1926–27 Newport County A.F.C. season

{{Infobox football club season

| club = Newport County

| season = 1926–27

| manager = Jimmy Hindmarsh

| stadium = Somerton Park

| chairman =

| league = Third Division South

| league result = 9th

| cup1 = FA Cup

| cup1 result = 1st round

| cup2 = Welsh Cup

| cup2 result = 6th round

| cup3 =

| cup3 result =

| league topscorer = James (9)

| season topscorer = James (9)

| highest attendance = 9,262 vs Plymouth Argyle (28 August 1926)

| lowest attendance = 1,721 vs Brentford (25 April 1927)

| average attendance = 5,193

| prevseason = 1925–26

| nextseason = 1927–28

}}

The 1926–27 season was Newport County's seventh season in the Football League, sixth season in the Third Division South and seventh season overall in the third tier.

Season review

= Results summary =

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= Results by round =

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|header=Round

|label1= Ground

| res1=H/A/A/H/A/H/A/H/H/A/H/A/H/A/H/A/A/H/A/H/A/H/A/A/H/H/H/A/H/A/H/A/H/H/A/H/A/A/H/A/A/H

|label2= Result

| res2=W/L/W/D/W/W/D/W/W/L/W/L/W/L/W/L/W/D/L/W/L/W/W/L/W/W/W/L/W/L/W/L/W/L/L/L/D/L/D/L/L/D

|label3= Position

| res3=7/13/8/9/6/5/8/4/2/4/3/5/4/4/4/5/5/5/5/5/6/5/5/5/5/5/6/6/5/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/6/8/7/7/8/9

|text_H=Home|text_A=Away

|color_W=green2|text_W=Win

|color_D=yellow2|text_D=Draw

|color_L=red2|text_L=Loss

|color_1=1st|color_2=2nd|color_3=3rd|color_18-=red1

|updated=7 May 1927

|source=[http://www.statto.com/football/teams/newport-county/1926-1927/results statto.com]

|date=February 2011

}}

Fixtures and results

=Third Division South=

class="wikitable sortable" !Date !Opponents !Venue !Result !Scorers !Attendance
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|28 Aug 1926	Plymouth Argyle	H	2–1	Nairn, Holland	align="right"\|9,262
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|1 Sep 1926	Bristol City	A	1–4	Carney	align="right"\|13,478
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|4 Sep 1926	Merthyr Town	A	2–1	Forward, OG	align="right"\|5,259
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|9 Sep 1926	Bristol City	H	0–0		align="right"\|7,888
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|11 Sep 1926	Aberdare Athletic	A	1–0	Johnson	align="right"\|2,741
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|18 Sep 1926	Gillingham	H	1–0	Price	align="right"\|7,141
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|25 Sep 1926	Watford	A	0–0		align="right"\|7,720
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|30 Sep 1926	Charlton Athletic	H	2–1	Nairn, Price	align="right"\|4,687
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|2 Oct 1926	Crystal Palace	H	2–1	Price, Gittins	align="right"\|6,985
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|9 Oct 1926	Coventry City	A	1–3	James	align="right"\|7,931
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|16 Oct 1926	Luton Town	H	3–2	Johnson, James, Gittins	align="right"\|6,821
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|23 Oct 1926	Southend United	A	0–5		align="right"\|6,481
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|30 Oct 1926	Exeter City	H	2–0	James, Gittins	align="right"\|6,454
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|6 Nov 1926	Swindon Town	A	1–3	Gittins	align="right"\|4,870
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|13 Nov 1926	Bristol Rovers	H	1–0	Nairn	align="right"\|3,927
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|20 Nov 1926	Millwall	A	1–4	Holland	align="right"\|7,004
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|4 Dec 1926	Northampton Town	A	2–1	Price 2	align="right"\|5,508
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|11 Dec 1926	Millwall	H	1–1	Nairn	align="right"\|5,345
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|18 Dec 1926	Norwich City	A	0–1		align="right"\|6,667
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|25 Dec 1926	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	H	2–1	Nairn, Forward	align="right"\|6,359
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|27 Dec 1926	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	A	1–2	Nairn	align="right"\|8,916
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|1 Jan 1927	Northampton Town	H	1–0	Johnson	align="right"\|5,006
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|8 Jan 1927	Gillingham	A	1–0	Price	align="right"\|4,611
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|15 Jan 1927	Plymouth Argyle	A	1–4	Price	align="right"\|8,943
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|22 Jan 1927	Merthyr Town	H	4–3	Johnson, Price, Nairn, Forward	align="right"\|5,083
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|29 Jan 1927	Aberdare Athletic	H	5–2	Johnson 2, Drinnan, Forward, Gittins	align="right"\|3,436
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|12 Feb 1927	Watford	H	2–1	Gittins, Hiles	align="right"\|4,291
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|19 Feb 1927	Crystal Palace	A	2–6	Johnson, Weaver	align="right"\|10,328
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|26 Feb 1927	Coventry City	H	4–1	James 2, Bowsher, Gittins	align="right"\|3,856
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|5 Mar 1927	Luton Town	A	1–4	Johnson	align="right"\|5,240
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|12 Mar 1927	Southend United	H	3–0	Gittins, Hiles, Weaver	align="right"\|4,725
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|19 Mar 1927	Exeter City	A	1–2	James	align="right"\|6,509
bgcolor="#ddffdd" \|26 Mar 1927	Swindon Town	H	5–3	James 2, Weaver 2, Hiles	align="right"\|4,751
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|31 Mar 1927	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	0–1		align="right"\|2,956
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|2 Apr 1927	Bristol Rovers	A	0–4		align="right"\|5,544
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|15 Apr 1927	Queens Park Rangers	H	0–2		align="right"\|5,938
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|16 Apr 1927	Brentford	A	1–1	Walker	align="right"\|7,801
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|18 Apr 1927	Queens Park Rangers	A	0–2		align="right"\|9,057
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|25 Apr 1927	Brentford	H	0–0		align="right"\|1,721
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|28 Apr 1927	Charlton Athletic	A	0–3		align="right"\|4,010
bgcolor="#ffdddd" \|30 Apr 1927	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	0–1		align="right"\|6,045
bgcolor="#ffffdd" \|7 May 1927	Norwich City	H	0–0		align="right"\|2,425

