Bath City FC stats
2025/26 season
Stuart Leeds
Started: 26 July 2025
Completed: 04 May 2026
Introduction
Since I enjoyed messing about with data and ‘R’ formatting with my effort of summarising last seasons excitement of Bath City’s performance (Leeds, 2024), I thought I would do it again for this season.
Not so cluttered as the previous document which was pretty much a test of package functionality, my ability, but also complicated by three managers statistics to include, this year focuses on one team and one manager. [*Edit: Turned out to be three managers again this season!]
This document will be organic until the end of this season whereby it will be manually updated after each match (when I can). Text and comment will be added as and when, so after the final match everything should make sense. Minor errors and adjustments should be ironed out before the end of the season. The purpose is to visualise the progress of Bath City FC through charts and tables, and various descriptive statistics. If I can, I might even touch on inferential statistics by comparing the whole of last season with this one.
The focus is on scores, scorers and attendances for pre-season, cup, and league matches. In expanding upon these figures for the league: a basic table summary in numbers, management statistics, and home/away attendance breakdowns are included.
Data
This seasons data are from the Bath City FC (2025) fixtures & results web-page. Packages used are Tidyverse (Wickham et al., 2019) for general tidying and the combination plots for each section (using ggplot), LessR (Gerbing, 2026) for manipulating data and for all other plots, tables are formulated with KableExtra (Zhu, 2021).
Pre-season
One less pre-season friendly than last season but no less difficult. In fact, I think the friendlies were a good mix of different league and non-league teams, starting off losing 0:1 away at Taunton Town, and ending on a high by winning at home against Bristol City U21s (4:0).
Figure 1 summarises scores, goals and attendances.
Figure 1: Pre-season summary
S.Wilson scored three of the seven pre-season friendly goals (43%).
Highest home attendance: 2205.
Average home attendance: 974.
Cup-run
Our involvement in the trophy games started on Saturday 13th September with the FA Cup 2nd qualifying round.
Note: This year the Somerset Premier Cup (SPC) competition is renamed as the Francis Hillier Premier Cup (Howe, 2025a). For simplicity it shall remain as SPC throughout this document.
A summary of our progression can be seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Cup-run summary
So the first match we’re dumped out of the FA Cup by Wimbourne Town! On to the SPC and FA Trophy, then!
15th October: Sweeten, Alves and Ash contributed to the W4-0 over Bridgwater United in the SPC1 home game and join Jenkins-Davies on the cup run score list (see Figure 2; 2.2). Surely a massive confidence boost to the team and supporters alike?.
16th November: Windsor strikes again in a 1-1 home draw leading to a 5-3 win on penalties in the FA Trophy 3rd round. Sees us into the next round of the FA Trophy - furthest we’ve been for a while!
It is noteworthy to add that just before the FA Trophy round 2, Jake Tabor was recalled to Swindon Town ending his loan early (Acklam, 2025), and Scott Wilson is loaned to Weston-Super-Mare (Drury, 2025) until the end of the season!
3rd December: Yeboah scores twice (also claiming the own goal (OG)) in the SPC2 match against Odd Down (Bath) AFC, with Alves and Yeboah adding to the 4:0 final score. Kind of expected against a team four levels below us, but they fought hard and didn’t give up (Howe, 2025c).
13 December: FA Trophy round three sees a 1-1 draw against Dorking, thanks to a wonderful strike by Alves to level. Winning out on penalties - all glory to our young 2nd ’keeper Charlie Binns for saving two of theirs!
10 January: Everyone is excited for the fourth round of the FA Trophy against Southend United at home. 9am and the pitch is deemed fit to play on, later their team and supporters are here, ours too; match ref rolls up, has a look, says “no!” - 2pm and the game is postponed until Tuesday 13th. See you then.
