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.  They sign striker Colin McKay and also Scotland's leading scorer Fletcher Welsh in a desperate bid to avoid the drop but despite picking up five points from the Christmas matches a fifteen match winless run sees them relegated, thirteen points behind Notts County, who are also relegated.  Wednesday win just seven matches all season and only pick up five points from the final sixteen matches.  Their twenty-six defeats are a record for the 1st Division, the previous record being twenty-three.

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 twenty first team players being either released or made available for transfer:

Len Armitage, Harry Bentley, Oscar Bretnall, Tommy Brittleton, Jack Burkinshaw, Jimmy Campbell, Alf Cooper, Anthony Cooper, Joe Edmondson, Jimmy Gill, Sam Kirkman, John Lamb, Colin McKay, Bob McSkimming, David Parkes, Stan Pearson, George Robertson, Jimmy Spoors, William Stapleton, Johnny Whalley.