=FA Cup=

class="wikitable"

!Round

!Date

!Opponents

!Venue

!Result

!Scorers

!Attendance

bgcolor="#ffdddd"

27 Nov 1926

Poole Athletic

0–1

align="right"|2,666

=Welsh Cup=

class="wikitable"

!Round

!Date

!Opponents

!Venue

!Result

!Scorers

!Attendance

bgcolor="#ffdddd"

10 Mar 1927

Lovells Athletic

0–1

align="right"|

League table

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !width=20\|Pos!!width=220\|Team!!width=20\|Pld!!width=20\|W!!width=20\|D!!width=20\|L!!width=20\|F!!width=20\|A!!width=20\|GA!!width=20\|Pts
style="background:#D0F0C0" \|1	align="left"\|Bristol City	42	27	8	7	104	54	1.926	62
2	align="left"\|Plymouth Argyle	42	25	10	7	95	61	1.557	60
3	align="left"\|Millwall	42	23	10	9	89	51	1.745	56
4	align="left"\|Brighton & Hove Albion	42	21	11	10	79	50	1.580	53
5	align="left"\|Swindon Town	42	21	9	12	100	85	1.176	51
6	align="left"\|Crystal Palace	42	18	9	15	84	81	1.037	45
7	align="left"\|Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic	42	18	8	16	78	66	1.182	44
8	align="left"\|Luton Town	42	15	14	13	68	66	1.030	44
9	align="left"\|Newport County	42	19	6	17	57	71	0.803	44
10	align="left"\|Bristol Rovers	42	16	9	17	78	80	0.975	41
11	align="left"\|Brentford	42	13	14	15	70	61	1.148	40
12	align="left"\|Exeter City	42	15	10	17	76	73	1.041	40
13	align="left"\|Charlton Athletic	42	16	8	18	60	61	0.984	40
14	align="left"\|Queens Park Rangers	42	15	9	18	65	71	0.915	39
15	align="left"\|Coventry City	42	15	7	20	71	86	0.826	37
16	align="left"\|Norwich City	42	12	11	19	59	71	0.831	35
17	align="left"\|Merthyr Town	42	13	9	20	63	80	0.787	35
18	align="left"\|Northampton Town	42	15	5	22	59	87	0.678	35
19	align="left"\|Southend United	42	14	6	22	64	77	0.831	34
20	align="left"\|Gillingham	42	11	10	21	54	72	0.750	32
style="background:#eee5de" \|21	align="left"\|Watford	42	12	8	22	57	87	0.655	32
style="background:#F08080" \|22	align="left"\|Aberdare Athletic	42	9	7	26	62	101	0.614	25

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!width=50|Key!!width=120|

style="background:#D0F0C0;" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Division Champions

style="background: #eee5de" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align=left | Re-elected

style="background: #F08080" width="20" |

| bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left" | Failed re-election

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225155926/http://www.statto.com/football/teams/newport-county/1926-1927/results Newport County 1926-1927 : Results]
[http://www.11v11.com/teams/newport-county/tab/matches/season/1927 Newport County football club match record: 1927]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225163335/http://wfda.co.uk/welsh_cup.php?id=46 Welsh Cup 1926/27]

1926-27

Category:English football clubs 1926–27 season

Category:1926–27 in Welsh football