Premier League1996/1997

Season

Tier : 1

Type of clubs : A

Country : England

Games played : 380

Goals scored : 970 (2.55 goals per match )

Yellow cards : 1190

Red cards : 44

43%
Home victories

31%
Draws

26%
Away victories

Players age average : 28.25 years

Number of players participating : 514

Promoted : Sunderland, Leicester, Derby County

Relegated to lower tier : Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City, Queens Park Rangers

Premier League 1996/1997's fixtures and results

Round 38

May 11, 1997

Aston Villa

1 0

Southampton

12'Richard Dryden (o.g)

55'Ian Wright

90'Ian Wright

77'Nick Barmby

14'Dennis Wise

77'Brian Deane

11'Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

13'Dion Dublin

85'Jason Euell

General rankingLast updated on 11/05/1997

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Man United	75	38	21	12	5	76	44	+32
2	Newcastle United	68	38	19	11	8	73	40	+33
3	Arsenal	68	38	19	11	8	62	32	+30
4	Liverpool	68	38	19	11	8	62	37	+25
5	Aston Villa	61	38	17	10	11	47	34	+13
6	Chelsea	59	38	16	11	11	58	55	+3
7	S Wednesday	57	38	14	15	9	50	51	-1
8	Wimbledon FC	56	38	15	11	12	49	46	+3
9	Leicester	47	38	12	11	15	46	54	-8
10	Tottenham	46	38	13	7	18	44	51	-7
11	Leeds United	46	38	11	13	14	28	38	-10
12	Derby County	46	38	11	13	14	45	58	-13
13	Blackburn	42	38	9	15	14	42	43	-1
14	West Ham	42	38	10	12	16	39	48	-9
15	Everton	42	38	10	12	16	44	57	-13
16	Southampton	41	38	10	11	17	50	56	-6
17	Coventry	41	38	9	14	15	38	54	-16
18	Sunderland	40	38	10	10	18	35	53	-18
19	Middlesbrough	39	38	10	12	16	51	60	-9
20	Nottingham	34	38	6	16	16	31	59	-28

Latest transfers

May 08, 1997
Justin Walker ( Scunthorpe)		Nottingham
Dave Bassett mana.( Palace)		Nottingham
Kevin Davies ( Chesterfield)		Southampton

April 26, 1997
Steve Guinan ( Burnley)		Nottingham
Craig Armstrong ( Watford)		Nottingham

April 20, 1997
Sean Flynn ( Stoke City)		Derby

April 19, 1997
Mike Williams ( Peterborough)		S Wednesday

April 15, 1997
Mark McKeever ( Peterborough)		S Wednesday

April 08, 1997
Martin Taylor ( Wycombe)		Derby

April 03, 1997
Paul Evans ( Bradford)		Leeds

April 01, 1997
David Billington ( Peterborough)		S Wednesday
Dave Watson mana.		Everton
Allan Johnston ( Rennes)		Sunderland

March 27, 1997
Derek Lilley ( Greenock)		Leeds
Des Hamilton ( Bradford)		Newcastle

All transfers

One match scorers

Kevin Campbellhas scored 3 goals during the match Coventry 0-3 Nottingham (17/08/1996)

Fabrizio Ravanellihas scored 3 goals during the match Middlesbrough 3-3 Liverpool (17/08/1996)

Ian Wrighthas scored 3 goals during the match Arsenal 4-1 S Wednesday (16/09/1996)

Dwight Yorkehas scored 3 goals during the match Newcastle United 4-3 Aston Villa (30/09/1996)

Egil Ostenstadhas scored 3 goals during the match Southampton 6-3 Man United (26/10/1996)

Gary Speedhas scored 3 goals during the match Everton 7-1 Southampton (16/11/1996)

Robbie Fowlerhas scored 4 goals during the match Liverpool 5-1 Middlesbrough (14/12/1996)

Alan Shearerhas scored 3 goals during the match Newcastle United 4-3 Leicester (02/02/1997)

Ian Marshallhas scored 3 goals during the match Leicester 4-2 Derby County (22/02/1997)

Steffen Iversenhas scored 3 goals during the match Sunderland 0-4 Tottenham (04/03/1997)

Fabrizio Ravanellihas scored 3 goals during the match Middlesbrough 6-1 Derby County (05/03/1997)

