2006–07 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season

During the 2006–07 English football season, West Bromwich Albion competed in the Football League Championship, having been relegated from the FA Premier League the previous season.

Season summary

West Bromwich Albion started the season slowly and manager Bryan Robson departed as manager in October by mutual consent. Under his successor, Tony Mowbray, Albion were a permanent fixture in the top six from late December onwards and led the division briefly in February, but a run of four defeats in five games at home saw them fall out of contention for automatic promotion.^[1] They secured their play-off place with a 7–0 home win against Barnsley on the final day of the league season,^[2] finishing fourth in the process. This was one place above Wolverhampton Wanderers, by virtue of a superior goal difference, but eight points behind Derby.^[3] Albion scored 81 league goals during the campaign, the highest tally of any team in the Football League in 2006–07.

In the play-off semi-finals, Albion faced local rivals and fifth-placed team Wolverhampton Wanderers, winning the first leg 3–2^[4] and the second 1–0 to progress 4–2 on aggregate.^[5] The second leg was the fifth meeting between the two sides during 2006–07, setting a new record for the most times that the Black Country derby has been contested in a single campaign, while Albion's four wins against their rivals was also a season record for matches between the two.^[6]

In the play-off final game Albion were defeated by Derby County with Stephen Pearson scoring the only goal of the game.^[7]

Kit

English company Umbro became West Bromwich's kit manufacturers for the season. T-Mobile remained the kit sponsors.

Final league table

Main article: 2006–07 Football League

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Sunderland	46	27	7	12	76	47	+29	88
P	2	Birmingham City	46	26	8	12	67	42	+25	86
P	3	Derby County	46	25	9	12	62	46	+16	84
	4	West Bromwich Albion	46	22	10	14	81	55	+26	76
	5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	22	10	14	59	56	+3	76
	6	Southampton	46	21	12	13	77	53	+24	75
	7	Preston North End	46	22	8	16	64	53	+11	74
	8	Stoke City	46	19	16	11	62	41	+21	73
	9	Sheffield Wednesday	46	20	11	15	70	66	+4	71
	10	Colchester United	46	20	9	17	70	56	+14	69
	11	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	16	13	63	62	+1	67
	12	Crystal Palace	46	18	11	17	59	51	+8	65
	13	Cardiff City	46	17	13	16	57	53	+4	64
	14	Ipswich Town	46	18	8	20	64	59	+5	62
	15	Burnley	46	15	12	19	52	49	+3	57
	16	Norwich City	46	16	9	21	56	71	-15	57
	17	Coventry City	46	16	8	22	47	62	-15	56
	18	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	11	21	54	68	-14	53
	19	Leicester City	46	13	14	19	49	64	-15	53
	20	Barnsley	46	15	5	26	53	85	-32	50
	21	Hull City	46	13	10	23	51	67	-16	49
R	22	Southend United	46	10	12	24	47	80	-33	42
R	23	Luton Town	46	10	10	26	53	81	-28	40
R	24	Leeds United	46	13	7	26	46	72	-26	36 ^A

A Deducted 10 points for administration entrance.

