2016–17 EFL League One

The 2016–17 EFL League One (referred to as the Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th season of the Football League One under its current title and the 24th season under its current league division format. The fixtures were announced on 22 June 2016.^[1]

EFL League One

Season	2016–17
Champions	Sheffield United (1st divisional title)
Promoted	Sheffield United Bolton Wanderers Millwall
Relegated	Chesterfield Coventry City Swindon Town Port Vale
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,417 (2.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Billy Sharp (30 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Mark Howard (Bolton) 9
Biggest home win	Bristol Rovers 5–0 Northampton Town Scunthorpe United 5–0 Gillingham
Biggest away win	Bristol Rovers 1–5 Charlton Athletic
Longest winning run	Sheffield United (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Fleetwood Town (18 matches)
Longest winless run	Bury (20 matches)
Longest losing run	Bury (13 matches)
Highest attendance	31,003 (Sheffield United 3-2 Chesterfield, 30 April 2017)
Lowest attendance	1,907 (Rochdale 4–0 Walsall)
Average attendance	7,576
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Team changes

Bolton and Oxford competed in the third tier for the first time under the League One name. AFC Wimbledon made their debut in the third tier.

To League One Promoted from League Two Northampton Town Oxford United Bristol Rovers AFC Wimbledon Relegated from Championship Charlton Athletic Milton Keynes Dons Bolton Wanderers

From League One Promoted to Championship Wigan Athletic Burton Albion Barnsley Relegated to League Two Doncaster Rovers Blackpool Colchester United Crewe Alexandra

Teams

London

Greater Manchester

Bradford City

Bristol Rovers

Chesterfield

Coventry City

Fleetwood Town

Gillingham

Milton Keynes Dons

Northampton Town

Oxford United

Peter- borough United

Port Vale

Scunthorpe United

Sheffield United

Shrewsbury Town

Southend United

Swindon Town

Walsall

London teams
AFC Wimbledon
Charlton Athletic
Millwall

Greater Manchester teams
Bolton Wanderers
Bury
Oldham Athletic
Rochdale

Locations of the 2016–17 Football League One teams in England

AFC Wimbledon

Charlton Athletic

Millwall

Greater London League One football clubs

Bolton Wanderers

Bury

Oldham Athletic

Rochdale

Greater Manchester League One football clubs

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity[2]
AFC Wimbledon	London (Kingston upon Thames)	Kingsmeadow	4,850 (2,265 seated)
Bolton Wanderers	Bolton	Macron Stadium	28,723
Bradford City	Bradford	Valley Parade	25,136
Bristol Rovers	Bristol	Memorial Stadium	12,011
Bury	Bury	Gigg Lane	11,640
Charlton Athletic	London (Charlton)	The Valley	27,111
Chesterfield	Chesterfield	Proact Stadium	10,400
Coventry City	Coventry	Ricoh Arena	32,500
Fleetwood Town	Fleetwood	Highbury Stadium	5,311 (2,701 seated)
Gillingham	Gillingham	Priestfield Stadium	11,582
Millwall	London (South Bermondsey)	The Den	20,146
Milton Keynes Dons	Milton Keynes	Stadium:mk	30,500
Northampton Town	Northampton	Sixfields Stadium	7,798
Oldham Athletic	Oldham	Boundary Park	13,512
Oxford United	Oxford	Kassam Stadium	12,500
Peterborough United	Peterborough	ABAX Stadium	15,314
Port Vale	Stoke-on-Trent	Vale Park	18,947
Rochdale	Rochdale	Spotland Stadium	10,249
Scunthorpe United	Scunthorpe	Glanford Park	9,088
Sheffield United	Sheffield	Bramall Lane	32,702
Shrewsbury Town	Shrewsbury	New Meadow	9,875
Southend United	Southend-on-Sea	Roots Hall	12,392
Swindon Town	Swindon	County Ground	15,728
Walsall	Walsall	Bescot Stadium	11,300

