Albion’s Promotion Challenge Season Comparison – 45 games

A first ever home league victory over Rotherham United moved the Baggies to 80 points with one game to go.

The Baggies have never failed to be promoted with such a high points total at the end of the season in any of their promotion campaigns dating back to their first in 1901/02, even converting all the pre-1981 totals to three-points-for-a-win.

Taking the number of games played into consideration, there have been three occasions, all in the first decade of the 20th century, when an average higher 1.74 points per game, which would be this season’s total should Albion lose at Derby, has not resulted in promotion.  In those season, Albion finished 4th twice and 3rd when only the top two clubs were promoted.

As a matter of interest, Albion’s highest ever points-per-game total when converting to the 3-point format was in their first ever promotion campaign.  In 1901/02, the Baggies were champions in their first season in Division Two winning 25 and drawing 5 of their 34 games, an average of 2.35 points per game by today’s points system.

 

    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 45 21 11 13 59 50 74 6th 13 5 5 37 23 44 8 6 8 22 27 30 6th 74
2001/2002 45 26 8 11 59 29 86 2nd 14 4 4 34 11 46 12 4 7 25 18 40 2nd 89
2003/2004 45 25 11 9 64 40 86 2nd 14 5 3 34 14 47 11 6 6 30 26 39 2nd 86
2006/2007 45 21 10 14 74 55 73 4th 13 4 5 44 24 43 8 6 9 30 31 30 4th 76
2007/2008 45 22 12 11 86 55 78 1st 12 8 3 51 27 44 10 4 8 35 28 34 1st 81
2009/2010 45 26 12 7 88 47 90 2nd 16 2 4 47 20 50 10 10 3 41 27 40 2nd 91
2018/2019 45 23 11 11 86 59 80 4th 12 7 4 53 31 43 11 4 7 33 28 37    
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 28/04/2001 Huddersfield Town (H) D 1-1 Roberts
2001/2002 13/04/2002 Bradford City (A) W 1-0 Balis (pen)
2003/2004 04/05/2004 Stoke City (A) L 1-4 Dobie
2006/2007 28/04/2007 Coventry City (A) W 1-0 Robinson
2007/2008 28/04/2008 Southampton (H) D 1-1 Brunt
2009/2010 26/04/2010 Crystal Palace (A) D 1-1 Tamaș
2018/2019 27/04/2019 Rotherham United (H) W 2-1 Rodriguez (pen), Harper

Next Matches

2000/2001 06/05/2001 Preston North End (A) L 1-2 Clement
2001/2002 21/04/2002 Crystal Palace (H) W 2-0 Moore, Taylor
2003/2004 09/05/2004 Nottingham Forest (H) L 0-2  
2006/2007 06/05/2007 Barnsley (H) W 7-0 Phillips (3), Ellington (2, 1 pen), Koren, Gera
2007/2008 04/05/2008 Queen’s Park Rangers (A) W 2-0 Kim, Brunt
2009/2010 02/05/2010 Barnsley (H) D 1-1 Dorrans
2018/2019 05/05/2019 Derby County (A)      

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