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League One
2011–12
Season information
Winners Charlton Athletic
Promoted Charlton Athletic
Sheffield Wednesday
Huddersfield Town
Relegated Wycombe Wanderers
Chesterfield
Exeter City
Rochdale
Season statistics
Matches played 552
Goals scored 1,489
Average 2.7 per match
Top goalscorer Jordan Rhodes (36)
Biggest home win Brentford 5-0 Leyton Orient
MK Dons 5-0 Oldham
Wycombe 5-0 Hartlepool United
Biggest away win Wycombe 0-6 Huddersfield
Yeovil 0-6 Stevenage
Highest scoring MK Dons 6-2 Chesterfield
Sheffield Wed. 4-4 Huddersfield
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The 2011–12 Football League One (referred to as the Npower League One for sponsorship reasons) was the 8th season of the Football League One under its current title and the 19th season under its current league division format.

Changes from last season[]

Team changes[]

The following teams have changed division since the 2015–16 season.

To League One[]

Promoted from League Two

Relegated from The Championship

From League One[]

Promoted to The Championship

Relegated to League Two

Teams[]

Stadia and Locations[]

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Bournemouth Bournemouth Seward Stadium 10,700
Brentford London Griffin Park 12,763
Bury Bury Gigg Lane 11,840
Carlisle United Carlisle Brunton Park 16,981
Charlton Athletic London The Valley 27,111
Chesterfield Chesterfield B2net Stadium 10,338
Colchester United Colchester Colchester Community Stadium 10,064
Exeter City Exeter St James Park 8,830
Hartlepool United Hartlepool Victoria Park 8,240
Huddersfield Town Huddersfield Galpharm Stadium 24,500
Leyton Orient London Brisbane Road 9,271
Milton Keynes Dons Milton Keynes Stadium:mk 22,000
Notts County Nottingham Meadow Lane 21,388
Oldham Athletic Oldham Boundary Park 10,638
Preston North End Preston Deepdale 23,408
Rochdale Rochdale Spotland 10,249
Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe Glanford Park 9,088
Sheffield Utd Sheffield Bramall Lane 32,702
Reading Sheffield Hillsborough 39,812
Stevenage Stevenage Broadhall Way 6,722
Tranmere Rovers Birkenhead Prenton Park 16,789
Walsall Walsall Bescot Stadium 11,300
Wycombe Wanderers High Wycombe Adams Park 10,284
Yeovil Town Yeovil Huish Park 9,565

Managerial changes[]

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Sheffield United Flag of England Micky Adams Sacked 10 May 2011 Pre-season Flag of Northern Ireland Danny Wilson 27 May 2011
Brentford Flag of England Nicky Forster End of contract 19 May 2011 Pre-season Flag of Germany Uwe Rösler 10 June 2011
Rochdale Flag of England Keith Hill Signed by Barnsley 1 June 2011 Pre-season Flag of England Steve Eyre 13 June 2011
Hartlepool United Flag of England Mick Wadsworth Sacked 6 December 2011 13th Flag of Scotland Neale Cooper 28 December 2011
Preston North End Flag of England Phil Brown 14 December 2011 10th Flag of Scotland Graham Alexander
Flag of England David Unsworth
14 December 2011
Rochdale Flag of England Steve Eyre 19 December 2011 22nd Flag of England John Coleman 24 January 2012
Yeovil Town Flag of England Terry Skiverton Demotion to Assistant Manager 9 January 2012 21st Flag of England Gary Johnson 9 January 2012
Preston North End Flag of Scotland Graham Alexander
Flag of England David Unsworth
End of tenure as caretakers 13 January 2012 14th Flag of England Graham Westley 13 January 2012
Stevenage Flag of England Graham Westley Signed by Preston North End 13 January 2012 7th Flag of England Gary Smith 25 January 2012
Huddersfield Town Flag of England Lee Clark Sacked 15 February 2012 4th Flag of England Simon Grayson 20 February 2012
Notts County Flag of England Martin Allen 18 February 2012 11th Flag of England Keith Curle 20 February 2012
Sheffield Wednesday Flag of England Gary Megson 29 February 2012 3rd Flag of England Dave Jones 1 March 2012
Tranmere Rovers Flag of England Les Parry 4 March 2012 19th Flag of England Ronnie Moore 4 March 2012
Bournemouth Flag of England Lee Bradbury 25 March 2012 13th Flag of England Paul Groves (caretaker)
Flag of England Shaun Brooks (caretaker)
25 March 2012

League table[]

Pos
Team Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Charlton Athletic  (C) (P) 46 30 11 5 82 36 +46 101 Promotion to the
Football League Championship
2 Reading  (P) 46 28 9 9 81 48 +33 93
3 Sheffield Utd 46 27 9 10 92 51 +41 90 Qualification to the
League One play-offs
4 Huddersfield Town  (P) (O) 46 21 18 7 79 47 +32 81
5 Milton Keynes Dons 46 22 14 10 84 47 +37 80
6 Stevenage 46 18 19 9 69 44 +25 73
7 Notts County 46 21 10 15 75 63 +12 73
8 Carlisle United 46 18 15 13 65 66 −1 69
9 Brentford 46 18 13 15 63 52 +11 67
10 Colchester United 46 13 20 13 61 66 −5 59
11 Bournemouth 46 15 13 18 48 52 −4 58
12 Tranmere Rovers 46 14 14 18 49 53 −4 56
13 Hartlepool United 46 14 14 18 50 55 −5 56
14 Bury 46 15 11 20 60 79 −19 56
15 Preston North End 46 13 15 18 54 68 −14 54
16 Oldham Athletic 46 14 12 20 50 66 −16 54
17 Yeovil Town 46 14 12 20 59 80 −21 54
18 Scunthorpe United 46 10 22 14 55 59 −4 52
19 Walsall 46 10 20 16 51 57 −6 50
20 Leyton Orient 46 13 11 22 48 75 −27 50
21 Wycombe Wanderers  (R) 46 11 10 25 65 88 −23 43 Relegation to the
Football League Two
22 Chesterfield  (R) 46 10 12 24 56 81 −25 42
23 Exeter City  (R) 46 10 12 24 46 75 −29 42
24 Rochdale  (R) 46 8 14 24 47 81 −34 38
Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament


