, the teams would then play two 7.5-minute periods. If still tied after 135 minutes, successive 7.5 minute periods would be played until one team either scored a golden goal or earned a corner kick.


1948–49 American Soccer League, Championship playoff series, Match two – Championship final
The championship final played out as 90 minutes of regulation and 45 minutes of extra time, before moving to the first  period of sudden death (via goal or corner kick). Jim Mills earned a corner kick for Philadelphia to end the match.


1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season
The 1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season was the Packers' third year in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL), which was also the twelfth and final year the league existed. Ten teams competed in the NBL in 1948–49, comprising five teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions.


1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season
The Anderson Duffey Packers played their home games at Anderson High School Wigwam. The Packers finished in first place in the Eastern Division. In the first series of the NBL playoffs, Anderson received an automatic bye. In the Eastern semifinals (the Packers' first round) they defeated the Syracuse Nationals three games to one (3–1). They then went on to win their first league championship 3–0 over Western Division champion Oshkosh All-Stars.


1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season
Players Frank Brian (First Team), Bill Closs (Second), and Boag Johnson (Second) earned All-NBL honors.


1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season, Playoffs, Semifinals
(1E) Anderson Duffey Packers vs. (2E) Syracuse Nationals: Anderson wins series 3–1


1948–49 Anderson Duffey Packers season, Playoffs, NBL Championship
(1E) Anderson Duffey Packers vs. (1W) Oshkosh All-Stars: Anderson wins series 3–0


1948–49 Arsenal F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Arsenal's 30th consecutive season in the top division of English football.


1948–49 Arsenal F.C. season, Results, FA Charity Shield
Arsenal entered the FA Charity Shield as 1947-48 League champions, in which they faced FA Cup winners Manchester United.


1948–49 Arsenal F.C. season, Results, FA Cup
Arsenal entered the FA Cup in the third round, in which they were drawn to face Tottenham Hotspur.


1948–49 Austrian football championship, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and FK Austria Wien won the championship.


1948–49 BAA season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the third and final season of the Basketball Association of America. (Following the season, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association or NBA.) The postseason tournament (the 1949 BAA Playoffs) at its conclusion, ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the BAA Championship, beating the Washington Capitols 4 games to 2 in the BAA Finals.


1948–49 BAA season
The NBA recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own history, sometimes without comment, so the 1948–49 BAA season is sometimes considered the third NBA season.


1948–49 BAA season, Notable occurrences
Four National Basketball League teams (Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Rochester) joined the BAA for the 1948–49 season.


1948–49 BAA season, Statistics leaders
Note: Prior to the 1969–70 season, league leaders in points and assists were determined by totals rather than averages.


1948–49 Baltimore Bullets season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Bullets' 2nd season in the NBA/BAA.


1948–49 Baltimore Bullets season, Playoffs, East Division Semifinals
(2) New York Knicks vs. (3) Baltimore Bullets: Knicks win series 2-1


1948–49 Belgian First Division, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and R.S.C. Anderlecht won the championship.


1948–49 Birmingham City F.C. season
The 1948–49 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 46th in the Football League and their 27th in the First Division, having been promoted as Second Division champions in 1947–48. They finished in 17th position in the 22-team division, having both scored fewer and conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division. They entered the 1948–49 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Leicester City in that round after two replays.


1948–49 Birmingham City F.C. season
In November 1948, Harry Storer resigned as team manager. The club's chief scout, Walter Taylor, was appointed as assistant team manager shortly afterwards and acted as caretaker manager until Bob Brocklebank's appointment in January 1949.


1948–49 Birmingham City F.C. season
Thirty-one players made at least one appearance in nationally organised competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Full -back Ken Green missed only one game of the 45-game season, and Jackie Stewart was leading goalscorer with eleven goals, all scored in the league.


1948–49 Blackpool F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 41st season (38th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division One, then the top tier of English football, finishing sixteenth.


1948–49 Blackpool F.C. season
Stan Mortensen was the club's top scorer for the fifth consecutive season, with twenty goals (eighteen in the league and two in the FA Cup).


1948–49 Boston Bruins season
The 1948–49 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 25th season in the NHL.


1948–49 Boston Celtics season
The 1948–49 Boston Celtics season was the third season of the Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA/NBA).


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season
The 1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey team represented the Boston College in intercollegiate college ice hockey during the 1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season. The head coach was John "Snooks" Kelley and the team captain was Bernie Burke. The team won the 1949 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. The team's leading scorer was Jack Mulhern, who finished second in the NCAA in both goals (34) and points (65)


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Season
Boston College, looking to return to the tournament and improve upon their overtime loss in the semifinal the year before, opened the 1948–49 season with a 13–5 win over MIT. In January they welcomed fellow tournament hopeful Colorado College for one game and took the close match 6–5, improving their record to 7–0. less than a month later they met the other eastern tournament team, Dartmouth, and lost their first game 2–4 in Hanover. They would make up for that win a month later by defeating the Indians at home. BC finished the regular season 17–1, never having to leave New England and only playing three game outside of the state and one other outside the greater Boston area.


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Season
In March the Eagles played two tournaments. The first was the New England Tournament (a precursor to the Beanpot) where they won two narrow victories over Northeastern and Boston University to win the championship. With a 19–1 record Boston College received the top eastern seed and played Colorado College in the first round of the NCAA Tournament The Eagles won the game handily, scoring seven against the Tigers to earn their right to the play for the title. The championship game was a rubber match for BC and Dartmouth and for their third meeting the two teams did not disappoint. The game had three lead changes before Jim Fitzgerald put the Eagles ahead for good in the third period and Boston College won the title 4–3.


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Season
This was the last BC team to win an ice hockey championship for 52 years. This was the first team to win a national title where all players were born in the same state or province. The 1949 national title game was the first one held between two eastern teams, the next time two eastern teams would meet in the final game was in 1967.


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, Standings, Schedule
During the season Boston College compiled a 21–1 record. By winning the national title the team set a record for the fewest losses by a national champion that would stand until 1970. Their schedule was as follows.


1948–49 Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey season, 1949 national championship, (E1) Boston College vs. (E2) Dartmouth
Butch Songin and Jack Mulhern were named to the All-Tournament First Team while Bernie Burke made the Second Team


1948–49 Bradford City A.F.C. season
The 1948–49 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 36th in the club's history.


1948–49 Bradford City A.F.C. season
The club finished 22nd in Division Three North, and reached the 2nd round of the FA Cup.


1948–49 Bradford City A.F.C. season
The club had to be re-elected to maintain their Football League status for the first time in their history.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season
During the 1948–49 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Second Division. It was Harry Curtis' final season as manager and he was replaced by Jackie Gibbons in February 1949. Brentford ended the season in 18th-place, just one point away from a second relegation in three seasons, though the Bees advanced to the sixth round of the FA Cup for the third time in the club's history.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
Brentford manager Harry Curtis prepared conservatively for the 1948–49 Second Division season, with inside forward Viv Woodward and wing half Paddy Harris being his only veteran additions to the first team squad. The Essential Work Order made it almost impossible for the Bees to sign any player aged under 30, due to the club having spent £28,300 (almost double the club's net income, equivalent to £1,036,600 in 2021) on six new players during the previous financial year, with only Jack Chisholm and Fred Monk aged under 30.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
Curtis elected to build for the future with the signings of young players Les Devonshire, Jimmy Anders, Micky Bull and Billy Dare, but Dare was the only one of the quartet who would go on to make an impact on the first team. On the eve of the season, it was announced that Curtis would step down from the manager's position at the end of the campaign.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
After two wins from the opening seven matches, Curtis signed Leicester City forward Peter McKennan for £8,000. He failed to have an immediate effect on the team's goalscoring problems, but Brentford were able to stay afloat in mid-table due to the low number of goals conceded. Amidst a dire run of form in league matches around the turn of the year, McKennan finally came into form and scored 9 goals in a seven-match spell, firing Brentford into the sixth round of the FA Cup for the second time in four seasons.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
In the midst of the run was an 8-2 victory over Bury, in which McKennan became the third (and as of September 2021, most recent) Brentford player to score five goals in a Football League match. The Bury fixture also marked the first match in charge for player-manager Jackie Gibbons, having replaced Harry Curtis, who remained at Griffin Park until the end of the season as an adviser to Gibbons. Brentford's FA Cup run ended with defeat to Leicester City in the sixth round, with the 38,678 crowd setting a new club record, which still stands as of September 2021.


1948–49 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary
Brentford's form deserted them in the wake of the FA Cup exit, with just two victories during the remaining 14 league matches of the season. Centre half Ron Greenwood was bought from Bradford Park Avenue for £9,000 in February 1949, with all of the money being recouped following the sale of captain Jack Chisholm to Sheffield United for £16,000 a month later. Advanced preparations for the 1949–50 season continued in April, with the £7,000 purchase of Jackie Goodwin and Wally Quinton from Birmingham City. Brentford slumped to an 18th-place finish, just one point above 21st-place Nottingham Forest. Young forward Billy Dare was blooded in the final two months of the season and showed promise for the future with four goals in the final six matches.


