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CENTURIES of LEAGUE GOALS SCORED 
in a SEASON

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On 139 occasions 67 different clubs have scored a century or more of League goals in a season. Scroll down to find the 139 by season, by goals scored and by club or click on the category as a short cut.

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The top goalscorers in a single Football League season are Peterborough United who scored 134 League goals in their 46 Division 4 fixtures in the 1960/61 season. Remarkably, Posh were playing their first season in the Football League after having previously played in the Midland League. (Results 1960/61)

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Prior to Peterborough's record being set the League's top goalscorers were Bradford City (128 goals in 42 matches in Division 3 North in 1928/29 - results) and Aston Villa (128 goals in 42 Division 1 matches in 1930/31). Villa's achievement in 1930/31 is still the record for goals in the top division in a season (Results)

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Almost half the clubs who have scored a century of League goals (65 out of 139 times) finished the season as champions of the division they were playing in. The lowest League position recorded by a club scoring a century was Bristol City's 14th place in Division 3 in 1962/63.

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North of the border Raith Rovers have the better of their English counterparts, the Kirkcaldy club setting a Scottish League record with 142 goals in their 34 Division 2 matches in 1937/38 (Results).

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However non-league clubs have the better of the Football League sides in goalscoring terms. In their last five non-league seasons Peterborough United had goals for of 137, 148, 160, 137 and 108 in the Midland League. Chester did better still in their last season before joining the Football League for the first time. They scored 170 goals in 42 Cheshire County League matches in 1930/31. Amazingly every one of the 22 clubs in the Cheshire County League that season either scored or conceded 100 League goals, with eight clubs doing both! (Chester's results and table)

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The only club to both score and concede a century of goals in a Football League season was Manchester City in the First Division in 1957/58. (Results)

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Only one club has managed to score a century of League goals four seasons in a row. Wolves did it in the old First Division in 1957/8, 1958/9, 1959/60 and 1960/1. Two clubs have managed it three seasons in a row. Bradford (Park Avenue) scored 101 goals in each of the seasons 1925/26-7-8 and Coventry City scored three figures in 1931/32-3-4.

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Chelsea became the first club to score a century of Premier League goals when scoring 103 in their title-winning season of 2009/10. They were the first club to score a century of league goals in the top-flight since Spurs scored 111 back in the 1962/3 season. Manchester City and Liverpool both scored Premier League centuries in 2013/14, the first time two clubs from the top division had scored centuries of League goals since 1960/61.

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Seven clubs managed to score a century of League goals in the 1960/61 season but since 1967 clubs scoring a century of goals goals has only been achieved 11 times. The full list -