2014–15 Football League One

Football league season

Football League One
Season	2014–15
Champions	Bristol City (4th divisional title)
Promoted	Bristol City Milton Keynes Dons Preston North End
Relegated	Notts County Crawley Town Leyton Orient Yeovil Town
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,464 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Joe Garner (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Milton Keynes Dons 7–0 Oldham Athletic (20 December 2014)
Biggest away win	Bradford City 0–6 Bristol City (14 April 2015)
Highest scoring	Bristol City 8–2 Walsall (3 May 2015)
Longest winning run	7 games^[1] Preston North End
Longest unbeaten run	18 games^[1] Preston North End
Longest winless run	13 games^[1] Crawley Town
Longest losing run	6 games^[1] Port Vale Yeovil Town
Highest attendance	27,306^[2] Coventry City 1–0 Gillingham (5 September 2014)
Lowest attendance	1,905^[2] Crawley Town 1–0 Fleetwood Town (13 September 2014)
Total attendance	3,843,176^[2]
Average attendance	7,025^[2]
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

The 2014–15 Football League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Football League One under its current title and the twenty-second season under its current league division format. The season began on 9 August 2014.

Bristol City won the league to return to the Championship after a two-year absence. They were unbeaten for the first 16 matches of the season and also finished with the best goal difference and best defence. MK Dons pipped Preston North End to 2nd place on the last day of the season after the Lancashire club lost at Colchester. But Preston were eventually promoted via the playoffs, defeating Chesterfield and Swindon 4–0 (on aggregate) and 4–0 respectively.

At the other end of the table, Yeovil Town followed their relegation from the Championship the previous season with another relegation. Leyton Orient were relegated after having contested the playoff final in 2013–14 (which they lost to Rotherham on penalties after being 2–0 up), and Crawley and Notts County were the final teams relegated to League Two for the 2015–16 season.

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2013–14 season.^[3]^[4]

To League One

Promoted from League Two

Relegated from Championship

From League One

Relegated to League Two

Promoted to Championship

Team overview

Stadia and locations

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Locations of teams in the 2014–2015 Football League One

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Barnsley	Barnsley	Oakwell	23,009
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Bristol City	Bristol	Ashton Gate	21,497
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Proact Stadium	10,504
Colchester United	Colchester	Colchester Community Stadium	10,064
Coventry City	Coventry	Ricoh Arena	32,609
Crawley Town	Crawley	Broadfield Stadium	5,996
Crewe Alexandra	Crewe	Alexandra Stadium	10,153
Doncaster Rovers	Doncaster	Keepmoat Stadium	15,231
Fleetwood Town	Fleetwood	Highbury Stadium	5,327
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	11,582
Leyton Orient	London (Leyton)	Brisbane Road	9,271
Milton Keynes Dons	Milton Keynes	Stadium mk	30,500
Notts County	Nottingham	Meadow Lane	21,388
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	10,638
Peterborough United	Peterborough	Abax Stadium	16,315
Port Vale	Stoke-on-Trent	Vale Park	19,052
Preston North End	Preston	Deepdale	23,408
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	10,249
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Sheffield United	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,702
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300
Yeovil Town	Yeovil	Huish Park	9,565

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table at time of departure	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Colchester United	Joe Dunne	Sacked	1 September 2014^[6]	23rd	Tony Humes	1 September 2014^[6]
Port Vale	Micky Adams	Resigned	18 September 2014^[7]	23rd	Rob Page	29 October 2014^[8]
Leyton Orient	Russell Slade	Resigned	24 September 2014^[9]	17th	Mauro Milanese	26 October 2014^[10]
Scunthorpe United	Russ Wilcox	Sacked	8 October 2014^[11]	23rd	Mark Robins	13 October 2014^[12]
Leyton Orient	Mauro Milanese	Sacked	8 December 2014^[13]	19th	Fabio Liverani	8 December 2014^[13]
Crawley Town	John Gregory	Health Reasons	27 December 2014^[14]	21st	Dean Saunders	27 December 2014^[14]
Gillingham	Peter Taylor	Sacked	31 December 2014^[15]	20th	Justin Edinburgh	7 February 2015^[16]
Yeovil Town	Gary Johnson		4 February 2015^[17]	24th	Terry Skiverton	4 February 2015^[17]
Barnsley	Danny Wilson		12 February 2015^[18]	17th	Lee Johnson	25 February 2015^[19]
Peterborough United	Darren Ferguson		22 February 2015^[20]	15th
Coventry City	Steven Pressley		22 February 2015^[21]	21st	Tony Mowbray	3 March 2015^[22]
Oldham Athletic	Lee Johnson	Signed by Barnsley	25 February 2015^[19]	9th
Notts County	Shaun Derry	Sacked	23 March 2015	20th	Ricardo Moniz	7 April 2015
Yeovil Town	Terry Skiverton	Demotion to Assistant Manager	9 April 2015^[23]	24th	Paul Sturrock	9 April 2015^[23]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Bristol City (C, P)	46	29	12	5	96	38	+58	99	Promotion to Football League Championship
2	Milton Keynes Dons (P)	46	27	10	9	101	44	+57	91	Promotion to Football League Championship
3	Preston North End (O, P)	46	25	14	7	79	40	+39	89	Qualification for League One play-offs^[a]
4	Swindon Town	46	23	10	13	76	57	+19	79
5	Sheffield United	46	19	14	13	66	53	+13	71
6	Chesterfield	46	19	12	15	68	55	+13	69
7	Bradford City	46	17	14	15	55	55	0	65
8	Rochdale	46	19	6	21	72	66	+6	63
9	Peterborough United	46	18	9	19	53	56	−3	63
10	Fleetwood Town	46	17	12	17	49	52	−3	63
11	Barnsley	46	17	11	18	62	61	+1	62
12	Gillingham	46	16	14	16	65	66	−1	62
13	Doncaster Rovers	46	16	13	17	58	62	−4	61
14	Walsall	46	14	17	15	50	54	−4	59
15	Oldham Athletic	46	14	15	17	54	67	−13	57
16	Scunthorpe United	46	14	14	18	62	75	−13	56
17	Coventry City	46	13	16	17	49	60	−11	55
18	Port Vale	46	15	9	22	55	65	−10	54
19	Colchester United	46	14	10	22	58	77	−19	52
20	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	10	22	43	75	−32	52
21	Notts County (R)	46	12	14	20	45	63	−18	50	Relegation to Football League Two
22	Crawley Town (R)	46	13	11	22	53	79	−26	50
23	Leyton Orient (R)	46	12	13	21	59	69	−10	49
24	Yeovil Town (R)	46	10	10	26	36	75	−39	40

