1954–55 Stoke City F.C. season

Stoke City

1954–55 season

Chairman

Mr T. Duddell

Manager

Frank Taylor

Stadium

Victoria Ground

Football League Second Division

5th (52 Points)

FA Cup

Fourth Round

Top goalscorer

League: Harry Oscroft (21)
All: Harry Oscroft (21)

Highest home attendance

47,000 vs Port Vale (4 September 1954)

Lowest home attendance

7,050 vs Fulham (26 March 1955)

Average home league attendance

21,131

Home colours

← 1953–54

1955–56 →

The 1954–55 season was Stoke City's 48th season in the Football League and the 15th in the Second Division.

Taylor continued to add new players to the squad as the aim for 1954–55 was to gain promotion back to the First Division. Stoke made a great start to the season winning five out of their first six matches. Taylor was able to field a settled team for the majority of the season alas Stoke couldn't keep up their form and promotion was missed with Stoke finishing in 5th position. In the FA Cup Stoke were involved in one of the longest cup ties as their third round encounter with Bury went on to a fourth replay with Stoke finally winning 3–2 after 9 hours and 22 minutes of football.^[1]

Season review

League

Stoke manager Frank Taylor continued to purchase players as he attempted to guide Stoke back into the First Division.^[1] He added the Wolverhampton Wanderers left back Jack Short to his squad in the summer of 1954.^[1] Things looked to be improving when Stoke started the 1954–55 season in fine form winning five out of six.^[1] Taylor was fortunate to be able to field a settled side but the form rate wasn't maintained and promotion was missed, albeit by a narrow margin, Stoke taking fifth spot just two behind promoted Birmingham City and Luton Town.^[1] During the season Stoke beat Liverpool away 4–2 their first victory at Anfield for 60 years.^[1]

FA Cup

In the FA Cup Stoke were drawn with Bury in the third round and after four draws the tie went to a fourth replay with Stoke finally beating Bury 3–2 in extra time.^[1] In total the tie took 9 hours and 22 minutes of football and had an aggregated scoreline of 10–9.^[1] Unfortunately for Stoke it was all in vain as in the next round they were defeated by Swansea Town.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Birmingham City	42	22	10	10	92	47	1.957	54
2	Luton Town	42	23	8	11	88	53	1.660	54
3	Rotherham United	42	25	4	13	94	64	1.469	54
4	Leeds United	42	23	7	12	70	53	1.321	53
5	Stoke City	42	21	10	11	69	46	1.500	52
6	Blackburn Rovers	42	22	6	14	114	79	1.443	50
7	Notts County	42	21	6	15	74	71	1.042	48
8	West Ham United	42	18	10	14	74	70	1.057	46
9	Bristol Rovers	42	19	7	16	75	70	1.071	45
10	Swansea Town	42	17	9	16	86	83	1.036	43
11	Liverpool	42	16	10	16	92	96	0.958	42
12	Middlesbrough	42	18	6	18	73	82	0.890	42
13	Bury	42	15	11	16	77	72	1.069	41
14	Fulham	42	14	11	17	76	79	0.962	39
15	Nottingham Forest	42	16	7	19	58	62	0.935	39
16	Lincoln City	42	13	10	19	68	79	0.861	36
17	Port Vale	42	12	11	19	48	71	0.676	35
18	Doncaster Rovers	42	14	7	21	58	95	0.611	35
19	Hull City	42	12	10	20	44	69	0.638	34
20	Plymouth Argyle	42	12	7	23	57	82	0.695	31
21	Ipswich Town	42	11	6	25	57	92	0.620	28
22	Derby County	42	7	9	26	53	82	0.646	23

