2014–15 Football League Two

The 2014–15 Football League Two (referred to as the Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th season of the Football League Two under its current title and the 23rd season under its current league division format. The season began on 9 August 2014.

Football League Two

Season	2014–15
Champions	Burton Albion (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Burton Albion Shrewsbury Town Bury Southend United
Relegated	Cheltenham Town Tranmere Rovers
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,317 (2.39 per match)
Top goalscorer	Matt Tubbs (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Cambridge United 5–0 Carlisle United (30 August 2014) Shrewsbury Town 5–0 Bury (21 October 2014)
Biggest away win	Accrington Stanley 1–5 Northampton Town (31 January 2015) Cambridge United 2–6 Portsmouth (21 February 2015)
Highest scoring	Northampton Town 4–5 Accrington Stanley (20 September 2014)
Longest winning run	7 games[1] Luton Town Southend United
Longest unbeaten run	13 games[1] Burton Albion
Longest winless run	13 games[1] Tranmere Rovers
Longest losing run	7 games[1] Luton Town
Highest attendance	17,558[2] Portsmouth 0–2 AFC Wimbledon (26 December 2014)
Lowest attendance	919[2] Accrington Stanley 1–0 Burton Albion (24 February 2015)
Total attendance	2,576,942[2]
Average attendance	4,676[2]
← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 2 May 2015.

Twenty four clubs participated, eighteen of which remained in League Two having been neither promoted nor relegated at the end of the 2013–14 season. These clubs were joined by Tranmere Rovers, Carlisle United, Shrewsbury Town and Stevenage who were relegated from 2013–14 Football League One, and by Luton Town and Cambridge United who were both promoted from the 2013–14 Football Conference.

Burton Albion won the League Two title after a 3-2 away to Cambridge United on 2 May.[3]

Changes from last season

Team changes

The following teams changed division at the end of the 2013–14 season.[4]

To League Two

Promoted from Conference Premier

• Luton Town
• Cambridge United

Relegated from Football League One

• Tranmere Rovers
• Carlisle United
• Shrewsbury Town
• Stevenage

From League Two

Relegated to Conference Premier

• Bristol Rovers
• Torquay United

Promoted to Football League One

• Chesterfield
• Scunthorpe United
• Rochdale
• Fleetwood Town

Team overview

Stadia and locations

Accrington

AFC Wimbledon

Burton

Bury

Cambridge United

Carlisle United

Cheltenham

Dag & Red

Exeter

Hartlepool

Luton Town

Mansfield

Morecambe

Newport County

Northampton Town

Oxford

Plymouth

Portsmouth

Shrewsbury

Southend

Stevenage

Tranmere

Wycombe

York City

Locations of teams in the 2014–2015 Football League Two

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Accrington Stanley	Accrington	Crown Ground	5,057
AFC Wimbledon	London (Norbiton)	Kingsmeadow	4,850
Burton Albion	Burton	Pirelli Stadium	6,912
Bury	Bury	Gigg Lane	11,840
Cambridge United	Cambridge	Abbey Stadium	8,127
Carlisle United	Carlisle	Brunton Park	16,981
Cheltenham Town	Cheltenham	Whaddon Road	7,066
Dagenham & Redbridge	London (Dagenham)	Victoria Road	6,078
Exeter City	Exeter	St James Park	8,830
Hartlepool United	Hartlepool	Victoria Park	8,240
Luton Town	Luton	Kenilworth Road	10,356
Mansfield Town	Mansfield	Field Mill	10,000
Morecambe	Morecambe	Globe Arena	6,476
Newport County	Newport	Rodney Parade	7,850[note 1]
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,653
Oxford United	Oxford	Kassam Stadium	12,500
Plymouth Argyle	Plymouth	Home Park	16,388
Portsmouth	Portsmouth	Fratton Park	20,224
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	New Meadow	9,875
Southend United	Southend-on-Sea	Roots Hall	11,840
Stevenage	Stevenage	Broadhall Way	6,722
Tranmere Rovers	Birkenhead	Prenton Park	16,789
Wycombe Wanderers	High Wycombe	Adams Park	10,284
York City	York	Bootham Crescent	7,872

