1951–52 Chester F.C. season

Chester
1951–52 season
Manager	Frank Brown
Stadium	Sealand Road
Football League; Third Division North	19th
FA Cup	Third round
Welsh Cup	Quarterfinal
Top goalscorer	League: ; Roger Kirkpatrick (10); All: ; James Fletcher (12)
Highest home attendance	14,244 vs Wrexham (18 August)
Lowest home attendance	2,316 vs Southport (3 May)
Average home league attendance	6,146; 19th in division[1]

The 1951–52 season was the 14th season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.

It was clubs 14th consecutive season in the Third Division North since the election to the Football League. Alongside competing in the league, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the Welsh Cup.

Football League


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAvg	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lincoln City	46	30	9	7	121	52	2.327	69	Promoted to the Second Division
2	Grimsby Town	46	29	8	9	96	45	2.133	66
3	Stockport County	46	23	13	10	74	40	1.850	59
4	Oldham Athletic	46	24	9	13	90	61	1.475	57
5	Gateshead	46	21	11	14	66	49	1.347	53
6	Mansfield Town	46	22	8	16	73	60	1.217	52
7	Carlisle United	46	19	13	14	62	57	1.088	51
8	Bradford Park Avenue	46	19	12	15	74	64	1.156	50
9	Hartlepools United	46	21	8	17	71	65	1.092	50
10	York City	46	18	13	15	73	52	1.404	49
11	Tranmere Rovers	46	21	6	19	76	71	1.070	48
12	Barrow	46	17	12	17	57	61	0.934	46
13	Chesterfield	46	17	11	18	65	66	0.985	45
14	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	46	14	16	16	65	74	0.878	44
15	Bradford City	46	16	10	20	61	68	0.897	42
16	Crewe Alexandra	46	17	8	21	63	82	0.768	42
17	Southport	46	15	11	20	53	71	0.746	41
18	Wrexham	46	15	9	22	63	73	0.863	39
19	Chester	46	15	9	22	72	85	0.847	39
20	Halifax Town	46	14	7	25	61	97	0.629	35
21	Rochdale	46	11	13	22	47	79	0.595	35
22	Accrington Stanley	46	10	12	24	61	92	0.663	32
23	Darlington	46	11	9	26	64	103	0.621	31	Re-elected
24	Workington	46	11	7	28	50	91	0.549	29	Re-elected

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
46	15	9	22	72	85	0.847	39	13	4	6	46	30	30	2	5	16	26	55	9

Source: rsssf.com

Results by matchday

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Result	W	W	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	W	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	D	L	L
Position	10	1	9	9	4	1	6	6	10	11	11	15	19	15	18	15	17	16	15	16	18	18	21	18	20	20	21	21	21	21	20	20	20	20	20	19	19	19	19	19	18	17	16	16	17	19

Source: statto.com
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
18 August	Wrexham	H	W	2–1	Gill, Burgess	14,244
22 August	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	H	W	3–1	Burgess (2), Hilton	7,045
25 August	York City	A	L	2–4	Hilton, Simpson (o.g.)	8,095
30 August	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	A	D	2–2	Fletcher, Davies	6,042
1 September	Bradford City	H	W	1–0	Burgess	7,528
5 September	Tranmere Rovers	H	W	4–1	Foulkes (3), Fletcher	8,052
8 September	Hartlepools United	A	L	1–2	Foulkes	11,053
11 September	Tranmere Rovers	A	L	1–3	Hilton	11,344
15 September	Oldham Athletic	H	L	1–2	Fletcher	10,234
22 September	Darlington	A	D	1–1	Fletcher	5,306
26 September	Wrexham	A	L	2–3	Fletcher, Kirkpatrick	12,213
29 September	Gateshead	H	L	0–3		8,072
6 October	Bradford Park Avenue	A	L	0–3		11,795
13 October	Halifax Town	H	W	5–1	Kirkpatrick (2), Morement (2), Jones	4,569
20 October	Mansfield Town	A	L	1–3	Windle	9,550
27 October	Rochdale	H	W	4–0	Astbury, Fletcher, Kirkpatrick (2)	4,628
3 November	Accrington Stanley	A	L	2–4	Coffin, Jones	5,712
10 November	Carlisle United	H	W	4–2	Fletcher, Coffin, Jones, Twentyman (o.g.)	6,082
17 November	Stockport County	A	D	0–0		11,822
1 December	Barrow	A	L	0–1		6,143
8 December	Grimsby Town	H	L	0–3		4,955
22 December	York City	H	L	0–1		2,998
25 December	Chesterfield	A	L	0–2		10,032
26 December	Chesterfield	H	W	3–0	Coffin (2), Fletcher (pen.)	7,262
29 December	Bradford City	A	L	0–1		10,992
5 January	Hartlepools United	H	D	3–3	Greenwood, Fletcher (pen.), Windle	4,902
19 January	Oldham Athletic	A	L	2–11	Morement (pen.), Jones	13,458
23 January	Lincoln City	A	L	1–4	Greenwood	7,682
2 February	Lincoln City	H	L	0–1		5,537
9 February	Gateshead	A	L	0–1		5,416
16 February	Bradford Park Avenue	H	W	4–2	Kirkpatrick (2), Travis, Windle	5,691
23 February	Southport	H	W	2–1	Travis (2)	6,600
1 March	Halifax Town	A	L	1–4	Windle	6,922
8 March	Mansfield Town	H	L	1–5	Travis	5,133
15 March	Rochdale	A	W	5–0	Travis (2), Nelson Stiffle, Astbury, Kirkpatrick	4,561
22 March	Accrington Stanley	H	W	3–1	Stiffle, Windle, Travis	4,533
29 March	Carlisle United	A	D	0–0		4,351
2 April	Darlington	H	W	2–0	Greenwood, Travis	2,590
4 April	Stockport County	H	D	0–0		5,606
11 April	Crewe Alexandra	A	W	2–1	Richardson, Kirkpatrick	8,886
12 April	Workington	A	D	2–2	Coffin, Astbury	5,584
14 April	Crewe Alexandra	H	W	2–0	Spink, Kirkpatrick	7,013
19 April	Barrow	H	D	0–0		4,767
23 April	Workington	H	D	2–2	Richardson, Windle	3,317
26 April	Grimsby Town	A	L	1–2	Travis	12,434
3 May	Southport	A	L	0–1		2,316

