1962–63 in English football

The 1962–63 season was the 83rd season of competitive football in England.

Overview

• Everton won the League Championship, their first post-war title.
• Manchester United won the FA Cup, their first major trophy since the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.
• Birmingham City won the League Cup.
• Tottenham Hotspur won the European Cup Winners' Cup, thereby becoming the first English side to win a European cup competition.
• Oxford United is elected to the Football League to replace the defunct Accrington Stanley, who had resigned from the League the previous season.
• This was the last season that none of the present "big four" finished in the top four.
• Much of the season was postponed for several months because of the Big Freeze of 1963.

Diary of the season

3 October 1962: The England national football team competes in the European Football Championships for the first time, beginning the qualifiers for the 1964 European Nations' Cup with a 1-1 draw against France in the qualifying round first leg at Hillsborough. Ron Flowers of Wolverhampton Wanderers scores England's only goal.

25 October 1962: Alf Ramsey, the Ipswich Town manager, accepts the Football Association's offer to succeed Walter Winterbottom as England manager with effect from 1 May 1963, after agreeing taking charge of two earlier matches from 27 February 1963.

27 February 1963: England are knocked out of the European Nations'...
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