1995–96 Reading F.C. season

Reading
	1995–96 season
Chairman	John Madejski
Manager	Mick Gooding and; Jimmy Quinn (player-managers)
Stadium	Elm Park
First Division	19th
FA Cup	Fourth round
League Cup	Fifth round
Top goalscorer	League: Jimmy Quinn; Lee Nogan (10); All: Jimmy Quinn (19)
← 1994–95	1996–97 →

During the 1995–96 English football season, Reading F.C. competed in the Football League First Division, following missing out on promotion to the Premier League the previous season.

Season summary

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Squad

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Shaka Hislop^[1]
		GK	Simon Sheppard
		GK	Borislav Mikhailov
		GK	Nick Hammond
		DF	Keith McPherson
		DF	Jeff Hopkins
		DF	Martyn Booty
		DF	Adrian Williams^[2]
		DF	Dariusz Wdowczyk
		DF	Dylan Kerr
		DF	Andy Bernal
		MF	Michael Gilkes^[3]
		MF	Mick Gooding (player-manager)
		MF	Paul Holsgrove

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Darren Caskey
		MF	Neville Gordon
		MF	Tom Jones
		MF	Jamie Lambert
		MF	Simon Osborn
		MF	Phil Parkinson
		MF	Scott Taylor
		MF	Michael Meaker
		MF	Stuart Lovell
		FW	Lee Nogan
		FW	Jimmy Quinn (player-manager)
		FW	Trevor Morley
		FW	Martin Williams
		FW	Jamie Lambert

Transfers^[4]

In

Date	Position	Name	From	Fee
11 August 2011	MF	Neville Gordon	Millwall	Free
13 February 1996	GK	Nick Hammond	Plymouth Argyle	£40,000
28 February 1996	MF	Darren Caskey	Tottenham Hotspur	£700,000

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee
10 August 1995	GK		Shaka Hislop	Newcastle United	£1,580,000
	FW		Lea Barkus	Fulham	£20,000

Loans out

Date from	Date to	Position	Nationality	Name	To
1 February 1996	End of Season	MF		Neville Gordon	Woking
31 May 1996		FW		Trevor Morley	Brann

Released

Date	Position	Name
31 December 1995	MF	Robert Codner
31 May 1996	MF	Tom Jones
31 May 1996	MF	Mike Murphy
31 May 1996	GK	Simon Sheppard
31 May 1996	MF	Neville Gordon

