West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

Last 5DLDLW

16th

of 22 · Second Division

39
Points: 14
Won: 11
Drawn: 17
Lost: +5
Goal diff

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28 Apr 1956 · Second Division · 13,534

West Ham United

3 – 0

Bristol City

Sexton (2), Blackburn

Form going in LDLDL

1955/56 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	12	4	5	52	27	+25	1.33	DWDLW
Away Form	21	2	7	12	22	42	-20	0.52	LWLLD
Overall	42	14	11	17	74	69	+5	0.93	DLDLW

0.93

Points per game

DLDLW

Poor form

1.76 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Good

1.64 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Poor

The story so far

West Ham United are 16th in the Second Division in 1955/56, with 39 points from 42 games (14 wins, 11 draws, 17 defeats), an average of 0.93 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are D L D L W (4 points). At home they have 12 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats (1.33 points per game); away it is 2, 7 and 12 (0.52). They score 1.76 and concede 1.64 a game, keep a clean sheet in 21% of matches and fail to score in 10%. Both teams score in 71% of their games and 62% have more than 2.5 goals. Billy Dare leads the scoring with 22 goals in 46 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	33%	57%	10%
Draws	26%	19%	33%
Losses	40%	24%	57%
Scored / Match	1.76	2.48	1.05
Conceded / Match	1.64	1.29	2
AVG (Match Goals Average)	3.4	3.76	3.05
Clean Sheets %	21%	29%	14%
Failed to Score %	10%	5%	14%
Both Teams Scored %	71%	67%	76%
Over 2.5 %	62%	67%	57%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

1-119% (8)
1-312% (5)
1-210% (4)
1-07% (3)
0-25% (2)
2-05% (2)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

02% (1)
17% (3)
229% (12)
319% (8)
417% (7)
5+26% (11)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

12–4–5

Goals 52–2740 pts (1.90 per game)Clean sheets 6Failed to score 1

Away21 games

2–7–12

Goals 22–4213 pts (0.62 per game)Clean sheets 3Failed to score 3

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 2, lost both against 3.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Barnsley	4–01 Oct	1–111 Feb	5–1	4/6
Blackburn Rovers	2–35 Nov	1–417 Mar	3–7	0/6
Bristol City	3–028 Apr	1–36 Sept	4–3	3/6
Bristol Rovers	2–110 Mar	1–110 Dec	3–2	4/6
Bury	3–219 Mar	1–124 Sept	4–3	4/6
Doncaster Rovers	6–122 Oct	1–226 Mar	7–3	3/6
Fulham	2–117 Sept	1–321 Jan	3–4	3/6
Hull City	1–124 Mar	1–312 Nov	2–4	1/6
Leeds United	1–114 Jan	3–310 Sept	4–4	2/6
Leicester City	1–33 Dec	1–214 Apr	2–5	0/6
Lincoln City	2–421 Apr	1–129 Oct	3–5	1/6
Liverpool	2–025 Feb	1–315 Oct	3–3	3/6
Middlesbrough	1–027 Dec	0–226 Dec	1–2	3/6
Nottingham Forest	1–219 Nov	0–018 Apr	1–2	1/6
Notts County	6–13 Sept	1–031 Dec	7–1	6/6
Plymouth Argyle	4–08 Oct	1–031 Mar	5–0	6/6
Port Vale	0–229 Aug	1–222 Aug	1–4	0/6
Rotherham United	1–120 Aug	2–317 Dec	3–4	1/6
Sheffield Wednesday	3–37 Apr	1–126 Nov	4–4	2/6
Stoke City	2–030 Mar	0–32 Apr	2–3	3/6
Swansea City	5–124 Dec	2–427 Aug	7–5	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

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Sheffield Wednesday	42	21	101	62	+39	55
2	Leeds United	42	23	80	60	+20	52
3	Liverpool	42	21	85	63	+22	48
4	Blackburn Rovers	42	21	84	65	+19	48
5	Leicester City	42	21	94	78	+16	48
6	Bristol Rovers	42	21	84	70	+14	48
7	Nottingham Forest	42	19	68	63	+5	47
8	Lincoln City	42	18	79	65	+14	46
9	Fulham	42	20	89	79	+10	46
10	Swansea City	42	20	83	81	+2	46
11	Bristol City	42	19	80	64	+16	45
12	Port Vale	42	16	60	58	+2	45
13	Stoke City	42	20	71	62	+9	44
14	Middlesbrough	42	16	76	78	-2	40
15	Bury	42	16	86	90	-4	40
16	West Ham United	42	14	74	69	+5	39
17	Doncaster Rovers	42	12	69	96	-27	35
18	Barnsley	42	11	47	84	-37	34
19	Rotherham United	42	12	56	75	-19	33
20	Notts County	42	11	55	82	-27	31
21	Plymouth Argyle	42	10	54	87	-33	28
22	Hull City	42	10	53	97	-44	26

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Sheffield Wednesday	42	101	62	3.88
2	Leicester City	42	94	78	4.1
3	Fulham	42	89	79	4
4	Bury	42	86	90	4.19
5	Liverpool	42	85	63	3.52
6	Blackburn Rovers	42	84	65	3.55
7	Bristol Rovers	42	84	70	3.67
8	Swansea City	42	83	81	3.9
9	Leeds United	42	80	60	3.33
10	Bristol City	42	80	64	3.43
11	Lincoln City	42	79	65	3.43
12	Middlesbrough	42	76	78	3.67
13	West Ham United	42	74	69	3.4
14	Stoke City	42	71	62	3.17
15	Doncaster Rovers	42	69	96	3.93
16	Nottingham Forest	42	68	63	3.12
17	Port Vale	42	60	58	2.81
18	Rotherham United	42	56	75	3.12
19	Notts County	42	55	82	3.26
20	Plymouth Argyle	42	54	87	3.36
21	Hull City	42	53	97	3.57
22	Barnsley	42	47	84	3.12

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Swansea City	42	81%	55%	76%
2	Fulham	42	81%	52%	71%
3	Bury	42	76%	67%	76%
4	Leicester City	42	76%	62%	74%
5	Sheffield Wednesday	42	76%	55%	74%
6	Doncaster Rovers	42	74%	55%	74%
7	Liverpool	42	74%	43%	71%
8	Hull City	42	74%	45%	67%
9	Blackburn Rovers	42	71%	40%	62%
10	Bristol Rovers	42	67%	36%	74%
11	Middlesbrough	42	67%	48%	71%
12	Bristol City	42	67%	40%	62%
13	Barnsley	42	67%	38%	60%
14	Plymouth Argyle	42	67%	48%	60%
15	West Ham United	42	62%	43%	71%
16	Leeds United	42	62%	36%	62%
17	Notts County	42	60%	40%	62%
18	Nottingham Forest	42	60%	38%	62%
19	Lincoln City	42	60%	40%	57%
20	Stoke City	42	60%	38%	52%
21	Rotherham United	42	57%	45%	67%
22	Port Vale	42	50%	31%	62%