Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 45 games | OneFootball

It’s not very often you get to celebrate securing safety twice in the same season but, after apparently securing Championship survival with a victory on Tuesday evening, a two-point deduction from the EFL left the Baggies needing another point. With promotion-chasing Ipswich Town the visitors for the final home match of the season, James Morrison’s Albion put in another excellent display to earn the point they needed.

Overall, it has not been a season for celebration but, with ten matches unbeaten and seven clean sheets from the last eight games, it is certainly finishing on a high, even if that high is mere survival in the second tier.

Another clean sheet made it five in succession, edging Mozza’s team closer to the club record of six consecutive league shutouts set by Gary Megson’s team at the start of 2002. The ten match unbeaten run has only been bettered twice in the last fifteen years – Carlos Corberán’s team went twelve games without defeat in the autumn of 2024, but registered only 16 points compared to the 18 recorded by Mozza’s team in the last ten, while Slaven Bilić’s team had a run of fourteen matches unbeaten between October and December 2019 recording an impressive 32 points in the process. Corberán’s team recorded another 10-match unbeaten run in the spring of 2024 while Valérien Ismaël’s team started the 2021/22 season with 10 league games without defeat.

With or without the points deduction, this season’s final tally will be the worst since the 1999/2000 campaign which demonstrates what a desperate season it has been. Victory on the final day could see Albion finish as high as 18th should other results go their way, but that would still be their lowest finishing position since 2000 when they finished 21st.

Saturday’s result was the Baggies’ tenth home draw of the season, the most since the 2019/20 campaign when they also recorded ten draws at the Hawthorns. In the entire club’s history that has only been bettered by the 1999/2000 and 1990/91 campaigns when they recorded eleven home draws.

Albion have finished their home campaign with just eight victories which is the lowest in the second tier since the 1999/2000 campaign when they finished with six wins at the Hawthorns. The Baggies also won just six home games in the 1989/90 campaign, and managed just seven in the 1996/97 and 1990/91 seasons.

With one away game left, the Baggies have lost 13 games on the road. Only twice in the second tier have they lost more in a single campaign – in 1987/88 and 1994/95 they were beaten 14 times away from the Hawthorns in league matches.

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