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2000–01 Reading F.C. season

Field	Value
club	Reading
season	2000–01
manager	Alan Pardew
mgrtitle	Manager
chairman	John Madejski
chrtitle	Chairman
league	Second Division
league result	3rd
cup1	FA Cup
cup1 result	Second Round vs York City
cup2	League Cup
cup2 result	First Round vs Leyton Orient
cup3	League Trophy
cup3 result	Quarter-final vs Swansea City
league topscorer	Jamie Cureton (26)
season topscorer	Jamie Cureton (30)
highest attendance	22,034 vs Wigan Athletic
(16 May 2001)
lowest attendance	4,337 vs Leyton Orient
(5 September 2000)
average attendance	(16 May 2001)
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prevseason	1999–2000
nextseason	2001–02

(16 May 2001) (5 September 2000)

The 2000–01 season was Reading's third season in Division Two, following their relegation from the Division One in 1998. It was Alan Pardew's second season as manager of the club. Reading finished the season in third place, qualifying for the Playoffs, where they were defeated in the final by Walsall 3–2. In the FA Cup, Reading were knocked out by York City after a replay in the Second Round, whilst in the League Cup, Leyton Orient defeated Reading over two legs in the First Round. Reading also reached the Second Round of the League Trophy, before defeat to Swansea City.

Season review

Squad

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends	Apps.	Goals
1	Phil Whitehead	ENG	GK	West Bromwich Albion	1999		67	0
21	Scott Howie	SCO	GK	Motherwell	1998		102	0
31	Jamie Ashdown	ENG	GK	Academy	1998		1	0
36	Simon Cox	IRL	GK	Academy	2000		0	0
3	Matthew Robinson	ENG	DF	Portsmouth	2000		59	0
5	Adi Viveash	ENG	DF	Walsall	2000	2003	62	3
6	Barry Hunter	NIR	DF	Wrexham	1996		100	6
7	Graeme Murty	ENG	DF	York City	1998		59	1
18	Andy Gurney	ENG	DF	Torquay United	1999		84	3
20	Chris Casper	ENG	DF	Manchester United	1998		55	0
23	John Mackie	ENG	DF	Sutton United	1999		16	0
25	Ricky Newman	ENG	DF	Millwall	2000		51	2
28	Chris Smith	ENG	DF	Academy	1999		0	0
29	Ady Williams	WAL	DF	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2000	2003
32	Ricky Allaway	ENG	DF	Academy	1999		0	0
34	Adrian Whitbread	ENG	DF	loan from Portsmouth	2001	2001	19	0
35	Nicky Shorey	ENG	DF	Leyton Orient	2001	2004	0	0
4	Keith Jones	ENG	MF	Charlton Athletic	2000	2002	28	1
8	Darren Caskey	ENG	MF	Tottenham Hotspur	1996		233	45
11	Lee Hodges	ENG	MF	Barnet	1997		99	10
14	Sammy Igoe	ENG	MF	Portsmouth	2000		46	6
16	Phil Parkinson	ENG	MF	Bury	1992		382	21
17	Neil Smith	ENG	MF	Fulham	1999		60	2
19	Joe Gamble	IRL	MF	Cork City	2000		3	0
30	Alex Haddow	ENG	MF	Academy	1999		4	0
37	Tony Rougier	TRI	MF	Port Vale	2000	2003	38	2
40	James Harper	ENG	MF	Arsenal	2001	2005	14	1
9	Martin Butler	ENG	FW	Cambridge United	2000		72	32
10	Nicky Forster	ENG	FW	Birmingham City	1999		56	12
12	Jamie Cureton	ENG	FW	Bristol Rovers	2000	2003	53	30
22	Jim McIntyre	SCO	FW	Kilmarnock	1998		114	16
24	Darius Henderson	ENG	FW	Academy	1999		12	0
27	Nathan Tyson	ENG	FW	Academy	1999		1	0
33	Adam Lockwood	ENG	DF	Academy	1999		0	0
2	John Polston	ENG	DF	Norwich City	1998		24	1
13	Keith Scott	ENG	FW	Wycombe Wanderers	1999		44	8
15	Sean Evers	ENG	MF	Luton Town	1999		27	0
26	Stuart Gray	SCO	DF	Celtic	1998		64	2
32	Phil Hadland	ENG	MF	Academy	1998		1	0
	Neville Stamp	ENG	DF	Academy	1998		1	0

