Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 39 games

It was a familiar story at Carrow Road as Tony Mowbray’s team dominated the game without creating very many chances, ultimately coming away with nothing as the hosts converted their only real chance of the second half. Albion remain in the top six on goal difference with both Middlesbrough and Bristol City level on points. There is then a four point gap to Watford in ninth and the Canaries have kept their slim play-off hopes alive as they now sit in tenth a point further back.

Albion’s current points tally of 57 is the lowest for a sixth-placed Championship team at this stage of the season in the last twenty years. Only once in that time, in 2008, had a sixth-placed team had fewer than 60 points – Plymouth Argyle were in 6th place with 58 points from 39 games that season, but would eventually finish 10th.

In 2002, Gary Megson’s team earned an incredible 19 points from the last seven games, dropping only two points in the home game with Rotherham United, while last season, Carlos Corberán’s team earned only 8 points in the same period but still finished fifth. The fewest points earned from the last seven games in our comparison campaigns was in 1989/90 when Brian Talbot’s team earned just 5 points and dropped to 20th place in the table escaping relegation by only three points. In Tony Mowbray’s two previous Championship campaigns at the Hawthorns, Albion earned 10 points from the last seven games on 2006/07 and 15 points in the same period a year later.

    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 39 16 16 7 56 33 64 3rd 12 5 2 36 13 41 4 11 5 20 20 23 9th 72
1989/1990 39 11 13 15 59 59 46 15th 6 7 7 34 31 25 5 6 8 25 28 21 20th 51
1990/1991 39 9 12 18 44 54 39 22nd 6 8 5 21 17 26 3 4 13 23 37 13 23rd 48
1993/1994 39 11 11 17 51 56 44 20th 8 7 5 34 24 31 3 4 12 17 32 13 21st 51
1994/1995 39 14 8 17 41 49 50 14th 11 2 6 25 20 35 3 6 11 16 29 15 19th 58
1995/1996 39 12 9 18 48 61 45 20th 8 5 7 27 26 29 4 4 11 21 35 16 11th 60
1996/1997 39 11 14 14 61 64 47 18th 5 7 8 33 30 22 6 7 6 28 34 25 16th 57
1997/1998 39 14 11 14 39 45 53 10th 8 6 6 21 21 30 6 5 8 18 24 23 10th 61
1998/1999 39 15 8 16 61 62 53 11th 11 2 6 38 25 35 4 6 10 23 37 18 12th 59
1999/2000 39 8 15 16 31 50 39 22nd 4 9 6 16 20 21 4 6 10 15 30 18 21st 49
2000/2001 39 19 8 12 52 46 65 5th 12 4 4 33 21 40 7 4 8 19 25 25 6th 74
2001/2002 39 21 7 11 48 26 70 3rd 12 3 4 26 8 39 9 4 7 22 18 31 2nd 89
2003/2004 39 22 10 7 58 34 76 2nd 12 5 3 31 14 41 10 5 4 27 20 35 2nd 86
2006/2007 39 18 10 11 66 46 64 6th 13 4 3 43 20 43 5 6 8 23 26 21 4th 76
2007/2008 39 19 9 11 78 51 66 4th 12 6 3 49 25 42 7 3 8 29 26 24 1st 81
2009/2010 39 23 9 7 77 42 78 2nd 14 2 4 42 20 44 9 7 3 35 22 34 2nd 91
2018/2019 39 20 10 9 75 50 70 4th 9 7 4 44 27 34 11 3 5 31 23 36 4th 80
2019/2020 39 19 14 6 64 38 71 1st 8 8 3 36 23 32 11 6 3 28 15 39 2nd 83
2021/2022 39 14 12 13 42 37 54 12th 9 7 2 24 12 34 5 5 11 18 25 20 10th 67
2022/2023 39 15 11 13 48 42 56 10th 10 6 4 26 15 36 5 5 9 22 27 20 9th 66
2023/2024 39 19 10 10 60 37 67 5th 13 3 3 31 14 42 6 7 7 29 23 25 5th 75
2024/2025 39 13 18 8 48 35 57 6th 9 8 2 25 12 35 4 10 6 23 23 22    
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

