2019–20 Bristol City F.C. season

Bristol City 2019–20
Club information
Manager	Lee Johnson (until 4 July 2020) Dean Holden (Caretaker) (From 4 July 2020)
Stadium	Ashton Gate
League Season information
Final League position	Championship
Cup placements
FA Cup	Third round
EFL Cup	First round
Season statistics
Top goalscorer	Andreas Weimann (9)
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The 2019–20 season was Bristol City's 122nd season as a professional football club and their 5th consecutive season back in the Championship. Along with competing in the Championship, the club will also participate in the FA Cup and EFL Cup. The season covers the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

Statistics

As of 20 August 2019

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Championship		FA Cup		League Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Daniel Bentley	5	0	4+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
2	DF		Jack Hunt	5	1	3+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	1
3	DF		Jay DaSilva	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
4	MF		Ádám Nagy	3	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	0+1	0
5	DF		Bailey Wright	2	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
6	DF		Nathan Baker	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
8	MF		Josh Brownhill	4	1	4+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW		Famara Diedhiou	4	1	1+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	1
10	FW		Matty Taylor	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
11	MF		Callum O'Dowda	3	0	1+1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
12	MF		Liam Walsh	1	1	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1
14	FW		Andreas Weimann	4	2	4+0	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
17	MF		Sammie Szmodics	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
18	FW		Antoine Semenyo	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
19	MF		Niclas Eliasson	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
20	MF		Jamie Paterson	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
21	MF		Marlon Pack	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
22	DF		Tomáš Kalas	4	0	4+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
23	DF		Taylor Moore	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
25	MF		Tommy Rowe	4	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0
32	DF		Pedro Pereira	3	0	1+2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
40	FW		Benik Afobe	3	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
42	MF		Han-Noah Massengo	3	0	1+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
45	MF		Kasey Palmer	4	0	4+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

Goals record

As of 20 August 2019

Rank	No.	Nat.	Po.	Name	Championship	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
1	14		SS	Andreas Weimann	2	0	0	2
2	2		RB	Jack Hunt	0	0	1	1
	4		DM	Ádám Nagy	1	0	0	1
	8		CM	Josh Brownhill	1	0	0	1
	9		CF	Famara Diedhiou	0	0	1	1
	12		CM	Liam Walsh	0	0	1	1
	25		LM	Tommy Rowe	1	0	0	1
	40		CF	Benik Afobe	1	0	0	1
Total					6	0	3	9

Disciplinary record

As of 20 August 2019

Rank	No.	Nat.	Po.	Name	Championship			FA Cup			League Cup			Total
1	2		RB	Jack Hunt	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	45		CM	Kasey Palmer	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
3	6		CB	Nathan Baker	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	8		CM	Josh Brownhill	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	10		CF	Matty Taylor	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	14		SS	Andreas Weimann	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	21		CM	Marlon Pack	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Total					9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0

Transfers

Transfers in

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2019	GK		Daniel Bentley	Brentford	Undisclosed
1 July 2019	CB		Robbie Cundy	Bath City	Undisclosed
1 July 2019	LB		Jay Dasilva	Chelsea	Undisclosed
1 July 2019	GK		Rene Gilmartin	Colchester United	Free transfer
1 July 2019	CB		Tomáš Kalas	Chelsea	Undisclosed
1 July 2019	LM		Tommy Rowe	Doncaster Rovers	Free transfer
1 July 2019	AM		Sammie Szmodics	Colchester United	Undisclosed
1 August 2019	AM		Kasey Palmer	Chelsea	Undisclosed
3 August 2019	DM		Han-Noah Massengo	AS Monaco	£8,000,000
8 August 2019	DM		Ádám Nagy	Bologna	Undisclosed
23 August 2019	CB		Ashley Williams	Everton	Free transfer

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date until
7 August 2019	RB		Pedro Pereira	Benfica	30 June 2020
8 August 2019	CF		Benik Afobe	Stoke City	30 June 2020

