2016–17 EFL League One

Football League One 2016–17
Season information
Winners	Sheffield United
Promoted	Bolton Wanderers Millwall
Relegated	Coventry City Chesterfield Swindon Town Port Vale
Season statistics
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The 2016–17 Football League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) will be the 13th season of the Football League One under its current title and the 24th 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 Northampton Town Oxford United Bristol Rovers A.F.C Wimbledon Relegated from Championship Charlton Athletic Milton Keynes Dons Bolton Wanderers

From League One Promoted to Championship Wigan Athletic Burton Albion Barnsley Relegated to League Two Doncaster Rovers Blackpool Colchester United Crewe Alexandra

Teams

Stadia

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AFC Wimbledon	London (Kingston upon Thames)	Kingsmeadow	4,850
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	Macron Stadium	28,723
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Memorial Stadium	11,916
Bury	Bury	Gigg Lane	12,500
Charlton Athletic	London (Charlton)	The Valley	27,111
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Proact Stadium	10,400
Coventry City	Coventry	Ricoh Arena	32,500
Fleetwood Town	Fleetwood	Highbury Stadium	5,311
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	11,582
Milton Keynes Dons	Milton Keynes	Stadium:mk	30,500
Millwall	London (South Bermondsey)	The Den	20,146
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,653
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,309
Oxford United	Oxford	Kassam Stadium	12,500
Peterborough United	Peterborough	Abax Stadium	14,319
Port Vale	Stoke-on-Trent	Vale Park	18,947
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	10,249
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,183
Sheffield United	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,702
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	New Meadow	9,875
Southend United	Southend	Roots Hall	12,392
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Charlton Athletic	Jose Riga	Resigned	7 May 2016	Pre-season
Sheffield United	Nigel Adkins	Sacked	12 May 2016		Chris Wilder	12 May 2016
Northampton Town	Chris Wilder	Signed by Sheffield United	12 May 2016		Rob Page	19 May 2016
Port Vale	Rob Page	Signed by Northampton Town	19 May 2016
Oldham Athletic	John Sheridan	Signed by Notts County	27 May 2016

League table

2016–17 Football League One table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sheffield United  (C) (P)	46	30	10	6	92	47	+45	100	Promotion to the Championship
2	Bolton Wanderers  (P)	46	25	11	10	68	36	+32	86
3	Scunthorpe United	46	24	10	12	80	54	+26	82	Qualification to the League One play-offs
4	Fleetwood Town	46	23	13	10	64	43	+21	82
5	Bradford City	46	20	19	7	62	43	+19	79
6	Millwall  (P) (O)	46	20	13	13	66	57	+9	73
7	Southend United	46	20	12	14	70	53	+17	72
8	Oxford United	46	20	9	17	65	52	+13	69
9	Rochdale	46	19	12	15	71	62	+9	69
10	Bristol Rovers	46	18	12	16	68	70	−2	66
11	Peterborough United	46	17	11	18	62	62	0	62
12	Milton Keynes Dons	46	16	13	17	60	58	+2	61
13	Charlton Athletic	46	14	18	14	60	53	+7	60
14	Walsall	46	14	16	16	51	58	−7	58
15	AFC Wimbledon	46	13	18	15	52	55	−3	57
16	Northampton Town	46	14	11	21	60	73	−13	53
17	Oldham Athletic	46	12	17	17	31	44	−13	53
18	Shrewsbury Town	46	13	12	21	46	63	−17	51
19	Bury	46	13	11	22	61	73	−12	50
20	Gillingham	46	12	14	20	59	79	−20	50
21	Port Vale  (R)	46	12	13	21	45	70	−25	49	Relegation to the League Two
22	Swindon Town  (R)	46	11	11	24	44	66	−22	44
23	Coventry City  (R)	46	9	12	25	37	68	−31	39
24	Chesterfield  (R)	46	9	10	27	43	78	−35	37

Updated to games played on 30 April 2017
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

Play-offs

See also: 2017 Football League play-offs

		Semi-finals				Final
	3	Scunthorpe United	0 2 (2)
	6	Millwall	0 3 (3)
							Millwall
							Bradford City
	4	Fleetwood Town	0 0 (0)
	5	Bradford City	1 0 (1)

