Premier League1997/1998

Season

Tier : 1

Type of clubs : A

Country : England

Games played : 380

Goals scored : 1019 (2.68 goals per match )

Yellow cards : 1250

Red cards : 67

48%
Home victories

25%
Draws

27%
Away victories

Players age average : 27.22 years

Number of players participating : 532

Promoted : Bolton Wanderers, Crystal Palace, Barnsley

Relegated to lower tier : Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Nottingham Forest

Premier League 1997/1998's fixtures and results

Round 4

August 25, 1997

10'Graham Hyde (o.g)

August 26, 1997

August 27, 1997

90'Steve Walsh

77'Ruel Fox

64'Paul Kitson

December 17, 1997

General rankingLast updated on 01/09/1997

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Blackburn	13	5	4	1	0	15	4	+11
2	Man United	13	5	4	1	0	8	0	+8
3	West Ham	10	5	3	1	1	9	6	+3
4	Chelsea	9	4	3	0	1	14	5	+9
5	Arsenal	9	5	2	3	0	9	5	+4
6	Leicester	8	5	2	2	1	6	5	+1
7	Tottenham	7	5	2	1	2	5	6	-1
8	Newcastle United	6	2	2	0	0	3	1	+2
9	Crystal Palace	6	5	2	0	3	5	5	0
10	Barnsley	6	5	2	0	3	4	10	-6
11	Liverpool	5	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1
12	Bolton Wanderers	5	4	1	2	1	4	4	0
13	Coventry	5	5	1	2	2	6	10	-4
14	Everton	4	4	1	1	2	3	5	-2
15	Leeds United	4	5	1	1	3	4	7	-3
16	S Wednesday	4	5	1	1	3	6	13	-7
17	Derby County	3	3	1	0	2	1	2	-1
18	Southampton	3	5	1	0	4	4	9	-5
19	Aston Villa	3	5	1	0	4	3	9	-6
20	Wimbledon FC	2	4	0	2	2	3	7	-4

Latest transfers

May 01, 1998
Neale Fenn ( Norwich)		Tottenham

April 30, 1998
Francesco Sanetti ( Genoa)		S Wednesday

March 26, 1998
Stuart Jones ( Weston/M)		S Wednesday
Bob Taylor ( WBA)		Bolton
Michael Thomas ( Middlesbrough)		Liverpool
Gaétano Giallanza ( Nantes)		Bolton
Sasa Curcic ( Aston Villa)		Palace
Peter Beagrie ( Bradford)		Everton
John Salako ( Coventry)		Bolton
Emerson Thome ( Benfica)		S Wednesday
Mark Kennedy ( Liverpool U-23)		Wimbledon
Jonathan Greening ( York City)		Man United

March 25, 1998
Lars Bohinen ( Blackburn)		Derby
Paul Robinson ( Darlington)		Newcastle

All transfers

The best XI according to FBDB Index

Schmeichel

Peter Schmeichel

Denmark

B.date18/11/1963

Age62 years

H1m93

Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age50 years

H1m79

Pallister

Gary Pallister

England

B.date30/06/1965

Age60 years

H1m93

Adams

Tony Adams

England

B.date10/10/1966

Age59 years

H1m86

Winterburn

Nigel Winterburn

England

B.date11/12/1963

Age62 years

H1m73

Beckham

David Beckham

England

B.date02/05/1975

Age50 years

H1m82

Butt

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age50 years

H1m78

Petit

Emmanuel Petit

France

B.date22/09/1970

Age55 years

H1m85

Overmars

Marc Overmars

Netherlands

B.date29/03/1973

Age52 years

H1m73

Cole

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age54 years

H1m80

Owen

Michael Owen

England

B.date14/12/1979

Age46 years

H1m73

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One match scorers

Dion Dublinhas scored 3 goals during the match Coventry 3-2 Chelsea (09/08/1997)

Chris Suttonhas scored 3 goals during the match Aston Villa 0-4 Blackburn (13/08/1997)

Gianluca Viallihas scored 4 goals during the match Barnsley 0-6 Chelsea (24/08/1997)

Dennis Bergkamphas scored 3 goals during the match Leicester 3-3 Arsenal (27/08/1997)

Ian Wrighthas scored 3 goals during the match Arsenal 4-1 Bolton Wanderers (13/09/1997)

Patrik Bergerhas scored 3 goals during the match Liverpool 4-2 Chelsea (05/10/1997)

