2018–19 Burnley F.C. season

The 2018–19 season was Burnley's 137th competitive season, their third consecutive in the Premier League and their 56th in top flight English football.^[1] Along with the Premier League, the club competed in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and UEFA Europa League. This was the club's first qualification to a European competition in 51 years.^[2]

Burnley

2018–19 season
Chairman	Mike Garlick
Manager	Sean Dyche
Stadium	Turf Moor
Premier League	15th
FA Cup	Fourth round
EFL Cup	Third round
UEFA Europa League	Play-off round
Top goalscorer	League: Ashley Barnes (12) All: Ashley Barnes Chris Wood (13 each)
Highest home attendance	21,741 (v Liverpool, Premier League, 5 December 2018)
Lowest home attendance	11,053 (v Barnsley, FA Cup, 5 January 2019)
Average home league attendance	20,534
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The season covered the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

Match details

Premier League

Main article: 2018–19 Premier League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
13	Newcastle United	38	12	9	17	42	48	−6	45
14	Bournemouth	38	13	6	19	56	70	−14	45
15	Burnley	38	11	7	20	45	68	−23	40
16	Southampton	38	9	12	17	45	65	−20	39
17	Brighton & Hove Albion	38	9	9	20	35	60	−25	36

Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Play-offs (only if needed to decide champion, teams for relegation or teams for UEFA competitions).

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	11	7	20	45	68	−23	40	7	2	10	24	32	−8	4	5	10	21	36	−15

Last updated: 12 May 2019.
Source: Premier League

Matches

Premier League match details

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
12 August 2018	11th	Southampton	A	D	0–0		30,784	[3]
19 August 2018	15th	Watford	H	L	1–3	Tarkowski 6'	18,822	[4]
26 August 2018	18th	Fulham	A	L	2–4	Hendrick 10', Tarkowski 41'	23,438	[5]
2 September 2018	19th	Manchester United	H	L	0–2		21,525	[6]
16 September 2018	20th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	L	0–1		30,406	[7]
22 September 2018	16th	AFC Bournemouth	H	W	4–0	Vydra 39', Lennon 41', Barnes 83', 88'	18,636	[8]
30 September 2018	12th	Cardiff City	A	W	2–1	Guðmundsson 51', Vokes 70'	30,411	[9]
6 October 2018	12th	Huddersfield Town	H	D	1–1	Vokes 20'	20,533	[10]
20 October 2018	13th	Manchester City	A	L	0–5		54,094	[11]
28 October 2018	15th	Chelsea	H	L	0–4		21,430	[12]
3 November 2018	15th	West Ham United	A	L	2–4	Guðmundsson 45', Wood 77'	56,862	[13]
10 November 2018	15th	Leicester City	A	D	0–0		32,184	[14]
26 November 2018	17th	Newcastle United	H	L	1–2	Vokes 40'	20,628	[15]
1 December 2018	19th	Crystal Palace	A	L	0–2		25,098	[16]
5 December 2018	19th	Liverpool	H	L	1–3	Cork 54'	21,741	[17]
8 December 2018	17th	Brighton & Hove Albion	H	W	1–0	Tarkowski 40'	18,497	[18]
15 December 2018	17th	Tottenham Hotspur	A	L	0–1		41,645	[19]
22 December 2018	18th	Arsenal	A	L	1–3	Barnes 63'	59,493	[20]
26 December 2018	18th	Everton	H	L	1–5	Gibson 36'	21,484	[21]
30 December 2018	18th	West Ham United	H	W	2–0	Wood 15', McNeil 34'	20,933	[22]
2 January 2019	16th	Huddersfield Town	A	W	2–1	Wood 40', Barnes 74'	23,715	[23]
12 January 2019	15th	Fulham	H	W	2–1	Hendrick 20', Odoi 23' (o.g.)	19,316	[24]
19 January 2019	16th	Watford	A	D	0–0		19,510	[25]
29 January 2019	15th	Manchester United	A	D	2–2	Barnes 51', Wood 81'	74,529	[26]
2 February 2019	17th	Southampton	H	D	1–1	Barnes 90+4' (pen.)	19,787	[27]
9 February 2019	15th	Brighton & Hove Albion	A	W	3–1	Wood (2) 26', 61', Barnes 74' (pen.)	29,323	[28]
23 February 2019	13th	Tottenham Hotspur	H	W	2–1	Wood 57', Barnes 83'	21,338	[29]
26 February 2019	15th	Newcastle United	A	L	0–2		48,323	[30]
2 March 2019	16th	Crystal Palace	H	L	1–3	Barnes 90'	19,223	[31]
10 March 2019	17th	Liverpool	A	L	2–4	Westwood 6', Guðmundsson 90+1'	53,310	[32]
16 March 2019	17th	Leicester City	H	L	1–2	McNeil 38'	20,719	[33]
30 March 2019	17th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	W	2–0	Coady 2' (o.g.), McNeil 77'	20,990	[34]
6 April 2019	14th	AFC Bournemouth	A	W	3–1	Wood 18', Westwood 30', Barnes 56'	10,446	[35]
13 April 2019	14th	Cardiff City	H	W	2–0	Wood (2) 31', 90+2'	21,480	[36]
22 April 2019	15th	Chelsea	A	D	2–2	Hendrick 8', Barnes 24'	40,642	[37]
28 April 2019	15th	Manchester City	H	L	0–1		21,605	[38]
3 May 2019	15th	Everton	A	L	0–2		39,303	[39]
12 May 2019	15th	Arsenal	H	L	1–3	Barnes 65'	21,461	[40]

