List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. records and statistics
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English football club based in Wolverhampton. The club was founded as St Luke's in 1877, soon becoming Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being a founder member of the Football League in 1888.[1] Since that time, the club has played in all four professional divisions of the English football pyramid, and been champions of all these levels.[2] They have also been involved in European football, having been one of the first English clubs to enter the European Cup, as well as reaching the final of the first staging of the UEFA Cup.[3]
This list encompasses all honours won by Wolverhampton Wanderers and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions, as well as transfer fee records paid and received by the club. A list of streaks recording all elements of the game (wins, losses, clean sheets, etc.) is also presented.
Honours
In the all-time top flight league table since the league's inception in 1888, Wolves sit in the top fifteen, in terms of all-time English first level league position.[4]
Alternatively, they sit in the top four, behind only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of all-time league position from points gained at any level of English professional football.[4]
Cumulatively, they are the joint 11th most successful club in domestic English football history, tied with Nottingham Forest. One place behind Blackburn Rovers, with nine major trophy wins, not including super cups. Alternatively they are joint 10th with Nottingham Forrest, in competitive honours with 13 trophy wins, behind Newcastle United.(see here).
Uniquely, they are the only club to have won titles in five different Football League divisions,[2] and, in 1988, became the first team to have been champions of all four professional leagues in English football; although this feat has since been matched by Burnley (in 1992) and Preston (in 1996). They remain the only club to have won all the main domestic cup competitions (FA Cup, League Cup and EFL Trophy) currently contested in English football.[5]
Longest run of consecutive full seasons playing in Tier 1 of English football: 26 (1932 – 1965) [n.b. 1939–40 season was abandoned due to outbreak of World War II and there was no full league football between 1940 and 1946 due to the conflict]
Longest run of consecutive full seasons playing in Tier 2 of English football: 14 (1989 – 2003)
Longest unbeaten run: 21 games (January – August 2005)
Longest unbeaten run in home games: 27 games (March 1923 – September 1924)
Longest unbeaten run in away games: 11 games (September 1953 – January 1954)
Longest winning run: 9 games (January – March 2014)
Longest winning run in home games: 14 games (March – December 1953)
Longest winning run in away games: 5 games (during 1938, 1962, 1980, 2001, 2013)
Longest winless run: 19 games (December 1984 – April 1985)
Longest winless run in home games: 13 games (November 1984 – May 1985)
Longest winless run in away games: 32 games (March 1922 – October 1923)
Longest scoring run: 41 games (December 1958 – December 1959)
Longest scoreless run: 7 games (February – March 1985)
Longest run of clean sheets: 8 games (August – October 1982)
Longest run without a clean sheet: 30 games (September 2011 – April 2012)
Goals
Most league goals scored in a season: 115 (Division 2; 1931–32)
Fewest league goals scored in a season: 27 (Division 1; 1983–84)
Most league goals conceded in a season: 99 (Division 1; 1905–06)
Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 27 (Division 3; 1923–24)
Most goals scored in a game (league): 10 (vs Leicester City, Division 1, 15 April 1938)
Most goals scored in a game (cup): 14 (vs Crosswell's Brewery, FA Cup 2nd round, 13 November 1886)
Wolves were awarded, and scored from, the Football League's first ever penalty kick on 14 September 1891.[18]
Wolves were the first (and as of 2014 only) English league team to pass the 100-goal mark for four seasons in succession, in the 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60 and 1960–61 seasons.
In 2005 Wolves became the first team to have scored 7,000 league goals[19] and currently trail only Manchester United and Liverpool in terms of total league goals (as of the end of the 2016–17 season).[4]
^"Wolves completed the set when they won the (then) Sherpa Van Trophy in 1988. Apart from four FA Cups (1893, 1908, 1949, 1960), three First Division championships (1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59) and two League Cups (1974, 1980), the Wolves set also includes the Charity Shield (beating Forest in 1959), the FA Youth Cup (1958) and the Anglo-Scottish Cup (1971). Having also won the Second Division (1931–32, 1976–77), the Third Division (1988–89), the Third Division North (1923–24) and the Fourth Division (1987–88)", only the renamed Championship remained and was duly completed (2008–09). Bryant, Tom; Roopanarine, Les; Chesterton, George; "KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE"Guardian.co.uk, 3 October 2007
^ abcdefgMatthews, Tony (2001). The Wolves Who's Who. West Midlands: Britespot. ISBN1-904103-01-4.
