Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 1 game

Here we go again with another campaign with the Baggies expecting challenge for promotion and, for only the second time this century, Albion kicked off a second tier campaign with a victory.

In 2006, a double from John Hartson on debut earned the Baggies all three points at the Hawthorns against Hull City.  While Tony Pulis’s team started the 2016/17 Premier League season with an away win at Crystal Palace, the previous time that an Albion side opened a league campaign with an away win was back in 1973 when a brace from Tony Brown and another goal from Allan Glover helped Don Howe’s newly relegated side to a 3-2 win over Blackpool at Bloomfield Road.

Looking ahead to the second fixture of the season, back in 2003, Macedonian midfielder, Artim Šakiri, announced himself to the Hawthorns faithful with a screamer to open the scoring in a 4-1 win over Burnley and get Gary Megson’s second promotion campaign properly underway.

Home Away Season End
Pld W D L F A Pts Posn* W D L F A Pts W D L F A Pts Posn Pts
2000/2001 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 20th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 6th 74
2001/2002 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 17th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2nd 89
2003/2004 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 23rd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 2nd 86
2006/2007 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 3rd 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 76
2007/2008 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 18th 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1st 81
2009/2010 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 15th 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 91
2018/2019 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 22nd 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 80
2019/2020 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6th 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 3
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 12/08/2000 Nottingham Forest (A) L 0-1
2001/2002 11/08/2001 Walsall (A) L 1-2 Clement
2003/2004 09/08/2003 Walsall (A) L 1-4 Koumas
2006/2007 05/08/2006 Hull City (H) W 2-0 Hartson (2)
2007/2008 11/08/2007 Burnley (A) L 1-2 Phillips
2009/2010 08/08/2009 Newcastle United (H) D 1-1 Martis
2018/2019 04/08/2018 Bolton Wanderers (H) L 1-2 Barnes
2019/2020 03/08/2019 Nottingham Forest (A) W 2-1 Edwards, Phillips

Next Matches

2000/2001 19/08/2000 Bolton Wanderers (H) L 0-2
2001/2002 18/08/2001 Grimsby Town (H) L 0-1
2003/2004 16/08/2003 Burnley (H) W 4-1 Šakiri, Hulse, Hughes (2)
2006/2007 08/08/2006 Cardiff City (A) D 1-1 Gera
2007/2008 18/08/2007 Preston North End (H) W 2-0 Phillips, Miller
2009/2010 15/08/2009 Nottingham Forest (A) W 1-0 Cohen (o.g.)
2018/2019 07/08/2018 Nottingham Forest (A) D 1-1 Phillips
2019/2020 10/08/2019 Millwall (H)

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