Updated to match(es) played on 3 May 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Four teams play for one spot and promotion to Football League Championship.

Play-offs

Semifinals					Final

3	Preston North End	1	3	4

6	Chesterfield	0	0	0
					3	Preston North End	4

					4	Swindon Town	0
4	Swindon Town	2	5	7

5	Sheffield United	1	5	6

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BRA	BRI	CHF	COL	COV	CRA	CRE	DON	FLE	GIL	LEY	MKD	NTC	OLD	PET	PTV	PNE	ROC	SCU	SHU	SWI	WAL	YEO
Barnsley		3–1	2–2	1–1	3–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–2	4–1	2–0	3–5	2–3	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	5–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	3–0	2–0
Bradford City	1–0		0–6	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–3
Bristol City	2–2	2–2		3–2	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	4–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–3	3–0	8–2	2–1
Chesterfield	2–1	0–1	0–2		6–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	2–3	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	0–2	2–1	4–1	3–2	0–3	1–0	0–0
Colchester United	3–1	0–0	3–2	2–1		0–1	2–3	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	0–1	2–2	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–4	2–2	2–3	1–1	0–2	2–0
Coventry City	2–2	1–1	1–3	0–0	1–0		2–2	1–3	1–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	2–3	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–3	0–0	2–1
Crawley Town	5–1	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2		1–1	0–5	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–4	1–2	2–1	0–4	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0
Crewe Alexandra	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–0		1–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–5	0–3	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–5	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0
Doncaster Rovers	1–0	0–3	1–3	3–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	2–1		0–0	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	5–2	0–1	1–2	0–2	3–0
Fleetwood Town	0–0	0–2	3–3	0–0	2–3	0–2	1–0	2–1	3–1		1–0	1–1	0–3	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	0–1	4–0
Gillingham	0–1	1–0	1–3	2–3	2–2	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1		3–2	4–2	3–1	3–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–0
Leyton Orient	0–0	0–2	1–3	1–2	0–2	2–2	4–1	4–1	0–1	0–1	3–3		0–0	0–1	3–0	1–2	3–1	0–2	2–3	1–4	1–1	1–2	0–0	3–0
Milton Keynes Dons	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–2	6–0	0–0	2–0	6–1	3–0	2–1	4–2	6–1		4–1	7–0	3–0	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	5–1
Notts County	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	5–3	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1		0–0	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–2	2–2	1–2	0–3	1–2	1–2
Oldham Athletic	1–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–3	3–0		1–1	1–1	0–4	3–0	3–2	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–4
Peterborough United	2–1	2–0	0–3	1–0	0–2	0–1	4–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–2		3–1	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–0
Port Vale	2–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	1–2	0–2	2–3	0–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	2–1		2–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	4–1
Preston North End	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–3	4–2	1–0	2–0	5–1	2–2	3–2	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0		1–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	1–1
Rochdale	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	4–0	1–3	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–2	0–3	0–1	1–0	3–0		3–1	1–2	2–4	4–0	2–1
Scunthorpe United	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–4	2–1		1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1
Sheffield United	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–0		2–0	1–1	2–0
Swindon Town	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–3	3–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–1	5–2		3–3	0–1
Walsall	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	5–0	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	3–2	1–4	1–1	1–4		1–2
Yeovil Town	1–1	1–0	0–3	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–2	0–3	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 3 May 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 3 May 2015

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[24]
1	Joe Garner	Preston North End	25
2	Ian Henderson	Rochdale	22
3	Eoin Doyle	Chesterfield	21
3	Andy Williams	Swindon Town	21
5	Will Grigg	Milton Keynes Dons	20
6	Izale McLeod	Crawley Town	19
7	Aaron Wilbraham	Bristol City	18
8	Tom Bradshaw	Walsall	17
8	Matt Done	Rochdale/Sheffield United	17
10	Dele Alli	Milton Keynes Dons	16
10	Cody McDonald	Gillingham	16

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