York City: Records, facts and figures

York City - Facts and Figures: Club Records

League Season - Results / Sequences
Games - Result Runs
Games - Scoring / Conceding Runs
Match Results
Goals - Scored
Goals - Conceded In A Season
Keeper Clean Sheets
Cup (including play off) Performances
Season Staff
Attendances
Players: Appearances
Players: Scorers
Managers
Awards (Player / Manager / Team / General)
Transfer Fees
Opposition
Miscellaneous

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LEAGUE SEASON – RESULTS / SEQUENCES

  1. Season Results (Most)
    1. Most Wins
    2. Most Home Wins
      • 20 wins: 1964/5
    3. Most Away Wins
      • 13 wins: 1983/4 and 2006/7 - City's class of 2006/7 set a club record of 13 away wins and 5 draws, eclipsing Denis Smith’s team which recorded 13 away wins and just 4 draws in 1983/4.
      • 11: 1954/5
      • 9: 1958/9 and 1993/4
      • 8: 1946/7, 1964/5 and 1973/4
    4. Most Draws
    5. Most Defeats
    6. Most Home Goalless Draws
      • 7 home goalless draws: 1972/3 & 2013/4
    7. Most Wins By An Away Team At Bootham Cresent In A Season
      • On July 25th 2020, Altrincham won 2-0 at Bootham Crescent in the NLN Play Off semi final, making them the first away side to win 3 games at Bootham Crescent in a single season following their earlier FA Cup and FA Trophy wins. Their league visit became the first covid casualty.
    8. Most Small Defeats
      • City suffered 9 defeats during the 2011/2 league season, all by one goal, a unique feat in City’s history.
  2. Season Results (Least)
    1. Least Wins
    2. Least Draws
      • 6 draws: 1930/1, 1932/3, 1934/5 and 1964/5
    3. Least Defeats
    4. Least Home Wins
      • 4 wins: 1987/8
      • 5: 1965/6 and 2014/5
    5. Least Away Wins
  3. Season Points
    1. Most Points
      • Since the introduction of three points for a win in 1981, York City’s tally of 83 in 2011/2 has only once been bettered in the club’s history and that was in the Fourth Division championship campaign of 1983/4 when City notched 101 (W31, D8 (70 points under 2 points a win)).
        • Under two points for a victory, City's best season was 62 points in 1964/5 (W28, D6 (90 points under 3 points a win)).
    2. Least Points
      • 33 points: 1987/8 (W8, D9 (25 points under 2 points a win))
      • 34: 2015/6 (W7, D13 (27 points under 2 points a win))
        • Under two points for a victory, City's worst season was 27 points in 1965/6 (W9, D9).
  4. Season Start
    1. Most Consecutive Wins From Season Start
      • 4 wins: 2003/4 (Strange to think we lost our Football League status that season)
      • 3: 1983/4 and 1958/9
    2. Most Consecutive Games Without League Defeat From Season Start
      • 16 games: 2019/20 (Steve Watson)
      • 8: 1984/5 (Denis Smith) and 2008/9 (Colin Walker)
      • 7: 1960/1 (Tom Lockie)
        • In 2019, our first league defeat was on November 16th, the only time we have entered November unbeaten.
        • Our previous best had been in 1984 when our first league defeat was on October 6th, the first and only other time we had entered October unbeaten.
        • The 2020/1 coronavirus season can be discounted. City’s first game was on October 3rd and our first league defeat came on November 28th (our 5th league game (Leamington (A) after we’d twice endured 2 weeks lockdowns and an FA Cup defeat at Chorley).
    3. Most Consecutive Winning Clean Sheets Season Start
      • 3 clean sheets: 1983/4 and 1992/3
    4. Most Consecutive League Game Defeats From Season Start
      • In 1987/8, City lost their first 5 league games. On no other occasion have City lost more than their first 4 league games.
    5. Most Consecutive Winless League Games From Season Start
      • 15 games: 1987/8
      • 13: 1967/8
      • 11: 1972/3
      • 8: 2023/4
      • 7: 1963/4 and 1995/6
  5. Best Home Season
    • In 1964/5, City won 20 and drew one of their home games.
    • In 1983/4, City won 18, drew 4 and lost 1.
  6. Best Away Season
    • City’s best season on the road was under Gary Mills as our 2011/2 Wembley play-off winners collected 44 points courtesy of 12 wins and eight draws. The Billy McEwan 2006/7 play-off semi-finalists accrued the same number of away points with one extra win and three fewer draws, but had an inferior goal difference of four.
  7. More Away League Wins Than Home Wins
    • The feat has been achieved 7 times:
      • For the second successive season (2007/8) City won more away games (9) than at home (8). 2006/7 had seen 13 away wins and only 10 at home. Previous to that, City had only done this twice before – 1946/7 (6H, 8A) and 1998/9 (6H, 7A).
      • For the third time in the last six seasons (2011/2), City have a better away record than home (12 away wins, 11 home wins).
      • 2014/5 saw the 6th occurrence (5H, 6A).
      • The feat was achieved for a 6th time during the 2019/20 season (9 home and 10 away wins).
  8. League Season (Doubles)
    • Most Doubles (For City)
      • City's 11 double victims, during the halcyon 1983/4 season in which they amassed 101 points, were Stockport, Rochdale, Peterborough, Colchester, Northampton, Crewe, Hartlepool, Aldershot, Halifax, Bury and Mansfield.
      • City completed nine league doubles in 2011/2.
      • City's next best tally of seven came in 1964/5 when a 3rd finish clinched promotion from the old Division Four.
      • City have also recorded six doubles in a season four times.
        • The 1954/5 Happy Wanderers, who created club history by reaching the 1955 FA Cup semi finals, proved they were no pushovers in the league becoming the first City side to enjoy six doubles.
        • Tom Johnston's 1970/1 Division Four promotion winners matched that achievement.
        • So did the less heralded 1978/9 side under Charlie Wright.
        • The Minstermen's old Division Two play-off semi finalists, managed by Alan Little, became the fourth team to beat six opponents in a season in 1993/4.
    • Doubles (Against City)
      • As at the end of the 2022/3 season:
        • Doncaster (8) have completed the most league doubles over City.
        • Only 2 teams from the same city / town had both completed a league double over City in the same season, they are Bradford (PA and City (1950/1)) and Bristol (City & Rovers 1987/8)). If you extend it to include Greater Manchester, you can add 1990/1 (Rochdale and Stockport), 1996/7 (Bury and Stockport) and 2018/9 (Altrincham and Chorley). Extend it to include Greater London and you can add 2014/5 (Dagenham & Redbridge and AFC Wimbledon).
        • In 1987/8 season, City had the double done over them by a record 10 teams.
        • City have had 11 seasons where they haven’t conceded a double to any team (1926/7, 1958/9, 1964/5, 1969/70, 1970/1, 1973/4, 1983/4, 2010/1, 2013/4 and the covid hit seasons (2019/20 and 2020/1)
    • Least Doubles (For City)
      • On 4 occasions (1986/7, 1987/8, 1991/2 and 2004/5) City have not completed a league double during the season.
    • Historic Doubles
      • At the end of the 2023/4 season, City have had 246 league doubles, with the most (11) against Rochdale.
  9. Big Defeats In 2011/2, for the first time ever, City did not lose any league game by a margin of more than one goal.
  10. Promotion and Relegation

    Season

    Promoted From

    Relegated To

    1958/9

    Division 4 (T4)

    1959/60

    Division 3 (T3)

    1964/5

    Division 4 (T4)

    1965/6

    Division 3 (T3)

    1970/1

    Division 4 (T4)

    1973/4

    Division 3 (T3)

    1975/6

    Division 2 (T2)

    1976/7

    Division 3 (T3)

    1983/4

    Division 4 (T4)

    1987/8

    Division 3 (T3)

    1992/3

    Division 3 (T4)

    1998/9

    Division 2 (T3)

    2003/4

    Division 3 (T4)

    2011/2

    Conference (T5)

    2015/6

    Division 2 (T4)

    2016/7

    National League (T5)

    2021/2

    National League North (T6)

  11. 11 1.11 Re-Election In our early years, City failed in applications for admission to The Football League in 1922 and 1927 before being elected in 1929. In 1964 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 78 / 81, after finishing in the bottom 4, City applied for re-election (and were voted back in) to the Football League. In 1950, City finished bottom of the 22 team Division 3 (North) and along with all four clubs who finished at the bottom of the 2 regionalised divisions were re-elected without a vote as the league expanded from 88 clubs to its current 92 team format. Read more.
  12. Play Offs

    Season

    League

    Format

    Outcome

    QF

    SF

    Final

    1992/3

    D4 (L4)

    Positions 4 - 7

    Winners

    -

    Bury

    Crewe

    1993/4

    D2 (L3)

    Positions 3 - 6

    Beaten semi finalists

    -

    Stockport

    -

    2006/7

    Conference (L5)

    Positions 2 - 5

    Beaten finalists

    -

    Morecambe

    -

    2009/10

    Conference (L5)

    Positions 2 - 5

    Beaten semi finalists

    -

    Luton

    Oxford

    2011/2

    Conference (L5)

    Positions 2 - 5

    Winners

    -

    Mansfield

    Luton

    2019/20

    National League North (T6)

    Positions 2 -3 and 4 - 7

    Beaten semi finalists

    -

    Altrincham (H)

    -

    2021/2

    National League North (T6)

    Positions 2 -3 and 4 - 7

    Winners

    Chorley (H)

    Brackley (A)

    Boston (H)

