The City Ground

SEASON: 2011-12

Prev Season: 2010-11
This Season: 2011-12
Next Season: 2012-13

DIVISION:: npower Championship (Tier 2)
MANAGER(s):: Steve MacLaren, Steve Cotterill
FA Cup:: 3rd Round (Leicester City (A) 0-4)
League Cup:: 3rd Round (Newcastle United (H) 3-4)
Player Of The Year:: Garath McCleary

Top Goalscorer:: Garath McCleary (9 goals)

Goals scored, conceded and win and loss margins

Goal count:	1 goal	2 goals	3 goals	4 goals	5+ goals
Scored	15 times	7 times	6 times	1 time	1 time
Conceded	18 times	9 times	6 times	4 times	1 time
Won By	7 times	5 times	2 times	1 time
Lost By	17 times	3 times	3 times	3 times

Analysis of the league positions
This table shows:
(a) how many days we spent in each of the league positions and
(b) how we did when we played teams in each of the positions.

Position days		Record against teams (Green = win; Blue = draw; Red = loss)
Forest Pos	Num Days	Opp Pos	P	W	D	L	F	A	Points	Results
1		1	2	-	-	2	0	4	0	Southampton (0-3), Reading (0-1)
2		2	3	-	1	2	3	5	1	Barnsley (0-0), Southampton (2-3), West Ham United (1-2)
3		3	3	2	-	1	4	2	6	Middlesbrough (2-0), Cardiff City (0-1), Birmingham City (2-1)
4		4	2	-	1	1	1	2	1	Cardiff City (0-1), Brighton and Hove Albion (1-1)
5		5	3	-	1	2	1	6	1	Derby County (1-2), Leeds United (0-4), Blackpool (0-0)
6		6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
7		7	2	-	-	2	0	2	0	Hull City (0-1), Brighton and Hove Albion (0-1)
8		8	2	1	-	1	3	3	3	Blackpool (2-1), Hull City (1-2)
9		9	2	-	-	2	2	6	0	West Ham United (1-4), Middlesbrough (1-2)
10		10	1	1	-	-	7	3	3	Leeds United (7-3)
11		11	2	-	1	1	0	2	1	Millwall (0-2), Leicester City (0-0)
12	3	12	1	-	-	1	0	2	0	Burnley (0-2)
13	1	13	2	1	-	1	3	1	3	Crystal Palace (0-1), Crystal Palace (3-0)
14		14	1	-	1	-	1	1	1	Barnsley (1-1)
15	1	15	3	1	-	2	3	4	3	Ipswich Town (3-2), Peterborough United (0-1), Derby County (0-1)
16	2	16	2	1	1	-	2	1	4	Reading (1-0), Watford (1-1)
17	4	17	2	1	1	-	3	2	4	Leicester City (2-2), Peterborough United (1-0)
18	3	18	1	1	-	-	1	0	3	Watford (1-0)
19	13	19	3	2	-	1	7	5	6	Birmingham City (1-3), Ipswich Town (3-1), Millwall (3-1)
20	33	20	1	-	-	1	0	3	0	Portsmouth (0-3)
21	9	21	3	1	1	1	2	5	4	Doncaster Rovers (1-0), Burnley (1-5), Bristol City (0-0)
22	25	22	4	2	-	2	4	2	6	Coventry City (0-1), Coventry City (2-0), Bristol City (0-1), Portsmouth (2-0)
23	8	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
24		24	1	-	-	1	1	2	0	Doncaster Rovers (1-2)

ATTENDANCES (HOME)

Highest League Attendance:: 27,356
Lowest League Attendance:: 18,506
Average League Attendance:: 21,969
Highest Cup Attendance:: 21,606
Lowest Cup Attendance:: 10,208

MISCELLANEOUS

Clean Sheets:: 13
Red cards:: 5
Yellow cards:: 59
Own goals (for):: (scored by opponents for us)
Own goals (against):: (scored by us for opponents)
Yellow cards:: 59
Penalties scored:: 3
Penalties conceded:: 0
Penalties missed:: 0
Penalties saved:: 0

END OF SEASON TABLE (2011-12)