Kevin Gallacherhas scored 3 goals during the match Blackburn 3-1 Wimbledon FC (15/03/1997)

Paul Kitsonhas scored 3 goals during the match West Ham 5-1 S Wednesday (03/05/1997)

Individual rankingsLast updated on 18/12/2024 at 06:28

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
Alan Shearer	25	3	111	2781	31	31	20	5	12	13	34%	11/05/1997
Ian Wright	23	3	118	2703	35	30	10	13	9	14	37%	11/05/1997
Robbie Fowler	18	0	156	2811	32	32	14	4	10	8	30%	13/04/1997
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer	18	0	123	2211	32	25	10	8	8	10	25%	11/05/1997
Dwight Yorke	17	1	188	3192	37	37	11	6	6	11	37%	19/04/1997
Fabrizio Ravanelli	16	3	178	2854	33	33	14	2	6	10	31%	03/05/1997
Les Ferdinand	16	0	158	2525	31	30	11	5	8	8	22%	11/05/1997
Dion Dublin	14	0	201	2819	34	33	7	7	8	6	39%	11/05/1997
Matt Le Tissier	13	2	166	2163	31	25	8	5	5	8	27%	03/05/1997
Stan Collymore	12	0	183	2201	30	25	9	3	7	5	20%	03/05/1997
Dennis Bergkamp	12	2	198	2380	29	28	8	4	5	7	19%	11/05/1997
Juninho Paulista	12	0	253	3036	35	34	7	5	4	8	24%	11/05/1997
Steve Claridge	12	0	210	2523	32	29	4	8	5	7	27%	11/05/1997
Efan Ekoku	11	0	211	2317	30	28	4	7	6	5	23%	15/03/1997
Chris Sutton	11	1	185	2032	25	24	7	4	7	4	26%	19/03/1997

