2009–10 Football League One
The Football League 2009–10 (called Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons), was the seventeenth season under its current league division format. It began in August 2009 and ended on 8 May 2010.
Season | 2009–10 |
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Champions | Norwich City |
Promoted | Norwich City Leeds United Millwall |
Relegated | Gillingham Wycombe Wanderers Southend United Stockport County |
Matches played | 557 |
Goals scored | 1,468 (2.64 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Rickie Lambert (30) |
Biggest home win | Huddersfield 7–1 Brighton Huddersfield 6–0 Wycombe |
Biggest away win | Norwich 1–7 Colchester Stockport 0–6 Huddersfield |
Highest scoring | Norwich 1–7 Colchester Huddersfield 7–1 Brighton Charlton 4–4 Millwall |
Longest winning run | 8 games Norwich City[1] |
Longest unbeaten run | 16 games Norwich City[1] |
Longest losing run | 12 games Stockport County[1] |
Highest attendance | Leeds United 2–1 Bristol Rovers (38,234)[1] |
Lowest attendance | Hartlepool United 1–1 Gillingham (2,465)[1] |
Average attendance | 9,139[1] |
← 2008–09 2010–11 → |
The Football League is contested through three divisions. The second division of these is League One. Norwich City and Leeds United were automatically promoted to the Football League Championship as winners and runners-up respectively, and they were joined by the winner of the League One play-offs Millwall. The bottom four teams in the league were relegated to the third division, League Two.
Changes from last season
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
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1 | Norwich City (C, P) | 46 | 29 | 8 | 9 | 89 | 47 | +42 | 95 | Promotion to Football League Championship |
2 | Leeds United (P) | 46 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 77 | 44 | +33 | 86 | |
3 | Millwall (O, P) | 46 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 76 | 44 | +32 | 85 | Qualification for League One play-offs |
4 | Charlton Athletic | 46 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 71 | 48 | +23 | 84 | |
5 | Swindon Town | 46 | 22 | 16 | 8 | 73 | 57 | +16 | 82 | |
6 | Huddersfield Town | 46 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 82 | 56 | +26 | 80 | |
7 | Southampton | 46 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 85 | 47 | +38 | 73[lower-alpha 1] | |
8 | Colchester United | 46 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 64 | 52 | +12 | 72 | |
9 | Brentford | 46 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 55 | 52 | +3 | 62 | |
10 | Walsall | 46 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 60 | 63 | −3 | 62 | |
11 | Bristol Rovers | 46 | 19 | 5 | 22 | 59 | 70 | −11 | 62 | |
12 | Milton Keynes Dons | 46 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 60 | 68 | −8 | 60 | |
13 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 46 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 56 | 60 | −4 | 59 | |
14 | Carlisle United | 46 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 63 | 66 | −3 | 58 | |
15 | Yeovil Town | 46 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 55 | 59 | −4 | 53 | |
16 | Oldham Athletic | 46 | 13 | 13 | 20 | 39 | 57 | −18 | 52 | |
17 | Leyton Orient | 46 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 53 | 63 | −10 | 51 | |
18 | Exeter City | 46 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 48 | 60 | −12 | 51 | |
19 | Tranmere Rovers | 46 | 14 | 9 | 23 | 45 | 72 | −27 | 51 | |
20 | Hartlepool United | 46 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 59 | 67 | −8 | 50[lower-alpha 2] | |
21 | Gillingham (R) | 46 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 48 | 64 | −16 | 50 | Relegation to Football League Two |
22 | Wycombe Wanderers (R) | 46 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 56 | 76 | −20 | 45 | |
23 | Southend United (R) | 46 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 51 | 72 | −21 | 43 | |
24 | Stockport County (R) | 46 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 35 | 95 | −60 | 25 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
Play-offs
Semi-finals | Final at Wembley | ||||||||||
6 | Huddersfield Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
3 | Millwall | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
3 | Millwall | 1 | |||||||||
5 | Swindon Town | 0 | |||||||||
5 | Swindon Town (p) | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
4 | Charlton Athletic | 1 | 2 | 3 |
First leg
Swindon Town | 2–1 | Charlton Athletic |
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Austin 52' Ward 60' |
(Report) | 65' Burton |
Second leg
Charlton Athletic | 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) | Swindon Town |
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Ferry 27' (o.g.) Mooney 45+3' Miguel Llera 90+3' |
(Report) | 67' Greer 74' Ward |
Penalties | ||
Burton Bailey Forster Dailly Richardson |
4–5 | McGovern Austin Amankwaah Ward Darby |
Charlton Athletic 3–3 Swindon Town on aggregate. Swindon Town win 5–4 on penalties.