CHAMPIONSHIP (Tier 2)								Home					Away								Results
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Result	Home	Away
1	Reading	46	27	8	11	69	41	14	5	4	36	18	13	3	7	33	23	28	89		1-0	0-1
2	Southampton	46	26	10	10	85	46	16	4	3	49	18	10	6	7	36	28	39	88		0-3	2-3
3	West Ham United	46	24	14	8	81	48	11	8	4	41	26	13	6	4	40	22	33	86		1-4	1-2
4	Birmingham City	46	20	16	10	78	51	13	9	1	37	14	7	7	9	41	37	27	76		1-3	2-1
5	Blackpool	46	20	15	11	79	59	13	7	3	42	21	7	8	8	37	38	20	75		0-0	2-1
6	Cardiff City	46	19	18	9	66	53	11	7	5	37	29	8	11	4	29	24	13	75		0-1	0-1
7	Middlesbrough	46	18	16	12	52	51	8	10	5	22	21	10	6	7	30	30	1	70		2-0	1-2
8	Hull City	46	19	11	16	47	44	12	4	7	28	22	7	7	9	19	22	3	68		0-1	1-2
9	Leicester City	46	18	12	16	66	55	11	6	6	36	22	7	6	10	30	33	11	66		2-2	0-0
10	Brighton and Hove Albion	46	17	15	14	52	52	11	8	4	36	21	6	7	10	16	31	0	66		1-1	0-1
11	Watford	46	16	16	14	56	64	10	6	7	32	33	6	10	7	24	31	-8	64		1-1	1-0
12	Derby County	46	18	10	18	50	58	11	4	8	28	23	7	6	10	22	35	-8	64		1-2	0-1
13	Burnley	46	17	11	18	61	58	7	9	7	33	27	10	2	11	28	31	3	62		0-2	1-5
14	Leeds United	46	17	10	19	65	68	9	3	11	34	41	8	7	8	31	27	-3	61		0-4	7-3
15	Ipswich Town	46	17	10	19	69	77	11	3	9	39	32	6	7	10	30	45	-8	61		3-2	3-1
16	Millwall	46	15	12	19	55	57	7	7	9	27	30	8	5	10	28	27	-2	57		3-1	0-2
17	Crystal Palace	46	13	17	16	46	51	7	11	5	22	19	6	6	11	24	32	-5	56		0-1	3-0
18	Peterborough United	46	13	11	22	67	77	10	3	10	41	38	3	8	12	26	39	-10	50		0-1	1-0
19	Nottingham Forest	46	14	8	24	48	63	6	5	12	21	32	8	3	12	27	31	-15	50
20	Bristol City	46	12	13	21	44	68	7	6	10	26	32	5	7	11	18	36	-24	49		0-1	0-0
21	Barnsley	46	13	9	24	49	74	9	4	10	31	37	4	5	14	18	37	-25	48		0-0	1-1
22	Portsmouth	46	13	11	22	50	59	10	5	8	30	24	3	6	14	20	35	-9	40*		2-0	0-3
23	Coventry City	46	9	13	24	41	65	8	7	8	28	26	1	6	16	13	39	-24	40		2-0	0-1
24	Doncaster Rovers	46	8	12	26	43	80	4	8	11	22	35	4	4	15	21	45	-37	36		1-2	1-0

