2010–11 Stockport County F.C. season
Encyclopedia
The 2010-11 season was Stockport County's 100th season in the Football League, and 96th consecutively. However, they eventually finished 24th in Football League Two
and were relegated to the Football Conference
.
The season began with the club being taken over by the 2015 consortium, following the club being in administration since April 2009. Following the takeover, Gary Ablett left the position of manager and was replaced by Paul Simpson
. However, in January Simpson was sacked and was replaced on a part-time basis by assistant Peter Ward. Ward was unable to stop Stockport's slide down the league, and was himself replaced by Ray Mathias
who had initially joined the club as a technical adviser to Ward. Results improved under Mathias, picking up 10 points from the final 6 home matches, but it wasn't enough to save the Hatters and relegation was confirmed following a 2-0 defeat to
Stockport lost in the first round of both the Carling Cup and the FA Cup
, losing to Peterborough United and Preston North End respectively.
As Edgeley Park
is owned by Sale Sharks
, problems with the pitch have arisen from having both football and Rugby Union
on the same surface. Consequently, Stockport played their 'home' friendly against at Wincham Park
, home of .
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| style="width:125px;"| Statistic || style="width:100px;"| Total || style="width:90px;"| League Two || style="width:100px;"| FA Cup || style="width:100px;"| League Cup || style="width:100px;"| League Trophy
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|Games played || 50 || 46 || 2 || 1 || 1
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|Games won || 9 || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0
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|Games drawn || 16 || 14 || 1 || 0 || 1
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|Games lost || 25 || 23 || 1 || 1 || 0
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|Goals scored || 50 || 48 || 2 || 0 || 0
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|Goals conceded || 106 || 96 || 5 || 5 || 0
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|Goal difference || -56 || -48 || -3 || -5 || 0
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|Clean sheets || 6 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 1
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|Yellow cards || 68 || 64 || 3 || 0 || 1
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|Red cards || 6 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0
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|Best result(s) || colspan="5" | Won 3-1 v (A), League Two
, 28 December 2010
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|Worst result(s) || colspan="5" | Lost 5-0 on four occasions -
v (H), League Cup
, 10 August 2010
v (A), League Two
, 30 October 2010
v (H), League Two
, 2 November 2010
v (H), League Two
, 23 November 2010
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|Most appearances || colspan="5" |
Kingdom of England Adam Griffin
- 48 (45 starts, 3 substitute)
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|Top scorer || colspan="5" | Kingdom of England Greg Tansey
- 10
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|Top assists || colspan="5" | Kingdom of England Paul Turnbull
- 4
Kingdom of England Jake Simpson
- 4
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|Worst discipline || colspan="5" | Kingdom of England Greg Tansey
- 10 0
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Football League Two
Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
and were relegated to the Football Conference
Football Conference
The Football Conference is a football league in England which consists of three divisions called Conference National, Conference North, and Conference South. Some Football Conference clubs are fully professional, such as Luton Town, but most of them are semi-professional...
.
The season began with the club being taken over by the 2015 consortium, following the club being in administration since April 2009. Following the takeover, Gary Ablett left the position of manager and was replaced by Paul Simpson
Paul Simpson (footballer)
Paul David Simpson is an English former footballer and manager. His son Jake is also a professional footballer.-Manchester City:...
. However, in January Simpson was sacked and was replaced on a part-time basis by assistant Peter Ward. Ward was unable to stop Stockport's slide down the league, and was himself replaced by Ray Mathias
Ray Mathias
Raymond "Ray" Mathias is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. He was appointed Interim Manager of Stockport County on the 9th March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football...
who had initially joined the club as a technical adviser to Ward. Results improved under Mathias, picking up 10 points from the final 6 home matches, but it wasn't enough to save the Hatters and relegation was confirmed following a 2-0 defeat to
Stockport lost in the first round of both the Carling Cup and the FA Cup
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
, losing to Peterborough United and Preston North End respectively.
Pre-season friendlies
Stockport County opted not to name players on trial who played in friendlies, following other clubs chasing Australian striker Esteban Casagolda after he scored twice in a behind-closed-doors friendly. Hence a number of goals were listed as scored by 'trialist'.As Edgeley Park
Edgeley Park
Edgeley Park is an association football and rugby union stadium in Stockport, England. The stadium was initially built for the rugby league club Stockport in 1901, but by 1902, the rugby club was defunct and in the same year, Stockport County Football Club, who were looking for a bigger ground,...
is owned by Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union club who play in England in the Aviva Premiership.The club is an offshoot of Sale FC, which is based at Heywood Road in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C.Part of the...
