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Posted Thursday, May 9th 2019 @CrawleyJames92

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
8^th- 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