Rankings

Form

Home

Away

Second legs

Attendances

Offense

Defense

First half

Second half

Fair play

1	Newcastle United	V 3-1 Chelsea16/04/1997	V 3-1 Derby County19/04/1997	VArsenal 0-1 03/05/1997	DWest Ham 0-0 06/05/1997	DMan United 0-0 08/05/1997	V 5-0 Nottingham11/05/1997
2	Man United	VBlackburn 2-3 12/04/1997	VLiverpool 1-3 19/04/1997	DLeicester 2-2 03/05/1997	D 3-3 Middlesbrough05/05/1997	D 0-0 Newcastle United08/05/1997	V 2-0 West Ham11/05/1997
3	Arsenal	VChelsea 0-3 05/04/1997	V 2-0 Leicester12/04/1997	D 1-1 Blackburn19/04/1997	DCoventry 1-1 21/04/1997	L 0-1 Newcastle United03/05/1997	VDerby County 1-3 11/05/1997
-	Coventry	VLiverpool 1-2 06/04/1997	V 3-1 Chelsea09/04/1997	DSouthampton 2-2 19/04/1997	D 1-1 Arsenal21/04/1997	L 1-2 Derby County03/05/1997	VTottenham 1-2 11/05/1997
5	Southampton	DDerby County 1-1 09/04/1997	V 2-0 West Ham12/04/1997	D 2-2 Coventry19/04/1997	VSunderland 0-1 22/04/1997	V 2-0 Blackburn03/05/1997	LAston Villa 1-0 11/05/1997
6	Wimbledon FC	V 2-0 Leeds United16/04/1997	LS Wednesday 3-1 19/04/1997	L 0-1 Chelsea22/04/1997	DNottingham 1-1 03/05/1997	V 2-1 Liverpool06/05/1997	V 1-0 Sunderland11/05/1997
7	Chelsea	LCoventry 3-1 09/04/1997	LNewcastle United 3-1 16/04/1997	V 2-1 Leicester19/04/1997	VWimbledon FC 0-1 22/04/1997	D 0-0 Leeds United03/05/1997	VEverton 1-2 11/05/1997
8	Aston Villa	VWimbledon FC 0-2 09/04/1997	LDerby County 2-1 12/04/1997	D 1-1 Tottenham19/04/1997	DLeeds United 0-0 22/04/1997	LMiddlesbrough 3-2 03/05/1997	V 1-0 Southampton11/05/1997
9	Liverpool	VSunderland 1-2 13/04/1997	DEverton 1-1 16/04/1997	L 1-3 Man United19/04/1997	V 2-1 Tottenham03/05/1997	LWimbledon FC 2-1 06/05/1997	DS Wednesday 1-1 11/05/1997
10	Derby County	D 1-1 Southampton09/04/1997	V 2-1 Aston Villa12/04/1997	LNewcastle United 3-1 19/04/1997	D 0-0 Nottingham23/04/1997	VCoventry 1-2 03/05/1997	L 1-3 Arsenal11/05/1997
11	West Ham	LSouthampton 2-0 12/04/1997	D 2-2 Everton19/04/1997	VLeicester 0-1 23/04/1997	V 5-1 S Wednesday03/05/1997	D 0-0 Newcastle United06/05/1997	LMan United 2-0 11/05/1997
12	Leicester	LArsenal 2-0 12/04/1997	LChelsea 2-1 19/04/1997	L 0-1 West Ham23/04/1997	D 2-2 Man United03/05/1997	V 1-0 S Wednesday07/05/1997	VBlackburn 2-4 11/05/1997
13	Sunderland	DNewcastle United 1-1 05/04/1997	L 1-2 Liverpool13/04/1997	VMiddlesbrough 0-1 19/04/1997	L 0-1 Southampton22/04/1997	V 3-0 Everton03/05/1997	LWimbledon FC 1-0 11/05/1997
14	Middlesbrough	L 0-1 Sunderland19/04/1997	LTottenham 1-0 24/04/1997	V 3-2 Aston Villa03/05/1997	DMan United 3-3 05/05/1997	DBlackburn 0-0 08/05/1997	DLeeds United 1-1 11/05/1997
15	Everton	D 1-1 Leicester09/04/1997	V 1-0 Tottenham12/04/1997	D 1-1 Liverpool16/04/1997	DWest Ham 2-2 19/04/1997	LSunderland 3-0 03/05/1997	L 1-2 Chelsea11/05/1997
16	Leeds United	D 0-0 Blackburn07/04/1997	LWimbledon FC 2-0 16/04/1997	DNottingham 1-1 19/04/1997	D 0-0 Aston Villa22/04/1997	DChelsea 0-0 03/05/1997	D 1-1 Middlesbrough11/05/1997
17	S Wednesday	D 1-1 Newcastle United13/04/1997	V 3-1 Wimbledon FC19/04/1997	LBlackburn 4-1 22/04/1997	LWest Ham 5-1 03/05/1997	LLeicester 1-0 07/05/1997	D 1-1 Liverpool11/05/1997
18	Blackburn	L 2-3 Man United12/04/1997	DArsenal 1-1 19/04/1997	V 4-1 S Wednesday22/04/1997	LSouthampton 2-0 03/05/1997	D 0-0 Middlesbrough08/05/1997	L 2-4 Leicester11/05/1997
19	Nottingham	DMiddlesbrough 1-1 26/03/1997	L 1-3 Southampton05/04/1997	D 1-1 Leeds United19/04/1997	DDerby County 0-0 23/04/1997	D 1-1 Wimbledon FC03/05/1997	LNewcastle United 5-0 11/05/1997
20	Tottenham	LS Wednesday 2-1 09/04/1997	LEverton 1-0 12/04/1997	DAston Villa 1-1 19/04/1997	V 1-0 Middlesbrough24/04/1997	LLiverpool 2-1 03/05/1997	L 1-2 Coventry11/05/1997

Longest streaksLast updated on 21/12/2024 at 13:53

Winning streak

Loosing streak

Drawing streak

Drawless streak

Unbeaten streak

Winless streak

Invincibility streak

Goalless streak

Conceding streak

Scoring streak

	Series	Running
Newcastle United	7
Wimbledon FC	7	2
Man United	5
Liverpool	5
Aston Villa	5
Arsenal	4
S Wednesday	4
Middlesbrough	4
Coventry	4
Nottingham	3
Everton	3
Leicester	3	2
Leeds United	3
Tottenham	2
Chelsea	2
West Ham	2
Derby County	2
Southampton	2
Blackburn	2
Sunderland	1

