West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

Last 5LDLWL

8th

of 22 · Second Division

46
Points: 19
Won: 8
Drawn: 15
Lost: -4
Goal diff

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27 Apr 1957 · Second Division · 36,236

Liverpool

1 – 0

West Ham United

Form going in WLDLW

1956/57 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	12	4	5	31	24	+7	1.33	LDDWW
Away Form	21	7	4	10	28	39	-11	0.86	LLDLL
Overall	42	19	8	15	59	63	-4	1.1	LDLWL

1.1

Points per game

LDLWL

Poor form

1.4 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.5 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Average

The story so far

West Ham United are 8th in the Second Division in 1956/57, with 46 points from 42 games (19 wins, 8 draws, 15 defeats), an average of 1.1 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are L D L W L (3 points). At home they have 12 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats (1.33 points per game); away it is 7, 4 and 10 (0.86). They score 1.4 and concede 1.5 a game, keep a clean sheet in 19% of matches and fail to score in 17%. Both teams score in 67% of their games and 57% have more than 2.5 goals. Billy Dare leads the scoring with 10 goals in 32 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	45%	57%	33%
Draws	19%	19%	19%
Losses	36%	24%	48%
Scored / Match	1.4	1.48	1.33
Conceded / Match	1.5	1.14	1.86
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.9	2.62	3.19
Clean Sheets %	19%	14%	24%
Failed to Score %	17%	10%	24%
Both Teams Scored %	67%	76%	57%
Over 2.5 %	57%	57%	57%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

2-121% (9)
1-114% (6)
1-010% (4)
0-17% (3)
1-27% (3)
1-37% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

02% (1)
117% (7)
224% (10)
333% (14)
410% (4)
5+14% (6)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

12–4–5

Goals 31–2440 pts (1.90 per game)Clean sheets 3Failed to score 2

Away21 games

7–4–10

Goals 28–3925 pts (1.19 per game)Clean sheets 5Failed to score 5

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 5, lost both against 3.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Barnsley	2–022 Sept	2–12 Feb	4–1	6/6
Blackburn Rovers	1–320 Aug	2–027 Aug	3–3	3/6
Bristol City	3–122 Apr	1–119 Apr	4–2	4/6
Bristol Rovers	1–22 Mar	1–120 Oct	2–3	1/6
Bury	1–013 Apr	3–31 Dec	4–3	4/6
Doncaster Rovers	1–116 Mar	0–33 Nov	1–4	1/6
Fulham	2–115 Dec	4–118 Aug	6–2	6/6
Grimsby Town	0–127 Oct	1–29 Mar	1–3	0/6
Huddersfield Town	0–213 Oct	2–623 Feb	2–8	0/6
Leicester City	2–124 Nov	3–56 Apr	5–6	3/6
Leyton Orient	2–116 Feb	2–16 Oct	4–2	6/6
Lincoln City	2–129 Dec	2–01 Sept	4–1	6/6
Liverpool	1–13 Sept	0–127 Apr	1–2	1/6
Middlesbrough	1–130 Mar	1–317 Nov	2–4	1/6
Nottingham Forest	2–125 Dec	0–315 Apr	2–4	3/6
Notts County	2–18 Dec	1–420 Apr	3–5	3/6
Port Vale	2–119 Jan	0–015 Sept	2–1	4/6
Rotherham United	1–18 Sept	1–012 Jan	2–1	4/6
Sheffield United	3–29 Feb	0–129 Sept	3–3	3/6
Stoke City	1–010 Nov	1–023 Mar	2–0	6/6
Swansea City	1–225 Aug	1–322 Dec	2–5	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

-4

Goal difference

Clean sheets

Failed to score

Both scored

Over 2.5

League Table

#	Team	P	W	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Leicester City	42	25	109	67	+42	61
2	Nottingham Forest	42	22	94	55	+39	54
3	Liverpool	42	21	82	54	+28	53
4	Blackburn Rovers	42	21	83	75	+8	52
5	Stoke City	42	20	83	58	+25	48
6	Middlesbrough	42	19	84	60	+24	48
7	Sheffield United	42	19	87	76	+11	46
8	West Ham United	42	19	59	63	-4	46
9	Bristol Rovers	42	18	81	67	+14	45
10	Swansea City	42	19	90	90	0	45
11	Fulham	42	19	84	76	+8	42
12	Huddersfield Town	42	18	68	74	-6	42
13	Bristol City	42	16	74	79	-5	41
14	Doncaster Rovers	42	15	77	77	0	40
15	Leyton Orient	42	15	66	84	-18	40
16	Grimsby Town	42	17	61	62	-1	39
17	Rotherham United	42	13	74	75	-1	37
18	Lincoln City	42	14	54	80	-26	34
19	Barnsley	42	12	59	89	-30	34
20	Notts County	42	9	58	86	-28	30
21	Bury	42	8	60	96	-36	25
22	Port Vale	42	8	57	101	-44	22

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Leicester City	42	109	67	4.19
2	Nottingham Forest	42	94	55	3.55
3	Swansea City	42	90	90	4.29
4	Sheffield United	42	87	76	3.88
5	Middlesbrough	42	84	60	3.43
6	Fulham	42	84	76	3.81
7	Stoke City	42	83	58	3.36
8	Blackburn Rovers	42	83	75	3.76
9	Liverpool	42	82	54	3.24
10	Bristol Rovers	42	81	67	3.52
11	Doncaster Rovers	42	77	77	3.67
12	Rotherham United	42	74	75	3.55
13	Bristol City	42	74	79	3.64
14	Huddersfield Town	42	68	74	3.38
15	Leyton Orient	42	66	84	3.57
16	Grimsby Town	42	61	62	2.93
17	Bury	42	60	96	3.71
18	West Ham United	42	59	63	2.9
19	Barnsley	42	59	89	3.52
20	Notts County	42	58	86	3.43
21	Port Vale	42	57	101	3.76
22	Lincoln City	42	54	80	3.19

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Port Vale	42	81%	52%	71%
2	Swansea City	42	76%	64%	74%
3	Bristol City	42	76%	43%	71%
4	Middlesbrough	42	74%	45%	83%
5	Nottingham Forest	42	74%	48%	74%
6	Leicester City	42	71%	57%	79%
7	Leyton Orient	42	71%	45%	74%
8	Notts County	42	71%	40%	67%
9	Sheffield United	42	71%	57%	64%
10	Huddersfield Town	42	71%	40%	60%
11	Fulham	42	69%	50%	64%
12	Doncaster Rovers	42	67%	52%	67%
13	Bury	42	62%	48%	67%
14	Liverpool	42	62%	40%	64%
15	Blackburn Rovers	42	62%	50%	64%
16	Rotherham United	42	60%	48%	64%
17	Bristol Rovers	42	60%	45%	62%
18	Barnsley	42	60%	40%	62%
19	Grimsby Town	42	60%	36%	55%
20	Stoke City	42	60%	50%	48%
21	West Ham United	42	57%	24%	67%
22	Lincoln City	42	52%	33%	48%