Middlesbrough
Bottom of the leagueTop
- League position 3rd
- Goal difference +6
- Home Record
- Away Record
- Getting Away With It
- Holding Leads
- Comebacks
- Dark Arts Index
- Foul Magnet
- Home & Away Home Well above average Away Above average This season
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Comebacks
Well above average
1.67 pts/game
avg 0.46 · 1st of 24 · This seasonavg
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Dark Arts Index
Well below average
1.09 cards/game
avg 2.01 · 24th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Foul Magnet
Well below average
9.5 fouls/game
avg 11.1 · 23rd of 24 · This seasonavg
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Holding Leads
Below average
1.60 pts/game
avg 2.32 · 15th of 24 · This seasonavg
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Getting Away With It
Average
+0.4 pts
avg −0.3 · 12th of 24 · This seasonavg
This season's numbers
- Goals scored 22 2nd highest of 24
- Goals conceded 16 =11th lowest of 24
- Clean sheets 2 =12th highest of 24
- Shots 210 1st highest of 24
- Shots on target 68 =1st highest of 24
- Share of the shots in their games 63% 1st highest of 24
- Corners won 64 =6th highest of 24
- Fouls committed 111 =18th highest of 24
- Fouls suffered 105 23rd highest of 24
- Yellow cards 12 24th highest of 24
- Red cards 0 =17th highest of 24
- Points dropped from half-time leads 7 2nd highest of 24
Middlesbrough and each referee
League games since 2021-22, referees with 3 or more. Records like these are mostly chance: across five seasons, a club's record with a referee in one half of their games tells you nothing about the other half. Which refs are card-happy?
| Referee | P | W-D-L | Pts/g | Cards/g | Ref's usual | Fouls net/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M Donohue | 18 | 8-6-4 | 1.67 | 2.2 | 2.1 | −3.2 |
| D Webb | 12 | 5-4-3 | 1.58 | 1.3 | 1.6 | −2.6 |
| O Langford | 12 | 7-4-1 | 2.08 | 1.3 | 1.8 | −1.3 |
| J Smith | 10 | 6-2-2 | 2.00 | 1.0 | 2.0 | −1.7 |
| L Doughty | 10 | 7-0-3 | 2.10 | 2.2 | 2.2 | −2.4 |
| A Davies | 9 | 6-2-1 | 2.22 | 1.9 | 1.7 | −1.3 |
| J Busby | 9 | 3-1-5 | 1.11 | 1.3 | 1.8 | −2.3 |
| A Kitchen | 8 | 3-2-3 | 1.38 | 0.6 | 1.5 | −0.6 |
| J Linington | 8 | 4-0-4 | 1.50 | 1.6 | 2.0 | +0.3 |
| T Robinson | 8 | 2-3-3 | 1.13 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 0.0 |
| D Bond | 7 | 3-1-3 | 1.43 | 1.9 | 2.0 | −0.3 |
| D Whitestone | 7 | 3-2-2 | 1.57 | 1.3 | 1.6 | −1.3 |
| G Ward | 7 | 3-1-3 | 1.43 | 1.3 | 1.9 | −2.3 |
| S Martin | 7 | 2-2-3 | 1.14 | 2.0 | 2.0 | −4.7 |
| A Herczeg | 6 | 3-1-2 | 1.67 | 1.3 | 1.8 | −1.7 |
| J Simpson | 6 | 5-0-1 | 2.50 | 1.0 | 2.0 | −2.0 |
| R Madley | 6 | 3-1-2 | 1.67 | 2.0 | 2.0 | −4.2 |
| T Nield | 6 | 1-3-2 | 1.00 | 1.5 | 1.8 | −5.8 |
| A Backhouse | 5 | 1-1-3 | 0.80 | 1.2 | 2.0 | −4.6 |
| D England | 5 | 0-2-3 | 0.40 | 4.2 | 2.2 | +1.2 |
| J Bell | 5 | 0-2-3 | 0.40 | 1.8 | 1.9 | −1.4 |
| K Stroud | 5 | 2-2-1 | 1.60 | 2.0 | 2.4 | −1.4 |
| M Salisbury | 5 | 2-3-0 | 1.80 | 1.6 | 1.9 | +1.4 |
| S Allison | 5 | 2-1-2 | 1.40 | 2.0 | 1.9 | −0.8 |
| A Madley | 4 | 4-0-0 | 3.00 | 1.0 | 1.8 | −1.8 |
| B Toner | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 2.0 | 2.1 | −1.0 |
| F Hallam | 4 | 2-2-0 | 2.00 | 3.5 | 1.8 | −0.3 |
| T Bramall | 4 | 1-0-3 | 0.75 | 2.0 | 1.9 | −4.8 |
| T Harrington | 4 | 1-1-2 | 1.00 | 1.8 | 1.8 | −2.0 |
| T Kirk | 4 | 2-1-1 | 1.75 | 2.3 | 2.1 | −4.3 |
| A Woolmer | 3 | 1-0-2 | 1.00 | 2.7 | 1.7 | −5.0 |
| C Kavanagh | 3 | 2-0-1 | 2.00 | 4.0 | 2.0 | −1.3 |
Manager changes
Points per game in the 10 league games before and after. If kept: what clubs on the same run of form averaged when they kept their manager. Does sacking the manager work?
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Rob Edwards out · Kim Hellberg in 12 Nov 2025 · 2nd at the time
- Before
- 1.60
- After
- 1.40
- If kept
- 1.29
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Chris Wilder out · Michael Carrick in 3 Oct 2022 · 22nd at the time
- Before
- 0.90
- After
- 1.70
- If kept
- 1.25
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Neil Warnock out · Chris Wilder in 6 Nov 2021 · 14th at the time
- Before
- 1.50
- After
- 2.00
- If kept
- 1.54