GAMES - RESULT RUNS

  1. Most Consecutive (All) Games
    1. Wins
      • On December 24, 1955, City beat Halifax by 5-0 to record a club record 8 consecutive wins in all competitions (6 league and 2 FA Cup).
      • City thought they’d equalled that record on December 5th, 2009 (6 league and 2 FA Cup), although the 3-2 league win over Chester was later expunged. The expunged game leaves 7 consecutive wins, apart from 1955 (above, the only time this has been achieved).
    2. Draws On 3 occasions have City recorded 6 consecutive draws, the club record.
      • The first ending with a 0-0 draw at Colchester on January 22, 1993.
      • In 1997/98, Alan Little presided over six matches on the bounce that ended on level terms after 90 minutes but that run included a 10-9 Auto Windscreens Shield penalties defeat to Blackpool.
      • The 3rd sequenced ended with the 0-0 draw at Fleetwood on December 29, 2013.
    3. Losses City’s 1-2 defeat at Bristol Rovers (December 12, 2015) set an unwanted club record of 9 consecutive defeats (7 League, one FA Cup and one Johnstone Paint Trophy)
    4. Undefeated On November 2, 2019, City set a club record of 21 undefeated games (in all competitions) with a 2-1 win against Kidderminster Harriers.
    5. Winless Between January 17, 2004 and August 14, 2004, City went a club record is 21 games (all league, 20 in Division 2 and one in the Conference) games without a win.
  2. Most Consecutive (League Only) Games
    1. Wins On January 23rd, 2010, City won 1-0 at Cambridge to record their ninth (9th) consecutive league win, breaking our club record, although the 3-2 win over Chester (was later expunged) leaving a club record of 8 consecutive league wins.
      • Former Rangers and Minstermen defender Tom Lockie guided City’s Fourth Division promotion winning side to a then club record seven (7) consecutive league triumphs in 1964. Southport (1-0), Wrexham (2-1), Darlington (2-1), Crewe (3-2), Rochdale (2-1), Millwall (3-1) and Chesterfield (7-1) were all disposed of between October 31 and Boxing Day as Lockie masterminded the unparalleled run. Remarkably, the sequence could have been even longer as the swinging sixties' team won 10 matches out of a possible 11 with only a 1-1 draw at Chesterfield on December 28 preventing a perfect dozen. Seven players lined up in all seven straight victories. They were Paul Aimson, Gerry Baker, Tommy Heron, Barry Jackson, Andy Provan, Billy Rudd and Alan Woods. Other City players who contributed to the run were Dennis Walker (six matches), Derek Weddle (six), Norman Wilkinson (five), Tony Moor (four), Joe Ashworth (three) and Tommy Forgan (three).
      • On March 11, 2006, Billy McEwan’s City side recorded their 6th successive victory, a 1-0 win over Gravesend and Northfleet. They drew their next game, 1-1 away to Canvey Island, thus failing to equal the club record. They became the first City team since Denis Smith's runaway 1983/4 Fourth Division champions to complete a nap-hand of successive victories.
      • On March 25, 2014, City recorded a 6th successive league win a 1-0 win over Torquay before drawing 0-0 with Burton on March 29.
      • The only other run of 5 or more consecutive wins was also recorded by Tom Lockie, when he guided his 1955/6 charges to six (6) straight Division Three North successes when he had taken control of playing affairs on a caretaker basis. That sequence ran from November 5 to Christmas Eve in 1955, just nine months after Lockie had helped to lead the Happy Wanderers to the FA Cup semi-finals. Surprisingly, he was then overlooked for the manager’s job. Sam Bartram was appointed in March 1956. Lockie eventually succeeded him in 1960.
    2. Draws John Ward’s 1992/3 side set a club record of 6 (six) consecutive draws, they saw honours finish even in consecutive fixtures against Cardiff (3-3), Halifax (1-1), Hereford (1-1), Darlington (0-0), Carlisle (2-2) and Colchester (0-0) between Boxing Day and January 22 (1993) before eventually going on to clinch promotion at Wembley under Alan Little with a play-off final victory over Crewe. City equalled the record twice with 0-0 draws on December 29, 2013 (Fleetwood (a)) and August 30, 2014 (Wycombe (h)).
    3. Losses
      • On December 31st 1966, Tom Lockie’s City slumped to their 8th consecutive league defeat for the first and only time in our history. It was at home to Stockport. During the run, City beat Morecambe at the 3rd attempt in an FA Cup game.
      • Lockie’s City also lost 8 consecutive games (including an FA Cup tie at the start of the sequence in 1963/4).
      • Wilf McGuinness’ side repeated the feat on 24th February 1976 (7 league and one FA Cup game). They had also suffered 7 successive defeats earlier in the season on 8th November 1975.
      • Booby Saxton’s relegated old third division side, featuring the likes of popular trio Andy McMillan, Gordon Staniforth and Tony Canham, suffered seven successive defeats on 20th February 1988.
      • In 2015, the Russ Wilcox / Jackie McNamara team suffered 9 consecutive defeats, 7 in the league plus one in both The FA Cup and Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. Wilcox oversaw a home defeat to AFC Wimbledon on October 24 before being sacked, Richard Cresswell was in temporary charge for one game before Jackie McNamara suffered defeats in his first 7 (5 in the league) games. The run ended on 19th December 2015 with a 2-1 win over Morecambe. It also ended a run of 12 games without a win and 15 league games without a win.
    4. Undefeated
      • 23 games: (01/02/2014 – 06/09/2014)
      • 21 games: (10/09/73 - 12/01/74)
        • NB League games only (FA Cup and League Cup defeats were incurred during the 1973/4 run and the 2014 run, spread across 2 seasons included play off, League Cup and Johnstone Paint Trophy defeats).
    5. Winless (All) Between January 17, 2004 and August 14, 2004, City went a club record is 21 league (20 in Division 2 and one in the Conference) games without a win.
    6. Winless (Home) On February 19, 1982, City drew 1-1 at home to Torquay, setting a club record of 12 consecutive home league games without a win. Note, the game was also the 14th consecutive winless home game in all competitions, also setting a new club record.
    7. Winless (Away) On November 7, 1987, City drew 1-1 at Bury, setting a club record of 35 consecutive away league games without a win. The record was equalled with a 1-0 defeat at Tranmere on December 3, 2016
  3. Most Consecutive (Home) Games – All Competitions
    1. Wins On April 24, 1965, City recorded a club record 15th consecutive home win (14 League and one FA Cup) beating Halifax by 4-0 as promotion from Division 4 was celebrated. Note, this game is also a club record of 14 consecutive home league game wins. City lost their opening home league game of the following season in Division 3 by 2-0 against Swindon (23rd August 1965).
    2. Draws On February 24, 1951, City recorded a club record 5th consecutive home draw (v Rochdale, 2-2).
    3. Losses City’s record for consecutive home game defeats is 5, that has occurred twice, the 5th defeats in those sequences were against Orient (February 24, 1976 (0-2)) and Chesterfield (April 3, 1999 (1-2)).
    4. Undefeated
      • The club record was set by Tom Johnston's team which was unbeaten in 32 Bootham Crescent home league fixtures from February 1970 to April 1971, starting with a 1-0 victory over Workington and ending with a 1-0 reverse against Oldham.
        • 32: Feb 70-Apr 71
        • 25: Oct 82-Nov 83
        • 19: Dec 83-Oct 84
        • 17: Nov 58-Sep 59
        • 16: Nov 93-May 94
      • Note, this run is also the longest unbeaten home run for all games, a total of 36 including 3 FA Cup and one League Cup.
      • There are four instances of 14 games without defeat at home - most notably in 1964/65 when all 14 were won (Nov 64-Apr 65).
      • City’s club record of 32 matches which spanned the 1969/70 and 1970/1 old Fourth Division seasons. In fact, Tom Johnston’s men only lost once in front of their supporters during the latter campaign – a 1-0 reverse to Oldham in Bootham Crescent’s penultimate fixture of the season.
      • Denis Smith and Viv Busby’s majestic, record-breaking side also remarkably lost just one home game in the league during 44 matches in a two-year period from October 1982 to October 1984.
    5. Winless (All) Between 18th September 1981 and 19th February 1982 City went a club record 14 consecutive home games (12 league, one FA Cup and one League Cup) without a win. Note, the game also set a new club record of 12 consecutive winless home league games. On December 26, 2014, City beat Accrington 1-0 to end a run of 13 (10 league and 3 cup) consecutive home games without a win.
  4. Most Consecutive (Away) Games – All Competitions
    1. Win City set a club record of 7 consecutive away wins during the 2007/8 season. Billy McEwan was in charge for the first 2 but was sacked after successive home defeats. Colin Walker assumed the managerial reins and extended the run to 7 with a 4-3 win at Droylsden on January 1st 2008, City coming from behind in injury time. The run included 2 cup wins (Setanta Shield at Stafford on December 22 and Altrincham (FA Trophy, a week earlier). The run ended with a 2-2 league draw at Altrincham on January 19.
    2. Draw City set a club record on November 3, 1973 with a 6th consecutive away draw, 0-0 at Brighton as the home side welcomed Brain Clough as their new manager.
    3. Losses
      • City set a club record of 11 consecutive away losses in a run that straddled the 1925/6 and 1926/7 seasons. City went down at Wombwell Town (0-4, 27/Feb/1926), Grantham (1-3), Mansfield Town (1-5), Frickley Colliery (1-2), Denaby United (1-5), Lincoln City reserves (1-6), Ilkeston United (1-2), Sutton Town (1-6), Alfreton Town (1-3), Ilkeston United (2-3) and Shirebrook (1-4, 18/Sep/1926).
      • City equalled that feat with a 1-3 defeat at Grimsby on February 5, 1966.
      • In his first season in charge (1968/9), Tom Johnston's side equalled that feat, losing their last 11 away games of the season. The defeats were Aldershot (0-2, 25/Jan/1969), Doncaster (1-2), Swansea (1-2), Peterborough (1-2), Bradford Park Avenue (0-1), Rochdale (1-2), Exeter (0-5), Wrexham (1-2), Scunthorpe (1-2), Darlington (2-3) and Workington (0-2, 30/Apr/1969).
    4. Undefeated Steve Watson’s City 3-2 won at Alfreton (02/Feb/19), the start of another record run for unbeaten away games. With 7 games at the end of the 2018/9 season, the Chester win (26/Oct/19) was the 10th of the 2019/20 season, making 17 (15 League and 2 FA Cup) in total. City lost at Curzon Ashton on 16/Nov/19. The undefeated run had immediately followed a run of 8 consecutive away losses.
    5. Winless On March 1st 1998, City lost 2-1 at Blackpool setting a club record of 38 away league games without a win, a run which started with a 2-0 defeat at Gillingham on September 16, 1996.
  5. Most Consecutive (Home) Games – League Only
    • Wins On April 24, 1965, City recorded a club record 14th consecutive home league win beating Halifax by 4-0 as promotion from Division 4 was celebrated. Note, this game is also a club record of 15 consecutive home game wins in all competitions (14 League and one FA Cup). City lost their opening home league game of the following season in Division 3 by 2-0 against Swindon (23rd August 1965).
  6. Most Consecutive (Away) Games
    1. Wins From Start Of Season
      • 4 games: 2019/20
      • 3: 1955/6 and 2006/7
        • 2 City sides clinched victory in their opening trio of league fixtures on the road under the guidance of Tom Lockie and Billy McEwan respectively. In 1984/5, Denis Smith’s newly promoted old third division outfit racked up a hat trick of consecutive triumphs on their travels at the beginning of the campaign, although a 3-2 Milk Cup defeat of Doncaster courtesy of John Byrne (2) and Gary Ford goals was sandwiched league successes at Swansea (2-1) and Orient (3-1). This equalled the 1955/6 start under caretakers Tom Lockie and Billy Sherrington.
        • Steve Watson’s 2019/20 side beat the record.
    2. Undefeated (All Games)
      • 17 games: 2018/9 and 2019/20
      • 14: 2011/2
      • 13: 2007/8 (9 league and 4 FA Trophy)
      • 12: 1954/5 (9 league and 3 FA Cup)
        • City's 2-2 draw at Halifax (12/Feb/2008) was actually a lucky 13. It was York's 13th away game without defeat in all competitions - beating the previous best of 12 set by the famous Happy Wanderers team of 1954-55. Under the management of Billy McEwan and Colin Walker, City last tasted defeat on their travels on September 18, when they went down 2-0 at current Blue Square Premier leaders Aldershot. The run yielded ten wins and three draws in all competitions and Walker accepts that it has covered what has been a magical beginning to his tenure as York City boss. City lost their next match, by 1-3 at Histon on February 16.
        • The previous record was set in the 1954/5 season. City they lost at Oldham on September 18, 1954 and did not lose away again until Darlington on March 5, 1955. That loss brought to an end a sequence of eight wins and four draws.
        • In all competitive matches, after FA Cup defeat at Wrexham in October 2011, City had an unbeaten run of 14 away matches that included FA Trophy wins at Solihull, Salisbury and Grimsby, and the semi-final draw at Luton (7 wins, 7 draws).
    3. Undefeated (League)
      • SSteve Watson’s City 3-2 won at Alfreton (02/Feb/19), the start of another record run for unbeaten away games. With 7 games at the end of the 2018/9 season, the Chester win (26/Oct/19) was the 8th of the 2019/20 season, making a total of 15 (the run also included 2 away FA Cup wins) in total. City lost at Curzon Ashton on 16/Nov/19. The undefeated run had immediately followed a run of 8 consecutive away losses.
      • Under Gary Mills in the 2011/2 season, City had a run of 13 consecutive away league matches without defeat between October and March (6 wins, 7 draws). The run was bookended with 2-1 wins at Stockport (01/Oct/2011) and Luton (30/Mar/2012).
    4. Winless In 1986 and 1987, City went 35 away games (in all competitions) without a win. The run ended with a 2-1 win at Burton in an FA Cup Round 1 replay on November 18, 1987. Having won 3-0 at Newport on September 5, 2015, the 3-0 defeat at Bromley on November 26, 2016 was City’s 34th successive away game without a win. City equalled that record at Tranmere on December 3, 2016 before winning their next away game at North Ferriby United by 1-0 on December 26, 2016.
    5. Winless (Away) Between September 13, 1986 (Port Vale (W 3-2)) and March 5, 1988 (Aldershot (W 2-1)), City went a club record is 38 away league games (6 draws, 32 defeats) without a win. There was another bad period between 1965 and 1968, with only 2 away wins in 56 league games.
    6. Without A Clean Sheet (League) On December 3, 2016, City’s 1-0 defeat at Tranmere was City’s 32nd away league game without a clean sheet. Between November 13, 1948 (Accrington, L 1-2) and January 21, 1950 (Oldham L 0-2), City went 27 away league games without a clean sheet.

GAMES - SCORING / CONCEDING RUNS

  1. Most Consecutive League Games Scoring Goals
    • One Goal: On 15/May/1963, City won 2-1 at Bradford City, creating a club record of scoring in 24 consecutive league games. On 02/Oct/1984, City drew 1-1 with Bristol Rovers (h) to equal the record.
    • 2 Goals: On 26/Dec/1983, City won 2-1 at Halifax, creating a club record of scoring 2 or more goals in 9 consecutive league games. On 12/Feb/2008, City drew 2-2 at Halifax to equal the record.
    • 3 Goals: On 13/Nov/1954, City beat Chester (h) 5-0, creating a club record of scoring 3 or more goals in 5 consecutive league games, the only time this has been achieved.
      • On 3 occasions (1926, 1929 and 1986 (spanning 2 seasons)) City have scored 3 or more goals in 4 consecutive home league games.
  2. Scoring (3 Or More)
    • Most Consecutive Games (All Competitions) Scoring 3 Or More Goals - Home Games
      • 7 Games: City set a club record by scoring 3 or more goals in 7 consecutive home games (including one FA Cup game) ending with the 5-2 win over Darlington on January 1, 1983.
    • Most Consecutive Games (All Competitions) Scoring 3 Or More Goals – All Games
      • 6 Games: City set a club record by scoring 3 or more goals in 6 consecutive games (5 League and one FA Cup) ending with the 3-2 FA Cup Round 1 win over Scarborough on November 24, 1954. Note, this run is also the League games only record
      • 5 Games: On only one other occasion have City scored 3 or more goals in 5 consecutive games. That run ended with a 4-2 win at Sunderland (26/Aug/1986, LC1/1).
    • Most Consecutive Away Games (All Competitions) Scoring 3 Or More Goals
      • 5 Games: City set a club record by scoring 3 or more goals in 5 consecutive away games (all League) ending with the 3-2 win at Gloucester on August 31, 2019.
  3. Most Games Without Scoring In A Season
  4. Longest Run Without A Goal Tom Johnston's 1972/3 side currently own that unenviable statistic, having fired blanks in seven matches between August 28 and September 26 of that season. Left winger Richie Taylor's goal at Notts County was followed by empty scoresheets against Rotherham (0-1), Charlton (0-1), Bournemouth (0-0), Tranmere (0-1), Watford (0-0), Oldham (0-0) and Shrewsbury (0-1) before Dennis Wann ended the drought in a 3-1 defeat at Wrexham. That season, which saw City finish 18th in the old Third Division, saw Eddie Rowles top the club's scoring charts with just 9 goals.
  5. Debutant Scorers Clovis Kamdjo (06/Aug/2016) become the 100th player to score on his City debut. Dipo Akinyemi became the 109th and most recent to do so on 05/Aug/2023.
  6. Most Consecutive Scoring Games From Debut (All Competitions)
    • 4: Jack Woods (1922) and Billy Allen (1946)
    • 3: Albert Thompson (1936) and James Dudgeon (2005)
      • Note, these records include all games, Keith Walwyn (4) and Paul Barnes (3) had their league scoring records interrupted by goalless League Cup games.
  7. Most Consecutive League Games Without Conceding On December 8, 1973, City recorded an eleventh (11th) league clean sheet, equalling a Football League record. The run was bookended, at both ends, by conceding to Jack Howarth in games against Aldershot. During the run City conceded 11 cup goals (including losing4-1 at Manchester City and 5-3 at Mansfield).
  8. Conceding (One Or More)
    • 29 All Games: Between April and December 1949, City went a club record 29 (all) matches without keeping a clean sheet. The unfortunate Matthew Middleton played in goal for all those fixtures. That history making seven month spell spanned two seasons, in which Middleton claimed just six clean sheets during his 56-match Bootham Crescent career. The second campaign, 1949/50, saw Tom Mitchell’s City side finish bottom of Third Division North, effectively propping up the whole Football League, a position the club would go on to occupy outright in 1965/66, 1980/81 and, most damagingly, 2003/4 which resulted in relegation to the Conference. The run also set a club record of 28 league games without a clean sheet.
    • 23 All Games: In 1965/66, the Minstermen, under Tom Lockie, endured their longest run of matches without a shut-out in a single season, as opponents in the old Third Division (now League One) found the net in 23 consecutive (all) games (20 League, 1 FAC, 2 FLC) from September to January. That period coincided with the imminent retirement of 1955 FA Cup semi-final Happy Wanderers’ legend Tommy Forgan who, with 120, still holds the club record for career clean sheets. Harry Fallon failed to manage any shut-outs in his first 20 outings after displacing Forgan, shipping seven goals at QPR and six against Swindon in the process. Eventually, Forgan was recalled at the age of 36 to end the record-breaking run with a 1-0 win at home to Watford but he left the club eight appearances later, going on to play for Gainsborough Trinity and later Mitre in the York & District Football League.
    • 23 League Games: York City ended their longest run without a league clean sheet since 1967 to climb out of the relegation zone. A goal in each half from impressive loanee Middlesbrough striker Bradley Fewster earned the Minstermen a 2-0 home triumph over Exeter (16/02/16). It ended a 23 match sequence without a shut out. the worst since Harry Fallon and Mike Walker were donning the Minstermen gloves and club legends Barry Jackson and Phil Burrows were in the back four.
  9. Conceding (2 Or More) City have twice conceded 2 or more goals in 9 consecutive games ending on:
    • 05/Apr/1926, City lost 5-1 at Denaby United (all league games)
    • 24/Dec/1932, City lost 3-0 at Darlington (including one FAC game)
  10. Conceding (3 Or More)
    • Most Consecutive Games (All Competitions) Conceding 3 Or More Goals
      • 6 games (A): City set an unwanted club record by conceding 3 or more goals in 6 consecutive away games on 2 occasions ending at:
        • South Shields (L1-3 (FAC), November 12, 1965, the run also included one League Cup game)
        • Blackpool (L1-3, March 10, 1982, the run included one FA Cup game).
      • 5 games (H or A): City have conceded 3 or more goals in a club record 5 games on 2 occasions, those runs ending with the games at:
        • Walsall (December 7, 1935, including one FA Cup game)
        • Crewe (February 22, 1958, 5 league games).
      • 4 games (H): City set an unwanted club record by conceding 3 or more goals in 4 consecutive home games (all League) ending with the 2-4 defeat to Lincoln on September 11, 1946.
    • Most Consecutive Away Games (League Only) Conceding 3 Or More Goals
      • 7 games (A): On 7 occasions have City conceded 3 or more goals in 5 consecutive away League games, those being in 1934 (twice), 1935 (twice), 1956, 1969 and 1982.
  11. Consecutive Scoring FA Cup Games
    • 19 Games: City had scored in 19 consecutive FA Cup matches prior to the 0-1 defeat to Altrincham (10/Nov/2019), dating back to the 2-0 loss at Premier League Bolton in January 2011. The run started with a goal by Paddy McLaughlin at Wrexham later that year.
    • 14 Games: The previous record of 14 had stood since 1926, when City had scored in all their FA Cup matches since first entering the competition in 1923 until drawing 0-0 with Whitby Town. A win in the replay started another run of scoring in 13 consecutive matches, but since the 1920s, 10 had been the best sequence until this decade.