1948–49 British Home Championship
The 1948–49 British Home Championship was a football tournament played between the British Home Nations. The tournament was notable for it being the final competition the Home Nations competed in before they joined the FIFA World Cup and thus the last time it was the most important international football tournament in Britain.


1948–49 British Home Championship
England began the tournament the strongest with a 6–2 success over the Irish in Belfast. Scotland began well also, beating the Welsh in Cardiff, which they followed with a narrow success against Ireland in a highly competitive match. England too took maximum points from their second game with a close 1–0 win over the Welsh. In the final games, Wales beat Ireland to take third place whilst the Scots succeeded in strongly defeating England at Wembley Stadium to take the championship.


1948–49 British Ice Hockey season
The 1948–49 British Ice Hockey season featured the English National League and Scottish National League.


1948–49 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team represented the University of Buffalo during the 1948–49 NCAA college men's basketball season. The head coach was Malcolm S. Eiken, coaching his third season with the Bulls.


1948–49 CA Oradea season
The 1948–49 season was CA Oradea's 26th season, 16th in the Romanian football league system and their 13th season in the Divizia A. In this season the club was known as Întreprinderea Comunală Orășenească Oradea, ICO Oradea or simply as ICO and managed to obtain the second big performance in the history of the football from Oradea, a Divizia A title. The first title won in Romania and the second title won at club level, after the 1943-44 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, being the first club to succeed to be crowned as both the champion of Romania and Hungary.


1948–49 CA Oradea season, First team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1948–49 Cairo League
1948–49 Cairo League, the 27th Cairo League competition, champion was decided by results of Cairo teams in national league with no separate matches for Cairo league competition, Farouk Club (Zamalek SC now) won the competition for 12th time.


1948–49 Carlisle United F.C. season
For the 1948–49 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League Third Division North.


1948–49 Celtic F.C. season
During the 1948–49 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division A.


1948–49 Challenge Cup
The 1948–49 Challenge Cup was the 48th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.


1948–49 Challenge Cup
The 29 clubs of the rugby league were joined in the competition by three junior clubs, one each from Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumberland; respectively these junior clubs were Normanton, Vine Tavern and Broughton Moor.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
The first round ties were two-legged and were to be played on consecutive weekends in February 1949. The draw was made on 17 January 1949. The tie between Vine Tavern and York was drawn to have the leg at York played first but the clubs agreed to reverse the tie to enable Vine Tavern to play their home leg Knowsley Road, home of nearby St. Helens. Featherstone's tie with Swinton should have had the first leg played at Featherstone.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
However Featherstone invoked their right under the competition rules as the first drawn club to decide where the first leg would be played and insisted that it was played at Swinton to avoid clashes with the home ties of neighbouring clubs, Normanton and Castleford, this was despite Swinton's opposition to the switch.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
The first leg ties were played on Saturday 12 February.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
The second leg ties were played on Saturday 19 February.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
The tie between Leigh and Wigan ended in controversy. In January the cup committee recommended that ties ending with the scores level should play 20 minutes of extra time (10 minutes each way) with a replay only being required if the scores remained tied after this period. This recommendation as accepted by the Rugby League Council but was not, officially, made known to referees. Therefore, at the end of the second leg the referee in the Leigh v Wigan tie, Alfred Hill, ended the game after 80 minutes and did not play any extra time. The second leg was declared null and void by the Rugby League Council and a replay ordered for the following Saturday at a neutral venue, Swinton's Station Road with only the score from the first leg being taken forward into the replay.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, First round
The replay, refereed by W. Hemmings, was won 10–4 by Wigan who therefore went forward to the second round 21–16 on aggregate.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, Second round
The second round draw was made on 21 February 1949 with ties to be played on Saturday 5 March. On the day the game between Wigan and Wakefield was postponed due to snowfall and was played the following Wednesday, 9 March, instead.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, Third round
The draw for the third round was made on 7 March with ties to be played on Saturday 19 March.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, Semi-finals
The semi-final draw was made on 21 March with neutral venues being announced immediately after the completion of the draw, the ties were played on 2 April.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, Final
The Challenge Cup tournament's final was to be played by Bradford and Halifax at Wembley Stadium. Bradford won the game 12–0 in the final played in front of a world record rugby league crowd of 95,000. Trevor Foster and Eric Batten scored the tries for Bradford and Ernest Ward kicked three goals as well as winning the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.


1948–49 Challenge Cup, Final
This was Bradford's fourth Cup Final win in seven final appearances including one win and one loss during World War II.


1948–49 Chester F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was the eleventh season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.


1948–49 Chester F.C. season
It was the club's eleventh consecutive season in the Third Division North since the election to the Football League. Alongside competing in the league, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the Welsh Cup.


1948–49 Chicago Black Hawks season
The 1948–49 Chicago Black Hawks season was the team's 23rd season in the National Hockey League. The Black Hawks finished fifth and did not qualify for the playoffs.


1948–49 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season
The Black Hawks were coming off a last-place finish in the 1947–48 season, failing to qualify for post-season play for the second straight year. The Black Hawks would get off to a bad start, losing their first four games, before making a trade with the Detroit Red Wings. The Hawks sent Bud Poile and Hully Gee to Detroit in exchange for Jim Conacher, Doug McCaig, and Bep Guidolin. The trade would initially pay off, as the Black Hawks would post a 14–9–2 record in the next 25 games. However, they slumped again, winning only seven of their remaining 21 games and missing the playoffs for the third straight season, finishing in fifth place, seven points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for the final playoff spot.


1948–49 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season
Offensively, the Hawks were led by Roy Conacher, who would win the Art Ross Trophy as he led the NHL with 68 points, scoring a team high 26 goals. Doug Bentley would finish just behind Conacher, with 66 points, including an NHL high 43 assists. Jim Conacher played a solid season, earning 48 points in 55 games. Defenseman Ralph Nattrass led the Hawks' blue line with 14 points, while Bep Guidolin had a team high 116 penalty minutes.


1948–49 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season
In goal, Jim Henry, who the Hawks acquired from the New York Rangers in exchange for Emile Francis and Alex Kaleta in the off-season, received all the action, winning 21 games and posting a GAA of 3.52.


1948–49 Chicago Stags season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Stags' 3rd season in the NBA/BAA.


1948–49 Chicago Stags season, Playoffs, West Division Semifinals
(2) Minneapolis Lakers vs. (3) Chicago Stags: Lakers win series 2-0


1948–49 Chicago Stags season, Playoffs, West Division Semifinals
Last Playoff Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Lakers and Stags.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Colchester United's seventh season in their history and their seventh in the Southern League. Alongside competing in the Southern League, the club also participated in the FA Cup and Southern League Cup. The club finished as runners–up in the Southern League Cup to Yeovil Town just ten days after losing the delayed 1947–48 season final to Merthyr Tydfil. The club exited the FA Cup in the first round to Reading, although the first encounter between the clubs was abandoned due to heavy fog. The match gathered a record Layer Road and Colchester United crowd of 19,072, before being abandoned with the scores at 1–1.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview
Former Aston Villa and Portsmouth defender Jimmy Allen was tasked with taking Colchester United into the Football League when he stepped into the void left following Ted Fenton's departure for West Ham United during the simmer.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview
The ex-England international oversaw his side reach the final of the Southern League Cup for the second successive season. With the 1947–48 final held over from the previous season, Colchester first lost that final against Merthyr Tydfil 5–0, before losing the 1948–49 season final 3–0 to Yeovil Town ten days later. During these ten days, the club also played four league fixtures.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview
On the back of a successful FA Cup run across the 1947–48 season, much was expected of Colchester for their 1948–49 campaign. They drew Reading at home for their first–round fixture, but the game which drew a record Layer Road and Colchester United crowd of 19,072 was abandoned with the scores tied at 1–1 due to heavy fog. The rearranged match saw the U's crash out with a 4–2 defeat.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview
In the Southern League, Colchester once again finished in fourth position while Chelmsford City and Gillingham battled for the title, with the Kent side winning their second title in three years.


1948–49 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts
Players making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.


1948–49 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1948–49 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with a 19–6 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 7–1 record. They were the Yankee Conference regular season champions. The Huskies played their home games at Hawley Armory in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by third-year head coach Hugh Greer.


1948–49 Copa México
The Copa México 1948–49 was the 33rd staging of the Copa México, the 6th staging in the professional era.


1948–49 Copa México
The competition started on July 21, 1949, and concluded on August 14, 1949, with the final, in which Club León lifted the trophy for the first time ever with a 3–0 victory over Atlante and won the title of Campeonisimo for winning the league and the cup in the same season. This edition was played by 15 teams, in a knock-out stage, in a single match.


1948–49 Copa del Generalísimo
The 1948–49 Copa del Generalísimo was the 47th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.


