1998–99 Football League

The Football League
Season	1998–99
Champions	Sunderland
Promoted	Bradford City Watford
Relegated	Scarborough
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The 1998–99 Football League (known as the Nationwide Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 100th completed season of The Football League.

Sunderland were crowned First Division champions with 105 points, then a record, having lost just three games all season, to prove right the many pundits who tipped them for promotion. The two other promotion places were secured by two of the division’s least fancied sides — runners-up Bradford City (back in the top division for the first time in 77 years) and playoff winners Watford (who had won their second successive promotion during Graham Taylor’s second spell as manager).

Bury, Oxford United and Bristol City occupied the three relegation places in the First Division. Oxford’s dismal season was mainly down to £10 million debts which were putting the club in real danger of closure, and had also resulted in the suspension of construction of their new stadium near the Blackbird Leys estate.

Kevin Keegan completed his spell as Fulham manager before taking the England job by guiding the Cottagers to the Second Division championship with a staggering 101 points. Following them up were runners-up Walsall and playoff winners Manchester City.

Going down were York City, Northampton Town, Lincoln City and Macclesfield Town. Narrowly avoiding the drop to the Third Division were Oldham Athletic, who just five years earlier had been a Premiership side who came within a whisker of reaching the FA Cup final.

Brentford, Cambridge United, Cardiff City and Scunthorpe United occupied the four promotion places in the Third Division.

Carlisle United kept their league status in remarkable fashion. They entered the final game of the season in bottom place, and with 90 minutes on the clock in their home game against Plymouth Argyle they were drawing 1–1 and needed a win to stay up. The referee then allowed 4 minutes of stoppage time and with just seconds to go, goalkeeper Jimmy Glass came upfield and scored from a rebounded corner to preserve his club’s place in the league which had been held since 1928. Scarborough, who had only joined the league in 1987, were relegated instead. Glass, 25, had been signed on loan from Swindon Town after the transfer line because an injury crisis had left Carlisle without a goalkeeper for the final few games of the season.

First Division

Football League, First Division
Season	1998–99
Champions	Sunderland (3rd second tier title)
Direct promotion to FA Premier League	Sunderland, Bradford City
Promoted to FA Premier League through play-offs	Watford
Relegated	Bristol City, Bury, Oxford United
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1455 (2.64 per match)
Top goalscorer	Lee Hughes (West Bromwich Albion), 31 ^[1]
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Sunderland	46	19	3	1	50	10	12	9	2	41	18	91	28	+63	105
2	Bradford City	46	15	4	4	48	20	11	5	7	34	27	82	47	+35	87
3	Ipswich Town	46	16	1	6	37	15	10	7	6	32	17	69	32	+37	86
4	Birmingham City	46	12	7	4	32	15	11	5	7	34	22	66	37	+29	81
5	Watford	46	12	8	3	30	19	9	6	8	35	37	65	56	+9	77
6	Bolton Wanderers	46	13	6	4	44	25	7	10	6	34	34	78	59	+19	76
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	11	10	2	37	19	8	6	9	27	24	64	43	+21	73
8	Sheffield United	46	12	6	5	42	29	6	7	10	29	37	71	66	+5	67
9	Norwich City	46	7	12	4	34	28	8	5	10	28	33	62	61	+1	62
10	Huddersfield Town	46	11	9	3	38	23	4	7	12	24	48	62	71	–9	61
11	Grimsby Town	46	11	6	6	25	18	6	4	13	15	34	40	52	–12	61
12	West Bromwich Albion	46	12	4	7	43	33	4	7	12	26	43	69	76	–7	59
13	Barnsley	46	7	9	7	35	30	7	8	8	24	26	59	56	+3	59
14	Crystal Palace	46	11	10	2	43	26	3	6	14	15	45	58	71	–13	58
15	Tranmere Rovers	46	8	7	8	37	30	4	13	6	26	31	63	61	+2	56
16	Stockport County	46	7	9	7	24	21	5	8	10	25	39	49	60	–11	53
17	Swindon Town	46	7	8	8	40	44	6	3	14	19	37	59	81	–22	50
18	Crewe Alexandra	46	7	6	10	27	35	5	6	12	27	43	54	78	–24	48
19	Portsmouth	46	10	5	8	34	26	1	9	13	23	47	57	73	–16	47
20	Queens Park Rangers	46	9	7	7	34	22	3	4	16	18	39	52	61	–9	47
21	Port Vale	46	10	3	10	22	28	3	5	15	23	47	45	75	–30	47
22	Bury	46	9	7	7	24	27	1	10	12	11	33	35	60	–25	47
23	Oxford United	46	7	8	8	31	30	3	6	14	17	41	48	71	–23	44
24	Bristol City	46	7	8	8	35	36	2	7	14	22	44	57	80	–23	42

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
NB: In the Football League goals scored (F) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).

