2000–01 Rotherham United F.C. season

Rotherham United

2000–01 season
Football League Second Division	2nd
FA Cup	Third Round
League Cup	First Round
League Trophy	First Round
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

The 2000–01 season saw Rotherham United compete in the Football League Second Division where they finished in 2nd position with 91 points and gained promotion to the Football League First Division.^[1]

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

Rotherham United's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League First Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	12 August 2000	Walsall	H	2 – 3	5,200	Robins (2)
2	18 August 2000	Colchester United	A	1 – 0	3,807	Robins
3	26 August 2000	Bury	H	1 – 2	3,739	Scott
4	28 August 2000	Bristol City	A	1 – 0	8,280	Fortune-West
5	2 September 2000	Luton Town	H	1 – 1	4,061	Robins
6	9 September 2000	Cambridge United	A	1 – 6	3,925	Robins
7	12 September 2000	Wrexham	A	3 – 1	2,126	Warne (2), Scott
8	16 September 2000	Wycombe Wanderers	H	1 – 0	3,545	Branston
9	23 September 2000	Stoke City	A	1 – 1	13,372	Artell
10	30 September 2000	Reading	H	1 – 3	4,288	Robins
11	8 October 2000	Oldham Athletic	H	3 – 0	3,774	Warne, Artell, Talbot
12	14 October 2000	Bournemouth	A	1 – 0	3,378	Watson
13	17 October 2000	Bristol Rovers	A	1 – 1	6,910	Watson
14	21 October 2000	Oxford United	H	3 – 1	3,983	Watson, Warne (2)
15	24 October 2000	Swansea City	H	4 – 2	3,892	Watson, Robins, Robins, Lee
16	28 October 2000	Northampton Town	A	1 – 0	6,478	Talbot
17	4 November 2000	Wigan Athletic	H	1 – 1	6,192	Robins
18	11 November 2000	Brentford	A	3 – 0	4,544	Talbot (2), Lee
19	25 November 2000	Peterborough United	H	3 – 0	5,519	Branston, Robins, Hurst
20	2 December 2000	Millwall	H	3 – 2	7,155	Artell, Lee (2)
21	16 December 2000	Swindon Town	A	1 – 2	4,752	Branston
22	22 December 2000	Port Vale	A	2 – 0	4,110	Robins, Hurst
23	26 December 2000	Notts County	H	0 – 0	7,673
24	1 January 2001	Bury	A	0 – 0	3,743
25	13 January 2001	Bristol City	H	1 – 1	5,654	Robins
26	20 January 2001	Notts County	A	1 – 4	7,010	Branston
27	23 January 2001	Walsall	A	1 – 1	4,437	Sedgwick
28	27 January 2001	Port Vale	H	3 – 2	5,044	Robins, Lee, Warne
29	10 February 2001	Cambridge United	H	3 – 0	4,497	Lee (3)
30	20 February 2001	Wrexham	H	2 – 0	4,528	Lee, Wilsterman
31	24 February 2001	Stoke City	H	2 – 1	8,211	Robins (2)
32	27 February 2001	Colchester United	H	3 – 2	5,864	Robins, Hurst, Artell
33	3 March 2001	Reading	A	0 – 2	13,103
34	6 March 2001	Bournemouth	H	3 – 1	6,488	Robins (2), Lee
35	10 March 2001	Oldham Athletic	A	3 – 2	5,993	Robins, Branston, Garnett (o.g.)
36	17 March 2001	Bristol Rovers	H	3 – 0	7,098	Barker, Minton (2)
37	20 March 2001	Wycombe Wanderers	A	1 – 0	5,254	Lee
38	24 March 2001	Oxford United	A	3 – 4	4,493	Robins, Branston, Lee
39	31 March 2001	Swindon Town	H	4 – 3	7,106	Robins (3), Reeves (o.g.)
40	7 April 2001	Millwall	A	0 – 4	16,015
41	14 April 2001	Swansea City	A	0 – 0	4,327
42	16 April 2001	Northampton Town	H	1 – 0	6,714	Robins
43	21 April 2001	Wigan Athletic	A	2 – 0	8,836	Robins, Watson
44	24 April 2001	Luton Town	A	1 – 0	4,854	Sedgwick
45	28 April 2001	Brentford	H	2 – 1	9,760	Talbot, Lee
46	5 May 2001	Peterborough United	A	1 – 1	11,274	Warne

FA Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	18 November 2000	Wrexham	A	1 – 0	3,887	Lee
R2	9 December 2000	Northampton Town	H	1 – 0	4,964	Hughes (o.g.)
R3	6 January 2001	Liverpool	A	0 – 3	30,689

Football League Cup

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1 1st leg	22 August 2000	Barnsley	H	0 – 1	4,940
R1 2nd leg	5 September 2000	Barnsley	A	2 – 3	8,080	Robins, Watson

Football League Trophy

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	5 December 2000	Chesterfield	H	3 – 4	3,488	Robins, Lee, Monkhouse

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Ian Gray	33	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	39	0
2	DF	Chris Beech	8(7)	0	0(1)	0	1	0	0	0	9(8)	0
3	DF	David Artell	35(1)	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	39(1)	4
4	DF	Rob Scott	39	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	44	2
5	MF	Darren Garner	30(1)	1	3	0	1(1)	0	1	0	35(2)	1
6	MF	Marvin Bryan	23(5)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	27(5)	0
7	FW	Mark Robins	42	24	3	0	2	1	1	1	48	26
8	DF	Paul Dillon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Alan Lee	29(2)	13	3	1	0	0	1	1	33(2)	15
9	FW	Leo Fortune-West	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	1
10	FW	Paul Warne	44	7	3	0	2	0	1	0	50	7
11	MF	Andy Turner	3(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3(1)	0
12	MF	Stewart Talbot	37(1)	5	3	0	2	0	0	0	42(1)	5
13	GK	Paul Pettinger	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0
14	MF	Kevin Watson	46	5	3	0	2	1	1	0	52	6
15	DF	Alan Knill	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF	Paul Hurst	42(2)	3	3	0	1(1)	0	1	0	47(3)	3
17	DF	Will Varty	5(1)	0	0	0	0(2)	0	0	0	5(3)	0
19	DF	Brian Wilsterman	9(1)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10(1)	1
20	FW	Andy Monkhouse	1(11)	0	0(2)	0	0	0	0(1)	1	1(14)	1
21	MF	Danny Hudson	1(4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(4)	0
22	MF	Jeff Minton	5(4)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5(4)	2
22	DF	Darren Carr	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
23	MF	Trevor Berry	5(6)	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	5(9)	0
24	MF	Chris Sedgwick	2(19)	2	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	2(20)	2
27	DF	Shaun Barker	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	DF	Guy Branston	41	6	3	0	2	0	0	0	46	6
29	FW	Richie Barker	7(12)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7(12)	1
30	FW	Stéphane Lemarchand	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
31	FW	Cedric Bolima	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0

References

1. "Rotherham United 2000/01". Statto. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

External links

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