2010–11 Bury F.C. season

Bury F.C.

2010–11 season
Chairman	Brian Fenton
Manager	Alan Knill (until 31 March) Richie Barker (caretaker)
Football League Two	2nd (promoted)
FA Cup	2nd Round (eliminated by Peterborough United)
League Cup	1st Round (eliminated by Sheffield Wednesday)
Football League Trophy	Northern Section Quarter Final (eliminated by Tranmere Rovers)
Top goalscorer	League: Ryan Lowe (27) All: Ryan Lowe (28)
Highest home attendance	6,238 vs. Wycombe Wanderers, 30 April 2011
Lowest home attendance	1,944 vs. Shrewsbury Town, 5 October 2010
Average home league attendance	3,313
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

This page shows the progress of Bury F.C. in the 2010-11 football season. This year they play their games in League Two in the English league system.

Players

First-team squad

Includes all players who were awarded squad numbers during the 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 Cameron Belford 2 DF Phil Picken 3 DF Joe Skarz 4 DF Tom Lees 5 DF Ben Futcher 6 MF Peter Sweeney 7 MF David Worrall 8 MF Steven Schumacher (captain) 9 FW Danny Carlton (until Jan 2011) 10 FW Andy Bishop 11 MF Andy Haworth 12 FW Lenell John-Lewis 13 GK Owain Fôn Williams (from Oct 2010 to Jan 2011) 14 MF Mike Jones 15 FW Ryan Lowe

No. Position Player 16 DF Efe Sodje 17 MF Kyle Bennett 18 DF Gavin Gunning (from Nov 2010 to Jan 2011) 18 FW Chris Holroyd (Mar 2011 only) 19 MF Damien Mozika 20 GK Ritchie Branagan 21 MF Andrai Jones 22 MF Zach Rothwell 23 MF Krishnan Patel 25 MF Nicky Ajose (from Sep 2010) 26 MF James Wallace (from Nov to Dec 2010) 26 FW Luke McCarthy 27 DF Richard Eckersley (from Mar to Apr 2011) 29 MF Max Harrop 30 GK Neil Cutler (until Mar 2011)

Results

Pre-Season

10 July 2010	Bury	0 - 3	Burnley	Gigg Lane
15:00			Wallace  34' Thompson  45' Eagles  81'	Attendance: 2986

13 July 2010	Radcliffe Borough	1 - 0	Bury	Stainton Park
19:45	Brooks  48'			Attendance: ?

17 July 2010	Bury	1 - 1	Huddersfield Town	Gigg Lane
15:00	Bishop  28'		Carey  10'	Attendance: 1704

21 July 2010	Bury	4 - 0	Leeds United	Gigg Lane
19:45	Lowe  34' Bishop  63', 89 (pen)' Carlton  83'			Attendance: 2769

27 July 2010	Bury	3 - 0	Rochdale	Gigg Lane
19:45	Haworth  18' Bishop  34' Jones  84'			Attendance: 1585

29 July 2010	Ramsbottom United	1 - 2	Bury	Riverside Stadium
15:00	Dean  79'		Hudson  71' Boswell  87'	Attendance: ?

31 July 2010	Southport	2 - 2	Bury	Haig Avenue
15:00	Early  35' Gray  70'		Skarz  44' Lee  61 OG'	Attendance: ?

League Two

7 August 2010	Bury	0 - 1	Port Vale	Gigg Lane
15:00			Collins  66'	Attendance: 4,681

14 August 2010	Oxford United	1 - 2	Bury	Kassam Stadium
15:00	Midson  31'		Lees  26' Lowe  79'	Attendance: 7,552

21 August 2010	Bury	1 - 1	Northampton Town	Gigg Lane
15:00	Worrall  69'		Guinan  33' (pen.)	Attendance: 2,845

28 August 2010	Barnet	1 - 1	Bury	Underhill Stadium
15:00	Marshall  75'		Lowe  56'	Attendance: 1,563

4 September 2010	Bury	5 - 4	Gillingham	Gigg Lane
15:00	Bishop  15', 50' Lowe  34' (pen.), 73' Sodje  62'		Akinfenwa  47', 58' Spiller  59' Palmer  66'	Attendance: 2,700

11 September 2010	Crewe Alexandra	3 - 0	Bury	Alexandra Stadium
15:00	Miller  3' Artell  18' Murphy  71'		Schumacher  63'	Attendance: 4,030

18 September 2010	Bury	1 - 1	Hereford United	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  90'		Bauzà  46' (pen.) Lunt  72'	Attendance: 2,753

25 September 2010	Cheltenham Town	0 - 2	Bury	Abbey Business Stadium
15:00			Lowe  11' (pen.) M. Jones  85'	Attendance: 2,758

