2000–01 Bradford City A.F.C. season

Bradford City

2000–01 season

Chairman

Geoffrey Richmond

Manager

Chris Hutchings (until 8 November)
Stuart McCall (caretaker 8–20 November)
Jim Jefferies (from 20 November)

Stadium

20th (relegated)

Top goalscorer

League: Ward/Blake (4)
All: Windass (8)

Highest home attendance

22,057 vs Liverpool
(1 May 2001, Premier League)

Lowest home attendance

4,751 vs Darlington
(25 Sep 2000, League Cup)

Average home league attendance

18,511

Home colours

Away colours

← 1999–2000

2001–02 →

During the 2000–01 English football season, Bradford City competed in the Premier League. It was their second consecutive season in England's top flight, having retained their Premiership status on the last day of the previous season.

Season summary

The Bantams produced a promising start to the new season with a narrow 1–0 defeat at Anfield to Liverpool followed by a brilliant 2–0 home win over Chelsea in the first two games. However, the promising start was very short-lived and an overall-terrible start to the season saw inexperienced young manager Chris Hutchings dismissed after 12 games at the helm. In came Jim Jefferies as his successor, but Jefferies could do little to alter Bradford's dismal fortunes and they went down in bottom place with just five Premiership wins all season.

Bradford City made their first ever foray into European competition, competing in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. They reached the semi-finals before being knocked out by Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg.

Kit

Bradford City retained the previous season's kit, manufactured by Japanese company ASICS and sponsored by Bradford-based car dealership JCT600.

Final league table

Main article: 2000–01 FA Premier League


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Manchester United (C)	38	24	8	6	79	31	+48	80	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Arsenal	38	20	10	8	63	38	+25	70	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Group stage
3	Liverpool	38	20	9	9	71	39	+32	69	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round ¹
4	Leeds United	38	20	8	10	64	43	+21	68	2001–02 UEFA Cup First round ¹
5	Ipswich Town	38	20	6	12	57	42	+15	66
6	Chelsea	38	17	10	11	68	45	+23	61
7	Sunderland	38	15	12	11	46	41	+5	57
8	Aston Villa	38	13	15	10	46	43	+3	54	2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
9	Charlton Athletic	38	14	10	14	50	57	−7	52
10	Southampton	38	14	10	14	40	48	−8	52
11	Newcastle United	38	14	9	15	44	50	−6	51	2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
12	Tottenham Hotspur	38	13	10	15	47	54	−7	49
13	Leicester City	38	14	6	18	39	51	−12	48
14	Middlesbrough	38	9	15	14	44	44	0	42
15	West Ham United	38	10	12	16	45	50	−5	42
16	Everton	38	11	9	18	45	59	−14	42
17	Derby County	38	10	12	16	37	59	−22	42
18	Manchester City (R)	38	8	10	20	41	65	−24	34	Relegation to 2001–02 Football League First Division
19	Coventry City (R)	38	8	10	20	36	63	−27	34
20	Bradford City (R)	38	5	11	22	30	70	−40	26

Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Since Liverpool qualified for the Champions League, their place in the UEFA Cup as FA Cup winners went to Ipswich Town, and as Liverpool also won the League Cup that place went to Chelsea.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	5	11	22	30	70	−40	26	4	7	8	20	29	−9	1	4	14	10	41	−31

Source: 2000–01 FA Premier League table

Results by round

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
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A
Result	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	D	L	L	L	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	L	W	W	L	L	D	L	D
Position	15	7	9	15	14	18	20	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	20	20	18	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20

