Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 28 games

Preston North End’s first win at the Hawthorns since 1973 ended Albion’s club record unbeaten home start to a campaign at 13 matches and means that this season is now the Baggies’ worst start to a second tier campaign since 1999/2000 when Brian Little’s team sat in 19th place after 28 games with just 29 points.

That was the last season in which Albion were either not in, or not challenging for promotion to, the Premier League, but this season’s tally of 45 points from 28 games is still better than all but one of the 20th century second tier campaigns following the Baggies’ relegation in 1986. The outlier was the briefly positive 1988/89 season when Brian Talbot’s side had amassed 46 points at the same stage and also sat in 5th place but fell away to finish 9th.

    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 28 15 5 8 37 31 50 4th 9 2 3 23 14 29 6 3 5 14 17 21 6th 74
2001/2002 28 14 5 9 33 23 47 6th 8 2 4 17 7 26 6 3 5 16 16 21 2nd 89
2003/2004 28 14 9 5 39 23 51 2nd 7 5 2 19 10 26 7 4 3 20 13 25 2nd 86
2006/2007 28 13 7 8 51 33 46 4th 11 2 1 35 12 35 2 5 7 16 21 11 4th 76
2007/2008 28 15 6 7 62 35 51 1st 9 4 1 37 14 31 6 2 6 25 21 20 1st 81
2009/2010 28 15 8 5 58 31 53 2nd 8 2 4 29 15 26 7 6 1 29 16 27 2nd 91
2018/2019 28 14 8 6 57 35 50 3rd 7 5 2 33 18 26 7 3 4 24 17 24 4th 80
2019/2020 28 14 11 3 50 31 53 1st 6 6 2 30 20 24 8 5 1 20 11 29 2nd 83
2021/2022 28 12 9 7 34 22 45 5th 8 5 1 21 8 29 4 4 6 13 14 16    
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 13/01/2001 Queen’s Park Rangers (A) L 0-2  
2001/2002 01/01/2002 Stockport County (H) W 4-0 Roberts, Johnson, Dichio (2)
2003/2004 17/01/2004 Burnley (A) D 1-1 Horsfield
2006/2007 12/01/2007 Luton Town (H) W 3-2 Koumas, Phillips (2)
2007/2008 19/01/2008 Cardiff City (H) D 3-3 Bednár, Albrechtsen, Johnson (o.g.)
2009/2010 03/02/2010 Blackpool (A) W 3-2 Bednár (2), Dorrans (pen)
2018/2019 21/01/2019 Bolton Wanderers (A) W 2-0 Rodriguez, Field
2019/2020 20/01/2020 Stoke City (H) L 0-1  
2021/2022 26/01/2022 Preston North End (H) L 0-2  

Next Matches

2000/2001 20/01/2001 Sheffield United (H) W 2-1 Fox, Hughes
2001/2002 12/01/2002 Grimsby Town (A) D 0-0  
2003/2004 31/01/2004 Watford (H) W 3-1 Horsfield (2), Hughes
2006/2007 20/01/2007 Leeds United (A) W 3-2 Greening, Kamara (2)
2007/2008 29/01/2008 Preston North End (A) L 1-2 Gera
2009/2010 06/02/2010 Plymouth Argyle (A) W 1-0 Reid
2018/2019 02/02/2019 Middlesbrough (H) L 2-3 Rodriguez, Gayle
2019/2020 28/01/2020 Cardiff City (A) L 1-2 Austin (pen)
2021/2022 29/01/2022 Millwall (A)      

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