West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

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9th

of 22 · Second Division

42
Points: 14
Won: 14
Drawn: 14
Lost: +1
Goal diff

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7 May 1938 · Second Division · 7,202

Chesterfield

0 – 1

West Ham United

Macaulay

Form going in LWLLW

1937/38 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	13	5	3	34	16	+18	1.48	WLLWW
Away Form	21	1	9	11	19	36	-17	0.52	DLLLW
Overall	42	14	14	14	53	52	+1	1	WLLWW

Points per game

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Poor form

1.26 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.24 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 9th in the Second Division in 1937/38, with 42 points from 42 games (14 wins, 14 draws, 14 defeats), an average of 1 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are W L L W W (6 points). At home they have 13 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats (1.48 points per game); away it is 1, 9 and 11 (0.52). They score 1.26 and concede 1.24 a game, keep a clean sheet in 33% of matches and fail to score in 33%. Both teams score in 48% of their games and 45% have more than 2.5 goals. Archibald Macaulay leads the scoring with 10 goals in 39 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	33%	62%	5%
Draws	33%	24%	43%
Losses	33%	14%	52%
Scored / Match	1.26	1.62	0.9
Conceded / Match	1.24	0.76	1.71
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.5	2.38	2.62
Clean Sheets %	33%	48%	19%
Failed to Score %	33%	24%	43%
Both Teams Scored %	48%	43%	52%
Over 2.5 %	45%	43%	48%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

0-014% (6)
1-014% (6)
0-210% (4)
0-17% (3)
1-17% (3)
1-27% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

014% (6)
121% (9)
219% (8)
312% (5)
421% (9)
5+12% (5)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

13–5–3

Goals 34–1644 pts (2.10 per game)Clean sheets 10Failed to score 5

Away21 games

1–9–11

Goals 19–3612 pts (0.57 per game)Clean sheets 4Failed to score 9

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 1, lost both against 3.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Aston Villa	1–11 Jan	0–228 Aug	1–3	1/6
Barnsley	4–116 Oct	0–126 Feb	4–2	3/6
Blackburn Rovers	2–025 Sept	1–25 Feb	3–2	3/6
Bradford Park Avenue	3–14 Sept	1–215 Jan	4–3	3/6
Burnley	1–027 Nov	0–29 Apr	1–2	3/6
Bury	3–116 Apr	3–44 Dec	6–5	3/6
Chesterfield	5–013 Sept	1–07 May	6–0	6/6
Coventry City	0–013 Nov	1–126 Mar	1–1	2/6
Fulham	0–09 Oct	1–119 Feb	1–1	2/6
Luton Town	0–05 Mar	2–223 Oct	2–2	2/6
Manchester United	1–030 Apr	0–423 Feb	1–4	3/6
Newcastle United	1–030 Oct	2–212 Mar	3–2	4/6
Norwich City	3–328 Dec	2–227 Dec	5–5	2/6
Nottingham Forest	2–119 Mar	0–06 Nov	2–1	4/6
Plymouth Argyle	0–115 Apr	1–218 Apr	1–3	0/6
Sheffield United	0–211 Dec	1–323 Apr	1–5	0/6
Sheffield Wednesday	1–012 Feb	0–12 Oct	1–1	3/6
Southampton	3–129 Jan	3–318 Sept	6–4	4/6
Stockport County	1–022 Jan	0–011 Sept	1–0	4/6
Swansea City	2–130 Aug	0–06 Sept	2–1	4/6
Tottenham Hotspur	1–32 Apr	0–220 Nov	1–5	0/6

Agg = combined score over both games, Pts = points won against that club. Dates are under each score; dashed boxes show the date of games still to be played.

The season in numbers

league matches

Played

Goals scored

Goals conceded

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Coventry City	21	8	35	30	+5	23
2	Aston Villa	21	8	23	23	0	21
3	Manchester United	21	7	32	32	0	20
4	Sheffield United	21	7	27	37	-10	19
5	Fulham	21	6	17	34	-17	16
6	Chesterfield	21	4	24	39	-15	15
7	Luton Town	21	5	36	50	-14	14
8	Bury	21	6	20	34	-14	14
9	Tottenham Hotspur	21	5	30	38	-8	13
10	Sheffield Wednesday	21	4	22	35	-13	13
11	Bradford Park Avenue	21	4	18	34	-16	13
12	Plymouth Argyle	21	4	17	35	-18	13
13	Norwich City	21	3	21	47	-26	12
14	West Ham United	21	1	19	36	-17	11
15	Barnsley	21	4	20	44	-24	11
16	Burnley	21	2	19	43	-24	10
17	Nottingham Forest	21	2	18	39	-21	9
18	Stockport County	21	3	19	46	-27	9
19	Southampton	21	3	13	51	-38	9
20	Newcastle United	21	2	13	40	-27	8
21	Swansea City	21	1	14	52	-38	8
22	Blackburn Rovers	21	1	20	50	-30	6

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Luton Town	42	89	86	4.17
2	Manchester United	42	82	50	3.14
3	Tottenham Hotspur	42	76	54	3.1
4	Aston Villa	42	73	35	2.57
5	Sheffield United	42	73	56	3.07
6	Blackburn Rovers	42	71	80	3.6
7	Bradford Park Avenue	42	69	56	2.98
8	Coventry City	42	66	45	2.64
9	Bury	42	63	60	2.93
10	Chesterfield	42	63	63	3
11	Fulham	42	61	57	2.81
12	Plymouth Argyle	42	57	65	2.9
13	Norwich City	42	56	75	3.12
14	Southampton	42	55	77	3.14
15	Burnley	42	54	54	2.57
16	West Ham United	42	53	52	2.5
17	Newcastle United	42	51	58	2.6
18	Barnsley	42	50	64	2.71
19	Sheffield Wednesday	42	49	56	2.5
20	Nottingham Forest	42	47	60	2.55
21	Swansea City	42	45	73	2.81
22	Stockport County	42	43	70	2.69

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Luton Town	42	76%	69%	76%
2	Blackburn Rovers	42	74%	50%	74%
3	Tottenham Hotspur	42	71%	38%	60%
4	Manchester United	42	62%	48%	55%
5	Southampton	42	62%	43%	40%
6	Plymouth Argyle	42	57%	40%	55%
7	Bradford Park Avenue	42	55%	33%	60%
8	Sheffield United	42	55%	33%	60%
9	Norwich City	42	55%	38%	57%
10	Bury	42	55%	31%	55%
11	Newcastle United	42	55%	29%	43%
12	Nottingham Forest	42	50%	24%	52%
13	Burnley	42	50%	33%	43%
14	Fulham	42	48%	31%	52%
15	Aston Villa	42	48%	17%	40%
16	Stockport County	42	45%	29%	52%
17	West Ham United	42	45%	33%	48%
18	Coventry City	42	45%	33%	48%
19	Barnsley	42	45%	33%	45%
20	Chesterfield	42	45%	36%	43%
21	Sheffield Wednesday	42	43%	21%	50%
22	Swansea City	42	40%	33%	50%