1997–98 Southend United F.C. season

The 1997–98 season saw Southend United compete in the Football League Second Division where they finished in 24th position with 43 points, suffering relegation to the Third Division.^[1]

Southend United

1997–98 season
Football League Second Division	24th
FA Cup	Second round
League Cup	Second round
Football League Trophy	First round
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

Final league table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
20	Burnley	46	13	13	20	55	65	−10	52
21	Brentford (R)	46	11	17	18	50	71	−21	50	Relegation to the Third Division
22	Plymouth Argyle (R)	46	12	13	21	55	70	−15	49
23	Carlisle United (R)	46	12	8	26	57	73	−16	44
24	Southend United (R)	46	11	10	25	47	79	−32	43

Source: ^[2]
Rules for classification: In the Football League goals scored (GF) takes precedence over goal difference (GD).
(R) Relegated

Results

Southend United's score comes first

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Football League Second Division

Main article: 1997–98 Football League

Match	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
1	9 August 1997	Carlisle United	H	1–1	4,507	Boere
2	18 August 1997	Luton Town	A	0–1	5,140
3	23 August 1997	Burnley	H	1–0	4,218	Boere
4	30 August 1997	Walsall	A	1–3	3,304	Williams
5	2 September 1997	Wycombe Wanderers	A	1–4	4,528	Boere
6	5 September 1997	Brentford	H	3–1	3,458	Marsh, Boere, Clarke
7	13 September 1997	Millwall	A	1–3	8,606	Boere
8	20 September 1997	Fulham	H	1–0	5,026	Lewis
9	27 September 1997	Blackpool	A	0–3	4,542
10	4 October 1997	Northampton Town	H	0–0	4,300
11	11 October 1997	Bristol City	H	0–2	3,273
12	18 October 1997	Plymouth Argyle	A	3–2	3,430	Wotton (o.g.), Clarke, N'Diaye
13	21 October 1997	Wrexham	A	1–3	2,039	Rammell
14	25 October 1997	Oldham Athletic	H	1–1	3,595	Coulbault
15	1 November 1997	Grimsby Town	A	1–5	4,501	Coulbault
16	4 November 1997	Watford	H	0–3	4,001
17	8 November 1997	Wigan Athletic	H	1–0	2,716	Boere
18	18 November 1997	Bournemouth	A	1–2	3,019	Dublin
19	22 November 1997	Bristol Rovers	H	1–1	3,653	N'Diaye
20	29 November 1997	Chesterfield	A	0–1	4,101
21	2 December 1997	Preston North End	H	3–2	2,307	Boere, Gridelet (2)
22	13 December 1997	Gillingham	A	2–1	4,774	Boere, Coulbault
23	19 December 1997	York City	H	4–4	3,215	Clarke (2), Dublin (2)
24	26 December 1997	Brentford	A	1–1	5,341	Coulbault
25	28 December 1997	Wycombe Wanderers	H	1–2	5,162	Thomson
26	3 January 1998	Luton Town	H	1–2	5,056	Thomson
27	10 January 1998	Carlisle United	A	0–5	5,389
28	17 January 1998	Walsall	H	0–1	3,310
29	24 January 1998	Burnley	A	0–1	9,386
30	31 January 1998	Millwall	H	0–0	5,705
31	7 February 1998	Fulham	A	0–2	9,122
32	14 February 1998	Northampton Town	A	1–3	6,147	Boere
33	21 February 1998	Blackpool	H	2–1	3,340	Boere, Dublin
34	24 February 1998	Plymouth Argyle	H	3–0	4,363	Aldridge, Maher, Jobson
35	28 February 1998	Bristol City	A	0–1	12,049
36	7 March 1998	Grimsby Town	H	0–1	4,829
37	14 March 1998	Watford	A	1–1	10,750	Thomson
38	17 March 1998	Wigan Athletic	A	3–1	2,616	Thomson, Rammell, Whyte
39	21 March 1998	Bournemouth	H	5–3	4,823	Thomson (2), Boere (2), Clarke
40	27 March 1998	Bristol Rovers	A	0–2	5,323
41	3 April 1998	Chesterfield	H	0–2	5,425
42	11 April 1998	Preston North End	A	0–1	8,096
43	13 April 1998	Gillingham	H	0–0	6,151
44	18 April 1998	York City	A	1–1	2,850	Boere
45	25 April 1998	Oldham Athletic	A	0–2	4,485
46	2 May 1998	Wrexham	H	1–3	4,220	Boere

FA Cup

Main article: 1997–98 FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	15 November 1997	Woking	A	2–0	5,000	Jones, Gridelet
R2	6 December 1997	Fulham	A	0–1	8,537

League Cup

Main article: 1997–98 Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1 1st Leg	12 August 1997	Cardiff City	A	1–1	2,804	Byrne
R1 2nd Leg	26 August 1997	Cardiff City	H	3–1	3,002	Williams (2), Marsh
R2 1st Leg	16 September 1997	Derby County	H	0–1	4,011
R2 2nd Leg	1 October 1997	Derby County	A	0–5	18,490

Football League Trophy

Main article: 1997–98 Football League Trophy

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
R1	9 December 1997	Wycombe Wanderers	H	0–1	1,577

Squad statistics

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Simon Royce	37	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	44	0
GK	Neville Southall	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
DF	Mark Beard	6(2)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	7(2)	0
DF	Simon Coleman	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
DF	Keith Dublin	14	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	4
DF	Richard Jobson	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	1
DF	Nathan Jones	33(5)	0	2	1	4	0	1	0	40(5)	1
DF	Ben Lewis	14	1	1(1)	0	1(1)	0	1	0	17(2)	1
DF	Chris Perkins	3(2)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4(2)	0
DF	Leo Roget	11	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	14	0
DF	Mark Stimson	17(3)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	18(3)	0
MF	Martin Allen	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
MF	Carl Beeston	5(1)	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8(1)	0
MF	Paul Byrne	9(1)	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	12(1)	1
MF	Adrian Clarke	42(3)	5	2	0	4	0	1	0	49(3)	5
MF	Regis Coulbault	30(4)	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	33(4)	4
MF	Phil Gridelet	31(6)	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	35(6)	3
MF	Julian Hails	41(3)	0	2	0	2(1)	0	0	0	45(3)	3
MF	Andy Harris	26(1)	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	31(1)	0
MF	Mark Jones	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
MF	Kevin Maher	18	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	1
MF	Mike Marsh	9	1	0	0	4	1	0	0	13	2
MF	John Nielsen	1(4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(4)	0
MF	George Parris	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
FW	Martin Aldridge	7(4)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7(4)	1
FW	Jeroen Boere	28(3)	14	1(1)	0	3	0	1	0	32(4)	14
FW	Trevor Fitzpatrick	1(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(2)	0
FW	Pepe N'Diaye	15(2)	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	17(2)	2
FW	Guy Roger Nzamba	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0
FW	Andy Rammell	18(8)	2	1(1)	0	1(3)	0	1	0	20(12)	2
FW	Andy Thomson	16(16)	6	2	0	2	0	1	0	21(16)	6
FW	David Whyte	3(5)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3(5)	1
FW	Paul Williams	6	1	0	0	1(1)	2	0	0	7(1)	3