Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 21 games

The Baggies ended their goal drought scoring twice at the CBS Arena and went on to claim all three points despite conceding their first ever goal at Coventry City’s new stadium.

A fourth away victory of the season moves the Baggies back into third place, at least until QPR’s match on Sunday, but their points tally from 21 games is lower than all but two of their 21st century second tier campaigns. However, it does mean that Albion maintain their record of never having lost game 21 of a second tier season since 1999 (when they lost 2-0 away to Crewe Alexandra).

Matchday 22 has been kind to the Baggies in recent seasons with Albion having won game 22 in five of their last six promotion campaigns including a crucial comeback win at St Andrews two years ago when Charlie Austin scored a fantastic brace.

    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 21 12 4 5 28 21 40 3rd 7 2 2 18 11 23 5 2 3 10 10 17 6th 74
2001/2002 21 12 2 7 25 18 38 4th 6 1 3 11 5 19 6 1 4 14 13 19 2nd 89
2003/2004 21 12 5 4 32 18 41 1st 6 3 2 14 7 21 6 2 2 18 11 20 2nd 86
2006/2007 21 9 5 7 33 23 32 8th 7 2 1 21 8 23 2 3 6 12 15 9 4th 76
2007/2008 21 11 5 5 42 23 38 2nd 6 3 1 21 8 21 5 2 4 21 15 17 1st 81
2009/2010 21 11 6 4 43 21 39 2nd 6 2 3 23 11 20 5 4 1 20 10 19 2nd 91
2018/2019 21 10 6 5 44 30 36 3rd 6 3 2 29 16 21 4 3 3 15 14 15 4th 80
2019/2020 21 13 7 1 42 21 46 2nd 6 4 0 28 15 22 7 3 1 14 6 24 2nd 83
2021/2022 21 10 7 4 29 17 37 3rd 6 4 0 16 5 22 4 3 4 13 12 15    
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 02/12/2000 Wimbledon (A) W 1-0 Williams (o.g.)
2001/2002 02/12/2001 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) W 1-0 Jordão
2003/2004 06/12/2003 West Ham United (H) D 1-1 Mullins (o.g.)
2006/2007 02/12/2006 Derby County (H) W 1-0 Hartson
2007/2008 08/12/2007 Leicester City (A) W 2-1 Gera, Beattie
2009/2010 14/12/2009 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) D 2-2 Thomas, Cox
2018/2019 07/12/2018 Aston Villa (H) D 2-2 Gayle, Rodriguez
2019/2020 11/12/2019 Wigan Athletic (A) D 1-1 Austin
2021/2022 04/12/2021 Coventry City (A) W 2-1 Grant, McFadzean (o.g.)

Next Matches

2000/2001 09/12/2000 Fulham (H) L 1-3 Lyttle
2001/2002 08/12/2001 Sheffield United (H) L 0-1  
2003/2004 09/12/2003 Bradford City (A) W 1-0 Dobie
2006/2007 10/12/2006 Barnsley (A) D 1-1 Koumas
2007/2008 15/12/2007 Charlton Athletic (H) W 4-2 Bednář, Gera (2), Phillips
2009/2010 26/12/2009 Peterborough United (H) W 2-0 Moore, Bennett (o.g.)
2018/2019 14/12/2018 Sheffield United (A) W 2-1 Barry, Gibbs
2019/2020 14/12/2019 Birmingham City (A) W 3-2 Diangana, Austin (2)
2021/2022 11/12/2021 Reading (H)      

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