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
First round	24 November	Accrington Stanley (3N)	A	W	2–1	Fletcher, Kirkpatrick	8,312
Second round	15 December	Leyton Orient (3S)	H	W	5–2	Astbury, Jones, Morement	6,453
Third round	12 January	Chelsea (1)	A	D	2–2	Coffin, Greenwood	42,954
Third round replay	16 January	Chelsea (1)	H	L	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Willense (o.g.), Coffin	20,378

Welsh Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
Fifth round	2 January	Bangor City (CCL)	H	W	3–1	Fletcher (2), R. Evans (o.g.)	1,500
Quarterfinal	6 February	Wrexham (3N)	A	D	0–0		7,434
Quarterfinal replay	20 February	Wrexham (3N)	A	W	0–2		4,178

Season statistics

Nat	Player	Total		League		FA Cup		Welsh Cup
Nat	Player	A	G	A	G	A	G	A	G
Goalkeepers
	Bernard Port	6	–	6	–	–	–	–	–
	Harry Threadgold	47	–	40	–	4	–	3	–
Field players
	Tommy Astbury	47	4	43	3	3	1	1	–
	Cam Burgess	7	4	7	4	–	–	–	–
	Geoff Coffin	28	7	25	5	3	2	–	–
	Joe Davies	6	1	6	1	–	–	–	–
	Joe Feeney	5	–	5	–	–	–	–	–
	James Fletcher	28	12	23	9	4	1	1	2
	Billy Foulkes	13	4	13	4	–	–	–	–
	Ray Gill	47	1	42	1	2	–	3	–
	Peter Greenwood	19	4	12	3	4	1	3	–
	Joe Hilton	11	3	10	3	1	–	–	–
	Ron Hughes	6	–	6	–	–	–	–	–
	Bill Jones	34	5	29	4	2	1	3	–
	Roger Kirkpatrick	28	11	27	10	1	1	–	–
	Eric Lee	40	–	33	–	4	–	3	–
	John Molyneux	43	–	36	–	4	–	3	–
	Ralph Morement	51	4	44	3	4	1	3	–
	Sam Morris	18	–	13	–	2	–	3	–
	Fred Richardson	7	2	7	2	–	–	–	–
	Gerry Smyth	2	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
	Tony Spink	5	1	5	1	–	–	–	–
	Nelson Stiffle	10	2	7	2	–	–	3	–
	Don Travis	15	9	15	9	–	–	–	–
	Phil Whitlock	16	–	13	–	2	–	1	–
	Bobby Williams	1	–	1	–	–	–	–	–
	Billy Windle	41	6	34	6	4	–	3	–
	John Yates	2	–	2	–	–	–	–	–
	Own goals	–	6	–	2	–	3	–	1
	Total	53	86	46	72	4	11	3	3

References

↑ "English attendances archive". EFS. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

Sumner, Chas (1 November 2011). 125 Years on the Borderline: The Complete History of Chester City F.C. 1885-2010. Yore Publications. ISBN 978-0956984821.

Chester at the Football Club History Database

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[1] "English attendances archive". EFS. Retrieved 21 June 2016.

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See also	Chester

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