1998–99 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season

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Wolverhampton Wanderers
1998–99 season
Chairman Sir Jack Hayward OBE
Manager Mark McGhee
(until 5 November)
Colin Lee
(from 28 November)
Football League First Division 7th
FA Cup 4th round
League Cup 2nd round
Top goalscorer League: Robbie Keane (11)
All: Robbie Keane (16)
Highest home attendance 27,589 (vs Bradford, 9 May 1999)
Lowest home attendance 15,296 (vs Barnet, 18 August 1998)
Average home league attendance 22,620 (league only)
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The 1998–99 season was the 100th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. They played the season in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League First Division.

The season began with Mark McGhee as manager but he left "by mutual agreement" on 5 November after a run of two victories from fourteen games; the team having begun with four consecutive league wins.[1] Upon McGhee's departure his assistant Colin Lee was placed in charge of the team and, after taking ten points from a possible twelve, he was handed the post for the remainder of the season.[2]

The team finished in seventh place, one position short of the play-offs. Results on the final day, including their own, failed to go in their favour and so they missed out on a chance of promotion to the Premier League. Nonetheless, following the final match, the Wolves board announced that Colin Lee was to be given a permanent contract as manager.[3]

Results

Pre-season

Football League First Division

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See also: 1998–99 Football League

A total of 24 teams competed in the Football League First Division in the 1998–99 season. Each team played every other team twice: once at their stadium, and once at the opposition's. Three points were awarded to teams for each win, one point per draw, and none for defeats. Teams finishing level on points were firstly divided by the number of goals scored rather than goal difference.

The provisional fixture list was released on 15 June 1998, but was subject to change in the event of matches being selected for television coverage or police concerns.[4]

Final table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
5 Watford 46 21 14 11 65 56 0+9 77
6 Bolton Wanderers 46 20 16 10 78 59 +19 76
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 46 19 16 11 64 43 +21 73
8 Sheffield United 46 18 13 15 71 66 0+5 67

Source: Statto.com

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
46 19 16 11 64 43  +21 73 11 10 2 37 19  +18 8 6 9 27 24  +3

Source: Statto.com

Results by round

Round 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 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46
Result W W W W D L D L W L D L L W D L W W D W L D D L L W W D W D W L D W W D W W W D D W D D D L
Position 1 1 4 1 2 4 4 7 4 7 8 10 14 12 10 11 8 7 7 5 8 10 11 12 12 12 10 11 9 9 7 8 7 9 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 6 6 7 7 7

Source: Statto.com

FA Cup

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See also: 1998–99 FA Cup

League Cup

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See also: 1998–99 Football League Cup

Players

Key

      ‡ On loan from another club       * First appearance(s) for the club

Correct as of end of season. Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances in parentheses where applicable.


