List of Millwall F.C. records and statistics

This list encompasses the honours won by Millwall Football Club and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The record by competition section includes every competitive first team game Millwall have played since their inception in 1885. The cplayer records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions, as well transfer records and attendances records.

Player records

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Barry Kitchener holds the record for Millwall appearances, having played 596 matches between 1966 and 1982.[1] The goalscoring record is held by Neil Harris, with 138 in all competitions.[2][3] He broke the previous record of 111 goals, held by Teddy Sheringham on 13 January 2009, during a 3–2 away win at Crewe Alexandra.[4] The club's widest victory margin in the league is 9–1,[5] a scoreline which they achieved twice in their Football League Third Division South championship-winning year of 1927.[6]</ref> They beat both Torquay United and Coventry City by this score at The Den. Millwall's heaviest league defeat was 8–1 away to Plymouth Argyle in 1932.[5] The club's heaviest loss in all competitions was a 9–1 defeat at Aston Villa in an FA Cup fourth-round second-leg in 1946.[5] Millwall's largest Cup win was 7–0 over Gateshead in 1936.[5] Their highest scoring aggregate game was a 12-goal thriller at home to Preston North End in 1930 when Millwall lost 7–5.[5]

As of 5 May 2019.
Appearances
  • Players in bold denotes still playing for the club.[7]
  1. 596 Barry Kitchener (1966–82)
  2. 557 Keith Stevens (1980–99)
  3. 443 Harry Cripps (1961–74)
  4. 431 Neil Harris (1998–04, 2007–11)
  5. 413 Alan McLeary (1981–93, 1997–99)
  6. 388 Alan Dunne (2000–2015)
  7. 361 Paul Robinson (2001–2015)
  8. 343 Jimmy Forsyth (1929–39)
  9. 342 Jimmy Abdou (2008–2018)
  10. 341 Richard Hill (1919–30)
  11. 341 Len Graham (1923–34)
  
Goals
  • Only Football League and senior cup competitions included.[8]
  1. 138 Neil Harris (1998–04, 2007–11)
  2. 111 Teddy Sheringham (1982–91)
  3. 92 Steve Morison (2009–11, 2013–14, 2015–19)
  4. 87 Derek Possee (1967–73)
  5. 83 Jack Cock (1927–31)
  6. 80 Jimmy Constantine (1948–52)
  7. 78 Johnny Shepherd (1952–58)
  8. 77 Lee Gregory (2014–19)
  9. 74 David Jones (1959–64)
  10. 71 Jack Landells (1925–33)
  11. 71 Alex Rae (1990–96)

Transfers

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Record by competition

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This table includes all competitive first team games played throughout Millwall's history in all league and cup competitions. It excludes all pre-season games, friendlies, abandoned matches, testimonials and games played during World War I & II.

Key

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  • The season given as "first" denotes the season in which Millwall first played in the league or cup competition. The season given as "last" denotes the season in which Millwall last played in the league or cup competition. Italicised denotes that Millwall are currently participating in the competition.
  • P = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; F = goals for; A = goals against; +/- = goals against subtracted from goals for; Win% = percentage of total matches won.
Statistics are correct as of 22 July 2020.
Competition P W D L F A +/- Win% First Last
(Home & Away) (Goals) (Span)
Football League 4110 1603 1086 1421 5739 5394 +345 39.00 1920–21 2019–20
Southern League 708 309 145 254 1185 924 +261 43.64 1894–95 1919–20
FA Cup 347 141 84 123 541 491 +50 40.63 1888–89 2019–20
League Cup 164 64 38 62 519 480 +39 39.02 1960–61 2019–20
Western League 125 58 24 43 206 182 +24 46.4 1900–01 1908–09
London Challenge Cup 51 32 4 15 122 83 +39 62.74 1908–09 1937–38
United League 50 29 8 13 112 68 +44 58 1896–97 1898–99
Football League Trophy[a] 44 25 6 13 80 48 +32 56.81 1983–84 2016–17
London League 30 16 9 5 65 35 +30 53.53 1901–02 1903–04
Kent FA Challenge Cup Finals 26 8 8 10 48 47 +1 30.76 1947–48 1976–77
London Professional Footballers Assoc. Charity Fund 23 10 5 8 37 40 -3 43.47 1908–09 1931–32
Football League play-offs 20 6 6 8 20 25 -5 30.00 1990–91 2016–17
Southern Professional Charity Cup 20 8 7 5 35 28 +7 40 1901–02 1907–08
Southern Alliance 16 7 3 6 36 26 +10 43.75 1912–13 1912–13
Southern District Combination 16 12 2 2 30 10 +20 75 1899–00 1899–00
London Senior Cup 15 7 1 7 26 33 -7 46.66 1886–87 1892–93
Full Members' Cup 13 4 4 5 18 20 -2 30.76 1985–86 1991–92
East End Senior Cup 12 10 2 0 34 7 +27 83.33 1886–87 1888–89
Third Division South Cup 12 6 3 3 26 19 +7 50 1934–35 1937–38
Kent Senior Shield 10 7 2 1 28 9 +19 70 1911–12 1913–14
Southern Floodlight Cup 9 2 2 5 17 20 -3 22.22 1955–56 1959–60
Middlesex Senior Cup 8 3 1 4 13 21 -8 37.50 1888–89 1891–92
Luton Charity Cup 7 6 0 1 21 9 +12 85.71 1890–91 1892–93
London Charity Cup 5 3 0 2 9 15 -6 60 1891–92 1892–93
Anglo-Italian Cup 4 0 2 2 4 8 -4 0 1992–93 1993–94
Football League Jubilee Fund 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 0 1938–39 1938–39
UEFA Cup 2 0 1 1 2 4 -2 0 2004–05 2004–05
Dubonnet Cup 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0 1910–11 1910–11
Lincoln Hospital Cup 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 100 1920–21 1920–21
Total[11][12] 5839 2377 1442 2021 8976 8057 +919 40.70
a ^ Associate Members' Cup results are included in Football League Trophy results. From 1992 lower league clubs became Full Members of the league, hence the competition being renamed.

