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Stats summary
2013-14
Another season is over. Another season of roller-coaster emotions – too many of them to do with the club's off the field problems. No one can deny however that on the field it has been an exciting campaign when compared with the many sterile seasons, not to mention a couple of relegation battles, since the club left the Premiership in 2001. Sure, the goals tailed off after the turn of the year but there were several matches which rank with the best in the post-2001 era, namely Bristol City, Leyton Orient & Peterborough at home & Rotherham & MK Dons away. Callum Wilson's scoring feats have been quite remarkable & he has written his name large on the club's history, whatever the future holds for him. The depressing statistic of course is the lowest average home crowds in the club's history.
Games: Coventry City played 53 competitive games this season, 46 league, 5 FA Cup, 1 League Cup & 1 Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.
Points: The Sky Blues gathered 61 points (reduced to 51 by the 10 points deduction) during the season. This was four less than in 2012-13.
Home Form: The home record was won 9, drew 8, lost 6. The total of 35 points was the best at home since 2006-07 (37 points). The goals scored (41) was the highest since 1978-79 but the goals conceded (39) was the highest in the club's Football League history.
Away Form: The away form (7 wins, 26 points) whilst not up to last seasons record-breaking 11 wins & 37 points, was still the fourth best since the club were relegated from the Premier League. The team scored 33 away goals (37 last term), the second highest total since the 1960s.
Biggest win: The biggest win of the season was the 4-0 league win at Carlisle in August. They scored five goals once (Bristol City (h) 5-4) and four goals on two other occasions (Preston (h) 4-4 & Peterborough (h) 4-2). The Bristol City was the first City game to contain nine goals since a 5-4 League Cup win over Nottingham Forest in 1990.
Biggest defeat: The 1-5 defeat at home to relegated Tranmere was the biggest league defeat and the heaviest home league defeat since Newcastle won 5-1 at Highfield Road in 1998-99. City also lost by a four-goal margin (0-4) at Arsenal in the FA Cup.
Goals for: The goals for total of 74 was the highest by a City team since Gordon Milne's attacking side scored 75 in finishing 7[SUP]th[/SUP] in the old First Division in 1977-78. At one stage the Sky Blues topped the League One scoring list and looked capable of reaching 100 goals for the first time since the 1930s but eventually finished fourth highest for the second season running, behind Wolves, Leyton Orient & Rotherham. City only failed to score in eight league games – the lowest number since 1977-78.
Goals against: The goals against total of 77 equalled the total of the 1983-84 season and was the highest since 1956-57 when City conceded 84 in a 46-match season. The team kept nine clean sheets, the same as the previous season. City's 0-0 draw with Shrewsbury was the first goalless draw for almost two years. It ended a sixteen-game run without a clean sheet – the worst run since 1984 when Bobby Gould's team went 22 without a clean sheet.
Final position: The final position of 18th was the lowest finishing position since 1958-59 when the Bantams spent their one and only season in the old Division Four under Billy Frith. It means that the Sky Blues have finished in the top ten only once in the thirteen seasons since they left the Premiership in 2001. They are the only club, bar long-serving Premiership clubs and recent promotees from the Conference, not to have been promoted or reached the play-offs since the play-offs were introduced in 1987 nor to finish in the top six of a division. But for the points deduction a final position of 9[SUP]th[/SUP] would have been achieved.
Leading scorers: Callum Wilson takes all the honours for goalscoring with his total of 21 league goals, the highest by a City player since Ian Wallace scored the same number in the old First Division in 1977-78. It is especially remarkable considering he missed nine weeks of the season after injuring his shoulder on New Years Day. At one stage he looked likely to finish as the division's leading scorer but was pipped by Bristol City's Sam Baldock (24) & Peterborough's Assombalonga (23). In March he netted in five consecutive games and only a penalty miss stopped him making it six and equalling Micky Quinn's modern-day record. For the first time since 1963-64 the Sky Blues had four players reach double figures in all competitions. In addition to Wilson (22), Leon Clarke (18), Franck Moussa (13) & Carl Baker (10) also reached double figures. Wilson's goal ratio (0.57 goals per game) was lower than Clarke’s (0.68), who in turn was inferior to David McGoldrick's ration in 2012-13 (0.72). Mathieu Manset achieved a feat achieved by very few – he scored a goal but never made a first-team start. Others to have managed this include Zavon Hines, Wayne Andrews & Mick Harford.
Doubles: City achieved the double over three sides, Stevenage, Bristol City & Walsall. On the other hand three sides did the double over City (Swindon, Brentford & Tranmere). City were the only League One side who were unbeaten against the champions Wolves.
Appearances: Joe Murphy started every league and cup game and has now missed only one game in three seasons and racked up 156 appearances for the club. John Fleck was involved in 43 league games and was missing only through injury & suspension. Five players failed to start a league game but made substitute appearances (Manset, McGeouch, Garner, Loza & Slager).