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Shrewsbury Town	Michael Jackson	Appointed as Assistant Manager	12 May 2014[5]	Pre-season	Micky Mellon	12 May 2014[5]
Oxford United	Gary Waddock	Sacked	4 July 2014[6]	Pre-season	Michael Appleton	4 July 2014[6]
Carlisle United	Graham Kavanagh		1 September 2014[7]	22nd	Keith Curle	19 September 2014[8]
Accrington Stanley	James Beattie	Mutual consent	12 September 2014[9]	21st	John Coleman	18 September 2014[10]
Hartlepool United	Colin Cooper	Resigned	4 October 2014[11]	24th	Paul Murray	23 October 2014[12]
Tranmere Rovers	Robert Edwards	Sacked	13 October 2014[13]	24th	Micky Adams	16 October 2014[14]
York City	Nigel Worthington	Resigned	13 October 2014[15]	22nd	Russ Wilcox	15 October 2014[16]
Burton Albion	Gary Rowett	Signed by Birmingham City	27 October 2014[17]	3rd	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	13 November 2014[18]
Mansfield Town	Paul Cox	Mutual consent	21 November 2014[19]	19th	Adam Murray	5 December 2014[20]
Cheltenham Town	Mark Yates	Sacked	25 November 2014[21]	18th	Paul Buckle	26 November 2014[22]
Hartlepool United	Paul Murray		6 December 2014[23]	24th	Ronnie Moore	16 December 2014[24]
Newport County	Justin Edinburgh	Signed by Gillingham	7 February 2015[25]	6th	Terry Butcher	30 April 2015[26]
Cheltenham Town	Paul Buckle	Mutual consent	13 February 2015[27]	22nd	Gary Johnson	30 March 2015[28]
Portsmouth	Andy Awford		13 April 2015[29]	14th	Paul Cook	12 May 2015[30]
Tranmere Rovers	Micky Adams		19 April 2015[31]	24th	Gary Brabin	5 May 2015[32]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Burton Albion (C, P)	46	28	10	8	69	39	+30	94	Promotion to Football League One
2	Shrewsbury Town (P)	46	27	8	11	67	31	+36	89
3	Bury (P)	46	26	7	13	60	40	+20	85
4	Wycombe Wanderers	46	23	15	8	67	45	+22	84	Qualification for League Two play-offs[lower-alpha 1]
5	Southend United (O, P)	46	24	12	10	54	38	+16	84
6	Stevenage	46	20	12	14	62	54	+8	72
7	Plymouth Argyle	46	20	11	15	55	37	+18	71
8	Luton Town	46	19	11	16	54	44	+10	68
9	Newport County	46	18	11	17	51	54	−3	65
10	Exeter City	46	17	13	16	61	65	−4	64
11	Morecambe	46	17	12	17	53	52	+1	63
12	Northampton Town	46	18	7	21	67	62	+5	61
13	Oxford United	46	15	16	15	50	49	+1	61
14	Dagenham & Redbridge	46	17	8	21	58	59	−1	59
15	AFC Wimbledon	46	14	16	16	54	60	−6	58
16	Portsmouth	46	14	15	17	52	54	−2	57
17	Accrington Stanley	46	15	11	20	58	77	−19	56
18	York City	46	11	19	16	46	51	−5	52
19	Cambridge United	46	13	12	21	61	66	−5	51
20	Carlisle United	46	14	8	24	56	74	−18	50
21	Mansfield Town	46	13	9	24	38	62	−24	48
22	Hartlepool United	46	12	9	25	39	70	−31	45
23	Cheltenham Town (R)	46	9	14	23	40	67	−27	41	Relegation to the National League
24	Tranmere Rovers (R)	46	9	12	25	45	67	−22	39

Updated to match(es) played on 23 May 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Four teams play for one spot and promotion to Football League One.

Play-offs

See also: 2015 Football League play-offs

	Semifinals							Final
	4	Wycombe Wanderers	3	2	5
	7	Plymouth Argyle	2	1	3
								4	Wycombe Wanderers	1 (6)
								5	Southend United	1 (7)
	5	Southend United	1	3	4
	6	Stevenage	1	1	2

Results

Home \ Away	ACC	WIM	BRT	BRY	CAM	CRL	CHL	D&R	EXE	HAR	LUT	MAN	MOR	NPC	NOR	OXF	PLY	POR	SHR	STD	STE	TRA	WYC	YOR
Accrington Stanley		1–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	2–3	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–2	1–5	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	3–2	1–1	2–2
AFC Wimbledon	2–1		3–0	3–2	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–0	4–1	1–2	3–2	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–3	2–2	0–0	2–1
Burton Albion	3–0	0–0		1–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–0
Bury	2–1	2–0	3–1		2–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–3	2–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2
Cambridge United	2–2	0–0	2–3	0–2		5–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	4–0	2–1	5–1	1–0	2–6	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–3
Carlisle United	1–0	4–4	3–4	0–3	0–1		1–0	1–0	1–3	3–3	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–3	0–3
Cheltenham Town	2–1	1–1	1–3	1–2	3–1	0–0		1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–4	0–1
Dagenham & Redbridge	4–0	4–0	1–3	1–0	2–3	4–2	3–1		1–2	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–3	0–1	0–2	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–0
Exeter City	1–2	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	2–1		1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	3–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–1
Hartlepool United	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–3	2–0	0–2	2–1		1–2	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	1–3	1–3
Luton Town	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–3	3–0		3–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–3	2–2
Mansfield Town	0–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	2–1	2–3	1–1	1–0		1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–4
Morecambe	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	2–3	0–2	0–1	3–0	2–1		3–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	1–4	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–1
Newport County	1–1	4–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–3	2–2	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–1		3–2	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	3–1
Northampton Town	4–5	2–0	1–2	2–3	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–0		1–3	2–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–3	3–0
Oxford United	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–2	3–3	2–2	0–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1		0–0	0–1	0–2	2–3	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–0
Plymouth Argyle	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–2		3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–1
Portsmouth	2–3	0–2	1–1	0–1	2–1	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1		0–2	1–2	3–2	3–2	1–1	1–1
Shrewsbury Town	4–0	2–0	1–0	5–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–2	2–1		1–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–0
Southend United	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0		2–0	1–0	2–2	1–0
Stevenage	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	5–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–2		2–2	1–3	2–3
Tranmere Rovers	3–0	1–1	1–4	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–3	0–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	2–2		1–2	1–1
Wycombe Wanderers	2–2	2–0	1–3	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–3	0–2	0–0	1–0	4–1	2–2	0–2		1–0
York City	1–0	2–3	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–0	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2015. Source: BBC Sport
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[33]
1	Matt Tubbs	AFC Wimbledon/Portsmouth	21
2	Jamie Cureton	Dagenham and Redbridge	19
3	Reuben Reid	Plymouth Argyle	18
	Marc Richards	Northampton Town
5	James Collins	Shrewsbury Town	15
	Tom Nichols	Exeter City
7	Barry Corr	Southend United	14
	Danny Hylton	Oxford United
	Jed Wallace	Portsmouth
10	Adebayo Akinfenwa	AFC Wimbledon	13
	Mark Cullen	Luton Town

Notes

1. Newport County's current safety certificate allows a maximum attendance of 7,850 for football matches

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