FA Cup

The third round draw was made live on BBC by Ruud Gullit and Paul Ince from Stamford Bridge on 3 December 2018.^[41] The fourth round draw was made live on BBC by Robbie Keane and Carl Ikeme from Wolverhampton on 7 January 2019.^[42]

FA Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Third round	5 January 2019	Barnsley	H	W	1–0	Wood 90+2' (pen.)	11,053	[43]
Fourth round	26 January 2019	Manchester City	A	L	0–5		50,121	[44]

EFL Cup

EFL Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Third round	25 September 2018	Burton Albion	A	L	1–2	Long 40'	2,449	[45]

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying stage

Main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Second qualifying round first leg	26 July 2018	Aberdeen	A	D	1–1	Vokes 80'	20,313	[46]
Second qualifying round second leg	2 August 2018	Aberdeen	H	W	3–1 (a.e.t.), 4–2 agg.	Wood 6', Cork 101', Barnes 114' (pen.)	17,404	[47]
Third qualifying round first leg	9 August 2018	İstanbul Başakşehir	A	D	0–0		4,503	[48]
Third qualifying round second leg	16 August 2018	İstanbul Başakşehir	H	W	1–0 (a.e.t.), 1–0 agg.	Cork 98'	16,583	[49]
Play-off round first leg	23 August 2018	Olympiacos	A	L	1–3	Wood 33' (pen.)	25,010	[50]
Play-off round second leg	30 August 2018	Olympiacos	H	D	1–1, 2–4 agg.	Vydra 86'	15,234	[51]

Transfers

In

Date	Player	Club†	Fee	Ref
3 July 2018	Josh Benson	Arsenal	Free	[52]
3 July 2018	Ed Cook		Free	[52]
3 July 2018	Anthony Glennon	Liverpool	Free	[52]
3 July 2018	Robert Harker	Bury	Free	[52]
3 July 2018	Teddy Perkins	Leyton Orient	Free	[52]
4 July 2018	Mace Goodridge	Newcastle United	Free	[53]
31 July 2018	Vinnie Steels	York City	Free	[54]
5 August 2018	Ben Gibson	Middlesbrough	Undisclosed	[55]
7 August 2018	Joe Hart	Manchester City	Undisclosed	[56]
8 August 2018	Matěj Vydra	Derby County	Undisclosed	[57]
15 August 2018	George McMahon	Rotherham United	Free	[58]
31 January 2019	Peter Crouch	Stoke City	Part exchange	[59]

† Brackets around club names denote the player's contract with that club had expired before he joined Burnley.

Out

Date	Player	Club†	Fee	Ref
1 July 2018	Tom Anderson	Doncaster Rovers	Free	[60]
1 July 2018	Scott Arfield	Rangers	Free	[61][62]
1 July 2018	Arlen Birch	Free agent	Released	[63]
1 July 2018	Josh Ginnelly	Walsall	Free	[64]
1 July 2018	Bradley Jackson	Free agent	Released	[63]
1 July 2018	Harry Limb	King's Lynn Town	Released	[63][65]
1 July 2018	Chris Long	Fleetwood Town	Released	[66][67]
1 July 2018	Dean Marney	Fleetwood Town	Released	[61][68]
1 July 2018	Khius Metz	Free agent	Released	[63]
1 July 2018	Rahis Nabi	Alvechurch	Released	[63][69]
1 July 2018	Jamie Thomas	Free agent	Released	[63]
5 July 2018	Jordan Barnett	Barnsley	Free	[70]
31 August 2018	Connor King	Chester	Free	[71]
31 January 2019	Sam Vokes	Stoke City	Undisclosed	[59]
20 March 2019	Michael Fowler	Fleetwood Town	Undisclosed	[72]