Results[]

The fixtures for the League One were released on 17 June 2011. The season kick-off was announced for 6 August 2011, and concluded on 5 May 2012.

Home \ Away BOU BRE BRY CLU CHA CHF COL EXE HPL HUD LEY MKD NTC OLD PNE ROC SCU SHU REA STV TRA WAL WYC YEO
Bournemouth 1–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 0–3 1–1 2–0 1–2 2–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–2 2–0 1–3 2–1 0–2 2–0 0–0
Brentford 1–1 3–0 4–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 0–4 5–0 3–3 0–0 2–0 1–3 2–0 0–0 0–2 1–2 0–1 0–2 0–0 5–2 2–0
Bury 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–2 1–1 4–1 2–0 1–2 3–3 1–1 0–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 2–4 0–0 0–3 2–1 1–2 2–0 2–1 1–4 3–2
Carlisle United 2–1 2–2 4–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 4–1 1–2 2–1 4–1 1–3 0–3 3–3 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–2 3–2 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 3–2
Charlton Athletic 3–0 2–0 1–1 4–0 3–1 0–2 2–0 3–2 2–0 2–0 2–1 2–4 1–1 5–2 1–1 2–2 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 3–0
Chesterfield 1–0 2–3 1–0 4–1 0–4 0–1 0–2 2–3 0–2 0–0 1–1 1–3 1–1 0–2 2–1 1–4 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 4–0 2–2
Colchester United 1–1 2–1 4–1 1–1 0–2 1–2 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–5 4–2 4–1 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–6 4–2 1–0 1–1 2–2
Exeter City 0–2 1–2 3–2 0–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 0–4 3–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–2 3–1 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–1 3–0 4–2 1–3 1–1
Hartlepool United 0–0 0–0 3–0 4–0 0–4 1–2 0–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 0–1 0–1 2–0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 1–1 1–3 0–1
Huddersfield Town 0–1 3–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–2 2–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–0 0–1 0–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–0
Leyton Orient 1–3 2–0 1–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 1–3 0–3 0–3 1–3 2–1 2–1 1–3 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 1–3 2–2
Milton Keynes Dons 2–2 1–2 2–1 1–2 1–1 6–2 1–0 3–0 2–2 1–1 4–1 3–0 5–0 0–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 0–1 4–3 0–1
Notts County 3–1 1–1 2–4 2–0 1–2 1–0 4–1 2–1 3–0 2–2 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 3–2 2–5 1–2 1–0 3–2 2–1 1–1 3–1
Oldham Athletic 1–0 0–2 0–2 2–1 0–1 5–2 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 3–2 1–1 2–0 1–2 0–2 0–2 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–2
Preston North End 1–3 1–3 1–1 3–3 2–2 0–0 2–4 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 3–3 0–1 0–0 2–4 0–2 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–2 4–3
Rochdale 1–0 1–2 3–0 0–0 2–3 1–1 2–2 3–2 1–3 2–2 0–2 1–2 0–1 3–2 1–1 1–0 2–5 0–0 1–5 0–2 3–3 2–1 0–0
Scunthorpe United 1–1 0–0 1–3 1–2 1–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 0–2 2–2 2–3 0–3 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 1–1 4–2 0–1 4–1 2–1
Sheffield Utd 2–1 2–0 4–0 1–0 0–2 4–1 3–0 4–4 3–1 0–3 3–1 2–1 2–1 2–3 2–1 3–0 2–1 2–2 2–2 1–1 3–2 3–0 4–0
Reading 3–0 0–0 4–1 2–1 0–1 3–1 2–0 3–0 2–2 4–4 1–0 3–1 2–1 3–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 1–0 0–1 2–1 2–2 2–0 2–1
Stevenage 2–2 2–1 3–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 0–0 0–0 2–2 2–2 0–1 4–2 0–2 1–0 1–1 4–2 1–2 2–1 5–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 0–0
Tranmere Rovers 0–0 2–2 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 0–2 1–1 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 3–0 2–1 2–0 0–0
Walsall 2–2 0–1 2–4 1–1 1–1 3–2 3–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–2 3–2 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–1
Wycombe Wanderers 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–2 3–2 0–0 3–1 5–0 0–6 4–2 1–1 3–4 2–2 3–4 3–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–3
Yeovil Town 1–3 2–1 1–3 0–3 2–3 3–2 3–2 2–2 0–1 0–1 2–2 0–1 1–0 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–2 0–1 2–3 0–6 2–1 2–1 1–0
Updated to games played on 5 May 2012
Source: The Football League
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Play-offs[]

Main article: 2012 Football League play-offs
Semifinals Final
                           
  3  Sheffield United    
6  Stevenage    
  3  Sheffield United 0 (7)
  4  Huddersfield Town (p) 0 (8)
4  Huddersfield Town  
  5  Milton Keynes Dons    
EFL League One seasons

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2011–12 in English football
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