Results

Home \ Away

WIM

BOL

BRA

BRR

BRY

CHA

CHF

COV

FLE

GIL

MIL

MKD

NHT

OLD

OXU

PET

PTV

ROC

SCU

SHU

SHR

SOU

SWI

WAL

AFC Wimbledon

1–2

2–3

0–1

5–1

1–1

2–1

1–1

2–2

2–0

2–2

2–0

0–1

0–0

2–1

0–0

4–0

3–1

1–2

2–3

1–1

0–2

0–0

1–0

Bolton Wanderers

1–1

0–0

1–1

0–0

1–2

0–0

1–0

2–1

4–0

2–0

1–1

2–1

2–0

0–2

3–0

3–1

1–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

1–1

1–2

4–1

Bradford City

3–0

2–2

1–1

1–1

0–0

2–0

3–1

2–1

2–2

1–1

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

0–0

4–0

0–0

3–3

2–0

1–1

2–1

1–0

Bristol Rovers

2–0

1–2

1–1

4–2

1–5

2–1

4–1

2–1

2–1

3–4

0–0

5–0

1–0

2–1

1–2

2–1

2–2

1–1

0–0

2–0

2–0

1–0

1–1

Bury

1–2

0–2

0–2

3–0

2–0

2–1

2–1

0–0

1–2

2–3

0–0

3–0

0–1

2–3

5–1

4–1

0–1

1–2

1–3

2–1

1–4

1–0

3–3

Charlton Athletic

1–2

1–1

1–1

4–1

0–1

1–0

3–0

1–1

3–0

0–0

0–2

1–1

1–1

0–1

0–2

2–0

0–1

2–1

1–1

3–0

2–1

3–0

1–1

Chesterfield

0–0

1–0

0–1

3–2

1–2

1–2

1–0

0–1

3–3

1–3

0–0

3–1

0–1

0–4

3–3

1–0

1–3

0–3

1–4

1–1

0–4

3–1

2–0

Coventry City

2–2

2–2

0–2

1–0

0–0

1–1

2–0

0–1

2–1

0–2

1–2

1–1

0–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

2–0

0–1

1–2

0–0

0–2

1–3

1–0

Fleetwood Town

0–0

2–4

2–1

3–1

0–0

2–2

2–1

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–4

3–0

1–0

2–0

2–0

0–0

0–0

2–2

1–1

3–0

1–1

0–1

2–1

Gillingham

2–2

0–4

1–1

3–1

2–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

2–3

1–1

1–0

2–1

1–2

0–1

0–1

1–1

3–0

3–2

1–2

1–1

2–1

1–1

1–1

Millwall

0–0

0–2

1–1

4–0

0–0

3–1

0–0

1–1

2–1

2–1

2–1

3–0

3–0

0–3

1–0

2–0

2–3

3–1

2–1

0–1

1–0

2–0

0–0

Milton Keynes Dons

1–0

1–1

1–2

3–3

1–3

0–1

2–3

1–0

0–1

3–2

2–2

5–3

1–0

0–0

0–2

0–1

2–2

0–1

0–3

2–1

0–3

3–2

1–1

Northampton Town

0–0

0–1

1–2

2–3

3–2

2–1

3–1

3–0

1–1

0–0

1–3

3–2

1–2

0–0

0–1

2–1

2–3

1–2

1–2

1–1

4–0

2–1

2–0

Oldham Athletic

0–0

1–0

1–2

0–2

0–0

1–0

0–0

3–2

2–0

1–0

0–0

0–2

0–0

2–1

2–0

0–0

1–1

2–0

1–1

2–3

0–2

0–2

0–0

Oxford United

1–3

2–4

1–0

0–2

5–1

1–1

1–1

4–1

1–3

1–0

1–2

1–0

0–1

1–1

2–1

2–0

1–0

2–1

2–3

2–0

0–2

2–0

0–0

Peterborough United

0–1

1–0

0–1

4–2

3–1

2–0

5–2

1–1

1–2

1–1

5–1

0–4

3–0

1–1

1–2

2–2

3–1

0–2

0–1

2–1

1–4

2–2

1–1

Port Vale

2–0

0–2

1–2

1–1

2–2

1–1

1–0

0–2

2–1

2–1

3–1

0–0

2–3

2–2

2–2

0–3

1–0

3–1

0–3

2–1

2–0

3–2

0–1

Rochdale

1–1

1–0

1–1

0–0

2–0

3–3

3–0

2–0

2–1

4–1

3–3

0–1

1–1

1–0

0–4

2–3

3–0

3–2

3–3

2–1

3–0

4–0

4–0

Scunthorpe United

1–2

1–0

3–2

3–1

3–2

0–0

3–1

3–1

0–2

5–0

3–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

1–1

1–1

3–2

2–1

2–2

0–1

4–0

4–1

0–0

Sheffield United

4–0

2–0

3–0

1–0

1–0

2–1

3–2

2–0

0–2

2–2

2–0

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–0

4–0

1–1

1–1

2–1

0–3

4–0

0–1

Shrewsbury Town

2–1

0–2

1–0

2–0

2–1

4–3

2–1

0–0

0–1

2–3

1–2

0–1

2–4

1–0

2–0

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–1

0–3

1–0

1–1

1–1

Southend United

3–0

0–1

3–0

1–1

1–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

0–2

1–3

3–1

1–2

2–2

3–0

2–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

3–1

2–4

1–1

1–1

3–2

Swindon Town

0–0

0–1

1–0

1–2

1–2

3–0

0–1

1–0

1–1

3–1

1–0

1–1

1–3

0–0

1–2

0–1

1–0

3–0

1–2

2–4

1–1

0–0

0–2

Walsall

3–1

1–0

1–1

3–1

3–3

1–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

1–2

2–1

1–4

2–1

2–0

1–1

2–0

0–1

0–2

1–4

4–1

3–2

0–0

1–0

Updated to games played on 30 April 2017
Source: BBC Sport
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 22 April 2017

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Billy Sharp	Sheffield United	29
2	James Vaughan	Bury	24
3	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United	19
4	Simon Cox	Southend United	16
	Matty Taylor	Bristol Rovers
6	Lee Gregory	Millwall	15
	Ian Henderson	Rochdale
8	David Ball	Fleetwood Town	14
	Erhun Oztumer	Walsall
10	Alex Jones	Bradford City/Port Vale	13
	Chris Maguire	Oxford United
	Aiden O'Brien	Millwall
	Josh Wright	Gillingham

Monthly Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United
September	David Flitcroft	Bury	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United
October	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Zach Clough	Bolton Wanderers
November	Graham Alexander	Scunthorpe United	Jay O'Shea	Chesterfield
December	Keith Hill	Rochdale	Matty Lund	Rochdale
January	Uwe Rösler	Fleetwood Town	James Vaughan	Bury
February	Neil Harris	Millwall	Billy Sharp	Sheffield United
March	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Filipe Morais	Bolton Wanderers

External links

Football League One match days 2016-17

Match Day 46