Source: 11v11.com: 2000–01 Bradford City results
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Bradford City's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
19 August 2000	Liverpool	A	0-1	44,183
22 August 2000	Chelsea	H	2-0	17,872	Windass, Carbone
26 August 2000	Leicester City	H	0-0	16,766
5 September 2000	Manchester United	A	0-6	66,447
9 September 2000	Arsenal	H	1-1	17,160	McCall
16 September 2000	Aston Villa	A	0-2	27,849
23 September 2000	Southampton	H	0-1	16,163
30 September 2000	West Ham United	A	1-1	25,407	Petrescu
14 October 2000	Manchester City	A	0-2	34,229
21 October 2000	Ipswich Town	H	0-2	17,045
29 October 2000	Leeds United	H	1-1	17,364	Collymore
4 November 2000	Charlton Athletic	A	0-2	19,655
11 November 2000	Everton	H	0-1	17,276
18 November 2000	Derby County	A	0-2	31,614
25 November 2000	Middlesbrough	A	2-2	28,526	Windass, Carbone
2 December 2000	Coventry City	H	2-1	15,523	Collymore, Beagrie
9 December 2000	Tottenham Hotspur	H	3-3	17,225	Lawrence, Windass, Carbone
16 December 2000	Newcastle United	A	1-2	50,470	Molenaar
23 December 2000	Chelsea	A	0-3	33,377
26 December 2000	Sunderland	H	1-4	20,370	Blake
1 January 2001	Leicester City	A	2-1	19,278	Jess, Jacobs
13 January 2001	Manchester United	H	0-3	20,551
21 January 2001	Sunderland	A	0-0	47,812
30 January 2001	Arsenal	A	0-2	37,318
3 February 2001	Aston Villa	H	0-3	19,591
10 February 2001	Southampton	A	0-2	14,651
24 February 2001	West Ham United	H	1-2	20,469	Jess
4 March 2001	Ipswich Town	A	1-3	21,820	Carbone
17 March 2001	Manchester City	H	2-2	19,117	Blake, Ward
31 March 2001	Newcastle United	H	2-2	20,160	Wetherall, Blake (pen)
10 April 2001	Tottenham Hotspur	A	1-2	28,306	Jess
13 April 2001	Charlton Athletic	H	2-0	17,511	Blake (pen), Carbone
21 April 2001	Derby County	H	2-0	18,564	Ward (2)
28 April 2001	Everton	A	1-2	34,256	Myers
1 May 2001	Liverpool	H	0-2	22,057
5 May 2001	Middlesbrough	H	1-1	20,921	Jacobs
13 May 2001	Leeds United	A	1-6	38,300	Ward
19 May 2001	Coventry City	A	0-0	20,299

FA Cup

Main article: 2000–01 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	8 January 2001	Middlesbrough	H	0-1	7,303

League Cup

Main article: 2000–01 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	19 September 2000	Darlington	A	1-0	5,392	Whalley
R2 2nd Leg	25 September 2000	Darlington	H	7-2 (won 8-2 on agg)	4,751	Whalley, Windass (2), Carbone (2), Grant, Halle
R3	1 November 2000	Newcastle United	A	3-4	41,847	Nolan, Ward (2)

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Main article: 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2 1st Leg	1 July 2000	FK Atlantas	A	3-1	3,500	Rankin, Windass, Blake (pen)
R2 2nd Leg	9 July 2000	FK Atlantas	H	4-1 (won 7-2 on agg)	10,012	Mills (2), Blake (pen), Grant
R3 1st Leg	16 July 2000	RKC Waalwijk	H	2-0	8,343	Windass (2, 1 pen)
R3 2nd Leg	22 July 2000	RKC Waalwijk	A	1-0 (won 3-0 on agg)	3,700	Mills
SF 1st Leg	26 July 2000	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	A	0-1	18,500
SF 2nd Leg	2 August 2000	FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	H	0-3	9,572

First-team squad

Squad at end of season

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	Gary Walsh
2	DF	Ian Nolan^[2]
3	DF	Andy Myers
4	MF	Stuart McCall
5	DF	David Wetherall
6	MF	Gareth Whalley^[3]
7	MF	Jamie Lawrence^[4]
8	FW	Robbie Blake
9	FW	Ashley Ward
10	FW	Benito Carbone
11	MF	Peter Beagrie
12	DF	Robert Molenaar
13	GK	Matt Clarke
16	MF	Lee Sharpe
17	GK	Aidan Davison^[5]
18	DF	Gunnar Halle

No.	Position	Player
19	DF	Gary Locke
20	DF	Peter Atherton
21	FW	Dean Saunders
22	DF	Wayne Jacobs
23	DF	Mark Bower
24	FW	Gareth Grant
25	MF	Scott Kerr
27	MF	Billy McKinlay
29	MF	Eoin Jess (on loan from Aberdeen)
31	MF	Adam Hardy
32	GK	Jon Worsnop
33	FW	Ben Jones
34	DF	Lewis Emanuel
35	MF	Andy Lee
36	MF	Craig Fishlock

