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Season Database

August 10, 2022 Aaron Bower Leave a comment

Below is a record of every season in Bradford City history. Over time, every season will have its own unique page linking to every game played in all competitive, domestic football throughout that season.

Season	Div	Pts	Pos	FA Cup	EFL Cup
1903-04	Div 2	31	10th	4Q
1904-05	Div 2	32	8th	IR
1905-06	Div 2	34	11th	R3
1906-07	Div 2	47	5th	R3
1907-08	Div 2	54	1st (P)	R1
1908-09	Div 1	34	18th	R3
1909-10	Div 1	42	7th	R2
1910-11	Div 1	45	5th	W
1911-12	Div 1	38	11th	QF
1912-13	Div 1	35	13th	R1
1913-14	Div 1	38	9th	R2
1914-15	Div 1	40	10th	QF
1919-20	Div 1	39	15th	QF
1920-21	Div 1	39	15th	R2
1921-22	Div 1	32	21st	R2
1922-23	Div 2	37	15th	R1
1923-24	Div 2	37	18th	R1
1924-25	Div 2	38	16th	R3
1925-26	Div 2	36	16th	R3
1926-27	Div 2	23	22nd (R)	R3
1927-28	Div 3N	48	6th	R2
1928-29	Div 3N	63	1st (P)	R4
1929-30	Div 2	36	18th	R5
1930-31	Div 2	44	10th	R4
1931-32	Div 2	45	7th	R3
1932-33	Div 2	41	11th	R3
1933-34	Div 2	46	6th	R3
1934-35	Div 2	32	20th	R4
1935-36	Div 2	43	12th	R5
1936-37	Div 2	30	21st (R)	R3
1937-38	Div 3N	38	14th	R3
1938-39	Div 3N	52	3rd	R1
1939-40	Div 3N	1	21st	N/A
1945-46	Div 3N	N/A	N/A	R1
1946-47	Div 3N	50	5th	R1
1947-48	Div 3N	40	14th	R2
1948-49	Div 3N	29	22nd	R2
1949-50	Div 3N	32	19th	R2
1950-51	Div 3N	52	7th	R1
1951-52	Div 3N	42	15th	R2
1952-53	Div 3N	46	16th	R2
1953-54	Div 3N	53	5th	R1
1954-55	Div 3N	36	21st	R3
1955-56	Div 3N	49	8th	R2
1956-57	Div 3N	52	9th	R1
1957-58	Div 3N	57	3rd	R3
1958-59	Div 3*	47	11th	R4
1959-60	Div 3	42	19th	R5
1960-61	Div 3	36	22nd (R)	R2	R3
1961-62	Div 4	51	5th	R3	R1
1962-63	Div 4	32	23rd	R3	R1
1963-64	Div 4	56	5th	R1	R1
1964-65	Div 4	32	19th	R1	QF
1965-66	Div 4	37	23rd	R1	R1
1966-67	Div 4	48	11th	R1	R1
1967-68	Div 4	47	5th	R2	R1
1968-69	Div 4	56	4th (P)	R1	R2
1969-70	Div 3	46	10th	R3	R4
1970-71	Div 3	40	19th	R2	R1
1971-72	Div 3	32	24th (R)	R1	R1
1972-73	Div 4	43	16th	R4	R1
1973-74	Div 4	48	8tb	R4	R1
1974-75	Div 4	47	10th	R1	R2
1975-76	Div 4	41	17th	QF	R1
1976-77	Div 4	59	4th (P)	R1	R2
1977-78	Div 3	34	22nd (R)	R1	R1
1978-79	Div 4	43	15th	R2	R2
1979-80	Div 4	60	5th	R3	R2
1980-81	Div 4	44	14th	R1	R2
1981-82	Div 4	91	2nd (P)	R1	R3
1982-83	Div 3	61	12th	R3	R3
1983-84	Div 3	71	7th	R1	R1
1984-85	Div 3	94	1st (P)	R3	R2
1985-86	Div 2	54	13th	R3	R2
1986-87	Div 2	55	10th	R4	R4
1987-88	Div 2	77	4th	R5	QF
1988-89	Div 2	56	14th	R4	QF
1989-90	Div 2	41	23rd (R)	R3	R2
1990-91	Div 3	70	8th	R1	R3
1991-92	Div 3	58	16th	R2	R2
1992-93	Div 2**	68	10th	R2	R1
1993-94	Div 2	70	7th	R1	R2
1994-95	Div 2	60	14th	R1	R2
1995-96	Div 2	73	6th (P)	R3	R3
1996-97	Div 1	48	21st	R5	R1
1997-98	Div 1	57	13th	R3	R1
1998-99	Div 1	87	2nd (P)	R4	R3
1999-00	Prem	36	17th	R4	R3
2000-01	Prem	26	20th (R)	R3	R3
2001-02	Div 1	55	15th	R3	R3
2002-03	Div 1	52	19th	R3	R1
2003-04	Div 1	36	23rd (R)	R3	R1
2004-05	L1***	65	11th	R1	R1
2005-06	L1	61	11th	R2	R2
2006-07	L1	47	22nd (R)	R2	R1
2007-08	L2	62	10th	R2	R1
2008-09	L2	67	9th	R2	R1
2009-10	L2	62	14th	R1	R1
2010-11	L2	52	18th	R1	R2
2011-12	L2	50	18th	R1	R1
2012-13	L2	69	7th (P)	R2	F
2013-14	L1	59	11th	R1	R1
2014-15	L1	65	7th	QF	R3
2015-16	L1	80	5th	R3	R1
2016-17	L1	79	5th	R1	R1
2017-18	L1	63	11th	R3	R1
2018-19	L1	41	24th (R)	R2	R1
2019-20	L2	54	9th	R1	R1
2020-21	L2	59	15th	R2	R2
2021-22	L2	58	15th	R1	R1

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Bradford City hat-tricks: a brief history following Andy Cook’s treble

August 17, 2021 Aaron Bower 2 Comments

Andy Cook joined an illustrious club on Tuesday evening when scoring his first Bradford City hat-trick.