13 January: The rescheduled match went ahead as planned and Alves (again!) scored our only goal from a stunning free-kick as we went out of the FA Trophy against Southend United at home (L1-3). We put up a good fight as we went down to 10 men at about 22 minutes in. Raynes’ handball in the area earned him a red card and gave SUFC a penalty, but the attempt was brilliantly saved by Wiles-Richards. 1-0 at half-time. We levelled early in the second half, fought well throughout, but not enough as we conceded two more. Nothing to be ashamed of as they are a level above us, but only seemed to switch it up a gear in the second half. Might have been a different story had we kept a full team, but that’s football. Next up: Street at home next week in the SPC quarter final.
20 January: Another postponed match. This time due to a waterlogged pitch. Mind you, it has rained a lot recently! We will host Street FC in the SCPQF at a later date (31 January).
31 January: The rescheduled SPCQF match saw us beat Street 5-0. Street were worthy opponents and played some tidy football although their only goal was disallowed due to being off-side. Alves booted in four goals, Fisher had the other.
07 April: SPCSF against Frome Town scheduled for 16 April at home. The SPCF will be on the 21st.
16 April: Bath City put out the Academy team for the SPC semi-final. Good to see the young lads on the pitch and they played some good football. Only one goal for us scored by Stirling but not enough as Frome Town ended our hope for silverware this season. Final score L1-3.
Alves scored eight of the 18 cup match goals (44%).
Highest home attendance: 1131.
Average home attendance: 668.
League
We started off strong in the league this year, though straight losses to Dorking Wanderers (L1-2) and Maidenhead United in a punishing match ending in L0-4 dumped us in position 18, we can bounce back with the right mentality.
Figure 3 visualises the literal “ups-and-downs” of our progress throughout the season. Due to the chosen data source, the positioning as a result of postponed matches cannot be shown (currently in January and February). Gaps will be evident until the next game is played (see commentary below for any changes during these dates)
Figure 3: BCFC NLS league table positions: 25/26 season
With no game on 27th September due to our early departure from the FA cup competition, other teams are exhausting themselves with additional matches. Let’s see how we fare against Farnborough - another away game on 4th October, so far (29th September) our ‘better’ performances are away from home (D3, W1).
4th October: An away score-draw at Farnborough keeps us at 18th. A better performance, still early days though. Much improvement to be made, especially at home.
19th October: Our unbeaten away form was ruined by Hornchurch who beat us L2-3. At least Ash and Jenkins-Davies added to their tally. We were drawing until a penalty was awarded to them in the dying minutes.
21st October: Back on form with a tidy W2-0 against AFC Totton at home.
2nd November update: Losing away in the final minutes against Hemel Hempstead Town sees us continue on a downward trajectory. Hopeful additions to the squad (Howe, 2025b) will make a future difference. Both debuted as subs at the following home game against Horsham and played well in the short time they had on the pitch. Parselle red-carded for a deliberate hand-ball on the edge of our penalty area. The resulting free-kick awarded them their second goal (L0-2).
4th November: Up another place beating Slough Town away (W3-2). A tense +9 minutes extra time, but we held on.
8th November: A no-score draw against Dagenham & Redbridge at home see us go up one place to 17th.
11th November: Challenging conditions (wet & windy) forced a D1-1 at home to Tonbridge Angels. Could have been 2:1 to us had that 2nd goal not been disallowed due to a foul.
22nd November: Very wet conditions at Hampton & Richmond Borough. However, we secured a W2-1 with a late goal in the last minute of extra time.
25th November: Losing another match in the final minutes, this time L1-2 at Weston Super Mare
29th November: A 1:1 home draw against Enfield Town gains us a point and we rise to position 16 in the table.
6th December: Charlie Binns sees a red card making him the third keeper sent off this season with yet another dubious referee decision. L0-2 away to Maidstone United drops us back to 18th.
17th December: Harry Pell signs from Cheltenham Town (Howe, 2025e). The experienced mid-fielder should make a difference.
20th December: W2-0 at home against Salisbury moves us up one place in the table to 17th.
26th December: Dropping to 18th as a result of a disappointing L2-3 away to Chippenham Town. Thought it may have ended a 2-2 draw with Alves scoring a beauty from a free kick just outside the box at 90+2, but the classic A4 derby was not in our favour this year, once again conceding a late goal in the 94th minute.
30th December: A tidy home D0-0 with Torquay United lifts us one point to 17th.