Competitions

Division Two

Results

12 August 1995 1	Stoke City	1 – 1	Reading	Victoria Ground
	Wallace		Williams

19 August 1995 2	Reading	3 – 2	Derby County	Elm Park
	Morley Lovell Nogan		Preece Sturridge

26 August 1995 3	Portsmouth	0 – 0	Reading	Fratton Park

29 August 1995 4	Reading	1 – 2	Millwall	Elm Park
	Gooding		Rae Dixon

1 September 1995 5	Southend United	0 – 0	Reading	Roots Hall

9 September 1995 6	Reading	3 – 1	Luton Town	Elm Park
	Nogan Lovell ?' (pen.)		Marshall

12 September 1995 7	Reading	0 – 2	Grimsby Town	Elm Park
			Woods

16 September 1995 8	Leicester City	1 – 1	Reading	Filbert Street
	Roberts		Bernal

23 September 1995 9	Reading	2 – 2	Port Vale	Elm Park
	Lambert	Report	?? ??	Attendance: 7,819

30 September 1995 10	Sunderland	2 – 2	Reading	Roker Park
	Kelly Melville		Kerr Lovell

7 October 1995 11	West Bromwich Albion	2 – 0	Reading	The Hawthorns
	Gilbert Taylor

14 October 1995 12	Reading	3 – 1	Huddersfield Town	Elm Park
	Lambert 15', 79' Williams 70'	Report	??

21 October 1995 13	Oldham Athletic	2 – 1	Reading	Boundary Park
	Richardson ?' (pen.) Creaney		??

28 October 1995 14	Reading	1 – 4	Ipswich Town	Elm Park
	Lovell		Uhlenbeek Mathie Williams Mason

4 November 1995 15	Crystal Palace	0 – 2	Reading	Selhurst Park
			Shaw ?' (o.g.) Nogan

11 November 1995 16	Reading	0 – 1	Birmingham City	Elm Park
			Charlery

18 November 1995 17	Reading	0 – 0	Barnsley	Elm Park

21 November 1995 18	Charlton Athletic	2 – 1	Reading	The Valley
	Chapple Robinson		Brown

25 November 1995 19	Sheffield United	0 – 0	Reading	Bramall Lane

2 December 1995 20	Reading	3 – 1	West Bromwich Albion	Elm Park
	Morley Holsgrove Nogan		Ashcroft

9 December 1995 21	Port Vale	3 – 2	Reading	Vale Park
	Guppy Foyle Porter ?' (pen.)		Quinn ?' (pen.) Morley

16 December 1995 22	Reading	1 – 1	Sunderland	Elm Park
	Quinn		Smith

30 December 1995 23	Norwich City	3 – 3	Reading	Carrow Road
	Ward Johnson Fleck		Kerr Lambert Nogan

1 January 1996 24	Reading	1 – 0	Tranmere Rovers	Elm Park
	Morley

13 January 1996 25	Derby County	3 – 0	Reading	Pride Park
	Sturridge Flynn

20 January 1996 26	Reading	1 – 0	Stoke City	Elm Park
	Gooding

4 February 1996 27	Reading	0 – 1	Portsmouth	Elm Park
			McLoughlin

10 February 1996 28	Millwall	1 – 1	Reading	The Den
	Newman		Bowry ?' (o.g.)

17 February 1996 29	Grimsby Town	0 – 0	Reading	Blundell Park

24 February 1996 30	Reading	1 – 1	Leicester City	Elm Park
	Lovell ?' (pen.)		Lewis

27 February 1996 31	Luton Town	1 – 2	Reading	Kenilworth Road
	Guentchev ?' (pen.)		Booty Lovell

2 March 1996 32	Reading	0 – 0	Watford	Elm Park

9 March 1996 33	Wolverhampton Wanderers	1 – 1	Reading	Molineux
	Atkins		Gooding

16 March 1996 34	Reading	0 – 3	Norwich City	Elm Park

19 March 1996 35	Reading	3 – 3	Southend United	Elm Park
	Nogan		Rammell Willis

23 March 1996 36	Tranmere Rovers	2 – 1	Reading	Prenton Park
	Aldridge Hopkins ?' (o.g.)		Caskey

30 March 1996 37	Reading	2 – 0	Oldham Athletic	Elm Park
	Quinn

2 April 1996 38	Huddersfield Town	3 – 1	Reading	Galpharm Stadium
	Edwards Booth		A.Williams

6 April 1996 39	Ipswich Town	1 – 2	Reading	Portman Road
	Mathie		Bernal Quinn

8 April 1996 40	Reading	0 – 2	Crystal Palace	Elm Park
			Freedman Houghton

13 April 1996 41	Barnsley	0 – 1	Reading	Oakwell
			Quinn ?' (pen.)

16 April 1996 42	Watford	4 – 2	Reading	Vicarage Road
	White Connolly Ramage		Quinn Caskey

20 April 1996 43	Reading	0 – 0	Charlton Athletic	Elm Park

27 April 1996 44	Reading	0 – 3	Sheffield United	Elm Park
			Walker Whitehouse

30 April 1996 45	Reading	3 – 0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Elm Park
	M.Williams Quinn

5 May 1996 46	Birmingham City	1 – 2	Reading	St Andrew's
	Barnes		Nogan Quinn

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Sunderland	46	13	8	2	32	10	9	9	5	27	23	59	33	+ 26	83
2	Derby County	46	14	8	1	48	22	7	8	8	23	29	71	51	+ 20	79
3	Crystal Palace	46	9	9	5	34	22	11	6	6	33	26	67	48	+ 19	75
4	Stoke City	46	13	6	4	32	15	7	7	9	28	34	60	49	+ 11	73
5	Leicester City	46	9	7	7	32	29	10	7	6	34	31	66	60	+ 6	71
6	Charlton Athletic	46	8	11	4	28	23	9	9	5	29	22	57	45	+ 12	71
