2007–08 Bristol City F.C. season

Bristol City
	2007–08 season
Chairman	Steve Lansdown
Manager	Gary Johnson
Stadium	Ashton Gate
Championship	4th (qualified for playoffs)
Play-offs	Runners-up
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	Byfield (8)
Average home league attendance	16,275
← 2006–07	2008–09 →

During the 2007–08 English football season, Bristol City F.C. competed in the Football League Championship, following promotion from League One the previous season.

Season summary

In the summer between City's promotion and the start of the Championship season, Gary Johnson made a number of signings. However their pre-season form did not start well, losing 4–2 to Forest Green Rovers. However City got off to a good start going unbeaten for a number of matches and briefly topping the Championship after beating Coventry City 3–0. City then suffered a slight blip after losing 3–0 to Barnsley before beating several big teams, including Sheffield United (live on Sky Sports) and Southampton. In November, City's form dipped and they endured a run of 4 games without a win, including a 6–0 thrashing at the hands of Ipswich Town. In December, City's form picked up again and went unbeaten all the way to Boxing Day, when they lost to West Bromwich Albion 4–1.

After a stop-start run of form, including victories over Blackpool and Coventry City and losses to Queens Park Rangers and Crystal Palace, City went top of the Championship on 1 March, after a 2–1 home victory over Hull City. After some indifferent results, City went back to the top after a last-gasp winner from Steve Brooker, who was just returning from injury, in a 2–1 win over Norwich City. However a poor run ended City's chances of an automatic promotion place. On 4 May 2008, a 3–0 home win against Preston North End on the final day of the league season ensured a playoff place and a semi-final fixture against Crystal Palace. On 13 May 2008, a 4–2 aggregate win over Crystal Palace with goals from Lee Trundle and Michael McIndoe confirmed City's trip to Wembley,^[1] where they were beaten 1–0 by Hull City.^[2] At the end of the season, defender Bradley Orr and midfielder Marvin Elliott were both included in the PFA Team of the Year, while goalkeeper Adriano Basso was named the club's player of the season. Elliott was the club's young player of the season.

Kit

Bristol City's kit was manufactured by German company Puma and sponsored by Bristol Trade Centre. The club's away kit was all black with white trimings and rendered in the same template as the home kit; the third kit featured black shorts, white shirts and black and white socks.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	West Bromwich Albion (C) (P)	46	23	12	11	88	55	+33	81	Promotion to Premier League
2	Stoke City (P)	46	21	16	9	69	55	+14	79	Promotion to Premier League
3	Hull City (P)	46	21	12	13	65	47	+18	75	Qualification to League Championship playoffs
4	Bristol City	46	20	14	12	54	53	+1	74
5	Crystal Palace	46	18	17	11	58	42	+16	71
6	Watford	46	18	16	12	62	56	+6	70
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	18	16	12	53	48	+5	70
8	Ipswich Town	46	18	15	13	65	56	+9	69
9	Sheffield United	46	17	15	14	56	51	+5	66
10	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	13	16	60	50	+10	64
11	Charlton Athletic	46	17	13	16	63	58	+5	64
12	Cardiff City	46	16	16	14	59	55	+4	64
13	Burnley	46	16	14	16	60	67	−7	62
14	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	16	16	60	66	−6	58
15	Preston North End	46	15	11	20	50	56	−6	56
16	Sheffield Wednesday	46	14	13	19	54	55	−1	55
17	Norwich City	46	15	10	21	49	59	−10	55
18	Barnsley	46	14	13	19	52	65	−13	55
19	Blackpool	46	12	18	16	59	64	−5	54
20	Southampton	46	13	15	18	56	72	−16	54
21	Coventry City	46	14	11	21	52	64	−12	53
22	Leicester City (R)	46	12	16	18	42	45	−3	52	Relegation to League One
23	Scunthorpe United (R)	46	11	13	22	46	69	−23	46
24	Colchester United (R)	46	7	17	22	62	86	−24	38