3rd January: Today’s match against Ebsfleet at home was postponed (Howe, 2026a), due to the pitch being frozen along the Popular End. Fair enough. But because we didn’t play and teams below us did (Tonbridge drew 2:2 with Dorking, and AFC Totton beat Enfield 2:1), we drop two places to 19th! Now two points off relegation, we have a lot of hard work to do - especially as we don’t play a league match again on the 10th, due to the FA Trophy game against Southend.
17th January: Our first league match of the year against Dover ended L0-1. Not a great performance and we stay at 19th in the table. However, the gap between us and relegation narrows, whilst the preferred direction upwards gets further out of reach.
24 January: Giant killers this afternoon as we beat top-flight Worthing, W3-2. No idea where their two goals came from, but a tidy win for BCFC! No advancement for us in the league table but Worthing drop to 2nd place!
27 January: Rain stops play - again. Slough at home to be rescheduled. Though we remain at 19th in the NLS table, Hampton & Richmond turned-over Worthing (1-0) and gain position 20 knocking Farnborough into the relegation zone. Now both those teams have 28 points it means we are one point away from the drop. With the rearranged SPCQF match on Saturday 31 January, most other teams play league matches and there is a mild danger we will be in ‘the zone’ for not playing. We have three games in hand though so could possibly be okay, even so, it makes for a long and busy season ahead.
03 February: Back to the league after a solid cup match for the SPCQF only to find the away game at Maidenhead is postponed due to excessive wet weather. Most of this evenings matches were postponed for the same reason so at least we don’t lose our position for not playing.
07 February: Yet another match postponed due to the rain! Luckily managed to retain 19th in the league table, but only because Hampton & Richmond and Farnborough drew their games. We are all three on 29 points with Farnborough topping the relegation zone, though we have three games in hand. Even so, Salisbury are 18th on 35 points, Tonbridge the same at 17th, so two straight wins for us matches them (assuming they stay where they are). Then the gap up the table widens further. Will be an interesting time for the rest of the season.
10 February: “Rain, rain, go away …”. The match away to AFC Totton is postponed. Meanwhile, Hampton & Richmond go to high-flying Hemel Hempstead and trash them 3-0, leap-frogging us to 19th. We find ourselves in 20th with still the same 29 points as Farnborough who grace the top of the relegation zone. The fight is on … things can only get better.
14 February: Still in 20th (Figure 3) as Dagenham & Redbridge beat us L0-1 away. Plenty of chances from us, just couldn’t finish. Now we clear our backlog of matches with Tuesday/Saturday games for the next five weeks. Interesting times.
17 February: A home match against Ebbsfleet United sees a D2-2 with us levelling the score in the dying seconds of additional time. Still in 20th but with an extra point and two more goals.
21 February: A shocking result - L0-4 against Hampton & Richmond Borough at home! Is there any hope?
24 February: Better. D0-0 to Weston Super Mare at home…one point added.
25 February: Farnborough beat Chippenham 2:1 dropping us to 21st - top of the bottom four. If we beat Enfield Town away on Saturday we’ll be two points above Farnborough, swapping positions again (but only if they don’t win!).
28 February: No win but secured a point in a D1-1 at Enfield Town.
03 March: Slough Town go home happy scoring one goal against us … at [Cannon Clark Stadium @] Twerton Park. Disappointing loss when we need points to keep us out of relegation. Heads up though … there’s the rest of the season!
07 March: The disappointment continues with a shocking score away at Chelmsford City (L1-7)! Where do we go from here? How do we pick ourselves up from this catastrophic defeat? We have to win against Farnborough at home on Tuesday!
10 March: A more spirited performance for much of the match but conceded a late goal (again) to Farnborough at home. Final score L0-1. This is really not looking good.
14 March: Visitors Hornchurch score two in the first half leaving us seemingly bereft of any points at half time. However, we came back stronger after the break to level: D2-2, final result (though we slip into 22nd due to Chippenham winning their match).