Players used: Thirty-three players were used in league and cup games -five less than in 2012-13. Of the 33, 19 players made their debuts during the season, eleven of them loan players. In addition to the 33 players used, nine more, Lee Burge, Ben Maund, James Maddison, Lewis Rankin, Alex Gott, Stewart Urquhart, Jack Finch, Ivor Lawton and Leon Lobjoit sat on the bench as substitutes but were not used.
Home-grown players: For the opening game of the season at Crawley the Sky Blues took the field with five Coventry-born players, the first time this has ever happened. It was not uncommon for the team to contain six home grown players but that is some way off the record. In 1982, under Dave Sexton the Sky Blues fielded ten home-grown players. Aaron Phillips made his bow in the opening game of the season and became only the fifth Coventry City player to follow his father into the first team, his father being 1987 Wembley hero David. George Thomas became the sixth youngest Coventry City player when he started the league game at Orient aged 16 years & 310 days.
Records: Carl Baker took his total appearances to 182 & is now 53[SUP]rd[/SUP] on the club's all-time appearance chart, level with Greg Downs, David Smith & Dele Adebola. Murphy is now on 156 appearances & creeps into the top ten City goalkeepers of all-time by appearances – but a long way short of his mentor Oggy who made 601 appearances. Two homegrown youngsters reached the 100 appearance milestone this season with Jordan Clarke finishing the season on 129 & Cyrus Christie 119.
Substitutes: Three players made the most substitute appearances (10 league & cup) – Aaron Phillips, Adam Barton, Billy Daniels whilst Franck Moussa was the most substituted player. Franck was ‘pulled’ on 20 occasions in 36 league starts. Five substitutes came off the bench and scored: Manset (Preston h), Phillips (Wolves a), Maguire (2) (MK Dons a), Delfouneso (Walsall h), Baker (Gillingham a). Chris Maguire became the first City sub to score twice since Patrick Suffo in an FA Cup game with Torquay in 2004 & in a league game since Bobby Gould's brace at Nottm. Forest in 1967. He was also the first City player to score two on his debut since Robbie Keane in 1999.
Average attendance: Home 2,364 (2012-13 10,938), down 78%. Away 8,651 (2012-13 6,895), up 25%. It will be no surprise to discover that the home average attendance was the lowest in the club's Football League history & you have to go back to the Birmingham League days of 1905-06 to find a lower average. Only three clubs in the League had a lower average In the league City’s tremendous away following increased by 40% to 1603 – the second highest in the division and beaten by only six Championship clubs. It was however well short of the record set in 1963-64 when an average 3,500 watched City's away games in Division 3. The best following of the season was 6,800 at Milton Keynes, the biggest league away following since the 1960s, 5,186 followed the team at Arsenal for the Cup game.
Stats summary
2013-14
Another season is over. Another season of roller-coaster emotions – too many of them to do with the club's off the field problems. No one can deny however that on the field it has been an exciting campaign when compared with the many sterile seasons, not to mention a couple of relegation battles, since the club left the Premiership in 2001. Sure, the goals tailed off after the turn of the year but there were several matches which rank with the best in the post-2001 era, namely Bristol City, Leyton Orient & Peterborough at home & Rotherham & MK Dons away. Callum Wilson's scoring feats have been quite remarkable & he has written his name large on the club's history, whatever the future holds for him. The depressing statistic of course is the lowest average home crowds in the club's history.
Games: Coventry City played 53 competitive games this season, 46 league, 5 FA Cup, 1 League Cup & 1 Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.
Points: The Sky Blues gathered 61 points (reduced to 51 by the 10 points deduction) during the season. This was four less than in 2012-13.
Home Form: The home record was won 9, drew 8, lost 6. The total of 35 points was the best at home since 2006-07 (37 points). The goals scored (41) was the highest since 1978-79 but the goals conceded (39) was the highest in the club's Football League history.
Away Form: The away form (7 wins, 26 points) whilst not up to last seasons record-breaking 11 wins & 37 points, was still the fourth best since the club were relegated from the Premier League. The team scored 33 away goals (37 last term), the second highest total since the 1960s.
Biggest win: The biggest win of the season was the 4-0 league win at Carlisle in August. They scored five goals once (Bristol City (h) 5-4) and four goals on two other occasions (Preston (h) 4-4 & Peterborough (h) 4-2). The Bristol City was the first City game to contain nine goals since a 5-4 League Cup win over Nottingham Forest in 1990.
Biggest defeat: The 1-5 defeat at home to relegated Tranmere was the biggest league defeat and the heaviest home league defeat since Newcastle won 5-1 at Highfield Road in 1998-99. City also lost by a four-goal margin (0-4) at Arsenal in the FA Cup.
Goals for: The goals for total of 74 was the highest by a City team since Gordon Milne's attacking side scored 75 in finishing 7[SUP]th[/SUP] in the old First Division in 1977-78. At one stage the Sky Blues topped the League One scoring list and looked capable of reaching 100 goals for the first time since the 1930s but eventually finished fourth highest for the second season running, behind Wolves, Leyton Orient & Rotherham. City only failed to score in eight league games – the lowest number since 1977-78.