, problems with the pitch have arisen from having both football and Rugby Union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
on the same surface. Consequently, Stockport played their 'home' friendly against at Wincham Park
Wincham Park
Wincham Park is a football stadium in Wincham, a parish on the edge of Northwich, England. The home ground of Witton Albion, it first opened in 1989. Capacity is 4,813, with 600 covered seats on the north side of the stadium. The other three sides of the ground are all standing: the Lostock End,...
, home of .
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FA Cup
Football League Cup
Football League Trophy
Appearances
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Starting 11
- Note: Only league starts count.
The 2010-11 season was Stockport County's 100th season in the Football League, and 96th consecutively. However, they eventually finished 24th in Football League Two Football League Two Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system.... and were relegated to the Football Conference Football Conference The Football Conference is a football league in England which consists of three divisions called Conference National, Conference North, and Conference South. Some Football Conference clubs are fully professional, such as Luton Town, but most of them are semi-professional... . The season began with the club being taken over by the 2015 consortium, following the club being in administration since April 2009. Following the takeover, Gary Ablett left the position of manager and was replaced by Paul Simpson Paul Simpson (footballer) Paul David Simpson is an English former footballer and manager. His son Jake is also a professional footballer.-Manchester City:... . However, in January Simpson was sacked and was replaced on a part-time basis by assistant Peter Ward. Ward was unable to stop Stockport's slide down the league, and was himself replaced by Ray Mathias Ray Mathias Raymond "Ray" Mathias is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. He was appointed Interim Manager of Stockport County on the 9th March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football... who had initially joined the club as a technical adviser to Ward. Results improved under Mathias, picking up 10 points from the final 6 home matches, but it wasn't enough to save the Hatters and relegation was confirmed following a 2-0 defeat to Stockport lost in the first round of both the Carling Cup and the FA Cup FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's... , losing to Peterborough United and Preston North End respectively. Pre-season friendliesStockport County opted not to name players on trial who played in friendlies, following other clubs chasing Australian striker Esteban Casagolda after he scored twice in a behind-closed-doors friendly. Hence a number of goals were listed as scored by 'trialist'.As Edgeley Park Edgeley Park Edgeley Park is an association football and rugby union stadium in Stockport, England. The stadium was initially built for the rugby league club Stockport in 1901, but by 1902, the rugby club was defunct and in the same year, Stockport County Football Club, who were looking for a bigger ground,... is owned by Sale Sharks Sale Sharks Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union club who play in England in the Aviva Premiership.The club is an offshoot of Sale FC, which is based at Heywood Road in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C.Part of the... , problems with the pitch have arisen from having both football and Rugby Union Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand... on the same surface. Consequently, Stockport played their 'home' friendly against at Wincham Park Wincham Park Wincham Park is a football stadium in Wincham, a parish on the edge of Northwich, England. The home ground of Witton Albion, it first opened in 1989. Capacity is 4,813, with 600 covered seats on the north side of the stadium. The other three sides of the ground are all standing: the Lostock End,... , home of . ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Football League Two-------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- FA CupFootball League CupFootball League TrophyAppearances |
Starting 11
- Note: Only league starts count.