Key
	Football League Champions, promoted to FA Premier League
	Promoted to FA Premier League
	Participated in play-offs
	Promoted to Premier League through play-offs
	Relegated

Play-offs

Main article: Football League Championship play-offs § 1999

Semifinals 1st leg – May 16th; 2nd leg – May 19th/20th, 1999					Final at Wembley May 31st, 1999

3rd	Ipswich Town	0	4	4
6th	Bolton Wanderers^{[notes 1]}	1	3	4
					5th	Watford	2
					6th	Bolton Wanderers	0
4th	Birmingham City	0	1	1 (6)
5th	Watford (pen.)	1	0	1 (7)

^[2]

↑ Bolton Wanderers the first round of the play-offs against Ipswich Town on away goals after extra time.

First Division results

Home ╲ Away	Barnsley !BAR	Birmingham City !BIR	Bolton Wanderers !BOL	Bradford City !BRA	Bristol City !BRI	Bury !BRY	Crewe Alexandra !CRE	Crystal Palace !CRY	Grimsby Town !GRI	Huddersfield Town !HUD	Ipswich Town !IPS	Norwich City !NOR	Oxford United !OXF	Port Vale !PTV	Portsmouth !POR	Queens Park Rangers !QPR	Sheffield United !SHU	Stockport County !STP	Sunderland !SUN	Swindon Town !SWI	Tranmere Rovers !TRA	Watford !WAT	West Bromwich Albion !WBA	Wolverhampton Wanderers !WOL
Barnsley !Barnsley		0–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	4–0	0–0	7–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–3	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–3
Birmingham City !Birmingham City	0–0		0–0	2–1	4–2	1–0	3–1	3–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	4–0	0–1
Bolton Wanderers !Bolton Wanderers	3–3	3–1		0–0	1–0	4–0	1–3	3–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–3	2–1	2–2	1–2	2–1	1–1
Bradford City !Bradford City	2–1	2–1	2–2		5–0	3–0	4–1	2–1	3–0	2–3	0–0	4–1	0–0	4–0	2–1	0–3	2–2	1–2	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1
Bristol City !Bristol City	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–3		1–1	5–2	1–1	4–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–4	1–3	1–6
Bury !Bury	0–0	2–4	2–1	0–2	0–1		1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	1–1	2–5	3–0	0–0	1–3	2–0	0–0
Crewe Alexandra !Crewe Alexandra	3–1	0–0	4–4	2–1	1–0	3–1		0–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	3–2	3–1	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–2	0–2	1–4	0–2	1–4	0–1	1–1	0–0
Crystal Palace !Crystal Palace	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	4–2	1–1		3–1	2–2	3–2	5–1	2–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–2
Grimsby Town !Grimsby Town	1–2	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	5–1	0–0
Huddersfield Town !Huddersfield Town	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	2–2	0–0	4–0	2–0		2–2	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–3	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	0–3	2–1
Ipswich Town !Ipswich Town	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	1–2	3–0	0–1	3–0		0–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–1	4–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–0
Norwich City !Norwich City	0–0	2–0	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–1	3–1	4–1	0–0		1–3	3–4	0–0	4–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–0
Oxford United !Oxford United	1–0	1–7	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–2	3–3	2–4		2–1	3–0	4–1	0–2	5–0	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	0–2
Port Vale !Port Vale	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–3	1–0	1–0		0–2	2–0	2–3	1–1	0–2	0–1	2–2	1–2	0–3	2–1
Portsmouth !Portsmouth	1–3	0–1	0–2	2–4	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	4–0		3–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	5–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–0
Queens Park Rangers !Queens Park Rangers	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	0–1	6–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	1–1		1–2	2–0	2–2	4–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	0–1
Sheffield United !Sheffield United	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–2	3–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–0		1–1	0–4	2–1	2–2	3–0	3–0	1–1
Stockport County !Stockport County	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	4–2	2–0	0–0	1–0		0–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–2
Sunderland !Sunderland	2–3	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	7–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0		2–0	5–0	4–1	3–0	2–1
Swindon Town !Swindon Town	1–3	0–1	3–3	1–4	3–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–6	1–1	4–1	1–1	3–3	3–1	2–2	2–3	1–1		2–3	1–4	2–2	1–0
Tranmere Rovers !Tranmere Rovers	3–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	2–3	0–2	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–3	1–1	1–0	0–0		3–2	3–1	1–2
Watford !Watford	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	4–2	2–1	0–1	2–1		0–2	0–2
West Bromwich Albion !West Bromwich Albion	2–0	1–3	2–3	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–5	3–2	1–1	3–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–2	2–2	2–0	4–1	3–1	2–3	1–1	0–2	4–1		2–0
Wolverhampton Wanderers !Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–1

Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

First Division maps

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Locations of the Football League First Division 1998–1999 teams

Crystal Palace

Queens Park Rangers

Watford

Locations of the Football League First Division London teams 1998–1999

Second Division

Football League, Second Division
Season	1998–99
Champions	Fulham (1st third tier title)
Direct promotion	Fulham, Walsall
Promoted through play-offs	Manchester City
Relegated	Lincoln City, Macclesfield Town, Northampton, York City
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1358 (2.46 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jamie Cureton (Bristol Rovers), 25 ^[1]
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Fulham	46	19	3	1	50	12	12	5	6	29	20	79	32	+47	101
2	Walsall	46	13	7	3	37	23	13	2	8	26	24	63	47	+16	87
3	Manchester City	46	13	6	4	38	14	9	10	4	31	19	69	33	+36	82
4	Gillingham	46	15	5	3	45	17	7	9	7	30	27	75	44	+31	80
5	Preston North End	46	12	6	5	46	23	10	7	6	32	27	78	50	+28	79
6	Wigan Athletic	46	14	5	4	44	17	8	5	10	31	31	75	48	+27	76
7	Bournemouth	46	14	7	2	37	11	7	6	10	26	30	63	41	+22	76
8	Stoke City	46	10	4	9	32	32	11	2	10	27	31	59	63	–4	69
9	Chesterfield	46	14	5	4	34	16	3	8	12	12	28	46	44	+2	64
10	Millwall	46	9	8	6	33	24	8	3	12	19	35	52	59	–7	62
11	Reading	46	10	6	7	29	26	6	7	10	25	37	54	63	–9	61
12	Luton Town	46	10	4	9	25	26	6	6	11	26	34	51	60	–9	58
13	Bristol Rovers	46	8	9	6	35	28	5	8	10	30	28	65	56	+9	56
14	Blackpool	46	7	8	8	24	24	7	6	10	20	30	44	54	–10	56
15	Burnley	46	8	7	8	23	33	5	9	9	31	40	54	73	–19	55
16	Notts County	46	8	6	9	29	27	6	6	11	23	34	52	61	–9	54
17	Wrexham	46	8	6	9	21	28	5	8	10	22	34	43	62	–19	53
18	Colchester United	46	9	7	7	25	30	3	9	11	27	40	52	70	–18	52
19	Wycombe Wanderers	46	8	5	10	31	26	5	7	11	21	32	52	58	–6	51
20	Oldham Athletic	46	8	4	11	26	31	6	5	12	22	35	48	66	–18	51
21	York City	46	6	8	9	28	33	7	3	13	28	47	56	80	–24	50
22	Northampton	46	4	12	7	26	31	6	6	11	17	26	43	57	–14	48
23	Lincoln City	46	9	4	10	27	27	4	3	16	15	47	42	74	–32	46
24	Macclesfield Town	46	7	4	12	24	30	4	6	13	19	33	43	63	–30	43

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
NB: In the Football League goals scored (F) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Participated in play-offs
	Promoted through play-offs
	Relegated

Play-offs

Main article: Football League One play-offs § 1999

Semifinals 1st leg – May 15th/16th; 2nd leg – May 19th, 1999					Final at Wembley Stadium May 30th, 1999

3rd	Manchester City	1	1	2
6th	Wigan Athletic	1	0	1
					3rd	Manchester City (pen.)	2 (3)
					4th	Gillingham	2 (1)
4th	Gillingham	1	1	2
5th	Preston North End	1	0	1

^[2]

