2009–10 Premier Reserve League

Premier Reserve League
Season	2009–10
Champions	Manchester United
Goals scored	479
Average goals/game	2.94
Top goalscorer	Ryan Noble (10)
Biggest home win	West Ham United 6–0 Birmingham City (8 September 2009)
Biggest away win	Chelsea 0–4 Aston Villa (25 August 2009); Birmingham City 0-4 Arsenal (1 September 2009); Sunderland 1–5 Hull City (1 September 2009); Sunderland 0–4 Manchester United (21 January 2010)
Highest scoring	Portsmouth 2–5 Chelsea (1 September 2009); Wigan Athletic 3-4 Man City (15 September 2009); Sunderland 6–1 Bolton (3 November 2009); Wigan 2–5 Everton (10 November 2009); West Ham 5–2 Stoke (24 November 2009); Manchester United 6–1 Hull City (8 April 2010)
Longest winning run	7 games - Liverpool; (2 September 2009 – 10 November 2009)
Longest unbeaten run	15 games - Aston Villa; (25 August 2009 – 15 April 2010)
Longest losing run	7 games - Bolton Wanderers; (19 October 2009 – 15 February 2010)
Highest attendance	2,803 – Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United (24 February 2010)
Lowest attendance	87 – Portsmouth v Stoke City (16 March 2010)
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 Premier Reserve League (officially known as the 2009–10 Barclays Premier Reserve League for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season since the establishment of the Premier Reserve League. The season began on 24 August 2009 and ended with the play-off final being hosted by the Northern League champions on 3 May 2010^[1] (The venue for the final alternates between the Northern & Southern champions).

The events in the senior leagues during the 2008–09 season saw Middlesbrough, Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion all relegated and replaced by the promoted teams Burnley, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and Birmingham City. Tottenham Hotspur will not be entering a team for this season.^[2]

On 12 April 2010, in a behind closed doors fixture at their Bodymoor Heath training ground, Aston Villa beat Fulham 2-1 with goals from Barry Bannan and Ciaran Clark to book their place in the playoff final with 2 league games to spare.^[3]^[4]

On 20 April, Liverpool lost 1-0 ^[5] at home to Everton. This was their 4th defeat in a row^[6] and it handed the Premier Reserve League North title to Manchester United.^[7]

The playoff final went to a penalty shoot out where Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-2. Goalkeeper, Ben Foster scoring the decisive penalty kick. The match had finished 3-3 in normal time.

Tables

Premier Reserve League North

Final table as of 4 May 2010

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United Reserves (C)	18	13	2	3	35	10	+25	41
2	Manchester City Reserves	18	10	5	3	34	20	+14	35
3	Liverpool Reserves	18	10	2	6	28	20	+8	32
4	Blackburn Rovers Reserves	18	8	5	5	35	24	+11	29
5	Sunderland Reserves	18	7	1	10	25	32	−7	22
6	Wigan Athletic Reserves	18	6	3	9	28	35	−7	21
7	Burnley Reserves	18	6	3	9	22	36	–14	21
8	Hull City Reserves	18	6	2	10	22	26	–4	20
9	Everton Reserves	18	5	3	10	17	30	–13	18
10	Bolton Wanderers Reserves	18	5	2	11	24	37	–13	17

Premier Reserve League South

Final table as of 27 April 2010

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Aston Villa Reserves (C)	16	11	4	1	34	12	+22	37
2	Arsenal Reserves	16	10	2	4	28	14	+14	32
3	Fulham Reserves	16	8	4	4	25	19	+6	28
4	Chelsea Reserves	16	7	1	8	27	26	+1	22
5	Portsmouth Reserves	16	6	3	7	21	27	–6	21
6	West Ham United Reserves	16	5	4	7	26	27	–1	19
7	Birmingham City Reserves	16	4	3	9	14	34	−20	15
8	Wolves Reserves	16	3	5	8	16	21	−5	14
9	Stoke City Reserves	16	3	4	9	13	24	–11	13

Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored
Pos = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; C = Champions

Play-off Final

3 May 2010^[1]

15:00 BST

Manchester United Reserves	3 – 3	Aston Villa Reserves
Diouf 43', 88' Macheda 60' (pen.)	Report	Delfouneso 22', 55' Clark 82'
Penalties
Macheda Possebon Keane Foster Evans	3 – 2	Bannan Albrighton Weimann Delfouneso Collins

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 2,165

Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)

Results

Premier Reserve League North

	Bla	Bol	Bur	Eve	Hul	Liv	MCi	MUn	Sun	Wig
Bla		1–2	4–0	4-0	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–2
Bol	3–3		1–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	2–1	3–0
Bur	3–2	3–3		2–3	2–1	3–1	1–4	0-1	0–1	2–2
Eve	0–3	1–2	3–0		0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–4
Hul	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–0		0–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	3–0
Liv	1-2	3–1	1–0	0–1	4–1		3–3	1–0	2–0	1–1
MCi	0–0	2–0	1–2	4–1	2–0	0–2		1–0	1–2	2–0
MUn	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	6–1	1–0	2–2		4–0	2–1
Sun	3–1	6–1	0–1	2–0	1–5	0–1	2–3	0–4		3–0
Wig	0–3	2–0	5–0	2–5	2–1	3–2	3–4	1–0	0–1

Premier Reserve League South

	Ars	Ast	Bir	Che	Ful	Por	Sto	Wes	Wol
Ars		1–2	3–1	2–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–2	1–0
Ast	1–1		4–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–1
Bir	0–4	3–3		0–1	1–1	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–0
Che	1–2	0–4	1–2		3–3	1–0	3–0	4–1	2–0
Ful	1–0	0–3	3–0	2–1		1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1
Por	0–3	3–1	2–1	2–5	0–2		1–1	3–0	2–2
Sto	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–2	1–3	4–0		0–0	1–0
Wes	2–4	0–1	6–0	2–1	3-2	1–1	5–2		0–0
Wol	2–2	0–3	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	3–1	4–1

Top scorers

Premier Reserve League North

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Ryan Noble	Sunderland Reserves	10
2	David Ball	Manchester City Reserves	7
2	Tomasz Kupisz	Wigan Athletic Reserves	7
4	Mame Diouf	Manchester United Reserves	6
4	Alex Nimely	Manchester City Reserves	6
6	Wes Fletcher	Burnley Reserves	5
	Róbert Mak	Manchester City Reserves	5
	Frédéric Nimani	Burnley Reserves	5
	James Poole	Manchester City Reserves	5
	Danny Ward	Bolton Wanderers Reserves	5
11	Tomasz Cywka	Wigan Athletic Reserves	4
	Aaron Doran	Blackburn Rovers Reserves	4
	David Dowson	Sunderland Reserves	4
	Nathan Eccleston	Liverpool Reserves	4
	Magnus Eikrem	Manchester United Reserves	4
	Roy O'Donovan	Sunderland Reserves	4
	Maceo Rigters	Blackburn Rovers Reserves	4
	Zoran Tošić	Manchester United Reserves	4
	Ricardo Vaz Tê	Bolton Wanderers Reserves	4

Premier Reserve League South

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Andreas Weimann	Aston Villa Reserves	9
2	Louis Moult	Stoke City Reserves	7
3	Nathan Delfouneso	Aston Villa Reserves	6
4	Fabio Borini	Chelsea Reserves	5
	Daniel Sturridge	Chelsea Reserves	5
	Sanchez Watt	Arsenal Reserves	5
7	Nacer Barazite	Arsenal Reserves	4
	Ciaran Clark	Aston Villa Reserves	4
	Danny Hoesen	Fulham Reserves	4
	Frédéric Piquionne	Portsmouth Reserves	4
	Gilles Sunu	Arsenal Reserves	4