17 March: We did it again! 1-1 at half-time, conceding a goal in the dying minutes. Away at Horsham, L1-2. A dubious sending off for Raynes awarded them a penalty which was taken in a lacklustre manner - an easy save for HWR. Horsham were as bewildered as we were about the decision, leading to the thought that they pulled the ‘fair-play’ card and deliberately missed! Credit to them, if so.
21 March: Leading 1-0 at 6 minutes away at Tonbridge Angels. Twelve minutes later they are awarded a penalty, taking the game to 1-1 at half time. Another goal early in the 2nd half it ended L1-2 - another loss on the road.
24 March: No goals today as we lose L0-3 against Hemel Hempstead Town at home. Since Enfield beat Dover 3-1, we slip into 23rd position with seven points clear of safety. Sad times.
28 March: We didn’t lose at Eastbourne Borough away, but held a potential win until conceding yet again in the final minutes. Result: D2-2.
31 March: Despite one of our ‘must win’ matches, Maidenhead United trashed us on our visit this evening (L0-3)
03 April: A bounce up one place in the table thanks to winning at home against Chippenham Town, W1-0! Still in the relegation zone, but hopes are high[er]!
06 April: Dropping back to 23rd with a L1-4 away to Torquay United. Ten+ points needed out of our last four games. Assuming Chippenham and Farnborough lose their last three.
11 April: Finally! A win…and a big one! W4-2 against Chesham United at home. Perhaps too little too late but three games to go.
14 April: Well, that’s it. Relegation to The Southern League Premier South as AFC Totton beat us 2-1. I’ll mark up our final two league games when they happen, and then summarise the individual sections here.
18 April: Always a good feeling to beat Marc White’s Dorking Wanderers, especially away at their ground! A nice W3-1 moves us up to the top of the relegation zone and ruins their chance of automatic promotion!
25 April: Our final match at home welcomed high-flying Maidstone United. At half time we were 2-0 up. The second half saw Maidstone use all their subs, effectively swapping out half their team (near enough). Fresh legs denied us a draw, and yet another goal scored in the final seconds of additional time robbed us of a draw. Unbelievable! Final score : L2-3.
Comment: In the end it looks like we didn’t have the right mentality to ‘bounce back’. Looking at Figure 3 it seems we were on our way up between November and the end of December, then hit a massive slump in the New Year from which there seemed no recovery. One can blame management, injuries, frozen pitches, match congestion during February and March, lack of enthusiasm from players, and other things. However, injuries, bad weather, and congestion affected most teams this year.
So what of management? Certainly most blame lays there. As nice as Darren Way was (is) he wasn’t much of a tactician and seemed to play defensively, preferring clean sheets over wins or high scoring draws. If he left after the Chippenham loss on Boxing Day, and Scott Bartlett took over from then it may have been a different story, as when Scott came in we seemed to play a better style of football with more attacking play (so it seemed) despite the final position in the table
And the squad? Above all, they never gave up. Each player put in a good shift when they were asked to. Even the poorer performances (thinking of Chelmsford away) only phased them for a brief moment, and they still put effort into the next game. They must have been exhausted after the back-log of postponed matches were played Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday for weeks on end then squeezing in a few cup games on top of that, but it’s what they do right? Play football (albeit on top of their regular jobs if they’re all semi-pro’s), so they must be able to put up with it and keep going (for a bit) - well, they did. And all praise to them really. A tough season, and a tough outcome, but here we are. We can only do better and get promoted back this time next year.
Score performance
League & Cup matches
Figure 4 highlights the scoreline of all matches in league and cup matches, and indicates how many times a particular score happened.
Figure 4: Distribution of scores (league matches & cup run), home and away
League only
League only scores are shown in Figure 5 which accumulate the points in the league table.
Figure 5: Distribution of league match scores, home & away; and league scorer board
The scores are shown in Figure 5a, and the league (only) goal scorers in Figure 5b. A stark contrast to the total goals scored in both league and cup matches (see Figure 7).
Comment: Jenkins-Davies held the lead with seven league goals for most of the season until S.Wilson came back from loan later in the season to increase his early two goals to eight! No matter though, Alves nicked the Golden Boot by scoring most of his in the cup matches, and JD levelled Wilson’s eight with his cup-match goal added.
