The 1970–71 season was Newport County's ninth consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division

Football League Fourth Division

The Fourth Division of The Football League was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958–59 season until the creation of the Premier League prior to the 1992–93 season...

 since relegation at the end of the 1961–62 season

1961–62 Newport County A.F.C. season

The 1961–62 season was Newport County's fourth consecutive season in the Football League Third Division since the end of regionalisation in 1958...

 and their 43rd overall in the Football League. The season saw the worst set of results in County's history, with the club failing to win any of the first 25 league matches, setting a Football League record.

League

The season started with a home and away loss, but County were still two places from the foot of the table. However their abysmal record of only three wins and five draws from the next 31 games left them rooted to the bottom. Results improved in the latter stages of the season, with County picking up seven wins and three draws in the remaining 13 games. The club still had to apply for re-election for the third successive season, but having held on to their League status they could take heart from the fact that, even with their worst-ever results, there were still two worse teams!

Results summary

Note: Two points for a win

Overall								|						|	|	|	|	|	8	3	12	32	36	0.89	2	5	16	23	49	0.47

Results by round

Fourth Division

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
15 Aug 1970		H	0–1		4,515
21 Aug 1970		A	1–6	Brown	2,905
29 Aug 1970		H	0–2		3,079
1 Sep 1970		H	0–1		2,569
5 Sep 1970		A	1–2	Jones	4,647
12 Sep 1970		H	1–4	Thomas	1,849
19 Sep 1970		A	1–2	Jones	3,309
23 Sep 1970		A	0–2		8,445
26 Sep 1970	Chester Chester City F.C. Chester City Football Club was an English football team from Chester. The club was founded as Chester F.C., and joined the Football League in 1931, spending most of their time in the lower divisions. They changed their name to Chester City in 1983. Chester won their first league title in 2004, the...	H	0–1		1,827
29 Sep 1970		H	0–1		2,169
3 Oct 1970	Hartlepool Hartlepool United F.C. Hartlepool United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Hartlepool that currently play in League One. The team won promotion to League One in the 2006–07 season...	A	2–2	Hooper 2	3,238
10 Oct 1970		H	2–3	Brown 2	3,539
17 Oct 1970		A	0–1		6,171
21 Oct 1970		A	0–3		4,349
24 Oct 1970		H	2–2	D.H.Harris, Brown	2,559
30 Oct 1970		A	0–1		3,120
7 Nov 1970		H	0–1		2,407
10 Nov 1970		H	1–3	Jones	1,973
14 Nov 1970		A	2–3	Jones, Radford	3,608
27 Nov 1970		A	2–3	Radford	3,752
5 Dec 1970		H	1–2	Brown	2,629
12 Dec 1970		A	0–4		7,845
19 Dec 1970		H	2–2	Hooper, D.H.Harris	2,805
26 Dec 1970		A	0–2		3,058
9 Jan 1971		A	1–1	Jones	4,142
15 Jan 1971		H	3–0	Jones, Brown, White	2,308
23 Jan 1971		A	1–3	White	2,075
6 Feb 1971		A	1–1	Wood	5,686
12 Feb 1971		H	3–2	Jones, Coldrick, White	1,542
20 Feb 1971		A	2–4	Young, Brown	6,444
26 Feb 1971		H	0–3		1,753
2 Mar 1971		H	3–1	Jones 2, Thomas	1,479
6 Mar 1971		A	1–2	Thomas	1,748
9 Mar 1971		H	2–1	Smith, Brown	2,129
12 Mar 1971		H	2–0	Smith 2	2,587
17 Mar 1971		A	1–1	Thomas	4,407
20 Mar 1971		A	3–0	Thomas 2, OG	8,402
27 Mar 1971		H	2–0	Hooper, Brown	2,588
3 Apr 1971		A	2–2	Thomas, Hooper	8,295
10 Apr 1971		H	1–3	Thomas	3,353
13 Apr 1971	Hartlepool Hartlepool United F.C. Hartlepool United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Hartlepool that currently play in League One. The team won promotion to League One in the 2006–07 season...	H	2–0	Radford, Thomas	3,173
17 Apr 1971		A	1–0	Brown	3,075
20 Apr 1971		H	2–2	Brown, Coldrick	3,397
24 Apr 1971		H	3–1	Brown 3	2,756
27 Apr 1971		A	0–2		4,710
1 May 1971	Chester Chester City F.C. Chester City Football Club was an English football team from Chester. The club was founded as Chester F.C., and joined the Football League in 1931, spending most of their time in the lower divisions. They changed their name to Chester City in 1983. Chester won their first league title in 2004, the...	A	1–2	Aizlewood	2,645