1948–49 Copa del Generalísimo
The competition began on 5 September 1948 and concluded on 29 May 1949 with the final.


1948–49 Croatian Republic League
The Croatian League 1948–49 was a football (soccer) competition in Croatia organized by the Football Federation of Croatia, a sub-organization under the umbrella of the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ).


1948–49 Croatian Republic League
The competition was part of the third tier of the football pyramid in Yugoslavia with the winner being promoted to the Yugoslav Second League.


1948–49 Cupa României
The 1948–49 Cupa României was the 12th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.


1948–49 Cupa României
The title was won by CSCA București against CSU Cluj.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
In the first round proper, two pots are made, the first pot with Divizia A teams and other teams till 16 and the second pot with the rest of teams qualified in this phase. First-pot teams will play away. Each tie is played as a single leg.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
In the first round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the score is still tied after 120 minutes, the team from the lower league will qualify.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
In the rest of the rounds, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the score is still tied after 120 minutes, the team who plays away will qualify.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
In case the teams are from same city, a replay will be played.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
In case the teams play in the final, a replay will be played.


1948–49 Cupa României, Format
From the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.


1948–49 Cypriot Cup
The 1948–49 Cypriot Cup was the 12th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 8 clubs entered the competition. It began on 13 March 1949 with the quarterfinals and concluded on 19 June 1949 with the replay final which was held at GSP Stadium. Anorthosis won their 1st Cypriot Cup trophy after beating APOEL 3–0 in the final.


1948–49 Cypriot Cup, Format
In the 1948–49 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division.


1948–49 Cypriot Cup, Format
The competition consisted of three knock-out rounds. In all rounds each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay match.


1948–49 Cypriot Cup, Final
Abandoned at 87', due to fights between players and in crowd


1948–49 Cypriot First Division
Statistics of the Cypriot First Division for the 1948–49 season.


1948–49 Cypriot First Division, Overview
It was contested by 8 teams, and APOEL F.C. won the championship.


1948–49 Czechoslovak Extraliga season
The 1948–49 Czechoslovak Extraliga season was the sixth season of the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia. Eight teams participated in the league, and LTC Prag won the championship.


1948–49 Danish 1st Division, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub won the championship.


1948–49 Detroit Red Wings season
The 1948–49 Detroit Red Wings season was the Red Wings' 23rd season.


1948–49 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Playoffs
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals;      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals-against average;  SO = Shutouts;


1948–49 Divizia A
The 1948–49 Divizia A was the thirty-second season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.


1948–49 Divizia A, Champion squad
Goalkeepers: Adolf Vécsey  (24 / 0); Mircea David (5 / 0); Petru Fekete (1 / 0). Defenders: Gheorghe Pop (4 / 0); Vasile Ion (23 / 0); Ștefan Boszacky (2 / 0); Gheorghe Melan (26 / 0). Midfielders: Gheorghe Bodo (26 / 3); Ladislau Zilahi (26 / 1);  Ștefan Cuc (6 / 0); Gavril Serfözö (12 / 0). Forwards: Ioan Kovács II (26 / 16); Francisc Spielmann (26 / 9); Gheorghe Váczi (26 / 24); Mircea Tudose (23 / 3); Iosif Turcuș (26 / 3); Alexandru Pop (8 / 1); Ioan Lucaci (1 / 0);  Carol Pop (3 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)


1948–49 Divizia B
The 1948–49 Divizia B was the 10th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.


1948–49 Divizia B
The format was changed from four series of 16 teams to two series, each one of them having 14 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series has been promoted in the Divizia A and the last five teams from the each series relegated to Divizia C.


1948–49 Divizia B, Team changes, Excluded teams
Sparta Arad and CS Aninoasa were excluded from Divizia B.


1948–49 Divizia B, Team changes, Other teams
Phoenix Baia Mare and Minaur Baia Mare merged, the new formed team was named as CSM Baia Mare.


1948–49 Divizia B, Team changes, Other teams
Ferar Cluj and CFR Cluj merged, Ferar being absorbed by CFR, also CFR Cluj was promoted to Divizia A in the place of Ferar.


1948–49 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel Institute of Technology during the 1948–49 men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 3rd year head coach Ralph Chase, played their home games at Curtis Hall Gym and were members of the Southern division of the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC).


1948–49 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team
During the end of the 1948–49 season, a new playoff system was implemented for the conference where the top 4 teams in the league standings would play in a tournament at the conclusion of the season. In the first round, the 1st seed would play against the 3rd seed, and the 2nd seed would play against the 4th seed. Following the tournament, if there was a tie between two teams leading the standings, a one game tiebreaker would be played to determine the league champion.


1948–49 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University during the 1948–49 men's college basketball season. The head coach was Gerry Gerard, coaching his seventh season with the Blue Devils. The team finished with an overall record of 13–9.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was the 65th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup and the Supplementary Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Football League
By mid November, Dumbarton were challenging the leaders of the B Division, but a disastrous spell, which saw only one victory from 17 games, meant that hopes faded and Dumbarton eventually finished 15th out of 16 with 22 points - 20 behind champions Raith Rovers.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, Supplementary Cup
Dumbarton's interest in the B Division Supplementary Cup was short lived with a first round exit to Cowdenbeath.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, League Cup
Progress from their League Cup section was again to prove too much of a challenge for Dumbarton, finishing 4th and last, with just a draw being taken from their 6 games.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup
Dumbarton brought some cheer to their fans with some success in the Scottish Cup before losing out in the third round to A Division opponents Hearts.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, Stirlingshire Cup
Dumbarton won a thrilling first round tie against A Division Falkirk in the 'county' cup but due to other teams' commitments the competition was never completed.


1948–49 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team
Dumbarton played only one competitive 'reserve' fixture by entering the Scottish Second XI Cup where they lost in the first round to Partick Thistle.


1948–49 Dundee F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was the forty-seventh season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division A. In one of the club's most impressive seasons in its history, Dundee would finish in 2nd place, just 1 point off eventual champions Rangers. Striker Alex Stott would top the Division A scoring charts, and would score 40 goals in all competitions.


1948–49 Dundee F.C. season
Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. Continuing their impressive season, Dundee would reach the Semi-finals of both competitions, but would fall to Rangers in the League Cup and to Clyde in a replay in the Scottish Cup.


1948–49 Dundee United F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was the 41st year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1948 to 30 June 1949. United finished in eighth place in the Second Division.


1948–49 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results
Dundee United played a total of 39 competitive matches during the 1948–49 season.


1948–49 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Legend
All results are written with Dundee United's score first. Own goals in italics


1948–49 Egyptian Premier League
The 1948–49 Egyptian Premier League started on 22 October 1948. Al Ahly were crowned champions for the first time in total.


1948–49 English National League season
The 1948–49 English National League season was the eighth season of the English National League, the top level ice hockey league in England. Eight teams participated in the league, and the Harringay Racers won the championship.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Brighton Tigers
Gib Hutchinson, Fish Robertson, Gordie Poirier, Al Truelove, Bill Booth, Bill Rooker, Johnny Oxley, Bobby Lee, Tommy Durling, Lorne Trottier, Lefty Willmot, Casey Stangle, Lee Thorne, Jimmy Chappell, Lennie Baker, Ted Cumming, Harry Vedan.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Earl's Court Rangers
Johnny Bourada, Stan Simon, Arthur Green, Hal Meyer, Willis Mosdell, Joe Farley, Kenny Campbell, Henry Hayes, Abbie Hodkinson, Kenny Booth, Walt Sullivan, Stan DeQuoy, Harold Young, Alf Harvey, Rocky Rothwell.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Harringay Greyhounds
Tommy Donachey, Bill Allan, Gunnar Telkkinen, Ted Hallam, Duke Macdonald, Ken Kennedy, Ed Blondin, Alf Menchini, Johnny Gauthier, Wyn Cook, Ross Planch, Gaston Gauthier, Freddie Dunkleman, Terry McGibbon.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Harringay Racers
Lorne Lussier, Duke Campbell, Danny Linton, Pat Coburn, Joe Shack, Bill Glennie, Pete Payette, Ricky Ricard, Ronnie Lay, George Steele, Toby Defalco, Erwin Duncan, Edwin Duncan.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Nottingham Panthers
Dick Halverson, Jim Herriot, Kenny Westman, Roger Goodman, Bill Allen, Archie Stinchcombe, Chick Zamick, Ed Young, Wally Black, Paul Theriault, Hal Brown, Larry McKay, Maurice Laforge.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Streatham
Monty Reynolds, Harold Smith, Art Hodgins, Bob Brodrick, Paddy Ryan, Doug Wilson, George Drysdale, Bud McEachern, Johnny Costigan, Jimmy Campbell, Johnny Sergnese, George Baillie, Red Stapleford, Vic Niemi, Dave Miller, Norm Gustavsen.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Wembley Lions
Wilf McCluskey, Vic Shettler, Frank Orlando, Vic Berke, Earl Mollard, Gerry Rowse, Eric Fleet, Toddy Thurston, Don Stay, Stan Petrow, Mal Davidson, Vern Smith, Johnny Pyryhora, Stan Obodiac, Don Mann, Goldie Goldstrand, Bert Oig.