Who scored where?
Figure 6 shows the proportion of goals scored in league matches by each scorer contributing to a Win, Loss, Draw (Fig. 6a), and at home and away (Fig. 6b).
Comment: From the Win, Loss, Draw (Fig. 6a) it can be seen that Jenkins_Davies (JD) contributed most to matches won with 22% (rounded) of the goals (n= 5). Of matches lost, S.Wilson (15%, n= 4), and score-draws: Bowman, Fisher, S.Wilson and Windsor share the ‘glory’ with two goals each (12% each). But the more obvious is that almost half of losses (46%, n= 12) and just shy of a quarter of matches drawn (24%, n= 4) ended with no goals scored by us! The irony is that JD didn’t play for over half a season due to injury, so scored all of his goals in the early part of the season. Had he continued the season, we would, perhaps, be looking at different results all round.
A similar story with home and away matches: S.Wilson achieved 15% contribution of goals scored at home (n= 5). Fisher and Jenkins-Davies seemed to play best away scoring four goals each (12% each). Again though, the glaring differences in not scoring goals at home (29%, n=10), and away (19%, n= 6)!
Figure 6: Proportion of total goals by scorer - league & cup run
The output below compliments the charts in Figure 6: how many goals scored in a draw, loss or win (matching Figure 6a).
## Joint and Marginal Frequencies
## ------------------------------
##
## WLD
## Scorer D L W Sum
## 4 12 0 16
## Alves 0 2 0 2
## Ash 1 1 3 5
## Batten 1 0 0 1
## Beardmore 1 0 0 1
## Bowman 2 0 2 4
## Clark 0 1 0 1
## D.Wilson 0 0 3 3
## Fisher 2 2 1 5
## Jenkins-Davies 0 2 5 7
## Laqeretabua 1 0 0 1
## OG 0 0 1 1
## Parselle 0 0 2 2
## Raynes 1 0 0 1
## S.Wilson 2 4 2 8
## Skinner 0 1 0 1
## Tabor 0 0 1 1
## Tillson 0 0 1 1
## Windsor 2 1 2 5
## Sum 17 26 23 66And here: who scored goals at home and away matches (matching Figure 6b).
## Joint and Marginal Frequencies
## ------------------------------
##
## HorA
## Scorer Away Home Sum
## 6 10 16
## Alves 2 0 2
## Ash 3 2 5
## Batten 0 1 1
## Beardmore 1 0 1
## Bowman 1 3 4
## Clark 0 1 1
## D.Wilson 1 2 3
## Fisher 4 1 5
## Jenkins-Davies 4 3 7
## Laqeretabua 1 0 1
## OG 0 1 1
## Parselle 1 1 2
## Raynes 1 0 1
## S.Wilson 3 5 8
## Skinner 1 0 1
## Tabor 1 0 1
## Tillson 1 0 1
## Windsor 1 4 5
## Sum 32 34 66Overall goal scoring averages
11 December: An additional feature that should have been included from the beginning. To date, in 21 matches, our average scoring rate has not been exceptional. Home (0.8), Away (1.18), Total (1.0). This means that, so far, we’re scoring more goals in away matches than at home. On the other hand, goals against us are slightly higher, although conceding fewer at home (1.3), than away (1.36). The information below will update after each match.
Goals for
Total: 50 goals in 46 matches = average of 1.09
Home: 24 in 23 = 1.04
Away: 26 in 23 = 1.13
Goals against
Total: 77 goals in 46 matches = average of 1.67
Home: 33 in 23 = 1.43
Away: 44 in 23 = 1.91
Note: 18 January. It would seem relevant to note here that as of this date,
BCFC have scored the least number of goals in the National League South so
far this season! 25 goals in 25 matches, averaging only one goal per game.
Although Figure 6 will change as the season progresses
it is worth noting here that at round 25, 40% of matches lost (n= 6), and 27%
of draws (n= 3) were goal-less. For home games: 24% where we did not score
(n= 5), and 16% of away fixtures (n= 4; cross-reference
Figure 5). Let’s see how this has changed by the end of the season.
