2007–08 Burnley F.C. season

The 2007–08 season was Burnley's 8th season in the second tier of English football. They were managed by Steve Cotterill in his fourth full season since he replaced Stan Ternent at the beginning of the 2004–05 season. He was sacked on 8 November 2007 after a poor run of results and replaced by Owen Coyle. Caretaker manager Steve Davis was put in charge of first team duties for the match against Leicester City on 10 November 2007.

Burnley

2007–08 season
Chairman	Barry Kilby
Manager	Steve Cotterill (until 8 November 2007) Steve Davis (caretaker manager) Owen Coyle (from 22 November 2007)
Championship	13th
League Cup	3rd Round
FA Cup	3rd Round
Top goalscorer	League: Andy Gray (11) All: Andy Gray (13)
Highest home attendance	16,843 v Blackpool (15 September 2007)
Lowest home attendance	7,317 v Oldham Athletic (28 August 2007)
Average home league attendance	12,166
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Appearances and goals

Source:

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Burnley.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Players contracted for the 2007–08 season

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	HUN	Gábor Király	27	0	1	0	1	0	29	0	0	0
2	DF	ENG	Stephen Foster †	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
2	DF	SCO	Graham Alexander	43	1	1	0	0 (1)	0	44 (1)	1	10	0
3	DF	ENG	Jon Harley	31 (2)	0	1	0	0 (1)	0	32 (3)	0	5	0
4	DF	NIR	Michael Duff	8	1	0	0	2	0	10	1	2	0
5	DF	ENG	Wayne Thomas †	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
5	DF	ENG	Clarke Carlisle	32 (1)	2	0	0	2	0	34 (1)	2	4	2
6	DF	SCO	Steven Caldwell	26 (3)	2	1	0	2	0	29 (3)	2	8	1
7	MF	IRL	James O'Connor	24 (5)	3	1	0	2 (1)	0	27 (6)	3	4	0
8	MF	ISL	Joey Guðjónsson	13 (15)	1	0 (1)	0	1	0	14 (16)	1	2	2
9	FW	NGA	Ade Akinbiyi	14 (25)	8	0 (1)	0	2 (1)	1	16 (27)	9	4	0
10	FW	SCO	Andy Gray †	25	11	1	0	1 (1)	2	27 (1)	13	1	0
10	MF	ENG	Mark Randall *	2 (8)	0	0	0	0	0	2 (8)	0	2	0
11	MF	ENG	Wade Elliott	45 (1)	2	1	0	1	0	47 (1)	2	6	0
12	GK	DEN	Brian Jensen	19	0	0	0	2	0	21	0	0	0
14	FW	NIR	Steve Jones	1 (16)	1	0 (1)	0	2 (1)	0	3 (18)	1	0	0
15	MF	ENG	John Spicer	9 (15)	0	0	0	3	0	12 (15)	0	2	1
16	MF	IRL	Chris McCann	34 (1)	5	1	0	1	0	36 (1)	5	7	1
17	FW	NIR	Kyle Lafferty	34 (3)	5	1	0	2	0	37 (3)	5	5	1
18	MF	IRL	Alan Mahon	13 (13)	1	0	0	2 (1)	0	15 (14)	1	4	0
19	FW	ENG	Jay Rodriguez	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
20	FW	ENG	Robbie Blake	41 (4)	9	1	0	1 (2)	1	43 (6)	10	4	0
21	MF	IRL	Garreth O'Connor	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
22	FW	ALB	Besart Berisha	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	ENG	Stephen Jordan	20 (1)	0	0	0	3	0	23 (1)	0	4	0
24	DF	SVK	Stanislav Varga *	10	0	1	0	0	0	11	0	3	0
25	MF	ENG	Adam Kay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	DF	ENG	David Unsworth	26 (3)	1	0	0	2	0	28 (3)	1	6	1
27	FW	ENG	Andy Cole *	8 (5)	6	0	0	0	0	8 (5)	6	1	0
28	FW	SCO	Alex MacDonald	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	0	0