Andy Colehas scored 3 goals during the match Man United 7-0 Barnsley (25/10/1997)

Andy Boothhas scored 3 goals during the match S Wednesday 5-0 Bolton Wanderers (08/11/1997)

Gianfranco Zolahas scored 3 goals during the match Chelsea 4-0 Derby County (29/11/1997)

Tore André Flohas scored 3 goals during the match Tottenham 1-6 Chelsea (06/12/1997)

Duncan Fergusonhas scored 3 goals during the match Everton 3-2 Bolton Wanderers (28/12/1997)

Kevin Gallacherhas scored 3 goals during the match Blackburn 5-0 Aston Villa (17/01/1998)

Michael Owenhas scored 3 goals during the match S Wednesday 3-3 Liverpool (14/02/1998)

Chris Suttonhas scored 3 goals during the match Blackburn 5-3 Leicester (28/02/1998)

Darren Huckerbyhas scored 3 goals during the match Leeds United 3-3 Coventry (25/04/1998)

Jürgen Klinsmannhas scored 4 goals during the match Wimbledon FC 2-6 Tottenham (02/05/1998)

Individual rankingsLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

Scorers

Assists

Games

clean sheets

Fair play

Scorers as subs

Scorers + Assists

Newcomers

Player	Goals	pen.	eff.	Min.p.	M.p.	Start	Home	Away	1H	2H	Team %	Last goal
Michael Owen	18	0	167	3004	36	34	9	9	9	9	26%	06/05/1998
Chris Sutton	18	2	172	3100	35	35	10	8	12	6	32%	10/05/1998
Dion Dublin	18	6	177	3192	36	36	12	6	5	13	39%	10/05/1998
Dennis Bergkamp	16	0	153	2447	28	28	6	10	9	7	24%	25/04/1998
J. F. Hasselbaink	16	1	166	2650	33	30	12	4	6	10	30%	25/04/1998
Kevin Gallacher	16	0	173	2773	33	31	12	4	9	7	29%	29/04/1998
Andy Cole	16	0	172	2751	33	31	8	8	8	8	23%	10/05/1998
John Hartson	15	0	186	2784	32	32	12	3	8	7	28%	18/04/1998
Darren Huckerby	14	0	198	2776	34	32	6	8	8	6	30%	25/04/1998
Paulo Wanchope	13	0	205	2659	32	30	11	2	5	8	25%	10/05/1998
Francesco Baiano	12	0	212	2542	33	30	5	7	6	6	24%	13/04/1998
Paolo Di Canio	12	0	247	2960	35	34	8	4	4	8	23%	25/04/1998
Nathan Blake	12	0	257	3086	35	35	7	5	3	9	29%	02/05/1998
Marc Overmars	12	0	222	2668	32	32	8	4	7	5	18%	03/05/1998
Dwight Yorke	12	1	220	2643	30	30	3	9	4	8	24%	10/05/1998