*Portsmouth deducted 10 points for entering administration

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GAMES

League

Week	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Pos	Scorers
1	Sat Aug 06, 2011	Barnsley	H	0-0	Draw	22,951	15
2	Sat Aug 13, 2011	Millwall	A	0-2	Loss	12,010	20
3	Tue Aug 16, 2011	Doncaster Rovers	A	1-0	Win	9,464	12	Gunter (31)
4	Sat Aug 20, 2011	Leicester City	H	2-2	Draw	24,426	12	McGugan (79 pen), Boateng (90)
5	Sun Aug 28, 2011	West Ham United	H	1-4	Loss	21,379	18	Findley (70)
6	Sat Sep 10, 2011	Southampton	A	2-3	Loss	24,784	20	Derbyshire (7), Majewski (42)
7	Sat Sep 17, 2011	Derby County	H	1-2	Loss	27,356	22	Reid (5 pen)
8	Sat Sep 24, 2011	Watford	A	1-0	Win	11,437	18	Miller (61)
9	Tue Sep 27, 2011	Burnley	A	1-5	Loss	13,265	20	Miller (59)
10	Sun Oct 02, 2011	Birmingham City	H	1-3	Loss	20,556	21	Miller (35)
11	Sat Oct 15, 2011	Coventry City	A	0-1	Loss	15,712	23
12	Tue Oct 18, 2011	Middlesbrough	H	2-0	Win	20,630	20	Tudgay (35), McGugan (55)
13	Sat Oct 22, 2011	Blackpool	A	2-1	Win	13,520	19	Morgan (39), Majewski (76)
14	Sat Oct 29, 2011	Hull City	H	0-1	Loss	22,841	20
15	Tue Nov 01, 2011	Reading	H	1-0	Win	18,506	19	Tudgay (75)
16	Sat Nov 05, 2011	Portsmouth	A	0-3	Loss	14,207	20
17	Sat Nov 19, 2011	Ipswich Town	H	3-2	Win	21,143	17	Findley (42), Lynch (84), Tudgay (90)
18	Sat Nov 26, 2011	Cardiff City	A	0-1	Loss	22,556	20
19	Tue Nov 29, 2011	Leeds United	H	0-4	Loss	23,577	22
20	Sat Dec 03, 2011	Brighton and Hove Albion	A	0-1	Loss	20,358	22
21	Sat Dec 10, 2011	Crystal Palace	H	0-1	Loss	21,405	22
22	Sat Dec 17, 2011	Bristol City	A	0-0	Draw	13,121	22
23	Mon Dec 26, 2011	Peterborough United	H	0-1	Loss	24,376	22
24	Sat Dec 31, 2011	Cardiff City	H	0-1	Loss	19,750	22
25	Mon Jan 02, 2012	Ipswich Town	A	3-1	Win	18,964	22	Tudgay (5, 78), McCleary (26)
26	Sat Jan 14, 2012	Southampton	H	0-3	Loss	20,221	22
27	Sat Jan 21, 2012	West Ham United	A	1-2	Loss	31,718	22	McGugan (90)
28	Tue Jan 31, 2012	Burnley	H	0-2	Loss	23,147	23
29	Sat Feb 11, 2012	Watford	H	1-1	Draw	21,712	22	McCleary (19)
30	Tue Feb 14, 2012	Middlesbrough	A	1-2	Loss	14,799	23	Lynch (66)
31	Sat Feb 18, 2012	Coventry City	H	2-0	Win	21,588	21	McCleary (74), Findley (86)
32	Sat Feb 25, 2012	Birmingham City	A	2-1	Win	19,166	20	Blackstock (29, 63)
33	Sat Mar 03, 2012	Barnsley	A	1-1	Draw	10,550	20	McCleary (33)
34	Tue Mar 06, 2012	Doncaster Rovers	H	1-2	Loss	18,521	21	Blackstock (63)
35	Sat Mar 10, 2012	Millwall	H	3-1	Win	19,413	20	McCleary (25), Higginbotham (38), Reid (80)
36	Tue Mar 13, 2012	Derby County	A	0-1	Loss	33,010	20
37	Tue Mar 20, 2012	Leeds United	A	7-3	Win	21,367	20	Guedioura (8), McCleary (45, 56, 60, 71), Blackstock (52, 81)
38	Sat Mar 24, 2012	Brighton and Hove Albion	H	1-1	Draw	21,249	20	Lynch (90)
39	Tue Mar 27, 2012	Leicester City	A	0-0	Draw	23,412	20
40	Sat Mar 31, 2012	Crystal Palace	A	3-0	Win	14,928	19	Majewski (53, 72, 82)
41	Sat Apr 07, 2012	Bristol City	H	0-1	Loss	22,851	20
42	Mon Apr 09, 2012	Peterborough United	A	1-0	Win	11,631	19	Blackstock (38)
43	Sat Apr 14, 2012	Blackpool	H	0-0	Draw	24,078	19
44	Tue Apr 17, 2012	Reading	A	0-1	Loss	22,899	19
45	Sat Apr 21, 2012	Hull City	A	1-2	Loss	20,786	20	Majewski (90)
46	Sat Apr 28, 2012	Portsmouth	H	2-0	Win	23,625	19	Blackstock (70, 89)