MATCH RESULTS

  1. Biggest Win
    • 02/Feb/1957: CITY 9 Southport 1
      • City’s next best winning margin of 7 goals in a game has been achieved on several occasions
      • City have scored 8 goals in a game only once, when the beat Worksop Town (H) on 23/02/1929
      • On 4 occasions, City have scored 7 goals in cup games, most recently on 07/Nov/1989 in a 7-1 win over Hartlepool (Leyland Daf Cup). The other 3 occasions were all FA Cup ties the Midland League era and each resulted in 7-1 wins.
  2. Biggest Defeat (All Time)
    • 01/Feb/1936: Chester 12 CITY 0
      • City have conceded 7, 8 or 9 goals in a game on several occasions
  3. Biggest Defeat (Cup)
      City’s biggest ever cup defeat was 0-7 at Liverpool (A, 20/02/1985, FAC5R)
  4. Biggest Defeat (Non League)
      In non league football, in the modern era, City have 3 times lost 1-6, those being Gateshead (A, 16/08/2016), Guiseley (A, 04/10/2016) and Altrincham (A, 12/03/2024). However before City were elected to The Football League in 1929, City conceded 6 or more goals in 10 Midland League game defeats, including Grimsby Town Reserves (A, L 0-9, 22/12/1923) and Worksop Town (A, L 1-7, 12/04/1924). In the other 8 games, City conceded 6 goals.
  5. Biggest Away Wins
    • 08/Mar/1928: Nottingham Forest Reserves 1 CITY 7
    • 16/Mar/1929: Rotherham United Reserves 1 CITY 7
    • 16/Nov/1968: South Shields 0 CITY 6 (FAC)
    • 21/Aug/1954: Wrexham 2 CITY 6
    • 14/Jan/2012: Salisbury 2 CITY 6 (FAT)
    • City have 5-0 away wins on 5 occasions:
      • 28/Dec/1993: Blackpool 0 CITY 5
      • 18/Apr/1995: Blackpool 0 CITY 5
      • 23/Aug/2011: Kettering 0 CITY 5
      • 12/Aug/2017: Bradford PA 0 CITY 5
      • 01/Oct/2023: Barnet 0 CITY 5
  6. Biggest Home Defeat
    • 14/Jan/1939: CITY 0 Rochdale 7
  7. Most Goals In A City Game The most goals scored in a City game is 12. That was achieved twice during the 1935/6 season. On 16/Nov/1935, City beat Mansfield by 7-5 and on 01/Feb/1936 Chester beat City 12-0.
  8. Highest Scoring Draw City have 5 times been involved in 4-4 draws. The most recent was against Southend (A) on 19/Dec/1997. 2 of the others were against Tranmere.
  9. Consecutive Winning Seasons On Away Grounds
    • In each of the 5 seasons (1946-51), City won their away league fixture at Barrow
    • City have won in 4 consecutive seasons at Rochdale and Southport.
    • In addition, City have won in 3 consecutive seasons at Alfreton, Barrow, Blackpool, Forest Green Rovers, Halifax, Hartlepool, Rochdale (twice), Weymouth and Woking.
  10. Most Consecutive Scoring Games From Start Of Season City scored in a club record 16 league games from the start of the 1992/3 season.

GOALS - SCORED

  1. Most Goals – City Career
  2. Most Goals – Player (Season)
    • 56: Jimmy Cowie (56 (49 league + 7 cup) in 1928/9 - City’s last season in the Midland League)
    • 39: Arthur Bottom (39 (31 + 8) in the 1954/5 D3N / FAC SF season)
    • 34: Richard Brodie 34 (26 + 8 (including play offs) in 2009/10 in Blue Square Conference). Does not include hat trick against Chester that was expunged.
  3. Least Goals - Top Scorer (All Games)
    • 8: 1975/6 (Mickey Cave (5 league + 3 cup) / Jimmy Seal (8 + 0) and 1990/1 (Tony Canham (6 + 2))
    • 9: 1972/3 (Eddie Rowles (7 + 2) and 2003/4 (Lee Nogan (8 + 1))
  4. Least Goals - Top Scorer (League Games Only)
    • 7: 1972/3 (Brian Pollard and Eddie Rowles) and 1990/1 (Ian Helliwell)
  5. Most Goals – Team (Season)
    • 110: 1954/5 (92 (league) + 18 (cup))
    • 103: 2011/2 (81 + 22)
    • 100: 1982/3 (88 + 12) and 1983/4 (96 + 4)
  6. Most Goals Scored In A League Season – Team
  7. Least Goals Scored In A League Season – Team (Home Games)
    • 16: 2014/5
    • 20: 1999/2000
    • 21: 1990/1
  8. Least Goals Scored In A League Season - Team
    • 35: 2003/4
    • 39: 1975/6 (42 games), 1999/2000 (46 games) and 2004/5 (46 games)
    • 42: 1991/2 and 1972/3
    • 45: 1990/1
    • 47: 1996/7
  9. Most Away Goals In A League Season - Team
  10. Seasons Without Scoring 3+ In A Game - Team Only once - 2003/4
  11. Scoring In Every Home League Game - Team In the 1983/4 season, City scored in every (23) home game for the first and only time in their history.
  12. Goalless Months City boss Billy McEwan will be glad to see the back of a Black November 2005 for his team. Three defeats and one draw during the last four weeks have seen City slip off the play off pace and exit the FA Cup. In a month that always starts with fireworks, City have lost their spark and Billy McEwan will be hoping his team can now rediscover the attractive brand of attacking football that lifted them up to second place in the table at the end of October. The fact that City have gone a full calendar month without scoring for only the second time in the club's history will be the biggest concern for the focussed Scotsman, having seen his side find the net 13 times in both September and October. Ten years ago, in December 1995, Alan Little's Minstermen, conquerors of Manchester United just weeks earlier, suffered the same fate although their barren month contained only three matches. A team boasting Paul Barnes, who would go on to net 21 goals that season, failed to find the net in consecutive matches against Walsall (0-2), Hull City (0-1) and Bradford City (0-3).
  13. Comebacks City have come from 2 down on a number of occasions to win a game. These include 1st November 1983 (Wrexham (h) 3-2), 25th October 1997 (Carlisle (h) 4-3) and 1st January 2008 (Droylsden (a) 4-3).
  14. Fastest (And Slowest Hat Trick By A City Player) Tommy Ross, a late 60s City striker, scored a hat trick in 1964 for Ross (yes, Tommy played for Ross) County in Scotland in 90 seconds, but is was only verified by The Guinness Book Of Records as the fastest ever almost 40 years after the event when documentary evidence of the timings came to light.
  15. Scoring In Consecutive Games
    • 7 games: Paul Aimson (1970/1), Arthur Bottom (1954/5), Billy Fenton (1952/3), Jimmy Cowie (1928/9).
    • 6 games: Clayton Donaldson (2005/6), Peter Duffield (2002/3), Keith Walwyn (1985/8), Ted MacDougall (1968/9), Arthur Bottom (1956/7, 1955/6), Reg Baines (1932/3, 1931/2), James O’Cain (1925/6).
    • 5 games: Jason Walker (2011/2), Martyn Woolford (2007/8), Andy Bishop (2005/6 x 2), Neil Tolson (1996/7), Kevin Randall (1979/80), Bob Mortimer (1938/9), John Hammerton (1927/8), Richard Merritt (1927/8), James Miller (1924/5) and Richard Brodie (2016/7).
  16. Quickest City Goals
    • City’s fastest ever goal was scored by John Byrne after nine seconds at Swansea in a 3-1 win on September 1, 1984.
    • The late Paul Aimson netted after 9.5 seconds in October 1971 during a 3-1 win against Torquay. It was the quickest ever City goal at Bootham Crescent.
    • Albert Johanneson took only 13 seconds to hit the target against Southend during a 3-0 home victory in November 1970.
    • Michael Coulson’s lighting fast opening goal against (Oxford September 1, 2012) was timed at 16 seconds and was been confirmed as City’s third quickest ever at Bootham Crescent.
    • NB All timings are subjective, based on eye witnesses and match reports. Whilst it is genuinely believed that either Paul Aimson or John Byrne scored the quickest ever City score, without precise timings, its will always be a matter of debate, until at least we score an even faster one. Having eye witnessed the Paul Aimson, goal, not sure who can beat that, even the Jim Fryatt 4 second goal which is generally held to be the fastest ever senior goal may not have beaten it. From kick off, attacking the Grosvenor Terrace end, we played the play straight back and passed out wide, the right winger (Tommy Henderson?) dribbled forward and centred for Paul Aimson to volley home from around the D.
  17. Four (4) Or More Goals In A Game
    • Four (4) Goals In A Game
      • R Holland (Alfreton Town (H), October 1925)
      • Charlie Flood (Ilkeston Town (H), September 1926)
      • Jimmy Cowie (Boston Town (H), February 1929)
      • Jimmy Cowie (Rotherham United Reserves (A), March 1929)
      • Alf Patrick (Halifax (H), August 1947)
      • Billy Fenton (Carlisle (A), November 1954)
      • Peter Wragg (Crewe (A), January 1961)
      • Paul Barnes (February 1993 (H) v Scunthorpe)
      • Former York City hot shot Peter Wragg died of a heart condition, in Torbay, at the age of 73 in 2004. He was one of five Minstermen players to score four goals in a league match. He netted four times in a 5-1 defeat of Crewe in January, 1961 and is part of an elite club that also includes Billy Fenton, Alf Patrick, Arthur Bottom and Paul Barnes. No one has scored more than 4 goals in a game for City since City first entered The Football League in 1929.
    • Five (5) Goals In A Game
      • Jimmy Cowie (Hull City Reserves (H), November 1928) - a City first team match
      • Len Duckham (Alfreton Town (H), September 1926)
      • Lester Marshall (Castleford Town (H), October 1924)
      • Alf Patrick (Rotherham (H), November 1948)
    • Six (6) Goals In A Game
      • Jimmy Cowie (Worksop Town (H), February 1929)
  18. Hat Tricks
    • Hat Trick (+) Scorers' List The following is believed to be a complete list of players who have scored a hat trick (or more than 3 goals) for City.

      Date

      Comp

      Opponents

      HA

      Res

      F-A

      Scorer

      29/11/1922

      ML

      Rotherham Town

      H

      W

      5-1

      Elliott 3

      23/02/1924

      ML

      Rotherham County Res

      A

      W

      5-0

      Rippon 3

      22/03/1924

      ML

      Rotherham County Res

      H

      L

      3-4

      Acklam 3

      20/09/1924

      FACPQ

      Horsforth

      H

      W

      7-1

      Marshall 5

      18/10/1924

      ML

      Castleford Town

      H

      W

      5-2

      Marshall 5

      27/12/1924

      ML

      Denaby United

      A

      W

      4-2

      Miller 3

      26/09/1925

      ML

      Alfreton Town

      H

      W

      6-0

      Holland 4

      03/10/1925

      FAC1Q

      Wombwell

      H

      W

      5-0

      Holland 3

      05/12/1925

      ML

      Shirebrook

      A

      W

      5-3

      Riley 3

      20/02/1926

      ML

      Wombwell

      H

      W

      4-1

      R Baines 3

      11/09/1926

      ML

      Alfreton Town

      H

      W

      7-0

      Duckham 5

      25/09/1926

      ML

      Ilkeston United

      H

      W

      6-0

      Flood4

      02/10/1926

      FAC1Q

      Guisborough Belmont

      H

      W

      5-0

      Clayton 3

      23/10/1926

      ML

      Wath Athletic

      H

      W

      7-1

      Flood 3

      04/12/1926

      ML

      Heanor Town

      H

      D

      4-4

      Flood 3

      08/01/1927

      ML

      Frickley Colliery

      A

      W

      3-1

      Thompson 3

      05/02/1927

      ML

      Wombwell

      H

      W

      7-1

      Clayton 3

      24/09/1927

      ML

      Heanor Town

      H

      W

      7-1

      Hammerton 4

      29/02/1928

      ML

      Mexborough Athletic

      H

      W

      4-2

      Fenoughty 3

      08/03/1928

      ML

      Nottingham Forest Res

      A

      W

      7-1

      Noble 3

      29/09/1928

      FAC1Q

      Stockton

      H

      W

      7-1

      Cowie 6,

      31/10/1928

      ML

      Staveley Town

      H

      W

      4-2

      Roberts 3

      03/11/1928

      ML

      Hull City Res

      H

      W

      6-1

      Cowie 5

      23/02/1929

      ML

      Worksop Town

      H

      W

      8-2

      Cowie 6

      02/03/1929

      ML

      Boston Town

      H

      W

      4-0

      Cowie 4

      16/03/1929

      ML

      Rotherham United Res

      A

      W

      7-2

      Cowie 4

      30/03/1929

      ML

      Lincoln City Res

      H

      W

      4-3

      Merritt 3

      28/12/1929

      FL

      Wigan Borough

      H

      W

      4-0

      Bottrill 3

      01/02/1930

      FL

      Crewe Alexandra

      H

      W

      4-2

      Millar 3

      04/02/1931

      FL

      Hartlepools United

      H

      W

      4-2

      Cowie 3

      27/02/1932

      FL

      New Brighton

      H

      W

      4-0

      R Baines 3

      28/03/1932

      FL

      Rochdale

      A

      W

      5-3

      R Baines 3

      23/04/1932

      FL

      Halifax Town

      H

      W

      7-2

      R Baines 3

      17/09/1932

      FL

      Mansfield Town

      H

      W

      4-3

      R Baines 3

      05/04/1933

      FL

      Barrow

      H

      W

      3-1

      R Baines 3

      03/02/1934

      FL

      Barrow

      H

      W

      6-1

      Hathway 3

      24/03/1934

      FL

      Rochdale

      H

      W

      6-1

      Dando 3

      10/11/1934

      FL

      Rotherham United

      H

      W

      5-0

      Dando 3

      30/03/1935

      FL

      Walsall

      H

      W

      4-1

      Hughes 3

      27/04/1935

      FL

      Carlisle United

      H

      W

      7-0

      Dando 3

      28/11/1936

      FAC1

      Hull City

      H

      W

      5-2

      Agar 3

      13/03/1937

      FL

      Darlington

      H

      W

      3-0

      Thompson 3

      01/05/1937

      FL

      Carlisle United

      H

      W

      5-2

      Thompson 3

      11/09/1937

      FL

      Chester

      A

      L

      3-4

      R Baines 3

      22/01/1938

      FAC4

      West Bromwich Albion

      H

      W

      3-2

      R Baines 3

      30/08/1947

      FL

      Halifax Town

      H

      W

      6-0

      A Patrick 4 (1)