7	Ipswich Town	46	13	5	5	45	30	6	7	10	34	39	79	69	+ 10	69
8	Huddersfield Town	46	14	4	5	42	23	3	8	12	19	35	61	58	+ 3	63
9	Sheffield United	46	9	7	7	29	25	7	7	9	28	29	57	54	+ 3	62
10	Barnsley	46	9	10	4	34	28	5	8	10	26	38	60	66	– 6	60
11	West Bromwich Albion	46	11	5	7	34	29	5	7	11	26	39	60	68	– 8	60
12	Port Vale	46	10	5	8	30	29	5	10	8	29	37	59	66	– 7	60
13	Tranmere Rovers	46	9	9	5	42	29	5	8	10	22	31	64	60	+ 4	59
14	Southend United	46	11	8	4	30	22	4	6	13	22	39	52	61	– 9	59
15	Birmingham City	46	11	7	5	37	23	4	6	13	24	41	61	64	– 3	58
16	Norwich City	46	7	9	7	26	24	7	6	10	33	31	59	55	+ 4	57
17	Grimsby Town	46	8	10	5	27	25	6	4	13	28	44	55	69	– 14	56
18	Oldham Athletic	46	10	7	6	33	20	4	7	12	21	30	54	50	+ 4	56
19	Reading	46	8	7	8	28	30	5	10	8	26	33	54	63	– 7	56
20	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	8	9	6	34	28	5	7	11	22	34	56	62	– 8	55
21	Portsmouth	46	8	6	9	34	32	5	7	11	27	37	61	69	– 8	52
22	Millwall	46	7	6	10	23	28	6	7	10	20	35	43	63	– 20	52
23	Watford	46	7	8	8	40	33	3	10	10	22	37	62	70	– 28	48
24	Luton Town	46	7	6	10	30	34	4	6	13	10	30	40	64	– 24	45

FA Cup

6 January 1996 Third Round	Reading	3 – 1	Gillingham	Elm Park
15:00	Morley Quinn	[ Report]	Martin

27 January 1996 Fourth Round	Reading	0 – 3	Manchester United	Elm Park
15:00		[ Report]	Giggs 36' Parker 56' Cantona 89'	Attendance: 14,780

League Cup

20 September 1995 Second Round 1st Leg	Reading	1 – 1	West Bromwich Albion	Elm Park
15:00	Lovell	[ Report]	Burgess

3 October 1994 Second Round 2nd Leg	West Bromwich Albion	2 – 4	Reading	The Hawthorns
19:45	Donovan Burgess	[ Report]	Lovell Lambert Quinn ?' (pen.)

8 November 1995 Third Round	Reading	2 – 1	Bury	Elm Park
15:00	Quinn Lucketti ?' (o.g.)	[ Report]	Rigby

28 November 1995 Fourth Round	Reading	2 – 1	Southampton	Elm Park
15:00	Nogan Morley	[ Report]	Monkou

10 January 1996 Fifth Round	Leeds United	2 – 1	Reading	Elland Road
15:00	Masinga Speed	[ Report]	Quinn

Top Scorers

Place	Position	Name	First Division	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
1	FW	Jimmy Quinn	10	2	5	19
2	FW	Lee Nogan	10	0	1	11
3	MF	Stuart Lovell	6	0	2	8
3	FW	Jamie Lambert	5	0	1	6
5	FW	Trevor Morley	4	1	0	5
6	DF	Ady Williams	3	0	0	3
	MF	Mick Gooding	3	0	0	3
		Own Goal	2	0	1	3
9	DF	Dylan Kerr	2	0	0	2
	DF	Andy Bernal	2	0	0	2
	MF	Darren Caskey	2	0	0	2
12	DF	Kenny Brown	1	0	0	1
	MF	Paul Holsgrove	1	0	0	1
	DF	Martyn Booty	1	0	0	1
	DF	Martin Williams	1	0	0	1
		Unknown	1	0	0	1
		TOTALS	54	3	10	67

Team kit

Reading's kit for the 1995–96 was manufactured by Pelada, and the main sponsor was Auto Trader.

1995–96 home colours

1995–96 away colours

References

↑ Hislop was born in Hackney, England and represented England at U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Trinidad and Tobago internationally and would make his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2000.
↑ Williams was born in Reading, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally through his father, and made his international debut for Wales in 1995.
↑ Gilkes was born in Hackney, England, but also qualified to represent Barbados internationally and would make his international debut for Barbados in 2000.
↑ http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=2125&teamTabs=transfers&season_id=127

Soccerbase.com

[1] Hislop was born in Hackney, England and represented England at U-21 level, but also qualified to represent Trinidad and Tobago internationally and would make his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 2000.

[2] Williams was born in Reading, England, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally through his father, and made his international debut for Wales in 1995.

[3] Gilkes was born in Hackney, England, but also qualified to represent Barbados internationally and would make his international debut for Barbados in 2000.

[4] ttp://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=2125&teamTabs=transfers&season_id=127

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1995–96 Reading F.C. season

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Season summary