1948–49 English National League season, Rosters, Wembley Monarchs
Stubby Mason, Sonny Rost, Red Kurz, Don Thomson, Roy Thompson, Marvin Thomson, George Beach, Freddie Sutherland, Mac McLachlan, Kid Kauppi, Jean-Paul Lafortune, Les Anning, Frank Trottier.


1948–49 European Rugby League Championship
This was ninth European Championship and was won for the second time by France.


1948–49 Everton F.C. season
During the 1948–49 English football season, Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.


1948–49 Everton F.C. season
In October 1948 Theo Kelly, the Everton manager resigned reverting back to his old job of Club Secretary with Cliff Britton returning to the club as manager.


1948–49 Everton F.C. season, Final league table
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points


1948–49 FA Cup
The FA Cup 1948–49 was the 68th staging of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Wolverhampton Wanderers won the competition for the third time, beating Leicester City 3–1 in the final at Wembley.


1948–49 FA Cup
Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.


1948–49 FA Cup, First round proper
At this stage 43 clubs from the Football League Third Division North and South joined the 25 non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Rotherham United, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, as the strongest non-promoted Third Division finishers in the previous season, were given a bye to the Third Round, along with Swindon Town, who managed to reach the fifth round of the previous season's competition. To make the number of matches up, non-league Leytonstone and Colchester United were given byes to this round. 34 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 27 November 1948, with eight of these postponed until the following Saturday. Two were drawn and went to replays.


1948–49 FA Cup, Second round proper
The matches were played on Saturday, 11 December 1948. Four matches were drawn, with replays taking place the following Saturday.


1948–49 FA Cup, Third round proper
The 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage, along with Rotherham United, Swindon Town and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 8 January 1949. Four matches were drawn and went to replays on the following Saturday, with two of these going to a second replay.


1948–49 FA Cup, Fourth round proper
The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 29 January 1949. Three games were drawn and went to replays, which were all played on the following Saturday. Manchester United and Bradford Park Avenue went to a second replay on the following Monday, with Manchester United easily winning the tie to go through.


1948–49 FA Cup, Fifth round proper
The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 12 February 1949. There was one replay, taking place the following Saturday.


1948–49 FA Cup, Sixth round proper
The draw for the sixth round was made on Monday, 14 February 1949. All matches were played on Saturday, 26 February 1949.


1948–49 FA Cup, Semi-finals
The draw for the semi finals was made on Monday, 28 February 1949. Both original matches were played on Saturday, 26 March 1949.


1948–49 FA Cup qualifying rounds
The FA Cup 1948–49 is the 68th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 25 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.


1948–49 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 4th qualifying round
The teams that entered in this round are: Wimbledon, Barnet, Bishop Auckland, Bath City, Yeovil Town, South Liverpool, Gillingham, Cheltenham Town, Guildford City, Chelmsford City, Gainsborough Trinity, Shrewsbury Town, Scarborough, Workington, Dulwich Hamlet, Walthamstow Avenue, Kingstonian, Wellington Town, Runcorn, Stalybridge Celtic, Lancaster City, Scunthorpe United, Stockton and Kidderminster Harriers


1948–49 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 1948–49 FA Cup
See 1948–49 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.


1948–49 FC Basel season
The 1948–49 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 55th season in their existence. It was their third season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B during the season 1945–46. Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Quarter Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman for the third successive season.


1948–49 FC Basel season, Overview
Ernst Hufschmid who had functioned as player-coach the previous season continued in the function as manager this season. Basel played a total of 36 games in this season. Of these 26 in the Nationalliga A, four in the Swiss Cup and six were test games. The test games resulted with two victories, three draws and one defeats. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they won 17 games, drew 11 and lost eight times. In the 36 games they scored 75 goals and conceded 49.


1948–49 FC Basel season, Overview
There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1948–49 Nationalliga A, the bottom two teams in the table to be relagted. The team started the season badly, losing three of the first four away games. Things changed in Autumn and they lost only one of the following eleven matches and they climbed to the upper end of the table. At the end of the season Basel had risen to second position, but were seven points behind the new champions Lugano. Basel won 13 of the 26 games and were defeated six times, they scored 58 goals as they gained their 33 points. Hans Hügi was the team's top goal scorer with 14 goals, his brother Josef Hügi (Seppe) scored eight and Gottlieb Stäuble netted nine times.


1948–49 FC Basel season, Overview
In the Swiss Cup Basel started in round 3 with an away match against lower tier Winterthur, which was won 2–1. In round 4 Basel were drawn with an away tie against local rivals and lower tier Concordia Basel. In round five Basel were matched against Grasshopper Club with another away game. This was drawn and a replay was required, which was held at the Landhof on 22 January 1949, but ended with a defeat.


1948–49 FC Basel season, Players
The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1948–49. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 29 August 1948 but subsequently left the club after that date.


1948–49 FC Basel season, Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1948–49 FC Dinamo București season
The 1948–49 season was Dinamo București's first season in Divizia A. In this season, Dinamo competed in Liga I, Cupa României and UEFA Europa League. The newly formed team played under the name Dinamo A. Coloman Braun-Bogdan, the former manager of Romanian national team, is installed as coach. A group of players is brought, among which Angelo Niculescu, ex-player of FC Craiova and Carmen București, who was to end his career at the end of the season, and Titus Ozon.


1948–49 FC Dinamo București season
Dinamo will conclude on the 8th place with 28 points.


1948–49 FC Dinamo București season
In the same season, the club's second team, Dinamo B, finished first place in the 2nd series of the second division, but had no right to promotion in Divizia A, because it was the second representative from the same town of the same club.


1948–49 FC Dinamo București season, Squad
Standard team: Petre Ivan (Gheorghe Lăzăreanu) – Florian Ambru, Caius Novac (Cornel Simionescu) – Dumitru Ignat, Angelo Niculescu (Gheorghe Teodorescu), Ion Șiclovan – Iuliu Farkaș, Titus Ozon, Carol Bartha (Marin Apostol), Jack Moisescu, Vasile Naciu (Alexandru Petculescu).


1948–49 FC Steaua București season
The 1948–49 season was FC Steaua București's 2nd season since its founding in 1947.


1948–49 FC Steaua București season
For this season, the club's name changed to CSCA București (Clubul Sportiv Central al Armatei – Central Sports Club of the Army).


1948–49 Farouk El Awal Club season
The 1948–49 season is Farouk Sporting Club's 38th season of football, and the 1st season in the Egyptian Premier League, The club also played in the Cairo league and Egypt cup.


1948–49 Farouk El Awal Club season, Egyptian Premier League, League table
The 1948–49 Egyptian Premier League started on 22 October 1948. Al Ahly were crowned champions for the first time in total.


1948–49 Farouk El Awal Club season, League Table 1948-1949
(C)= Champions, Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; ± = Goal difference; Pts = Points Source: .


1948–49 Farouk El Awal Club season, Cairo Zone League
Cairo league champion was decided by results of Cairo teams in national league with no separate matches for Cairo league competition.


1948–49 Football League
The 1948–49 season was the 50th completed season of The Football League.


1948–49 Football League, Final league tables
Beginning with the season 1894–95, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976–77 season.


1948–49 Football League, Final league tables
From the 1922–23 season, the bottom two teams of both Third Division North and Third Division South were required to apply for re-election.


1948–49 Football League, First Division
Portsmouth, the 1939 FA Cup winners, won their second major trophy by finishing as champions of the First Division, five points ahead of their nearest challengers Manchester United and Derby County.


1948–49 Football League, First Division
The relegation battle was tighter than those of the previous two seasons. Sheffield United and Preston North End finished the season in the bottom two places, a single point behind Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough. A mere five points separated the bottom 10 teams in the final table.


1948–49 Fort Wayne Pistons season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Pistons' first season in the NBA/BAA and eighth season as a franchise. Despite their NBL success which included four championship series births and two titles the team wasn't able to translate that success to the new league and missed the playoffs for the first time in team history.


1948–49 French Division 1
Stade de Reims won Division 1 season 1948/1949 of the French Association Football League with 48 points.


1948–49 French Division 1, Final table
Promoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1949/1950


1948–49 French Division 2, Overview
It was contested by 19 teams, and Lens won the championship.


1948–49 French Division 2, League standings
1. FC Saarbrücken took part in the competition as a guest team and finished in first place with a reported record of 26 wins, 7 draws and 5 defeats from 38 games, but were refused promotion or further participation.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship
The 1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship was won by Castres that beat Mont-de-Marsan in the final.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Formulas
The tournament was played by 48 teams divided into 8 pools.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Formulas
Twenty-four teams were qualified to play in the second phase with eight pools of three teams. Sixteen teams were qualified to play the "Last 16" phase.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Context
The 1949 Five Nations Championship was won by Ireland, France ended second.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Context
The "Coupe de France" was won by Bègles that beat Toulose in the final.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Last 16
In bold the clubs qualified for the quarter of finals.


