1956–57 Stoke City F.C. season

Stoke City

1956–57 season

Chairman

Mr G. Taylor

Manager

Frank Taylor

Stadium

Victoria Ground

Football League Second Division

5th (48 Points)

FA Cup

Third Round

Top goalscorer

League: Neville Coleman (26)
All: Neville Coleman (27)

Highest home attendance

38,729 vs Port Vale (10 October 1956)

Lowest home attendance

11,083 vs Bury (22 April 1957)

Average home league attendance

22,146

Home colours

← 1955–56

1957–58 →

The 1956–57 season was Stoke City's 50th season in the Football League and the 17th in the Second Division.

With Stoke now entering a fourth season of Second tier football there was a lot of pressure placed on both manager Frank Taylor and the squad for 1956–57. And Stoke made a great effort in an attempt to gain promotion with a fine home record and new floodlights which saw Lincoln City beaten 8–0 with Neville Coleman scoring 7. However after this Stoke bizarrely failed to find the back of the net in six straight defeats and this poor run of form cost Stoke promotion and in the end they finished in 5th position with 48 points.^[1]

Season review

League

In the 1956–57 season, with the pressure on both the manager and players, Stoke made a great effort at winning promotion back to the First Division.^[1] A string of fine home results over Notts County (6–0), Leyton Orient (7–1) and Rotherham United (6–0) raised the fans hopes.^[1] Floodlights were installed in October 1956 and the first match under the lights was in the Potteries derby against Port Vale.^[1] A crowd of 38,729 turned up to see Stoke win 3–1 to maintain their good form.^[1]

Neville Coleman was getting the bulk of Stoke goals which accumulated on 23 February 1957 when Lincoln City arrived at the Victoria Ground.^[1] That day Stoke hammered luckless Lincoln 8–0 with Coleman scoring a record seven of the goals.^[1] At this stage of the season promotion looked like it could be achieved but all of a sudden Stoke's form completely dropped, after a 1–1 draw with Sheffield United Stoke lost their next six matches and failed to score in any of them and their hopes of promotion died.^[1]

FA Cup

Stoke were drawn away at First Division side Arsenal in the third round and were beaten 4–2 by the "Gunners".^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Leicester City	42	25	11	6	109	67	1.627	61
2	Nottingham Forest	42	22	10	10	94	55	1.709	54
3	Liverpool	42	21	11	10	82	54	1.519	53
4	Blackburn Rovers	42	21	10	11	83	75	1.107	52
5	Stoke City	42	20	8	14	83	58	1.431	48
6	Middlesbrough	42	19	10	13	84	60	1.400	48
7	Sheffield United	42	19	8	15	87	76	1.145	46
8	West Ham United	42	19	8	15	59	63	0.937	46
9	Bristol Rovers	42	18	9	15	81	67	1.209	45
10	Swansea Town	42	19	7	16	90	90	1.000	45
11	Fulham	42	19	4	19	84	76	1.105	42
12	Huddersfield Town	42	18	6	18	68	74	0.919	42
13	Bristol City	42	16	9	17	74	79	0.937	41
14	Doncaster Rovers	42	15	10	17	77	77	1.000	40
15	Leyton Orient	42	15	10	17	66	84	0.786	40
16	Grimsby Town	42	17	5	20	61	62	0.984	39
17	Rotherham United	42	13	11	18	74	75	0.987	37
18	Lincoln City	42	14	6	22	54	80	0.675	34
19	Barnsley	42	12	10	20	59	89	0.663	34
20	Notts County	42	9	12	21	58	86	0.674	30
21	Bury	42	8	9	25	60	96	0.625	25
22	Port Vale	42	8	6	28	57	101	0.564	22