      27/12/1947

      FL

      Chester

      A

      W

      3-2

      A Patrick 3 (1)

      20/11/1948

      FL

      Rotherham United

      H

      W

      6-1

      A Patrick 5

      15/01/1949

      FL

      Stockport County

      H

      W

      4-0

      A Patrick 3

      04/02/1950

      FL

      Wrexham

      H

      W

      5-0

      Spence 3

      27/10/1951

      FL

      Accrington Stanley

      H

      W

      6-1

      Fenton 3

      26/01/1952

      FL

      Oldham Athletic

      H

      W

      5-0

      A Patrick 3

      16/02/1952

      FL

      Halifax Town

      H

      W

      6-2

      A Patrick 3

      17/10/1953

      FL

      Mansfield Town

      H

      W

      5-1

      Dunmore 3

      21/08/1954

      FL

      Wrexham

      A

      W

      6-2

      Bottom 3 (1)

      06/11/1954

      FL

      Carlisle United

      A

      W

      5-4

      Fenton 4

      11/12/1954

      FAC2

      Dorchester Town

      A

      W

      5-2

      Bottom 3

      17/12/1955

      FL

      Wrexham

      A

      W

      5-4

      Wilkinson 3

      02/02/1957

      FL

      Southport

      H

      W

      9-1

      Bottom 4 (1)

      20/04/1957

      FL

      Rochdale

      H

      W

      4-0

      Wilkinson 3

      23/04/1958

      FL

      Tranmere Rovers

      H

      W

      4-0

      Farmer 3

      04/10/1958

      FL

      Hartlepools United

      A

      W

      5-1

      Wragg 3

      03/10/1959

      FL

      Accrington Stanley

      H

      W

      3-0

      Edgar 3

      24/09/1960

      FL

      Workington

      H

      W

      4-0

      Addison 3

      03/10/1960

      FL

      Aldershot

      H

      W

      4-1

      Wragg 3 (1)

      21/01/1961

      FL

      Crewe Alexandra

      A

      W

      5-1

      Wragg 4

      02/10/1961

      FL

      Crewe Alexandra

      H

      W

      4-2

      Weir 3

      13/01/1962

      FL

      Gillingham

      H

      W

      4-0

      Stainsby 3

      02/04/1962

      FL

      Doncaster Rovers

      H

      W

      5-2

      Wragg 3

      20/04/1962

      FL

      Workington

      H

      W

      4-0

      Weir 3

      22/04/1963

      FL

      Lincoln City

      H

      W

      3-1

      Wilkinson 3 (1)

      14/11/1964

      FAC1

      Bangor City

      H

      W

      5-1

      Aimson 3

      26/03/1965

      FL

      Tranmere Rovers

      H

      W

      4-0

      Weddle 3

      18/09/1965

      FL

      Hull City

      A

      W

      4-1

      Aimson 3

      30/03/1968

      FL

      Port Vale

      H

      W

      5-1

      MacDougall 3

      16/11/1968

      FAC1

      South Shields

      A

      W

      6-0

      Ross 3

      28/03/1970

      FL

      Brentford

      H

      W

      4-2

      Aimson 3

      23/11/1970

      FAC1,R

      Tamworth

      H

      W

      5-0

      Aimson 3

      01/04/1972

      FL

      Chesterfield

      H

      W

      4-1

      Aimson 3 (1)

      07/05/1979

      FL

      Port Vale

      H

      W

      4-0

      Staniforth 3

      15/09/1979

      FL

      Wigan Athletic

      A

      W

      5-2

      Staniforth 3

      27/11/1982

      FL

      Mansfield Town

      H

      W

      6-1

      Walwyn 3

      170/9/1983

      FL

      Chester City

      H

      W

      4-1

      Byrne 3

      20/04/1984

      FL

      Halifax Town

      H

      W

      4-1

      Byrne 3

      03/11/1984

      FL

      Gillingham

      H

      W

      7-1

      Houchen 3

      05/10/1985

      FL

      Darlington

      H

      W

      7-0

      Canham 3

      26/08/1986

      LC1,1

      Sunderland

      A

      W

      4-2

      Walwyn 3

      25/11/1986

      FRT, G

      Darlington

      H

      W

      4-1

      Gabbiadini 3

      29/08/1989

      LC1,2

      Hartlepool United

      H

      W

      4-1

      Spooner 3

      07/11/1989

      LDC, G

      Hartlepool United

      H

      W

      7-1

      Helliwell 3

      29/12/1990

      FL

      Wrexham

      A

      W

      4-0

      Blackstone 3

      27/02/1993

      FL

      Scunthorpe United

      H

      W

      5-1

      Barnes 4

      13/03/1993

      FL

      Barnet

      A

      W

      5-1

      Barnes 3

      03/09/1994

      FL

      Bournemouth

      A

      W

      4-1

      Barnes 3

      26/12/1994

      FL

      Blackpool

      H

      W

      4-0

      Barnes 3

      30/03/1996

      FL

      Wrexham

      A

      W

      3-2

      Bull 3

      16/08/2005

      NL

      Southport

      A

      W

      4-1

      O'Neill 3

      25/02/2006

      NL

      Forest Green Rovers

      H

      W

      5-1

      A Bishop 3 (1)

      13/03/2007

      NL

      Cambridge United

      A

      W

      5-0

      Donaldson 3

      27/10/2007

      FAC4Q

      Rushall Olympic

      H

      W

      6-0

      Farrell 3

      15/12/2009

      FAT1, R

      Hinckley United

      H

      W

      3-1

      Brodie 3

      07/04/2010

      NL

      AFC Wimbledon

      H

      W

      5-0

      Brodie 3 (1)

      26/12/2017

      NL

      North Ferriby United

      A

      W

      4-1

      Parkin 3

      19/10/2021

      FAC4Q, R

      Morpeth Town

      A

      W

      3-1

      Willoughby 3

      07/01/2023

      NL

      Maidstone

      H

      W

      4-1

      Forde

      106th

        Notes:
      • Symbols: (1) = First half hat tricks since WW2. This has occurred 9 times (7 players) since WW2 in league games. In addition Marco Gabbiadini scored an Associate Members Cup first half hat trick (v Darlington 1986/7)
      • Excluded: Richard Brodie (10/11/2009 (Chester (A)), Chester did not complete the season and their playing record was expunged
      • Special Mentions:
        • Only Bernard Acklam and Reg Baines have scored a City hat trick and ended the game on the losing side.
        • Reg Baines (WBA, 1938) was the first City player to score a hat trick against top flight opponents. Keith Walwyn (Sunderland, 1986) is the only other City player to score a hat trick against opponents from a higher division.
        • Craig Farrell scored the 100th hat trick in City's history in the 7-0 win over Rushall Olympic.
    • Fastest Ever Hat Tricks
      • Johnny Edgar (six minutes) (Accrington, 3rd October 1959). It was Edgar's only full season with City as a serious injury the following season effectively finished his City career. He was our leading 1959/60 scorer with 15 league goals after joining from Gillingham. The Barnsley born forward moved to Hartlepool in June 1961, then to Exeter, before finishing his playing days with Scarborough in the Midland League.
      • Steve Spooner (eight (or 9) minutes) (Hartlepool (FLC1), 29th August 1989).
      • Craig Farrell (10 minutes) (Rushall Olympic (FAC4Q), 27th October 2007) with goals on 78, 85 and 88 minutes, was the third-quickest in City history (and our first sub to score a hat trick)
    • Debut Hat Tricks
      • Riley (05/12/1925, Shirebrook (a))
      • Arthur Bottom (21/08/1954, Wrexham (a))
      • Joe O'Neill (16/08/2005, Southport (a))
        • Shaq Forde’s hat trick (07/01/2023 v Maidstone (h)) was on his full debut, he’d appeared as a substitute in the previous game.
    • City Career Hat Tricks (League Games Only)
      • 6: Reg Baines, Alf Patrick
      • 4: Paul Barnes, Peter Wragg
        • With 8 hat tricks in all games, Reg Baines has scored the most hat tricks in a City career.
    • Youngest City Hat Trick Scorer
      • Marco Gabbiadini became the youngest player to score a hat-trick for York City at the age of 18 in an Associate Members' Cup victory over Darlington on November 25 1986 (18 years, 309 days). Shaq Forde beat the record with a hat trick in the Conference against Maidstone on January 7, 2023 (18 years, 247 days).
  19. Twenty (20) (Or More) Goals In A Season
    • Keith Walwyn still stands supreme in the City record books, being the only player in City's history to net 20 times in a league season on four separate occasions. Below, league goals are shown in brackets.
    • Paul Barnes and 1954/5 Happy Wanderers' pair Arthur Bottom and Billy Fenton are the only other players to reach the magical figure three times since WW2 with Reg Baines matching that achievement before the outbreak of hostilities.
    • Paul Aimson managed it twice in 1964/5 and 1970/1.
    • Arthur Bottom and left winger Billy Fenton also struck up the most lethal league partnership in the Minstermen's history during the 1954/5 season, proving their goalscoring exploits were not just reserved for the magical run to the FA Cup semi-finals. A 31 goal haul by Arthur Bottom was supplemented by 22 from Billy Fenton in Division Three North during the 1954/5 season.
    • Arthur Bottom's effort equalled Fenton's 1951/2 tally for most City league goals in a season.
    • Arthur Bottom also netted 31 league goals in 1955/6 season and that figure has neither been matched nor bettered in the last 50 years with winger Jimmy Weir coming closest when he struck 28 times in the 1961/2 season.
    • Aside from the 1954/5 season, the only other campaign in which two City strikers scored 20 goals or more came in 1983/4 when John Byrne (27) and Keith Walwyn (25) fired Denis Smith's record breaking side to the old Division 4 title.
    • Andy Bishop 2005/6 (22). He totalled 22 in the league and a further 3 in cup competitions. He became the 11th post-War City player to reach 20 in a league season and only the 16th to hit the landmark figure in the club's history.
    • Clayton Donaldson 2006/7 (24).
    • Richard Brodie 2009/10 (26). He scored 26 in the league, one behind top scorer, Tubbs (Salisbury). He won the Golden Boot when all goals were taken into consideration.
    • Jon Parkin: 2017/8 (20).
  20. Fastest To 10 Goals In A Season Prolifc striker Jason Walker became the quickest player (in terms of date in the calendar) in York City history to hit ten league goals in a season during Saturday’s 2-1 triumph at Stockport (October 1, 2011), his and City's 13th game of the season. Walker’s 86th minute effort saw him reach double figures on October 1, which is a day earlier than the previous record shared by post war heroes Arthur Bottom and Jimmy Weir.
    • 2 other post war players, Jason’s namesake Dennis Walker and the legendary Arthur Bottom also reached 10 goals in 13 games from the start of the season.
      • Arthur Bottom did manage the feat in the famous 1954/5 season when, having arrived from Sheffield United, he helped fire the Happy Wanderers to the semi-finals of the FA Cup, netting 39 times during the campaign – an achievement which still stands unrivalled in the Minstermen’s history books.
      • Manchester United’s first black player – Dennis Walker – is the only other player to make such a quick fire ten goal start to his Bootham Crescent career back in 1964/5. Strangely, after showing his prolific potential as an inside forward, Walker was then switched back to his customary left half position and only went on to total 19 goals in 169 outings for City. He later played for Cambridge and Poole, but died in 2003.
    • Unsurprisingly, our top ten list of the most prolific impacts made by new players also includes all time greats Keith Walwyn, Billy Fenton and Alf Patrick.
    • Norman Wilkinson, who has more City goals to his name than any other player, made more of a slow burning start in front of goal, however, taking 21 matches to reach double figures during the same season as Arthur Bottom’s maiden campaign.
    • None of the above can hold a candle, though, to the amazing manner in which Albert Thompson announced his arrival at the club following a move from Bradford Park Avenue in the summer of 1936. Making his debut on October 31st, 1936, Thompson took just nine matches to hit the target ten times and averaged a goal a game during his 24 league appearances that season. He immediately moved on to Swansea Town, where he only played four times before joining Wellington Town, a forerunner of Telford United. He was born in 1912.
      • Number of games taken for York City players to score ten goals (season each player made their debut is given in brackets):
  21. Fastest To 20 Goals In A Season Arthur Bottom set a club record of scoring 20 goals in a season by December 11, 1954. Richard Brodie beat the record on December 5, 2009 by scoring against Wrexham. NB later, his hat trick against Chester was expunged (as was his record).
  22. Fastest To 50 City League Goals
    • 1 Reg Baines (59 games, September 1931 – March 1933)
    • 2= Arthur Bottom (68 games, August 1954 – March 1956)
    • 2= Alf Patrick (68 games, November 1946 - November 1948)
    • 4 Billy Fenton (79 games, August 1951 – March 1953)
    • 5 Paul Barnes (88 games, August 1992 - 10/09/94 v Shrewsbury, including 3 hat tricks)
    • 6 Keith Walwyn (94 games, August 1981 – October 1993)
  23. First To 100 City League Goals Alf Patrick
  24. Most Goals In A Calendar Year
    • 1 Jimmy Cowie (37, 1929)
    • 2-= Reg Baines (37, 1932), Jon Parkin (36, 2017)
    • 4 Richard Brodie (35, 2009)
  25. Most Different Scorers In Game On December 3rd 2011, City beat Kettering 7-0 with a club record 6 different scorers in the game. They were Reed (2), Challinor, Blair, McLaughlin, Chambers and Ashikodi. On 9 occasions, City have scored 5 to win with 5 different City scorers in the game.
  26. Multiple Players Scoring 10 Goals In A Season In 2011/2, five (5) City players scored 10 or more goals in the season. They were Blair (20), Walker (18), McLaughlin (13), Reed (12) and Chambers (10).
    Since 1982, there have been only four other occasions when the Minstermen have had four players who scored ten or more goals in the same season.
  27. Penalty Shoot Outs Penalties provided City with possibly their greatest ever moment at old Wembley in 1993. However, from 14 games decided by a penalty shoot out, City have won just 6, against Crewe (1993), Colchester (2001/2 FA Cup), the incredible 13-12 penalty shoot out win over Kidderminster (FA Trophy, February 2009), Mansfield (2008/9 Setanta Shield), Dagenham & Redbridge (FA Trophy, March 2022) and Chelmsford City (FA Trophy, January 2023). City's 8 shoot defeats were against Rotherham (1977/8 League Cup), Halifax (1988/9 Football League Trophy), Mansfield (1993/4 FLT), Blackpool (1997/8 FLT, at the time, City's longest penalty shoot out with 22 kicks taken), Crewe (2001/2 LC), Northwich (2007/8 Setanta Shield), Doncaster (2012/3 LC) and Ashton United (2020/1 FA Trophy).
    • At the time, City’s incredible 13-12 FA Trophy penalty shoot out victory over Kidderminster (February 11, 2009) set a new English record. According to FA sources, no two teams have converted the first 25 spot kicks in a cup tie in this country. The Minstermen and Kidderminster took their place in the English history books but still fell short of UEFA’s European record. That honour belonged to Galatasaray and Genclerbirligi, whose players hit the target 33 times before their Turkish Cup quarter final tie was concluded. Tunbridge Wells and Littlehampton claim the longest shoot-out for a first-class match in this country when 40 penalties settled their FA Cup preliminary round replay 16-15. But in that match some players missed their kicks before the sudden death stage. City’s longest previous shoot-out was 22 kicks (not all scored) for an Associate Members’ Cup tie at Blackpool in 1998. Later, the English professional record was broken when Dagenham & Redbridge defeated Leyton Orient in a Johnstone's Paint Trophy Tie in 2011 after 27 consecutive successful kicks.
  28. City’s Prolific Scoring Super Subs In February 2012, Jamie Reed was noted as being City's most prolific scoring substitute after netting in both of the club’s home games following his second half introductions against Stockport and Gateshead. Those efforts meant that 8 of his 18 City goals had come as a substitute, his goals per minute ratio is considerably better when he is hailed from the bench than when he is a member of the starting line up. As a substitute, the eight goals in 729 minutes have come at a rate of one every 91.125 minutes. His ten goals when starting, from 1,622 minutes represent a return of one every 162.2 minutes. He left City in 2013 when 11 of his 25 City goals had come from the bench.
    • Next on the list are Richard Brodie (7) and Craig Farrell (6) including a hat-trick against Rushall Olympic and brace at Farsley Celtic.
  29. City’s Best Goals Per Game Scorer At the last count, 11 players had an average of a goal (or more) a game during their City careers. The most recent being Jack Redshaw who scored in our FA Trophy defeat at Ashton United in December 2020, his only “true” City appearances, I’m not counting his league appearances as the league was declared void due to covid. Of the others, 8 played for City in the 1920s and 2 more in the 1940s.
    • Pride of place goes to Charlie Flood (19 goals / 19 games) and R Holland (17 goals / 16 appearances)
    • 3 other players scored 2 goals in City appearances. The most recent being John Price, a veteran who was an occasional deputy for Alf Patrick during the 1948/9 season.
    • 5 City players have scored one goal on their only City appearance, whilst a certain Tyson scored twice on his only game for City, a 4-2 in over Grimsby Town Reserves in September 1927.