Promotion and relegation

Teams relegated from the Premier Reserve League at the end of this season:
Hull City^[8]
Burnley^[9]
Portsmouth^[10]
Teams promoted to the Premier Reserve League next season:
Newcastle United^[11]
West Bromwich Albion^[12]
Blackpool^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b "avfc.co.uk » Reserves playoff date set". avfc.co.uk. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
^ "TottenhamHotspur.com » Spurs pull out of reserve league". tottenhamhotspur.com. 2009-06-12. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
^ "avfc.co.uk » Reserves 2 -1 Fulham". avfc.co.uk. 12 April 2010. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
^ "fulhamfc.com » Aston Villa Res. 2-1 Fulham Res". fulhamfc.com. 2010-04-12. Archived from the original on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
^ "liverpoolfc.tv » Blues stun young Reds". liverpoolfc.tv. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^ "liverpoolfc.tv.com » Reserves results". liverpoolfc.tv. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^ "manutd.com » Reds take reserve league title". manutd.com. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^ "yahoo.com » Hull City relegated from English Premier League". yahoo.com. 2010-05-03. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
^ "yahoo.com » Burnley relegated from English Premier League". yahoo.com. 2010-04-25. Retrieved 2010-04-25. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ "bbc.co.uk » West Ham win relegates Portsmouth". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-10. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^ "bbc.co.uk » Newcastle secure promotion". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-06. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^ "bbc.co.uk » West Bromwich Albion secure promotion". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
^ "premierleague.com » Blackpool promoted to Premier League". premierleague.com. 2010-05-22. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-22.

External links

Current league tables (North) (South)
Fixtures and results (North) (South)

Match reports

Match reports can be found at each club's official website:

Premier Reserve League North	Premier Reserve League South
Blackburn Rovers Bolton Wanderers Burnley Everton Hull City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Sunderland Wigan Athletic	Arsenal Aston Villa Birmingham City Chelsea Fulham Portsmouth Stoke City West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers

[fixtures-1] "avfc.co.uk » Reserves playoff date set". avfc.co.uk. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2010.

[2] "TottenhamHotspur.com » Spurs pull out of reserve league". tottenhamhotspur.com. 2009-06-12. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-12.

[3] "avfc.co.uk » Reserves 2 -1 Fulham". avfc.co.uk. 12 April 2010. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.

[4] "fulhamfc.com » Aston Villa Res. 2-1 Fulham Res". fulhamfc.com. 2010-04-12. Archived from the original on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2010-04-12.

[5] "liverpoolfc.tv » Blues stun young Reds". liverpoolfc.tv. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20.

[6] "liverpoolfc.tv.com » Reserves results". liverpoolfc.tv. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-20.

[7] "manutd.com » Reds take reserve league title". manutd.com. 2010-04-20. Archived from the original on 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2010-04-20.

[8] "yahoo.com » Hull City relegated from English Premier League". yahoo.com. 2010-05-03. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-03.

[9] "yahoo.com » Burnley relegated from English Premier League". yahoo.com. 2010-04-25. Retrieved 2010-04-25. ^{[dead link‍]}

[10] "bbc.co.uk » West Ham win relegates Portsmouth". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-10. Archived from the original on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.

[11] "bbc.co.uk » Newcastle secure promotion". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-06. Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-22.

[12] "bbc.co.uk » West Bromwich Albion secure promotion". bbc.co.uk. 2010-04-12. Retrieved 2010-04-22.

[13] "premierleague.com » Blackpool promoted to Premier League". premierleague.com. 2010-05-22. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-22.

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Tables

Premier Reserve League North

Premier Reserve League South

Play-off Final

Results

Premier Reserve League North

Premier Reserve League South

Top scorers

Premier Reserve League North

Premier Reserve League South

Promotion and relegation

See also

References

External links

Match reports