1948–49 French Rugby Union Championship, Final
The first match ended 3–3 after over time. A second match was necessary.


1948–49 Galatasaray S.K. season
The 1948–49 season was Galatasaray SK's 45th in existence and the club's 37th consecutive season in the Istanbul Football League.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1948–49 NCAA college basketball season. Elmer Ripley coached it in his tenth season as head coach, the third season of his third stint at the helm. The team was an independent and played its home games for a second and final season at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C. It finished with a record of 9-15 and had no post-season play.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap
Senior guard Tommy O'Keefe and senior forward Ray Corley were the stars of the team. O'Keefe was the team's top scorer for a second straight season, with a season high of 22 points in the game against the New York Athletic Club.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap
The 1948-49 squad started 6-3, but then lost 12 of its last 15 games to finish with a record of 9-15 – the least successful team in Ripley's ten Georgetown seasons – and had no post-season play. It was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll – conducted for the first time this season – at any time.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap
Considered a legend in basketball, Ripley departed at the end of the season, having coached the Hoyas in three separate stints (1927-1929, 1938-1943, and 1946-1949) with an overall record of 133-82, including what was then the school's only appearance in a postseason tournament when the 1942-43 team advanced to the final game of the 1943 NCAA Tournament. He was head coach of John Carroll from 1949 to 1951, Army from 1951 to 1953, the Harlem Globetrotters from 1953 to 1956, the Israeli Olympic basketball team in 1956, and the Canadian Olympic basketball team in 1960.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Roster
Senior guard Tommy O'Keefe would later serve as Georgetown's assistant coach for four seasons from 1956 to 1960 and as head coach for six seasons from 1960 to 1966.


1948–49 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, 1948–49 schedule and results
It was common practice at this time for colleges and universities to include non-collegiate opponents in their schedules, with the games recognized as part of their official record for the season, and the games played against a United States Army team from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and the New York Athletic Club therefore counted as part of Georgetown's won-loss record for 1948-49. It was not until 1952 after the completion of the 1951-52 season that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled that colleges and universities could no longer count games played against non-collegiate opponents in their annual won-loss records.


1948–49 Greek Football Cup
The 1948–49 Greek Football Cup was the 7th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, replayed at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, on 3 July 1949, because of the previous match (19 June) draw. The match was contested by AEK Athens and Panathinaikos, with AEK Athens winning by 2–1 after extra time.


1948–49 Greek Football Cup, Final
The 7th Greek Cup Final was played twice at the Leoforos Alexandras Stadium.


1948–49 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
During the 1948–49 season Hearts competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.


1948–49 Hibernian F.C. season
During the 1948–49 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came third out of 16 clubs in the Scottish First Division.


1948–49 Hong Kong First Division League
The 1948–49 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 38th since its establishment.


1948–49 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season
Huddersfield Town's 1948–49 campaign is referred to in Town folklore as the original "Great Escape" season (the second being the 1997–98 season), when Arnold Rodgers scored the goal that saw Town maintain their 1st Division status. His goal against Manchester City, with 10 minutes of the last match of the season remaining saw Town keep their status and relegate Preston North End and Sheffield United in the process.


1948–49 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1948–49 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Town's fortunes during the season didn't seem to improve on the previous season. Even the 14 goals from veteran Peter Doherty didn't seem to pull Town away from almost certain relegation. Relegation seemed to be certain for 2 out of Town, Preston North End and Sheffield United. With 10 minutes of Town's last match at home against Manchester City seemed to be heading down the trapdoor to Division 2.


1948–49 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
But, an uncharacteristic error by legendary goalkeeper Frank Swift gave Arnold Rodgers the chance to score, which he did. Town won 1–0 which relegated Preston & Sheffield United and meant Town would live to fight another day.


1948–49 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1948–49 IHL season
The 1948–49 IHL season was the fourth season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. 11 teams participated in the regular season, and the Windsor Hettche Spitfires won the Turner Cup.


1948–49 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1948–49 NCAA college basketball season. Members of the Pacific Coast Conference, the Vandals were led by second-year head coach Charles Finley and played their home games on campus at Memorial Gymnasium in Moscow, Idaho.


1948–49 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team
The Vandals were 17–15 overall and 7–9 in conference play.


1948–49 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Illinois Fighting Illini men’s basketball team represented the University of Illinois.


1948–49 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season
The 1948-49 squad, led by Dike Eddleman, Bill Erickson, and Walter Osterkorn, was Illinois’ first 20-game winner since 1908, finishing 21-4. Illinois beat Yale, 71-67, to advance to a national semifinal showdown with Kentucky at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Illini fell to the Wildcats, 76-47, forcing Illinois to defeat Oregon State, 57-53, in Seattle for third place.


1948–49 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Branch McCracken, who was in his 8th year. The team played its home games in The Fieldhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Nine Conference.


1948–49 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 14–8 and a conference record of 6–6, finishing 4th in the Big Nine Conference. Indiana was not invited to participate in any postseason tournament.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team
In the 1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball season, the Sycamores were led by coach John Longfellow, NAIB All-American Duane Klueh and future NBA players, John Hazen and Bob Royer. They lost to Regis (CO) in 2OT in the NAIA National Semi-finals. The Sycamores finished as the National 4th place team with record of 24–8. This season represented Indiana State's 3rd NAIA Final Four.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Regular season
During the 1948–49 season, Indiana State finished the regular season to finish 21–6, 7–0 in the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference; they won by an average of 16 points per game, scoring over 2,000 points. They finished the season at 24-8; the second highest win total in school history (at that time).


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Regular season
Coach John Longfellow's first team raced out of the gate, winning 9 of their first 12 games; including the mid-season Mid-Western Tournament over Oklahoma City Univ, Delta State (Miss) and Northeast Missouri. They won their 3rd consecutive Indiana Intercollegiate Conference title, qualifying for the NAIA Tournament.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Regular season
Reserved seats were $1.20 per game for adults; ($11.75 in 2013 prices). Children were admitted for 60 cents! In 2013-14, many reserved seats for Indiana State games are available for $10.00.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Post-season
In 1949, Longfellow's first basketball team won the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference title and received an invitation to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) National Tournament in Kansas City. Playing for his third season was Clarence Walker, an African-American from East Chicago, Indiana., who integrated the NAIA tournament the season prior under John Wooden. That year, Walker became the first African-American to play in any post-season intercollegiate basketball tournament, as the NIT and NCAA tournaments did not integrate until after 1950.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Post-season
In Kansas City they won their first three games, winning their third game on a long Lenny Rzeszewski field goal with 3 seconds remaining in the game. but dropped a stunning double-overtime game to Regis, the surprise team of the tourney. The next day, in a re-match, following a December game, Beloit (WI) beat an exhausted Indiana State team to claim National 3rd place honors. Lenny Rzeszewski was named to the NAIB All-American and All-Tournament teams, joining him on both teams was Bob Royer, who was made his 3rd All-Tournament team.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Roster
The Sycamores were led by All-American Lenny Rzeszewski, Duane Klueh averaged 15.6 ppg, Don McDonald had a 10.5 average and Bob Royer posted an 11.5 ppg average. The starting lineup featured four future 1,000 career point scorers; Klueh, Don McDonald, the 1950 Chuck Taylor Award-winner Lenny Rzeszewski, and Bob Royer. The roster also included future Indiana Basketball Hall of Famer, Jim Powers, who became high school coach to actor Michael Warren.


1948–49 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team, Awards and honors
Len Rzeszewski – All-American (NAIB); All-NAIB TourneyBob Royer – All-American (NAIB); All-NAIB Tourney


1948–49 Indianapolis Jets season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Jets' 1st and only season in the NBA/BAA and 8th and final season as a franchise. After the season, the NBL would merge with the BAA to form the NBA. As a result, the Jets ceased operations and were subsequently replaced by the Indianapolis Olympians.


1948–49 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1948-49 NCAA College men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Clay Sutherland, who was in his second season with the Cyclones. They played their home games at the Iowa State Armory in Ames, Iowa.


1948–49 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team
They finished the season 8–14, 3–9 in Big Seven play to finish in a tie for sixth place.


1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division
The 1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division was the first season of the Iraq Central FA League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973). The competition started on 5 November 1948, after the fixture list had been drawn up at a meeting between club representatives held at the Al-Maliki club.


1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division
The Iraq Central Football Association (IFA) intended to hold the league in a double round-robin format but this was changed to a single round-robin after several games had to be postponed due to rainy weather. The IFA also set a rule that players who had already played for one club in a league game could not play for another team without prior permission from the League Committee, however Montakhab Al-Shorta and Wizarat Al-Maarif were found to have broken this rule.