28 September 2010	Morecambe	1 - 4	Bury	Globe Arena
19:45	Drummond  45'		M. Jones  3' Schumacher  21', 89' Haworth  78'	Attendance: 2,607

2 October 2010	Bury	1 - 1	Rotherham United	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  41'		Le Fondre  47'	Attendance: 3,788

9 October 2010	Bury	3 - 0	Accrington Stanley	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  13', 45' Ajose  57'		Procter  75' Bateson  82'	Attendance: 4,164

16 October 2010	Torquay United	3 - 4	Bury	Plainmoor
15:00	Robertson  18' Zebroski  20', 56'		Lowe  27' (pen.) Ajose  33' Schumacher  51' M. Jones  71'	Attendance: 2,553

23 October 2010	Bury	1 - 0	Southend United	Gigg Lane
15:00	Skarz  41'			Attendance: 3,531

30 October 2010	Aldershot Town	1 - 3	Bury	Recreation Ground
15:00	Little  11' Jones  22' M. Morgan  68'		M. Jones  44', 66' Ajose  77'	Attendance: 2,526

2 November 2010	Bury	0 - 1	Bradford City	Gigg Lane
19:45			Daley  30' (pen.)	Attendance: 3,521

13 November 2010	Bury	0 - 1	Stockport County	Gigg Lane
15:00			Fletcher  15'	Attendance: 4,244

19 November 2010	Burton Albion	1 - 3	Bury	Pirelli Stadium
19:45	Collins  29'		M. Jones  10' Ajose  53' Sodje  73'	Attendance: 2,738

23 November 2010	Lincoln City	0 - 5	Bury	Sincil Bank
19:45			Haworth  10' Ajose  21', 71' Lowe  23', 90'	Attendance: 3,659

11 December 2010	Wycombe Wanderers	1 - 0	Bury	Adams Park
15:00	Rendell  69'			Attendance: 3,673

1 January 2011	Bury	2 - 2	Macclesfield Town	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  83' John-Lewis  89'		Butcher  29' Gray  69'	Attendance: 2,860

3 January 2011	Bradford City	1 - 0	Bury	Valley Parade
15:00	Daley  45'			Attendance: 11,384

8 January 2011	Accrington Stanley	1 - 0	Bury	Crown Ground
15:00	Jacobson  77'			Attendance: 2,481

15 January 2011	Bury	1 - 1	Aldershot Town	Gigg Lane
15:00	Schumacher  71'		Guttridge  9'	Attendance: 2,537

21 January 2011	Southend United	1 - 1	Bury	Roots Hall
19:45	Mohsni  90'		Mozika  65'	Attendance: 5,175

28 January 2011	Bury	1 - 0	Shrewsbury Town	Gigg Lane
19:45	Lowe  39'

1 February 2011	Macclesfield Town	2 - 4	Bury	Moss Rose
19:45	Draper  37' Barnett  39'		M. Jones  8' Lowe  33', 86' Ajose  36'	Attendance: 1,267

8 February 2011	Bury	3 - 0	Stevenage	Gigg Lane
19:45	Bishop  8' Sodje  61' Lowe  70'			Attendance: 2,080

12 February 2011	Stockport County	2 - 1	Bury	Edgeley Park
15:00	Paterson  66' Elding  84'		Lowe  88'	Attendance: 4,903

15 February 2011	Bury	1 - 1	Chesterfield	Gigg Lane
19:45	Lowe  46'		Davies  20' Smalley  85'	Attendance: 2,517

19 February 2011	Gillingham	1 - 1	Bury	Priestfield Stadium
15:00	Weston  25'		Lowe  72'	Attendance: 5,021

26 February 2011	Bury	3 - 1	Crewe Alexandra	Gigg Lane
15:00	Bennett  64', 68' Lowe  76'		Miller  41'	Attendance: 3,308

1 March 2011	Shrewsbury Town	0 - 3	Bury	Greenhous Meadow
19:45			Bishop  21' Lowe  53' Schumacher  80'	Attendance: 5,298

5 March 2011	Hereford United	0 - 3	Bury	Edgar Street
15:00			Schumacher  3', 51' Lowe  86'	Attendance: 2,650

8 March 2011	Bury	1 - 0	Morecambe	Gigg Lane
19:45	John-Lewis  85'			Attendance: 2,480

12 March 2011	Rotherham United	0 - 0	Bury	Don Valley Stadium
15:00				Attendance: 4,620

15 March 2011	Bury	1 - 2	Torquay United	Gigg Lane
19:45	Holroyd  4'		Stanley  61' Zebroski  70'	Attendance: 2,747

19 March 2011	Bury	2 - 3	Cheltenham Town	Gigg Lane
15:00	Futcher  9' Haworth  68'		Gallinagh  3' Low  7', 68'	Attendance: 2,870