GOALS - CONCEDED IN A LEAGUE SEASON

  1. Least Goals Conceded
  2. Least Home Goals Conceded
    • 13: 1993/4
    • 14: 1960/1, 1970/1 and 1972/3
  3. Least Away Goals Conceded

KEEPER CLEAN SHEETS

  1. Most Clean Sheets - Individual (League Games Only)
    • In term of league clean sheets in a season by an individual keeper, 20 is the record, held jointly by Dean Kiely (1993/4) and Tom Evans (2006/7) from 46 and 45 league games respectively. On 19 are Graeme Crawford (1973/4), Roger Jones (1983/4), Dean Kiely (1994/5) and Michael Ingham (2009/10).
    • In 1993/4, Dean Kiely also kept 4 cup game clean sheets and one in the play off semi final, making a club record 25 clean sheets by a keeper in a season in all games.
  2. Most Clean Sheets - Team (League Games Only)
    • 22 (2013/4) (Pope 15, Ingham 5, McCarey 2)
    • 20 (1983/4 and 1993/4)
    • 19 (1994/5)

CUP (including play off) PERFORMANCES

  1. Most Cup Games In A Season
    • 14: 1984/5 (6 FAC, 4 LC, 4 AMC) and 2021/2 (5 FAC, 6 FAT, 3 PO)
    • 13: 1985/6 (7 FAC, 4 LC, 2 AMC) and 2009/10 (4 FAC, 6 FAT, 3 PO)
  2. Most Home Cup Games In A Season
    • 9: 1984/5 (4 FAC, 2 LC, 3 AMC)
  3. Most Cup Goals Scored In A Season (Team)
    • 25: 1984/5 (FAC 9, FLC 11, FRT 5)
    • 23: 2007/8
    • 22: 2011/2 and 2021/2
  4. Most Cup Goals Conceded In A Season (Team)
    • 21: 1984/5 (FAC 8, FLC 10, FRT 3)
  5. Most FA Cup Goals In A Season (Player)
  6. Cup Wins Over Non League Sides In the 1985/6 season, City reached Round 5 of the FA Cup by beating 4 non league sides.
  7. Big Cup Losses In 1985, City suffered a club record cup defeat, losing 7-0 at Liverpool.
  8. Lowest Ranked FA Cup Defeat / Opponents It is difficult to say as the pyramid is a relatively new invention, "The Conference" formed in 1979 being the trigger. City haven’t lost to lower than Tier 7 (South Shields in 2017 (City NLN (Tier 6))). Shields also knocked us (City Division 3 (Tier 3)) out in 1965 when they played in the Northern Regional League (alongside City's reserve side). Another memorable defeat was Caernarfon in 1987 when they were in the Northern Premier League (Tier 6), City were 15th in Division 3 (59 in the pyramid) and Caernarfon were 4th in the Northern Premier League, 122 (92+22+(4*2)) in the pyramid, albeit 3 tiers beneath City. That calendar year was quite remarkable as City lost in the FA Cup to both Liverpool (1986/7) and Caernarfon (1987/8). Has any team lost to 2 teams so far apart in the pyramid in one calendar year in FA Cup history? Given AFC Bury's Tier 9 status and 11th, place, they were ranked at 580 in the pyramid, possibly one of the lowest ranked teams ever to play City.
  9. Lowest Ranked Team To Beat City It is difficult to be prescriptive about the lowest ranked side to beat City (ranked 111 at the time) but Nantwich Town may hold the honour. When City lost an FA Trophy game there on December 9 2023, Nantwich were in 14th place in Northern Premier League (West), one of 8 leagues at Tier 8 (3 tiers below City). Above tier 8, are 252 teams and with 8 leagues at tier 8, so it can be argued that Nantwich are ranked 360 (252 + 104 (8*13) +4 (8/2)) in the pyramid. Pre to 1979 and the formation of the Alliance Premier League (the modern day National League, formed by leading Southern League and Northern Premier League clubs) the pyramid and promotion / relegation in non league football was largely by invite. Other bad defeats, all FA Cup, might be considered to be the 5-1 home defeat to Burton Town (1935/6), but it is hard to equate the status of the Birmingham & District League, the 3-1 defeat to South Shields (1965/6) who played in the Northern Regional League and 2 FA Cup exits with home defeats to 2 other Midlands League sides, Scarborough (1932) and Scunthorpe (1946), the league from which City were promoted in 1929. In those times, City were in Division 3N / 3 respectively, whilst the opponents played in leagues which included reserve sides of several Football League sides, indeed City's reserve side competed in the 1965/6 NRL. Recent FA Cup shock defeats, Wigan (1977/8, Northern Premier League (Tier 5)), Caernarfon (1986/7, Northern Premier League (Tier 6) and Hednesford (1997/8, Conference (Tier 5)) can be discounted as worst ever defeats in terms of pyramid position.
  10. Cup Losses In 2004/5, for the second successive season, City failed to win a cup game. Their last success in a cup competition was in November 2002 when they beat Swansea City 2-1 at Bootham Crescent in the FA Cup Round 2. It wasn’t until 22nd October 2005 when City recorded their next cup win, an away win at Gainsborough in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round.
  11. FA Cup Record In this section, to the end of the 2023/4 season
    • Games City had played 299 FA Cup games, resulting in 126 wins, 76 draws and 97 losses. Uniquely, City suffered 3 cup defeats in the 1945/6 post WW2 season, ties were played over 2 legs, going out 11-2 on aggregate to Sheffield Wednesday in Round 4.
    • Exits
      • 10 seasons: Qualifying Rounds
      • 39: Round 1
      • 16: Round 2
      • 17: Round 3
      • 9: Round 4
      • 2: Round 5
      • 1: Round 6
      • 1: Semi Final
      • 0: Did not enter (Do to the club’s late formation, City didn’t complete in the FA Cup in 1922/3, their first year as a club).
    • Most Frequent Opponent Rotherham are the side City have played the most, just one win in 9 games (5 draws, 3 defeats)
    • Beaten Opponents City had beaten 92 different clubs in the FA Cup
    • Perfect Record City had a perfect record (in every case, played one, won one) against 47 clubs in the FA Cup, including Spurs, Blackpool, WBA and Coventry from our 1955 and 1938 FA Cup runs
    • Not So Perfect Record Conversely, City had failed to win in any of 4 FA Cup games (in each case, 2 ties that each went to a replay) against Liverpool, Newcastle and AFC Wimbledon.
  12. Best Ever Win City’s best ever FA Cup wins were 7-1 wins over 2 Stockton sides in successive 1920s seasons. City's biggest ever FA Cup defeat was 7-0 at Anfield in 1985, a defeat so nearly avenged a season later
  13. Best Record City’s best FA Cup record is against Bishop Auckland. From 4 ties, City have 4 wins. The most recent being the 3-1 win in 1955 as City went onto progress to the FA Cup semi final. City also have 4 wins (albeit from 5) ties against Scarborough
  14. Top Flight Ground Wins City have thrice been drawn against Morecambe. The first meeting resulted in a win for City, but the next 2 went to replays. In 1969, City won a second replay at Manchester City’s Maine Road ground and in 1985, Morecambe draw at Bootham Crescent and elected to stage the replay at Manchester City. A game City won with 2 early goals. That makes Maine Road the only top flight (albeit former) ground on which City have won 2 FA Cup games
  15. Most Replays In the former days of protracted FA Cup ties and replays, on 7 occasions City were taken to a second replay. The most recent being in December 1976 and a Round 2 2nd replay defeat at Rotherham after extra time. That and the previous occurrence (Cardiff) being the only such occasions when second replays went to extra time. Those 7 games were played at:
    • Belle Vue, Doncaster (Mexborough Town)
    • St James Park, Newcastle (Jarrow Town)
    • Elland Road, Leeds (Bradford PA)
    • Maine Road, Manchester (Morecambe)
    • St James Park, Newcastle (Middlesbrough)
    • St Andrews, Birmingham (Cardiff)
    • Millmoor (Rotherham)
  16. Ground Record Attendances In 1938, City set a new Bootham Crescent record attendance in 4 successive rounds of the FA Cup:
    • Jan 8 1938: 13,917, Coventry 3-2, gate receipts £838.
    • Jan 22: 18,795, West Bromwich Albion 3-2, receipts £1,426.
    • Feb 12: 23,860, Middlesbrough 1-0, receipts £2,193
    • March 5: 28,123 (tickets were sold out in 90 minutes), 0-0, receipts £2,735. The final Bootham Crescent capacity was, under 8,000, less than one third of the all time record. However, the last ever game at Bootham Crescent was played in front of a covid restricted sell out crowd of just 627 in December 2020.
  17. Home Games In 1938, City reached Round 6 and played 6 home games, no other club has ever played in home games in as many as 6 rounds of FA Cup in a season
  18. Miscellaneous In 1968, City won an FA Cup Round 1 game by 6-0 at South Shields, amid “cup fever”, a local butcher had offered a meat platter to any City player who scored a hat trick. Scottish striker Tommy Ross took the platter

SEASON STAFF

  1. Least Players In A Season
    • 17: 1964/5
    • 18: 1983/4
    • 19: 1993/4
  2. Most Players In A Season

    Players

    Season

    Notes

    48

    2016/7

    Sam Muggleton became the 48th and final player used by City during the season

    42

    2015/6

    Included 18 loanees (they include Kenny McEvoy who played on loan before signing a permanent contract in January 2016)

    41

    2023/4

    The most in a season when relegation was avoided. The squad included another 10 professionals who got no game time

    38

    2000/1

    38th - Basham, 37th Chris Brass v Lincoln, March 2001, 36th Richard Cooper

    37

    2003/4

    36

    2007/8

    McGurk – League ever present. Woolford played in all 57 games, starting in 56

    36

    2012/3

    35

    1999/2000 and 2013/4

    34

    1946/7

    This remained the record until 1999/2000 season

    33

    2004/5

    32

    2014/5

    31

    1996/7 and 1987/8

  3. Most Players In A Calendar Year A special mention for 2016 when under Jackie McNamara and Gary Mills, City used 63 different players in the calendar year. On December 10, 2016, Arran Racine became the 63rd player. (58/59 – Charles / Woodland; 60 - Bruton; 61 / 62 - Parkin / Murphy)

