1969–70 Chester F.C. season

Chester
1969–70 season
Manager	Ken Roberts
Stadium	Sealand Road
Football League; Fourth Division	11th
FA Cup	Fourth round
Football League Cup	First round
Welsh Cup	Final
Top goalscorer	League: ; Derek Draper (12); All: ; Bill Dearden (19)
Highest home attendance	15,024 vs Wrexham (26 December)
Lowest home attendance	1,691 vs Aldershot (30 April)
Average home league attendance	4,444; 14th in division[1]

The 1969–70 season was the 32nd season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.

Also, it was the twelfth season spent in the Fourth Division after its creation. Alongside competing in the Football League the club also participated in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Welsh Cup.

Football League


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAvg	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Chesterfield	46	27	10	9	77	32	2.406	64	Promoted to the Third Division
2	Wrexham	46	26	9	11	84	49	1.714	61
3	Swansea City	46	21	18	7	66	45	1.467	60
4	Port Vale	46	20	19	7	61	33	1.848	59
5	Brentford	46	20	16	10	58	39	1.487	56
6	Aldershot	46	20	13	13	78	65	1.200	53
7	Notts County	46	22	8	16	73	62	1.177	52
8	Lincoln City	46	17	16	13	66	52	1.269	50
9	Peterborough United	46	17	14	15	77	69	1.116	48
10	Colchester United	46	17	14	15	64	63	1.016	48
11	Chester	46	21	6	19	58	66	0.879	48
12	Scunthorpe United	46	18	10	18	67	65	1.031	46
13	York City	46	16	14	16	55	62	0.887	46
14	Northampton Town	46	16	12	18	64	55	1.164	44
15	Crewe Alexandra	46	16	12	18	51	51	1.000	44
16	Grimsby Town	46	14	15	17	54	58	0.931	43
17	Southend United	46	15	10	21	59	85	0.694	40
18	Exeter City	46	14	11	21	57	59	0.966	39
19	Oldham Athletic	46	13	13	20	60	65	0.923	39
20	Workington	46	12	14	20	46	64	0.719	38
21	Newport County	46	13	11	22	53	74	0.716	37	Re-elected
22	Darlington	46	13	10	23	53	73	0.726	36
23	Hartlepool	46	10	10	26	42	82	0.512	30
24	Bradford Park Avenue	46	6	11	29	41	96	0.427	23	Not 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	21	6	19	58	66	0.879	48	14	3	6	39	23	31	7	3	13	19	43	17

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	D	L	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	W	L	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	W	D	W
Position	6	9	15	15	11	14	19	20	23	20	16	14	14	14	16	13	12	10	12	10	9	10	9	9	10	12	9	12	12	12	11	10	8	7	7	7	7	8	11	12	10	12	12	12	11	11

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

Matches

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
9 August	Scunthorpe United	A	W	3–2	Ashworth, Chapman (2)	3,480
16 August	Swansea City	H	D	2–2	Sutton, Chapman	5,988
23 August	Wrexham	A	L	0–2		11,959
27 August	Brentford	H	L	1–2	Bradbury	4,426
30 August	Workington	H	W	3–0	Draper, Sutton, Harley	3,684
6 September	Port Vale	A	L	0–3		6,874
13 September	Notts County	H	L	0–1		3,645
16 September	Grimsby Town	A	L	1–4	Draper	4,186
20 September	Lincoln City	A	L	0–2		4,482
27 September	Crewe Alexandra	H	W	2–1	Cheetham, Draper	3,722
1 October	Bradford Park Avenue	H	W	1–0	Draper	3,203
4 October	Darlington	A	W	2–1	Draper, Dearden	3,348
7 October	Swansea City	A	L	1–2	Dearden	6,884
11 October	Hartlepool	H	W	2–1	Ashworth, Goad (o.g.)	4,175
18 October	Chesterfield	H	L	1–2	Draper	4,436
25 October	Colchester United	A	W	1–0	Bradbury	3,754
1 November	Exeter City	H	W	2–0	Tarbuck (2)	4,487
8 November	Northampton Town	A	W	1–0	Tarbuck	5,659
22 November	Aldershot	A	L	1–3	Provan	5,385
26 November	Southend United	H	W	2–0	Provan, Dearden	4,501
29 November	York City	H	W	3–0	Tarbuck, Draper (2)	4,201
13 December	Notts County	A	L	0–3		4,231
20 December	Port Vale	H	D	1–1	Provan	5,235
26 December	Wrexham	H	W	2–0	Dearden (2)	15,024
10 January	Lincoln City	H	L	1–2	Provan	5,768
17 January	Crewe Alexandra	A	L	0–3		4,704
19 January	Bradford Park Avenue	A	W	2–1	Spence, Dearden	5,997
31 January	Darlington	H	L	1–3	Spence	4,290
7 February	Hartlepool	A	W	2–1	Provan, Gill (o.g.)	2,233
14 February	Scunthorpe United	H	D	1–1	Dearden	3,968
18 February	Workington	A	D	1–1	Webber	1,474
21 February	Northampton Town	H	W	2–1	Draper, Clarke (o.g.)	3,782
25 February	Newport County	H	W	2–0	Turner, Webber	3,664
28 February	Chesterfield	A	W	1–0	Dearden	13,154
11 March	Oldham Athletic	H	W	2–1	Dearden, Draper	4,522
13 March	York City	A	D	0–0		3,310
16 March	Newport County	A	L	1–3	Webber	3,664
21 March	Peterborough United	H	L	2–3	Cheetham (pen.), Dearden	4,024
28 March	Oldham Athletic	A	L	0–5		4,611
30 March	Exeter City	A	L	0–1		5,717
1 April	Colchester United	H	W	1–0	Tarbuck	2,580
4 April	Brentford	A	L	0–2		4,748
6 April	Southend United	A	L	2–4	Tarbuck, Dearden	5,512
15 April	Grimsby Town	H	W	3–1	Provan, Webber, Ashworth	2,186
18 April	Peterborough United	A	D	0–0		4,763
30 April	Aldershot	H	W	2–1	Draper (2)	1,691