Millwall | 2–0 | Huddersfield Town |
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Morison 23' Robinson 82' |
(Report) |
Millwall win 2–0 on aggregate.
Final
Millwall | 1–0 | Swindon Town |
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Robinson 39' | (Report) |
Millwall are promoted to the Football League Championship
Results
Top scorers
Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals[4] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Rickie Lambert | Southampton | 30 |
2 | Billy Paynter | Swindon Town | 26 |
3 | Jermaine Beckford | Leeds United | 25 |
4 | Lee Barnard | Southampton/Southend Utd | 24 |
Grant Holt | Norwich City | 24 | |
6 | Steve Morison | Millwall | 21 |
7 | Charlie Austin | Swindon Town | 20 |
8 | Jordan Rhodes | Huddersfield Town | 19 |
9 | Chris Martin | Norwich City | 17 |
10 | Ian Harte | Carlisle United | 16 |
Stadia
Team | Stadium | Capacity |
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Leeds United | Elland Road | 39,460 |
Southampton | St Mary's Stadium | 32,689 |
Charlton Athletic | The Valley | 27,111 |
Norwich City | Carrow Road | 26,034 |
Huddersfield Town | Galpharm Stadium | 24,500 |
Milton Keynes Dons | stadium:mk | 22,000 |
Millwall | The Den | 20,146 |
Carlisle United | Brunton Park Stadium | 16,981 |
Tranmere Rovers | Prenton Park | 16,567 |
Swindon Town | The County Ground | 15,728 |
Brentford | Griffin Park | 12,763 |
Southend United | Roots Hall | 12,306 |
Bristol Rovers | Memorial Stadium | 11,916 |
Gillingham | Priestfield Stadium | 11,582 |
Walsall | Bescot Stadium | 11,300 |
Wycombe Wanderers | Adams Park | 11,000 |
Stockport County | Edgeley Park | 10,651 |
Oldham Athletic | Boundary Park | 10,638 |
Colchester United | Colchester Community Stadium | 10,000 |
Yeovil Town | Huish Park | 9,978 |
Leyton Orient | Brisbane Road | 9,271 |
Exeter City | St James Park | 9,036 |
Brighton & Hove Albion | Withdean Stadium | 8,850 |
Hartlepool United | Victoria Park | 7,691 |
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Norwich City | Bryan Gunn | Contract terminated | 14 August 2009[5] | Paul Lambert | 18 August 2009[6] | 23rd |
Colchester United | Paul Lambert | Resigned | 18 August 2009[7] | Adrian Boothroyd | 2 September 2009[8] | 1st |
Wycombe Wanderers | Peter Taylor | Mutual agreement | 9 October 2009[9] | Gary Waddock | 13 October 2009[10] | 23rd |
Tranmere Rovers | John Barnes | Contract terminated | 9 October 2009[11] | Les Parry | 16 December 2009[12] | 22nd |
Brighton & Hove Albion | Russell Slade | Contract terminated | 1 November 2009[13] | Gus Poyet | 10 November 2009[14] | 20th |
Leyton Orient | Geraint Williams | Contract terminated | 3 April 2010[15] | Russell Slade | 5 April 2010[16] | 19th |
Kits
References
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- "Slade sacked as Brighton manager". BBC Sport. 1 November 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- "Brighton appoint Poyet as manager". BBC Sport. 10 November 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- "Leyton Orient part company with boss Geraint Williams". BBC Sport. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- "Russell Slade appointed as manager at Leyton Orient". BBC Sport. 5 April 2010. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2010.