Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 14 games

A sixth consecutive draw for this season’s Baggies gives them something in common with the last Albion team to win a major trophy. Alan Ashman’s 1967/68 side are the only other Baggies team to have drawn six games on the bounce, doing so in March and April 1968, a run that included two drawn matches against Liverpool in the FA Cup sixth round. No Albion team has previously drawn six league games in succession.

It was also Albion’s fifth goalless draw of the season, still someway short of the club record of ten in the league in 1979/80 but no Baggies team has previously reached five goalless draws before game 20; the previous highest at this stage was four in the first 14 games of 1948/49.

Albion’s poor goalscoring record at home was already a new club record from the start of the season but now, according to Chris Lepkowski, it is now a Football League record; he reported the previous low goals total from the opening seven home games of a season was four, set by York City in 1972/73 and Carlisle United in 1983/84, but Carlisle actually only scored three in that run. The Baggies total of two, however, still sets a new record.

On the other hand, a seventh clean sheet of the season is just one short of the club record of eight shutouts in the first fourteen games of the 1948/49 campaign. However, the total of just eight goals conceded at this stage is a new club record beating the total of nine let in during the first fourteen games of the 1905/06 and 1948/49 seasons.

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
1988/1989 14 6 5 3 17 11 23 3rd 3 2 2 6 4 11 3 3 1 11 7 12 9th 72
1989/1990 14 4 5 5 20 21 17 14th 1 3 2 8 11 6 3 2 3 12 10 11 20th 51
1990/1991 14 4 6 4 17 18 18 14th 2 3 2 8 7 9 2 3 2 9 11 9 23rd 48
1993/1994 14 4 3 7 22 25 15 18th 4 2 1 17 11 14 0 1 6 5 14 1 21st 51
1994/1995 14 3 4 7 12 22 13 23rd 3 1 2 6 6 10 0 3 5 6 16 3 19th 58
1995/1996 14 7 3 4 20 15 24 3rd 5 1 1 10 4 16 2 2 3 10 11 8 11th 60
1996/1997 14 4 7 3 18 18 19 11th 1 3 3 7 11 6 3 4 0 11 7 13 16th 57
1997/1998 14 7 4 3 17 12 25 5th 4 1 1 7 3 13 3 3 2 10 9 12 10th 61
1998/1999 14 6 3 5 29 25 21 9th 4 0 3 16 10 12 2 3 2 13 15 9 12th 59
1999/2000 14 3 9 2 13 11 18 16th 0 6 2 5 7 6 3 3 0 8 4 12 21st 49
2000/2001 14 7 3 4 15 15 24 7th 4 1 2 8 7 13 3 2 2 7 8 11 6th 74
2001/2002 14 7 2 5 17 13 23 9th 4 1 3 9 5 13 3 1 2 8 8 10 2nd 89
2003/2004 14 9 1 4 20 13 28 2nd 6 0 2 13 6 18 3 1 2 7 7 10 2nd 86
2006/2007 14 7 4 3 24 13 25 3rd 5 1 0 14 4 16 2 3 3 10 9 9 4th 76
2007/2008 14 8 2 4 30 15 26 3rd 6 1 0 18 3 19 2 1 4 12 12 7 1st 81
2009/2010 14 7 4 3 24 13 25 3rd 4 1 2 12 6 13 3 3 1 12 7 12 2nd 91
2018/2019 14 7 3 4 32 22 24 4th 5 0 2 21 11 15 2 3 2 11 11 9 4th 80
2019/2020 14 7 6 1 26 17 27 1st 3 4 0 17 12 13 4 2 1 9 5 14 2nd 83
2021/2022 14 8 4 2 25 11 28 2nd 5 2 0 14 4 17 3 2 2 11 7 11 10th 67
2022/2023 14 2 8 4 19 18 14 20th 1 4 2 11 10 7 1 4 2 8 8 7 9th 66
2023/2024 14 6 5 3 22 14 23 5th 4 2 1 11 6 14 2 3 2 11 8 9 5th 75
2024/2025 14 5 7 2 14 8 22 5th 2 4 1 2 1 10 3 3 1 12 7 12
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

