Defeat in The Reds last game of the season means they have won just three of their last 10 final day matches.
Barnsley have had their worst season for 42 years.
They have gained just nine wins from a 46 game season, for the first time since 1971/1972 and also finished on below 40 points since that campaign when they got only 36.
This season Barnsley’s points to games ratio has been less than one point per game for the first time since the Premier League season in 1997-1998 when they accumulated 35 points from 38 games. The last time it happened in a 46 game season was back in 1975-1976 when they still managed to get 44.
Yesterday was their 25th league defeat of the season, which is still one less than they suffered in 2006-2007. They did win 15 that campaign however.
The Reds conceded 85 goals that year, the most in the Football League. They have let in 77 this campaign so have comfortably missed that tally but taking that season out, this is their highest Football League total since 1963-64 when they let in an incredible 90.
Thankfully Barnsley managed to avoid setting a new club record of six home games without scoring due to Chris O’Grady’s brace- his fifth two-goal haul of the season.
O’Grady scored in 10 of his 43 games this season and in half of them he went on to notch another.
It means Barnsley scored 44 goals in 2013-2014, their lowest total since 1984-1985 when they scored just 42. The Reds only played 42 games that season however, 1971-1972 was the last time they scored less than at least 45 goals in a 46 game season.
Yesterday also capped off one of Barnsley’s worst seasons at Oakwell for many a year.
They have finished with just five home wins this season which equals a record set a staggering 103 years ago! They also won just five in 1910/1911- the year before they won the FA Cup. However they played just 38 matches that season so this is the first time EVER they have won so little at Oakwell in a 46 game campaign.
QPR’s win was The Reds 10th home defeat of the season. It is only the third time in 20 years that Barnsley have gone into double figures in home defeats. The other two were 2011/2012 and 2006-2007.
Chris O’Grady’s brace against QPR meant The Reds avoided setting a new record for lowest amount of home goals scored in a season. They have now equalled their worst ever set back in 1989-1990.
They conceded 36 home goals so far, which is less than the 37 they conceded two years ago. Those two seasons are the most they have conceded at Oakwell for 53 years.
Barnsley have finished with a goal difference of –33, It is the club’s worst goal difference since the 1997-1998 Premier League campaign when they ended with –45. If you take the top flight away it would be their worst Football League goal difference since 1964-1965 when they suffered a 36-goal deficit whilst finishing bottom of the Third Division.
The Reds managed just six clean sheets this season, the lowest in the division and their lowest in a season since 2002-2003 when they also managed just six.
Last season Barnsley needed 55 points to survive (16 points more than they achieved this season). Peterborough were relegated on 54 which was the highest points total EVER that a side had gone down from the second tier with. This season Birmingham finished in 21st on just 44 points.
Barnsley Football Club have now completed their 73rd season in English football’s second tier and will be preparing to start a 23rd season in the third division. They have finished that 73rd year with just one win from the final eight games, losing six, including each of the last four.
They are joined in League One by Doncaster and Yeovil who were only promoted this time last season, only Bournemouth survived in the Championship after coming up from League One in 2013.
Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Tom Kennedy
Martin Cranie
Peter Ramage
Jean-Yves Mvoto
Jim O’Brien
Stephen Dawson
Tomasz Cywka
Dale Jennings
Danny Rose
Chris O’Grady
Substitutes:
Reuben Noble-Lazarus (for Cywka 72)
James Bree (for Mvoto 73)
Bobby Hassell (for Dawson 80)
Unused Substitutes:
Christian Dibble, Rhys Oates, Nana Boakye-Yiadom, Jack Cowgill.
Match Reports:
Sky Bet Championship results Saturday 3rd May 2014:
BARNSLEY 2-3 QPR
Blackburn 4-3 Wigan
Blackpool 0-3 Charlton
Bolton 2-2 Birmingham
Ipswich 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Leeds 1-1 Derby
Leicester 1-0 Doncaster
Millwall 1-0 Bournemouth
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Brighton
Reading 2-2 Burnley
Watford 1-4 Huddersfield
Yeovil 1-4 Middlesbrough
Barnsley finish in 23rd place in the Sky Bet Npower Championship with 39 points from 46 games.
We finish 33 points off the Play-Offs 54 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 63 points off First place and 5 points inside the Relegation Zone.
Up to 3/5/14
Champions: Leicester City
Promoted: Burnley
Playoffs: Derby, QPR, Wigan, Brighton
Relegated: Doncaster, Barnsley, Yeovil