Ranking matchday by matchdayLast updated on 21/12/2024 at 13:53

Team \ Rd	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Man United	1	2	5	7	5	2	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	5	6	6	5	3	2	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Newcastle United	16	10	14	8	6	4	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	3	4	4	6	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	2
Arsenal	3	10	3	5	8	7	3	3	2	2	1	2	3	2	1	1	1	2	2	3	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3
Liverpool	7	4	7	3	3	1	1	1	3	4	3	4	2	3	2	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	4
Aston Villa	15	10	3	2	4	8	7	8	9	7	7	7	10	8	6	5	5	4	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	5	5	6	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	6	5
Chelsea	11	8	2	3	2	3	8	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	7	7	7	8	7	7	7	7	6	5	5	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	8	6
S Wednesday	6	1	1	1	1	5	5	7	7	9	9	10	9	10	10	9	9	9	10	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	5	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	5	7
Wimbledon FC	19	20	20	17	13	9	6	5	5	3	4	3	4	4	4	2	2	3	4	4	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8
Leicester	11	7	13	14	15	16	14	10	12	14	12	13	12	12	15	12	12	13	13	12	14	16	13	14	15	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	13	14	16	10	9
Tottenham	3	6	9	12	14	11	12	14	11	8	10	8	7	9	11	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	11	12	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	11	10
Leeds United	7	16	11	6	9	12	15	17	15	16	17	17	17	14	12	13	13	12	14	15	15	12	11	11	11	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	11	9	11
Derby County	7	13	16	16	12	10	10	11	14	12	16	11	11	11	9	11	11	11	12	11	13	13	15	16	13	13	13	14	14	12	12	12	12	11	10	14	12
Blackburn	16	19	18	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	19	19	18	17	17	19	18	18	17	14	14	13	14	15	14	12	12	13	13	13	14	13	13	12	13
West Ham	16	17	12	15	17	17	13	15	16	13	11	12	13	13	13	14	14	15	16	16	16	17	18	18	18	17	18	17	15	16	16	16	18	16	15	17	14
Everton	3	5	8	11	16	15	16	13	10	10	8	9	8	6	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	9	9	9	10	10	11	13	13	14	14	14	11	12	12	13	15
Southampton	11	15	17	18	18	19	19	18	18	17	15	14	14	17	17	18	18	16	19	19	20	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	20	19	19	19	17	15	14	19	16
Coventry	19	18	19	20	20	18	18	19	19	19	19	18	18	18	19	20	20	17	15	14	12	15	16	15	16	16	16	16	18	15	15	15	15	17	18	16	17
Sunderland	11	3	6	10	10	13	11	12	13	15	14	16	16	16	13	15	15	14	11	13	11	11	12	12	12	14	15	15	16	17	17	17	16	18	17	15	18
Middlesbrough	7	14	15	9	7	6	9	9	8	11	13	15	15	15	16	16	16	18	17	17	18	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	17	18	18	18	19	19	19	20	19
Nottingham	1	9	10	13	11	14	17	16	17	18	18	19	20	20	20	19	19	20	20	20	19	18	17	17	17	18	17	18	19	20	20	20	20	20	20	18	20

Goals per quarterLast updated on 21/12/2024 at 13:53

Minutes	Goals
0 - 15	131
Best scorer : Dion Dublin - 5 Goals
16 - 30	156
Best scorer : Ian Wright - 5 Goals
31 - 45+	151
Best scorer : Alan Shearer - 5 Goals
46 - 60	150
Best scorer : Ian Wright - 5 Goals
61 - 75	170
Best scorer : Les Ferdinand - 5 Goals
76 - 90+	212
Best scorer : Alan Shearer - 9 Goals

Most frequent scoresLast updated on 21/12/2024 at 13:53

Score	Frequence
0 - 0	41 times
1 - 0	64 times
1 - 1	49 times
2 - 0	53 times
2 - 1	52 times
2 - 2	25 times
3 - 0	16 times
3 - 1	31 times
3 - 2	6 times
3 - 3	4 times

Score	Frequence
4 - 0	9 times
4 - 1	6 times
4 - 2	8 times
4 - 3	4 times
5 - 0	4 times
5 - 1	3 times
6 - 1	1 times
6 - 2	1 times
6 - 3	1 times
7 - 1	2 times

