West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

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14th

of 22 · Second Division

39
Points: 13
Won: 13
Drawn: 16
Lost: -2
Goal diff

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1 May 1953 · Second Division · 14,285

Lincoln City

3 – 1

West Ham United

Barrett

Form going in LWLLW

1952/53 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	9	5	7	38	28	+10	1.1	WLLLW
Away Form	21	4	8	9	20	32	-12	0.76	WLWLL
Overall	42	13	13	16	58	60	-2	0.93	WLLWL

0.93

Points per game

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Poor form

1.38 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.43 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 14th in the Second Division in 1952/53, with 39 points from 42 games (13 wins, 13 draws, 16 defeats), an average of 0.93 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are W L L W L (4 points). At home they have 9 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats (1.1 points per game); away it is 4, 8 and 9 (0.76). They score 1.38 and concede 1.43 a game, keep a clean sheet in 19% of matches and fail to score in 31%. Both teams score in 62% of their games and 52% have more than 2.5 goals. Fred Kearns leads the scoring with 11 goals in 22 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	31%	43%	19%
Draws	31%	24%	38%
Losses	38%	33%	43%
Scored / Match	1.38	1.81	0.95
Conceded / Match	1.43	1.33	1.52
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.81	3.14	2.48
Clean Sheets %	19%	19%	19%
Failed to Score %	31%	24%	38%
Both Teams Scored %	62%	67%	57%
Over 2.5 %	52%	67%	38%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

1-114% (6)
0-012% (5)
0-110% (4)
0-27% (3)
1-37% (3)
3-17% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

012% (5)
114% (6)
221% (9)
312% (5)
419% (8)
5+21% (9)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

9–5–7

Goals 38–2832 pts (1.52 per game)Clean sheets 4Failed to score 5

Away21 games

4–8–9

Goals 20–3220 pts (0.95 per game)Clean sheets 4Failed to score 8

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 2, lost both against 1.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Barnsley	3–125 Apr	0–26 Dec	3–3	3/6
Birmingham City	1–26 Sept	0–217 Jan	1–4	0/6
Blackburn Rovers	0–028 Feb	0–311 Oct	0–3	1/6
Brentford	3–11 Nov	4–121 Mar	7–2	6/6
Bury	3–23 Jan	1–130 Aug	4–3	4/6
Doncaster Rovers	1–328 Mar	1–18 Nov	2–4	1/6
Everton	3–114 Mar	0–225 Oct	3–3	3/6
Fulham	1–23 Apr	3–26 Apr	4–4	3/6
Huddersfield Town	0–111 Apr	1–022 Nov	1–1	3/6
Hull City	0–01 Sept	0–125 Aug	0–1	1/6
Leeds United	2–220 Sept	2–37 Feb	4–5	1/6
Leicester City	4–115 Sept	0–08 Sept	4–1	4/6
Lincoln City	5–113 Dec	1–31 May	6–4	3/6
Luton Town	0–124 Jan	0–013 Sept	0–1	1/6
Nottingham Forest	3–218 Oct	0–07 Mar	3–2	4/6
Notts County	2–225 Dec	1–127 Dec	3–3	2/6
Plymouth Argyle	0–118 Feb	1–127 Sept	1–2	1/6
Rotherham United	2–44 Oct	1–121 Feb	3–5	1/6
Sheffield United	1–129 Nov	1–318 Apr	2–4	1/6
Southampton	1–023 Aug	2–120 Dec	3–1	6/6
Swansea City	3–015 Nov	1–44 Apr	4–4	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	Sheffield United	42	25	97	55	+42	60
2	Huddersfield Town	42	24	84	33	+51	58
3	Luton Town	42	22	84	49	+35	52
4	Plymouth Argyle	42	20	65	60	+5	49
5	Leicester City	42	18	89	74	+15	48
6	Birmingham City	42	19	71	66	+5	48
7	Nottingham Forest	42	18	77	67	+10	44
8	Fulham	42	17	81	71	+10	44
9	Blackburn Rovers	42	18	68	65	+3	44
10	Leeds United	42	14	71	63	+8	43
11	Swansea City	42	15	78	81	-3	42
12	Rotherham United	42	16	75	74	+1	41
13	Doncaster Rovers	42	12	58	64	-6	40
14	West Ham United	42	13	58	60	-2	39
15	Lincoln City	42	11	64	71	-7	39
16	Everton	42	12	71	75	-4	38
17	Brentford	42	13	59	76	-17	37
18	Hull City	42	14	57	69	-12	36
19	Notts County	42	14	60	88	-28	36
20	Bury	42	13	53	81	-28	35
21	Southampton	42	10	68	85	-17	33
22	Barnsley	42	5	47	108	-61	18

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Sheffield United	42	97	55	3.62
2	Leicester City	42	89	74	3.88
3	Huddersfield Town	42	84	33	2.79
4	Luton Town	42	84	49	3.17
5	Fulham	42	81	71	3.62
6	Swansea City	42	78	81	3.79
7	Nottingham Forest	42	77	67	3.43
8	Rotherham United	42	75	74	3.55
9	Leeds United	42	71	63	3.19
10	Birmingham City	42	71	66	3.26
11	Everton	42	71	75	3.48
12	Blackburn Rovers	42	68	65	3.17
13	Southampton	42	68	85	3.64
14	Plymouth Argyle	42	65	60	2.98
15	Lincoln City	42	64	71	3.21
16	Notts County	42	60	88	3.52
17	Brentford	42	59	76	3.21
18	West Ham United	42	58	60	2.81
19	Doncaster Rovers	42	58	64	2.9
20	Hull City	42	57	69	3
21	Bury	42	53	81	3.19
22	Barnsley	42	47	108	3.69

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Swansea City	42	76%	50%	79%
2	Barnsley	42	76%	57%	64%
3	Blackburn Rovers	42	71%	31%	52%
4	Leicester City	42	69%	55%	71%
5	Rotherham United	42	69%	57%	71%
6	Sheffield United	42	69%	43%	62%
7	Notts County	42	69%	48%	57%
8	Fulham	42	67%	48%	71%
9	Southampton	42	67%	48%	71%
10	Nottingham Forest	42	67%	40%	62%
11	Leeds United	42	64%	45%	69%
12	Everton	42	64%	45%	55%
13	Brentford	42	64%	50%	50%
14	Birmingham City	42	62%	43%	67%
15	Plymouth Argyle	42	62%	43%	52%
16	Lincoln City	42	60%	48%	69%
17	Bury	42	60%	43%	52%
18	Luton Town	42	57%	38%	57%
19	West Ham United	42	52%	40%	62%
20	Hull City	42	52%	36%	52%
21	Doncaster Rovers	42	50%	33%	64%
22	Huddersfield Town	42	43%	26%	40%