Argyle 2006-2007 Season Stats

All the statistics from Plymouth Argyle’s 2006 – 2007 season.

Argyle finished the season in 11th place in the Championship, the club’s highest finishing position for 20 years and just 8 points away from the play-off places.
The Pilgrims gained 67 points, winning 17 games, drawing 16 and losing 13, scoring 63 goals and conceding 62.
The 16 draws were the joint highest in the Championship along with Stoke City.

Argyle’s biggest win was 3-0, twice, against Colchester United and Leicester City. The biggest defeat was 4-0 against Burnley.

Barry Hayles was Argyle’s top goal scorer with 14 goals followed by Sylvan Ebanks-Blake with 10 goals.
Argyle never lost when Hayles scored, winning 7 games and drawing 7.
Argyle scored 19% of their total goals for the season in the last 6 games of the campaign.

Ian Holloway used 28 players, the fourth lowest number in the Championship; Leeds United used the most players at 45.
Lilian Nalis made the most appearances with 48 but David Norris made the most starting appearances with 47 league and cup games.

The Pilgrims average home league attendance was 13,011 with the highest of 17,088 for the visit of Leeds. The lowest attendance was 9,841 for the game against Coventry City.
Argyle’s average league away attendance was 17,562 with the highest of 30,034 at Elland Road and the lowest of 4,627 when Argyle visited Colchester United.
Argyle’s highest overall home attendance of the season was for the FA Cup quarter-final game against Watford when 20,652 fans turned up at Home Park.

Argyle won 337 corners, the most in the Championship but scored only 8 goals from those corners.

David Norris had the most shots on target with 52 while Akos Buzsaky had the most shots off target at 38.
In total the Pilgrims had 313 shots on target, the fourth highest in the Championship.

Barry Hayles committed 128 fouls, the second highest in the Championship, overall Argyle fouled 705 times, the third highest in the league. Hull City were top of the fouls league with 719.

Argyle collected 94 yellow cards for league and cup games, the sixth highest amount in the Championship. Hayles was second highest in the league for picking up yellow cards with 12.

Argyle kept 10 clean sheets in the league, the 7th lowest in the Championship.

The Pilgrims picked up 28 points from teams in the top half of the league and 39 points from teams in the bottom half.
Argyle scored first in 25 games, winning 15 games, drawing 7 and losing 3, picking up 52 points.
The opposition scored first in 20 games with Argyle winning 2 games, drawing 8 games and losing 10, picking up 14 points.
Argyle had just one 0-0 result all season.

Argyle won 2 games from a losing position and drawing 9 games when losing, gaining 15 points from a losing position during the game.
Argyle lost 3 games from a winning position and drew 8 games when winning, losing a total of 25 points.

The Pilgrims were winning 19 games at half time, eventually winning 10 games at the final whistle, drawing 8 and losing 1 game.
Argyle were losing 9 games at half time, no games were won at full time but 4 games were drawn at the final whistle and Argyle lost the other 5 games.

Argyle reached 3rd position in the Championship during the season and were never lower than 15th place.