26 March 2011	Port Vale	0 - 0	Bury	Vale Park
15:00			Schumacher  76'	Attendance: 5,510

2 April 2011	Bury	3 - 0	Oxford United	Gigg Lane
15:00	Ajose  1', 70' Lowe  63'			Attendance: 3,515

9 April 2011	Northampton Town	2 - 4	Bury	Sixfields Stadium
15:00	Harrad  59', 90+1'		Lowe  24' Ajose  28', 57' Mozika  42'	Attendance: 5,077

12 April 2011	Bury	1 - 0	Burton Albion	Gigg Lane
19:45	Lees  77' Mozika  45+2' Sodje  87'		Winnall  62'	Attendance: 2,580

16 April 2011	Bury	2 - 0	Barnet	Gigg Lane
15:00	Ajose  16' M. Jones  21'			Attendance: 3,082

22 April 2011	Bury	1 - 0	Lincoln City	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lees  56'			Attendance: 4,248

25 April 2011	Chesterfield	2 - 3	Bury	B2net Stadium
15:00	Davies  50' Lester  63'		Lees  12' Worrall  55' Lowe  87'	Attendance: 9,614

30 April 2011	Bury	1 - 3	Wycombe Wanderers	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  10' (pen)		Ainsworth  20' Strevens  63', 88'	Attendance: 6,238

7 May 2011	Stevenage	3 - 3	Bury	Lamex Stadium
15:00	Laird  8' Reid  19' May  73'		Schumacher  16', 70' Ajose  31'	Attendance: 5,016

FA Cup

Round 1 6 November 2010	Bury	2 - 0	Exeter City	Gigg Lane
15:00	Sodje  28' Lees  53'			Attendance: 2,359

Round 2 27 November 2010	Bury	1 - 2	Peterborough United	Gigg Lane
15:00	Lowe  51'		Tomlin  13' Mackail-Smith  38'	Attendance: 2,514

League Cup

Round 1 10 August 2010	Sheffield Wednesday	1 - 0	Bury	Hillsborough Stadium
19:45	Coke  60'			Attendance: 7,390

Football League Trophy

Round 1 5 October 2010	Bury	0 - 0 (6 - 5 p)	Shrewsbury Town	Gigg Lane
19:45				Attendance: 1,944
		Penalties
	Worrall Bennett Lowe Ajose Futcher Belford		Harrold McIntyre McAllister Leslie Raven O'Donnell	|

Round 2 9 November 2010	Bury	0 - 1	Tranmere Rovers	Gigg Lane
19:45			Thomas-Moore  8'	Attendance: 1,961

League data

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Chesterfield (C) (P)	46	24	14	8	85	51	+34	86	Promotion to Football League One
2	Bury (P)	46	23	12	11	82	50	+32	81
3	Wycombe Wanderers (P)	46	22	14	10	69	50	+19	80
4	Shrewsbury Town (Q)	46	22	13	11	72	49	+23	79	Qualification to League Two Playoffs
5	Accrington Stanley (Q)	46	18	19	9	73	55	+18	73

Updated to games played on 11 May 2011.
Source: 2010–11 Football League Two#League table
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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
46	23	12	11	82	50	+32	81	11	6	6	35	23	+12	12	6	5	47	27	+20

Last updated: 11 May 2011.
Source: BBC Sport

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	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A
Result	L	W	D	D	W	L	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	D	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	L	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D
Position			11	12	7	11	11	6	5	5	4	4	3	3	3	5	2	3	3	5	5	6	6	7	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2

Last updated: 20 May 2011.
Source: Results
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Appearances and goals

As of 6 May 2011.

(Substitute appearances in brackets)

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		League Trophy		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Cameron Belford	39	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	41	0	2	0
2	DF	Phil Picken	38	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	44	0	10	0
3	DF	Joe Skarz	46	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	51	1	5	0
4	DF	Tom Lees	45	4	2	1	1	0	2	0	50	5	1	0
5	DF	Ben Futcher	6 (5)	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	8 (5)	1	3	0
6	MF	Peter Sweeney	18 (7)	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	22 (7)	0	3	0
7	MF	David Worrall	27 (13)	2	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	27 (17)	2	3	0
8	MF	Steven Schumacher	42 (1)	9	1	0	1	0	1	0	45 (1)	9	6	2
9	FW	Danny Carlton	0 (3)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0 (6)	0	0	0
10	FW	Andy Bishop	14 (5)	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	15 (15)	4	2	0
11	MF	Andy Haworth	20 (20)	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	25 (20)	3	4	0
12	MF	Lenell John-Lewis	6 (33)	2	0 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	2	0	8 (36)	2	1	0
13	GK	Owain Fôn Williams	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	1	0
14	MF	Mike Jones	37 (5)	8	2	0	1	0	0	0	40 (5)	8	1	0
15	FW	Ryan Lowe	46	27	2	1	1	0	0 (1)	0	49 (1)	28	4	0
16	DF	Efe Sodje	40	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	43	4	12	1
17	MF	Kyle Bennett	13 (19)	2	0 (1)	0	0	0	2	0	15 (20)	2	1	0
18	DF	Gavin Gunning	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
18	FW	Chris Holroyd	3 (1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3 (1)	1	0	0
19	MF	Damien Mozika	32 (1)	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	34 (1)	2	10	1
20	GK	Ritchie Branagan	1 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2 (1)	0	0	0
21	MF	Andrai Jones	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
25	FW	Nicky Ajose	22 (6)	13	2	0	0	0	2	0	26 (6)	13	0	0
26	MF	James Wallace	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
26	MF	Luke McCarthy	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
27	DF	Richard Eckersley	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
29	MF	Max Harrop	0 (3)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (3)	0	0	0