Rankings

Form

Home

Away

Second legs

Attendances

Offense

Defense

First half

Second half

Fair play

1	Aston Villa	V 2-0 West Ham04/04/1998	VCoventry 1-2 11/04/1998	VSouthampton 1-2 18/04/1998	L 1-3 Bolton Wanderers25/04/1998	VS Wednesday 1-3 02/05/1998	V 1-0 Arsenal10/05/1998
2	Man United	VBlackburn 1-3 06/04/1998	D 1-1 Liverpool10/04/1998	D 1-1 Newcastle United18/04/1998	VCrystal Palace 0-3 27/04/1998	V 3-0 Leeds United04/05/1998	VBarnsley 0-2 10/05/1998
3	Chelsea	V 2-0 Tottenham11/04/1998	V 1-0 S Wednesday19/04/1998	V 4-1 Liverpool25/04/1998	L 0-1 Blackburn29/04/1998	LNewcastle United 3-1 02/05/1998	V 2-0 Bolton Wanderers10/05/1998
4	Arsenal	V 5-0 Wimbledon FC18/04/1998	VBarnsley 0-2 25/04/1998	V 1-0 Derby County29/04/1998	V 4-0 Everton03/05/1998	LLiverpool 4-0 06/05/1998	LAston Villa 1-0 10/05/1998
5	Liverpool	V 2-1 Crystal Palace13/04/1998	DCoventry 1-1 19/04/1998	LChelsea 4-1 25/04/1998	V 5-0 West Ham02/05/1998	V 4-0 Arsenal06/05/1998	LDerby County 1-0 10/05/1998
6	Derby County	V 4-0 Bolton Wanderers13/04/1998	LCrystal Palace 3-1 18/04/1998	L 0-4 Leicester26/04/1998	LArsenal 1-0 29/04/1998	VSouthampton 0-2 02/05/1998	V 1-0 Liverpool10/05/1998
7	Tottenham	LChelsea 2-0 11/04/1998	D 1-1 Coventry13/04/1998	DBarnsley 1-1 18/04/1998	V 2-0 Newcastle United25/04/1998	VWimbledon FC 2-6 02/05/1998	D 1-1 Southampton10/05/1998
8	Bolton Wanderers	V 2-1 Blackburn11/04/1998	LDerby County 4-0 13/04/1998	L 2-3 Leeds United18/04/1998	VAston Villa 1-3 25/04/1998	V 5-2 Crystal Palace02/05/1998	LChelsea 2-0 10/05/1998
9	Leicester	D 3-3 Southampton14/04/1998	DEverton 1-1 18/04/1998	VDerby County 0-4 26/04/1998	D 0-0 Newcastle United29/04/1998	V 1-0 Barnsley02/05/1998	LWest Ham 4-3 10/05/1998
10	West Ham	DS Wednesday 1-1 13/04/1998	V 2-1 Blackburn18/04/1998	L 2-4 Southampton25/04/1998	LLiverpool 5-0 02/05/1998	DCrystal Palace 3-3 05/05/1998	V 4-3 Leicester10/05/1998
11	Coventry	DTottenham 1-1 13/04/1998	D 1-1 Liverpool19/04/1998	DLeeds United 3-3 25/04/1998	D 0-0 Wimbledon FC29/04/1998	V 2-0 Blackburn02/05/1998	DEverton 1-1 10/05/1998
12	Leeds United	V 3-1 Chelsea08/04/1998	LEverton 2-0 11/04/1998	VBolton Wanderers 2-3 18/04/1998	D 3-3 Coventry25/04/1998	LMan United 3-0 04/05/1998	D 1-1 Wimbledon FC10/05/1998
13	Newcastle United	V 2-1 Barnsley13/04/1998	DMan United 1-1 18/04/1998	LTottenham 2-0 25/04/1998	DLeicester 0-0 29/04/1998	V 3-1 Chelsea02/05/1998	LBlackburn 1-0 10/05/1998
14	Crystal Palace	LLiverpool 2-1 13/04/1998	V 3-1 Derby County18/04/1998	L 0-3 Man United27/04/1998	LBolton Wanderers 5-2 02/05/1998	D 3-3 West Ham05/05/1998	V 1-0 S Wednesday10/05/1998
15	Blackburn	L 1-4 Arsenal13/04/1998	LWest Ham 2-1 18/04/1998	D 0-0 Wimbledon FC25/04/1998	VChelsea 0-1 29/04/1998	LCoventry 2-0 02/05/1998	V 1-0 Newcastle United10/05/1998
16	Everton	V 2-0 Leeds United11/04/1998	DWimbledon FC 0-0 13/04/1998	D 1-1 Leicester18/04/1998	L 1-3 S Wednesday25/04/1998	LArsenal 4-0 03/05/1998	D 1-1 Coventry10/05/1998
17	Southampton	L 0-1 Wimbledon FC11/04/1998	DLeicester 3-3 14/04/1998	L 1-2 Aston Villa18/04/1998	VWest Ham 2-4 25/04/1998	L 0-2 Derby County02/05/1998	DTottenham 1-1 10/05/1998
18	Wimbledon FC	D 0-0 Everton13/04/1998	LArsenal 5-0 18/04/1998	DBlackburn 0-0 25/04/1998	DCoventry 0-0 29/04/1998	L 2-6 Tottenham02/05/1998	DLeeds United 1-1 10/05/1998
19	S Wednesday	LBarnsley 2-1 11/04/1998	D 1-1 West Ham13/04/1998	LChelsea 1-0 19/04/1998	VEverton 1-3 25/04/1998	L 1-3 Aston Villa02/05/1998	LCrystal Palace 1-0 10/05/1998
20	Barnsley	V 2-1 S Wednesday11/04/1998	LNewcastle United 2-1 13/04/1998	D 1-1 Tottenham18/04/1998	L 0-2 Arsenal25/04/1998	LLeicester 1-0 02/05/1998	L 0-2 Man United10/05/1998

