2011–12 Football League One

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 Chesterfield Bury Wycombe Wanderers Stevenage Relegated from The Championship Sheffield United Scunthorpe United Preston North End

From League One Promoted to The Championship Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton Peterborough United Relegated to League Two Dagenham & Redbridge Bristol Rovers Plymouth Argyle Swindon Town

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

League table

2011–12 Football League One 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

2011–12 in English football
FA competitions
FA Cup (Qualifying Rounds, Final) · Community Shield · FA Trophy (Final)
League cups
Football League Cup (Final) · Football League Trophy (Final) ·
Premier and Football League
Premier League · Football League (Championship · League One · League Two)
Football Conference
Football Conference (Premier · North · South)
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
National teams
UEFA Euro 2012 qualification (Group G)
Other
Summer 2011 transfers · Winter 2011–12 transfers · Summer 2012 transfers
2010-11                                                        2012-13