Loans out

Date	Player	Club	Return	Ref
26 July 2018	Conor Mitchell	St Johnstone	30 January 2019	[73][74]
27 July 2018	Aidan Stone	Lancaster City	January 2018	[75]
15 August 2018	Aiden O'Neill	Central Coast Mariners	End of season	[76]
21 August 2018	Jimmy Dunne	Hearts	7 January 2019	[77]
23 August 2018	Nahki Wells	Queens Park Rangers	End of season	[78]
30 August 2018	Ntumba Massanka	Dover Athletic	January 2019	[79]
30 August 2018	Jonathan Walters	Ipswich Town	January 2019	[80]
6 September 2018	Michael Fowler	Padiham	Work experience	[81]
19 November 2018	Bobby Thomas	Kendal Town	22 December 2018	[82]
19 November 2018	Kian Yari	Kendal Town	22 December 2018	[82]
9 January 2019	Jimmy Dunne	Sunderland	End of season	[83]
9 January 2019	Ntumba Massanka	R.W.D. Molenbeek	End of season	[84]
10 January 2019	Ali Koiki	Swindon Town	End of season	[85]
18 January 2019	George McMahon	Ashton United	End of season	[86]
30 January 2019	Conor Mitchell	Linfield	End of season	[74]

Appearances and goals

Source:^[87]

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Burnley.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Players contracted for the 2018–19 season

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		UEL		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Tom Heaton	19	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	22	0	3	0
2	DF	ENG	Matthew Lowton	19 (2)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	22 (2)	0	9	0
3	DF	ENG	Charlie Taylor	35 (3)	0	2	0	0	0	4 (1)	0	41 (4)	0	3	0
4	MF	ENG	Jack Cork	37	1	0 (2)	0	0	0	4 (2)	2	41 (4)	3	6	0
5	DF	ENG	James Tarkowski	35	3	2	0	0	0	3 (2)	0	40 (2)	3	9	0
6	DF	ENG	Ben Mee	38	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	43	0	10	0
7	MF	ISL	Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson	19 (10)	3	0 (1)	0	1	0	4 (1)	0	24 (12)	3	4	0
9	FW	WAL	Sam Vokes †	10 (10)	3	1	0	0 (1)	0	3 (3)	1	14 (14)	4	0	0
10	FW	ENG	Ashley Barnes	26 (11)	12	0	0	0 (1)	0	4 (1)	1	30 (13)	13	10	0
11	FW	NZL	Chris Wood	29 (9)	10	0 (2)	1	1	0	3 (2)	2	33 (13)	13	2	0
12	MF	IRL	Robbie Brady	6 (10)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7 (10)	0	3	1
13	MF	IRL	Jeff Hendrick	25 (7)	3	2	0	0 (1)	0	5 (1)	0	32 (9)	3	4	0
14	DF	ENG	Ben Gibson	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	5	1	3	1
15	FW	ENG	Peter Crouch	0 (6)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (6)	0	1	0
16	MF	BEL	Steven Defour	6	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	9	0	1	0
18	MF	ENG	Ashley Westwood	31 (3)	2	0 (1)	0	1	0	5	0	37 (4)	2	6	0
19	FW	IRL	Jonathan Walters	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	GK	ENG	Joe Hart	19	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	21	0	1	0
21	FW	BER	Nahki Wells	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	DEN	Anders Lindegaard	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	0	0
23	DF	IRL	Stephen Ward	3	0	2	0	1	0	4	0	10	0	2	0
25	MF	ENG	Aaron Lennon	14 (2)	1	0	0	0	0	4 (2)	0	18 (4)	1	2	0
26	DF	SCO	Phil Bardsley	19	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	23	0	10	0
27	FW	CZE	Matěj Vydra	3 (10)	1	2	0	1	0	0 (1)	1	6 (11)	2	1	0
28	DF	IRL	Kevin Long	5 (1)	0	2	0	1	1	3	0	11 (1)	1	4	0
29	GK	ENG	Nick Pope	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
30	GK	ENG	Adam Legzdins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	ENG	Dwight McNeil	19 (2)	3	2	0	1	0	1 (1)	0	23 (3)	3	2	0
32	FW	ENG	Dan Agyei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	GK	NIR	Conor Mitchell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	DF	ENG	Ali Koiki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	DF	ENG	Anthony Glennon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	MF	ENG	Josh Benson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0