Longest streaksLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

Winning streak

Loosing streak

Drawing streak

Drawless streak

Unbeaten streak

Winless streak

Invincibility streak

Goalless streak

Conceding streak

Scoring streak

	Series	Running
Arsenal	10
Man United	6	3
Coventry	5
Liverpool	5
Aston Villa	5	2
Leeds United	4
Chelsea	4
S Wednesday	4
West Ham	3
Blackburn	3
Barnsley	3
Everton	3
Southampton	3
Derby County	3	2
Newcastle United	2
Bolton Wanderers	2
Leicester	2
Tottenham	2
Wimbledon FC	2
Crystal Palace	1

Ranking matchday by matchdayLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

Team \ Rd	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
Arsenal	9	6	2	3	5	4	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	5	4	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Man United	1	2	3	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Liverpool	9	13	16	11	11	7	7	6	9	7	9	6	8	6	8	7	8	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	4	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3
Chelsea	13	14	11	6	4	3	5	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	5	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	3	2	2	3	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4
Leeds United	9	5	9	14	15	9	14	8	6	9	6	8	7	5	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	7	7	7	7	7	8	9	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Blackburn	6	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	5	3	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	3	4	4	5	3	4	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	6
Aston Villa	17	20	20	20	19	13	9	14	14	10	12	13	14	15	12	13	12	12	12	11	10	10	13	15	13	14	15	14	13	12	11	11	8	8	8	8	7	7
West Ham	3	3	7	5	3	6	6	10	7	11	8	11	11	13	15	12	11	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	9	8	7	7	7	7	6	7	10	8
Derby County	17	16	18	19	17	11	15	12	8	6	7	7	6	8	6	9	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	9	9	9	10	9	9
Leicester	6	4	4	4	6	5	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	7	7	6	6	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	8	9	12	12	10	10	10	9	8	10
Coventry	2	11	10	12	13	8	11	11	12	12	15	15	12	11	13	15	16	14	16	17	14	16	16	13	12	10	10	10	11	10	9	9	11	11	11	11	11	11
Southampton	17	17	19	16	18	20	20	20	20	19	20	18	16	13	14	16	17	17	15	15	13	13	12	12	11	12	11	11	10	11	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	12
Newcastle United	3	7	6	7	8	12	8	7	10	8	10	10	9	10	9	8	9	9	9	10	11	11	10	10	10	11	13	12	14	15	15	15	16	16	15	15	13	13
Tottenham	20	19	13	9	7	10	12	13	13	14	11	14	15	16	17	17	18	18	18	18	19	19	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	17	17	17	16	15	14
Wimbledon FC	9	12	15	17	20	16	18	15	15	15	13	9	10	9	11	11	10	11	11	12	12	14	15	16	15	15	14	15	15	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	16	15
S Wednesday	14	18	17	18	16	19	19	19	18	16	17	19	20	19	16	14	13	13	14	14	16	12	11	11	14	13	12	13	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	14	16
Everton	14	15	12	15	14	18	13	16	16	18	16	16	17	17	20	20	19	19	19	19	18	15	14	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	15	15	16	17	18	17
Bolton Wanderers	6	8	8	13	12	17	16	17	17	17	19	17	18	18	18	18	15	16	17	16	17	18	19	19	19	19	18	19	19	19	19	19	18	18	19	18	17	18
Barnsley	14	9	14	10	10	15	17	18	19	20	18	20	19	20	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	18	18	18	18	18	19	19	18	19	19	19
Crystal Palace	3	9	5	8	9	14	10	9	11	13	14	12	13	12	10	10	14	15	13	13	14	16	17	17	18	18	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20

Goals per quarterLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

Minutes	Goals
0 - 15	131
Best scorer : John Hartson - 4 Goals
16 - 30	161
Best scorer : Chris Sutton - 7 Goals
31 - 45+	172
Best scorer : Darren Huckerby - 4 Goals
46 - 60	164
Best scorer : David Hirst - 4 Goals
61 - 75	172
Best scorer : Tore André Flo - 4 Goals
76 - 90+	219
Best scorer : Dion Dublin - 9 Goals

Most frequent scoresLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

Score	Frequence
0 - 0	33 times
1 - 0	80 times
1 - 1	42 times
2 - 0	40 times
2 - 1	51 times
2 - 2	12 times
3 - 0	22 times
3 - 1	27 times
3 - 2	15 times
3 - 3	8 times
4 - 0	13 times
4 - 1	10 times

