Swindon's season in numbers: what records were broken this year?

This season has been a historic one in a number of ways for Swindon Town, so how does it match up on multiple fronts with the club’s history?

As has been well established, this season was the lowest league finish Swindon have had since the introduction of the four-tier system for the 1958/59 season. Never have Town won fewer or lost more games in the fourth division.

Town finished as the 87th-best team in English football, two places and four points beneath where Ken Beamish and his chargers had finished in 1983/84.

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But there was plenty more about this campaign that rivals much of the history of the club, the least surprising being the number of goals conceded.

Across all competitions, Town let in 99 goals, only four seasons across their history can best that and only twice since the Second World War. 100 goals during Swindon’s solitary season in the Premier League and also bringing up a tonne whilst being relegated from League One in 2020/21.

Equally, the 83 goals conceded in League Two, the most ever in the fourth tier by 18 goals, is the joint-eighth most conceded in a league campaign. This also led to a run of 18 matches and 106 days between keeping clean sheets from beating Newport County 2-0 in October to beating Bradford City 2-0 in January.

However, at the other end of the pitch, Swindon remained potent as the 77 goals they scored in League Two this season was the second most they have scored in the fourth tier, with the only more prolific team at this level being Lou Macari’s 1985/86 Division Four title winners. Scoring the same amount as Ben Garner’s playoff semi-finalists and two more than Paolo Di Canio’s champions.

Most of the misery was found away from the County Ground, where Swindon won just three matches all season across all competitions.

Three wins make this the joint 13th worst season Town have had away from their own patch in their history and the worst they have done away from home since they were relegated to the fourth tier in 2005/06. It is the fewest away wins they have ever managed at this level.

And yet all of this came after Swindon equalled a club record nine matches unbeaten to begin the season, level with Steve McMahon’s 1995/96 title winners and set an EFL record for most goals scored in the first six games.