1997–98 Bury F.C. season

Bury

1997–98 season
Chairman	Terry Robinson
Manager	Stan Ternent
Stadium	Gigg Lane
First Division	17th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Battersby/Ellis/Swan (6) All: Johnson (8)
Average home league attendance	6,177
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

During the 1997–98 English football season, Bury F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.

Season summary

In the 1997–98 season, newly promoted Bury were battling against relegation for most of the campaign and were destined to be heading straight back down by the beginning of February where they sat in the bottom three with only 4 wins from 30 games, but from then on Bury went on an amazing nine game unbeaten run and winning 7 in their final 16 league games to secure survival against the odds.

Final league table

Main article: 1997-98 Football League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nottingham Forest (C)	46	28	10	8	82	42	+40	94	Promotion to 1998–99 FA Premier League
2	Middlesbrough (P)	46	27	10	9	77	41	+36	91
3	Sunderland	46	26	12	8	86	50	+36	90	Qualification to First Division play-offs
4	Charlton Athletic (P)	46	26	10	10	80	49	+31	88
5	Ipswich Town	46	23	14	9	77	43	+34	83
6	Sheffield United	46	19	17	10	69	54	+15	74
7	Birmingham City	46	19	17	10	60	35	+25	74
8	Stockport County	46	19	8	19	71	69	+2	65
9	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	18	11	17	57	53	+4	65
10	West Bromwich Albion	46	16	13	17	50	56	−6	61
11	Crewe Alexandra	46	18	5	23	58	65	−7	59
12	Oxford United	46	16	10	20	60	64	−4	58
13	Bradford City	46	14	15	17	46	59	−13	57
14	Tranmere Rovers	46	14	14	18	54	57	−3	56
15	Norwich City	46	14	13	19	52	69	−17	55
16	Huddersfield Town	46	14	11	21	50	72	−22	53
17	Bury	46	11	19	16	42	58	−16	52
18	Swindon Town	46	14	10	22	42	73	−31	52
19	Port Vale	46	13	10	23	56	66	−10	49
20	Portsmouth	46	13	10	23	51	63	−12	49
21	Queens Park Rangers	46	10	19	17	51	63	−12	49
22	Manchester City (R)	46	12	12	22	56	57	−1	48	Relegation to 1998–99 Second Division
23	Stoke City (R)	46	11	13	22	44	74	−30	46
24	Reading (R)	46	11	9	26	39	78	−39	42

Updated to games played on 3 May 1998.
Source: Statto.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Bury's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League First Division

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
9 August 1997	Reading	H	1–1	5,065	Armstrong
16 August 1997	Stockport County	A	0–0	7,260
23 August 1997	Charlton Athletic	H	0–0	4,657
30 August 1997	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	2–4	21,141	Battersby, Johnson
2 September 1997	Crewe Alexandra	A	2–1	4,447	Johnson, Swan
7 September 1997	Tranmere Rovers	H	1–0	5,073	Swan
12 September 1997	Manchester City	H	1–1	11,216	Johnson
20 September 1997	Port Vale	A	1–1	6,781	Swan
27 September 1997	West Bromwich Albion	H	1–3	6,439	Lucketti
4 October 1997	Stoke City	A	2–3	11,760	Swan, Gray (pen)
11 October 1997	Swindon Town	A	1–3	7,640	Battersby
18 October 1997	Birmingham City	H	2–1	5,700	Johnson, Swan
21 October 1997	Queens Park Rangers	H	1–1	4,602	Battersby
25 October 1997	Ipswich Town	A	0–2	10,478
1 November 1997	Norwich City	A	2–2	14,419	Battersby, Johnrose
4 November 1997	Nottingham Forest	H	2–0	6,137	Swan, Johnson
8 November 1997	Portsmouth	H	0–2	5,065
15 November 1997	Oxford United	A	1–1	5,811	C Swailes
22 November 1997	Sunderland	H	1–1	7,790	Lucketti
29 November 1997	Huddersfield Town	A	0–2	11,929
6 December 1997	Middlesbrough	H	0–1	8,016
13 December 1997	Bradford City	A	0–1	15,812
20 December 1997	Sheffield United	H	1–1	6,012	Johnrose
26 December 1997	Tranmere Rovers	A	0–0	9,146
28 December 1997	Crewe Alexandra	H	1–1	5,661	Patterson
10 January 1998	Reading	A	1–1	7,499	Gray
18 January 1998	Stockport County	H	0–1	5,699
27 January 1998	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1–3	6,134	Battersby
31 January 1998	Charlton Athletic	A	0–0	15,312
7 February 1998	Port Vale	H	2–2	5,285	Battersby, Ellis
14 February 1998	Manchester City	A	1–0	28,885	Butler
17 February 1998	Stoke City	H	0–0	5,802
21 February 1998	West Bromwich Albion	A	1–1	15,840	Ellis
25 February 1998	Birmingham City	A	3–1	20,021	Rigby, Patterson, Ellis
28 February 1998	Swindon Town	H	1–0	5,002	Daws
3 March 1998	Portsmouth	A	1–1	12,462	Johnrose
7 March 1998	Norwich City	H	1–0	5,154	Jemson (pen)
14 March 1998	Nottingham Forest	A	0–3	18,846
21 March 1998	Oxford United	H	1–0	5,159	Ellis
28 March 1998	Sunderland	A	1–2	37,425	Small
4 April 1998	Huddersfield Town	H	2–2	8,042	Butler, Ellis
11 April 1998	Middlesbrough	A	0–4	30,218
13 April 1998	Bradford City	H	2–0	6,570	Ellis, Daws
18 April 1998	Sheffield United	A	0–3	16,056
25 April 1998	Ipswich Town	H	0–1	7,830
3 May 1998	Queens Park Rangers	A	1–0	15,210	Armstrong

FA Cup

Main article: 1997–98 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	3 January 1998	Sheffield United	A	1–1	14,009	Gray
R3R	13 January 1998	Sheffield United	H	1–2	4,920	Gray

League Cup

Main article: 1997–98 Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1 First Leg	12 August 1997	Crewe Alexandra	A	3–2	2,618	Armstrong, Jepson (pen), Johnson
R1 Second Leg	26 August 1997	Crewe Alexandra	H	3–3 (won 6-5 on agg)	3,296	Gray, Johnson, Battersby (pen)
R2 First Leg	16 September 1997	Sunderland	A	1–2	18,775	Daws
R2 Second Leg	23 September 1997	Sunderland	H	1–2 (lost 2-4 on agg)	3,928	Johnson

Squad

[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Dean Kiely DF Andy Woodward DF Chris Lucketti DF Paul Butler DF Bryan Small (on loan from Bradford City) MF Nick Daws MF Lenny Johnrose MF Gordon Armstrong FW Tony Battersby FW Peter Swan FW Tony Ellis MF Andy A Gray MF Mark Patterson FW David Johnson DF Ian Hughes DF Chris Swailes

No. Position Player FW Nigel Jemson MF Rob Matthews MF Tony Rigby FW Ronnie Jepson FW Andy D Gray (on loan from Leeds United) DF Steve Morgan (on loan from Wigan Athletic) DF Dean West MF Jason Peake MF Adrian Randall FW Paul Dalglish (on loan from Newcastle United) FW David Pugh DF Danny Swailes DF Brian Linighan DF Matt Barrass MF Martyn Forrest