2007–08 Burnley F.C. season

Burnley
2007–08 season
ChairmanBarry Kilby
ManagerSteve Cotterill
(until 8 November 2007)
Steve Davis
(caretaker manager)
Owen Coyle
(from 22 November 2007)
Championship13th
League Cup3rd Round
FA Cup3rd Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Andy Gray (11)
All: Andy Gray (13)
Highest home attendance16,843 v Blackpool
(15 September 2007)
Lowest home attendance7,317 v Oldham Athletic
(28 August 2007)
Average home league attendance12,166

The 2007–08 season was Burnley's 8th season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Steve Cotterill in his fourth full season since he replaced Stan Ternent at the beginning of the 2004–05 season. He was sacked on 8 November 2007 after a poor run of results and replaced by Owen Coyle. Caretaker manager Steve Davis was put in charge of first team duties for the match against Leicester City on 10 November 2007.

Appearances and goals

Source:
Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.
Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Burnley.
Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.
Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward
Players contracted for the 2007–08 season
No. Pos. Nat. Name League FA Cup League Cup Total Discipline
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals A yellow rectangle, denoting the yellow penalty card shown to a player being cautioned A red rectangle, denoting the red penalty card shown to a player being sent off
1 GK  HUN Gábor Király 27 0 1 0 1 0 29 0 0 0
2 DF  ENG Stephen Foster † 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
2 DF  SCO Graham Alexander 43 1 1 0 0 (1) 0 44 (1) 1 10 0
3 DF  ENG Jon Harley 31 (2) 0 1 0 0 (1) 0 32 (3) 0 5 0
4 DF  NIR Michael Duff 8 1 0 0 2 0 10 1 2 0
5 DF  ENG Wayne Thomas † 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
5 DF  ENG Clarke Carlisle 32 (1) 2 0 0 2 0 34 (1) 2 4 2
6 DF  SCO Steven Caldwell 26 (3) 2 1 0 2 0 29 (3) 2 8 1
7 MF  IRL James O'Connor 24 (5) 3 1 0 2 (1) 0 27 (6) 3 4 0
8 MF  ISL Joey Guðjónsson 13 (15) 1 0 (1) 0 1 0 14 (16) 1 2 2
9 FW  NGA Ade Akinbiyi 14 (25) 8 0 (1) 0 2 (1) 1 16 (27) 9 4 0
10 FW  SCO Andy Gray † 25 11 1 0 1 (1) 2 27 (1) 13 1 0
10 MF  ENG Mark Randall * 2 (8) 0 0 0 0 0 2 (8) 0 2 0
11 MF  ENG Wade Elliott 45 (1) 2 1 0 1 0 47 (1) 2 6 0
12 GK  DEN Brian Jensen 19 0 0 0 2 0 21 0 0 0
14 FW  NIR Steve Jones 1 (16) 1 0 (1) 0 2 (1) 0 3 (18) 1 0 0
15 MF  ENG John Spicer 9 (15) 0 0 0 3 0 12 (15) 0 2 1
16 MF  IRL Chris McCann 34 (1) 5 1 0 1 0 36 (1) 5 7 1
17 FW  NIR Kyle Lafferty 34 (3) 5 1 0 2 0 37 (3) 5 5 1
18 MF  IRL Alan Mahon 13 (13) 1 0 0 2 (1) 0 15 (14) 1 4 0
19 FW  ENG Jay Rodriguez 0 (1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 0 0
20 FW  ENG Robbie Blake 41 (4) 9 1 0 1 (2) 1 43 (6) 10 4 0
21 MF  IRL Garreth O'Connor 0 (1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 0 0
22 FW  ALB Besart Berisha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 DF  ENG Stephen Jordan 20 (1) 0 0 0 3 0 23 (1) 0 4 0
24 DF  SVK Stanislav Varga * 10 0 1 0 0 0 11 0 3 0
25 MF  ENG Adam Kay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 DF  ENG David Unsworth 26 (3) 1 0 0 2 0 28 (3) 1 6 1
27 FW  ENG Andy Cole * 8 (5) 6 0 0 0 0 8 (5) 6 1 0
28 FW  SCO Alex MacDonald 0 (2) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (2) 0 0 0