Score	Frequence
4 - 2	4 times
4 - 3	4 times
5 - 0	6 times
5 - 1	1 times
5 - 2	3 times
5 - 3	1 times
6 - 0	2 times
6 - 1	2 times
6 - 2	2 times
7 - 0	1 times
7 - 2	1 times

Goals scored per matchdayLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

General statistics by teamLast updated on 22/04/2025 at 22:45

	Participants	Different First XI	Different Scorers	Best scorer
Crystal Palace	36	31	13	Neil Shipperley (7 goals)
Everton	34	36	13	Duncan Ferguson (11 goals)
S Wednesday	34	30	13	Paolo Di Canio (12 goals)
Southampton	31	25	10	Egil Ostenstad (11 goals)
West Ham	29	33	13	John Hartson (15 goals)
Man United	29	35	13	Andy Cole (16 goals)
Tottenham	28	35	11	Jürgen Klinsmann (9 goals)
Derby County	28	34	14	Paulo Wanchope (13 goals)
Chelsea	28	37	15	Tore André Flo (11 goals)
Bolton Wanderers	28	30	13	Nathan Blake (12 goals)
Coventry	26	32	9	Dion Dublin (18 goals)
Arsenal	26	30	13	Dennis Bergkamp (16 goals)
Barnsley	26	34	10	Neil Redfearn (10 goals)
Newcastle United	26	38	14	John Barnes (6 goals)
Wimbledon FC	26	33	13	Jason Euell (4 goals)
Blackburn	24	28	10	Chris Sutton (18 goals)
Liverpool	24	30	11	Michael Owen (18 goals)
Leeds United	22	28	11	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (16 goals)
Leicester	22	27	14	Emile Heskey (10 goals)
Aston Villa	21	29	10	Dwight Yorke (12 goals)

Teams ages statisticsLast updated on 16/04/2025 at 04:06

	Average age	Oldest player	Youngest player
Liverpool	25	Mark Wright (33 years)	Michael Owen (17 years)
Crystal Palace	25.1	Andy Linighan (34 years)	Clinton Morrison (17 years)
West Ham	25.2	Ludek Miklosko (35 years)	Rio Ferdinand (18 years)
Derby County	25.2	Aljosa Asanovic (31 years)	Steve Elliott (18 years)
Everton	25.2	Neville Southall (38 years)	Francis Jeffers (15 years)
Leeds United	25.3	Gunnar Halle (31 years)	Stephen McPhail (17 years)
Aston Villa	25.5	Andy Townsend (33 years)	Gareth Barry (15 years)
Man United	25.9	Raimond van der Gouw (33 years)	Wes Brown (17 years)
Barnsley	26	Peter Shirtliff (35 years)	Chris Morgan (19 years)
Wimbledon FC	26.2	Vinnie Jones (31 years)	Damien Francis (17 years)
Leicester	26.4	Steve Walsh (32 years)	Emile Heskey (18 years)
Blackburn	26.5	Colin Hendry (31 years)	Damien Duff (17 years)
Coventry	26.6	Steve Ogrizovic (39 years)	Gavin Strachan (18 years)
Southampton	26.8	Kevin Richardson (34 years)	Kevin Gibbens (17 years)
Tottenham	26.9	Gary Mabbutt (35 years)	Stephen Clemence (18 years)
Newcastle United	26.9	Ian Rush (35 years)	Aaron Hughes (17 years)
S Wednesday	27.2	Steve Nicol (35 years)	Junior Agogo (17 years)
Arsenal	27.4	Steve Bould (34 years)	Paolo Vernazza (17 years)
Chelsea	27.4	Ruud Gullit (34 years)	Jon Harley (17 years)
Bolton Wanderers	27.7	Peter Beardsley (35 years)	Hasney Aljofree (18 years)

Countries statisticsLast updated on 17/04/2025 at 10:20

	Number of games played	Number of players	Number of goals scored
England	4916	262	482
Scotland	584	32	50
Republic of Ireland	530	31	15
Wales	485	22	62
Norway	460	22	56
France	295	17	35
Italy	288	14	71
Netherlands	255	15	48
Northern Ireland	235	13	13
Denmark	178	9	12
Jamaica	149	8	13
Sweden	144	9	6
Australia	123	8	7
Portugal	91	5	5
Iceland	80	3	4
Serbia	75	4	12
South Africa	74	3	4
Switzerland	64	3	3
Trinidad and Tobago	63	3	12
Montserrat	56	2	7

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