Pos Name P G P G P G P G A yellow card A red card Notes
League FA Cup League Cup Total Discipline
GK England Justin Bray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK England Matt Murray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK Denmark Jørgen Nielsen ‡ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GK England Mike Stowell 46 0 2 0 4 0 52 0 0 0
DF England Keith Curle (c) 44 4 2 0 3 0 49 4 8 1
DF Wales Ryan Green 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
DF Australia Kevin Muscat 17(6) 4 2 0 4 0 23(6) 4 12 0
DF England Lee Naylor 24(6) 1 0 0 4 0 28(6) 1 0 0
DF England Dean Richards 40(1) 3 1 0 4 0 45(1) 3 5 0
DF Northern Ireland Gordon Simms 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DF Wales Adrian Williams 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
MF England Mark Atkins 15 0 2 0 0(1) 0 17(1) 0 0 1
MF Australia Steve Corica 18(5) 2 1 0 1(1) 0 20(6) 2 1 0
MF England Neil Emblen 30(3) 2 2 0 2(1) 0 34(4) 2 3 0
MF Scotland Darren Ferguson ¤ 2(2) 0 0 0 0(2) 1 2(4) 1 1 0
MF England Steve Froggatt † 8 0 0 0 2(1) 0 10(1) 0 2 0
MF Barbados Michael Gilkes 25(4) 0 2 0 0(1) 0 27(5) 0 3 0
MF Spain Fernando Gómez 18(1) 2 1 0 2 0 21(1) 2 0 0
MF England Darren Middleton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MF Germany Robert Niestroj 2(2) 0 1 0 0 0 3(2) 0 1 0
MF England Simon Osborn 35(2) 2 1 0 4 1 40(2) 3 9 0
MF Wales Carl Robinson 19(5) 8 2 0 1 0 22(5) 8 4 0
MF England Steve Sedgley 41(3) 3 0(1) 0 3 0 44(4) 3 8 0
MF England Paul Simpson ¤ 8(3) 2 0(1) 0 1 0 9(4) 2 0 0
MF Republic of Ireland Andy Turner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW England Steve Bull 11(4) 3 0 0 2 3 13(4) 6 1 0
FW England Steve Claridge † 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW Republic of Ireland David Connolly ‡ 18(14) 6 0(1) 0 2 0 20(15) 6 1 0
FW Republic of Ireland Glen Crowe ¤† 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW Norway Håvard Flo 18(1) 5 1 1 0 0 19(1) 6 1 0
FW Republic of Ireland Dominic Foley ¤ 2(3) 2 0 0 0 0 2(3) 2 0 0
FW England Mark Jones 0(2) 0 0 0 0(2) 0 0(4) 0 1 0
FW Republic of Ireland Robbie Keane 30(3) 11 2 2 4 3 36(3) 16 1 0
FW Republic of Ireland Colin Larkin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW Finland Mixu Paatelainen † 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW England Adam Proudlock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FW England Guy Whittingham ‡ 9(1) 1 0 0 0 0 9(1) 1 0 0

Transfers

In

Date Player From Fee
5 August 1998 Spain Fernando Gómez Valencia Free[5]
13 November 1998 Germany Robert Niestroj Fortuna Düsseldorf £500,000[6]
13 January 1999 Norway Håvard Flo Werder Bremen £700,000[7]
25 March 1999 England Darren Middleton Aston Villa Free[8]
25 March 1999 Republic of Ireland Andy Turner Crystal Palace Free[9]

Out

Date Player To Fee
June 1998 England Tony Daley Released Free[10]
June 1998 England Don Goodman Released Free[11]
June 1998 Poland Dariusz Kubicki Released Free[10]
June 1998 England Richard Leadbeater Released Free[10]
June 1998 Netherlands Hans Segers Released Free[12]
June 1998 Australia Robbie Slater Released Free[10]
June 1998 England Chris Westwood Released Free[10]
6 August 1998 Scotland Dougie Freedman Nottingham Forest £950,000[13]
6 August 1998 Grenada Jason Roberts Bristol Rovers £250,000[14]
10 August 1998 England Steve Claridge Portsmouth £200,000[15]
11 September 1998 Finland Mixu Paatelainen Hibernian £75,000[16]
1 October 1998 England Steve Froggatt Coventry City £1.9 million[17]
27 January 1999 Republic of Ireland Glen Crowe Plymouth Argyle Free[18]

Loans in

Start date Player From End date
20 August 1998 Republic of Ireland David Connolly Feyenoord End of season[19]
2 November 1998 England Guy Whittingham Sheffield Wednesday 28 December 1998
25 March 1999 Denmark Jørgen Nielsen Liverpool End of season[8]

Loans out

Start date Player To End date
1 August 1998 Republic of Ireland Glen Crowe Exeter City 26 September 1998
18 September 1998 England Paul Simpson Walsall 5 October 1998[20]
8 December 1998 Republic of Ireland Dominic Foley Notts County 31 December 1998[21]
11 December 1998 England Paul Simpson Walsall 11 January 1999[22]
26 January 1999 Scotland Darren Ferguson Sparta Rotterdam 26 April 1999[18]
4 February 1999 Republic of Ireland Dominic Foley Ethnikos Piraeus 24 March 1999

Kit

The season brought a new home kit as the design returned to a plain gold shirt with black collar. The away kit, a white away shirt with a dark green collar and dark green shorts, was retained from the previous season. Both were manufactured by Puma and sponsored by Goodyear.

References

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