Transfers

In

# Pos Player From Fee Date
1 GK Hungary Gábor Király England Crystal Palace Free 30 May 2007
22 FW Albania Besart Berisha Germany Hamburg £340,000 3 July 2007
20 FW England Robbie Blake England Leeds United £250,000 13 July 2007
26 DF England David Unsworth England Wigan Athletic Free 13 August 2007
5 DF England Clarke Carlisle England Watford £200,000 16 August 2007
2 DF Scotland Graham Alexander England Preston North End £100,000 31 August 2007
25 DF Slovakia Stanislav Varga England Sunderland Loan 4 January 2008
27 FW England Andrew Cole England Sunderland Loan 29 January 2008
10 MF England Mark Randall England Arsenal Loan 31 January 2008

Out

# Pos Player To Fee Date
DF England John McGreal Retired 8 May 2007
DF Jamaica Frank Sinclair England Huddersfield Town Free 14 May 2007
GK Wales Danny Coyne England Tranmere Rovers Free 3 July 2007
MF England Graham Branch England Accrington Stanley Free 10 July 2007
MF Republic of Ireland Garreth O'Connor England Bournemouth Loan 10 August 2007
5 DF England Wayne Thomas England Southampton £1,200,000 16 August 2007
2 DF England Stephen Foster England Barnsley £100,000 24 August 2007
19 FW England Jay Rodriguez Scotland Stirling Albion Loan 11 January 2008
10 FW Scotland Andy Gray England Charlton Athletic Loan 18 January 2008
10 FW Scotland Andy Gray England Charlton Athletic £1,500,000 25 January 2008
14 FW Northern Ireland Steve Jones England Crewe Alexandra Loan 27 March 2008

