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1917–18 Manchester City F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Manchester City F.C.
season	1917–18
manager	Ernest Mangnall
league	War League
Principal Tournament
Lancashire Section
league result
4th
cup1	Subsidiary Tournament
Lancashire Section
Group B
cup1 result
1st
league topscorer
Lomas (22 goals)
season topscorer
Lomas (22 goals)
highest attendance	20,000 vs Manchester United
(29 September 1917)
20,000 vs Stoke
(3 November 1917)
lowest attendance	8,000 vs Burnley
(15 December 1917)
prevseason	1916–17
nextseason	1918–19

Principal Tournament Lancashire Section 4th Lancashire Section Group B 1st Lomas (22 goals) Lomas (22 goals) (29 September 1917) 20,000 vs Stoke (3 November 1917) (15 December 1917)

The 1917–18 season was '''Manchester City F.C.''''s twenty-seventh season of league football.

Owing to the War, once again Manchester City played non-competitive war league football. In the principal tournament they contested the Lancashire Section, while in the four-team subsidiary tournament they contested the Group B of the Lancashire Section.

Team Kit

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War Leagues

Principal Tournament

Lancashire Section

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
30	15	8	7	57	28	+29	38	8	4	3	31	16	+15	7	4	4	26	12	+14

N.B. Points awarded for a win: 2

Reports

Date	Opponents	H / A	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
1 September 1917	Stockport County	H	Hyde Road	2 – 1	Tyler, Thorpe	12,000
8 September 1917	Stockport County	A	Edgeley Park	1 – 0	? (o.g.)	7,000
15 September 1917	Oldham Athletic	H	Hyde Road	2 – 2	Thorpe, Moses	13,000
22 September 1917	Oldham Athletic	A	Boundary Park	0 – 0		10,000
29 September 1917	Manchester United	H	Hyde Road	3 – 1	Lomas (2), Jones	20,000
6 October 1917	Manchester United	A	Old Trafford	1 – 1	Lomas	10,000
13 October 1917	Bury	H	Hyde Road	3 – 1	Lomas (2), Watson	9,000
20 October 1917	Bury	A	Gigg Lane	5 – 2	Lomas (2), Meredith, Jones, Taylor	8,000
27 October 1917	Stoke	A	Victoria Ground	3 – 4	Lomas (2), Watson	9,000
3 November 1917	Stoke	H	Hyde Road	1 – 0	Lomas	20,000
10 November 1917	Liverpool	A	Anfield	0 – 2		18,000
17 November 1917	Liverpool	H	Hyde Road	1 – 1	Thompson	15,000
24 November 1917	Southport Central	A	Unknown stadium	0 – 0		8,000
1 December 1917	Southport Central	H	Hyde Road	5 – 0	Lomas (2), Tyler, Meredith, Wynn	10,000
8 December 1917	Burnley	A	Turf Moor	4 – 0	Lomas (3), Jones	1,000
15 December 1917	Burnley	H	Hyde Road	4 – 1	Tyler, Lomas, Jones, Watson	8,000
22 December 1917	Blackburn Rovers	H	Hyde Road	1 – 0	Cartwright	12,000
29 December 1917	Blackburn Rovers	A	Ewood Park	4 – 0	Meredith, Lomas, Cope, Cunningham	3,000
5 January 1918	Rochdale	H	Hyde Road	1 – 1	Tyler	9,000
12 January 1918	Rochdale	A	Spotland	4 – 1	Thompson (2), Barnes, Watson	6,000
19 January 1918	Everton	H	Hyde Road	0 – 2		13,000
26 January 1918	Everton	A	Goodison Park	0 – 0		20,000
2 February 1918	Port Vale	H	Hyde Road	5 – 1	Broad (2), Lomas (2), Thompson	11,000
9 February 1918	Port Vale	A	Recreation Ground	2 – 0	Lomas, Cunningham	1,000
16 February 1918	Bolton Wanderers	A	Burnden Park	0 – 1		12,000
23 February 1918	Bolton Wanderers	H	Hyde Road	0 – 1		10,000
2 March 1918	Preston North End	A	Deepdale	2 – 0	Lomas, Thompson	9,000
9 March 1918	Preston North End	H	Hyde Road	1 – 2	Lomas	10,000
16 March 1918	Blackpool	A	Bloomfield Road	0 – 1		9,000
23 March 1918	Blackpool	H	Hyde Road	2 – 2	Royle, Thompson	11,000

Subsidiary Tournament

Lancashire Section, Group B

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
6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	9	3	0	0	6	0	+6	1	1	1	5	4	+1