Key: P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points

Results

Stoke's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Second Division

Main article: 1954–55 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	21 August 1954	Birmingham City	H	2–1	27,984	Oscroft, Hutton
2	25 August 1954	Nottingham Forest	A	3–0	20,515	King (3) (2 Pens)
3	28 August 1954	Middlesbrough	A	2–1	17,820	King, Oscroft
4	30 August 1954	Nottingham Forest	H	2–0	22,925	Hutton, Oscroft
5	4 September 1954	Port Vale	H	0–0	47,000
6	8 September 1954	Leeds United	A	1–0	20,000	King
7	11 September 1954	Rotherham United	H	1–2	27,271	Oscroft
8	13 September 1954	Leeds United	H	0–1	18,737
9	18 September 1954	Luton Town	A	1–3	17,352	Bevans
10	22 September 1954	Ipswich Town	A	1–0	15,536	Oscroft
11	25 September 1954	Hull City	H	0–0	10,185
12	2 October 1954	Lincoln City	A	4–1	13,728	Oscroft (3), Hutton
13	9 October 1954	Notts County	A	0–1	23,000
14	16 October 1954	Liverpool	H	2–0	23,569	Oscroft, Hutton
15	23 October 1954	West Ham United	A	0–3	27,200
16	30 October 1954	Blackburn Rovers	H	1–1	27,540	Bowyer
17	6 November 1954	Fulham	A	2–2	32,000	Bowyer, Oscroft
18	13 November 1954	Swansea Town	H	4–1	19,993	Hutton, Malkin, Short (2)
19	27 November 1954	Derby County	H	3–1	18,055	Bowyer (2), Oscroft
20	4 December 1954	Bristol Rovers	A	1–1	21,240	McCue
21	11 December 1954	Plymouth Argyle	H	3–1	17,397	Bowyer, King (2)
22	18 December 1954	Birmingham City	A	0–2	22,100
23	25 December 1954	Bury	H	3–2	18,312	King (3)
24	27 December 1954	Bury	A	1–1	24,091	King
25	1 January 1955	Middlesbrough	H	1–2	19,272	Harris (o.g.)
26	5 February 1955	Luton Town	H	0–0	21,156
27	12 February 1955	Hull City	A	1–1	10,165	Oscroft
28	19 February 1955	Lincoln City	H	4–2	12,363	Bowyer (3), King
29	5 March 1955	Liverpool	A	4–2	35,635	King (2), Oscroft, Malkin
30	12 March 1955	West Ham United	H	0–2	20,496
31	19 March 1955	Blackburn Rovers	A	0–2	27,200
32	26 March 1955	Fulham	H	1–1	7,050	Oscroft
33	28 March 1955	Notts County	H	3–0	8,171	Oscroft (2), Finney
34	2 April 1955	Swansea Town	A	5–3	12,534	Oscroft (2), Finney, Bowyer, King
35	9 April 1955	Doncaster Rovers	H	3–0	20,259	Oscroft, Bowyer, King
36	11 April 1955	Ipswich Town	H	3–0	20,551	Oscroft, Bowyer, Malkin
37	16 April 1955	Derby County	A	2–1	12,584	Finney, King
38	18 April 1955	Rotherham United	A	1–2	19,888	Bowyer
39	20 April 1955	Doncaster Rovers	A	1–1	9,857	Malkin
40	23 April 1955	Bristol Rovers	H	2–0	18,139	Oscroft, Finney
41	25 April 1955	Port Vale	A	1–0	40,066	Bowyer
42	30 April 1955	Plymouth Argyle	A	0–2	23,844

FA Cup

Main article: 1954–55 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R3	8 January 1955	Bury	A	1–1	20,227	King
R3 Replay	12 January 1955	Bury	H	1–1 (aet)	13,352	Ratcliffe
R3 Second Replay	17 January 1955	Bury	N	3–3 (aet)	2,469	Bowyer (2), King
R3 Third Replay	19 January 1955	Bury	A	2–2 (aet)	9,881	Ratcliffe, King
R3 Fourth Replay	24 January 1955	Bury	N	3–2 (aet)	22,549	Thomson, Coleman (2)
R4	28 January 1955	Swansea Town	A	1–3	27,892	Malkin

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Wilf Hall	1	0	5	0	6	0
GK	Bill Robertson	41	0	1	0	42	0
DF	George Bourne	28	0	6	0	34	0
DF	John McCue	41	1	0	0	41	1
DF	Jack Short	25	2	6	0	31	2
DF	Ken Thomson	41	0	6	1	47	1
MF	Bobby Cairns	18	0	6	0	24	0
MF	Frank Mountford	40	0	3	0	43	0
MF	Alan Martin	3	0	3	0	6	0
MF	John Sellars	38	0	0	0	38	0
FW	Stanley Bevans	11	1	0	0	11	1
FW	Frank Bowyer	29	13	6	2	35	15
FW	Neville Coleman	2	0	2	2	4	2
FW	Bill Finney	11	4	4	0	15	4
FW	Colin Hutchinson	6	0	0	0	6	0
FW	Joe Hutton	19	5	0	0	19	5
FW	Johnny King	36	17	6	3	42	20
FW	John Malkin	26	4	5	1	31	5
FW	Harry Oscroft	37	21	1	0	38	21
FW	Don Ratcliffe	6	0	5	2	11	2
FW	Derrick Ward	3	0	1	0	4	0
–	Own goals	–	1	–	0	–	1

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.

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1954–55 Stoke City F.C. season

Season review

League

FA Cup

Final league table

Results

Legend

Football League Second Division

FA Cup

Squad statistics

References

See also