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1998–99 Football Conference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | Football Conference |
| season | 1998–99 |
| winners | **Cheltenham Town** (1st Football Conference title) |
| continentalcup1 | Direct promotion |
| continentalcup1 qualifiers | Cheltenham Town |
| continentalcup2 | Conference League Cup winners |
| continentalcup2 qualifiers | Doncaster Rovers |
| continentalcup3 | FA Trophy winners |
| continentalcup3 qualifiers | Kingstonian (1st FA Trophy title) |
| continentalcup4 | Relegated to Level 6 |
| continentalcup4 qualifiers | Barrow, |
| Farnborough Town, | |
| Leek Town | |
| league topscorer | Carl Alford *(Stevenage Borough)*, 26 |
| biggest home win | Leek Town – Morecambe 7–0 (25 August 1998) |
| biggest away win | Farnborough Town – Morecambe 1–6 (12 December 1998); |
| Farnborough Town – Northwich Victoria 1–6 (20 March 1999) | |
| highest scoring | Doncaster Rovers – Dover Athletic 5–4 (19 December 1998); |
| Yeovil Town – Farnborough Town 6–3 (28 December 1998) | |
| matches | 462 |
| total goals | 1192 |
| longest wins | Cheltenham Town, Rushden & Diamonds, 6 matches |
| longest unbeaten | Cheltenham Town, 17 matches |
| longest losses | Leek Town, 10 matches |
| highest attendance | Rushden & Diamonds v Cheltenham Town, 6,312 (3 April 1999) |
| lowest attendance | ? |
| average attendance | 1,627 (+ 10.23% compared with the previous season) |
| prevseason | [1997–98](1997-98-football-conference) |
| nextseason | [1999–2000](1999-2000-football-conference) |
Farnborough Town, Leek Town Farnborough Town – Northwich Victoria 1–6 (20 March 1999) Yeovil Town – Farnborough Town 6–3 (28 December 1998) The Football Conference season of 1998–99 was the twentieth season of the Football Conference.
Changes since the previous season
- Doncaster Rovers (relegated from the Football League 1997–98)
- Barrow (promoted 1997–98)
- Forest Green Rovers (promoted 1997–98)
- Kingstonian (promoted 1997–98)
Locations
Barrow Cheltenham Doncaster Dover Farnborough Forest Green Rovers Hednesford Hayes Hereford United Kettering Town Kidderminster Harriers Kingstonian Leek Town Morecambe Northwich Victoria Rushden & Diamonds Southport Stevenage Telford Welling Woking Yeovil Town
Hayes Kingstonian Welling
Final league table
|win_R&D=20|draw_R&D=12|loss_R&D=10|gf_R&D=71|ga_R&D=42
Results
|match_BRW_R&D=0–2
|match_CHL_R&D=1–0
|match_DON_R&D=1–1
|match_DOV_R&D=1–1
|match_FAR_R&D=1–2
|match_FGR_R&D=0–2
|match_HAY_R&D=2–1
|match_HED_R&D=1–1
|match_HER_R&D=3–2
|match_KET_R&D=0–0
|match_KID_R&D=0–0
|match_KIN_R&D=1–5
|match_LEE_R&D=2–3
|match_MOR_R&D=2–3
|match_NOR_R&D=2–1
|name_R&D=Rushden & Diamonds |match_R&D_BRW=4–0 |match_R&D_CHL=1–2 |match_R&D_DON=1–3 |match_R&D_DOV=2–2 |match_R&D_FAR=1–0 |match_R&D_FGR=4–0 |match_R&D_HAY=5–0 |match_R&D_HED=1–0 |match_R&D_HER=1–1 |match_R&D_KET=1–2 |match_R&D_KID=1–1 |match_R&D_KIN=0–0 |match_R&D_LEE=2–0 |match_R&D_MOR=3–1 |match_R&D_NOR=1–2 |match_R&D_SOU=3–1 |match_R&D_STB=2–1 |match_R&D_TEL=2–3 |match_R&D_WEL=3–1 |match_R&D_WOK=2–0 |match_R&D_YEO=1–2
|match_SOU_R&D=0–1
|match_STB_R&D=0–0
|match_TEL_R&D=2–2
|match_WEL_R&D=0–1
|match_WOK_R&D=1–1
|match_YEO_R&D=0–1
Top scorers in order of league goals
| Rank | Player | Club | League | FA Cup | FA Trophy | League Cup | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | ** Carl Alford ** | ** Stevenage Borough ** | **26** | 4 | 3 | 0 | **33** |
| 2 | Warren Patmore | Yeovil Town | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 26 |
| 3 | John Norman | Morecambe | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
| 4 | Lee Charles | Hayes | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| = | Neil Grayson | Cheltenham Town | 18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| = | Hugh McAuley | Leek Town | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Darren Collins | Rushden & Diamonds | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Dennis Bailey | Cheltenham Town | 15 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 23 |
| = | Adrian Foster | Rushden & Diamonds | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| = | Paul Tait | Northwich Victoria | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| 11 | Darran Hay | Woking | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| = | Mark Hynes | Dover Athletic | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| = | Adie Mike | Hednesford | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 14 | Ian Duerden | Doncaster Rovers | 12 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
| = | Marc McGregor | Forest Green Rovers | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| = | Brett McNamara | Kettering Town | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| = | Steve West | Woking | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 18 | Scott Huckerby | Telford United | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| = | Leroy May | Kidderminster Harriers | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| 20 | Lee Hudson | Kettering Town | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| = | Neil Illman | Northwich Victoria | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| = | Richard Leadbeater | Stevenage Borough | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| = | David Leworthy | Kingstonian | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 17 |
| = | Owen Pickard | Yeovil Town | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
- Source:
- Footballtransfers.co.uk, thefootballarchives.com and Soccerbase contain information on many players on whom there is not yet an article in Wikipedia.
References
References
- Glenda Rollin and Jack Rollin (eds.), ''Rothmans Football Yearbook 1999–2000''. Headline, 1999.
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