League Details

	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Points
Home	21	18	0	3	84	30	36
Away	21	8	4	9	32	34	20
Total	42	26	4	12	116	64	56

Top Scorers

- William Ralph Dean 44 goals
- Tommy 'Tosh' Johnson 22 goals
- Tommy White 18 goals

Highest Scores

- 9-3 v Sheffield Wednesday at home
- 9-2 v Leicester City at home 
- 8-1 v Newcastle United at home
- 7-2 v Chelsea at home
- 6-1 v West Ham United at home

From left to right 

Back row : H. Cooke (Traioner), Clark, Williams, Sagar, Gee, Cresswell, Britton. 
Front row : Critchley, White, Dean, Johnson, Stein, Thomson.

      

The only significant change to the Everton playing staff for the 1931-32 season was the replacement of Bill Coggins in goal by the teenager, Ted Sagar. After playing eight games during the relegation season, Sagar had returned to the reserves to continue learning his trade but now was the time for him to step up and make the first team position his own. He grasped the chance and went on to make a record number of league appearances of 463, spanning a career with the Blues of 23 years. His record stood for over 35 years until another goalkeeper, Neville Southall, broke it and went to represent the club 578 times in the league.

Dean was made captain for the campaign ahead and the season started well with three straight victories, Dean turned goal provider and helped Jimmy Dunn to hit a hatrick in the first game and then assisted Tommy White to achieve the same fete in the next. Dean himself had to wait until the sixth game of the season, the first Merseyside derby at Anfield, to get of the mark; needless to say he did it in style with all three goals in a 3-1 victory.

By the end of November Everton were sitting on top of the first division, 17 games had been played, 13 won and 1 drawn. What was staggering about this early season form was the number of goals the team scored; Dean and co had amassed an amazing 60 goals with four results standing out above the rest; 9-3 against Sheffield Wednesday, 8-1 against Newcastle United, 7-2 against Chelsea and 9-2 against Leicester City. The teams in the first division were beginning to sit up and take notice in Everton as it became obvious their form was not a fleeting success and they were quickly becoming the most feared team in the division, especially at home.

Between the beginning of December and mid February the goals began to dry up and only four victories were achieved, giving the rest of the league hope of overtaking the team who had only just been promoted. The early season form soon returned and after West Ham United were well beaten 6-1 at Goodison Park on 16 th April this marked the eighth victory in a ten game unbeaten run. The following week the team travelled to Middlesbrough knowing that a victory would all but seal the championship, however they went down to a slender 1-0 defeat and with their lead now down to just five points it meant that closest rivals, Arsenal, could still catch them. Next up were Bolton Wanderers at Goodison Park and Everton knew that any sort of victory would clinch their fourth league title. Surprisingly only 28,546 turned up to witness the game and they had to wait until 33rd minute before Dean scored the goal that gave Everton the victory needed to secure the championship.

Everton had taken the first division by storm, and no little surprise, having only gained promotion the previous season nobody had expected the team from Goodison Park to pose a genuine threat to the countries top sides. For the second season in succession the side had scored more than 100 league goals, 116 this time, in winning a league title. Dixie Dean, as usual, led the way with an impressive total of 44 goals to top the counties scoring table; “Tosh” Johnson added a further 22 and Tommy White and Jimmy Dunn Scored 18 and 10 respectively.

For the second summer running no new players were added to Everton’s impressive squad but one player was to step up from the reserves to become, in Dean’s view, one of the finest half-backs the game had seen. Cliff Britton had joined the club in 1930 but had failed to make an immediate impact on the first team, only making 10 appearances in the previous two seasons. He was to play for Everton until 1938, leaving the club in 1945 after the Second Would War Two and, in 1948, returned to take over as manager, a position he held until 1956. New players, however, did arrive before the end of 1932, Albert Geldard, who held the record of the youngest player to play in the Football League aged 15 years 158 days, was signed from Bradford Park Avenue in the November and Billy Cook joined the club from Celtic for a £3,000 the following month.

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