2000–01 Oxford United F.C. season

Oxford United

2000–01 season
Football League Second Division	24th
FA Cup	Second Round
League Cup	First Round
League Trophy	First Round
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 season saw Oxford United compete in the Football League Second Division where they finished in 24th position with 27 points and were relegated to the Third Division.^[1] It was also Oxford's final season at the Manor Ground before moving to the Kassam Stadium.

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Millwall	46	28	9	9	89	38	+51	93
2	Rotherham United	46	27	10	9	79	55	+24	91
3	Reading	46	25	11	10	86	52	+34	86
4	Walsall	46	23	12	11	79	50	+29	81
5	Stoke City	46	21	14	11	74	49	+25	77
6	Wigan Athletic	46	19	18	9	53	42	+11	75
7	Bournemouth	46	20	13	13	79	55	+22	73
8	Notts County	46	19	12	15	62	66	–4	69
9	Bristol City	46	18	14	14	70	56	+14	68
10	Wrexham	46	17	12	17	65	71	–6	63
11	Port Vale	46	16	14	16	55	49	+6	62
12	Peterborough United	46	15	14	17	61	66	–5	59
13	Wycombe Wanderers	46	15	14	17	46	53	–7	59
14	Brentford	46	14	17	15	56	70	–14	59
15	Oldham Athletic	46	15	13	18	53	65	–12	58
16	Bury	46	16	10	20	45	59	–14	58
17	Colchester United	46	15	12	19	55	59	–4	57
18	Northampton Town	46	15	12	19	46	59	–13	57
19	Cambridge United	46	14	11	21	61	77	–16	53
20	Swindon Town	46	13	13	20	47	65	–18	52
21	Bristol Rovers	46	12	15	19	53	57	–4	51
22	Luton Town	46	9	13	24	52	80	–28	40
23	Swansea City	46	8	13	25	47	73	–26	37
24	Oxford United	46	7	6	33	53	100	–47	27

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

Results

Oxford United's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Second Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	12 August 2000	Peterborough United	H	0 – 1	5,870
2	19 August 2000	Port Vale	A	0 – 3	3,814
3	26 August 2000	Brentford	H	0 – 1	4,756
4	29 August 2000	Walsall	A	2 – 3	5,678	Beauchamp (2)
5	2 September 2000	Cambridge United	H	1 – 1	4,479	Jarman
6	8 September 2000	Wycombe Wanderers	A	1 – 3	5,831	Tait
7	13 September 2000	Stoke City	A	0 – 4	9,600
8	16 September 2000	Bury	H	1 – 0	3,676	Cook
9	23 September 2000	Millwall	A	0 – 5	8,565
10	30 September 2000	Bristol City	H	0 – 1	5,308
11	8 October 2000	Swindon Town	A	1 – 2	7,975	Whittingham
12	14 October 2000	Wrexham	H	3 – 4	3,884	Tait, Beauchamp, McGregor (o.g.)
13	17 October 2000	Luton Town	H	0 – 0	4,537
14	21 October 2000	Rotherham United	A	1 – 3	3,938	Lilley
15	24 October 2000	Wigan Athletic	H	0 – 2	4,030
16	28 October 2000	Reading	A	3 – 4	16,022	Lilley, Viveash (o.g.), Richardson
17	4 November 2000	Bristol Rovers	H	0 – 1	5,407
18	11 November 2000	Swansea City	H	2 – 1	4,892	Beauchamp, Andrews
19	25 November 2000	Notts County	H	2 – 3	4,765	Murphy (2)
20	2 December 2000	Oldham Athletic	A	2 – 3	3,986	Gray, Innes (o.g.)
21	16 December 2000	Northampton Town	H	3 – 1	4,899	Anthrobus, Murphy, Hackett
22	22 December 2000	Colchester United	A	2 – 3	3,695	Beauchamp, Gray
23	26 December 2000	Bournemouth	H	1 – 2	6,200	Fear
24	1 January 2001	Brentford	A	0 – 3	5,020
25	13 January 2001	Walsall	H	2 – 1	5,184	Gray (2)
26	27 January 2001	Colchester United	H	0 – 1	5,064
27	30 January 2001	Peterborough United	A	2 – 4	4,004	Fear, Murphy
28	10 February 2001	Wycombe Wanderers	H	1 – 2	5,384	Hackett
29	17 February 2001	Bury	A	1 – 3	3,320	Beauchamp
30	20 February 2001	Stoke City	H	1 – 1	4,856	Patterson
31	24 February 2001	Millwall	H	0 – 2	5,795
32	3 March 2001	Bristol City	A	0 – 0	9,681
33	6 March 2001	Wrexham	A	3 – 5	3,009	Gray, Powell, Murphy
34	10 March 2001	Swindon Town	H	0 – 2	7,480
35	24 March 2001	Rotherham United	H	4 – 3	4,493	Quinn, Omoyinmi (2), Scott
36	27 March 2001	Cambridge United	A	0 – 1	3,502
37	31 March 2001	Northampton Town	A	1 – 0	6,115	Tait
38	3 April 2001	Bournemouth	A	3 – 4	3,747	Quinn, Gray (2)
39	7 April 2001	Oldham Athletic	H	0 – 1	4,217
40	10 April 2001	Luton Town	A	1 – 1	6,010	Scott
41	14 April 2001	Wigan Athletic	A	2 – 3	5,322	Scott, Beauchamp
42	17 April 2001	Reading	H	0 – 2	6,886
43	21 April 2001	Bristol Rovers	A	2 – 6	7,554	Scott, Richardson
44	28 April 2001	Swansea City	H	3 – 1	4,148	Omoyinmi, Brooks, Murphy
45	1 May 2001	Port Vale	H	1 – 1	7,080	Scott
46	5 May 2001	Notts County	A	1 – 2	5,513	Folland

