Football Writers ' Association Top goalscorer Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour . In a First Division season with heavy fixture congestion brought about by a severe winter , Everton emerged as league champions - their first piece of postwar silverware . Tottenham Hotspur continued their brilliant start to the 1960s , finishing runners-up in the First Division and going on to lift the European Cup Winners ' Cup to become English football 's first winners of a European trophy . Burnley , the 1960 league champions , finished third . Leicester City , still yet to win a major trophy , emerge as surprise double challengers but eventually had to settle for a fourth-place finish in the league , and lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup final - with Matt Busby 's rebuilding scheme paying off with the success being United 's first trophy since the Munich air disaster five years earlier . Liverpool 's return to the First Division saw them secure a decent eighth-place finish and their players adapt well to what for many of them was their first season playing in the First Division
Munich air disaster
Munich air disaster
1962–63 in English football