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 post-season update for 2009 is complete.
To begin with, then:
The Essentials is a file that sets out the most basic information in a "football yearbook" style, and is a good starting-place.
Section One: General player records.
Chesterfield players with 100 or more League appearances: No new entries, but some movement.
Chesterfield players with 25 League goals: or more - see Jack storm up the charts!
Chesterfield's goalkeeper records: Tommy Lee - straight in at no. 6!
Chesterfield's debuts - New - Every debut made, in chronological order.
Chesterfield's oldest players Kevin Austin joins the list
Chesterfield's youngest players: Self-explanatory - included by permission of Paul Kellett.
Chesterfield's apprentices and trainees: since the scheme began in the early 60s.
Chesterfield's scoring debutants: Martin Gritton joins the gang - or does he?
Chesterfield's scoring substitutes: Eight additions in 2008-9.
Chesterfield's hat-trick heroes: Jamie Ward comes in for '08-9.
Chesterfield's "One-app Wonders" - the shortest CFC careers on record.
Opponents' own goals: Opposing players' own goals for Chesterfield.
Sent off! Chesterfield players and opponents sent off. '08-9 was a record-breaker.
Record transfer fees: What we've paid and received, and how it has changed over time.
Section Two: Specific player records.
1891-1899: Players in Chesterfield Town's Sheffield League and Midland League days.
1899-1909: Chesterfield Town's Football League players.
1909-1921: Players with two Town clubs and a Municipal one!
1921-2009: 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 match records - From FA to Bass Charity - every line-up for every cup match.
Abandoned and expunged games: '08-9 was a vintage year!
Friendly matches: On a couple of sheets; pre-1919 and post-1919.
Aggregated records on a club-by-club basis.
Aggregated records on a season-by-season basis - includes each season's top scorer.
Recurrence of results: How many times has a game finished with a given scoreline?
Comparative positions: - New - Showing how far we've gone up - or down - on a season-by-season basis.
Attendance analysis: A Work in Progress. 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, on another page on the worksheet.
Attendance records: Changes in record attendances and receipts at the Rec.
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 - New - sequence records, but taken from the start of a season.
Managers' records Chesterfield Managers' records in the Football League.
Section four: Other records.
It's back! John Taylor's fantastically detailed KIT HISTORY is here!
They Played Here - New - Every club which has 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.
1899-00 1900-1 1901-2 1902-3
1907-8 1908-9 1909-10 1910-11
1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15
1915-16 1916-17
1918-19
More post-war to come in 2009!
More line-ups will be uploaded as they are completed.
Stuart Basson: historian@chesterfield-fc.co.uk
