West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

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7th

of 22 · Second Division

46
Points: 18
Won: 10
Drawn: 14
Lost: -2
Goal diff

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7 May 1949 · Second Division · 41,133

Fulham

2 – 0

West Ham United

Form going in WDLDL

1948/49 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	13	5	3	38	23	+15	1.48	WWWDL
Away Form	21	5	5	11	18	35	-17	0.71	WWDLL
Overall	42	18	10	14	56	58	-2	1.1	DLDLL

1.1

Points per game

DLDLL

Poor form

1.33 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.38 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 7th in the Second Division in 1948/49, with 46 points from 42 games (18 wins, 10 draws, 14 defeats), an average of 1.1 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are D L D L L (2 points). They are winless in 5. At home they have 13 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats (1.48 points per game); away it is 5, 5 and 11 (0.71). They score 1.33 and concede 1.38 a game, keep a clean sheet in 29% of matches and fail to score in 31%. Both teams score in 48% of their games and 52% have more than 2.5 goals. Ken Wright leads the scoring with 11 goals in 22 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	43%	62%	24%
Draws	24%	24%	24%
Losses	33%	14%	52%
Scored / Match	1.33	1.81	0.86
Conceded / Match	1.38	1.1	1.67
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.71	2.9	2.52
Clean Sheets %	29%	33%	24%
Failed to Score %	31%	10%	52%
Both Teams Scored %	48%	57%	38%
Over 2.5 %	52%	57%	48%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

1-014% (6)
1-110% (4)
0-07% (3)
0-27% (3)
0-37% (3)
1-27% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

07% (3)
119% (8)
221% (9)
321% (9)
414% (6)
5+17% (7)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

13–5–3

Goals 38–2344 pts (2.10 per game)Clean sheets 7Failed to score 2

Away21 games

5–5–11

Goals 18–3520 pts (0.95 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 11

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

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Barnsley	2–016 Apr	3–220 Nov	5–2	6/6
Blackburn Rovers	2–15 Mar	0–09 Oct	2–1	4/6
Bradford Park Avenue	4–12 Apr	3–26 Nov	7–3	6/6
Brentford	1–125 Apr	0–02 Oct	1–1	2/6
Bury	2–122 Jan	0–211 Sept	2–3	3/6
Cardiff City	3–116 Oct	0–412 Mar	3–5	3/6
Chesterfield	1–21 Jan	0–028 Aug	1–2	1/6
Coventry City	2–213 Sept	0–16 Sept	2–3	1/6
Fulham	1–011 Dec	0–27 May	1–2	3/6
Grimsby Town	1–012 Feb	0–323 Apr	1–3	3/6
Leeds United	3–225 Dec	3–127 Dec	6–3	6/6
Leicester City	4–115 Apr	1–118 Apr	5–2	4/6
Lincoln City	2–221 Aug	3–418 Dec	5–6	1/6
Luton Town	0–130 Oct	1–026 Mar	1–1	3/6
Nottingham Forest	0–530 Apr	0–34 Dec	0–8	0/6
Plymouth Argyle	3–018 Sept	0–25 Feb	3–2	3/6
Queens Park Rangers	2–019 Mar	1–223 Oct	3–2	3/6
Sheffield Wednesday	2–230 Aug	0–323 Aug	2–5	1/6
Southampton	1–113 Nov	1–09 Apr	2–1	4/6
Tottenham Hotspur	1–025 Sept	1–119 Feb	2–1	4/6
West Bromwich Albion	1–04 Sept	1–215 Jan	2–2	3/6

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

-2

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Fulham	42	24	77	37	+40	57
2	West Bromwich Albion	42	24	69	39	+30	56
3	Southampton	42	23	69	36	+33	55
4	Cardiff City	42	19	62	47	+15	51
5	Tottenham Hotspur	42	17	72	44	+28	50
6	Chesterfield	42	15	51	45	+6	47
7	West Ham United	42	18	56	58	-2	46
8	Sheffield Wednesday	42	15	63	56	+7	43
9	Barnsley	42	14	62	61	+1	40
10	Luton Town	42	14	55	57	-2	40
11	Grimsby Town	42	15	72	76	-4	40
12	Bury	42	17	67	76	-9	40
13	Queens Park Rangers	42	14	44	62	-18	39
14	Blackburn Rovers	42	15	53	63	-10	38
15	Leeds United	42	12	55	63	-8	37
16	Coventry City	42	15	55	64	-9	37
17	Bradford Park Avenue	42	13	65	78	-13	37
18	Brentford	42	11	42	53	-11	36
19	Leicester City	42	10	62	79	-17	36
20	Plymouth Argyle	42	12	49	64	-15	36
21	Nottingham Forest	42	14	50	54	-4	35
22	Lincoln City	42	8	53	91	-38	28

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Fulham	42	77	37	2.71
2	Tottenham Hotspur	42	72	44	2.76
3	Grimsby Town	42	72	76	3.52
4	Southampton	42	69	36	2.5
5	West Bromwich Albion	42	69	39	2.57
6	Bury	42	67	76	3.4
7	Bradford Park Avenue	42	65	78	3.4
8	Sheffield Wednesday	42	63	56	2.83
9	Cardiff City	42	62	47	2.6
10	Barnsley	42	62	61	2.93
11	Leicester City	42	62	79	3.36
12	West Ham United	42	56	58	2.71
13	Luton Town	42	55	57	2.67
14	Leeds United	42	55	63	2.81
15	Coventry City	42	55	64	2.83
16	Blackburn Rovers	42	53	63	2.76
17	Lincoln City	42	53	91	3.43
18	Chesterfield	42	51	45	2.29
19	Nottingham Forest	42	50	54	2.48
20	Plymouth Argyle	42	49	64	2.69
21	Queens Park Rangers	42	44	62	2.52
22	Brentford	42	42	53	2.26

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Grimsby Town	42	69%	43%	62%
2	Lincoln City	42	69%	48%	57%
3	Bury	42	67%	43%	69%
4	Leicester City	42	62%	43%	79%
5	Sheffield Wednesday	42	62%	29%	71%
6	Bradford Park Avenue	42	60%	40%	62%
7	Plymouth Argyle	42	57%	29%	55%
8	Nottingham Forest	42	57%	17%	50%
9	Blackburn Rovers	42	55%	21%	50%
10	Barnsley	42	52%	36%	52%
11	Coventry City	42	52%	31%	48%
12	West Ham United	42	52%	31%	48%
13	Cardiff City	42	52%	24%	43%
14	Queens Park Rangers	42	52%	26%	43%
15	Leeds United	42	50%	40%	62%
16	West Bromwich Albion	42	50%	21%	43%
17	Tottenham Hotspur	42	48%	36%	60%
18	Fulham	42	48%	24%	52%
19	Southampton	42	48%	19%	43%
20	Brentford	42	45%	14%	50%
21	Luton Town	42	43%	24%	52%
22	Chesterfield	42	40%	29%	45%