1999–2000 Stockport County F.C. season

Stockport County

1999–2000 season
Chairman	Brendan Elwood
Manager	Andy Kilner
Stadium	Edgeley Park
First Division	17th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Dinning (12) All: Dinning (13)
Average home league attendance	7,411
Home colours Away colours
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

During the 1999–2000 English football season, Stockport County F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1999–2000 season, Andy Kilner replaced Gary Megson as Stockport's manager in the summer. Stockport had a brilliant first half of the campaign and on Boxing Day, they sat in the play-off places but afterwards came a dramatic slide in form with just 2 wins from the next 22 league games and Stockport finished the season in a disappointing 17th place.

Final league table

!Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Charlton Athletic	46	27	10	9	79	45	91
2.	Manchester City	46	26	11	9	78	40	89
3.	Ipswich Town	46	25	12	9	71	42	87
4.	Barnsley	46	24	10	12	88	67	82
5.	Birmingham City	46	22	11	13	65	44	77
6.	Bolton Wanderers	46	21	13	12	69	50	76
7.	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	21	11	14	64	48	74
8.	Huddersfield Town	46	21	11	14	62	49	74
9.	Fulham	46	17	16	13	49	41	67
10.	Queens Park Rangers	46	16	18	12	62	53	66
11.	Blackburn Rovers	46	15	17	14	55	51	62
12.	Norwich City	46	14	15	17	45	50	57
13.	Tranmere Rovers	46	15	12	19	57	68	57
14.	Nottingham Forest	46	14	14	18	53	55	56
15.	Crystal Palace	46	13	15	18	57	67	54
16.	Sheffield United	46	13	15	18	59	71	54
17.	Stockport County	46	13	15	18	55	67	54
18.	Portsmouth	46	13	12	21	55	66	51
19.	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	9	23	46	67	51
20.	Grimsby Town	46	13	12	21	41	67	51
21.	West Bromwich Albion	46	10	19	17	43	60	49
22.	Walsall	46	11	13	22	52	77	46
23.	Port Vale	46	7	15	24	48	69	36
24.	Swindon Town	46	8	12	26	38	77	36

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points

Results

Stockport County's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 August 1999	Grimsby Town	A	1–0	5,528	Smith
14 August 1999	Tranmere Rovers	H	2–1	6,555	Connelly, Dinning (pen)
21 August 1999	Portsmouth	A	0–2	15,002
27 August 1999	Birmingham City	H	2–0	6,115	Wilbraham, D'Jaffo
10 September 1999	Barnsley	A	1–2	13,173	D'Jaffo
18 September 1999	Port Vale	H	1–0	7,632	Nicholson
25 September 1999	Norwich City	H	2–2	7,603	D'Jaffo, Dinning
28 September 1999	Charlton Athletic	A	0–4	19,842
2 October 1999	Walsall	A	2–1	5,492	Dinning (2, 1 pen)
9 October 1999	Swindon Town	A	1–1	5,318	Dinning
16 October 1999	Crewe Alexandra	H	2–1	7,571	Connelly, D'Jaffo
19 October 1999	Huddersfield Town	H	1–1	7,305	Byrne
23 October 1999	Nottingham Forest	A	1–1	15,770	D'Jaffo
26 October 1999	Norwich City	A	0–2	16,880
30 October 1999	Walsall	H	1–1	6,592	Byrne
2 November 1999	Queens Park Rangers	H	3–3	4,868	D'Jaffo, Thomas-Moore, Briggs
6 November 1999	Fulham	H	2–1	7,200	Thomas-Moore, Cooper
20 November 1999	Sheffield United	H	1–1	6,614	D'Jaffo
23 November 1999	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–2	9,201
27 November 1999	Blackburn Rovers	A	0–2	17,592
4 December 1999	Grimsby Town	H	2–1	5,581	Dinning (pen), Cooper
7 December 1999	Manchester City	A	2–1	32,686	Bailey, Dinning (pen)
18 December 1999	Bolton Wanderers	A	1–0	13,285	Dinning
26 December 1999	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	3–2	10,278	Dinning, Thomas-Moore (2)
28 December 1999	Ipswich Town	A	0–1	20,671
3 January 2000	Crystal Palace	H	1–2	8,570	Thomas-Moore
15 January 2000	Tranmere Rovers	A	0–0	7,565
22 January 2000	Portsmouth	H	1–1	8,008	Dinning (pen)
29 January 2000	Birmingham City	A	1–2	17,150	Johnson (own goal)
5 February 2000	Charlton Athletic	H	1–3	8,185	Fradin
12 February 2000	Queens Park Rangers	A	1–1	10,531	Matthews
19 February 2000	Blackburn Rovers	H	0–1	7,902
26 February 2000	Port Vale	A	1–1	5,663	Wilbraham
3 March 2000	Barnsley	H	1–3	6,386	Lawson
7 March 2000	Fulham	A	1–4	8,688	Dinning (pen)
11 March 2000	West Bromwich Albion	H	0–1	8,238
14 March 2000	Bolton Wanderers	H	0–0	6,412
18 March 2000	Sheffield United	A	0–1	14,907
21 March 2000	Manchester City	H	2–2	11,212	Thomas-Moore, Flynn
25 March 2000	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	2–2	25,065	Lawson, Dinning
8 April 2000	Crystal Palace	A	3–3	16,646	Thomas-Moore (2), Cooper
15 April 2000	Ipswich Town	H	0–1	8,501
22 April 2000	Crewe Alexandra	A	2–3	5,813	Lawson, Thomas-Moore
24 April 2000	Swindon Town	H	3–0	5,362	Thomas-Moore, Lawson, Connelly
29 April 2000	Huddersfield Town	A	2–0	14,046	Cooper, Armstrong (own goal)
7 May 2000	Nottingham Forest	H	2–3	7,756	Wilbraham (2)