Results

West Bromwich Albion's score comes first^[8]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
5 August 2006	Hull City	H	2-0	20,682	Hartson (2)
8 August 2006	Cardiff City	A	1-1	18,506	Gera
12 August 2006	Southampton	A	0-0	24,233
19 August 2006	Colchester United	H	2-1	17,509	Ellington (pen), Wallwork
28 August 2006	Sunderland	A	0-2	24,242
9 September 2006	Leicester City	H	2-0	19,322	Kenton (own goal), Phillips (pen)
12 September 2006	Preston North End	A	0-1	12,119
16 September 2006	Southend United	H	1-1	19,576	Ellington
23 September 2006	Luton Town	A	2-2	9,332	Carter, Gera
30 September 2006	Leeds United	H	4-2	21,435	Albrechtsen, Kamara (2), Phillips
14 October 2006	Ipswich Town	A	5-1	22,581	Kamara (2), Phillips (3)
17 October 2006	Crystal Palace	A	2-0	16,105	Gera, Kamara
22 October 2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	3-0	26,606	Greening, Kamara, Hartson (pen)
28 October 2006	Birmingham City	A	0-2	21,009
31 October 2006	Queens Park Rangers	H	3-3	17,417	Ellington, Kamara (2)
4 November 2006	Derby County	A	1-2	25,342	Chaplow
11 November 2006	Norwich City	H	0-1	18,718
18 November 2006	Burnley	H	3-0	18,707	Koumas, Ellington, Carter
25 November 2006	Stoke City	A	0-1	18,282
28 November 2006	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1-3	21,695	Koumas
2 December 2006	Derby County	H	1-0	20,494	Hartson
10 December 2006	Barnsley	A	1-1	9,512	Koumas
16 December 2006	Coventry City	H	5-0	20,370	Kamara (2, 1 pen), Koumas, Phillips, Robinson
23 December 2006	Plymouth Argyle	A	2-2	15,172	Phillips (2)
26 December 2006	Preston North End	H	4-2	22,905	Koumas, Kamara, Ellington (2)
30 December 2006	Ipswich Town	H	2-0	20,328	Kamara, Koumas
1 January 2007	Southend United	A	1-3	9,907	Hartson
12 January 2007	Luton Town	H	3-2	19,927	Koumas, Phillips (2)
20 January 2007	Leeds United	A	3-2	20,019	Greening, Kamara (2)
31 January 2007	Plymouth Argyle	H	2-1	19,894	Kamara (2, 1 pen)
3 February 2007	Hull City	A	1-0	18,005	Kamara
10 February 2007	Southampton	H	1-1	21,138	Phillips
13 February 2007	Colchester United	A	2-1	5,611	McShane, Kamara
20 February 2007	Cardiff City	H	1-0	18,802	Ellington
24 February 2007	Leicester City	A	1-1	25,581	Kamara (pen)
3 March 2007	Sunderland	H	1-2	23,252	Carter
11 March 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	0-1	28,016
14 March 2007	Crystal Palace	H	2-3	17,960	Clement, Phillips
18 March 2007	Birmingham City	H	1-1	21,434	McShane
31 March 2007	Queens Park Rangers	A	2-1	14,784	Phillips, Gera
7 April 2007	Stoke City	H	1-3	20,386	Koumas
9 April 2007	Norwich City	A	2-1	25,422	Sodje, Kamara
13 April 2007	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-1	20,415
23 April 2007	Burnley	A	2-3	12,500	Koumas, Ellington
28 April 2007	Coventry City	A	1-0	26,343	Robinson
6 May 2007	Barnsley	H	7-0	23,568	Phillips (3), Ellington (2, 1 pen), Koren, Gera

Championship play-offs


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
SF 1st Leg	13 May 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	3-2	27,750	Phillips (2), Kamara
SF 2nd Leg	16 May 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1-0 (won 4-2 on agg)	27,415	Phillips
F	28 May 2007	Derby County	N	0-1	74,993

FA Cup

Main article: 2006–07 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	6 January 2007	Leeds United	H	3-1	16,957	McShane, Hartson, Phillips
R4	28 January 2007	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	3-0	28,107	Kamara, Phillips, Gera
R5	17 February 2007	Middlesbrough	A	2-2	31,491	Kamara, Phillips
R5R	27 February 2007	Middlesbrough	H	1-1 (lost 4-5 on pens)	24,925	Carter

League Cup

Main article: 2006–07 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1	24 August 2006	Leyton Orient	A	3-0	3,058	Nicholson, Carter, Greening
R2	19 September 2006	Cheltenham Town	H	3-1	10,974	Wallwork, Ellington (pen), Nicholson (pen)
R3	24 October 2006	Arsenal	H	0-2	21,566

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Steve Watson
3	DF	Paul Robinson
4	DF	Chris Perry
5	DF	Neil Clement
6	DF	Curtis Davies
8	MF	Jonathan Greening
9	FW	Nathan Ellington
10	FW	John Hartson
11	MF	Zoltan Gera
12	MF	Richard Chaplow
13	GK	Luke Steele
14	DF	Martin Albrechtsen
15	FW	Diomansy Kamara
16	MF	Robert Koren
17	MF	Darren Carter

No.	Position	Player
19	MF	Jason Koumas
20	DF	Paul McShane
21	FW	Kevin Phillips
22	FW	Stuart Nicholson
23	DF	Jeff Forsyth
24	DF	Ronnie Wallwork
26	MF	Rob Davies
27	FW	Rob Elvins
28	DF	Jared Hodgkiss
30	GK	Luke Daniels
31	GK	Dean Kiely
32	DF	Sherjill MacDonald
33	FW	Michael Nardiello
34	DF	Sam Sodje (on loan from Reading)

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
1	GK	Pascal Zuberbühler (to Neuchâtel Xamax)
7	MF	Nigel Quashie (to West Ham United)
16	MF	Junichi Inamoto (to Galatasaray)

No.	Position	Player
18	DF	Thomas Gaardsøe (retired)
25	GK	Russell Hoult (to Stoke City)
29	GK	Tomasz Kuszczak (on loan to Manchester United)

References

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↑ "West Brom 7–0 Barnsley". BBC Sport. 6 May 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
↑ "Final 2006/2007 Football League Championship Table". soccerbase.com. Racing Post. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
↑ "Wolves 2–3 West Brom". BBC Sport. 13 May 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
↑ McNulty, Phil (16 May 2007). "West Brom 1–0 Wolves". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
↑ "All time results between West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers". soccerbase.com. Racing Post. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
↑ "Derby 1-0 West Brom". BBC Sport. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
↑ http://www.statto.com/football/teams/west-bromwich-albion/2006-2007/results

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