The best Football League stats

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After another grueling Football League season came to an end on Monday, we run through the top stat from each of the 72 clubs involved.

Who suffered back-to-back relegations for the first time in their history? Who keeps hitting the 64-point mark? And which side used a whopping 47 players throughout the season?

Find out below…

Accrington Stanley

85 – Accrington are the first team in the history of the fourth tier of English football to not gain automatic promotion with 85+ points.

AFC Wimbledon

7 – AFC Wimbledon achieved their highest ever Football League finish, 7th in League Two.

Barnet

13 – Barnet won 13 home league games in 2015/16, the most they’ve won in a league season since 1995/96 (also 13).

Barnsley

8 – Barnsley are the first team in Football League history to lose 8+ consecutive games in a season and be promoted in the same season.

Birmingham City

9 – Birmingham were one of only nine teams in the PL/FL who conceded more than twice in a league game just once in 2015/16.

Blackburn Rovers

46 – Blackburn conceded just 46 league goals, the fewest they’d conceded in a season since 2005/06 (42).

Blackpool

2 – Blackpool suffered back-to-back relegations for the first time in their history.

Bolton Wanderers

0 – Bolton failed to win an away league game for just the third time in their history (also 1949/50 and 1979/80).

Bradford City

22 – Bradford City kept 22 league clean sheets in 2015/16, the most in any season in their entire history.

Brentford

72 – Brentford have scored 70+ league goals in three successive Football League seasons for the first time since 1965 (62/63  64/65).

Brighton and Hove Albion

5 – Brighton lost just five league games in 2015/16, the fewest they’d ever lost in any season in their history.

Bristol City

6 – Bristol City’s 6-0 win over Bolton was the first time they’d hit six goals in a second tier league game since September 1969 (6-0 v Charlton).

Bristol Rovers

27 – Matty Taylor became the first Bristol Rovers to score 25+ league goals in a season (27) since Rickie Lambert in 2008/09 (29).

Burnley

93 – Burnley posted the exact same league record as in 2013/14 (P46 W26 D15 L5), earning 93 points and scoring the same number of goals (72).

Burton Albion

2 – Burton Albion’s promotion from League One sees them playing in the second tier for the first time in their history.

Bury

60 – Bury earned 60 points in the third tier for the first time since 1996/97 when they had 84 points and won the division.

Cambridge United

7 – Cambridge’s 7-0 win over Morecambe in April was the first time in their Football League history they had won by a seven-goal margin.

Cardiff City

1 – Cardiff have lost only one of their last 19 home games (0-2 v Leeds in March).

Carlisle United

5-0 – Carlisle’s 5-0 away win at Notts County on the last day of the season was their biggest away league win for 10 years (5-0 v Darlington in March 2006).

Charlton Athletic

5 – Only in two previous league seasons (1990/91 and 1998/99  4) have Charlton amassed fewer than this season’s five home wins.

Chesterfield

7 – Chesterfield’s 7-1 win over Shrewsbury in January was the first time they’d scored seven in a league game since November 1979 (7-1 v Reading).

Colchester United

99 – Only in the 1960/61 season (101) did Colchester concede more than the 99 league goals they let in during the 2015/16 season.

Coventry City

46 – For the 46th consecutive season, Coventry failed to finish in the top six of a division, finishing 8th in League One.

Crawley Town

25 – Crawley lost 25 league games in 2015/16, three more than in any of their previous …

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