ATTENDANCES

  1. Biggest Ever City Game Attendances

    Date

    Opponents

    Venue

    Game

    Res

    F-A

    Attendance

    Notes

    26/03/1955

    Newcastle

    Hillsborough

    FAC SF

    D

    1-1

    65,000

    Biggest ever crowd to watch York City

    30/03/1955

    Newcastle

    Roker Park

    FAC SF, Replay

    L

    0-2

    58,239

    09/03/1938

    Huddersfield

    A

    FAC 6, Replay

    L

    1-2

    58,066

    Followed record home crowd of 28,123 in first tie (0-0)

    12/03/1955

    Notts County

    A

    FAC 6

    W

    1-0

    47,301

    Ground record for Meadow Lane; biggest crowd to see York City win

    29/03/1975

    Manchester U

    A

    Division 2

    L

    1-2

    46,802

    Biggest ever crowd to watch York City league match

    01/02/1956

    Sunderland

    A

    FAC 4, Replay

    L

    1-2

    43,928

    22,000 saw first tie (0-0)

    20/02/1985

    Liverpool

    A

    FAC 5, Replay

    L

    0-7

    43,010

    13,485 saw first tie (1-1)

    16/05/2010

    Oxford

    Wembley

    Conference Play-off Final

    L

    1-3

    42,669

    Biggest ever crowd at Conference Play-off Final

    06/04/1949

    Hull

    A

    Division 3 North

    W

    3-2

    40,002

    Biggest ever crowd to see York City win league match

    20/05/2012

    Luton

    Wembley

    Conference Play-off Final

    W

    2-1

    39,265

  2. Lowest Ever Attendances
    • On 30/March/2010, City recorded their lowest ever attendance for a first team league game. Just 323 (including 102 from York) witnessed City’s 4-0 away win at Grays in The Blue Square Premier Division.
    • On 13/December/2011, City recorded their lowest ever attendance for a senior (league or national cup) first team game. Just 275 “saw” City’s 3-0 away win at Solihull Moors in an FA Trophy 1st Round replay on a very foggy evening.
    • On 05/May/1981, City recorded their lowest ever home attendance for a Football League game. Just 1,167 witnessed City’s 2-1 loss to Northampton in the final game of the season. On 6 occasions, a lower crowd saw a City away Football League game, including the record low of 800 at Rochdale on 20/February/1934 when City won 6-3. 3 of those 6 occasions were games at Rochdale.
    • It was the 1976/7 season when average attendance fell below 3,000 (2,986) for the first ever time.
    • On 30/March/1960, just 925 saw City’s 4-0 defeat at Accrington, the first time City’s crowd dropped below 4 figures for a game.
  3. Identical Attendances On 2 occasions, successive home games have seen City record exactly the same attendance:
    • On 03/April/1999, 3,356 saw City lose 2-1 at home to Chesterfield, exactly the same attendance as the previous home game (L1-3, 20/March/1999) with Scott Jordan scoring City's consolation goal in both games
    • On 17/February/2024, 4,177 saw City draw 1-1 at home to Dagenham and Redbridge, exactly the same attendance who saw City lose 1-0 at home to Dorking 4 days earlier. Dorking brought 99 fans whilst Dagenham had 104 fans present.
  4. Non League Attendances The average 2011/2 promotion winning season league crowd was 3,097, the highest since the club dropped out of the Football League in 2004. It was bettered in both the promotion winning 2021/2 season (3,116) and a season later (4,801).
  5. City Away – Setting Home Club’s Attendance Records
    • On 12/Mar/1955. Notts County set their all time Meadow Lane ground attendance record when 47,301 saw York City beat them 1-0 in an FA Cup Round 6 tie. For the 2022/3 season, it had a 19,841 capacity.
    • Also in 1955, 4 weeks later (11/Apr/1955), 15,598 saw City draw 2-2 at Accrington Stanley’s Peel Park ground setting a ground record attendance for a competitive game. Note, some reports state 15,425 spectators and Accrington hosted local neighbours Blackburn in a friendly on 15/Nov/1954 with 17,634 in attendance.
  6. LNER Attendances As at 01/Jan/2024:
    • The LNER ground record attendance is 8,209 for Leeds’ friendly with AS Monaco (22/Jul/2023).
    • City’s LNER ground record attendance is 7,657 for the NL win over Woking (13/April/2024).
    • City’s LNER ground record league attendance is 7,145 for the NL game against Wrexham (03/Dec/2022). On 2 other occasions, the LNER league attendance topped 6,500, they are Oldham (29/Aug/2022, 6,833) and Notts County (24/Sept/2022, 6,759).
  7. Other For more York City club records re attendances and gate receipts, see our Bootham Crescent pages which now also cover LNER.

PLAYERS: APPEARANCES

  1. All City Time Appearances

    Player

    Years

    Total Appearances

    Barry Jackson

    (1956-70)

    539 (incl 1 sub)

    Andy McMillan

    (1987-99)

    492 (incl 12 sub)

    Chris Topping

    (1967-78)

    463 (incl 2 sub)

    Wayne Hall

    (1989 - 2001)

    438 (incl 24 sub)

    Gary Ford

    (1979-87)

    435 (incl 7 sub)

    Tommy Forgan

    (1954-66)

    428

    Tony Canham

    (1985-95)

    413 (incl 42 sub)

    Norman Wilkinson

    (1954-66)

    401

    Phil Burrows

    (1966-74)

    390 (incl 4 sub)

    Daniel Parslow

    (2006 – 2019)

    382 (incl 28 sub)

    Billy Hughes

    (1951-62)

    380

    Steve Tutill

    (1986-98)

    366 (incl 12 sub)

    Sid Storey

    (1947-56)

    354

    Derek Hood

    (1980-88)

    354 (incl 20 sub)

    Gordon Brown

    (1950-58)

    351

    George Howe

    (1954-61)

    338

    • Note: Various reports also state 383 and 384 City appearances for Daniel Parslow.
    • With football today, will anyone else ever break into the Top 16?
    • Interestingly, all the Top 5 made their Football League debut with City.
  2. All Time Consecutive Appearances

    Player

    Games

    League

    Cup

    PO

    Years

    Chris Topping

    403

    385

    48

    0

    Sept 70 – April 78

    Phil Burrows

    251

    215

    36

    0

    Oct 69 – May 74

    Billy Rudd

    172

    155

    17

    0

    Sept 62 – Jan 66

    Jon McCarthy

    162

    141

    18

    3

    9 March 91 – 4 April 94

    Derek Hood

    150

    135

    15

    0

    Sept 80 – Aug 83


  3. All Time Football League Appearances In the history of The Football League (and The Premier League), there are over 400 players who have appeared in over 500 league games. In terms of league games, no one has played that amount for City, Barry Jackson’s 482 league games being our City record, cup games take him to 539 appearances in total. However, of the list, 27 can claim City connections. Neil Redfearn, with 790 league games is the most prolific player reaching 8th in the all time list. A member of City’s back room staff, he had one game in charge as caretaker manager in November 2008 between the Colin Walker and Martin Foyle eras. Peter Shilton with 1,005 league games tops the list. A list (the table below is very rarely maintained and may be out of date, Jon Parkin deserves an entry) of City connected players with over 500 league games is:

    Name

    League Games

    League Goals

    Position

    City Notes

    Neil Redfearn

    790

    158

    Midfield

    No games, back room

    Neville Southall

    701

    0

    Keeper

    Roy Tunks

    694

    0

    Keeper

    Loan keeper

    Roger Jones

    693

    0

    Keeper

    Derek Fazackerley

    692

    23

    Defender

    Paul Stancliffe

    676

    22

    Defender

    Dean Kiely

    664

    0

    Keeper

    Marco Gabbiadini

    659

    223

    Forward

    Mike Walker

    656

    0

    Keeper

    1960s

    Ian McDonald

    653

    91

    Midfield

    Ron Hillyard

    647

    0

    Keeper

    Joe Shaw

    631

    9

    Midfield

    Manager

    Paul Groves

    627

    101

    Midfield

    Paul Musselwhite

    613

    0

    Keeper

    2012 reserve keeper

    Alan Stevenson

    601

    0

    Keeper

    No games, Monks Cross stadium consultant

    Steve Torpey

    592

    143

    Forward

    Paul Cook

    581

    64

    Midfield

    No games, 1990s loan signing

    Sam Bartram

    579

    0

    Keeper

    WW2 keeper and later manager

    Billy Rudd

    574

    68

    Midfield

    1960s

    Gary Ford

    573

    74

    Midfield

    Lee Nogan

    561

    114

    Forward

    Peter Lorimer

    555

    176

    Forward

    Luther Blissett

    554

    208

    Forward

    John Batchelor’s football man

    Martin Foyle

    535

    154

    Forward

    Manager

    Phil Burrows

    533

    18

    Defender

    Barry Swallow

    515

    39

    Defender

    John Byrne

    503

    134

    Forward

  4. Multiple Debutants In A Game Excluding the opening day of the season, the most number of players to make their City debut in the same match is 6. That was November 28th 2015 when City lost 1-5 at home to Accrington. The debutants were Bradley Fewster, Danny Galbraith, Mark Kitching, Jordan Lussey, Kenny McEvoy and Stefan O'Connor. On 3 other occasions have City fielded 4 debutants on the same day:
    • 15th November 1928 Frickley Colliery (A) L 1 -6 (Addison, Walter Bolton, Reg Chown and George Sharpe)
    • 13th November 2018 Chester (H) D 0-0 (Alex Bray, Joe Davis, Kennedy Digie and Joe Ironside)
    • 12th August 2023 Kidderminster Harriers (H) L 0-1 (Quevin Castro, Tyler Cordner, Callum Harriott and Zanda Siziba).
    Obviously, City’s first ever game in 1922 saw all 11 players make their City debuts. However, on 6th August 2016, on City’s return to the Conference, a club record 12 players made their City debut alongside Scott Flinders and Richard Brodie in a 1-1 draw at Maidstone. Other years with a high number of opening day debutants include:
    • 10 debutants (1929, 2020)
    • 8 debutants (1924, 1928, 1934,2004, 2005)
    • 7 debutants (1933, 1945, 1954, 2009, 2014, 2022)
    • 6 debutants (1935, 1946, 1966, 1987, 2007, 2015)
  5. Oldest Ever Player / Debutant City’s oldest ever player (and oldest ever debutant) is Paul Musselwhite who played his last match aged 43 years and 127 days against Forest Green Rovers in the Conference on 28 April 2012. He was an unused sub in the next 4 games (play off semi finals and 2 Wembley victories). That makes him City’s oldest debutant by over 4 years. In 2023, Mark Ellis was City’s 22nd oldest debutant since WW2. At the time, he was 12 days older than Denis Smith was when he made his debut, nearly a month younger than Neil Thompson and 18 months younger than Steve McNulty. He was born exactly one week after Sean Newton was born. 6 of the top 22 are keepers, with Paul Musselwhite being City’s oldest debutant.
    Pre WW2 records are incomplete but the club records are confirmed. Alf Young, at 40 was City’s oldest outfield debutant playing in the 1945/6 FA Cup which was considered to be a post war competition. That will also make him City’s oldest ever outfield player. The next season, Alf Roberts was 39 when he made his City debut (playing just one game). The next oldest outfield debutant was Paul Groves in 2004 aged 38 (and 168 days) which also made him City’s oldest 21st century outfield debutant. He was 39 years and 54 days when he played his last City game. Steve Torpey and Deon Burton were slightly younger 38 year olds when they made their City debuts.
  6. Youngest Ever Player City’s youngest ever player (and scorer) was Reg Stockill, at 15 years and 281 days, he made a scoring debut against Wigan Borough in the Third Division North on 29 August 1929. See City's Youngest Players.
  7. Red Cards
    • Fastest Sending Off
      • David McGurk after 71 seconds at Southport (29/01/2011)
      • Richard Brodie (7 minutes (after coming on as a sub), Wrexham (a), 2008/9)
      • Roger Jones (9 minutes, Darlington (a), September 1983)
        • Richard Brodie was also the first ever City player to be sent off when appearing as a substitute. That was against Grays in September 2007 when he was ordered off on 74 minutes having been introduced 53 minutes earlier.
    • Most In A Season Richard Hope's dismissal (29/11/03) equalled the club record of five red cards received in a season, with City still less than half-way into their league campaign. Nigel Pepper was dismissed three times against the same club, Darlington, twice in the league and once in the FA Cup, in the 1990/1 season.
    • Most In A Game Against Woking (12/04/2008 (h)), City had 3 players (Tom Evans, Darren Craddock and Stuart Elliott) sent off for the first time in our history. Against Eastleigh (06/04/2024), City had 2 players (Zanda Siziba and Ryan Fallowfield) sent off.
    • Longest Suspension Barry Jackson was sent of playing for City at Scunthorpe in January 1970. In those days, suspensions were measured in weeks and he recieved an 8 week ban (including the activation of a 2 week suspended ban from earlier in that season) which meant he missed 11 league games and due to strict FA rules of the time, his own testimonial game. He never played for City again and he was released at the end of that season.
    • Red Cards On City Debut
      • Graham Rennison, then 19, was the first City player to see red during his maiden senior outing just 34 minutes into a 3-0 League One defeat at Luton Town. He was red carded for handball and never managed another league appearance for the club before drifting into part-time football with Whitby Town.
      • Gary Pearson became the second player to mark the start of his Minstermen career with an early shower. The former Darlington midfielder lasted just 69 minutes of City's first ever Conference match at Aldershot (14th August 2004), seeing red for a head butt during the 2-0 defeat. Pearson went on to play 11 more league games for City before picking up a shoulder injury in November and reaching a financial settlement over the remainder of his contract with new boss Billy McEwan four months later.
      • Stuart Elliott became only the 3rd City player to be sent off on his debut when he was sent off against Cambridge on August 11, 2007.
      • Callum Howe (05/Aug/2023, Wealdstone (a)).
  8. All Time City Keeper Clean Sheets
  9. Most Promotions Apart from 1993, each of City 8 promotion winning sides have contained at least one player who has featured in 2 City promotion seasons:
    • Honourable mentions to:
      • Tom Johnston who managed the 1970/1 and 1973/4 sides
      • Tom Lockie who managed the 1964/5 side and was trainer in 1958/9
      • Ron Spence who played in the 1958/9 side and fulfilled various physio / trainer roles during the 1964/5, 1970/1 and 1973/4 promotion campaigns.
  10. Substitutes Domestic substitutes were first allowed in the 1965/6 season. For the first 2 seasons, they were only available to replace an injured player (and not for tactical reasons). In 1987, two were permitted, before three were allowed 12 years later. John Pearson was City’s first substitute (27/Aug/65). Tommy Spencer was City’s first scoring substitute to score (04/Feb/67). Macaulay Langstaff was the 4th substitute City used against Altrincham (25/Jul/20, Play Off, semi final) when 4 substitutes were temporarily allowed due to coronavirus.
  11. Returning Players The announcement, in June 2023, of David Stockdale’s return to City came 17 years after he left and over 20 years since he made his debut. That makes it the longest gap between 2 spells (and appearances) for any City player.
    • Other players with long gaps between spells include:
      • In 2021, Clayton Donaldson re-joined City 16 years after he’d originally signed for City (14 years after he had left City).
      • Jon Parkin’s second signing was a little under 15 years after he’d first joined City.
      • Richard Cresswell re-joined City in 2013, over 17 years after his debut.
      • Jon Greening re-joined City in 2015, 18 over years after his City debut.
  12. European Competition A number of players have played in European club competitions after leaving City. They include Kevan Smith went on to play in the old European Cup for a Maltese side, Keith Houchen (Hibs), Jamie Hopcutt (Ostersunds), Jon Greening (Manchester United), Richard Cresswell (Leicester), Ben Gibson (Burnley), Charlie Taylor (Burnley), Marc Lloyd-Williams, Ryan Brobbel (New Saints), L'ubomir Satka, Bailey Peacock-Farrell (AGF (Denmark), David McDaid, Josh Robinson, Andy King (on trial from Leicester) and Nick Pope (Newcastle). Don’t get me started on the much longer list of players who played in Europe before joining City.
  13. Early Loanees The loan transfer system was formalised in 1966. Prior to this, there was a more informal system which was largely phased out in the aftermath of WW2. Prior to this, “loan” moves included “triallist” games, away teams borrowing home players to make up numbers, bringing in reinforcements for key games and most famously during WW2 when players often turned out for clubs near the services’ base. The 1966 rules allowed clubs to make just 2 loan signings a season, they had to be for a minimum of 3 months and involve 2 clubs in the same division. Gradually, rules were relaxed. It is believed that Ray Tunks, the young Rotherham keeper who joined in February 1969 was City’s first loan signing of the modern era.
  14. Transfers Between Clubs Tony Bridges (When Saturday Comes, #418, March 2022) noted 46 players who have played for both Nottingham Forest and Derby County since 1970. 81 players played for York City and Darlington in the same period. They include Marco Gabbiadini at the end of his career, David Stockdale who played for both clubs at the start of his career and Gary Hemsworth, a glutton for punishment, who had 2 separate spells with both clubs. The majority took a direct route between the clubs. In the early days, it was a one way road, indeed in the late 1970s, Darlington regularly fielded 5 ex City players in their line-up, and locally they were nicknamed “York City Reserves”. In recent years it has been a much more 2 way road trodden by many largely nondescript players.
  15. Later Played For City On 05/Sept/15 Newport fielded 5 players that were future City players Scott Barrow, Yan Klukowski, Lenell “The Shop” John-Lewis, Scott Boden and Danny Holmes.
  16. Squad Numbers (Highest) Since City introduced squad number shirts for the 2000/1 season, the highest shirt number worn by a City player is 40 by Sam Fishburn, the Fleetwood loanee who joined City on March 28th 2024 and was in the match day squad a day later. Previously it was 39 worn by Jake Hyde (2014/5), Olly Green (2023/4) and Marvin Armstrong (2023/4). Shirt numbers were discontinued when City dropped into the NLN in 2017 but were re-introduced in 2020 due to covid.
  17. Shirt Numbers City's number 24 shirt has been given to as many as 4 different players twice in a single season, each wearer having left the club before it was re-allocated. It has happened in 2000/1 (Andrew Dawson, Kieron Durkan, Nick Richardson and Chris Iwelumo) and 2016/7 (Franklyn Clarke, Luke Woodland, Derwin Martina and Sam Muggleton). 2023/4 saw the number 19 shirt awarded to 4 players (Dan Pybus, Aiden Marsh, Luke Daley and Billy Chadwick).
  18. Non Scorers City’s 1954/5 Happy Wanderer George Howe holds the club record of 338 games without a goal for an outfield player. Sean Haslegrave holds the honour from midfield with 172 goalless games. Upfront, wide man Anthony Straker played 27 games without a goal whilst of the pure front men, Bob Greener (25 games in the early 1930s) and Darren Tilley (22 appearances) are our most prolific “pure” strikers, although maybe ”flawed” is a better adjective for those non scoring strikers (and strikers in the sense of not doing the job they were employed to do).
  19. Most Different Keepers In A League Season On October 28, 2023, George Sykes-Kenworthy made his City debut, the 5th used by City during the 2023/4 season. Previously the most number of different keepers used by City in a season was 4 which had happened in 4 previous seasons, 2002/3, 2014/5, 2016/7 and 2017/8.