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
1	GK	Gábor Király	Crystal Palace	Free	30 May 2007
22	FW	Besart Berisha	Hamburg	£340,000	3 July 2007
20	FW	Robbie Blake	Leeds United	£250,000	13 July 2007
26	DF	David Unsworth	Wigan Athletic	Free	13 August 2007
5	DF	Clarke Carlisle	Watford	£200,000	16 August 2007
2	DF	Graham Alexander	Preston North End	£100,000	31 August 2007
25	DF	Stanislav Varga	Sunderland	Loan	4 January 2008
27	FW	Andrew Cole	Sunderland	Loan	29 January 2008
10	MF	Mark Randall	Arsenal	Loan	31 January 2008

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
	DF	John McGreal		Retired	8 May 2007
	DF	Frank Sinclair	Huddersfield Town	Free	14 May 2007
	GK	Danny Coyne	Tranmere Rovers	Free	3 July 2007
	MF	Graham Branch	Accrington Stanley	Free	10 July 2007
	MF	Garreth O'Connor	Bournemouth	Loan	10 August 2007
5	DF	Wayne Thomas	Southampton	£1,200,000	16 August 2007
2	DF	Stephen Foster	Barnsley	£100,000	24 August 2007
19	FW	Jay Rodriguez	Stirling Albion	Loan	11 January 2008
10	FW	Andy Gray	Charlton Athletic	Loan	18 January 2008
10	FW	Andy Gray	Charlton Athletic	£1,500,000	25 January 2008
14	FW	Steve Jones	Crewe Alexandra	Loan	27 March 2008

