Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 43 games

Albion’s biggest defeat of the season has surely now ended any faint hopes that they retained of making the top six. Everything went wrong for Steve Bruce’s team in the first half, not all of them self-inflicted, but the game was over as a contest when Colback’s attempted cross flew into the net. Furlong’s red card was Albion’s seventh of the season – no team in the division has had more this season.

It leaves the Baggies six points outside of the top six with just three games remaining. It may be mathematically possible for them to make the play-offs but it would take a freakish set of results, not least three straight wins for Albion!

No Albion side has won the last three matches of a regular season since Ossie Ardiles’ team beat Wigan Athletic 5-1, Rotherham United 2-0 and Hull City 3-1 in the final three games of the 1992/93 season. The last time an Albion side did it in the second tier was way back in 1930 when they won the last seven matches of the season but still missed out on promotion finishing in sixth spot.

    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 43 20 10 13 56 48 70 5th 13 4 5 36 22 43 7 6 8 20 26 27 6th 74
2001/2002 43 25 7 11 57 28 82 3rd 14 3 4 33 10 45 11 4 7 24 18 37 2nd 89
2003/2004 43 25 11 7 63 35 86 2nd 14 5 3 34 14 47 11 6 4 29 21 39 2nd 86
2006/2007 43 20 10 13 71 52 70 4th 13 4 5 44 24 43 7 6 8 27 28 27 4th 76
2007/2008 43 21 11 11 83 53 74 1st 12 7 3 50 26 43 9 4 8 33 27 31 1st 81
2009/2010 43 25 11 7 85 46 86 2nd 15 2 4 45 20 47 10 9 3 40 26 39 2nd 91
2018/2019 43 22 10 11 84 58 76 4th 11 7 4 51 30 40 11 3 7 33 28 36 4th 80
2019/2020 43 22 15 6 74 41 81 2nd 10 8 3 42 25 38 12 7 3 32 16 43 2nd 83
2021/2022 43 16 12 15 47 45 60 12th 11 7 3 29 16 40 5 5 12 18 29 20    
* Positions are recorded as Albion’s position in the table after all fixtures for that day have been completed.

Results

2000/2001 16/04/2001 Grimsby Town (H) L 0-1  
2001/2002 01/04/2002 Coventry City (A) W 1-0 Taylor
2003/2004 24/04/2004 Bradford City (H) W 2-0 Horsfield, Hughes
2006/2007 13/04/2007 Sheffield Wednesday (H) L 0-1  
2007/2008 15/04/2008 Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) W 1-0 Gera
2009/2010 10/04/2010 Doncaster Rovers (A) W 3-2 Dorrans, Brunt, Bednár
2018/2019 19/04/2019 Hull City (H) W 3-2 Gibbs, Gayle (2)
2019/2020 11/07/2020 Blackburn Rovers (A) D 1-1 Krovinović
2021/2022 18/04/2022 Nottingham Forest (A) L 0-4  

Next Matches

2000/2001 21/04/2001 Gillingham (A) W 2-1 Hughes, Clement
2001/2002 07/04/2002 Rotherham United (H) D 1-1 Taylor
2003/2004 01/05/2004 Reading (A) L 0-1  
2006/2007 23/04/2007 Burnley (A) L 2-3 Koumas, Ellington
2007/2008 19/04/2008 Norwich City (A) W 2-1 Koren, Gera
2009/2010 17/04/2010 Middlesbrough (H) W 2-0 Cox, Bednár
2018/2019 22/04/2019 Reading (A) D 0-0  
2019/2020 14/07/2020 Fulham (H) D 0-0  
2021/2022 23/04/2022 Coventry City (H)      

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