Awards

End of Season Awards	Winner[1]
Forever Bury Player of the Season	Ryan Lowe
Website Player of the Season	Ryan Lowe
Bury Times Player of the Season	Efe Sodje
Junior Shakers' Player of the Season	Efe Sodje
Disabled supporters' Player of the Season	Ryan Lowe
Frank Hoult Players' Player of the Season	Tom Lees
Young Player of the Season	Joe Skarz
Forever Bury Most Promising Newcomer of the Season	Damien Mozika
Youth Team Player of the Season	Max Harrop
Goal of the Season	Steven Schumacher (vs Shrewsbury Town, 1 March 2011)

Transfers

Players transferred in
Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2010	MF	Peter Sweeney	Grimsby Town	Free	[2]
25 June 2010	DF	Joe Skarz	Huddersfield Town	Free	[3]
6 July 2010	MF	Andrew Haworth	Blackburn Rovers	Free	[4]
8 July 2010	MF	Steven Schumacher	Crewe Alexandra	Free	[5]
3 August 2010	DF	Phil Picken	Chesterfield	Free	[6]
3 August 2010	MF	Kyle Bennett	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free	[6]
5 August 2010	FW	Lenell John-Lewis	Lincoln City	Free	[7]
19 August 2010	MF	Damien Mozika	Tarbiat Yazd	Free	[8]
Players loaned in
Date from	Pos.	Name	From	Date to	Ref.
3 August 2010	DF	Tom Lees	Leeds United	End of season	[6][9]
25 September 2010	FW	Nicky Ajose	Manchester United	End of season	[10][11][12]
28 October 2010	GK	Owain Fôn Williams	Stockport County	4 January 2011	[13][14]
12 November 2010	DF	Gavin Gunning	Blackburn Rovers	31 January 2011	[15][16]
25 November 2010	MF	James Wallace	Everton	31 January 2011	[17]
11 March 2011	FW	Chris Holroyd	Brighton & Hove Albion	11 April 2011	[18][19]
14 March 2011	DF	Richard Eckersley	Burnley	15 April 2011	[20][21]
Players loaned out
Date from	Pos.	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
23 September 2010	FW	Danny Carlton	Grimsby Town	20 October 2010	[22]
28 September 2010	DF	Andrai Jones	Altrincham	28 October 2010	[23]
11 November 2010	DF	Ben Futcher	Oxford United	4 January 2011	[24]
Players transferred out
Date	Pos.	Name	Subsequent club	Fee	Ref.
18 June 2010	DF	Ryan Cresswell	Rotherham United	Undisclosed	[25]
Players released
Date	Pos.	Name	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
7 June 2010	MF	Stephen Dawson	Leyton Orient	1 July 2010 (Bosman)	[26]
15 June 2010	DF	Paul Scott	Morecambe	1 July 2010	[27][28]
16 June 2010	MF	Brian Barry-Murphy	Rochdale	1 July 2010 (Bosman)	[29]
28 June 2010	FW	Andy Morrell	Wrexham	1 July 2010 (Bosman)	[30]
28 June 2010	DF	Tom Newey	Rotherham United	1 July 2010 (Bosman)	[31]
1 July 2010	MF	Richie Baker	Oxford United	1 July 2010	[27][32]
1 July 2010	DF	David Buchanan	Hamilton Academical	25 July 2010	[33][34]
1 July 2010	GK	Wayne Brown	Supersport United	27 July 2010	[27][35]
1 July 2010	MF	Damien Allen	Colwyn Bay	28 July 2010	[27][36]
1 July 2010	DF	Danny Racchi	Wrexham	16 August 2010	[27][37]
1 July 2010	MF	Josh Rothwell	Unattached		[27]
31 January 2011	FW	Danny Carlton	Morecambe	15 February 2011	[38][39]
31 March 2011	GK	Neil Cutler	Scunthorpe United	31 March 2011 (Goalkeeping coach)	[40]

References

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