Stats and Records
Welcome to our records of the Chesterfield Football Club. I hope you'll find them of interest and use. You may download the files for private study offline but please contact us if you wish to use anything in any published format. If you want to see something that I haven't thought of putting up, let me know and, if the information is available, I'll do it.
The slightly late, great 2010 closed-season update is complete!
Contact Stuart Basson, the club historian, here:
historian@chesterfield-fc.co.uk
To begin with, then:
The Essentials: a file that sets out the most basic information in a "football yearbook" style, and a good starting-place.
Section One: General player records.
Chesterfield players with 100 or more Football League appearances
Chesterfield players with 25 or more Football League goals
Chesterfield's debutants Every debut made, in chronological order.
Chesterfield's youngest players included by permission of Paul Kellett.
Chesterfield's apprentices since the schemes began in the early 60s.
Chesterfield's "Ever-present" players
Chesterfield's scoring debutants
Chesterfield's scoring substitutes
Chesterfield's "hat-trick" heroes
Chesterfield's "one appearance wonders" - the shortest CFC careers on record.
Opponents' own goals: Opposing players' own goals for Chesterfield.
Sent off! Chesterfield players and opponents who got first use of the bath water.
Record transfer fees: What we've paid and received, and how it has changed over time.
Section Two: Specific player records.
1891 to 1899 Players in Chesterfield Town's Sheffield League and early Midland League days.
1899 to 1909 Chesterfield Town's Football League players.
1909 to 1921 Players with two Town clubs and a Municipal one!
1921 to 2010 All the Football League players since we kicked off in the Third (North).
Section Three: General match records.
All CFC's Football League results against each club at home and away, on a season-by-season basis, filed by opponent name.
All CFC's cup competition records - From FA to Bass Charity - every line-up for every cup match.
Chesterfield's abandoned and expunged games
Chesterfield's friendly matches On a couple of sheets; pre-1919 and post-1919.
Aggregated records on a club-by-club basis. (RIP Nelson FC)
Aggregated records on a season-by-season basis - includes each season's top scorer.
Recurrence of results: How many times has a CFC league game finished with a given scoreline?
Comparative positions Showing how far we've gone up - or down - on a season-by-season basis.
Attendance records: Contains attendance records on a club and divisional basis since 1926. Also has home attendance aggregate, average, high and low since 1926, on a season by season basis, other pages on the worksheet.
Most and fewest: High and low figures for goals, wins, defeats etc in a season.
Sequence records Just that: runs of wins, scoring, clean sheets etc, across seasons.
Sequences from the start sequence records, but taken from the start of a season.
Managers' records Chesterfield Managers' records in the Football League.
Section four: Other records.
CFC's playing kit history: John Taylor's fantastically detailed magnum opus!
They played here: Every team which played our first team at The Rec (and every FL ground we've played on.)
Season Line-ups:
blind links in the following have yet to be completed - check back soon.
1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15
More post-war to come soon!
More line-ups will be uploaded as they are completed.
Stuart Basson: historian@chesterfield-fc.co.uk