FA Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	18 November 2000	Macclesfield Town	A	1 – 0	2,141	Gray
R2	9 December 2000	Chester City	A	2 – 3	2,798	Gray, Murphy

Football League Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1 1st leg	22 August 2000	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1 – 0	9,399	Murphy
R1 2nd leg	5 September 2000	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1 – 3	4,676	Shepheard

Football League Trophy

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	5 December 2000	Brentford	A	1 – 4	1,517	Anthrobus

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Richard Knight	33	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	37	0
2	DF	John Robertson	37(3)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	41(3)	0
3	DF	Paul Powell	15(5)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	16(5)	1
4	MF	Peter Fear	14(6)	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	16(6)	2
5	DF	Jon Richardson	41	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	46	2
6	DF	Ian McGuckin	6(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6(1)	0
7	MF	Matt Murphy	37(3)	6	2	1	1(1)	1	1	0	41(4)	8
8	MF	Paul Tait	22(4)	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	24(4)	3
9	FW	Steve Anthrobus	13(6)	1	1	0	2	0	0(1)	1	16(7)	2
10	FW	Andy Scott	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	Derek Lilley	15(4)	0	1	0	0(2)	0	0	0	16(6)	0
11	MF	Joey Beauchamp	32(11)	7	2	0	1(1)	0	1	0	36(12)	7
12	FW	Jamie Cook	4(5)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4(5)	1
13	GK	Hubert Busby	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
13	GK	Neil Cutler	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0
14	FW	Emmanuel Omoyinmi	16(8)	3	0(1)	0	2	0	1	0	19(9)	3
15	MF	Simon Weatherstone	6(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6(1)	0
16	MF	Rob Folland	1(4)	1	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0	1(6)	1
17	DF	Jon Shepheard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF	Chris Hackett	10(6)	2	1	0	0	0	0(1)	0	11(6)	2
19	DF	Lee Jarman	15(6)	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	19(6)	1
20	GK	Phil Wilson	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0
21	MF	Jordan Holder	0(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0
21	DF	Neil McGowan	11	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	0
22	DF	Wayne Hatswell	26(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	27(1)	0
22	DF	Mickey Lewis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Ross Weatherstone	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
24	GK	Jimmy Glass	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
24	FW	Guy Whittingham	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
25	FW	Phil Gray	21(2)	7	2	2	0	0	1	0	24(2)	9
25	FW	Ben Abbey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	Simon King	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
27	MF	Dean Whitehead	16(4)	0	0(1)	0	2	0	0	0	18(5)	0
28	DF	Sam Ricketts	13(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	14(1)	0
29	FW	Leon Mike	1(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(2)	0
29	MF	Keith Andrews	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	1
30	DF	Mike Ford	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
31	FW	Jamie Brooks	3(1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3(1)	1
32	FW	Leon Mike	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	DF	Garry Monk	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
33	DF	Andy Linighan	12(1)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	14(1)	0
34	MF	Rob Quinn	12(1)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	12(1)	2
34	DF	Keith Brown	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
35	DF	Darren Patterson	18	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	1

References

1. "Oxford United 2000/01". Statto. Retrieved 5 September 2014.

External links

• Oxford United 2000–01 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)