Competition: | Football League One |
Season: | 2014–15 |
Winners: | Bristol City (4th divisional title) |
Promoted: | Bristol City Milton Keynes Dons Preston North End |
Relegated: | Notts County Crawley Town Leyton Orient Yeovil Town |
Matches: | 552 |
Total Goals: | 1464 |
League Topscorer: | Joe Garner (25 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | (20 December 2014) |
Biggest Away Win: | (14 April 2015) |
Highest Scoring: | Bristol City 8–2 Walsall (3 May 2015) |
Longest Wins: | 7 games[1] Preston North End |
Longest Unbeaten: | 18 games Preston North End |
Longest Winless: | 13 games Crawley Town |
Longest Losses: | 6 games Port Vale Yeovil Town |
Highest Attendance: | 27,306[2] Coventry City 1–0 Gillingham (5 September 2014) |
Lowest Attendance: | 1,905 Crawley Town 1–0 Fleetwood Town (13 September 2014) |
Average Attendance: | 7,025 |
Attendance: | 3,843,176 |
Prevseason: | 2013–14 |
Nextseason: | 2015–16 |
The 2014–15 Football League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Football League One under its current title and the twenty-second season under its current league division format. The season began on 9 August 2014.
Bristol City won the league to return to the Championship after a two-year absence. They were unbeaten for the first 16 matches of the season and also finished with the best goal difference and best defence. MK Dons pipped Preston North End to 2nd place on the last day of the season after the Lancashire club lost at Colchester. But Preston were eventually promoted via the playoffs, defeating Chesterfield and Swindon 4–0 (on aggregate) and 4–0 respectively.
At the other end of the table, Yeovil Town followed their relegation from the Championship the previous season with another relegation. Leyton Orient were relegated after having contested the playoff final in 2013–14 (which they lost to Rotherham on penalties after being 2–0 up), and Crawley and Notts County were the final teams relegated to League Two for the 2015–16 season.
The following teams have changed division since the 2013–14 season.[3]
Promoted from League Two
Relegated from Championship
Relegated to League Two
Promoted to Championship
Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity | |
---|---|---|---|---|
23,009 | ||||
25,136 | ||||
21,497 | ||||
10,504 | ||||
10,064 | ||||
32,609 | ||||
5,996 | ||||
10,153 | ||||
15,231 | ||||
5,327 | ||||
11,582 | ||||
London (Leyton) | 9,271 | |||
30,500 | ||||
21,388 | ||||
10,638 | ||||
16,315 | ||||
19,052 | ||||
23,408 | ||||
10,249 | ||||
9,088 | ||||
32,702 | ||||
15,728 | ||||
11,300 | ||||
9,565 |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table at time of departure | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Colchester United | Sacked | 1 September 2014[6] | 23rd | 1 September 2014 | |||
Port Vale | Resigned | 18 September 2014[7] | 23rd | 29 October 2014[8] | |||
Leyton Orient | 24 September 2014[9] | 17th | 26 October 2014[10] | ||||
Scunthorpe United | Sacked | 8 October 2014[11] | 23rd | 13 October 2014[12] | |||
Leyton Orient | 8 December 2014[13] | 19th | 8 December 2014 | ||||
Crawley Town | Health Reasons | 27 December 2014[14] | 21st | 27 December 2014 | |||
Gillingham | Sacked | 31 December 2014[15] | 20th | 7 February 2015[16] | |||
Yeovil Town | 4 February 2015[17] | 24th | 4 February 2015 | ||||
Barnsley | 12 February 2015[18] | 17th | 25 February 2015[19] | ||||
Peterborough United | 22 February 2015[20] | 15th | |||||
Coventry City | 22 February 2015[21] | 21st | 3 March 2015[22] | ||||
Oldham Athletic | Signed by Barnsley | 25 February 2015 | 9th | ||||
Notts County | Sacked | 23 March 2015 | 20th | 7 April 2015 | |||
Yeovil Town | Demotion to Assistant Manager | 9 April 2015[23] | 24th | 9 April 2015 |
See also: 2015 Football League play-offs.
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[24] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Preston North End | 25 | |
2 | Ian Henderson | Rochdale | 22 |
3 | Eoin Doyle | Chesterfield | 21 |
Andy Williams | Swindon Town | ||
5 | Will Grigg | Milton Keynes Dons | 20 |
6 | Izale McLeod | Crawley Town | 19 |
7 | Aaron Wilbraham | Bristol City | 18 |
8 | Tom Bradshaw | Walsall | 17 |
Matt Done | Rochdale/Sheffield United | ||
10 | Dele Alli | Milton Keynes Dons | 16 |
Cody McDonald | Gillingham |