Cook’s treble – a perfect hat-trick of a header, left foot and right foot finish – made him the latest player to score three times in one match for Bradford City Football Club. This is a brief history of hat-tricks at the club since 1903.

The first-half hat-trick

The fact Cook’s goals all came in the first half of the 4-1 victory against Stevenage prompted the obvious question to start with: who was the last man to score three times before half-time?

The answer: the great Dean Windass – 7,789 days prior to Cook’s first-half hat-trick.

That is a lengthy wait between drinks!

How many players have scored City hat-tricks?

Andy Cook is now the 115th players have scored a hat-trick in competitive football for Bradford City, starting with John Forrest in the 1904-05 season, through to Cook.

Only 18 individuals have managed to score hat-tricks in more than one game for the club, though:

5 hat-tricks: Frank O’Rourke, Jack Deakin, Eddie Carr.
4 hat-tricks: Jack Hallows, Dean Windass.
3 hat-tricks: Albert Whitehurst, Oscar Fox, Bruce Bannister, Jack Forrest, Gerry Ingram, Wallace Smith, George Handley, David Layne, John McCole, Derek Stokes, Robert Whittingham, Sean McCarthy.
2 hat-tricks: Nahki Wells, Bobby Campbell.

Four or more

Cook missed out on joining an even more illustrious club on Tuesday – which contains just 13 men.

Only 13 players have the distinction of scoring more than three times in a single competitive game for Bradford City. Ten of them feature on the list above, as well as three more individuals. They are:

7 goals in one game: Albert Whitehurst (a club record)

5 goals in one game: Jack Hallows

4 goals in one game: Eddie Carr, Jack Deakin, Frank O’Rourke, Albert Whitehurst, Oscar Fox, Bruce Bannister, Jack Forrest, Gerry Ingram, Wallace Smith, Willie Hibbert, Derek McNiven, John Hawley.

Back-to-back hat-tricks

Only one man has scored hat-tricks in consecutive Bradford City matches. Albert Whitehurst scored seven times in an 8-0 win against Tranmere in March 1929, before following that up with four more goals three days later as City defeated Barrow on their way to the Division Three North title. Whitehurst finished that season with 24 goals in just 15 games.

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The kids are alright: City set record for homegrown players in first-team one week into season

September 11, 2020 Aaron Bower Leave a comment

The new season is barely a week old, and Stuart McCall’s Bradford City are setting club records.

Our history with youth development has been, it’s fair to say, mixed. While some of the club’s all-time greats have come through our own Academy and left their mark on the club, recent years have been somewhat leaner.

However, there are signs that this season will be markedly different for City, with six Academy products already featuring in a first-team match this season, just two games into the campaign. That, certainly in the club’s modern-day history, is a record by some distance.

Three of them made their debut for the club in the EFL Trophy match against Doncaster Rovers: Kian Scales, Connor Shanks and Finn Cousin-Dawson.

Jorge Sikora, another product of the same Academy class, debuted in last season’s EFL Trophy, but has already added to his one appearance in that competition last year.

The other two Academy products to have featured are defender Reece Staunton, who has now made a number of appearances for the first-team since he debuted, and Dylan Mottley-Henry, who is in his second spell at City but also classes as a homegrown talent.

In the last decade, from 2010 to 2020, City blooded the following Academy graduates in at least one first-team game: Louis Horne, Luke Dean, Dominic Rowe, Alex Flett, Adam Baker, Scott Brown, Kwame Boateng, Daniel Devine Ellis Hudson, Tom Windle, James King, Sam Wright, Alex Laird, Cameron Hawkes, Elliot Goldthorp, Raeece Ellington, Connor Morris and George Sykes-Kenworthy.

However, the expectation is that this current class will feature much more prominently, with a large portion of those playing only once for the club, and an even smaller fraction making any sort of appearance in league football.

It seems that the future is bright at City.

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#3: Jack Forrest

August 20, 2020 Aaron Bower Leave a comment

Born: 1878 in Lanarkshire, Scotland

Bradford City debut: 1 September 1903 v Grimsby Town

Appearances: 58
Goals: 24

Achievements: Top scorer in 1904-05 season (17 goals)

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Scottish-born forward Jack Forrest was signed for Bradford City in the summer of 1903, following a spell at Stoke City which started with him scoring twice on his debut, but ended just a handful of appearances later after he became homesick.

Forrest had earlier impressed for Wishaw United and Motherwell north of the border, and was lured back to England by the City directors ahead of the club’s inaugural league campaign in 1903.

Forrest scored seven goals in 30 games in 1903-04, but would prove to be much more effective the following season. He ended 1904-05 as the club’s top scorer, scoring 17 times in 25 games: including four in a 9-0 FA Cup victory against Sunderland WE. However, that summer, he left City and returned to Scotland, signing for Hamilton Academical.

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#2: Thomas Farnall

August 20, 2020 Aaron Bower Leave a comment

Born: 1876

Bradford City debut: 1 September 1903 v Grimsby Town

Appearances: 26
Goals: 2

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Already possessing Football League experience with Small Heath, wing-half Thomas Farnall was a vital addition to Bradford City’s first-ever league squad of 1903-04.

Signed from Watford – he had also played for Bristol Rovers – Farnall made 26 appearances for the Paraders in total: all of them coming in the club’s first season. He left in 1905 to join Walsall, before later playing for Barrow and Gloucester City.

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