N.B. Points awarded for a win: 2

Reports

Date	Opponents	H / A	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
29 March 1918	Manchester United	H	Hyde Road	3 – 0	Fletcher, Royle, Mann	10,000
30 March 1918	Port Vale	A	Recreation Ground	4 – 1	Royle (2), Thompson, P. Fairclough	8,000
1 April 1918	Manchester United	A	Old Trafford	0 – 2		10,000
6 April 1918	Port Vale	H	Hyde Road	1 – 0	Fletcher	10,000
13 April 1918	Stoke	A	Victoria Ground	1 – 1	Fletcher	9,000
20 April 1918	Stoke	H	Hyde Road	2 – 0	Woodcock, ? (o.g.)	11,000

Squad statistics

Squad

Appearances for competitive matches only

Pos.	Name	Principal	Subsidiary	Total	Apps	Goals	Apps
GK	ENG Jim Goodchild	25	0	4	0	29	0
GK	Percy Kite	1	0	0	0	1	0
GK	ENG Walter Smith	4	0	2	0	6	0
DF	ENG Eli Fletcher	29	0	6	0	35	0
DF	ENG Fred Parker	16	0	2	0	18	0
MF	ENG Sid Hoad	3	1	3	0	0	1
FW	ENG Horace Barnes	18	16	0	0	18	16
FW	ENG Ted Hanney	1	0	0	0	1	0
FW	ENG Gordon Hoare	1	1	0	0	1	1
FW	WAL Lot Jones	8	0	1	0	9	0
FW	ENG Billy Lomas	0	0	5	0	5	0
FW	WAL Billy Meredith	27	2	6	0	33	2
FW	ENG Harry Taylor	1	0	0	0	1	0
FW	ENG Harold Walden	2	1	0	0	2	1
FW	WAL George Wynn	18	3	2	1	20	4
--	Armstrong	0	0	4	0	4	0
--	Bill Bottomley	23	0	1	0	24	0
--	Jack Brennan	12	2	1	0	13	2
--	T. Broad	2	0	0	0	2	0
--	Alf Capper	1	5	0	0	1	5
--	Joe Cartwright	23	2	4	0	27	2
--	J. Clegg	0	0	2	0	2	0
--	Cruse	1	0	0	0	1	0
--	Alfred Davies	18	1	0	0	18	1
--	Peter Fairclough	20	4	4	0	24	4
DF	ENG Peter Gartland	19	0	2	0	21	0
--	Robert Geddes	1	0	0	0	1	0
--	Goddard	3	3	0	0	3	3
--	R. Hargreaves	0	0	1	0	1	0
--	M. Lee	0	0	1	0	1	0
--	F. McIlvenney	0	0	2	1	2	1
--	Malone	0	0	1	0	1	0
--	Miller	4	0	0	0	4	0
--	Nelson	6	2	0	0	6	2
--	H. Newton	0	0	4	1	4	1
--	William Newton	5	1	2	0	7	1
--	Sid Scott	8	0	1	0	9	0
--	Skeldon	1	0	0	0	1	0
--	J.D. Tavo	2	1	0	0	2	1
--	Herbert Tyler	22	3	6	0	28	3
--	Woodhouse	0	0	1	0	1	0
--	Jimmy Wray	5	1	1	0	6	1

Scorers

All

Scorer	Goals
ENG Billy Lomas	22
ENG Jimmy Thompson	7
WAL Lot Jones	4
Stanley Royle
Herbert Tyler
Watson
ENG Eli Fletcher	3
WAL Billy Meredith
ENG Tommy Broad	2
Charlie Cunningham
Thorpe
ENG Horace Barnes	1
Joe Cartwright
Cope
Peter Fairclough
ENG Frank Mann
Moses
ENG Harry Taylor
ENG Wilf Woodcock
WAL George Wynn

Principal Tournament

Scorer	Goals
ENG Billy Lomas	22
ENG Jimmy Thompson	6
WAL Lot Jones	4
Herbert Tyler
Watson
WAL Billy Meredith	3
ENG Tommy Broad	2
Charlie Cunningham
Thorpe
ENG Horace Barnes	1
Joe Cartwright
Cope
Moses
Stanley Royle
ENG Harry Taylor
WAL George Wynn

Subsidiary Tournament

Scorer	Goals
ENG Eli Fletcher	3
Stanley Royle
Peter Fairclough	1
ENG Frank Mann
ENG Jimmy Thompson
ENG Wilf Woodcock

References

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