1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division
The title-deciding match between Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya and Al-Haris Al-Maliki was played on 16 April 1949 at 16:00 UTC+03:00 at Al-Kashafa Stadium. Al-Haris Al-Maliki needed to win outright in order to overtake their opponents and win the title, but the game ended 3–3 and therefore Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya were crowned inaugural league champions.


1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division, Overview
Note: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Malikiya decided not to field a team for the season, after failing to get together a team for the opening weekend of the season due to unforeseen circumstances.


1948–49 Iraq FA Basra League
The 1948–49 Iraq FA Basra League was the first season of the Iraq FA Basra League (the top division of football in Basra from 1948 to 1973), which was formed when the Basra branch of the newly-founded Iraq Football Association took over the existing league competition in Basra (the Students League Cup).


1948–49 Iraq FA Basra League
The competition started in November 1948, with the regular season being played in a round-robin format. Al-Minaa and Sharikat Naft Al-Basra qualified for the championship play-off in May 1949 by occupying the top two positions in the league table, and Al-Minaa were crowned inaugural Iraq FA Basra League champions with a 1–0 victory, preventing their opponents from completing a Basra League and Iraq FA Cup double.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup
The 1948–49 Iraq Football Association Cup was the first edition of what is now the Iraq FA Cup. The tournament was won by Sharikat Naft Al-Basra, beating Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya 2–1 in Iraq's first ever national cup final, played at Al-Kashafa Stadium in Baghdad on 7 April 1949. The winning team's players and staff paraded the trophy around Basra upon returning from Baghdad three days after winning the tournament.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Background
Within the first week of the founding of the Iraq Football Association in October 1948, it was decided to hold league championships in four different regions: Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul (although the league in Mosul did not start until two seasons later). It was also decided to hold a 16-team national knockout cup tournament called the Iraq FA Cup between the top teams from each regional league. At the beginning of November, it was decided to increase the number of teams participating in the cup by allowing some second-tier teams from Baghdad to compete.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Background
After the season's Iraq FA Baghdad League had to be shortened to a single round-robin format rather than a double round-robin due to rainy weather postponing a number of games, the Iraq FA Cup was opened up to all clubs from Baghdad wishing to compete in order to compensate for the reduced number of regional matches.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Background
25 teams (including Kuliya Al-Huqooq who were disqualified from the first round) eventually took part in the competition. It was to be the last edition of the national knockout cup for clubs or institutions for another 26 years, with such cup tournaments being played at a regional level during that time (such as the Iraq Central FA Cup), until the Iraq FA Cup returned in the 1975–76 season.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, First round
The first round was played between Baghdad-based teams, starting on 21 January and ending in February.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, First round
Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya, Al-Maliki, Al-Ahli, Ittihad Al-Karkh, Al-Haris Al-Maliki and Al-Tayour Al-Zarqaa received byes to the second round, while Montakhab Al-Shorta were awarded a walkover due to their opponents Kuliya Al-Huqooq being disqualified for not showing up for two matches in their regional league.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Second round
The second round started on 11 February and saw the entry of four Kirkuk-based teams; it ended on 24 February.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Third round
The third round was held in February 1949 with three matches played in the Baghdad region.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Final phase
The quarter-final round was the first round in which teams from different regions faced each other. It included two Basra-based teams (Sharikat Naft Al-Basra and Al-Minaa) and one Mosul-based team (Adadiya Al-Mosul).


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Quarter-finals
The quarter-final matches were played between 10 March to 21 March.


1948–49 Iraq FA Cup, Final
The final was played on 7 April at Al-Kashafa Stadium in Baghdad to crown the first ever Iraq FA Cup winners. The ball used in the final was supplied by the Baghdad Sports Depot.


1948–49 Iraq FA Kirkuk League
The 1948–49 Iraq FA Kirkuk League was the first season of the Iraq FA Kirkuk League (the top division of football in Kirkuk from 1948 to 1973) organised by the Kirkuk branch of the Iraq Football Association. It started in November 1948 and finished in March 1949.


1948–49 Iraq FA Kirkuk League
In the last round of the competition, Al-Dhahab Al-Aswad defeated Al-Firqa Al-Thaniya to effectively seal the title, since it meant Al-Athoreen needed to defeat Armenian Relief Corps by 50 odd goals to nil to tie with them on goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded). Al-Athoreen drew their game and thus Al-Dhahab Al-Aswad were crowned inaugural Iraq FA Kirkuk League champions.


1948–49 Iraq FA Kirkuk League, League table
The last two results of the season (Al-Nahl IPC v. Al-Firqa Al-Thaniya and Ittihad Kirkuk v. Al-Madaris) are not available.


1948–49 Irish Cup
The 1948–49 Irish Cup was the 69th edition of Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition.


1948–49 Irish Cup
The defending champions were Linfield, after they defeated Coleraine 3–0 in the 1947–48 final. However, they went out in the first round after a 2–0 defeat to Glentoran.


1948–49 Irish Cup
Derry City went on to win the cup for the first time, defeating the Glens 3–1 in the final.


1948–49 Irish Cup, First round
1This tie required a replay, after the first game was a 4–4 draw.


1948–49 Irish Cup, Quarter-finals
2This tie required three replays, after the first games ended as 1–1, 3–3 and 1–1 draws.


1948–49 Irish Cup, Semi-finals
3This tie required two replays, after the first games ended as 2–2 and 1–1 draws.


1948–49 Irish League
The Irish League in season 1948–49 comprised 12 teams, and Linfield won the championship.


1948–49 Israel Youth State Cup
The 1948–49 Israel Youth State Cup (Hebrew: גביע המדינה, Gvia HaMedina) was the first season of Israeli Football Association's nationwide football cup competition for youth footballers.


1948–49 Israel Youth State Cup
14 teams registered to play for the cup and the competition began of 30 October 1948. In the final, played at Hapoel Tel Aviv's Basa Stadium, Maccabi Avraham Tel Aviv defeated Maccabi Ramat Gan 3–0.


1948–49 Israel Youth State Cup, Results, Quarter-finals
As 7 clubs progressed to the quarter-finals, one club, Maccabi Ramat Gan received a bye to the semi-finals. The quarter-finals were played on 19 November 1948.


1948–49 Israel Youth State Cup, Results, Semi-finals
Due to weather conditions, the semi-final matches were delayed until 8 January 1949. Both matches were played at Basa Stadium.


1948–49 Istanbul Football League
The 1948–49 İstanbul Football League season was the 41st season of the league. Galatasaray SK won the league for the 12th time.


1948–49 Isthmian League
The 1948–49 season was the 34th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.


1948–49 Isthmian League
Dulwich Hamlet were champions, winning their fourth Isthmian League title.


1948–49 Juventus F.C. season
The 1948–49 Juventus Football Club season was the club's 46th season. In this season, they competed in Serie A.


1948–49 Juventus F.C. season, Summary
The team finished at 4th position after obtaining 44 points in 38 games. John Hansen was top goalscorer for Juventus this season, scoring 15 goals.


1948–49 Juventus F.C. season, Squad
Source:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1948–49 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1948–49 college men's basketball season.


1948–49 Kategoria e Dytë
The 1948–49 Kategoria e Dytë was to be the sixth season of the second tier of football in Albania. The league began on 3 October 1948 but it was annulled on 31 March 1949 meaning there was no winner. On 3 October 1948 the Albanian Football Association relaunched the top two tiers using a western format where the season was to run between fall and spring, but on 31 March 1949 the championships were annulled following Soviet pressure.


1948–49 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky. The head coach was Adolph Rupp. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Alumni Gymnasium.


1948–49 Klass B season
The 1948–49 Klass B season was the second season of the Klass B, the second level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. 12 teams participated in the league, and Lokomotiv Moscow won the championship. Lokomotiv, Dynamo Sverdlovsk, and SKIF Leningrad were promoted to the Soviet Championship League.


1948–49 La Liga
The 1948–49 La Liga was the 18th season since its establishment. Barcelona won their fourth title, the second consecutive.


1948–49 La Liga, Team locations
Valladolid made their debut in La Liga. The first club from Castile and León to play in the Primera Division


1948–49 Lancashire Cup
1948–49 was the thirty-sixth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. Wigan won the trophy  by beating Warrington by the score of 14-8. The match was played at Station Road, Pendlebury, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was a record-breaking 39,015, over 5,500 more than the previous record, and receipts were £5,518, another record. This was the third of Wigan’s record-breaking run of six consecutive Lancashire Cup victories.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Background
Overall, the number of teams entering this year’s competition remained the same as last year’s 14 with a further invitation to Lancashire Amateurs (a junior/amateur club). The same pre-war fixture format was retained. This season saw no bye but one “blank” or “dummy” fixture in the first round. There was also one bye but no “blank” fixture” in the second round. As last season, all the first round matches of the competition will be played on the basis of two legged, home and away, ties. However this year, the second round becomes a straightforward knock-out basis.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1
Involved  7 matches (with no bye and one “blank” fixture) and 14 clubs


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1 – Second Leg
Involved  7 matches (with no bye and one “blank” fixture) and 14 clubs. These are the reverse fixture from the first leg


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, The road to success
All the first round ties were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, The road to success
The first club named in each of the first round ties played the first leg at home.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, The road to success
the scores shown in the first round are the aggregate score over the two legs.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * Lancashire Amateurs were a junior (or amateur) club from Lancashire.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments
2 * Lancashire Amateurs were a junior (or amateur) club from Lancashire. The match was played at Kirkhall Lane, Leigh.