MANAGERS

  1. Longest Winning Run From Appointment Adam Hinshelwood is City’s 38th permanent managerial appointment. Prior to Hinshelwood, in terms of league games, 15 managers have made a winning debut since 1929. Chris Brass has the best winning start record, winning his first 4 league games whilst Barry Lyons won his first 2 games in charge. The other 13 had a one game winning debut run. Also, Jack Collier in 1928, pre City's Football League days, won his first 2 games in charge.
  2. Longest Unbeaten Run From Appointment Colin Walker's unbeaten run as the Minstermen’s new boss saw him record the most successful start of any York manager in history. A total of 17 matches. 11 league, 2 in The Setanta Shield (including one penalty shoot out defeat) and 4 in The FA Trophy. It ended with a 2-2 draw at Halifax on February 12, 2008 before a league defeat at Histon 4 days later.
    • No new City manager has won their first 3 games (all competitions) in charge although Colin Brass won his first 4 league games, but the run included a Football League Cup defeat after the first league win.
  3. Longest Losing Run From Appointment Jackie McNamara (2014/5), 7 games (including 5 league, one FA Cup and one Johnstone Paint Trophy games).
  4. Most Promotions Only Tom Johnston (1970/1 and 1973/4) has lead City to 2 promotion campaigns. A notable mention for Denis Smith (1983/4) who lead City to the Division 4 championship and doing so became the first ever manager to win over 100 points in a season.
  5. Best Win Success Rate Denis Smith 46.3%. Caretaker managers excluded.
  6. Worst Win Success Rate
  7. Longest Run Without A Win On December 10, 2016, City beat Worcester City (FA Trophy, Round 1) ending a wait of 21 games for Gary Mills to win a game as City manager, the run covered his 2 spells as manager.
  8. Managers With Statues Joe Shaw (Sheffield United) and Sam Bartram (Charlton) both have statues in their honour at the grounds of the clubs where they set appearance records.
  9. Youngest / Oldest Managers At 27, Chris Brass was City’s youngest ever managerial appointment and at 57, John Askey was oldest ever appointment. When sacked, at 61, Tom Lockie was our oldest ever manager.
  10. Longest Serving Manager Tom Mitchell was appointed manager in March 1937 and served for nearly 13 years until February 1950. The next longest serving manager is Tom Lockie, appointed in July 1960, he was sacked over 7 years later in October 1967.
  11. Shortest Serving Manager David Webb, appointed manager on December 2, 2022 (effective from December 5), he was sacked after 66 days in charge on February 8, 2023. 2 wins when he was hospitalised with covid mean he escapes an entry in the "Worst Win Success Rate" section. The previous shortest serving manager was Charlie Spencer who died in office in 1953 after 85 days in charge.

AWARDS (PLAYER / MANAGER / TEAM / GENERAL)

  1. Billy Fenton Clubman Of The Year Daniel Parslow was the first player to win the award on 3 occasions. Sean Newton matched that feat in 2020.
  2. Divisional Team Of The Season (PFA) The award was first instigated in 1973/4. Below are City players and players who played for City who were selected for the divisional teams. Thought to be correct up to and including 2022/3.

    Season

    City Players

    Earlier / Later City Players

    1973/4

    D3 Barry Swallow, Barry Lyons

    D3 Roger Jones (Bournemouth), D3 Phil Boyer (Bournemouth)

    1974/5

    D3 Phil Burrows (Plymouth),D3 Roger Jones (Bournemouth), D3 Phil Boyer (Bournemouth)

    1975/6

    D4 Geoff Hutt (Huddersfield), D4 John Ward (Lincoln)

    1978/9

    D4 Alan Little (Barnsley)

    1980/1

    D4 Alan Little (Doncaster)

    1983/4

    D4 Roger Jones, John MacPhail, Keith Walwyn, John Byrne

    1984/5

    D4 Fred Barber (Darlington)

    1987/8

    D1 Neville Southall (Everton)

    1988/9

    D1 Neville Southall (Everton), D4 Neil Thompson (Scarborough)

    1989/90

    D4 Chris Marples, Steve Spooner

    D1 Neville Southall (Everton), D2 Chris Fairclough (Leeds)

    1990/1

    D4 Steve Davis (Burnley)

    1991/2

    D4 Steve Davis (Burnley), D4 Paul Groves (Blackpool), D4 Gary Bull (Barnet)

    1992/3

    D4 Andy McMillan, Paul Stancliffe

    D3 Marlon Beresford (Burnley),D3 Peter Swan (Port V), D4 Gary Bull (Barnet), D4 Mark Prudhoe (Darlington)

    1993/4

    D3 Marlon Beresford (Burnley)

    1994/5

    D3 Tom Cowan (Huddersfield), D4 Russ Wilcox (Doncaster)

    1995/6

    D4 Russ Wilcox (Preston)

    1996/7

    D3 Steve Davis (Luton)

    1997/8

    D3 Paul Groves (Grimsby), D3 Kevin Donovan (Grimsby)

    1998/9

    D3 Steve Davis (Burnley)

    1999/2000

    D3 Steve Davis (Burnley), D3 Darren Caskey (Reading), D4 Marco Gabbiadini (Darlington)

    2001/2

    D2 Graeme Murty (Reading)

    2002/3

    D4 Alan Fettis (York / Hull), D4 Mark Tinkler (Hartlepool)

    2004/5

    D4 Marlon Beresford (Luton)

    2005/6

    D4 Michael Reddy (Grimsby)

    2007/8

    D2 Jonathan Greening (WBA)

    2008/9

    D4 Andy Bishop (Bury)

    2011/2

    D4 Bobby Olejnik (Exeter)

    2012/3

    D4 Ryan Cresswell (Southend)

    2016/7

    C (T2) David Stockdale (Brighton), D1 (T3) James Meredith (Bradford C)

    2019/20

    PL (T1) Nick Pope (Burnley)

    2020/1

    D2 (T4) Will Boyle (Cheltenham)

    2022/3

    C (T2) Carlton Morris (Luton)
  3. Other Divisional Team Of The Year Awards
    • May 2014: Skybet L2 Team Of The Season: The full team and substitutes were: Tommy Lee (Chesterfield); Lanre Oyebanjo (YORK), Ian Sharps (Burton), Ian Evatt (Chesterfield), Michael Rose (Rochdale); Kevan Hurst (Southend), Antoni Sarcevic (Fleetwood), Ian Henderson (Rochdale), Gary Roberts (Chesterfield); Scott Hogan (Rochdale), Sam Winnall (Scunthorpe). Subs: Nick Pope (YORK), Michael Smith (Bristol Rovers), Reuben Reid (Plymouth), Sam Morsy (Chesterfield), Billy Kee (Burton)
    • 2011/2 NL Team Of The Season: Featured two City players – James Meredith and Matty Blair, along with Fleetwood striker Jamie Vardy
    • 2019/20 NLN (NL Paper): Team included Peter Jameson and Sean Newton.
  4. Divisional Player Of The Month
    • February 2006: Andy Bishop voted Football Conference player of the month award after months of nominations. He received 52 per cent of the vote on the official Conference website to claim the prize. Pleased manager Billy McEwan said: "It's very good news for everybody at the club - it's good for Andy, good for the club and good for the fans. He will be the first to admit though that he's got to keep his form up and keep scoring goals. I'm pleased for him but I am sure he will be pleased for the team as well. To be fair, he's put the chances away but it's all about team work at York City". It meant a February double for City, boss Billy McEwan had already been presented with the top manager award. McEwan added: "It's good for the club to get both. It means we are doing something right but hopefully we will have more to celebrate in the future".
    • March 2007: Clayton Donaldson was awarded the Nationwide Conference's Player of the Month
    • November 2010: Michael Ingham named as the Blue Square Bet Premier play of the month
    • November 2009: Richard Brodie voted Conference Player Of Month
    • April 2012: Matt Blair - Blue Square Premier Player of Month (covering March, April & Play Offs)
    • April 2013: Chris Smith named npower League Two player of the month
    • February 2016: York City’s on-loan striker Bradley Fewster has won the Sky Bet League Two Player of the Month award for February. The 20-year-old Middlesbrough forward netted five times for the Minstermen during the month and took the honours head of fellow shortlisted trio Scott Boden (Newport), Rod McDonald (Northampton) and Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth).
  5. FA Cup Player Of The Round
    • October 2007 – Craig Farrell (Rushall Olympic, QR4).
    • November 2009 - Richard Brodie (Crewe, R1). He won 54% of the online vote after his two goals helped to beat Crewe. His nearest rival was Bath City’s Chris Holland, who was a distant second with 19 per cent of the poll.
  6. Other Monthly Goalscoring Awards
    • August 2008 - York City striker Onome Sodje has won the first ever (August 2008) Blue Square Premier Goal of the Month award. Fans voted on the Blue Square website and Sodje's strike against Torquay United came out on top with 30%. York City manager Colin Walker told BBC Radio York the player was delighted with the award. "He screamed loudly when I told him this morning. It really meant a lot to him. It was a great goal and it got us a good point." He added: "Hopefully it will give him more confidence to get more goals".
    • November 2009 - Michael Rankine’s goal at Cambridge voted Goal Of The Round for FAC R2.
  7. All Time Club Player Awards
    • 2000 - Barry Swallow crowned City’s Player of the Millennium by Yorkshire Evening Press readers in 2000. Since then, of course, he might have become £172,661 richer but even Berwick Kaler would struggle to cast a pantomime villain less popular than Swallow is in York now. As a director of Bootham Crescent Holdings, along with Douglas Craig and Colin Webb, Swallow's reputation was irrevocably tarnished after the trio demanded £2.1 million from the club to buy back its stadium.
    • 2007 - In 2007, Barry Jackson, the club's record appearance holder, was voted City's all-time favourite player in a PFA survey as part of their centenary celebrations. Barry Jackson played 539 games for the Minstermen between 1958 and 1970 before losing his place to Barry Swallow. He was a member of City's 1958/9 and 1964/5 promotion campaigns and the club's former head of youth Eric Winstanley, who crossed swords with Barry Jackson on a number of occasions as a similarly loyal servant at Barnsley, believes his old adversary is a worthy winner of the accolade. Winstanley said, "He was a 100 per cent, whole-hearted, typical club man and, while the word great is banded about too much, I would say he was a very, very dedicated professional with York City. He had a never-say-die attitude and was typical of centre-halves from that era. He was a reliable type and I think his performances for York over the years proved he could have played at a higher level". Also, 2 other former City players won their club awards, Ted MacDougall (Bournemouth) and Cheltenham Town’s Neil Grayson.
  8. Divisional Top Scorer
    • 2005/6: Andy Bishop finished the Conference's top goalscorer with 22 goals, one ahead of Woking's Justin Richards. Donaldson was equal third with 17 goals.
    • 2009/10: Richard Brodie who scored 34 goals (26 league + 8 cup) and Matt Tubbs (Salisbury City (26 league and 6 cup)) were equal top scorers in the Conference.