Second Division maps

Locations of the Football League Second Division 1998–1999 teams

Fulham

Millwall

Locations of the Football League Second Division London teams 1998–1999

Third Division

Football League, Third Division
Season	1998–99
Champions	Brentford (2nd fourth tier title)
Direct promotion	Brentford, Cambridge United, Cardiff City
Promoted through play-offs	Scunthorpe United
Relegated to Conference	Scarborough
New club in the league	None
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1395 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marco Gabbiadini (Darlington), 23 ^[1]
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Brentford	46	16	5	2	45	18	10	2	11	34	38	79	56	+23	85
2	Cambridge United	46	13	6	4	41	21	10	6	7	37	27	78	48	+30	81
3	Cardiff City	46	13	7	3	35	17	9	7	7	25	22	60	39	+21	80
4	Scunthorpe United	46	14	3	6	42	28	8	5	10	27	30	69	58	+11	74
5	Rotherham United	46	11	8	4	41	26	9	5	9	38	35	79	61	+18	73
6	Leyton Orient	46	12	6	5	40	30	7	9	7	28	29	68	59	+9	72
7	Swansea City	46	11	9	3	33	19	8	5	10	23	29	56	48	+8	71
8	Mansfield Town	46	15	2	6	38	18	4	8	11	22	40	60	58	+2	67
9	Peterborough United	46	11	4	8	41	29	7	8	8	31	27	72	56	+16	66
10	Halifax Town	46	10	8	5	33	25	7	7	9	25	31	58	56	+2	66
11	Darlington	46	10	6	7	41	24	8	5	10	28	34	69	58	+11	65
12	Exeter City	46	13	5	5	32	18	4	7	12	15	32	47	50	-3	63
13	Plymouth Argyle	46	11	6	6	32	19	6	4	13	26	35	58	54	+4	61
14	Chester City	46	6	12	5	28	30	7	6	10	29	36	57	66	–9	57
15	Shrewsbury Town	46	11	6	6	36	29	3	8	12	16	34	52	63	–11	56
16	Barnet	46	10	5	8	30	31	4	8	11	24	40	54	71	–17	55
17	Brighton & Hove Albion	46	8	3	12	25	35	8	4	11	24	31	49	66	–17	55
18	Southend United	46	8	6	9	24	21	6	6	11	28	37	52	58	–6	54
19	Rochdale	46	9	8	6	22	21	4	7	12	20	34	42	55	–13	54
20	Torquay United	46	9	9	5	29	20	3	8	12	18	38	47	58	–11	53
21	Hull City	46	8	5	10	25	28	6	6	11	19	34	44	62	–18	53
22	Hartlepool United	46	8	7	8	33	27	5	5	13	19	38	52	65	–13	51
23	Carlisle United	46	8	8	7	25	21	3	8	12	18	32	43	53	–10	49
24	Scarborough	46	8	3	12	30	39	6	3	14	20	38	50	77	–27	48

Pld = Matches ; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
NB: In the Football League goals scored (F) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).

Key
	Division Champions, promoted
	Promoted
	Participated in play-offs
	Promoted through play-offs
	New club in the league
	Relegated to Conference

Play-offs

Main article: Football League Two play-offs § 1999

Semifinals 1st leg – May 16th; 2nd leg – May 19th, 1999					Final at Wembley Stadium May 29th, 1999

4th	Scunthorpe United	0	3	3
7th	Swansea City	1	1	2
					4th	Scunthorpe United	1
					6th	Leyton Orient	0
5th	Rotherham United	0	0	0 (2)
6th	Leyton Orient (pen.)	0	0	0 (4)

^[2]

Third Division maps

Locations of the Football League Third Division teams 1998–1999

Barnet

Brentford

Leyton Orient

Locations of the Football League Third Division London teams 1998–1999

References

The tables above are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website,^[2] with home and away statistics separated. Play-off results are from the same website.

1 2 3 "English League Leading Goalscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
1 2 3 4 "England 1998–99". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-24.

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FA competitions

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Football League

Football Conference

Lower leagues

European competitions

Related to national team

UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying (Qualification Group 5)
Glenn Hoddle
Howard Wilkinson (caretaker)
Kevin Keegan

Club seasons

Premier League	Arsenal Aston Villa Blackburn Rovers Charlton Athletic Chelsea Coventry City Derby County Everton Leeds United Leicester City Liverpool Manchester United Middlesbrough Newcastle United Nottingham Forest Sheffield Wednesday Southampton Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United Wimbledon

First Division	Barnsley Birmingham City Bolton Wanderers Bradford City Bristol City Bury Crewe Alexandra Crystal Palace Grimsby Town Huddersfield Town Ipswich Town Norwich City Oxford United Port Vale Portsmouth Queens Park Rangers Sheffield United Stockport County Sunderland Swindon Town Tranmere Rovers Watford West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers

Second Division	Bournemouth Blackpool Bristol Rovers Burnley Chesterfield Colchester United Fulham Gillingham Lincoln City Luton Town Macclesfield Town Manchester City Millwall Northampton Town Notts County Oldham Athletic Preston North End Reading Stoke City Walsall Wigan Athletic Wrexham Wycombe Wanderers York City

Third Division	Barnet Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion Cambridge United Cardiff City Carlisle United Chester City Darlington Exeter City Halifax Town Hartlepool United Hull City Leyton Orient Mansfield Town Peterborough United Plymouth Argyle Rochdale Rotherham United Scarborough Scunthorpe United Shrewsbury Town Southend United Swansea City Torquay United

Non-League	Newport

List of transfers

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1998–99 Football League

First Division

Play-offs

First Division results

First Division maps

Second Division

Play-offs

Second Division maps

Third Division

Play-offs

Third Division maps

See also

References