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A to Z Wolves player stats (years, appearances, goals) at wolves-stats.co.uk at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-11-01) List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database; Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Soccerdata. ISBN 1899468676.
Wolves' FA Cup winning team of 1893. Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, commonly known as Wolves F.C., is an English professional football club. The club played its first match in 1877 as St Luke's F.C., after being formed by pupils of a school in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton bearing this name.
The 1976–77 season was the 97th season of competitive football in England. This year The Football League revamped the tie-breaking criteria for teams level on points, replacing the traditional goal average tiebreaker with one based on goal difference to try to encourage more scoring.
Wolves were the first (and as of 2014 only) English league team to pass the 100-goal mark for four seasons in succession, in the 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60 and 1960–61 seasons. In 2005 Wolves became the first team to have scored 7,000 league goals [ 19 ] and currently trail only Manchester United and Liverpool in terms of total league ...
Wolves won the League Cup in 1974 and 1980, and again won the Second Division title in 1976–77. Wolves suffered a financial crisis during the early-1980s recession that led to the club coming close to liquidation in 1982.
It was sealed at the end of the season, as Wolves won the Third Division title and became the first team to be champions of all four English Football League divisions. Bull totalled 37 goals in the league and 50 in all competitions, making him the first English league player to reach the 50-goal margin in successive seasons. [25]
Seven days later, Wolves clinched their first league title since the 1988–89 season — and their first title at second-tier level since 1976–77 — after a 1–1 draw at Barnsley brought the point they required for the title.
During his final two seasons at Molineux, his chances of first-team football were reduced by a series of knee injuries. He reached the 300-goal milestone [19] on 18 February 1998, scoring in a 2–0 home win over Bradford City in the league. [20] It was the last of nine goals he would score for Wolves that season, as he missed many games due to ...