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City's 2018/19 season in numbers
Thursday, May 9th 2019
What a season it's been - here are the numbers and facts from City's 2018/19 season.
- 1 - City were the most in-form team in early 2019, with a run of nine wins in a row (TransferMarkt)
- 2 - Duo Max O’Leary and Joe Morrell made their league debuts
- 3 - Andreas Weimann scored the only hat-trick of the season v Sheffield United, the first City player to score three times away from home in tier one or two since Kevin Mabbutt in 1978
- 5 - Yet more season-on-season progress as City continued to extend their final league standing for the fifth year in a row. The last time City rose up the ranks five seasons in a row came in the 1970s
- 8th - City’s highest final position in the Sky Bet Championship since 2008
- 10 – The total number of new faces this season (Niki Mäenpää, Stefan Marinovic, Jack Hunt, Adam Webster, Tomas Kalas, Jay Dasilva, Marley Watkins, Mo Eisa, Hakeeb Adelakun, Kasey Palmer)
- 11 - City finish 3rd in the away league table with 11 wins
- 15 - City’s unbeaten record across all competitions which included nine wins in a row
- 19 - How many times City hit the woodwork
- 46 - Marlon Pack featured in every league game this season, missing less than 45 minutes of football
- 70 - City’s final points tally
Firsts
- The Robins beat Stoke City to record their first New Year’s Day away win for 116 years – their first win at Stoke for 24 years
- City secured their first away win v QPR for 41 years
- City beat Birmingham City at St Andrews for the first time in 25 years
- First FA Cup last 16 appearance in the FA Cup since 2001
- Weimann’s hat-trick at Bramall Lane was the first in his career
Youth
- 16 players went out on loan at 11 different clubs
- Saikou Janneh – Voted Young Player of the Year as Torquay United became Vanarama National League champions
- Tyreeq Bakinson – Newport County Young Player of the Year (reached League Two play-offs)
- Freddie Hinds and James Morton reached Vanarama National League South play-offs with Bath City
- The Under-23s reached the final of the GFA Senior Challenge Cup – of which they are the current holders - for the third year running.
- City's U23s played more than 15,500 English Football League minutes at City or on loan
Off the pitch
- 30% of home supporters are Under-19
- 14,000 - Number of 2019/20 Season cards snapped up in an unprecedented demand during initial sales period
- 15,121 - Record number of shirt sales, up 9%
- 21,000 – Highest seasonal average home crowd in 40 years
- 25,556 – City’s largest home league attendance (v Derby County) since the Ashton Gate redevelopment
Thanks to Kevin @krr57 who kindly supplied some of the stats above.
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