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
1	|21 Nov 1970		A	1–6	Jones	2,994

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
1	19 Aug 1970		H	2–1	Brown, Young	3,624
2	9 Sep 1970		A	1–4	Brown	9,828

Welsh Cup

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
5	2 Mar 1971		H	1–1	Thomas	6,162
5r	10 Mar 1971		A	0–4		10,385

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Notts County Notts County F.C. Notts County Football Club are an English professional football club based in Nottingham. They are the oldest of all the clubs in the world that are now professional, having been formed in 1862. They currently play in League One of The Football League, the third tier of the English football system...	46	30	9	7	89	36	2.472	69
2	Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic A.F.C. Bournemouth A.F.C. Bournemouth is an English football club currently playing in Football League One. The club plays at Dean Court in Kings Park, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset and have been in existence since 1899....	46	24	12	10	81	46	1.761	60
3	Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic A.F.C. Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is an English association football club based at Boundary Park, on Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the Football League One, the third tier of the English league...	46	24	11	11	88	63	1.397	59
4	York City York City F.C. York City Football Club is an English football club based in York, North Yorkshire. The club participates in the Conference National, the fifth tier of English football. Founded in 1922, they joined the Football League in 1929, and have spent most of their history in the lower divisions...	46	23	10	13	78	54	1.444	56
5	Chester Chester City F.C. Chester City Football Club was an English football team from Chester. The club was founded as Chester F.C., and joined the Football League in 1931, spending most of their time in the lower divisions. They changed their name to Chester City in 1983. Chester won their first league title in 2004, the...	46	24	7	15	69	55	1.255	55
6	Colchester United Colchester United F.C. Colchester United Football Club is an English football club based in Colchester. The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their old Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town who had previously used the ground from 1910....	46	21	12	13	70	54	1.296	54
7	Northampton Town Northampton Town F.C. Northampton Town Football Club are an English professional football club based in Northampton, Northamptonshire. They currently play in Football League Two, the lowest league division, after being relegated from League One on the last day of the 2008–09 season...	46	19	13	14	63	59	1.068	51
8	Southport Southport F.C. Southport Football Club are an English football club, based in Southport, Merseyside. They are currently in the Conference National, and play their home matches at Haig Avenue, which has a capacity of 6,008...	46	21	6	19	63	57	1.105	48
9	Exeter City Exeter City F.C. Exeter City Football Club is an English football club, based in Exeter, which is owned by its fans through the Exeter City Supporters Trust.The club was a member of the Football League from 1920 to 2003...	46	17	14	15	67	68	0.985	48
10	Workington Workington A.F.C. Workington A.F.C. is an English football club from Workington, Cumbria. They are in the Conference North, and play their home matches at Borough Park, which has a capacity of 3,101 . The club play in red, and are known locally as the Reds...	46	18	12	16	48	49	0.980	48
11	Stockport County Stockport County F.C. Stockport County Football Club is an English football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The club formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, shortly afterwards merging with Heaton Norris F.C., and adopted the current name on 24 May 1890 on the creation of the County Borough of Stockport...	46	16	14	16	49	65	0.754	46
12	Darlington Darlington F.C. Darlington Football Club is a professional association football club based in Darlington, County Durham, currently playing in the Conference National. The club was founded in 1883, and originally played its games at Feethams, before moving to the Darlington Arena in 2003...	46	17	11	18	58	57	1.018	45
