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.
SCROLL DOWN for season-by season line-ups - now up to 1968-9!
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 is a good starting-place.
Section One: General player records.
Chesterfield players with 100 or more Footbal League appearances
Chesterfield players with 25 or more Football League goals
Chesterfield's goalkeepers
Chesterfield's debutants Every debut made; alphabetical, chronological and per opponent.
Chesterfield's oldest players
Chesterfield's youngest players included by permission of Paul Kellett.
Chesterfield's apprentices *awaiting update*
Chesterfield's loan players - aplhabetical and chronological
Chesterfield's ever-present players - Tommy Lee is our first for six seasons!
Chesterfield's scoring debutants - two new for 2010-11
Chesterfield's scoring substitutes - eight more goals in 2010-11
Chesterfield's hat-trick heroes - 2010-11 was our best season for hat-tricks for 55 years!
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 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.
1891-1899 Players in Chesterfield Town's Sheffield League and early Midland League days.
1899-1909 Chesterfield Town's Football League players.
1909-1921 Players with two Town clubs and a Municipal one!
1921-2011 All the Football League players since we kicked off in the Third (North).
Wartime players' records can be found in the most chronologically appropriate of the four sections above.
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 results, on any given day - what's historically the best day for a Spireite to go to Meadowhall?! **NEW**
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.
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?
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. Now includes our first B2Net season.
Most & 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! *awaiting update*
They played here Every team which played our first team at The Rec or the B2Net (and every FL ground we've played on.)
Chesterfield Town's accounts - Annual reports and balance sheets, 1900-1914
Chesterfield FC's accounts - annual reports and balance sheets, 1934 - 1946
Section five: Season Line-ups.
These have been updated during the summer...
1867-81 1884-90 1891-98
1899-0 1900-1 1901-2 1902-3
1903-4 1904-5 1905-6 1906-7
1907-8 1908-9 1909-10 1910-11
1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15
1915-16 1916-17
1918-19
1919-20 1920-1 1921-2 1922-3
1923-4 1924-5 1925-6 1926-7
1927-8 1928-9 1929-30 1930-1
Updates are pending for these below, to add more match and player information and to standardise formats.
1931-2 1932-3 1933-4 1934-5
1935-6 1936-7 1937-8 1938-9
1939-40 1940-1 1941-2 1942-3
1943-4 1944-5 1945-6 1946-7
1947-8 1948-9 1949-50 1950-1
1951-2 1952-3 1953-4 1954-5
1955-6 1956-7 1957-8 1958-9
1959-60 1960-1 1961-2 1962-3
1963-4 1964-5 1965-6 1966-7
1967-8 1968-9
1986-7
1997-8
2002-3
2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7
2007-8 2008-9 2009-10 2010-11
More line-ups will be uploaded as they are completed.
Stuart Basson: historian@chesterfield-fc.co.uk
