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🚨 POINTLESS STAT OF THE DAY #140 ⚽ THE CONSECUTIVE GOAL LADDER: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! What's the longest run in English league football where a team scores exactly one more goal in every successive league match? We are exhausted at Statty HQ as we have trawled through 212,532 English league results dating back to 1888, searching for the ultimate goal ladder! 🥇 NEWCASTLE UNITED The record overall and in the top flight is SIX consecutive matches, achieved by Newcastle in February–April 2025! ❌ Liverpool 2–0 Newcastle ⚽ West Ham 0–1 Newcastle ⚽⚽ Newcastle 2–1 Brentford ⚽⚽⚽ Leicester 0–3 Newcastle ⚽⚽⚽⚽ Newcastle 4–1 Man Utd ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽ Newcastle 5–0 Crystal Palace From zero to five in six matches! Newcastle won five of the six, finishing with that 5–0 win over Crystal Palace on 16 April 2025. TOON ARMY FANS WERE YOU AWARE OF THIS POINTLESS RECORD? 🤣 We went deeper and looked at other divisions.....👀 🥈 TIER 2 - CHAMPIONSHIP / OLD 2ND DIVISION Four teams managed the five-match ladder from zero to four: 🔹 Grimsby Town December 1906–January 1907 🔹 Charlton Athletic September–October 1962 🔹 Crystal Palace September–October 2005 🔹 Stoke City October–November 2020 Stoke's run saw them go from zero against Swansea to one against Rotherham, two at Watford, three at Reading and four against Huddersfield in a 4–3 win! 🥉 TIER 3 - LEAGUE ONE / OLD 3RD DIVISION 14 different teams achieved the five-match sequence. Exeter City did it twice! 🔹 Newport County December 1923 🔹 Millwall April 1938 🔹 Exeter City February–March 1937 🔹 Carlisle United December 1930–January 1931 🔹 Brighton December 1948–January 1949 🔹 Halifax Town April 1957 🔹 Barnsley August–September 1953 🔹 Mansfield Town September 1958 🔹 Queens Park Rangers February–March 1967 🔹 Cambridge United December 1977–January 1978 🔹 Gillingham December 1977–January 1978 🔹 Oldham Athletic February–March 2002 🔹 Exeter City December 2024 🔹 Peterborough United April–May 2021 🔹 Shrewsbury Town May–September 1971 Exeter's most recent run began with zero against Stockport in December 2024, before progressing through one, two and three goals to finish with four against Crawley in a 4–4 draw! 🏅 TIER 4 - LEAGUE TWO / OLD FOURTH DIVISION Just two teams made the five-match ladder: 🔹 Scunthorpe United October–November 2001 🔹 Shrewsbury Town March–April 2011 Shrewsbury went from a 5–0 defeat at Torquay to scoring one against Wycombe, two at Bradford, three at Rotherham and four against Macclesfield! THE FINAL SCORE Tier 1: 0 → 5 in six matches Tier 2: 4 teams reached 0 → 4 Tier 3: 14 teams reached 0 → 4 Tier 4: 2 teams reached 0 → 4 No seven-match sequence of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 goals was found so Newcastle stand alone at the top of the goal ladder! ⚽📈 Do let us know if we have missed any runs or if you have stories of any of these games. Use this information wisely. 🤓