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date until
1 July 2019	CM		Joe Morrell	Lincoln City	30 June 2020
1 July 2019	DM		James Morton	Forest Green Rovers	30 June 2020
3 July 2019	LB		Cameron Pring	Walsall	30 June 2020
5 July 2019	CB		Robbie Cundy	Exeter City	30 June 2020
5 July 2019	GK		Max O'Leary	Shrewsbury Town	30 June 2020
12 July 2019	LM		George Nurse	Newport County	30 June 2020
26 July 2019	CF		Rory Holden	Walsall	30 June 2020
31 July 2019	LB		Vincent Harper	Gloucester City
7 August 2019	GK		Joe Wollacott	Forest Green Rovers	30 June 2020
8 August 2019	SS		Jamie Paterson	Derby County	30 June 2020
8 August 2019	RB		Zak Vyner	Aberdeen	30 June 2020
19 August 2019	CF		Matty Taylor	Oxford United	30 June 2020

Transfers out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee
1 July 2019	LM		Jake Andrews	Torquay United	Free transfer
1 July 2019	CF		Mohamed Eisa	Peterborough United	Undisclosed
1 July 2019	GK		Frank Fielding	Millwall	Released
1 July 2019	LB		Lloyd Kelly	Bournemouth	£13,000,000
1 July 2019	GK		Stefan Marinovic	Wellington Phoenix	Released
1 July 2019	CB		Eros Pisano	Free agent	Released
3 August 2019	CB		Adam Webster	Brighton & Hove Albion	£20,000,000
6 August 2019	CB		Aaron Parsons	Weston-super-Mare	Free transfer
8 August 2019	CM		Marlon Pack	Cardiff City	Undisclosed

Pre-season

The Robins confirmed pre-season friendlies against Hallen AFC Wimbledon, Forest Green Rovers, Crystal Palace and Weston-super-Mare.

Friendly 6 July 2019 (2019-07-06)	Hallen	0–14	Bristol City	Hallen
15:00 BST		https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-hallen-fc-0-14-bristol-city/	Weimann  3', 13', 24' Szmodics  10', 17' Watkins  22' Semenyo  46', 57' Taylor  62', 90+4' J.Smith  69', 90+6' Lemonheigh-Evans  74', 90+9'	Stadium: The Hallen Centre Attendance: 1,764

Friendly 9 July 2019 (2019-07-09)	AFC Wimbledon	2–3	Bristol City	Norbiton
19:45 BST	Roscrow  68' (pen.) Folivi  88' (pen.)	https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-afc-wimbledon-2-3-bristol-city/	Webster  32' Diédhiou  47', 50'	Stadium: Cherry Red Records Stadium

Friendly 13 July 2019 (2019-07-13)	Bristol City	A-A(1–0)	Derby County	Tampa, Florida
TBC	Diédhiou  15'	https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-bristol-city-1-derby-county-0-game-1/ Game Called off at 45' due to a warning siren at 15' then adverse weather at 45		Stadium: IMG Academy

Friendly 14 July 2019 (2019-07-14)	Bristol City	1–2	Derby County	Tampa, Florida
4:00BST	Janneh  43'	https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-bristol-city-1-derby-county-2-game-2/ Replay for day before	Bennett  13' Anya  40'	Stadium: IMG Academy

Friendly 19 July 2019 (2019-07-19)	Sarasota Metropolis	0–6	Bristol City	Tampa, Florida
09:30 EDT			Pack  6', 16' Weimann  46' Szmodics  49' Brownhill  51' Moore  103'	Stadium: IMG Academy

Friendly 24 July 2019 (2019-07-24)	Forest Green Rovers	3–4	Bristol City	Nailsworth
19:45 BST	McCoulsky  3', 43' Collins  56'	https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-forest-green-rovers-3-4-bristol-city/	Brownhill  45' Weimann  77' (pen.) Szmodics  86' Webster  90+1'	Stadium: The New Lawn

Friendly 27 July 2019 (2019-07-27)	Bristol City	0–5	Crystal Palace	Bristol
15:00 BST			Schlupp  15' Townsend  34' Benteke  54' Meyer  70' Wickham  75'	Stadium: Ashton Gate