13	Aldershot Aldershot F.C. Aldershot Football Club was an English Football League club, which was wound up in the High Court in March 1992. They became the first Football League club since Accrington Stanley to resign from the League during the course of a season. The club was nicknamed the Shots for both the last syllable...	46	14	17	15	66	71	0.930	45
14	Brentford Brentford F.C. Brentford Football Club are a professional English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. They are currently playing in Football League One....	46	18	8	20	66	62	1.065	44
15	Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra F.C. Crewe Alexandra Football Club is an English professional football club based in Crewe, Cheshire. Nicknamed The Railwaymen due to the town's links with the rail industry, they currently play in Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football, and are based at the Alexandra Stadium.The club...	46	18	8	20	75	76	0.987	44
16	Peterborough United Peterborough United F.C. Peterborough United Football Club are a professional English football club based in Peterborough. Peterborough United formed in 1934 and played in the old Midland League, which they won six times; eventually being admitted to the Football League in 1960, replacing Gateshead. Their home ground is...	46	18	7	21	70	71	0.986	43
17	Scunthorpe United Scunthorpe United F.C. Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, who play in the Football League One....	46	15	13	18	56	61	0.918	43
18	Southend United Southend United F.C. Southend United Football Club is an English football club based at Roots Hall Stadium, Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, who play in Football League Two. Their home ground is Roots Hall, and the club plan to move into a new 22,000-seater stadium located at Fossetts Farm.-Stadium:The club has had...	46	14	15	17	53	66	0.803	43
19	Grimsby Town Grimsby Town F.C. Grimsby Town Football Club is an English football club based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire, England, who compete in the Conference National. They were formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham and later became Grimsby Town...	46	18	7	21	57	71	0.803	43
20	Cambridge United Cambridge United F.C. Cambridge United Football Club is a professional football club from Cambridge, England. They are currently playing the 2011-2012 season in the Conference National, the fifth tier of the English league system, where they have competed since 2005 following their relegation from the Football League...	46	15	13	18	51	66	0.773	43
21	Lincoln City Lincoln City F.C. Lincoln City Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The club are currently members of the Conference National in 2011–12 following relegation from the Football League....	46	13	13	20	70	71	0.986	39
22	Newport County Newport County A.F.C. Newport County Association Football Club are a professional football club based in the city of Newport, south Wales, who currently play in the Conference National, the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...	46	10	8	28	55	85	0.647	28
23	Hartlepool Hartlepool United F.C. Hartlepool United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Hartlepool that currently play in League One. The team won promotion to League One in the 2006–07 season...	46	8	12	26	34	74	0.459	28
24	Barrow Barrow A.F.C. Barrow A.F.C. are an English football club founded in 1901 based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Following promotion at the end of the 2007–08 season, they currently play in the Conference National. The club spent over fifty years in the Football League between 1921 and 1972, and have...	46	7	8	31	51	90	0.567	22

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points
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Key
	Division Champions
	Promoted
	Re-elected
	Failed re-election

Election

Votes	Club	Fate
47		Re-elected to the League
38		Re-elected to the League
33	Hartlepool Hartlepool United F.C. Hartlepool United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Hartlepool that currently play in League One. The team won promotion to League One in the 2006–07 season...	Re-elected to the League
33		Re-elected to the League
22		Not elected to the League
14		Not elected to the League
2		Not elected to the League
2		Not elected to the League
2		Not elected to the League
1		Not elected to the League
1		Not elected to the League
1		Not elected to the League
0		Not elected to the League
0		Not elected to the League
0		Not elected to the League
0		Not elected to the League
0		Not elected to the League

External links

• Newport County Archives