FA Cup

Date	Opponent	Round	Replay	Count	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Sat Jan 07, 2012	Leicester City	3			H	0-0	Draw	18,477
Tue Jan 17, 2012	Leicester City	3	Y	1	A	0-4	Loss	16,210

League Cup

Date	Opponent	Round	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Tue Aug 09, 2011	Notts County	1	H	3-3	Win	21,606	McGugan (30), Findley (56), Morgan (*)
Tue Aug 23, 2011	Wycombe Wanderers	2	A	4-1	Win	2,866	Miller (3), McGugan (6 pen), Findley (62), Majewski (75)
Tue Sep 20, 2011	Newcastle United	3	H	3-4	Loss	10,208	Findley (46), Derbyshire (66), Tudgay (*)

Pre-Season Friendly

Date	Opponent	Country	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Fri Jul 15, 2011	Tottenham Hotspur XI	England	N	2-3	Loss	500	Morgan (?), Garner (?)
Wed Jul 20, 2011	Northampton Town	England	A	2-1	Win	2,263	Chambers (52), McGugan (59)
Sun Jul 24, 2011	VfB Stuttgart	Germany	A	2-1	Win	3,108	McGugan (9 pen), Findley (70)
Tue Jul 26, 2011	Ilkeston Town	England	A	2-1	Win	1,286
Thu Jul 28, 2011	PSV Eindhoven	Netherlands	H	1-3	Loss	6,079	Anderson (10)
Sun Jul 31, 2011	Lincoln City	England	A	1-0	Win	2,863	Majewski (78)

TRANSFERS
Transfers before, during and immediately after the season.

In (14)				Out (13)
Date	Player	Details	Fee	Date	Player	Details	Fee
	Anthony Gardner	Bought			Anthony Gardner	Sold
	Wallace (2011)	Bought			Ben Gathercole	Sold
Apr 01, 2011	Dimitar Evtimov	Bought			Marlon Harewood	Sold
Jul 20, 2011	Johnathon Greening	Bought			Paul Smith (2006-11)	Sold
Jul 24, 2011	George Boateng	Bought			Wallace (2011)	Sold
Aug 10, 2011	Matt Derbyshire	Bought		Aug 23, 2011	Joe Garner	Sold	£158,000
Aug 16, 2011	Ishmael Miller	Bought	£945,000	Jan 02, 2012	Patrick Bamford	Sold	£1,260,000
Sep 24, 2011	Clint Hill	Loan In		Jan 17, 2012	George Boateng	Sold
Oct 29, 2011	Greg Cunningham	Loan In		Jan 30, 2012	Wes Morgan	Sold	£1,100,000
Jan 31, 2012	Adlene Guedioura	Loan In		Apr 28, 2012	Luke Chambers	Sold
Feb 11, 2012	Danny Higginbotham	Loan In		May 16, 2012	Garath McCleary	Sold
Feb 11, 2012	George Elokobi	Loan In		Jul 11, 2012	Joel Lynch	Sold
Feb 11, 2012	Scott Wootton	Loan In		Jul 17, 2012	Chris Gunter	Sold	£2,300,000
Jul 23, 2012	Adlene Guedioura	Bought

