West Ham in Numbers

Second Division

Last 5LDWWL

7th

of 22 · Second Division

47
Points: 20
Won: 7
Drawn: 15
Lost: +11
Goal diff

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12 May 1980 · Second Division · 47,000

Sunderland

2 – 0

West Ham United

Form going in LDWWW

1979/80 West Ham United Statistics

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PPG	Last 5
Home Form	21	13	2	6	37	21	+16	1.33	LWLLW
Away Form	21	7	5	9	17	22	-5	0.9	DWDWL
Overall	42	20	7	15	54	43	+11	1.12	LDWWL

1.12

Points per game

LDWWL

Average form

1.29 Scored / Match

Goals scored · Average

1.02 Conceded / Match

Goals conceded · Good

The story so far

West Ham United are 7th in the Second Division in 1979/80, with 47 points from 42 games (20 wins, 7 draws, 15 defeats), an average of 1.12 points per game. In their last 5 league games the results are L D W W L (5 points). At home they have 13 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats (1.33 points per game); away it is 7, 5 and 9 (0.9). They score 1.29 and concede 1.02 a game, keep a clean sheet in 36% of matches and fail to score in 26%. Both teams score in 45% of their games and 45% have more than 2.5 goals. David Cross leads the scoring with 18 goals in 53 appearances (all competitions).

The basics

Stats	Overall	At Home	At Away
Wins	48%	62%	33%
Draws	17%	10%	24%
Losses	36%	29%	43%
Scored / Match	1.29	1.76	0.81
Conceded / Match	1.02	1	1.05
AVG (Match Goals Average)	2.31	2.76	1.86
Clean Sheets %	36%	33%	38%
Failed to Score %	26%	5%	48%
Both Teams Scored %	45%	62%	29%
Over 2.5 %	45%	57%	33%

The scores we see most

West Ham's score first

Full-time scorelines

1-012% (5)
1-212% (5)
2-012% (5)
2-112% (5)
1-110% (4)
0-07% (3)

No half-time scores for this season.

Total goals in a match

07% (3)
119% (8)
229% (12)
331% (13)
410% (4)
5+5% (2)

Home and away, club by club

West Ham's score first

At home21 games

13–2–6

Goals 37–2141 pts (1.95 per game)Clean sheets 7Failed to score 1

Away21 games

7–5–9

Goals 17–2226 pts (1.24 per game)Clean sheets 8Failed to score 10

Played both fixtures against 21 clubs: won both against 5, lost both against 2.

Opponent	At home	Away	Agg	Pts
Birmingham City	1–222 Apr	0–07 Apr	1–2	1/6
Bristol Rovers	2–18 Dec	2–03 May	4–1	6/6
Burnley	2–129 Sept	1–019 Feb	3–1	6/6
Cambridge United	3–121 Dec	0–21 Apr	3–3	3/6
Cardiff City	3–024 Nov	1–019 Apr	4–0	6/6
Charlton Athletic	4–15 May	0–11 Dec	4–2	3/6
Chelsea	0–120 Aug	1–214 Nov	1–3	0/6
Fulham	2–322 Mar	2–110 Nov	4–4	3/6
Leicester City	3–123 Feb	2–113 Oct	5–2	6/6
Leyton Orient	2–05 Apr	4–01 Jan	6–0	6/6
Luton Town	1–220 Oct	1–11 Mar	2–3	1/6
Newcastle United	1–16 Oct	0–015 Mar	1–1	2/6
Notts County	1–211 Mar	1–027 Oct	2–2	3/6
Oldham Athletic	1–025 Aug	0–029 Apr	1–0	4/6
Preston North End	2–019 Jan	1–18 Sept	3–1	4/6
Queens Park Rangers	2–19 Feb	0–322 Sept	2–4	3/6
Shrewsbury Town	1–326 Apr	0–315 Dec	1–6	0/6
Sunderland	2–015 Sept	0–212 May	2–2	3/6
Swansea City	2–017 Nov	1–229 Mar	3–2	3/6
Watford	1–112 Jan	0–21 Sept	1–3	1/6
Wrexham	1–03 Nov	0–118 Aug	1–1	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

+11

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	21	58	38	+20	55
2	Sunderland	42	21	69	42	+27	54
3	Birmingham City	42	21	58	38	+20	53
4	Chelsea	42	23	66	52	+14	53
5	Queens Park Rangers	42	18	75	53	+22	49
6	Luton Town	42	16	66	45	+21	49
7	West Ham United	42	20	54	43	+11	47
8	Cambridge United	42	14	61	53	+8	44
9	Newcastle United	42	15	53	49	+4	44
10	Preston North End	42	12	56	52	+4	43
11	Oldham Athletic	42	16	49	53	-4	43
12	Swansea City	42	17	48	53	-5	43
13	Shrewsbury Town	42	18	60	53	+7	41
14	Leyton Orient	42	12	48	54	-6	41
15	Cardiff City	42	16	41	48	-7	40
16	Wrexham	42	16	40	49	-9	38
17	Notts County	42	11	51	52	-1	37
18	Watford	42	12	39	46	-7	37
19	Bristol Rovers	42	11	50	64	-14	35
20	Fulham	42	11	42	74	-32	29
21	Burnley	42	6	39	73	-34	27
22	Charlton Athletic	42	6	39	78	-39	22

The goals league

#	Team	MP	GF	GA	AVG
1	Queens Park Rangers	42	75	53	3.05
2	Sunderland	42	69	42	2.64
3	Luton Town	42	66	45	2.64
4	Chelsea	42	66	52	2.81
5	Cambridge United	42	61	53	2.71
6	Shrewsbury Town	42	60	53	2.69
7	Birmingham City	42	58	38	2.29
8	Leicester City	42	58	38	2.29
9	Preston North End	42	56	52	2.57
10	West Ham United	42	54	43	2.31
11	Newcastle United	42	53	49	2.43
12	Notts County	42	51	52	2.45
13	Bristol Rovers	42	50	64	2.71
14	Oldham Athletic	42	49	53	2.43
15	Swansea City	42	48	53	2.4
16	Leyton Orient	42	48	54	2.43
17	Fulham	42	42	74	2.76
18	Cardiff City	42	41	48	2.12
19	Wrexham	42	40	49	2.12
20	Watford	42	39	46	2.02
21	Burnley	42	39	73	2.67
22	Charlton Athletic	42	39	78	2.79

Who's in the goals?

#	Team	MP	2.5+	3.5+	BTTS
1	Queens Park Rangers	42	67%	33%	57%
2	Charlton Athletic	42	57%	33%	52%
3	Shrewsbury Town	42	57%	26%	50%
4	Luton Town	42	52%	31%	64%
5	Bristol Rovers	42	52%	31%	60%
6	Fulham	42	52%	31%	50%
7	Chelsea	42	52%	24%	50%
8	Sunderland	42	50%	26%	52%
9	Burnley	42	48%	26%	57%
10	Cambridge United	42	45%	31%	57%
11	West Ham United	42	45%	14%	45%
12	Preston North End	42	43%	26%	60%
13	Notts County	42	43%	31%	57%
14	Leyton Orient	42	43%	26%	52%
15	Leicester City	42	40%	19%	52%
16	Cardiff City	42	40%	10%	45%
17	Swansea City	42	40%	24%	45%
18	Newcastle United	42	38%	33%	50%
19	Birmingham City	42	38%	19%	45%
20	Oldham Athletic	42	36%	19%	45%
21	Watford	42	33%	17%	36%
22	Wrexham	42	31%	21%	36%