League history

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Main article: List of Millwall F.C. seasons

Millwall have played in all four divisions during their 94 consecutive seasons as a member of the Football League, including Division Three South. Since the restructuring of the Football League with a national four-tier system, Millwall's lowest league finish is ninth in the founding season of the Fourth Division in 1958–59.[13] The highest league finish is 10th in the First Division of the 1988–89 season.[14] As of the 2020–21 season, Millwall has spent 94 consecutive seasons in the Football League.

  • Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 2
  • Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 44
  • Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 43
  • Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 5

Record results

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Wins

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League:
FA Cup:

Losses

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League:
FA Cup:

Honours

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Millwall Rovers with the East London Cup, 1887.[15]
Competition Achievement Year Notes
Second Division (tier 2) Champions 1988 Promoted to the top flight for the first time in the club's history.[16]
Second Division / First Division (tier 2) Play-off Semi-Finalists 1991, 1994, 2002
Third Division South / Second Division (tier 3) Champions 1928, 1938, 2001 Millwall set an English record in 1928 with 87 league goals scored at home.[17] Finished with 93 points in 2001, a club record.[18]
Third Division (tier 3) Promoted 1966, 1976, 1985 Unbeaten at home for the second successive season in 1965–66 season.[19] Automatically promoted after finishing third in 1976.[20]
Football League One (tier 3) Play-off Winners 2010, 2017 Won 1–0 against Swindon Town in 2010 and 1–0 against Bradford City in 2017.[21]
Football League One (tier 3) Play-off Finalists 2009, 2016
Second Division (tier 3) Play-off Semi-Finalists 2000
Fourth Division (tier 4) Champions 1962
Fourth Division (tier 4) Runners-Up 1965 Finished one point behind the champions Brighton & Hove Albion.[22]
FA Cup Finalists 2004 Qualified for the UEFA Cup. Game was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.[23]
FA Cup Semi-Finalists 1900, 1903, 1937, 2013
FA Cup Quarter-Finalists 1922, 1927, 1978, 1985, 2017, 2019
League Cup Quarter-Finalists 1974, 1977, 1995
Football League Trophy Finalists 1999 First official appearance at Wembley in a recognised competition.[24]
Football League Group Cup Winners 1983
FA Youth Cup Winners 1979, 1991
FA Youth Cup Runners-up 1994
FA Youth Cup Quarter-Finalists 2020
Football League War Cup Finalists 1945 South final runners-up.[25]
Third Division South Cup Winners 1937 Joint winners with Watford (3–3 aggregate in final.)[26]
Kent Senior Shield Winners 1912, 1913
London Challenge Cup Winners 1909, 1915, 1928, 1938
Western Football League Champions 1908, 1909
Southern Football League Champions 1895, 1896
London League Champions 1904 Unbeaten with 11 wins and one draw.[27]
United League Champions 1897, 1899
East London Senior Cup Winners 1887, 1888, 1889
East London FA Cup Joint-winners 1886

Attendances

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Record home attendance

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A record crowd of 48,762 stormed the pitch to celebrate after beating Derby County 2–1 at The Den in the 1937 FA Cup.