TRANSFER FEES

  • Increasingly transfer fees are stated as “undisclosed” and club record fees are open to dispute and interpretation. In City’s case, it is fairly clear that the biggest initial fee received for a player is £950,000 for Richard Cresswell. However, that fee has since been topped by the total amounts received for Jon Greening and then Ben Godfrey when add ons are included.
    • For Ben Godfrey, the total fees received by City are estimated at £2,680,000 (initial fee of £200,000 plus 10% sell on of £2,480,000 (£25,000,000 - £200,000)).
    • For Jon Greening, it is widely assumed to be £1,137,500 (£350,000 (initial fee),+ £500,000 (10 payments of £50,000 for every 5 Manchester United appearances) and £287,500k (25% sell on (£2,000,000 fee – (£350,000 + £500,000)), although Keith Usher, Club Secretary at the time, speaking in 2020, said with add ons, City received "around £1,300,000".
  • For many years, the record fee paid by City was £140,000 for Adrian Randall. It is widely believed that record was shattered in July 2023 when City paid an “undisclosed” fee for Dipo Akinyemi, widely believed to be at or above £250,000, a fee that Ayr had rejected in January 2023.
  • That esteemed version of the truth, Wikipedia recognises Cresswell and Randall as City’s record fees whilst deleting attempts to footnote Greening and Godfrey and totally ignoring Dipo Akinyemi.
  • On January 26, 2024, City sold Cedric Main to Darlington. It was the first time ever that City had signed a player on a free transfer, not played him and sold him for a fee.
  • See more on City's record transfer fees.

OPPOSITION

  1. Different Opposition Teams On 21/11/2023, Oxford City became City’s 241st ever different opponents since 1922. A couple of weeks later, Nantwich Town became #242. That number counts naming variations (e.g. Hartlepools United / Hartlepool / Hartlepool United) as one and includes original / phoenix clubs as one (e.g. Aldershot / Aldershot Town, Orient / Leyton Orient / Clapton Orient, Nuneaton Town / Borough and Wigan Borough / Wigan Athletic) but counts the 10 reserve sides of various Football League clubs that City played in the 1920s Midland League as separate teams. Of those, City have played:
    • 120 teams in both league and cup
    • 68 teams in league only games
    • 54 teams in cup only games.
  2. Most Frequent / Wins / Defeats / Goals In City’s league history (as at May 2024):
    • Darlington are the most common opponents (110 meetings), unsurprisingly, they are the opposition that City have beaten on the most occasions (47). City have suffered a club record 42 league defeats against Stockport.
    • City have scored a club record 185 goals against Darlington and conceded a record 154 against Wrexham, City’s second most frequent opposition.
  3. Most Undefeated League Games In City’s league history (as at 08 January 2024):
    • City's 1-1 draw at Boreham Wood means City are undefeated (all draws) in 6 league games against Boreham Wood equaling a club record they now share with Weymouth (6 wins), Hayes & Yeading (5 wins) and Farsley Celtic (4 wins). However, an FA Trophy win over Farsley Celtic maens it is a record 7 games (all competitions) unbeaten against them.
  4. Most League Games Without A Win In City’s league history (as at 08 January 2024):
    • Conversely, City's 1-1 draw at Boreham Wood means City have no wins against them in 6 games, more than any other club.
  5. Most Undefeated Cup Games In City’s history (as at 08 January 2024):
    • City are undefeated in 6 cup games (not ties) against Luton, more than against any other side.
  6. Most League Games Without A Win In City’s history (as at 08 January 2024):
    • Conversely, City have no cup wins against Barnsley in 8 cup games (not ties), more than against any other side.
  7. Most League Goals Against An Opposition In City’s history (as May 2023):
    • Scored: Darington (185), Halifax (179), Crewe (170), Rochdale (161), Wrexham (157) and Hartlepool (157)
    • Conceded: Wrexham (154), Rochdale (150), Crewe (147), Darlington (146), Stockport (143) and Hartlepool (139).

MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Earliest Season Start The earliest ever start to a City season was in 2013 and 2019. On both occasions, it started on August 3rd.
  2. Latest Season Finish The latest ever finish to a City season was in 2020 when due to coronavirus City’s season ended on July 25th with a play off game with Altrincham. Prior to that it was June 7th 1947 when a harsh winter meant City could only play 3 games in February and March.
  3. Consecutive Saturday Games In October 1927, City played at home on all 5 Saturdays in the month. The feat was repeated in October 2021. In February 1938, City played at home on all 4 Saturdays in the month. On 3 other occasions, City have played 4 home games in a month on 3 other occasions, those being in November 1952, April 1972 and October 2016, although on those occasions, there were 5 Saturdays in the month.
    • The 2021 run stretched to (and ended with) 6 successive Saturdays with a home game on November 5th.
    • However, in 1927, with home games on September 24 and November 5, that made a club record 7 successive Saturday home games for City.
    • In 1938, City played home games on 6 successive Saturdays between February 5th and March 12th as City reached the FA Cup quarter final.
  4. Artificial Pitches Below is a list of matches (at August 13, 2022, refer to season spreadsheets for later games) where City played on an artificial pitch. It may not be 100%, exhaustive, but here goes:
    • 84/85 QPR (League Cup)
    • 87/88 Preston
    • 16/17 Sutton, Maidstone, Harlow (FAT)
    • 17/18 Tamworth, Harrogate (League and FAT)
    • 18/19 doesn’t ‘count as first class match’ but Scarborough (NRSC)
    • 19/20 Buxton (FAC)
    • 21/22 Morpeth (FAC), BPA, Gloucester, Bromley (FAT)
    • 22/23 Maidstone, Dorking, Bromley
    • 23/24 Dorking, Nantwich, Oxford City, Bromley
    • 24/25 onwards: Recorded on seasonal xls
  5. Miscellaneous Awards
    • Brodie Awards (YEP – June 12, 2010). Richard Brodie landed three top prizes at the weekend’s Annual Congress Dinner of the Football Conference. Not only did Richard receive the Top Premiership Goalscorer Award for the 26 League Goals that he scored for City last season, he also went on to claim the Blue Square Premier Player of the Year Award as well in the prestigious ceremony. Richard attended the event with club officials and his partner Susan so he was able to collect awards in person watched by around 250 guests and officials at the Conference Annual awards Dinner at the Floral Hall in Southport. To complete another hat-trick, Richard also featured in the Blue Square Premier Team of the Year alongside Luton Town's Tom Craddock and James Constable from Oxford United as the 3 top strikers in the division.
    • Minstermen Take Award – Johnstone’s Paint (YEP September 12,2012). York City were named as Johnstone's Paint Trophy team of the round following their recent victory at Rotherham United. Matty Blair scored a late winner as the visitors eventually came away with a 1-0 success at the New York Stadium. That was sufficient to earn them a home tie with former FA Cup winners Coventry City in the next round. "To win an award for our first appearance in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy is great. A tough tie now awaits against Coventry and it will be nice to go into the game on the back of this achievement",manager Gary Mills told York's official website.
    • YEP (April 18, 2016). Former York City midfielder Ben Godfrey was named Sky Bet League Two's LFE Apprentice of the Year at Manchester's Football League Awards night. Godfrey, who went to school at Archbishop's Holgate, was recognised for his achievements on and off the pitch for his home town club prior to signing a three and a half year contract with Premier League Norwich on his 18th birthday in January. The award was presented in front of more than 600 guests from clubs, sponsors and the football industry, although the Minstermen declined an invitation to attend. Godfrey beat off competition from Luton Town’s Frankie Musonda and former Barnet defender Hakeem Odoffin, who is now at Wolves, to the prize, with scholars and first-year professionals all eligible for consideration. After making his senior debut in August, Godfrey made 15 appearances in total and scored against then leaders Plymouth before his Carrow Road switch. On winning the award, he said: “It’s in my long list of proud moments this season and is a reward for all the people around me that have put in a lot of hard work, at both Norwich and York City”. Judges took into account the record of the player in all competitions since he became an apprentice as well as his educational attainment, disciplinary record and any other outstanding achievements. Godfrey received a cheque for £500, along with the trophy, while City will also pocket £1,000. Oxford United's Kemar Roofe, meanwhile, was named League Two Player of the Year at the same ceremony. Read More.
  6. Long Away Trips In A Short Period Of Time Between Saturday February 4 2023 and Tuesday March 7 2023 (32 days), City had 6 trips to London and beyond. Southend, Southend (FA Trophy), Wealdstone, Eastleigh, Dagenham and Bromley.
  7. Successive Cup Visits To York Altrincham made 4 successive visits to York to play cup games. They were FA Cup (November 10 2019), FA Trophy (November 23 2019), National League North Play Off (July 25 2020) and FA Trophy (March 11 2023). Sadly, they won all 4. Previously, Liverpool had played 3 successive games in cup games in York.
  8. Surnames
    • Long Surnames With 16 letters (excluding the hyphen), Thierry Latty-Fairweather is the City player (and scorer) with the longest surname. Keepers George Sykes-Kenworthy (14) and Bailey Peacock-Farrell (14) run him close as does Marc Lloyd-Williams (13). In terms of single barrelled surnames, 4 City players have 12 characters in their name. They are Ian and Trevor Wolstenholme (no relation) and Arnold and Arthur Charlesworth (again, no relation). Of them, Arthur Charlesworth was the only one to score for City.
    • Short Surnames At the last count (August 2023), 3 letters was the shortest name of any City player, 21 players share that honour. 10 of those had also scored for City (in alphabetical order they are Roger Eli, Christian Fox, Stan Fox, Matt Fry, Bobby Hoy, Roy Kay, Josh Law, Walter Lax, George Lee and Daniel Nti).
    • Double Barrelled Surname Players In our history, we've had 9 players with double barrelled surnames on our books, 4 of them today (26/October/2023) (George Sykes-Kenworthy, Thierry Latty-Fairweather, Lenell John-Lewis and scholar Leon Gibson-Booth). The 5 former players are Charlie Jebson-King, Amari Morgan-Smith, Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Leo Fortune-West and Marc Lloyd-Williams.
    • Double Barrelled Surname Scorers As well as TLF, 4 other double barrelled surname players have scored for City, they are Marc Lloyd Williams, Leo Fortune-West, Amari Morgan-Smith and Lenell-John Lewis.
  9. Forenames It is difficult to be definitive about unique forenames given spelling variations (including Ian / Iain, Callum / Kallum) and foreign versions of English names (Marc / Mark / Marco), but with each variation combined into one unique name and ignoring some 1920s players whose first name is unknown, City can be considered to have had 236 unique first named players. In August 2023, Afolabi "Dipo" Akinyemi and Kai (which is considered to be different to Clay and Kaine) Kennedy became the 235th and 236th different first named City players.
  10. Live Television Appearances
    • By the end of the 2022/3 season, City have appeared live on TV on at least 46 occasions.
      • Of these, only one was national UK TV that being a 2-0 defeat at Oxford in September 1995 in a league game televised live by Central TV in the days when regional ITV companies occasionally televised live matches.
      • City’s first live UK satellite TV (Sky Sports) appearance was in an FA Cup tie against Tranmere at Bootham Crescent in December 1991. Some reports state that City’s first FA Cup tie against Liverpool in 1985 was shown live on Scandinavian TV but this cannot be corroborated.
      • A list of City's TV appearances is here.
  11. Heritage (Player / Scorer) Numbers
    • Players On 28/10/2023, George Sykes-Kenworthy and Olly Green made their City debuts making 1,222 players to have played for City since 1922, of that number, 67 have represented City at the LNER Community Stadium.
      • Scorers In total, 624 players have scored for City, including 28 at the LNER.
      • Bootham Crescent 995 players played for City at Bootham Crescent, of those, 441 scored for City at the ground.
  12. Postponements City's 1963 3rd Round FA Cup tie at Southampton was postponed on 9 occasions during the big freeze. It went ahead at the 10th attempt on February 13, City crashed to a 5-0 defeat. Southampton were to go on to reach the semi finals. It was City's only game between December 22 and March 8.
  13. Opposing Keepers Discounting penalty shoot outs (Kidderminster, February 11, 2009), 2 opposing keepers have scored against City. Bruce Grobbelaar (Crewe, May 3, 1980) from the penalty spot and Mark Cousins (Ebbsfleet, December 23, 2023) from open play.
  14. Long and Short At 6 foot and 9 inches, keeper Jason Mooney is City's tallest ever player. There is no definitve answer of who is City's shortest ever player, but given population dynamics / improved nutrition, it is likely to be from City's earliest days. Even in more recent times, records can be unreliable. Rothmans Yearbook ceased giving heights / weights whilst Wikipedia is open to misue. In recent years, Dave Gilbert (loanee, March 1997) is listed as 5-4 and sources quote James Turley as 165 cm (about 5-4) with Aiden Connolly at 5-5. Many others, incuding David McDermott are all slightly taller. In terms of short City careers, in March 2024, Leone Gravata made his City debut as substitute, one of 22 City players whose career (to date) consists of just one substitute appearance.
  15. Quick Re-arrangements On April 2, 2024, City played at FC Halifax a day after the original game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. There is only one other known instance of such a quick re-arrangement. City played Nelson in an FAC Round 2 replay a day after the original tie was abandoned after at half time due to fog. In May 2014, City’s play off semi final home leg against Fleetwood was postponed due to a pre match downpour which flooded the pitch. The game was played 2 days later.
  16. No League Penalties Scored In A Season In 2023/4, City won no league penalties. City failed to score a penalty during 5 previous league seasons (1927/8, 1959/60, 1976/7, 1991/2 and 2001/2), it is unknown whether City missed any penalties during those seasons.