1998–99 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season

Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
1998–99 season
Chairman	Dave Richards
Manager	Danny Wilson
Premiership	12th
FA Cup	Fifth round
Worthington Cup	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Carbone (8); All: Carbone (9)
Highest home attendance	39,475 (vs. Manchester United, Premiership)
Lowest home attendance	8,921 (vs. Cambridge United, League Cup)
Average home league attendance	26,745 (league)
	← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The 1998–99 season was Sheffield Wednesday F.C.'s 132nd season in existence. They competed in the twenty-team Premiership, the top tier of English football, finishing twelfth. It was the club's 100th season at their Hillsborough ground.

Season summary

Danny Wilson's return to Hillsborough as manager saw them begin the season among the favourites for relegation of many pundits. But they performed reasonably well throughout the season - being one of just three sides to beat treble winners Manchester United - and finished 12th at the end of a campaign during which they had never faced any serious threat of going down. The only major concern at the club was a growing mountain of debts which would have been even more of a worry had the Owls suffered relegation.

Squad list

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ENG	Kevin Pressman
13	GK	ENG	Matt Clarke
33	GK	CZE	Pavel Srníček
2	DF	ENG	Peter Atherton
3	DF	ENG	Ian Nolan
27	DF	ENG	Earl Barrett
35	DF	ENG	Steve Haslam
20	DF	ENG	Andy Hinchcliffe
5	DF	ENG	Jon Newsome
6	DF	ENG	Des Walker
18	DF	YUG	Dejan Stefanović
22	DF	BRA	Emerson Thome
15	DF	ARG	Juan Cobian
17	MF	ENG	Lee Briscoe
12	MF	ENG	Graham Hyde
19	MF	ENG	Scott Oakes
16	MF	ENG	Ritchie Humphreys
29	MF	ENG	Krystof Kotylo
36	MF	ENG	Alex Higgins


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
12	MF	SCO	Philip Scott
25	MF	NIR	Jim Magilton
31	MF	NIR	Mark McKeever
34	MF	NIR	Owen Morrison
32	MF	NIR	Danny Sonner
28	MF	EIR	Alan Quinn
4	MF	NED	Wim Jonk
26	MF	SWE	Niclas Alexandersson
25	MF	NOR	Petter Rudi
10	FW	ENG	Andy Booth
21	FW	ENG	Richard Cresswell
7	FW	ENG	Guy Whittingham
8	FW	ITA	Benito Carbone
11	FW	ITA	Paolo Di Canio
14	FW	ITA	Francesco Sanetti
23	FW	GHA	Junior Agogo
30	FW	ENG	Andrew Douglas
-	MF	SCO	Phil O'Donnell
-	FW	BEL	Gilles De Bilde

Table

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1.	Manchester United	38	22	13	3	80	37	+43	79
2.	Arsenal	38	22	12	4	59	17	+42	78
3.	Chelsea	38	20	15	3	57	30	+27	75
4.	Leeds United	38	18	13	7	62	34	+28	67
5.	West Ham United	38	16	9	13	46	53	−7	57
6.	Aston Villa	38	15	10	13	55	51	+4	55
7.	Liverpool	38	15	9	14	68	49	+19	54
8.	Derby County	38	13	13	12	40	45	−5	52
9.	Middlesbrough	38	12	15	11	48	54	−6	51
10.	Leicester City	38	12	13	13	40	46	−6	49
11.	Tottenham Hotspur	38	11	14	13	47	50	−3	47
12.	Sheffield Wednesday	38	13	7	18	41	42	−1	46
13.	Newcastle United	38	11	13	14	48	54	−6	46
14.	Everton	38	11	10	17	42	47	−5	43
15.	Coventry City	38	11	9	18	39	51	−12	42
16.	Wimbledon	38	10	12	16	40	63	−23	42
17.	Southampton	38	11	8	19	37	64	−27	41
18.	Charlton Athletic	38	8	12	18	41	56	−15	36
19.	Blackburn Rovers	38	7	14	17	38	52	−14	35
20.	Nottingham Forest	38	7	9	22	35	69	−34	30

Key
Qualified for the Champions League
Qualified for the UEFA Cup
Relegated to Division One

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

References

Dickinson, Jason (1999). One Hundred Years at Hillsborough. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press/Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. pp. pp.246–247, 387. ISBN 1-874718-29-6. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
Dickinson, Jason (2005). The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005. Sheffield: Pickard Communication. pp. pp. 347, 350. ISBN 0-9547264-9-9. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
Drake, A. "1998–99 Players". The Owl Football Historian. Retrieved 2008-08-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

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