The 2010-11 season was Stockport County's 100th season in the Football League, and 96th consecutively. However, they eventually finished 24th in Football League Two Football League Two Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system.... and were relegated to the Football Conference Football Conference The Football Conference is a football league in England which consists of three divisions called Conference National, Conference North, and Conference South. Some Football Conference clubs are fully professional, such as Luton Town, but most of them are semi-professional... . The season began with the club being taken over by the 2015 consortium, following the club being in administration since April 2009. Following the takeover, Gary Ablett left the position of manager and was replaced by Paul Simpson Paul Simpson (footballer) Paul David Simpson is an English former footballer and manager. His son Jake is also a professional footballer.-Manchester City:... . However, in January Simpson was sacked and was replaced on a part-time basis by assistant Peter Ward. Ward was unable to stop Stockport's slide down the league, and was himself replaced by Ray Mathias Ray Mathias Raymond "Ray" Mathias is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. He was appointed Interim Manager of Stockport County on the 9th March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football... who had initially joined the club as a technical adviser to Ward. Results improved under Mathias, picking up 10 points from the final 6 home matches, but it wasn't enough to save the Hatters and relegation was confirmed following a 2-0 defeat to Stockport lost in the first round of both the Carling Cup and the FA Cup FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's... , losing to Peterborough United and Preston North End respectively. Pre-season friendliesStockport County opted not to name players on trial who played in friendlies, following other clubs chasing Australian striker Esteban Casagolda after he scored twice in a behind-closed-doors friendly. Hence a number of goals were listed as scored by 'trialist'.As Edgeley Park Edgeley Park Edgeley Park is an association football and rugby union stadium in Stockport, England. The stadium was initially built for the rugby league club Stockport in 1901, but by 1902, the rugby club was defunct and in the same year, Stockport County Football Club, who were looking for a bigger ground,... is owned by Sale Sharks Sale Sharks Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union club who play in England in the Aviva Premiership.The club is an offshoot of Sale FC, which is based at Heywood Road in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C.Part of the... , problems with the pitch have arisen from having both football and Rugby Union Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand... on the same surface. Consequently, Stockport played their 'home' friendly against at Wincham Park Wincham Park Wincham Park is a football stadium in Wincham, a parish on the edge of Northwich, England. The home ground of Witton Albion, it first opened in 1989. Capacity is 4,813, with 600 covered seats on the north side of the stadium. The other three sides of the ground are all standing: the Lostock End,... , home of . ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Football League Two-------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- FA CupFootball League CupFootball League TrophyAppearances |
Starting 11
- Note: Only league starts count.
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Overall
{|class="wikitable"|-
| style="width:125px;"| Statistic || style="width:100px;"| Total || style="width:90px;"| League Two || style="width:100px;"| FA Cup || style="width:100px;"| League Cup || style="width:100px;"| League Trophy
|-
|Games played || 50 || 46 || 2 || 1 || 1
|-
|Games won || 9 || 9 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|Games drawn || 16 || 14 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|Games lost || 25 || 23 || 1 || 1 || 0
|-
|Goals scored || 50 || 48 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|Goals conceded || 106 || 96 || 5 || 5 || 0
|-
|Goal difference || -56 || -48 || -3 || -5 || 0
|-
|Clean sheets || 6 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|Yellow cards || 68 || 64 || 3 || 0 || 1
|-
|Red cards || 6 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|Best result(s) || colspan="5" | Won 3-1 v (A), League Two
Football League Two
Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
, 28 December 2010
|-
|Worst result(s) || colspan="5" | Lost 5-0 on four occasions -
v (H), League Cup
Football League Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
, 10 August 2010
v (A), League Two
Football League Two
Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
, 30 October 2010
v (H), League Two
Football League Two
Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
, 2 November 2010
v (H), League Two
Football League Two
Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
, 23 November 2010
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|Most appearances || colspan="5" |
Kingdom of England Adam GriffinAdam Griffin
Adam Griffin is a professional footballer who currently plays for Conference North side Hyde.He started his career at , having loan spells with , and . After a successful loan at Stockport, he was signed on a permanent basis in 2006...
- 48 (45 starts, 3 substitute)
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|Top scorer || colspan="5" |
Kingdom of England Greg TanseyGreg Tansey
Gregory James "Greg" Tansey is an English professional footballer who plays for Inverness Caledonian Thistle as a central midfielder.-Stockport County:...
- 10
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|Top assists || colspan="5" |
Kingdom of England Paul TurnbullPaul Turnbull
Paul Daniel Turnbull is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder in the Football League for Northampton Town.-Stockport County:...
- 4
Kingdom of England Jake SimpsonJake Simpson
Jake Simpson is an English footballer who currently plays for Conference North outfit Workington. Having played in the youth teams for Blackburn Rovers, he moved to Shrewsbury Town, where his father Paul was manager...
- 4
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|Worst discipline || colspan="5" |
Kingdom of England Greg TanseyGreg Tansey
Gregory James "Greg" Tansey is an English professional footballer who plays for Inverness Caledonian Thistle as a central midfielder.-Stockport County:...
- 10 0
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