Their 1937 appearance in the FA Cup was distinguished by the fact they became the first team in the old third division to reach the semi-finals, knocking out three First Division sides on the way, including Derby County who were defeated 2–1 in front of Millwall's official record crowd of 48,762 on 20 February 1937, with hundreds more locked out. The commentator described the crowd surging and swaying like a "wheatfield in the wind."

Millwall are also famous for officially being the 'best supported club' to have played at the old Wembley Stadium. In the 1999 Autowindscreen Shield Final v Wigan Athletic, Millwall had an estimated 48,000 fans supporting them. In the 2008/2009 season Millwall qualified for the League 1 Play Off Final after beating Leeds United over two legs. Drawn against Scunthorpe United, who only brought around 10,000 supporters, Millwall fans were in the majority with around 45,000. This is the best attendance for a domestic team at the new Wembley.[28]

Average home attendances

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See also: List of Millwall F.C. seasons

Millwall have spent 93 seasons in the Football League (1920–21 to 2019–20), and in that time have averaged an attendance of approximately 12,000, with 25 of those years being played at the current Den and the rest at the Old Den. Just before World War II Millwall averaged their highest attendance of 27,373 and were the tenth best supported club in the country.[29] After the war they continued to attract 20,000+ gates, but the team's fortunes on the pitch began to change for the worse. In the 1950s attendances began to dwindle as the decade drew to a close.[30] Throughout the 1980s Millwall struggled to pull in crowds after home games were made all-ticket after crowd trouble against Leeds United.[31] Often averaging around 4,500 for a season, the club was pushed to the edge of financial extinction.[31] After watching the team struggle for years, promotion to the top flight in 1988 brought supporters back, games are no longer all-ticket and averages since have been just under 10,000.[32]

Personnel honours

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English Football Hall of Fame

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Millwall players inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame:[33]

PFA Fans' Player of the Year

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PFA Team of the Year

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Players included in the PFA Team of the Year whilst playing for Millwall:

Football records in England

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These are records held by Millwall throughout the whole of England.

References

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  1. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 394.
  2. ^ "Millwall Players E-L". The Millwall History Files. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Neil Harris player profile". Millwall Football Club. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Neil Harris breaks Teddy Sheringham's Mllwall record". The Telegraph. London. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Millwall Records". Statto. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  6. ^ a b c Lindsay (1991), p. 120–122.
  7. ^ "Top 20 Appearances". The Millwall History Files. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  8. ^ "All Time Top Scorers". The Millwall History Files. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Millwall FC. Fixtures, history and club information". Napit Sports Database. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  10. ^ Arlidge, Andy (23 February 2003). "Rougier fuels Great Escape; Brighton 1 Millwall 0". The People. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  11. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant 2010, p. 503.
  12. ^ "Millwall : History 1975 to date". Statto. Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  13. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 250.
  14. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 310.
  15. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 9.
  16. ^ "1987/88 Season". The Millwall History Files. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  17. ^ a b c "Football League Records - Goals". The Football League. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  18. ^ "Millwall 00/01 Season". The Millwall History Files. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  19. ^ "Millwall's unbeaten Home Record". The Millwall History Files. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
  20. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 415.
  21. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 101.
  22. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 393.
  23. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 92–93.
  24. ^ "Millwall History". Millwall Football Club. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  25. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 40.
  26. ^ "English Division Three South Cup : Honours". Statto.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  27. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 271.
  28. ^ "The Den, Millwall FC". Football Ground Guide. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  29. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 222–224.
  30. ^ Lindsay (1991), p. 23.
  31. ^ a b Nick Hart (1 October 2010). "The First 125 Years". South London Press. p. 46.
  32. ^ "Millwall Attendances". The Millwall History Files. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  33. ^ "Hall of Fame – National Football Museum". National Football Museum. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  34. ^ "Jay wins top award". Millwall Football Club. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
  35. ^ "Curtis Weston: History man or just a footballing footnote". The Independent. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2010.

Bibliography

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  • Lindsay, Richard (1991). Millwall: A Complete Record, 1885–1991. Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. ISBN 0-907969-94-1.
  • Lindsay, Richard; Tarrant, Eddie (2010). Millwall: The Complete Record. DB Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85983-833-4.
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