Sheffield United vs Preston North End

98 UTB
BLADES STATISTICIAN ANDREW KIRKHAM DELVES INTO THE
ARCHIVES TO ENLIGHTEN UNITEDITES WITH TOPICAL FIGURES…
UNITED EIGHTH, BRAMALL LANE FOURTH...
Today we welcome the club to have played more league games than any other. Can
you name the 14 clubs which, by the end of this season, will have played 4,900 or more
league games?
MOST LEAGUE GAMES PLAYED (TO THE END OF THIS SEASON)
Preston North End ......... 5144
Wolves ................................5044
Burnley ...............................5026
Bolton Wanderers ..........5016
West Bromwich Albion .5002
Derby County ..................4992
Notts County ....................4986
UNITED ..............................4982
Sheffield Wednesday ...4958
Blackburn Rovers ...........4948
Nottingham Forest .........4946
Barnsley .............................4922
Sunderland ....................... 4918
Birmingham City .............4902
As can be seen, our 18th league game of next season will be our 5000th.
GROUNDS WITH MOST GAMES
Again, can you name the eight grounds which have staged 2,400 or more league
games? They are:
Deepdale (Preston NE) ...............................2572
Turf Moor (Burnley) ....................................... 2513
Molineux (Wolves) ........................................ 2509
BRAMALL LANE ...........................................2491
Oakwell (Barnsley) ......................................2461
Ewood Park (Blackburn) ............................ 2452
Gigg Lane (Bury) ........................................... 2426
City Ground (Nottingham Forest) ............2405
NOTES: Five of the above have played all their league games on their present ground, three have
not: Wolves played 11 games at Dudley Road and two at Leicester City’s Filbert Street; Blackburn
played 22 games at Leamington Street; Nottingham Forest played 90 games at the Town Ground
and six at County’s Meadow Lane but the City Ground total includes 21 games played there by
Notts County and one by Leicester City.
FEWEST LEAGUE GAMES
Congratulations if you can name any of the
seven clubs to played fewer than
100 league games.
Bootle ........................................... 22.... (1892-93)
Thames Association................ 84.... (1930-32)
Middlesbrough Ironopolis..... 28.... (1893-94)
Rotherham Town....................... 88....(1893-96)
Northwich Victoria.................... 50.... (1892-94)
Burton Wanderers.................... 90....(1894-97)
Stalybridge Celtic..................... 76.....(1921-23)
United met Bootle and Northwich Victoria
in league games.
⊲ Deepdale, pictured in 1957, leads the way for league games staged
SHEFFIELD UNITED vs PRESTON NORTH END