1975–76 Mansfield Town F.C. season

Mansfield Town
1975–76 season
Manager	Dave Smith
Third Division	11th
FA Cup	Second Round
League Cup	Fifth Round
Anglo-Scottish Cup	Semi-final
	Home colours
	Home colours

The 1975–76 season was Mansfield Town's 39th season in the Football League and 12th in the Third Division, they finished in 11th position with 47 points.^[1]

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hereford United (C, P)	46	26	11	9	86	55	1.564	63	Promotion to the Second Division
2	Cardiff City (P)	46	22	13	11	69	48	1.438	57	Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round and promotion to the Second Division
3	Millwall (P)	46	20	16	10	54	43	1.256	56	Promotion to the Second Division
4	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	22	9	15	78	53	1.472	53
5	Crystal Palace	46	18	17	11	61	46	1.326	53
6	Wrexham	46	20	12	14	66	55	1.200	52
7	Walsall	46	18	14	14	74	61	1.213	50
8	Preston North End	46	19	10	17	62	57	1.088	48
9	Shrewsbury Town	46	19	10	17	61	59	1.034	48
10	Peterborough United	46	15	18	13	63	63	1.000	48
11	Mansfield Town	46	16	15	15	58	52	1.115	47
12	Port Vale	46	15	16	15	55	54	1.019	46
13	Bury	46	14	16	16	51	46	1.109	44
14	Chesterfield	46	17	9	20	69	69	1.000	43
15	Gillingham	46	12	19	15	58	68	0.853	43
16	Rotherham United	46	15	12	19	54	65	0.831	42
17	Chester	46	15	12	19	43	62	0.694	42
18	Grimsby Town	46	15	10	21	62	74	0.838	40
19	Swindon Town	46	16	8	22	62	75	0.827	40
20	Sheffield Wednesday	46	12	16	18	48	59	0.814	40
21	Aldershot (R)	46	13	13	20	59	75	0.787	39	Relegation to the Fourth Division
22	Colchester United (R)	46	12	14	20	41	65	0.631	38
23	Southend United (R)	46	12	13	21	65	75	0.867	37
24	Halifax Town (R)	46	11	13	22	41	61	0.672	35

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Football League Third Division

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	16 August 1975	Shrewsbury Town	H	1–2	7,073	McDonald
2	23 August 1975	Colchester United	A	2–0	3,333	Bird, Clarke
3	30 August 1975	Chester	H	1–1	6,167	McDonald
4	6 September 1975	Aldershot	A	1–2	3,289	Hodgson
5	13 September 1975	Cardiff City	H	1–4	6,684	Eccles
6	20 September 1975	Gillingham	A	1–3	5,635	Eccles
7	23 September 1975	Bury	A	1–2	5,635	McDonald
8	27 September 1975	Walsall	H	4–1	5,456	Hodgson, Clarke (3)
9	4 October 1975	Millwall	A	0–1	6,792
10	11 October 1975	Peterborough United	H	1–1	6,983	Clarke
11	17 October 1975	Southend United	A	2–2	3,483	Clarke, Bird
12	25 October 1975	Preston North End	H	0–1	6,687
13	1 November 1975	Wrexham	A	0–1	2,750
14	8 November 1975	Halifax Town	H	1–1	5,299	Bird
15	15 November 1975	Grimsby Town	A	1–4	4,872	Bird
16	29 November 1975	Crystal Palace	A	1–4	16,020	Hodgson
17	6 December 1975	Swindon Town	H	3–1	5,487	Bird, Clarke, Randall
18	20 December 1975	Rotherham United	A	1–2	6,067	Hodgson
19	26 December 1975	Chesterfield	H	0–1	8,607
20	27 December 1975	Sheffield Wednesday	A	0–0	15,586
21	3 January 1976	Port Vale	H	3–1	5,417	Clarke (2), Randall
22	10 January 1976	Chester	A	1–1	4,846	Randall
23	17 January 1976	Gillingham	H	1–1	5,939	Shipperley (o.g.)
24	20 January 1976	Cardiff City	A	0–1	9,739
25	31 January 1976	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0–1	11,921
26	7 February 1976	Hereford United	H	2–2	5,997	Bird, Clarke
27	11 February 1976	Hereford United	A	0–1	8,302
28	14 February 1976	Halifax Town	A	2–1	2,378	Clarke, Saxby
29	21 February 1976	Grimsby Town	H	1–0	6,085	Clarke
30	23 February 1976	Bury	H	1–1	6,650	Clarke
31	28 February 1976	Preston North End	A	2–0	6,945	Clarke, Matthews
32	1 March 1976	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	1–0	8,321	McDonald
33	6 March 1976	Wrexham	H	0–0	6,473
34	8 March 1976	Millwall	H	1–1	7,447	McCaffrey
35	13 March 1976	Peterborough United	A	3–0	7,979	Clarke (2), McCaffrey
36	15 March 1976	Southend United	H	3–1	8,045	Clarke (3)
37	20 March 1976	Crystal Palace	H	1–1	12,990	Laverick
38	27 March 1976	Swindon Town	A	2–0	6,973	Laverick, Clarke
39	29 March 1976	Rotherham United	H	1–1	9,098	Foster
40	2 April 1976	Shrewsbury Town	A	2–1	4,580	Clarke, Hodgson
41	6 April 1976	Walsall	A	1–0	6,481	Hodgson
42	10 April 1976	Aldershot	H	1–0	7,200	MacKenzie
43	17 April 1976	Chesterfield	A	2–1	10,614	Laverick, Eccles
44	19 April 1976	Sheffield Wednesday	H	3–0	13,409	Clarke, Hodgson, Pate
45	20 April 1976	Port Vale	A	2–2	4,239	Clarke (2)
46	24 April 1976	Colchester United	H	0–0	7,407