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	11 December 1999	Grimsby Town	A	2–3	3,400	Bailey, Thomas-Moore

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1 1st Leg	10 August 1999	Oldham Athletic	H	2–0	3,017	Cooper, Angell
R1 2nd Leg	24 August 1999	Oldham Athletic	A	1–1 (won 3-1 on agg)	2,750	Woodthorpe
R2 1st Leg	14 September 1999	Barnsley	A	1–1	6,966	Briggs
R2 2nd Leg	21 September 1999	Barnsley	H	3–3 (lost on away goals)	3,332	Wilbraham, D'Jaffo, Dinning (pen)

Squad

^[2] 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 Carlo Nash 2 DF Sean Connelly 3 DF Shane Nicholson 4 MF Tom Bennett 5 DF Mike Flynn 6 DF Martin Taylor (on loan from Blackburn Rovers) 7 MF Kevin Cooper 8 FW Ian Thomas-Moore 9 FW Kevin Francis 10 MF Chris Byrne 11 MF Colin Woodthorpe 12 MF Ali Gibb 13 GK Ian Gray 14 MF David Smith 15 MF Rob Matthews 16 MF Jim Gannon

No. Position Player 17 MF Tony Dinning 18 FW Ian Lawson 19 FW Aaron Wilbraham 20 MF Sean Mannion 21 FW Adam Lillis 22 DF Ben Johnson 23 FW Alan Bailey 24 DF Keith Briggs 25 FW Karim Fradin 26 DF Glynn Hancock 27 FW Neil Ross 28 MF Chris Allen 30 FW Jon Daly 31 MF Stuart Elliott (on loan from Newcastle United) 32 DF Robert Clare 33 MF Kent Bergersen

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 27 MF Kevin Gibbens (on loan from Southampton) 28 DF Garry Monk (on loan from Southampton) 12 FW Tony Ellis (to Rochdale)

No. Position Player 18 FW Laurent D'Jaffo (to Sheffield United) 9 FW Brett Angell (on loan to Preston North End) 32 GK Matt Glennon (on loan from Bolton Wanderers)

References

1. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/stockport-county/1999-2000/results
2. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/1999-2000/d1/stockprt.htm