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Bolton Wanderers	Neil Lennon	Sacked	15 March 2016[3]	Pre-season	Phil Parkinson	10 June 2016[4]
Charlton Athletic	Jose Riga	Resigned	7 May 2016[5]		Russell Slade	6 June 2016
Sheffield United	Nigel Adkins	Sacked	12 May 2016[6]		Chris Wilder	12 May 2016[6]
Northampton Town	Chris Wilder	Signed by Sheffield United	12 May 2016[6]		Rob Page	19 May 2016[7]
Port Vale	Rob Page	Signed by Northampton Town	19 May 2016[7]		Bruno Ribeiro	20 June 2016[8]
Oldham Athletic	John Sheridan	Signed by Notts County	27 May 2016[9]		Steve Robinson	9 July 2016
Bradford City	Phil Parkinson	Signed by Bolton Wanderers	10 June 2016[4]		Stuart McCall	20 June 2016[10]
Fleetwood Town	Steven Pressley	Resigned	26 July 2016[11]		Uwe Rösler	30 July 2016[12]
Coventry City	Tony Mowbray	Resigned	29 September 2016[13]	24th	Russell Slade	21 December 2016
Shrewsbury Town	Micky Mellon	Signed by Tranmere Rovers	6 October 2016[14]	21st	Paul Hurst	24 October 2016[15]
Milton Keynes Dons	Karl Robinson	Sacked	23 October 2016[16]	19th	Robbie Neilson	3 December 2016[17]
Charlton Athletic	Russell Slade	Sacked	14 November 2016[18]	15th	Karl Robinson	24 November 2016[19]
Bury	David Flitcroft	Mutual consent	16 November 2016[20]	16th	Chris Brass	14 December 2016
Port Vale	Bruno Ribeiro	Resigned	26 December 2016[21]	17th	Michael Brown	26 December 2016[21]
Gillingham	Justin Edinburgh	Sacked	3 January 2017		Adrian Pennock	4 January 2017[22]
Chesterfield	Danny Wilson		8 January 2017	22nd	Gary Caldwell	17 January 2017[23]
Northampton Town	Rob Page		9 January 2017	16th	Justin Edinburgh	13 January 2017[24]
Oldham Athletic	Steve Robinson		12 January 2017[25]	24th	John Sheridan	12 January 2017[25]
Bury	Chris Brass		15 February 2017[26]	20th	Lee Clark	15 February 2017[26]
Coventry City	Russell Slade		5 March 2017[27]	24th	Mark Robins	6 March 2017[28]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Sheffield United (C, P)	46	30	10	6	92	47	+45	100	Promotion to the EFL Championship
2	Bolton Wanderers (P)	46	25	11	10	68	36	+32	86
3	Scunthorpe United	46	24	10	12	80	54	+26	82	Qualification for the League One play-offs[a]
4	Fleetwood Town	46	23	13	10	64	43	+21	82
5	Bradford City	46	20	19	7	62	43	+19	79
6	Millwall (O, P)	46	20	13	13	66	57	+9	73
7	Southend United	46	20	12	14	70	53	+17	72
8	Oxford United	46	20	9	17	65	52	+13	69
9	Rochdale	46	19	12	15	71	62	+9	69
10	Bristol Rovers	46	18	12	16	68	70	−2	66
11	Peterborough United	46	17	11	18	62	62	0	62
12	Milton Keynes Dons	46	16	13	17	60	58	+2	61
13	Charlton Athletic	46	14	18	14	60	53	+7	60
14	Walsall	46	14	16	16	51	58	−7	58
15	AFC Wimbledon	46	13	18	15	52	55	−3	57
16	Northampton Town	46	14	11	21	60	73	−13	53
17	Oldham Athletic	46	12	17	17	31	44	−13	53
18	Shrewsbury Town	46	13	12	21	46	63	−17	51
19	Bury	46	13	11	22	61	73	−12	50
20	Gillingham	46	12	14	20	59	79	−20	50
21	Port Vale (R)	46	12	13	21	45	70	−25	49	Relegation to EFL League Two
22	Swindon Town (R)	46	11	11	24	44	66	−22	44
23	Coventry City (R)	46	9	12	25	37	68	−31	39
24	Chesterfield (R)	46	9	10	27	43	78	−35	37

Source: BBC Sport
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Four teams play for one spot and promotion to the EFL Championship.

Play-offs

See also: 2017 English Football League play-offs

	Semi-finals							Final
	3	Scunthorpe United	0	2	2
	6	Millwall	0	3	3
								6	Millwall	1
								5	Bradford City	0
	4	Fleetwood Town	0	0	0
	5	Bradford City	1	0	1