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments
3 * Station Road was the home ground of Swinton from 1929 to 1932 and at its peak was one of the finest rugby league grounds in the country and it boasted a capacity of 60,000. The actual record attendance was for the Challenge Cup semi-final on 7 April 1951 when 44,621 watched Wigan beat Warrington 3-2


1948–49 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments
4 * The attendance was a record-breaking 39,015, over 5,500 more than the previous record, set in 1934, and receipts were £5518-0-0, another record


1948–49 League of Ireland
The 1948–49 League of Ireland was the 28th season of senior football in the Republic of Ireland.


1948–49 League of Ireland, Changes from 1947–48
Two new teams were elected to the League: Sligo Rovers returned after an eight–year absence, while Transport made their début. This resulted in an expansion in size for the first time in six seasons, from eight to ten.


1948–49 League of Ireland, Changes from 1947–48
For the first time in the history of the League, there were more teams from outside Dublin (six) than from Dublin (four).


1948–49 League of Ireland, Season overview
Cork United resigned from the League on 10 October 1948 and disbanded following their participation in the Dublin City Cup. Cork Athletic were founded with a new board and elected in their place.


1948–49 Liverpool F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was the 57th season in Liverpool F.C. 's existence, and ended their season twelfth in the table.


1948–49 Luxembourg National Division
The 1948–49 Luxembourg National Division was the 35th season of top level association football in Luxembourg.


1948–49 Luxembourg National Division, Overview
It was performed in 12 teams, and CA Spora Luxembourg won the championship.


1948–49 MC Alger season
In the 1948–49 season, MC Alger competed in the Division Honneur for the 13th season French colonial era, as well as the Forconi Cup. They competed in Division Honneur, and the North African Cup.


1948–49 MC Alger season, Squad information, Goalscorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.


1948–49 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Maccabi Tel Aviv's 43rd season since its establishment, in 1906, and first since the establishment of the State of Israel.


1948–49 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. season
Due to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, civil footballing activities didn't start until spring 1949, with cup matches beginning on 9 April 1949 and league matches on 28 May 1949. The club played its first match of the season on 8 January 1949, in a friendly against the Air Force XI.


1948–49 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. season, Israeli League
After 16 July 1949, the IFA announced the beginning of the summer break, and league matches resume in September 1949.


1948–49 Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. season, Israeli League
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points


1948–49 Maltese Premier League
The 1948–49 Maltese First Division was the 34th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 8 teams, and Sliema Wanderers F.C. won the championship.


1948–49 Maltese Premier League
The team managed to gain the top of the leaderboard only on the penultimate day, after winning by 1-0 a decisive clash against the historical rivals of Floriana.


1948–49 Manchester United F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Manchester United's 47th season in the Football League. They finished second in the league and as FA Cup holders they reached the semi-finals.


1948–49 Mansfield Town F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Mansfield Town's 11th season in the Football League and seventh season in the Third Division North, they finished in 10th position with 42 points.


1948–49 Mexican Primera División season
Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1948–49 season.


1948–49 Mexican Primera División season, Overview
It was contested by 15 teams, and León won the championship and became the first team to win consecutive championships.


1948–49 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
The 1948–49 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate basketball during the 1948–49 season. The team compiled a 15–6 record, and 7–5 against Big Ten Conference opponents. The team finished in third place in the Big Ten. Ernie McCoy was in his first season as the team's head coach, and William Roberts was the team captain.


1948–49 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
Mack Supronowicz and Bob Harrison were the team's leading scorers with 247 and 214 points, respectively. Supronowicz's 247 points set a new Michigan single season scoring record, surpassing the previous record of 230 points set by James Mandler in the 1941–42 season. Supronowicz also became the first player in Michigan history to score 100 field goals in a season.


1948–49 Minneapolis Lakers season
The 1948–49 BAA season was the Lakers' first season in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) (which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the conclusion of this season).


1948–49 Minneapolis Lakers season
This season saw the Lakers win their first BAA championship, defeating the Washington Capitols in six games in the BAA Finals.


1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League
The 1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League was fourth season of Montenegrin Republic League. The season began in September 1948 and ended in May 1949.


1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League, Season
In the fourth edition of Montenegrin First League played eight different teams. For the first time, among participants were Iskra Danilovgrad, Tempo Bar and IKA Ivangrad, who won the qualifiers. Many irregularities occurred during the season. Most matches were not played, so at the end, all the teams didn't play an equal number of games. However, the season was officially registered and two best placed teams participated in the qualifiers for Yugoslav Second and Third League. Champions' title won Sutjeska, who participated in qualifiers for Yugoslav Second League. Second-placed Lovćen went to qualifiers for Yugoslav Third League. Arsenal and Tempo were relegated after the end of season and played in the qualifiers for Montenegrin Third League 1950.


1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League, Season, Qualifiers for Yugoslav Second League
Sutjeska played in qualifiers for Yugoslav Second League. Team from Nikšić participated in qualifying group with Željezničar (Sarajevo), 11 Oktomvri (Kumanovo) and Ljubljana. Sutjeska finished as a last-placed team, so they were promoted to Yugoslav Third League.


1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League, Season, Qualifiers for Yugoslav Third League
Lovćen played in qualifiers for Yugoslav Third League. Team from Cetinje participated in qualifying group with HNK Šibenik and Ljubljana (Banja Luka). Lovćen finished as a last-placed team, so they remained a member of Montenegrin Republic League.


1948–49 Montenegrin Republic League, Higher leagues
On season 1948-49, one Montenegrin team played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. Budućnost was a participant of 1948–49 Yugoslav First League.


1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season
The 1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season was the 40th season in club history. The Montreal Canadiens were eliminated in the semi-finals against the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3.


1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season
Bill Durnan set a long-standing modern NHL record between February 26 and March 6, 1949, when he amassed four consecutive shutouts, not allowing a goal over a span of 309 minutes, 21 seconds. This record was not surpassed until 2004, when Brian Boucher, then of the Phoenix Coyotes, broke it.


1948–49 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs
The Canadiens would meet the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs.


1948–49 NCAA men's basketball rankings
The 1948–49 NCAA men's basketball rankings was made up of a single human poll – the AP Poll – with weekly editions released between January 18, 1949 and March 8, 1949.


1948–49 NCAA men's basketball rankings, AP Poll
This was the initial season for the AP college basketball poll. It was modeled after its college football poll, which began in the mid-1930s.


1948–49 NCAA men's basketball season
The 1948–49 NCAA men's basketball season began in December 1948, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1949 NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 26, 1949, at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington. The Kentucky Wildcats won their second NCAA national championship with a 46–36 victory over the Oklahoma A&M Aggies.


1948–49 NCAA men's basketball season, Rule changes
Coaches were permitted to speak to players during time-outs. Previously, under a rule in place since the 1910–11 season, no coaching of players had been permitted during the progress of a game.


1948–49 NCAA men's basketball season, Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.


1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season
The 1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season began in November 1948 and concluded with the 1949 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 19, 1949 at the Broadmoor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This was the 2nd season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 54th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.


1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.


1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes


1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders
The following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.


1948–49 NCAA men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average


1948–49 NHL season
The 1948–49 NHL season was the 32nd season of the National Hockey League. In a rematch of the previous season, Toronto defeated Detroit in the Stanley Cup final to win the championship.


1948–49 NHL season, League business, Rule changes
A new rule, often called the "Durnan Rule", was introduced for the start of the season stating that goalies cannot be the captain or an alternate captain and wear the "C" or "A". Specifically, NHL Rule 14-D (today's rule 6.1) read: No playing Coach or playing Manager or goalkeeper shall be permitted to act as Captain or Alternate Captain.