Also, we had two January matches postponed to be played at rearranged dates:
Ebsfleet at home: frozen pitch; Maidenhead away: our cup game against Southend.
To further add to our woes, Horsham away will be postponed due to their cup tie
on the 31st.
03 March: Still the lowest scoring team, with 31 goals in 32 games! (to date)
11 April: Averaging at least one goal per game at home - not great, but good to see positive figures this season. Still the lowest scorers this season with 44 goals in 43 matches, to date.
25 April: Finally average figures above 1 for goals scored. Only slightly better at away matches, but no longer the team with the lowest amount (well, technically we are but not alone as we are joint lowest with Salisbury, and that’s only because they scored one to draw at Hemel Hempstead!)
Goal scoring leaderboard
Who will be awarded the Golden Boot? See Figure 7 for how the scoring leaderboard stands (OG = own goal).
Figure 7: Score sheet (two goals or more) - league & cup run
Note: The figure above was getting too congested with the number of players
scoring goals so the decision was made to only show those who have scored two
or more. Suffice to say, the following have scored one goal each in all
competitions for the club this season:
Batten, Beardmore, Clark, Laqeretabua, Raynes, Skinner, Stirling, Tabor, Tillson, Yeboah.
14 October: Glad Sweeten entered the goal scoring race with two goals at the Bridgewater SPC1 match; Alves also, both scoring good goals. More of them please.
21 October: Nice to see Parselle enter the scoreboard, nodding in the second goal from a corner. Ash scored the first at the home win against AFC Totton.
4 November: Ash and Jenkins-Davies increased their tally at Slough Town, Tabor got his first goal for BCFC!
11 November: A new addition to the score sheet with Windsor getting his first goal for the club at home against Tonbridge Angels.
16 November: Sees Windsor creeping up the score sheet (2nd goal in FAT2 - see Cup-run section).
22 November: Tillson enters the Score sheet by ensuring an away win at Hampton & Richmond Borough.
25 November: Jenkins-Davies scores again in a 2-1 loss at Weston Super Mare.
29 November: Windsor increases his tally by scoring against Enfield Town at home.
3 December: Yeboah enters the race with two against Odd Down (Bath) AFC (one OG - see Cup-run section), Windsor and Alves catching up with the leading scorers.
13 December: Alves creeps up the board to fourth place after finding form at Dorking - see Cup-run section again!
20 December: Windsor’s brace at home to Salisbury makes him joint leader with Jenkins-Davies and Ash, on six goals. Looks like some competition for the Golden Boot this season.
26 December: Windsor nicks in front and Alves adds one to his own tally, both scoring at Chippenham Town.
13 January: Alves closes the gap on the top three by scoring another glorious free-kick at home in the FA Trophy round 4 match against Southend United at home.
24 January: Jenkins-Davies adds two goals to increase his lead, and Bowman scores his first, combining three goals against Worthing at home!
31 January: Alves (again!) takes the lead by adding four to his current total in the SPCQF against Street. Fisher adds one to his total so far.
17 February: Bowman strikes twice against Ebbsfleet United at home and enters the score sheet proper (see Figure 7).
28 February: Fisher nods one in to equalise at Enfield Town.
07 March: Skinner scores a consolation goal at Chelmsford City.
14 March: S.Wilson scores his first goal after being recalled from his loan spell earlier in the week. Batten scores his first to enter the score sheet against Hornchurch at home.
17 March: Penalty for Scott Wilson - hits the equaliser at Horsham away.
21 March: S.Wilson flies up the leader board by adding his third goal in three matches in a row (4 goals to date). This time away at Tonbridge Angels.
28 March: Two goals at Eastbourne Borough for a vital away match. First goal by Laqeretabua, second by Fisher.
03 April: Super Scotty Wilson scored in the 93rd minute to seal a W1-0 against Chippenham Town at home!
06 April: Alves pops one in to level 1:1 away to Torquay United. Not for long as it was 1:2 at half time. Ended a miserable L1-4.
