1973–74 Cambridge United F.C. season

Cambridge United

1973–74 season
Manager	Bill Leivers
Football League Third Division	21st
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	Brian Greenhalgh (10)
← 1972–73 1974–75 →

The 1973–74 season was Cambridge United's 4th season in the Football League.

After gaining promotion to the Third Division last season, Cambridge struggled to adapt to the tougher challenge and were relegated back to the Fourth Division.

Final league table

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Oldham Athletic	46	25	12	9	83	47	1.766	62
2	Bristol Rovers	46	22	17	7	65	33	1.970	61
3	York City	46	21	19	6	67	38	1.763	61
4	Wrexham	46	22	12	12	63	43	1.465	56
5	Chesterfield	46	21	14	11	55	42	1.310	56
6	Grimsby Town	46	18	15	13	67	50	1.340	51
7	Watford	46	19	12	15	64	56	1.143	50
8	Aldershot	46	19	11	16	65	52	1.250	49
9	Halifax Town	46	14	21	11	48	51	0.941	49
10	Huddersfield Town	46	17	13	16	56	55	1.018	47
11	Bournemouth	46	16	15	15	54	58	0.931	47
12	Southend United	46	16	14	16	62	62	1.000	46
13	Blackburn Rovers	46	18	10	18	62	64	0.969	46
14	Charlton Athletic	46	19	8	19	66	73	0.904	46
15	Walsall	46	16	13	17	57	48	1.188	45
16	Tranmere Rovers	46	15	15	16	50	44	1.136	45
17	Plymouth Argyle	46	17	10	19	59	54	1.093	44
18	Hereford United	46	14	15	17	53	57	0.930	43
19	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	16	11	19	52	58	0.897	43
20	Port Vale	46	14	14	18	52	58	0.897	42
21	Cambridge United	46	13	9	24	48	81	0.593	35
22	Shrewsbury Town	46	10	11	25	41	62	0.661	31
23	Southport	46	6	16	24	35	82	0.427	28
24	Rochdale	46	2	17	27	38	94	0.404	21

Results

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Third Division

Main article: 1973–74 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	25 August 1973	Southport	H	2 – 0	4,656	Ross, O'Donnell
2	1 September 1973	Huddersfield Town	A	1 – 2	5,559	Lennard
3	8 September 1973	Shrewsbury Town	H	2 – 1	4,553	Ross, Greenhalgh
4	10 September 1973	Port Vale	A	1 – 2	5,829	Watson
5	14 September 1973	Southend United	A	1 – 3	6,629	O'Donnell
6	19 September 1973	Watford	H	3 – 2	5,090	Greenhalgh, Watson, Simmons
7	22 September 1973	Oldham Athletic	H	1 – 1	5,620	Greenhalgh
8	29 September 1973	Bristol Rovers	A	0 – 1	9,127
9	3 October 1973	Watford	A	0 – 3	6,470
10	6 October 1973	York City	H	0 – 0	4,447
11	13 October 1973	Hereford United	A	0 – 0	8,522
12	20 October 1973	Blackburn Rovers	A	0 – 2	6,327
13	24 October 1973	Port Vale	H	4 – 2	3,612	Ferguson, Foote, Greenhalgh, Lennard
14	27 October 1973	Halifax Town	H	0 – 1	4,630
15	3 November 1973	Grimsby Town	A	0 – 1	7,186
16	10 November 1973	Charlton Athletic	H	1 – 0	4,856	Greenhalgh
17	17 November 1973	Aldershot	H	1 – 2	3,866	Ross
18	8 December 1973	Bournemouth	A	0 – 1	8,582
19	22 December 1973	Bristol Rovers	H	2 – 2	4,485	Greenhalgh (2)
20	26 December 1973	Walsall	A	0 – 3	4,591
21	29 December 1973	Shrewsbury Town	A	0 – 2	3,368
22	1 January 1974	Huddersfield Town	H	2 – 2	5,667	Greenhalgh, Ross
23	12 January 1974	Southend United	H	3 – 2	4,255	Greenhalgh, Ferguson, Lill
24	19 January 1974	Southport	A	0 – 0	1,534
25	27 January 1974	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	1 – 1	7,749	Simmons
26	2 February 1974	Chesterfield	H	1 – 2	4,223	Ferguson
27	5 February 1974	Rochdale	A	2 – 0	588	Simmons, Greenhalgh
28	17 February 1974	Hereford United	H	2 – 0	5,728	Ferguson, Lennard
29	24 February 1974	York City	A	0 – 2	7,387
30	3 March 1974	Walsall	H	0 – 0	4,569
31	5 March 1974	Oldham Athletic	A	1 – 6	9,428	Lennard
32	10 March 1974	Halifax Town	A	1 – 0	2,455	Lennard
33	13 March 1974	Chesterfield	A	0 – 3	3,287
34	16 March 1974	Blackburn Rovers	H	0 – 2	4,655
35	23 March 1974	Charlton Athletic	A	0 – 2	3,702
36	27 March 1974	Tranmere Rovers	H	1 – 0	3,975	Cassidy
37	30 March 1974	Grimsby Town	H	0 – 1	3,658
38	3 April 1974	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	1 – 4	9,833	Ross
39	6 April 1974	Rochdale	H	3 – 3	2,704	Cassidy, Shinton (2)
40	12 April 1974	Wrexham	A	1 – 2	4,591	Shinton
41	13 April 1974	Aldershot	A	0 – 6	5,074
42	16 April 1974	Wrexham	H	2 – 1	2,391	Shinton, Cassidy
43	20 April 1974	Bournemouth	H	2 – 1	3,398	Watson, Batson
44	22 April 1974	Tranmere Rovers	A	2 – 5	2,796	Lennard, Akers
45	27 April 1974	Plymouth Argyle	A	1 – 4	5,078	Cassidy
46	1 May 1974	Plymouth Argyle	H	3 – 1	1,979	Shinton, Akers (2)