Goals against: The goals against total of 77 equalled the total of the 1983-84 season and was the highest since 1956-57 when City conceded 84 in a 46-match season. The team kept nine clean sheets, the same as the previous season. City's 0-0 draw with Shrewsbury was the first goalless draw for almost two years. It ended a sixteen-game run without a clean sheet – the worst run since 1984 when Bobby Gould's team went 22 without a clean sheet.
Final position: The final position of 18th was the lowest finishing position since 1958-59 when the Bantams spent their one and only season in the old Division Four under Billy Frith. It means that the Sky Blues have finished in the top ten only once in the thirteen seasons since they left the Premiership in 2001. They are the only club, bar long-serving Premiership clubs and recent promotees from the Conference, not to have been promoted or reached the play-offs since the play-offs were introduced in 1987 nor to finish in the top six of a division. But for the points deduction a final position of 9[SUP]th[/SUP] would have been achieved.
Leading scorers: Callum Wilson takes all the honours for goalscoring with his total of 21 league goals, the highest by a City player since Ian Wallace scored the same number in the old First Division in 1977-78. It is especially remarkable considering he missed nine weeks of the season after injuring his shoulder on New Years Day. At one stage he looked likely to finish as the division's leading scorer but was pipped by Bristol City's Sam Baldock (24) & Peterborough's Assombalonga (23). In March he netted in five consecutive games and only a penalty miss stopped him making it six and equalling Micky Quinn's modern-day record. For the first time since 1963-64 the Sky Blues had four players reach double figures in all competitions. In addition to Wilson (22), Leon Clarke (18), Franck Moussa (13) & Carl Baker (10) also reached double figures. Wilson's goal ratio (0.57 goals per game) was lower than Clarke’s (0.68), who in turn was inferior to David McGoldrick's ration in 2012-13 (0.72). Mathieu Manset achieved a feat achieved by very few – he scored a goal but never made a first-team start. Others to have managed this include Zavon Hines, Wayne Andrews & Mick Harford.
Doubles: City achieved the double over three sides, Stevenage, Bristol City & Walsall. On the other hand three sides did the double over City (Swindon, Brentford & Tranmere). City were the only League One side who were unbeaten against the champions Wolves.
Appearances: Joe Murphy started every league and cup game and has now missed only one game in three seasons and racked up 156 appearances for the club. John Fleck was involved in 43 league games and was missing only through injury & suspension. Five players failed to start a league game but made substitute appearances (Manset, McGeouch, Garner, Loza & Slager).
Players used: Thirty-three players were used in league and cup games -five less than in 2012-13. Of the 33, 19 players made their debuts during the season, eleven of them loan players. In addition to the 33 players used, nine more, Lee Burge, Ben Maund, James Maddison, Lewis Rankin, Alex Gott, Stewart Urquhart, Jack Finch, Ivor Lawton and Leon Lobjoit sat on the bench as substitutes but were not used.
Home-grown players: For the opening game of the season at Crawley the Sky Blues took the field with five Coventry-born players, the first time this has ever happened. It was not uncommon for the team to contain six home grown players but that is some way off the record. In 1982, under Dave Sexton the Sky Blues fielded ten home-grown players. Aaron Phillips made his bow in the opening game of the season and became only the fifth Coventry City player to follow his father into the first team, his father being 1987 Wembley hero David. George Thomas became the sixth youngest Coventry City player when he started the league game at Orient aged 16 years & 310 days.
Records: Carl Baker took his total appearances to 182 & is now 53[SUP]rd[/SUP] on the club's all-time appearance chart, level with Greg Downs, David Smith & Dele Adebola. Murphy is now on 156 appearances & creeps into the top ten City goalkeepers of all-time by appearances – but a long way short of his mentor Oggy who made 601 appearances. Two homegrown youngsters reached the 100 appearance milestone this season with Jordan Clarke finishing the season on 129 & Cyrus Christie 119.
Substitutes: Three players made the most substitute appearances (10 league & cup) – Aaron Phillips, Adam Barton, Billy Daniels whilst Franck Moussa was the most substituted player. Franck was ‘pulled’ on 20 occasions in 36 league starts. Five substitutes came off the bench and scored: Manset (Preston h), Phillips (Wolves a), Maguire (2) (MK Dons a), Delfouneso (Walsall h), Baker (Gillingham a). Chris Maguire became the first City sub to score twice since Patrick Suffo in an FA Cup game with Torquay in 2004 & in a league game since Bobby Gould's brace at Nottm. Forest in 1967. He was also the first City player to score two on his debut since Robbie Keane in 1999.
Average attendance: Home 2,364 (2012-13 10,938), down 78%. Away 8,651 (2012-13 6,895), up 25%. It will be no surprise to discover that the home average attendance was the lowest in the club's Football League history & you have to go back to the Birmingham League days of 1905-06 to find a lower average. Only three clubs in the League had a lower average In the league City’s tremendous away following increased by 40% to 1603 – the second highest in the division and beaten by only six Championship clubs. It was however well short of the record set in 1963-64 when an average 3,500 watched City's away games in Division 3. The best following of the season was 6,800 at Milton Keynes, the biggest league away following since the 1960s, 5,186 followed the team at Arsenal for the Cup game.
