Redditch United, 2019/20 — the Final Table and the Season's Record

Redditch United finished 22nd in the Premier Central in 2019/20, on 12 points from 33 matches: 3 won, 3 drawn and 27 lost, scoring 24 and conceding 89 for a goal difference of -65. That is 0.36 points a match.

2019/20 sits 17 places below 5th in 2023/24, the club's best finish in this division, and 58 points short of the 70 taken that year.

A match-by-match list is not published for 2019/20. The fixture data available for this season cannot be reconciled with the league's own final standings, and a list that disagrees with the record it is meant to detail is worse than none. The final table above is the league's published record and stands on its own.

Peterborough Sports won the Premier Central in 2019/20 on 65 points from 33, 19 of them wins, with a goal difference of +44. Behind them came Tamworth on 65 and Royston Town on 63. At the other end St Ives Town finished on 23, Alvechurch on 17 and Redditch United bottom on 12.

That is a spread of 53 points from top to bottom across 22 clubs, and the midpoint of the table sat on 48. Peterborough Sports scored the most, 90, and Tamworth conceded the fewest, 27. Read against those numbers, Redditch scored 24 and conceded 89.

21 clubs finished above Redditch on points. In 2019/20 a full programme for 22 clubs was 42 matches, and 22 of the 22 records stop short of that, so the season was not completed as scheduled. Redditch finished 53 points behind the champions and 0 clear of the bottom club.

The top five were Peterborough Sports on 65, Tamworth on 65, Royston Town on 63, Bromsgrove Sporting on 57, Rushall Olympic on 53. Peterborough Sports carried the division’s best goal difference at +44 and Redditch United the worst at -65.

No club finished within three points of Redditch, so 22nd in 2019/20 was settled well before the last day. Across the division 698 club-matches were recorded, from 30 to 33 per club.

Per match, Redditch took 0.36 points from 33 played, against 1.97 for Peterborough Sports, a gap of 1.61 a game.

22 of the 22 clubs in the division did not reach the 42-match programme, with played totals running from 30 to 33. A table read as though it were complete would rank clubs that had played different numbers of matches against each other, so the figures on this page are the league’s own final standings for 2019/20 and nothing is extrapolated to a full season.

This also explains why the match list is not published for 2019/20. The 2019/20 record here comes from the league’s table, which is authoritative; a fixture list that cannot distinguish an abandoned match from a genuine goalless draw would disagree with it, and the disagreement would be invisible to a reader.

Redditch entered 5 cup competitions alongside the league programme in 2019/20: Emirates FA Cup (1 tie), Southern League Challenge Cup (3 ties), Birmingham Senior Cup (1 tie), FA Trophy (3 ties), Worcestershire Senior Cup (1 tie). That is 9 ties on top of 33 league matches in 2019/20.

The Emirates FA Cup run ended with 1–3 against Sutton Coldfield Town, at the Valley Stadium, on 10 September 2019.

The Southern League Challenge Cup run ended with 0–4 against Cirencester Town, at the Valley Stadium, on 17 December 2019.

The Birmingham Senior Cup run ended with 1–1 against West Bromwich Albion, at the Valley Stadium, on 8 October 2019.

The FA Trophy run ended with 3–2 against Barwell, at the Valley Stadium, on 19 November 2019.

The Worcestershire Senior Cup run ended with 1–6 against Evesham United, away, on 9 December 2019.

• 2020/21 — finished 6th on 12 points
• 2018/19 — finished 16th on 50 points
• Every season in this division
• The current table