Match details

Football League Championship

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Championship

Football League Championship match details

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
11 August 2007	5th	West Bromwich Albion	H	W	2–1	Duff 47', Gray 79' pen.	15,337	^[1]
18 August 2007	12th	Scunthorpe United	A	L	0–2		6,975	^[2]
1 September 2007	12th	Colchester United	A	W	3–2	Mahon 15', Gray (2) 29', 63' pen.	4,925	^[3]
15 September 2007	10th	Blackpool	H	D	2–2	Jones 52', Akinbiyi 86'	16,843	^[4]
18 September 2007	6th	Sheffield Wednesday	A	W	2–0	Blake 15', McCann 48'	18,359	^[5]
22 September 2007	6th	Bristol City	A	D	2–2	Gray 52', Carlisle 90'	14,079	^[6]
29 September 2007	7th	Crystal Palace	H	D	1–1	Blake 13'	10,711	^[7]
2 October 2007	8th	Ipswich Town	H	D	2–2	Lafferty 11', Gray 60'	9,952	^[8]
6 October 2007	13th	Cardiff City	A	L	1–2	Akinbiyi 50'	12,914	^[9]
20 October 2007	13th	Barnsley	A	D	1–1	Gray 11'	11,560	^[10]
23 October 2007	10th	Norwich City	H	W	2–1	Blake 1', Gray 4' pen.	10,133	^[11]
27 October 2007	12th	Southampton	H	L	2–3	McCann 31', Akinbiyi 83'	10,944	^[12]
3 November 2007	13th	Sheffield United	A	D	0–0		25,306	^[13]
6 November 2007	15th	Hull City	H	L	0–1		9,978	^[14]
10 November 2007	13th	Leicester City	A	W	1–0	Gray 23'	21,334	^[15]
24 November 2007	13th	Stoke City	H	D	0–0		11,758	^[16]
27 November 2007	11th	Watford	A	W	2–1	Gray 58', Guðjónsson 80'	15,021	^[17]
1 December 2007	9th	Charlton Athletic	A	W	3–1	Gray (2) 8', 70' pen., McCann 13'	21,122	^[18]
4 December 2007	10th	Leicester City	H	D	1–1	Unsworth 19'	10,688	^[19]
8 December 2007	7th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	W	3–2	Blake 20', Lafferty 30', Ward 42' o.g.	20,763	^[20]
11 December 2007	8th	Queens Park Rangers	H	L	0–2		10,522	^[21]
15 December 2007	9th	Preston North End	H	L	2–3	Lafferty 31', McCann 62'	14,829	^[22]
22 December 2007	9th	Ipswich Town	A	D	0–0		20,077	^[23]
26 December 2007	10th	Sheffield Wednesday	H	D	1–1	Akinbiyi 31'	15,326	^[24]
29 December 2007	11th	Bristol City	H	L	0–1		12,109	^[25]
1 January 2008	12th	Blackpool	A	L	0–3		9,599	^[26]
12 January 2008	11th	Plymouth Argyle	H	W	1–0	Blake 66'	14,162	^[27]
19 January 2008	9th	Coventry City	A	W	2–1	Akinbiyi 10', Blake 68'	17,347	^[28]
26 January 2008	7th	Scunthorpe United	H	W	2–0	Blake 9', Akinbiyi 32'	14,516	^[29]
2 February 2008	10th	West Bromwich Albion	A	L	1–2	J. O'Connor 3'	22,206	^[30]
9 February 2008	9th	Colchester United	H	D	1–1	Cole 23'	15,376	^[31]
12 February 2008	7th	Queens Park Rangers	A	W	4–2	Cole (3) 41', 56', 86', Akinbiyi 77'	13,410	^[32]
23 February 2008	9th	Plymouth Argyle	A	L	1–3	J. O'Connor 19'	13,557	^[33]
26 February 2008	9th	Coventry City	H	W	2–0	McCann 20', Caldwell 85'	9,779	^[34]
1 March 2008	8th	Watford	H	D	2–2	Blake (2) 75', 88'	13,677	^[35]
4 March 2008	9th	Hull City	A	L	0–2		15,838	^[36]
8 March 2008	10th	Stoke City	A	D	1–1	Lafferty 3'	18,432	^[37]
11 March 2008	8th	Charlton Athletic	H	W	1–0	Elliott 59'	10,700	^[38]
15 March 2008	10th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	L	1–3	Akinbiyi 76'	12,749	^[39]
22 March 2008	11th	Preston North End	A	L	1–2	J. O'Connor 38'	16,149	^[40]
29 March 2008	10th	Barnsley	H	W	2–1	Elliott 30', Lafferty 36'	11,925	^[41]
5 April 2008	11th	Norwich City	A	L	0–2		24,049	^[42]
12 April 2008	13th	Sheffield United	H	L	1–2	Cole 80'	11,693	^[43]
19 April 2008	12th	Southampton	A	W	1–0	Caldwell 45'	21,762	^[44]
26 April 2008	11th	Cardiff City	H	D	3–3	Alexander 36', Cole 54', Carlisle 86'	10,694	^[45]
4 May 2008	13th	Crystal Palace	A	L	0–5		23,950	^[46]

Final league position

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
11	Charlton Athletic	46	17	13	16	63	58	+5	64
12	Cardiff City	46	16	16	14	59	55	+4	64
13	Burnley	46	16	14	16	60	67	−7	62
14	Queens Park Rangers	46	14	16	16	60	66	−6	58
15	Preston North End	46	15	11	20	50	56	−6	56

Updated to match(es) played on 4 May 2008. Source: The Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

FA Cup

Main article: 2007–08 FA Cup

FA Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Third round	6 January 2008	Arsenal	H	L	0–2		16,709	^[47]

Football League Cup

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Cup

Football League Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
First round	14 August 2007	Grimsby Town	A	D	1–1 (a.e.t.) 4–2 pens.	Gray 108'	2,431	^[48]
Second round	28 August 2007	Oldham Athletic	H	W	3–0	Gray 59', Blake 76', Akinbiyi 90'	7,317	^[49]
Third round	25 September 2007	Portsmouth	H	L	0–1		8,202	^[50]

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