CENTURIES of GOALS SCORED

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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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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No club has scored a century of goals in the Premier League - the record to date is Manchester United's 97 in 1999/2000. The last club to score a century in the Football League were Manchester City who scored 108 in winning the Division 1 title in 2001/02