Updated to games played on 4 May 2008.
Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Bristol City's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
11 August 2007	Queens Park Rangers	H	2-2	18,228	Johnson, Murray
18 August 2007	Blackpool	A	1-1	8,983	Murray
25 August 2007	Scunthorpe United	H	2-1	12,474	Trundle
1 September 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1-0	17,559	B Wilson
15 September 2007	Coventry City	A	3-0	21,538	McIndoe, Konstantopoulos (own goal), Byfield
18 September 2007	West Bromwich Albion	H	1-1	16,571	Orr
22 September 2007	Burnley	H	2-2	14,079	Byfield (2)
29 September 2007	Preston North End	A	0-0	12,098
2 October 2007	Barnsley	A	0-3	9,679
6 October 2007	Sheffield United	H	2-0	13,071	Noble, McIndoe
20 October 2007	Norwich City	A	3-1	24,125	McIndoe, Murray, Trundle
24 October 2007	Southampton	H	2-1	18,326	Byfield, Sproule
27 October 2007	Stoke City	H	1-0	15,012	Elliott
3 November 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1-1	26,094	Fontaine
6 November 2007	Charlton Athletic	H	0-1	15,420
10 November 2007	Ipswich Town	A	0-6	22,020
24 November 2007	Leicester City	H	0-2	15,040
27 November 2007	Hull City	A	0-0	15,768
1 December 2007	Watford	A	2-1	16,689	Showunmi, Byfield
4 December 2007	Ipswich Town	H	2-0	14,062	Elliott, Orr (pen)
8 December 2007	Plymouth Argyle	A	1-1	16,530	Timár (own goal)
15 December 2007	Cardiff City	H	1-0	15,753	Elliott
22 December 2007	Barnsley	H	3-2	16,588	Showunmi (2), Byfield
26 December 2007	West Bromwich Albion	A	1-4	27,314	Byfield
29 December 2007	Burnley	A	1-0	12,109	Vaskó
1 January 2008	Coventry City	H	2-1	15,899	Byfield, Elliott
12 January 2008	Colchester United	H	1-1	16,484	Sproule
19 January 2008	Crystal Palace	A	0-2	19,010
26 January 2008	Blackpool	H	1-0	15,465	Elliott
2 February 2008	Queens Park Rangers	A	0-3	16,502
9 February 2008	Sheffield Wednesday	H	2-1	15,520	Adebola, Orr
12 February 2008	Scunthorpe United	A	1-0	5,423	Orr
18 February 2008	Crystal Palace	H	1-1	16,446	McCombe
23 February 2008	Colchester United	A	2-1	5,609	Adebola, McIndoe
1 March 2008	Hull City	H	2-1	15,859	Adebola, McCombe
4 March 2008	Charlton Athletic	A	1-1	24,075	McCombe
8 March 2008	Leicester City	A	0-0	22,616
11 March 2008	Watford	H	0-0	19,026
15 March 2008	Plymouth Argyle	H	1-2	19,011	Trundle (pen)
22 March 2008	Cardiff City	A	1-2	16,458	Adebola
29 March 2008	Norwich City	H	2-1	17,511	Adebola, Brooker
5 April 2008	Southampton	A	0-2	22,890
12 April 2008	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	0-0	19,332
19 April 2008	Stoke City	A	1-2	24,475	Adebola
26 April 2008	Sheffield United	A	1-2	29,787	McIndoe (pen)
4 May 2008	Preston North End	H	3-0	19,169	Trundle, McIndoe, Noble

Championship play-offs

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	10 May 2008	Crystal Palace	A	2-1	22,869	Carey, Noble
SF 2nd Leg	13 May 2008	Crystal Palace	H	2-1 (a.e.t.)	18,842	Trundle, McIndoe
F	24 May 2008	Hull City	N	0-1	86,703

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	5 January 2008	Middlesbrough	H	1-2	15,895	Fontaine

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	14 August 2007	Brentford	A	3-0	2,213	Elliott, Jevons (2)
R2	29 August 2007	Manchester City	H	1-2	14,541	Orr

Squad

[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Adriano Basso
2	MF	Bradley Orr
3	DF	Jamie McAllister
4	DF	Liam Fontaine
5	DF	Jamie McCombe
6	DF	Louis Carey
7	MF	Scott Murray
8	MF	David Noble
9	FW	Steve Brooker
10	FW	Nick Carle
11	MF	Michael McIndoe
12	FW	Jennison Myrie-Williams
14	MF	Cole Skuse
15	FW	Enoch Showunmi
16	DF	Richard Keogh
17	MF	Alex Russell
18	MF	Brian Wilson

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Tamás Vaskó (on loan from Újpest)
20	MF	Kevin Betsy
21	MF	Frankie Artus
22	GK	Chris Weale
23	FW	Lee Trundle
24	DF	Christian Ribeiro
25	MF	Marvin Elliott
26	DF	James Wilson
27	DF	Jordan Walker
28	DF	Martin Slocombe
29	FW	Ivan Sproule
30	FW	Tristan Plummer
32	GK	Stephen Henderson
33	MF	Lee Johnson
34	FW	Darren Byfield
35	FW	Dele Adebola

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
10		FW	Phil Jevons (to Huddersfield Town)

No.		Position	Player
34		DF	David Partridge (to Brentford)

References

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2007–08 Bristol City F.C. season

Contents

Season summary

Kit

Final league table

Results

Legend

Football League Championship

Championship play-offs

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

Left club during season

References

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