1988/1989 29/10/1988 Blackburn Rovers (A) W 2-1 Whyte, Anderson
1989/1990 28/10/1989 Middlesbrough (A) D 0-0
1990/1991 06/11/1990 Middlesbrough (H) L 0-1
1993/1994 02/11/1993 Tranmere Rovers (A) L 0-3
1994/1995 29/10/1994 Reading (H) W 2-0 Hunt, Ashcroft
1995/1996 28/10/1995 Millwall (A) L 1-2 Hunt
1996/1997 30/10/1996 Swindon Town (A) W 3-2 Holmes, Peschisolido, Sneekes
1997/1998 01/11/1997 Bradford City (A) D 0-0
1998/1999 24/10/1998 Swindon Town (A) D 2-2 Hughes, Flynn
1999/2000 31/10/1999 Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) D 1-1 McDermott
2000/2001 21/10/2000 Tranmere Rovers (A) D 2-2 Hughes, Roberts
2001/2002 25/10/2001 Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) D 1-1 Clement
2003/2004 21/10/2003 Wimbledon (H) L 0-1
2006/2007 28/10/2006 Birmingham City (A) L 0-2
2007/2008 03/11/2007 Watford (A) W 3-0 Miller, Phillips, Albrechtsen
2009/2010 24/10/2009 Coventry City (A) D 0-0
2018/2019 24/10/2018 Derby County (H) L 1-4 Rodriguez
2019/2020 26/10/2019 Charlton Athletic (H) D 2-2 Phillips, Robson-Kanu
2021/2022 23/10/2021 Bristol City (H) W 3-0 Hugill, Bartley, Grant
2022/2023 15/10/2022 Reading (A) W 2-0 Phillips, Gardner-Hickman
2023/2024 30/10/2023 Coventry City (A) W 2-0 Diangana, Thomas-Asante
2024/2025 07/11/2024 Burnley (H) D 0-0

Next Matches

1988/1989 05/11/1988 Oxford United (H) W 3-2 Anderson, Hopkins, Goodman
1989/1990 01/11/1989 Newcastle United (H) L 1-5 Goodman
1990/1991 10/11/1990 Notts County (A) L 3-4 Bannister (2), Bradley
1993/1994 06/11/1993 Bolton Wanderers (H) D 2-2 Hunt, Taylor (pen)
1994/1995 02/11/1994 Port Vale (H) D 0-0
1995/1996 05/11/1995 Leicester City (H) L 2-3 Hamilton, Raven
1996/1997 02/11/1996 Portsmouth (A) L 0-4
1997/1998 04/11/1997 Norwich City (H) W 1-0 Hughes
1998/1999 31/10/1998 Ipswich Town (A) L 0-2
1999/2000 06/11/1999 Tranmere Rovers (A) L 0-3
2000/2001 24/10/2000 Wimbledon (H) W 3-1 Roberts, Van Blerk, Sneekes
2001/2002 28/10/2001 Barnsley (A) L 2-3 Johnson, Clement
2003/2004 25/10/2003 Rotherham United (A) W 3-0 S. Barker (o.g.), Hulse (2)
2006/2007 31/10/2006 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) D 3-3 Ellington, Kamara (2)
2007/2008 06/11/2007 Sheffield Wednesday (H) D 1-1 Phillips
2009/2010 31/10/2009 Watford (H) W 5-0 Olsson, Dorrans (pen), Moore, Zuiverloon, Cox
2018/2019 27/10/2018 Blackburn Rovers (H) D 1-1 Dawson
2019/2020 04/11/2019 Stoke City (A) W 2-0 Phillips, Robson-Kanu (pen)
2021/2022 30/10/2021 Fulham (A) L 0-3
2022/2023 18/10/2022 Bristol City (H) L 0-2
2023/2024 04/11/2023 Hull City (H) W 3-1 Wallace, Phillips, Ajayi
2024/2025 10/11/2024 Hull City (A)

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