1948–49 NHL season, League business, Rule changes
This rule was introduced because Bill Durnan, Montreal Canadiens goalie and captain, would frequently leave his crease to dispute calls with the referees. Opposing teams claimed that this would give the Canadiens unscheduled timeouts during strategic points in games. It would be another sixty years before another goalie would be captain. From 2008 until 2010, the Vancouver Canucks had Roberto Luongo as their captain, the seventh goalie to serve as a captain in the NHL. The rule remained in place, however, and Luongo could not 'act' as captain during games.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
Don Gallinger of the Boston Bruins, hopeful he could win an appeal of his suspension in the gambling scandal, finally admitted to gambling and was expelled from the NHL for life in September.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
On October 8, 1948, the New York Rangers were due to start their season against the Montreal Canadiens, when the team suffered misfortune. Buddy O'Connor, Frank Eddolls, Edgar Laprade, Bill Moe, and Tony Leswick were travelling in their car from Montreal to Saranac Lake, New York when their car was struck by a truck near Rouses Point. O'Connor suffered several broken ribs, Eddolls a severed tendon in his knee, Laprade suffered a broken nose, Moe had a cut in the head requiring several stitches and Leswick escaped with a few bruises.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
On November 10, 1948, unseasonably warm temperatures caused a fog bank to occur inside the Boston Garden during a game between the Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings. Referee Bill Chadwick abandoned the game after only 9 minutes of the first period due to poor visibility. The game was replayed the following night, with Boston winning 4–1.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
A league record of ten major penalties was set November 25, 1948, when 11,000 fans at the Montreal Forum witnessed a donnybrook. It started when the Habs' Ken Mosdell elbowed Maple Leaf Gus Mortson. Mortson retaliated by knocking Elliot de Grey down with his stick. Montreal's Maurice Richard then sprang onto Mortson's back and they fought, and then all hands joined in. Mortson, Richard, Toronto's Howie Meeker and Mosdell were banished with majors.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
Play had scarcely begun when Ken Reardon (Montreal) and Joe Klukay (Toronto) began fencing and Bill Barilko went at Reardon, while Klukay got into it with Billy Reay, and Hal Laycoe fought Garth Boesch. In the game itself, Turk Broda picked up his first shutout of the year as the Leafs won, 2–0.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
Both Detroit and Montreal lost key players to injury this year. Montreal lost Elmer Lach with a fractured jaw when he collided with Toronto defenceman Bob Goldham, and Emile "Butch" Bouchard injured a knee. Detroit lost Gordie Howe, who underwent knee surgery.


1948–49 NHL season, Regular season
Bill Durnan got hot in the second half of the season and recorded four consecutive shutouts, going 309 minutes and 21 seconds without giving up a goal. In all, Durnan had 10 shutouts and won his fifth Vezina Trophy in six years.


1948–49 NHL season, Player statistics, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes


1948–49 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders
Note: GP = Games played; Mins – Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts


1948–49 NHL season, Debuts
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1948–49 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):


1948–49 NHL season, Last games
The following is a list of players of note who played their last game in the NHL in 1948–49 (listed with their last team):


1948–49 National Football League (Ireland)
The 1948–49 National Football League was the 18th staging of the National Football League, an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.


1948–49 National Football League (Ireland)
Mayo won the NFL with a narrow defeat of Louth in the final.


1948–49 National Football League (Ireland), Format
Instead of geographic groupings, teams are placed into Divisions I, II, III and IV. The top team in each division reaches the semi-finals.


1948–49 National Hurling League
The 1948–49 National Hurling League was the 18th edition of the National Hurling League, which ran from 10 October 1948 until 8 May 1949.


1948–49 National Hurling League
Seventeen teams participated in the league, comprising two divisions of an unequal number of teams. Two points were awarded for a win and one point was awarded for a drawn game. The knock-out phase featured the top three teams from division one and the top two teams from division two.


1948–49 National Hurling League
Tipperary won the league, beating Cork by 3-5 to 3-3 in the final.


1948–49 Nationalliga A, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and FC Lugano won the championship.


1948–49 Nationalliga A season
The 1948–49 Nationalliga A season was the 11th season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and Zurcher SC won the championship.


1948–49 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Ferencvárosi TC won the championship.


1948–49 Netherlands Football League Championship
The Netherlands Football League Championship 1948–1949 was contested by 66 teams participating in six divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, two southern and two western football divisions of the Netherlands. SVV won this year's championship by beating BVV Den Bosch, AGOVV Apeldoorn, sc Heerenveen, VSV and NOAD.


1948–49 New York Knicks season
The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the Washington Capitols. New York qualified for the playoffs, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division Finals. In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one. Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA.


1948–49 New York Rangers season
The 1948–49 New York Rangers season was the 23rd season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the regular season, the Rangers compiled an 18–31–11 record, and finished with 47 points. The Rangers' last-place finish caused them to miss the NHL playoffs.


1948–49 New York Rangers season, Playoffs
The Rangers finished in last place in the NHL and failed to qualify for the 1949 Stanley Cup playoffs.


1948–49 New York Rangers season, Player statistics
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. ‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.


1948–49 Newport County A.F.C. season
The 1948–49 season was Newport County's second consecutive season in the Third Division South since relegation from the Second Division at the end of the 1946–47 season. It was the club's 20th season in the third tier and 21st season overall in the Football League.


1948–49 Northern Football League
The 1948–49 Northern Football League season was the 51st in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.


1948–49 Northern Football League, Clubs
The league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season
The 1948–49 Rugby Football League season was the 54th season of rugby league football. This was Whitehaven's inaugural season in the League.


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Warrington finished the regular season as the league leaders. However, Huddersfield won their sixth Championship when they beat Warrington 13–12 in the championship final. The game, played at Maine Road, Manchester, attracted a crowd of 75,194 and receipts of £11,073 setting new records for both attendances and receipts for a rugby league game played anywhere other than Wembley. Huddersfield's Australian fullback, Johnny Hunter scored 16 tries during the season, breaking the record for a fullback set by Jim Sullivan.


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
The Challenge Cup winners were Bradford who beat Halifax 12–0 in the final.


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
Warrington won the Lancashire League, and Huddersfield won the Yorkshire League. Wigan beat Warrington 14–8 to win the Lancashire Cup and Bradford Northern beat Castleford 18–9 to win the Yorkshire Cup.


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
The Challenge Cup tournament's final was to be played by Bradford and Halifax at Wembley Stadium. It was the first time tickets to the Challenge Cup final were sold out. Bradford won the game 12-0 in the final played in front of a world record rugby league crowd of 95,050. Trevor Foster and Eric Batten scored the tries for Bradford and Ernest Ward kicked three goals as well as winning the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.


1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
This was Bradford’s fourth Cup Final win in seven Final appearances including one win and one loss during World War II.


1948–49 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season
The 1948–49 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the tenth season of ice hockey in Norway. Eight teams participated in the league, and Furuset IF won the championship.


1948–49 Norwegian Main League
The 1948–1949 Hovedserien was the 5th completed season of top division football in Norway. Following are the results of the 1948–49 Norwegian Main League season. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it was Norway's top-tier league for association football clubs.


1948–49 Norwegian Main League, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Fredrikstad FK won the championship.


1948–49 OB I bajnoksag season
The 1948–49 OB I bajnokság season was the 12th season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Five teams participated in the league, and MTK Budapest won the championship.


1948–49 Oberliga
The 1948–49 Oberliga  was the fourth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in the three western zones of Allied-occupied Germany. The league operated in six regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest (north and south) and West. The five league champions, the runners-up from the North, South, Southwest and West and the third-placed team from the South entered the 1949 German football championship which was won by VfR Mannheim. It was VfR Mannheim's only national championship.


1948–49 Oberliga
The Oberliga Südwest, covering the French occupation zone in Germany, operated in two regional divisions, north and south, with a championship final at the end of season.


1948–49 Oberliga
In East Germany the DDR-Oberliga was established after the 1948–49 season in the Soviet occupation zone, set at the first tier of the league system. In 1949 an Eastern zone championship, the 1949 Ostzonenmeisterschaft, was held and won by ZSG Union Halle, but its winner did not advance to the German championship.


1948–49 Oberliga
In post-Second World War Germany many clubs were forced to change their names or merge. This policy was particularly strongly enforced in the Soviet and French occupation zones but much more relaxed in the British and US one. In most cases clubs eventually reverted to their original names, especially after the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.


1948–49 Oberliga
During the course of the 1948–49 league season the political landscape in Germany changed with the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, established on 23 May 1949, followed by the German Democratic Republic, commonly referred to as East Germany, on 7 October 1949. I t was the first tier of the football league system in the three western zones of Allied-occupied Germany.


1948–49 Oberliga, Oberliga Nord
The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, TuS Bremerhaven 93, Eimsbütteler TV and SC Göttingen 05. No team was relegated from the league at the end of season as the league was expanded to 16 teams in 1949–50.


1948–49 Oberliga, Oberliga Berlin
The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, Viktoria 89 Berlin, SV Lichtenberg 47 and Minerva 93 Berlin.


1948–49 Oberliga, Oberliga West
The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, Rot-Weiß Essen, Rhenania Würselen and Preußen Münster.


1948–49 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest, Northern group
The 1948–49 season saw three new clubs promoted to the league, Eintracht Trier, SpVgg Weisenau and BSC Oppau.


1948–49 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest, Southern group
The 1948–49 season saw two new clubs promoted to the league, SV Tübingen and FC 08 Villingen.