Out on loan

Left club during season

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
3 July 2000	DF	ENG	Adi Viveash	Walsall	Free	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/reading/817593.stm	title=Reading reveal new trio	publisher=BBC	date=3 July 2000	access-date=17 October 2012}}
3 July 2000	DF	WAL	Ady Williams	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free
3 July 2000	MF	ENG	Keith Jones	Charlton Athletic	Free
25 July 2000		DF	ENG	Ricky Newman	Millwall	Free	title=ROYALS SIGN NEWMAN	url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11673/2188716/royals-sign-newman	website=skysports.com/	publisher=Sky Sports	access-date=8 June 2020}}
8 August 2000	MF	IRL	Joe Gamble	Cork City	Free	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/876185.stm	title=SUMMER SIGNINGS	publisher=BBC	date=12 August 2000	access-date=8 June 2020}}
11 August 2000	MF	TRI	Tony Rougier	Port Vale	£325,000	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/reading/876467.stm	title=Reading snap up Rougier	publisher=BBC	date=11 August 2000	access-date=17 October 2012}}
21 August 2000	FW	ENG	Jamie Cureton	Bristol Rovers	£250,000	title=CURETON COMPLETES READING SWITCH	url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11673/2190358/CURETON-COMPLETES-READING-SWITCH	website=skysports.com/	publisher=Sky Sports	access-date=8 June 2020}}
9 February 2001	DF	ENG	Nicky Shorey	Leyton Orient	£25,000	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/reading/1160054.stm	title=Reading complete Shorey deal	publisher=BBC	date= 10 February 2001	access-date=17 October 2012}}
28 February 2001	MF	ENG	James Harper	Arsenal	Undisclosed	url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/reading/1194426.stm	title=Reading swoop for Harper	publisher=BBC	date=28 February 2001	access-date=17 October 2012}}

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date to	Ref.
9 February 2001	DF	ENG	Adrian Whitbread	Portsmouth	End of Season	title=WHITBREAD TAKES ROYALS LOAN	url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11673/2203726/whitbread-takes-royals-loan	website=skysports.com/	publisher=Sky Sports	access-date=8 June 2020}}

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee
7 August 2000	MF	ENG	Phil Hadland	Rochdale	Free
11 October 2000	MF	ENG	Neville Stamp	York City
14 March 2001	MF	SCO	Stuart Gray	Rushden & Diamonds	Free
19 March 2001	FW	ENG	Keith Scott	Colchester United	Free

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date to
27 July 2000	MF	ENG	Alex Haddow	Barnet	One-Month
12 October 2000	FW	ENG	Keith Scott	Colchester United	One-Month
14 October 2000	MF	ENG	Sean Evers	St Johnstone	15 January 2001
12 March 2001	FW	ENG	Nathan Tyson	Maidenhead United	12 April 2001
22 March 2001	DF	ENG	Adam Lockwood	Forest Green Rovers	End of Season

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date
8 March 2001	MF	ENG	Sean Evers	Plymouth Argyle	8 March 2001
April 2001	DF	ENG	John Polston	Retired
30 June 2001	GK	IRL	Simon Cox	Oxford United
30 June 2001	GK	SCO	Scott Howie	Bristol Rovers	31 July 2001
30 June 2001	DF	ENG	Andy Gurney	Swindon Town	21 June 2001
30 June 2001	DF	ENG	Chris Smith	York City	26 May 2001
30 June 2001	MF	ENG	Darren Caskey	Notts County	27 June 2001
30 June 2001	MF	ENG	Alex Haddow	Carlisle United
30 June 2001	MF	ENG	Lee Hodges	Plymouth Argyle
30 June 2001	FW	SCO	Jim McIntyre	Dundee United

: Transfers announced on the above date, being finalised on 1 July 2001.

Competitions

Second Division

Main article: 2000–01 Football League#Second Division

Results summary

Results by round

Results

Livermore
Moody Parkinson Caskey
Gurney Reeves
Invincibile Hunt Hodges Caskey
Cureton
Viveash
Parkinson
Cureton Thordarson
Fenton
Mohan
Guðjónsson
Lightbourne Caskey
Gurney
Parkinson
Smith Rowlands
Mahon
Pinamonte Igoe
Hodges
McIntyre Hooper Caskey
Cureton
Butler Butler
Hodges
Viveash Bound
Thomas
Roberts Wilsterman
Scott Cureton
McIntyre
Gurney
Viveash de Zeeuw
Roberts Newman Viveash
Newman McCarthy
Vinnicombe Caskey
Newman Chalk
Ferguson
Sam Murray
Bell
Carey
Hulbert Cureton
Hodges Cureton
Rougier
Mackie Viveash
Richardson
McGowan
Fear
Anthrobus Byfield Gurney
Rougier Cureton Parkinson
Gurney
Robinson
Parkinson
Butler Stallard
Fenton
Stallard Parkinson Cureton
Smith Whitbread
McLaren
Fraser Thomson
Challis
Hogg
Culkin
Mauge
Jones
Evans Parkinson
Viveash
Newman
Butler
Igoe Hunter Sampson
Hodge Caskey
Cureton Newman
Livermore
Cahill
Reid McIntyre Newman
McIntyre Newman Gibbs
Owusu Igoe
Newman Viveash
Igoe
McIntyre Hooper Cureton Whitbread
Caskey
Parkinson Jones Butler Lee
Scott
Warne Townsend
Brown Caskey
Newman
Hodges Parkinson Sheridan
Roberts Hunter
McIntyre Peacock
Matthews S.Robinson Butler
McIntyre Cureton
Viveash
Whitbread Taylor
Mansell Harper Joseph Robinson
Igoe
Newman Butler
Viveash
Parkinson Cureton
Butler Cramb
Halford
Reid Butler
Caskey Igoe Barras
Bennett Skelton
Dunne
Johnson
Izzet Viveash
Caskey Caskey
Forster Defoe
Howe
Jørgensen