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
12	DF	Ashley Westwood (to Sheffield Wednesday)
14	DF	Andy O'Brien^[6] (to Newcastle United)
15	MF	Dean Windass (to Middlesbrough)
19	FW	Isaiah Rankin (to Barnsley)

No.	Position	Player
26	MF	Dan Petrescu (to Southampton)
28	FW	Stan Collymore (to Real Oviedo)
30	MF	David Hopkin (to Crystal Palace)

Statistics

Starting 11

Considering starts in all competitions^[7]

Considering a 4–3–3 formation^[8]

No.	Pos	Name	MS	Notes
13	GK	Matt Clarke	21	Gary Walsh has 21 starts
20	RB	Peter Atherton	33	Dan Petrescu has 18 starts
5	CB	David Wetherall	23	Robert Molenaar has 22 starts
14	CB	Andy O'Brien	22	Andy Myers has 18 starts
2	LB	Ian Nolan	23	Wayne Jacobs has 23 starts
29	CM	Eoin Jess	18
4	CM	Stuart McCall	41
6	CM	Gareth Whalley	25
9	RW	Ashley Ward	26	Robbie Blake has 18 starts
10	CF	Benito Carbone	31
15	LW	Dean Windass	32

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Name	From	Fee
4 July 2000	DF	Ian Nolan	Sheffield Wednesday	Free transfer
4 July 2000	DF	Peter Atherton	Sheffield Wednesday	Free transfer
7 July 2000	MF	David Hopkin	Leeds United	£2,500,000
30 July 2000	MF	Dan Petrescu	Chelsea	£1,000,000
9 August 2000	FW	Benito Carbone	Aston Villa	Free transfer
18 August 2000	FW	Ashley Ward	Blackburn Rovers	£1,500,000
26 October 2000	FW	Stan Collymore	Leicester City	Free transfer
24 November 2000	MF	Billy McKinlay	Blackburn Rovers	Free transfer
1 December 2000	DF	Robert Molenaar	Leeds United	£500,000
25 January 2001	DF	Gary Locke	Hearts	Free transfer

Out

Date	Pos	Name	To	Fee
14 July 2000	DF	John Dreyer	Cambridge United	Free transfer
2 August 2000	DF	Lee Todd	Rochdale	Free transfer
11 August 2000	FW	Lee Mills	Portsmouth	£1,000,000
21 August 2000	DF	Stephen Wright	Dundee United	Nominal
11 September 2000	DF	Ashley Westwood	Sheffield Wednesday	£150,000
12 January 2001	MF	Dan Petrescu	Southampton	Nominal
19 January 2001	FW	Isaiah Rankin	Barnsley	£350,000
30 January 2001	FW	Stan Collymore	Real Oviedo	Free transfer
8 March 2001	FW	Dean Windass	Middlesbrough	£600,000
15 March 2001	MF	David Hopkin	Crystal Palace	£1,500,000
19 March 2001	DF	Andy O'Brien	Newcastle United	£2,000,000

Transfers in:

£5,500,000

Transfers out:

£5,600,000

Total spending:

£100,000

References

↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/bradford-city/2000-2001/results
↑ Nolan was born in Liverpool, England, but also qualified to represent Northern Ireland internationally and made his international debut for Northern Ireland in 1996.
↑ Whalley was born in Manchester, England, but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally and has represented them at B level.
↑ Lawrence was born in Wandsworth, England, but also qualified to represent Jamaica internationally and would make his international debut for Jamaica in February 2001.
↑ Davison was born in Sedgefield, England, but also qualified to represent Northern Ireland internationally and made his international debut for Northern Ireland in April 1996.
↑ O'Brien was born in Harrogate, England, but also qualified to represent the Republic of Ireland internationally and would make his international debut for the Republic of Ireland in 2001.
↑ http://www.11v11.com/teams/bradford-city/tab/players/season/2001
↑ http://www.football-lineups.com/team/Bradford_City/FA_Premier_League_2000-2001/Fixture/

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