1988/1989 04/04/1989 Stoke City (A) D 0-0  
1989/1990 04/04/1990 West Ham United (H) L 1-3 Goodman
1990/1991 06/04/1991 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) D 2-2 Goodman, Ford
1993/1994 02/04/1994 Bristol City (A) D 0-0  
1994/1995 25/03/1995 Grimsby Town (A) W 2-0 Hunt, Donovan
1995/1996 02/04/1996 Luton Town (H) L 0-2  
1996/1997 22/03/1997 Charlton Athletic (H) L 1-2 Hunt
1997/1998 21/03/1998 Port Vale (H) D 2-2 Flynn, Taylor
1998/1999 03/04/1999 Sunderland (A) L 0-3  
1999/2000 25/03/2000 Manchester City (A) L 1-2 Hughes
2000/2001 25/03/2001 Tranmere Rovers (H) W 2-1 Taylor (2)
2001/2002 16/03/2002 Sheffield United (A) W 3-0 Dobie (2), McInnes
2003/2004 04/04/2004 Ipswich Town (A) W 3-2 Koumas, Dyer, Horsfield
2006/2007 18/03/2007 Birmingham City (H) D 1-1 McShane
2007/2008 29/03/2008 Colchester United (H) W 4-3 Phillips, Brunt, Bednár, Morrison
2009/2010 24/03/2010 Coventry City (H) W 1-0 Reid
2018/2019 29/03/2019 Birmingham City (H) W 3-2 Gayle, Rodriguez (pen), Livermore
2019/2020 26/06/2020 Brentford (A) L 0-1  
2021/2022 03/04/2022 Birmingham City (A) L 0-1  
2022/2023 07/04/2023 Rotherham United (A) L 1-3 Swift (pen)
2023/2024 29/03/2024 Millwall (A) D 1-1 Swift (pen)
2024/2025 29/03/2025 Norwich City (A) L 0-1  

Next Matches

1988/1989 08/04/1989 Chelsea (H) L 2-3 Anderson, Ford
1989/1990 07/04/1990 Middlesbrough (H) D 0-0  
1990/1991 10/04/1991 Hull City (H) D 1-1 Roberts
1993/1994 12/04/1994 Oxford United (A) D 1-1 Taylor
1994/1995 01/04/1995 Middlesbrough (H) L 1-3 Rees
1995/1996 06/04/1996 Millwall (H) W 1-0 Sneekes
1996/1997 28/03/1997 Barnsley (A) L 0-2  
1997/1998 28/03/1998 Birmingham City (A) L 0-1  
1998/1999 05/04/1999 Crewe Alexandra (H) L 1-5 Sneekes
1999/2000 04/04/2000 Ipswich Town (H) D 1-1 Hughes
2000/2001 31/03/2001 Watford (H) W 3-0 Quinn, Hughes, Clement
2001/2002 22/03/2002 Nottingham Forest (A) W 1-0 Taylor
2003/2004 10/04/2004 Gillingham (H) W 1-0 Hughes
2006/2007 31/03/2007 Queen’s Park Rangers (A) W 2-1 Phillips, Gera
2007/2008 01/04/2008 Cardiff City (A) D 0-0  
2009/2010 27/03/2010 Reading (A) D 1-1 Tamas
2018/2019 06/04/2019 Millwall (A) L 0-2  
2019/2020 01/07/2020 Sheffield Wednesday (A) W 3-0 Austin (pen), Pereira (2)
2021/2022 06/04/2022 AFC Bournemouth (H) W 2-0 Mowatt, Carroll
2022/2023 10/04/2023 Queen’s Park Rangers (H) D 2-2 Thomas-Asante, Ajayi
2023/2024 01/04/2024 Watford (H) D 2-2 Thomas-Asante, Furlong
2024/2025 05/04/2025 Sunderland (H)      

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