FA Cup

Main article: 1973–74 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	24 November 1973	Gillingham	H	3 – 2	4,831	Simmons (3)
R2	15 December 1973	Aldershot	A	2 – 1	4,244	Simmons (2)
R3	6 January 1974	Oldham Athletic	H	2 – 2	8,479	Eades, Wood (o.g.)
R3 Replay	8 January 1974	Oldham Athletic	A	3 – 3 (aet)	10,250	Ferguson, Simmons, Watson
R3 2nd Replay	14 January 1974	Oldham Athletic	N	1 – 2	3,563	Simmons

League Cup

Main article: 1973–74 Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	29 August 1973	Aldershot	A	1 – 1	4,147	Greenhalgh
R1 Replay	5 September 1973	Aldershot	H	3 – 0	4,801	Ross, Lennard, Watson
R2	9 October 1973	Bury	A	0 – 2	6,150

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
DF	Vic Akers	41(2)	3	5	0	3	0	49(2)	3
DF	Jack Bannister	6(2)	0	3	0	0	0	9(2)	0
DF	Brendon Batson	16	1	0	0	0	0	16	1
FW	Nigel Cassidy	9	4	0	0	0	0	9	4
DF	Terry Eades	41	0	5	1	3	0	49	1
MF	Mike Ferguson	39	4	5	1	3	0	47	5
MF	Chris Foote	8(2)	1	0	0	0(1)	0	8(3)	1
FW	Brian Greenhalgh	27	10	5	0	3	1	35	11
DF	Alan Guild	32(9)	0	2	0	2	0	36(9)	0
DF	Allan Harris	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
MF	Dave Lennard	36	6	2	0	3	1	41	7
MF	David Lill	35(2)	1	2	0	2	0	39(2)	1
DF	Jon O'Donnell	35	2	5	0	3	0	43	2
DF	Graham Rathbone	22(1)	0	2	0	2	0	26(1)	0
MF	Bobby Ross	25(8)	5	4	0	3	1	32(8)	6
DF	Ray Seary	6(1)	0	0	0	0	0	6(1)	0
FW	Bobby Shinton	13	5	0	0	0	0	13	5
FW	Dave Simmons	19(2)	3	5	7	1	0	25(2)	10
GK	Peter Vasper	46	0	5	0	3	0	54	0
MF	Graham Watson	44	3	5	1	2	1	51	5

References

• Cambridge 1973–74 at statto.com
• Player information sourced from The English National Football Archive