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
First round	15 November	Halifax Town (3)	A	D	3–3	Tarbuck (2), Dearden	5,032
First round replay	19 November	Halifax Town (3)	H	W	1–0	Provan	8,352
Second round	6 December	Doncaster Rovers (3)	H	D	1–1	Tarbuck	7,705
Second round replay	9 December	Doncaster Rovers (3)	A	W	2–0	Webber, Dearden	10,822
Third round	3 January	Bristol City (2)	H	W	2–1	Webber, Dearden	10,030
Fourth round	24 January	Swindon Town (2)	A	L	2–4	Cheetham (pen), Lang	7,705

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
First round	14 August	Aston Villa (3)	H	L	1–2	Dearden	10,510

Welsh Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers	Attendance
Fifth round	14 January	Llandudno Borough	H	W	6–0	Edwards, Spence, Webber, Provan (3)	2,464
Quarterfinal	11 February	Llanelli (Welsh League South)	A	W	3–1	Turner, Dearden, Webber	1,925
Semifinal	18 March	Hereford United (SFL)	A	D	3–3	Dearden (2), Tarbuck	5,125
Semifinal replay	25 March	Hereford United (SFL)	H	W	3–0	Dearden, Draper (2)	3,916
Final first leg	8 May	Cardiff City (2)	H	L	0–1		3,087
Final second leg	15 May	Cardiff City (2)	A	L	0–4		5,567

Season statistics

Nat	Player	Total		League		FA Cup		League Cup		Welsh Cup
Nat	Player	A	G	A	G	A	G	A	G	A	G
Goalkeepers
	Terry Carling	59	–	46	–	6	–	1	–	6	–
Field players
	Barry Ashworth	39+2	3	34+2	3	–	–	1	–	4	–
	Graham Birks	16	–	11	–	5	–	–	–	–	–
	Terry Bradbury	58	2	45	2	6	–	1	–	6	–
	Eric Brodie	12	–	11	–	–	–	1	–	–	–
	Alan Caughter	1+1	–	1+1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Roy Chapman	10	3	9	3	–	–	1	–	–	–
	Roy Cheetham	55	3	43	2	6	1	1	–	5	–
	Bill Dearden	50	19	40	11	5	3	1	1	4	4
	Derek Draper	55+1	14	43+1	12	6	–	–	–	6	2
	Nigel Edwards	19+6	1	13+4	–	1+2	–	–	–	5	1
	Albert Harley	3	1	3	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Gavin Lang	1	1	–	–	1	1	–	–	–	–
	Sammy McMillan	21+2	–	16+2	–	–	–	–	–	5	–
	Andy Provan	56	10	45	6	6	1	1	–	4	3
	Cliff Sear	12+1	–	10+1	–	1	–	1	–	–	–
	Alan Spence	9+4	3	5+4	2	2	–	–	–	2	1
	Steve Stacey	1	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Mike Sutton	58	2	46	2	6	–	1	–	5	–
	Alan Tarbuck	25	10	17	6	4	3	–	–	4	1
	Graham Turner	48+3	2	36+3	1	5	–	1	–	6	1
	Keith Webber	41+5	8	31+4	4	6	2	0+1	–	4	2
	Own goals	–	3	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	–
	Total	59	85	46	58	6	11	1	1	6	15

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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