Wednesday are relegated to the 2nd Division (Tier 2).

After challenging for promotion the season before the war, the first campaign after WW1, proves to be a terrible one for Wednesday.  An unbelievable twenty-seven players make their debut and with just one win from the opening thirteen matches, Wednesday are rock bottom and stay there for the rest of the season.  Wednesday win just seven matches all season and only pick up five points from the final sixteen matches.

Wednesday are also embarasingly dumped out of the FA Cup by North Eastern League side Darlington, who beat Wednesday at Hillsborough after getting a draw at the Feethams.

The strain proves to be too much for Arthur Dickinson, who tenders his resignation halfway through the season.  He is persuaded to see the season out but leaves the club at the end of the season after forty-four years with the club, twenty-eight years as Club Secretary.  That paves the way for a huge clearout of players - some 21 being either released or made available for transfer.