11 April: Chesham United at home. Donovan Wilson heads straight into the table proper with two goals, Scott Wilson fires home a penalty, and one own goal (OG) secures a superb W4-2 victory!
14 April: A difficult and exhausting couple of months with pretty much back-to-back Saturday/Tuesday matches played, with a few more thrown in between for good measure. Fisher’s goal at AFC Totton was not enough to keep us in the running to get out of relegation. Either way, a big ask for a near impossible task.
18 April: Dorking Wanderers lose out to goals scored by Bowman, Fisher and D.Wilson in an epic W3-1 match!
25 April: Super Scotty Wilson adds another two goals to make him the highest scorer for us in league matches (Alves tipped the balance by scoring most of his in the cup matches).
Top 3 goal scorers
\(Alves\) \((10)\),
\(Jenkins-Davies\) \((8)\),
\(S.Wilson\) \((8)\)
Season table summary at 25 April 2026
Played: \(46\) | Position: \(21\) | W: \(10\), D: \(13\), L: \(23\) | For: \(50\) | Against: \(77\) | Diff: \(-27\) | Points: \(43\)
Management performance (league only)
| Manager | Matches | Wins | Win rate | Points | Points/game | Avg Home ATT | Min Home ATT | Max Home ATT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Way | 37 | 7 | 19% | 33 | (0.89) | 1092 | 689 (Tonbridge Angels) | 2289 (Torquay United) |
| James Moon | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0 | (0) | 1091 | 1091 (Hemel Hempstead Town) | 1091 (Hemel Hempstead Town) |
| Scott Bartlett | 8 | 3 | 38% | 10 | (1.25) | 1476 | 972 (Chesham United) | 2040 (Chippenham Town) |
Note: Some would say a poor performance from Darren Way so far with a 20% win rate at game 10 (04 October). Let’s see how it changes at game 16 and compare with Jerry Gill’s 25% (4 wins) when he left (see Leeds (2024)), before passing judgement. (Fingers crossed for at least three more wins by then! Two so far at 5th October).
Update 08 November: However, whilst the win rate at game 16 is the same for both seasons (25%), last season (2024/25) we had 15 points in position 20. Today we have 17 points in position 17, so all-in-all, a better performance in comparison. Onwards and upwards, right? We’re not even halfway through the season yet.
17th December: Guess who’s back? Kendall’s back! Lee Kendall, who kept us out of the relegation zone last season, makes a welcome return as Assistant Manager (Howe, 2025d).
22 March: After a series of poor results, Darren Way is relieved of his duties (Mathews, 2026)! Last match: Tonbridge Angels away (L1-2) … James Moon takes over in the interim. First and only match: Hemel Hempstead Town at home (L0-3). A few day’s later, Lee Kendall also leaves!
26 March: Scott Bartlett is announced as our new full time manager (Howe, 2026b). First match: relegation battle away to Eastbourne Borough (D2-2)
25 April: The improvement can be seen in Scott Bartlet’s appointment already in the table above. A much better win rate and average points achieved in only eight games compared to Darren Way. We’re playing in the Southern League Premier South next season, so let’s see what changes are made to the team and what 2026/27 brings.
Comment: Overall winning 10 matches (22%) over a season is a poor show, but drawing 13 (28%) and losing half of our matches (n= 23) seems to make it worse! We can only look forward to a better performance next season - finger’s crossed. You can see the win rates for each manager above, but to compare the losses at a similar rate (DW: 18 games = 49%; SB: 4 = 50%), and the draws: DW (12; 32%), SB( 1; 12.5%) tells the rest of the story. Though not really comparable due to the disproportionate number of games played under manager (DW: 37; [JM: 1]; SB: 8).
Attendance statistics
League and cup matches
Home and away match attendances for all league and cup matches are shown in Figure 8. The output below gives the corresponding descriptive statistics of both attendances.
Figure 8: League attendance, Home and Away (inc. cup run)
## n miss mean sd min mdn max
## Away 25 0 1282.480 816.205 451.000 974.000 4430.000
## Home 28 0 1057.464 406.517 359.000 1030.000 2289.000League matches only
Breaking down league only attendances home and away for win/lose/draw outcomes. Descriptive stats for Figure 9 shown in the output below (ordered by highest mean average attendance).