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

Results

Stoke's score comes first

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

Football League Second Division

Main article: 1956–57 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	18 August 1956	Middlesbrough	A	1–1	13,116	Cairns (pen)
2	20 August 1956	Grimsby Town	H	1–0	20,921	Coleman
3	25 August 1956	Leicester City	H	3–1	23,675	Coleman, Cairns (pen), Oscroft
4	28 August 1956	Grimsby Town	A	1–4	17,722	Bowyer
5	1 September 1956	Bristol Rovers	A	0–4	25,430
6	3 September 1956	Doncaster Rovers	H	1–1	14,497	King
7	8 September 1956	Notts County	H	6–0	18,564	Kelly, Oscroft, Bowyer, Coleman (2), Cairns (pen)
8	10 September 1956	Doncaster Rovers	A	0–4	14,674
9	15 September 1956	Liverpool	A	2–0	47,119	Kelly, King
10	22 September 1956	Leyton Orient	H	7–1	19,957	Kelly, King, Cairns (pen), Coleman, Oscroft (2), Bowyer
11	29 September 1956	Huddersfield Town	A	2–2	16,202	Oscroft, Bowyer
12	6 October 1956	Rotherham United	H	6–0	21,589	Oscroft, Bowyer, King (2), Coleman (2)
13	10 October 1956	Port Vale	H	3–1	38,729	Coleman (2), Kelly
14	13 October 1956	Lincoln City	A	1–0	13,066	Coleman
15	20 October 1956	Sheffield United	H	3–3	26,849	Coleman (2), Kelly
16	27 October 1956	Fulham	A	0–1	29,748
17	3 November 1956	Nottingham Forest	H	2–1	32,637	Bowyer, Oscroft
18	10 November 1956	West Ham United	A	0–1	17,500
19	17 November 1956	Blackburn Rovers	H	4–1	21,067	Bowyer, King, Coleman, Kelly
20	24 November 1956	Bristol City	A	2–1	17,796	Coleman, Kelly
21	1 December 1956	Swansea Town	H	4–1	23,409	Coleman, King, Bowyer (2)
22	8 December 1956	Barnsley	A	2–2	11,626	Bowyer, Kelly
23	15 December 1956	Middlesbrough	H	3–1	20,679	Coleman (3)
24	22 December 1956	Leicester City	A	2–3	28,178	Kelly (2)
25	29 December 1956	Bristol Rovers	H	2–1	30,936	Bowyer, Graver
26	1 January 1957	Bury	A	1–0	13,180	Graver
27	12 January 1957	Notts County	A	0–5	13,620
28	19 January 1957	Liverpool	H	1–0	31,144	Oscroft
29	2 February 1957	Leyton Orient	A	2–2	18,705	Kelly (2)
30	9 February 1957	Huddersfield Town	H	5–1	27,503	Oscroft (2), Bowyer, Coleman, Cairns (pen)
31	16 February 1957	Rotherham United	A	0–1	11,511
32	23 February 1957	Lincoln City	H	8–0	10,790	Coleman (7), King
33	1 March 1957	Sheffield United	A	1–1	20,277	Kelly
34	9 March 1957	Fulham	H	0–2	24,766
35	16 March 1957	Nottingham Forest	A	0–4	32,294
36	23 March 1957	West Ham United	H	0–1	19,875
37	30 March 1957	Blackburn Rovers	A	0–1	27,600
38	6 April 1957	Bristol City	H	0–2	13,397
39	13 April 1957	Swansea Town	A	0–1	15,000
40	20 April 1957	Barnsley	H	3–0	11,600	Bowyer (2), Graver
41	22 April 1957	Bury	H	2–0	11,083	Bowyer, Oscroft
42	27 April 1957	Port Vale	A	2–2	18,753	Graver, King

FA Cup

Main article: 1956–57 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R3	5 January 1957	Arsenal	A	2–4	56,173	Oscroft, Coleman

Friendlies

Match	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	Manchester City	H	4–1
2	FK Radnički Niš	H	3–1
3	Rot-Weiss Essen	H	5–0
4	Schwenningen	A	1–3
5	SSV Ulm 1846	A	4–0
6	Forbach	A	4–3
7	FC Singen 04	A	4–2
8	Forbach	A	4–3
9	OGC Nice	A	1–2

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Bill Robertson	42	0	1	0	43	0
DF	Peter Ford	2	0	0	0	2	0
DF	John McCue	39	0	1	0	40	0
DF	Frank Mountford	39	0	1	0	40	0
DF	Ken Thomson	40	0	1	0	41	0
DF	Donald Whiston	3	0	0	0	3	0
MF	Bill Asprey	9	0	0	0	9	0
MF	Bobby Cairns	36	5	1	0	37	5
MF	Edward Raynor	2	0	0	0	2	0
MF	John Sellars	40	0	1	0	41	0
FW	Frank Bowyer	38	14	1	0	39	14
FW	Neville Coleman	42	26	1	1	43	27
FW	Andy Graver	13	5	0	0	13	5
FW	Colin Hutchinson	1	0	0	0	1	0
FW	Joe Hutton	7	0	0	0	7	0
FW	George Kelly	30	13	1	0	31	13
FW	Johnny King	34	9	1	0	35	9
FW	Harry Oscroft	41	11	1	1	42	12
FW	Don Ratcliffe	1	0	0	0	1	0
FW	Derrick Ward	3	0	0	0	3	0

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.

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1956–57 Stoke City F.C. season

Season review

League

FA Cup

Final league table

Results

Legend

Football League Second Division

FA Cup

Friendlies

Squad statistics

References

See also