Match details

Football League Championship

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Championship
Football League Championship match details
Date League
position 		Opponents Venue Result Score
F–A 		Scorers Attendance Ref
11 August 2007 5th West Bromwich Albion H W 2–1 Duff 47', Gray 79' pen. 15,337 [1]
18 August 2007 12th Scunthorpe United A L 0–2 6,975 [2]
1 September 2007 12th Colchester United A W 3–2 Mahon 15', Gray (2) 29', 63' pen. 4,925 [3]
15 September 2007 10th Blackpool H D 2–2 Jones 52', Akinbiyi 86' 16,843 [4]
18 September 2007 6th Sheffield Wednesday A W 2–0 Blake 15', McCann 48' 18,359 [5]
22 September 2007 6th Bristol City A D 2–2 Gray 52', Carlisle 90' 14,079 [6]
29 September 2007 7th Crystal Palace H D 1–1 Blake 13' 10,711 [7]
2 October 2007 8th Ipswich Town H D 2–2 Lafferty 11', Gray 60' 9,952 [8]
6 October 2007 13th Cardiff City A L 1–2 Akinbiyi 50' 12,914 [9]
20 October 2007 13th Barnsley A D 1–1 Gray 11' 11,560 [10]
23 October 2007 10th Norwich City H W 2–1 Blake 1', Gray 4' pen. 10,133 [11]
27 October 2007 12th Southampton H L 2–3 McCann 31', Akinbiyi 83' 10,944 [12]
3 November 2007 13th Sheffield United A D 0–0 25,306 [13]
6 November 2007 15th Hull City H L 0–1 9,978 [14]
10 November 2007 13th Leicester City A W 1–0 Gray 23' 21,334 [15]
24 November 2007 13th Stoke City H D 0–0 11,758 [16]
27 November 2007 11th Watford A W 2–1 Gray 58', Guðjónsson 80' 15,021 [17]
1 December 2007 9th Charlton Athletic A W 3–1 Gray (2) 8', 70' pen., McCann 13' 21,122 [18]
4 December 2007 10th Leicester City H D 1–1 Unsworth 19' 10,688 [19]
8 December 2007 7th Wolverhampton Wanderers A W 3–2 Blake 20', Lafferty 30', Ward 42' o.g. 20,763 [20]
11 December 2007 8th Queens Park Rangers H L 0–2 10,522 [21]
15 December 2007 9th Preston North End H L 2–3 Lafferty 31', McCann 62' 14,829 [22]
22 December 2007 9th Ipswich Town A D 0–0 20,077 [23]
26 December 2007 10th Sheffield Wednesday H D 1–1 Akinbiyi 31' 15,326 [24]
29 December 2007 11th Bristol City H L 0–1 12,109 [25]
1 January 2008 12th Blackpool A L 0–3 9,599 [26]
12 January 2008 11th Plymouth Argyle H W 1–0 Blake 66' 14,162 [27]
19 January 2008 9th Coventry City A W 2–1 Akinbiyi 10', Blake 68' 17,347 [28]
26 January 2008 7th Scunthorpe United H W 2–0 Blake 9', Akinbiyi 32' 14,516 [29]
2 February 2008 10th West Bromwich Albion A L 1–2 J. O'Connor 3' 22,206 [30]
9 February 2008 9th Colchester United H D 1–1 Cole 23' 15,376 [31]
12 February 2008 7th Queens Park Rangers A W 4–2 Cole (3) 41', 56', 86', Akinbiyi 77' 13,410 [32]
23 February 2008 9th Plymouth Argyle A L 1–3 J. O'Connor 19' 13,557 [33]
26 February 2008 9th Coventry City H W 2–0 McCann 20', Caldwell 85' 9,779 [34]
1 March 2008 8th Watford H D 2–2 Blake (2) 75', 88' 13,677 [35]
4 March 2008 9th Hull City A L 0–2 15,838 [36]
8 March 2008 10th Stoke City A D 1–1 Lafferty 3' 18,432 [37]
11 March 2008 8th Charlton Athletic H W 1–0 Elliott 59' 10,700 [38]
15 March 2008 10th Wolverhampton Wanderers H L 1–3 Akinbiyi 76' 12,749 [39]
22 March 2008 11th Preston North End A L 1–2 J. O'Connor 38' 16,149 [40]
29 March 2008 10th Barnsley H W 2–1 Elliott 30', Lafferty 36' 11,925 [41]
5 April 2008 11th Norwich City A L 0–2 24,049 [42]
12 April 2008 13th Sheffield United H L 1–2 Cole 80' 11,693 [43]
19 April 2008 12th Southampton A W 1–0 Caldwell 45' 21,762 [44]
26 April 2008 11th Cardiff City H D 3–3 Alexander 36', Cole 54', Carlisle 86' 10,694 [45]
4 May 2008 13th Crystal Palace A L 0–5 23,950 [46]

Final league position

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
11 Charlton Athletic 46 17 13 16 63 58 +5 64
12 Cardiff City 46 16 16 14 59 55 +4 64
13 Burnley 46 16 14 16 60 67 −7 62
14 Queens Park Rangers 46 14 16 16 60 66 −6 58
15 Preston North End 46 15 11 20 50 56 −6 56
Updated to match(es) played on 4 May 2008. Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

FA Cup

Main article: 2007–08 FA Cup
FA Cup match details
Round Date Opponents Venue Result Score
F–A 		Scorers Attendance Ref
Third round 6 January 2008 Arsenal H L 0–2 16,709 [47]

Football League Cup

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Cup
Football League Cup match details
Round Date Opponents Venue Result Score
F–A 		Scorers Attendance Ref
First round 14 August 2007 Grimsby Town A D 1–1
(a.e.t.)
4–2 pens.		 Gray 108' 2,431 [48]
Second round 28 August 2007 Oldham Athletic H W 3–0 Gray 59', Blake 76', Akinbiyi 90' 7,317 [49]
Third round 25 September 2007 Portsmouth H L 0–1 8,202 [50]

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