Results

Home \ Away	WIM	BOL	BRA	BRR	BRY	CHA	CHF	COV	FLE	GIL	MIL	MKD	NOR	OLD	OXF	PET	PTV	ROC	SCU	SHU	SHR	STD	SWI	WAL
AFC Wimbledon		1–2	2–3	0–1	5–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	3–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–0
Bolton Wanderers	1–1		0–0	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	3–0	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	4–1
Bradford City	3–0	2–2		1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–0	0–0	3–3	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0
Bristol Rovers	2–0	1–2	1–1		4–2	1–5	2–1	4–1	2–1	2–1	3–4	0–0	5–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1
Bury	1–2	0–2	0–2	3–0		2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	2–3	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–3	5–1	4–1	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–1	1–4	1–0	3–3
Charlton Athletic	1–2	1–1	1–1	4–1	0–1		1–0	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	3–0	1–1
Chesterfield	0–0	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–2	1–2		1–0	0–1	3–3	1–3	0–0	3–1	0–1	0–4	3–3	1–0	1–3	0–3	1–4	1–1	0–4	3–1	2–0
Coventry City	2–2	2–2	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–3	1–0
Fleetwood Town	0–0	2–4	2–1	3–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–0		2–1	1–0	1–4	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–1
Gillingham	2–2	0–4	1–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–3		1–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1
Millwall	0–0	0–2	1–1	4–0	0–0	3–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–1		2–1	3–0	3–0	0–3	1–0	2–0	2–3	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0
Milton Keynes Dons	1–0	1–1	1–2	3–3	1–3	0–1	2–3	1–0	0–1	3–2	2–2		5–3	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–3	2–1	0–3	3–2	1–1
Northampton Town	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–3	3–2	2–1	3–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	3–2		1–2	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	4–0	2–1	2–0
Oldham Athletic	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–0		2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	0–2	0–2	0–0
Oxford United	1–3	2–4	1–0	0–2	5–1	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–3	1–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–1		2–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–0
Peterborough United	0–1	1–0	0–1	4–2	3–1	2–0	5–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	5–1	0–4	3–0	1–1	1–2		2–2	3–1	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–4	2–2	1–1
Port Vale	2–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	2–3	2–2	2–2	0–3		1–0	3–1	0–3	2–1	2–0	3–2	0–1
Rochdale	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–3	3–0	2–0	2–1	4–1	3–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–4	2–3	3–0		3–2	3–3	2–1	3–0	4–0	4–0
Scunthorpe United	1–2	1–0	3–2	3–1	3–2	0–0	3–1	3–1	0–2	5–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–1		2–2	0–1	4–0	4–1	0–0
Sheffield United	4–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–1		2–1	0–3	4–0	0–1
Shrewsbury Town	2–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	4–3	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–3	1–2	0–1	2–4	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–3		1–0	1–1	1–1
Southend United	3–0	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–1	0–2	1–3	3–1	1–2	2–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–4	1–1		1–1	3–2
Swindon Town	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	3–0	1–2	2–4	1–1	0–0		0–2
Walsall	3–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–3	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–4	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–4	4–1	3–2	0–0	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 30 April 2017. Source: BBC Sport
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 22 April 2017^[29]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Billy Sharp	Sheffield United	30
2	James Vaughan	Bury	24
3	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United	19
4	Simon Cox	Southend United	16
	Matty Taylor	Bristol Rovers
6	Lee Gregory	Millwall	15
	Ian Henderson	Rochdale
8	David Ball	Fleetwood Town	14
	Erhun Oztumer	Walsall
10	Alex Jones	Bradford City/Port Vale	13
	Chris Maguire	Oxford United
	Aiden O'Brien	Millwall
	Josh Wright	Gillingham

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United
September	David Flitcroft	Bury	Josh Morris	Scunthorpe United
October	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Zach Clough	Bolton Wanderers
November	Graham Alexander	Scunthorpe United	Jay O'Shea	Chesterfield
December	Keith Hill	Rochdale	Matty Lund	Rochdale
January	Uwe Rösler	Fleetwood Town	James Vaughan	Bury
February	Neil Harris	Millwall	Billy Sharp	Sheffield United
March	Phil Parkinson	Bolton Wanderers	Filipe Morais	Bolton Wanderers
April[30]	Chris Wilder	Sheffield United	Leon Clarke	Sheffield United

Attendances

#	Football club	Home games	Average attendance[31]
1	Sheffield United	23	21,892
2	Bradford City	23	18,167
3	Bolton Wanderers	23	14,934
4	Charlton Athletic	23	11,162
5	MK Dons	23	10,307
6	Millwall FC	23	9,340
7	Bristol Rovers	23	9,302
8	Coventry City	23	9,118
9	Oxford United	23	8,297
10	Southend United	23	7,406
11	Swindon Town	23	7,026
12	Northampton Town	23	6,208
13	Gillingham FC	23	6,129
14	Chesterfield FC	23	5,929
15	Peterborough United	23	5,581
16	Shrewsbury Town	23	5,507
17	Walsall FC	23	5,072
18	Port Vale	23	4,813
19	Scunthorpe United	23	4,536
20	Oldham Athletic	23	4,514
21	AFC Wimbledon	23	4,477
22	Bury FC	23	3,845
23	Rochdale AFC	23	3,556
24	Fleetwood Town	23	3,272