SQUAD

			Season Record (Competitive Games only)
Pos	Num	Player	P	W	D	L	Goals	Yellows	Reds	Went Off	Came On	Unused Sub	Notes
GK		Ben Gathercole											On loan to Ikeston Town (Sep to November)
GK		Dimitar Evtimov											On loan to and Ilkeston Town (sep to Oct) and then Gainsborough Trinity (Nov - Dec)
GK	1	Lee Camp	50	15	9	26		1
GK	2	Tommy Wright
GK	21	Paul Smith (2006-11)	1	1								48
GK	38	Karl Darlow										2	On loan to Newport County
D		Anthony Gardner
D	2	Scott Wootton	13	6	3	4		3		5	6	5	On loan from Manchester United (January to end of season)
D	3	Clint Hill	5	2		3				1			On loan from QPR (Sep to Oct)
D	3	Greg Cunningham	27	7	5	15		3		4	2	1	On loan from Manchester City (October to June)
D	4	Luke Chambers	46	16	8	22		3	1			1
D	5	Danny Higginbotham	6	3	2	1	1			1	1	3	On loan from Stock City (January to end of season)
D	5	Wes Morgan	25	8	2	15	2	3		1			Joined Leicester City in January
D	16	Chris Gunter	50	15	9	26	1	5		3	2
D	26	George Elokobi	13	6	3	4		1		1	4	1	On loan from Wolves (February to end of season)
D	30	Karlton Watson											Release in December and joined Lincoln City
D	31	Neill Byrne											Released from contract and joined Rochdale
D	44	Jamaal Lascelles	1			1						1	On loan to Stevenage (March to end of season)
M		Mark Byrne											Released from contract and joined Bradford City
M	6	George Boateng	7	2	2	3	1	2		2	1	2	Joined on a free transfer
M	14	Johnathon Greening	36	9	6	21		2		9	7	4	Joined from Fulham in July
M	15	Chris Cohen	9	3	2	4		1		1
M	19	Guy Moussi	37	12	4	21		7	1	4	1
M	22	Adlene Guedioura	19	7	5	7	1	2		2			On loan from Wolves (January to end of season)
M	27	Brendan Moloney	10	4	2	4				2	5	7
M	32	Danny Meadows										1	On loan to Alfreton Town (March to end of season)
M	33	Joel Lynch	39	13	6	20	3	7		2	7	6
M	41	Kieron Freeman	2	1	1						1	1	On loan to Mansfield and then Notts County
F	7	Paul Anderson	20	4	5	11				5	8
F	8	Matt Derbyshire	16	5	1	10	2	3		7	8	3	Joined from Olympiacos in August
F	9	Ishmael Miller	23	7	3	13	4	2		10	9	1	Joined from West Brom in August
F	10	Lewis McGugan	40	11	7	22	5	2		15	9	6
F	11	Andy Reid	43	14	7	22	2	5	1	16	18	5	Joined from Blackpool in July
F	12	Garath McCleary	23	8	4	11	9	2	1	8	1	1	Player Of The Year
F	17	David McGoldrick	10	2	2	6				3	7	1	On loan to Sheffield Wednesday (Sep to Oct)
F	18	Joe Garner	4	2	1	1				1	3	1	Left to join Watford in August
F	18	Marlon Harewood	6		2	4				4	1	1	Joined from Guangzhou R&F on a free transfer in January
F	20	Marcus Tudgay	38	13	6	19	6	4	1	8	12	2
F	23	Dexter Blackstock	24	7	7	10	8	1		6	8	2
F	24	Robbie Findley	27	8	2	17	6			9	13	4
F	28	Radoslaw Majewski	31	10	6	15	7			12	6	8
F	40	Patrick Bamford	2	1		1					2	1	Joined Chelsea in January
		Peter Watson (2011)
		Wallace (2011)

GOALSCORERS

Competitive goals only

Goals	Player	Games
9	Garath McCleary	23
8	Dexter Blackstock	24
7	Radoslaw Majewski	31
6	Marcus Tudgay	38
6	Robbie Findley	27
5	Lewis McGugan	40
4	Ishmael Miller	23
3	Joel Lynch	39
2	Andy Reid	43
2	Matt Derbyshire	16
2	Wes Morgan	25
1	Adlene Guedioura	19
1	Chris Gunter	50
1	Danny Higginbotham	6
1	George Boateng	7
	Own Goals	51

LEAGUE DOUBLES
Home and away victories for the season

2011-12

Opponent	Date	H/A	Score	Date	H/A	Score
Ipswich Town	Sat Nov 19, 2011	H	3-2	Mon Jan 02, 2012	A	3-1