2006-07 Stoke City F.C. season

2006–07 Stoke City F.C. season

Stoke City

2006–07 season
Chairman	Peter Coates
Manager	Tony Pulis
Football League Championship	8th (73 Points)
FA Cup	Round 4
League Cup	Round 1
Top goalscorer	Ricardo Fuller (11)
Highest home attendance	23,017 vs Southend United (3 February 2007)
Lowest home attendance	11,626 vs Plymouth Argyle (26 August 2006)
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

The 2006–07 season was Stoke City's 107th season of League football and the 40th in the second tier of English football.

Overview

With the return of chairman Peter Coates and Tony Pulis the aim was to attempt to gain promotion into the Premier League for the first time. The decision to re-appoint Tony Pulis as manager was not looked favouringly upon by supporters and which created a difficult atmosphere for Pulis to work under.

Matters were not help with the team's poor start to the season with just one victory in the first eleven games leaving supporters already calling for a change of manager. However with several key signings such as Danny Higginbotham, Ricardo Fuller and the loan captures of Lee Hendrie, Liam Lawrence and Andy Griffin Stoke improved greatly. Stoke went on a good run of form which started with a 4–0 victory over Leeds United at Elland Road. Stoke won every game in November propelling them towards the top half of the table. during this time Steve Simonsen made history as he managed to keep seven clean sheets in a row.

Stoke dropped vital points against the like of Preston North End, Southend United and Cardiff City in the second half of the season. This proved to be costly as on the final day of the season Stoke needed to beat Queens Park Rangers to have a chance of making the play-offs. A 1–1 draw was the final outcome and Stoke missed out. Despite this it had been a successful season for Stoke as it seemed that the club after a long time were finally starting to mount a promotion back to the top flight.

Final league table

Football League Championship

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Sunderland	46	27	7	12	76	47	+29	88
P	2	Birmingham City	46	26	8	12	67	42	+25	86
P	3	Derby County	46	25	9	12	62	46	+16	84
	4	West Bromwich Albion	46	22	10	14	81	55	+26	76
	5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	22	10	14	59	56	+3	76
	6	Southampton	46	21	12	13	77	53	+24	75
	7	Preston North End	46	22	8	16	64	53	+11	74
	8	Stoke City	46	19	16	11	62	41	+21	73
	9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
	10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
	11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67
	12	Crystal Palace	46	18	11	17	59	51	+8	65
	13	Cardiff City	46	17	13	16	57	53	+4	64
	14	Ipswich Town	46	18	8	20	64	59	+5	62
	15	Burnley	46	15	12	19	52	49	+3	57
	16	Norwich City	46	16	9	21	56	71	-15	57
	17	Coventry City	46	16	8	22	47	62	-15	56
	18	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	11	21	54	68	-14	53
	19	Leicester City	46	13	14	19	49	64	-15	53
	20	Barnsley	46	15	5	26	53	85	-32	50
	21	Hull City	46	13	10	23	51	67	-16	49
R	22	Southend United	46	10	12	24	47	80	-33	42
R	23	Luton Town	46	10	10	26	53	81	-28	40
R	24	Leeds United	46	13	7	26	46	72	-26	36*

* Deducted 10 points for going into administration

Results

Stoke's score comes first

Legend

Pre-Season Friendlies

Football League Championship

League Cup

FA Cup

Squad

Appearances for competitive matches only

Reserves

Reserve Appearances

See also

References

• Stoke City season 2006-07 at Stokecityfc.co.uk

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