Competitions

Championship

Main article: 2019–20 EFL Championship

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Leeds United  (C) (P)	46	28	9	9	77	35	+42	93	Promotion to the Premier League
2	West Brom  (P)	46	22	17	7	77	45	+32	83
3	Brentford	46	24	9	13	80	38	+42	81	Qualification to the Championship Play-offs
4	Fulham  (P)	46	23	12	11	64	48	+16	81
5	Cardiff City	46	19	16	11	68	58	+10	73
6	Swansea City	46	18	16	12	59	56	+3	70
7	Nottm Forest	46	18	16	12	58	50	+8	70
8	Millwall	46	17	17	12	57	51	+6	68
9	Preston North End	46	18	12	16	59	54	+5	66
10	Derby County	46	17	13	16	62	64	−2	64
11	Blackburn Rovers	46	17	12	17	66	63	+3	63
12	Bristol City	46	17	12	17	60	65	−5	63
13	Queens Park Rangers	46	16	10	20	67	76	−9	58
14	Reading	46	15	11	20	59	58	+1	56
15	Stoke City	46	16	8	22	62	68	−6	56
16	Reading	46	15	11	20	58	66	−8	56
17	Middlesbrough	46	13	14	19	48	61	−13	53
18	Huddersfield Town	46	13	12	21	52	70	−18	51
19	Luton Town	46	14	9	23	54	82	−28	51
20	Birmingham City	46	12	14	20	54	75	−21	50
21	Barnsley	46	12	13	21	49	69	−20	49
22	Charlton Athletic  (R)	46	12	12	22	50	65	−15	48	Relegation to League One
23	Wigan Athletic  (R)	46	15	14	17	57	56	+1	47
24	Hull City  (R)	46	12	9	25	57	87	−30	45

Source: EFL.com
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

Result summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
40	15	10	15	53	59	−6	55	7	5	7	25	28	−3	8	5	8	28	31	−3

Last updated: 1 July 2020
Source: BBC Sport

Matches

On Thursday, 20 June 2019, the EFL Championship fixtures were revealed.

1 4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)	Bristol City	1–3	Leeds United	Ashton Gate
16:30 BST	Weimann  79	Report	Hernández  26 Bamford  57 Harrison  72	Stadium: Ashton Gate Stadium Attendance: 23,553(2295 away) Referee: Tim Robinson

2 10 August 2019 (2019-08-10)	Birmingham City	1–1	Bristol City	Bordesley, West Midlands
15:00 BST	Jutkiewicz  64	Report	Rowe  83	Stadium: St Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium Attendance: 21,808 Referee: Oliver Langford

3 17 August 2019 (2019-08-17)	Bristol City	2–0	Queens Park Rangers	Ashton Gate
15:00 BST	Nagy  35 Afobe  59	Report		Stadium: Ashton Gate Stadium Attendance: 21654 Referee: Robert Jones

4 20 August 2019 (2019-08-20)	Derby County	1–2	Bristol City	Pride Park, Derby
19:45 BST	Marriott  85	Report	Weimann  16 Brownhill  45+1	Stadium: Pride Park Attendance: 25546 Referee: Steve Martin

5 24 August 2019 (2019-08-24)	Hull City	1-3	Bristol City	Anlaby Road, Hull
15:00 BST	Bowen  44	Report	Afobe  41 (p)  80 Burke  78 (og)	Stadium: KCOM Stadium Referee: Dean Whitestone

FA Cup

Main article: 2019–20 FA Cup

The third round draw was made live on BBC Two from Etihad Stadium, Micah Richards and Tony Adams conducted the draw.

Third round 4 January 2020 (2020-01-04)	Bristol City	1–1	Shrewsbury Town	Ashton Gate
12:31 GMT	Diédhiou  30'	Report	Goss  48'	Stadium: Ashton Gate Stadium Attendance: 9,730 Referee: John Busby

Third round replay 14 January 2020 (2020-01-14)	Shrewsbury Town	1–0	Bristol City	Shrewsbury
19:45 GMT	Goss 30' Pierre  89' Murphy 90+5'	Report	Hunt 36'	Stadium: Montgomery Waters Meadow Attendance: 7,194 Referee: David Webb

EFL Cup

Main article: 2019–20 EFL Cup

The first round draw was made on 20 June.

First round 13 August 2019 (2019-08-13)	Queens Park Rangers	3–3 (5–4 pen)	Bristol City	Shepherd's Bush
19:45 BST	Wells  15' Chair  26' Manning  86' (pen.)	https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49245333	Diédhiou  13' Hunt  41' Walsh  59'	Stadium: The Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium Attendance: 5,795 Referee: Andy Davies
		Penalties
	Manning Mlakar Wells Smith Barbet Chair Amos		Diédhiou Walsh O'Dowda Eliasson Taylor Rowe Wright