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	22 November 1975	Wrexham	H	1–1	6,279	Eccles
R1 Replay	24 November 1975	Wrexham	A	1–1	4,468	Eccles
R1 2nd Replay	8 December 1975	Wrexham	N	2–1	1,470	Laverick, May (o.g.)
R2	13 December 1975	Lincoln City	H	1–2	8,466	McDonald

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1 1st leg	20 August 1975	Scunthorpe United	H	4–0	4,810	Laverick, McDonald (2), Bird
R1 2nd leg	26 August 1975	Scunthorpe United	A	2–0	1,412	Laverick, Lathan
R2	10 September 1975	Wrexham	A	2–1	3,644	Bird, Clarke
R3	8 October 1975	Coventry City	H	2–0	10,027	Eccles, Clarke
R4	12 November 1975	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1–0	12,725	McDonald
R5	3 December 1975	Manchester City	A	2–4	30,022	Bird, Clarke

Anglo-Scottish Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
PR	2 August 1975	West Bromwich Albion	A	1–1	5,704	Bird
PR	6 August 1975	Leicester City	H	2–0	6,496	Matthews, Whitworth (o.g.)
PR	9 August 1975	Hull City	H	2–1	5,757	McDonald, Clarke
QF 1st leg	15 September 1975	Ayr United	A	1–0	3,750	McDonald
QF 2nd leg	29 September 1975	Ayr United	H	2–0	7,149	McDonald, Clarke
SF 1st leg	21 October 1975	Middlesbrough	A	0–3	14,929
SF 2nd leg	3 November 1975	Middlesbrough	H	0–2	7,115

Squad statistics

Squad list sourced from 1975–76 Mansfield Town F.C. season at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Anglo-Scottish Cup		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Rod Arnold	39	0	0	0	4	0	6	0	49	0
GK	Roy Brown	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
GK	Paul Evans	6	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	9	0
DF	Kevin Bird	26(2)	6	4	0	6	3	6	1	42(2)	10
DF	Barry Foster	44	0	4	0	6	0	7	0	61	0
DF	Colin Foster	34(2)	1	0(1)	0	3(1)	0	3(2)	0	40(3)	1
DF	Ian MacKenzie	36(1)	1	4	0	5(1)	0	4	0	49(2)	1
DF	Lawrie Madden	3	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	8	0
DF	Sandy Pate	40(1)	1	4	0	4(1)	0	7	0	55(2)	1
DF	Mick Saxby	1(1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	1
DF	Steve Uzelac	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
DF	Ian Wood	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
MF	Gordon Hodgson	46	7	4	0	6	0	7	0	63	7
MF	John Lathan	10(2)	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	13(2)	1
MF	Micky Laverick	22(3)	3	1	1	3	2	2(2)	0	28(5)	6
MF	Paul Matthews	28(1)	1	4	0	3	0	6	1	41(1)	2
MF	Jim McCaffrey	35(1)	2	2	0	4	0	4(2)	0	45(3)	2
MF	Ian McDonald	32(2)	4	4	1	7	3	7	3	48(2)	11
MF	Noel O'Brien	7	0	0	0	5	0	3	0	13	0
FW	Ray Clarke	45	24	4	0	6	3	6	2	61	29
FW	Terry Eccles	29(3)	3	2	2	3(1)	1	5	0	39(4)	6
FW	Kevin Randall	18	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	3
–	Own goals	–	1	–	1	–	0	–	1	–	3

References

General

Mansfield Town 1975–76 at soccerbase.com (use drop down list to select relevant season)

Specific

^ 1975–76 Mansfield Town F.C. season at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

[1] 1975–76 Mansfield Town F.C. season at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

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