League table

Play-offs

Martínez McIntyre Forster
Viveash
McIntyre Haworth

Final

Rougier
Byfield Butler

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ENG Ray Graydon

ENG Alan Pardew

FA Cup

Main article: 2000–01 FA Cup

Cureton
Butler
Jones Mathie
Hulme
Bower
Edmondson Butler
Whitehead Whitehead
Viveash
Rougier Alcide
Iwelumo

League Cup

Main article: 2000–01 Football League Cup

Griffiths Cureton Christie
Watts
C.Dorrian
Griffiths

League Trophy South

Main article: 2000–01 Football League Trophy

McIntyre
Hunter
Gray Howard Hunter
Newman
McIntyre

Squad statistics

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Goalscorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Division Two	Playoffs	FA Cup	League Cup	League Trophy	Total
1	FW	ENG	12	Jamie Cureton	26	1	1	1	1	30
2	FW	ENG	9	Martin Butler	24	2	2	0	0	28
3	MF	ENG	8	Darren Caskey	9	0	1	0	0	10
4	MF	ENG	14	Sammy Igoe	6	0	0	0	0	6
5	FW	SCO	22	Jim McIntyre	4	0	0	0	1	5
6	MF	ENG	16	Phil Parkinson	4	0	0	0	0	4
7	MF	ENG	11	Lee Hodges	2	0	1	0	0	3
8	MF	TRI	37	Tony Rougier	2	0	0	0	0	2
	DF	ENG	5	Adi Viveash	2	0	0	0	0	2
	FW	ENG	10	Nicky Forster	1	1	0	0	0	2
11	DF	ENG	18	Andy Gurney	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	ENG	40	James Harper	1	0	0	0	0	1
	DF	NIR	6	Barry Hunter	1	0	0	0	0	1
	DF	ENG	7	Graeme Murty	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	ENG	17	Neil Smith	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	ENG	4	Keith Jones	0	0	1	0	0	1
	DF	ENG	25	Ricky Newman	0	0	1	0	0	1
	Own goal	1	0	0	0	0	1
TOTALS		86	4	7	1	2	100

Clean sheets

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Division Two	Playoffs	FA Cup	League Cup	League Trophy	Total
1	GK	ENG	1	Phil Whitehead	16	1	1	0	0	18
2	GK	ENG	31	Jamie Ashdown	1	0	0	0	0	1
TOTALS		16	1	1	0	0	18

Jamie Ashdown replaced the injured Phil Whitehead during the 5-0 victory over Oldham Athletic on 12 September 2000

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Division Two	Playoffs	FA Cup	League Cup	League Trophy	Total	Total	80
1	ENG	GK	Phil Whitehead	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
3	ENG	DF	Matthew Robinson	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
4	ENG	MF	Keith Jones	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	ENG	DF	Adi Viveash	10	1	2	0	1	0	0	0
6	NIR	DF	Barry Hunter	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	ENG	DF	Graeme Murty	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	ENG	MF	Darren Caskey	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	ENG	FW	Martin Butler	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	ENG	MF	Lee Hodges	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	ENG	FW	Jamie Cureton	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
14	ENG	MF	Sammy Igoe	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	ENG	MF	Phil Parkinson	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
17	ENG	MF	Neil Smith	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	ENG	DF	Andy Gurney	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	SCO	FW	Jim McIntyre	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
23	ENG	DF	John Mackie	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	ENG	DF	Ricky Newman	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	ENG	DF	Adrian Whitbread	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	TRI	MF	Tony Rougier	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
40	ENG	MF	James Harper	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players away on loan:
Players who left Reading during the season:
26	SCO	DF	Stuart Gray	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Notes

References

Reading 2000-01 at soccerbase.com

References

(3 July 2000). "Reading reveal new trio". BBC.
"ROYALS SIGN NEWMAN". Sky Sports.
(12 August 2000). "SUMMER SIGNINGS". BBC.
(11 August 2000). "Reading snap up Rougier". BBC.
"CURETON COMPLETES READING SWITCH". Sky Sports.
(10 February 2001). "Reading complete Shorey deal". BBC.
(28 February 2001). "Reading swoop for Harper". BBC.
"WHITBREAD TAKES ROYALS LOAN". Sky Sports.
(27 July 2000). "Latest News". Reading F.C..
(13 October 2000). "Soccer: Scott joins U's". Daily Gazette.
(14 October 2000). "Evers joins Saints on loan". BBC Sport.
(8 March 2001). "Evers and Elliott make Argyle switch". BBC Sport.
"John Polston". Flown from the Nest.
(31 July 2001). "Howie seals Rovers deal". BBC Sport.
(26 May 2001). "City's royal welcome". York Press.
"Season 2000-01". royalsrecord.

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