Goals scored per matchdayLast updated on 21/12/2024 at 13:53

General statistics by teamLast updated on 18/12/2024 at 06:28

	Participants	Different First XI	Different Scorers	Best scorer
West Ham	32	36	14	Paul Kitson (8 goals)
Southampton	31	36	14	Matt Le Tissier (13 goals)
Chelsea	31	33	15	Gianluca Vialli (9 goals)
Middlesbrough	30	30	12	Fabrizio Ravanelli (16 goals)
Nottingham	29	32	12	Kevin Campbell (6 goals)
Leeds United	29	35	10	Brian Deane (5 goals)
Arsenal	28	25	13	Ian Wright (23 goals)
Derby County	26	32	14	Dean Sturridge (11 goals)
Everton	26	31	10	Duncan Ferguson (10 goals)
Tottenham	26	30	14	Teddy Sheringham (7 goals)
Sunderland	25	29	15	Paul Stewart (4 goals)
Blackburn	25	25	14	Chris Sutton (11 goals)
Coventry	25	30	8	Dion Dublin (14 goals)
Wimbledon FC	24	28	13	Efan Ekoku (11 goals)
Leicester	24	30	11	Steve Claridge (12 goals)
S Wednesday	24	30	16	Andy Booth (10 goals)
Man United	23	38	14	Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (18 goals)
Liverpool	22	20	13	Robbie Fowler (18 goals)
Aston Villa	21	24	11	Dwight Yorke (17 goals)
Newcastle United	20	32	15	Alan Shearer (25 goals)

Teams ages statisticsLast updated on 19/12/2024 at 13:01

	Average age	Oldest player	Youngest player
Aston Villa	25.7	Andy Townsend (32 years)	David Hughes (17 years)
Man United	26.1	Raimond van der Gouw (32 years)	Michael Clegg (18 years)
Southampton	26.2	Dave Beasant (36 years)	Russell Watkinson (18 years)
Liverpool	26.5	Mark Wright (32 years)	Michael Owen (16 years)
Middlesbrough	26.5	Bryan Robson (38 years)	Andy Campbell (16 years)
Derby County	26.6	Paul McGrath (36 years)	Paulo Wanchope (19 years)
Leicester	26.8	Kevin Poole (32 years)	Emile Heskey (17 years)
S Wednesday	26.9	Steve Nicol (34 years)	Ritchie Humphreys (18 years)
Leeds United	27.1	Ian Rush (34 years)	Harry Kewell (17 years)
Everton	27.2	Neville Southall (37 years)	Danny Cadamarteri (16 years)
Wimbledon FC	27.2	Mick Harford (36 years)	Carl Cort (18 years)
Tottenham	27.2	Gary Mabbutt (34 years)	Espen Baardsen (18 years)
Blackburn	27.3	Nicky Marker (30 years)	Damien Duff (16 years)
Newcastle United	27.6	Peter Beardsley (34 years)	Keith Gillespie (20 years)
West Ham	28	Les Sealey (38 years)	Rio Ferdinand (17 years)
Nottingham	28.1	Stuart Pearce (33 years)	Ian Thomas-Moore (19 years)
Sunderland	28.2	Chris Waddle (35 years)	Michael Bridges (17 years)
Coventry	28.3	Gordon Strachan (38 years)	Andy Ducros (18 years)
Chelsea	28.3	Ruud Gullit (33 years)	Jody Morris (17 years)
Arsenal	29.2	John Lukic (35 years)	Nicolas Anelka (16 years)

Countries statisticsLast updated on 17/12/2024 at 00:34

	Number of games played	Number of players	Number of goals scored
England	5395	292	533
Scotland	627	31	40
Republic of Ireland	560	34	21
Wales	520	21	49
Norway	378	16	52
Northern Ireland	266	15	12
Netherlands	219	14	30
Denmark	179	7	14
France	165	9	20
Italy	158	7	47
Jamaica	139	6	19
Croatia	104	4	9
Czech Republic	103	4	10
Australia	84	7	3
Serbia	80	3	12
Brazil	70	4	16
Portugal	66	3	2
Trinidad and Tobago	53	2	17
Romania	52	3	5
Israel	48	2	5