Figure 9: League attendance home and away, win, lose, draw
## HorA WLD n na ATT_mean ATT_mdn ATT_sd ATT_IQR ATT_min ATT_max
## 3 Away L 13 0 1490 1259 968 773 704 4430
## 6 Home W 6 0 1234 1038 429 320 919 2040
## 2 Home D 7 0 1195 1130 538 431 689 2289
## 5 Away W 4 0 1147 930 815 847 451 2277
## 1 Away D 6 0 1124 872 499 428 745 2028
## 4 Home L 10 0 1050 1058 184 204 744 1417Comment: It would seem the higher crowds helped city win six games at home (see output above) averaging 1234 over those matches, only second place to away losses (1490). Home draws saw the third highest average attendance of 1195. Supporters should be applauded for turning up in numbers (I know we are after each game, but even so), despite the scoreline. Even the 10 matches we lost at home saw 1050 supporters turn up (all the above from both sides, of course).
League only home attendance
Home attendance for league matches only Figure 10; (and Table 3 which also gives away match figures). The “Index” on the x-axis represents the match number played (example: 5 is the 5th league home-game).
Figure 10: Home attendance, league matches
Comment: Not a bad season for home attendances, averaging over 1000 again (1142) with only nine games (39%) below 1000. Eight matches achieved between 1000 and 1200 (35%), so good support all round. Highest league attendance: 2289 against Torquay United; lowest: Tonbridge Angels (689).
Figure 11 shows the distribution of home attendance figures.
Figure 11: Distribution of home attendances in league matches
Distribution of home game attendance (League)
##
## Bin Midpnt Count Prop Cumul.c Cumul.p
## -----------------------------------------------------
## 600 > 800 700 3 0.13 3 0.13
## 800 > 1000 900 6 0.26 9 0.39
## 1000 > 1200 1100 8 0.35 17 0.74
## 1200 > 1400 1300 3 0.13 20 0.87
## 1400 > 1600 1500 1 0.04 21 0.91
## 1600 > 1800 1700 0 0.00 21 0.91
## 1800 > 2000 1900 0 0.00 21 0.91
## 2000 > 2200 2100 1 0.04 22 0.96
## 2200 > 2400 2300 1 0.04 23 1.00Summary of 2025/26 season
A brief summary in table format - the title of each one explains the content.
| Distribution | Proportion | |
|---|---|---|
| D | 13 | 0.28 |
| L | 23 | 0.50 |
| W | 10 | 0.22 |
| Drawn | Lost | Won | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Away | 6 | 13 | 4 |
| Home | 7 | 10 | 6 |
| Played | Remaining | Min | Max | Sum | Mean | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Away | 23 | 0 | 451 | 4430 | 30697 | 1335 |
| Home | 23 | 0 | 689 | 2289 | 26270 | 1142 |
| Team | Away | Home |
|---|---|---|
| Torquay United | 4430 | 2289 |
| Chippenham Town | 1731 | 2040 |
| Maidstone United | 1773 | 1417 |
| Salisbury | 1190 | 1396 |
| Weston Super Mare | 1231 | 1303 |
| Dagenham & Redbridge | 1259 | 1256 |
| Horsham | 704 | 1180 |
| Dorking Wanderers | 2277 | 1156 |
| Enfield Town | 887 | 1130 |
| Chelmsford City | 1713 | 1094 |
| Hemel Hempstead Town | 722 | 1091 |
| Worthing | 2028 | 1041 |
| AFC Totton | 1261 | 1035 |
| Hampton & Richmond Borough | 669 | 1025 |
| Dover Athletic | 846 | 976 |
| Chesham United | 857 | 972 |
| Hornchurch | 974 | 952 |
| Maidenhead United | 958 | 923 |
| Eastbourne Borough | 834 | 919 |
| Farnborough | 745 | 897 |
| Ebbsfleet United | 1395 | 745 |
| Slough Town | 451 | 744 |
| Tonbridge Angels | 1762 | 689 |