2007–08 Aldershot Town F.C. season

Aldershot Town
Season 2007–08
League	Conference National
Manager	Gary Waddock
League position	Champions (101 pts)
Highest league attendance	Home: 5,980 v Weymouth Away: 5,811 v Oxford United
Lowest league attendance	Home: 1,779 v Droylsden Away: 733 v Droylsden
FA Cup	First Round
FA Trophy	SF
Setanta Shield	Winners
Hampshire Senior Cup	QF

The 2007–08 season is the 16th year of football played by Aldershot Town, and their 5th season in The Conference National, and covers the period from 11 August 2007 to 26 April 2008.

Team kit

The team kit for the 2007–08 season is produced by Erreà. The main shirt sponsor is Ezylet.

Match results

Friendlies

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
7 July 2007	Alton Town	Away	Won 1-0	353	Nicholls
14 July 2007	Staines Town	Away	Drew 0-0	Unknown
17 July 2007	Crystal Palace	Home	Lost 2-0	1,520
24 July 2007	Ash United	Away	Drew 2-2	Unknown	Unknown
25 July 2007	Farnborough	Away	Won 5-0	427	Unknown
1 August 2007	Charlton Athletic	Home	Drew 0-0	1,505
7 August 2007	Fulham XI	Home	Drew 1-1	1,035	Chalmers

Conference National

For information on this season's Conference National, see Conference National 2007–08.

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance (Away)	Scorers
11 August 2007	Kidderminster Harriers	Away	Won 2-1	1,976	Scott Davies, John Grant
15 August 2007	Torquay United	Home	Lost 0-3	3,139
18 August 2007	Droylsden	Home	Won 3-1	1,779	John Grant, Lewis Chalmers, Ben Harding
24 August 2007	Histon	Away	Won 2-1	1,976	Scott Davies (2)
27 August 2007	Crawley Town	Home	Lost 0-1	2,457
1 September 2007	Altrincham	Away	Won 2-1	991	Jonny Dixon, Louie Soares
4 September 2007	Forest Green Rovers	Away	Won 3-2	1,103	John Grant (2), Jonny Dixon
8 September 2007	Northwich Victoria	Home	Won 5-0	2,002	Rhys Day, Scott Davies (2), John Grant, Rob Elvins
15 September 2007	Oxford United	Away	Won 3-2	5,811	John Grant (2), Lewis Chalmers
18 September 2007	York City	Home	Won 2-0	2,402	Scott Davies, Rob Elvins
22 September 2007	Farsley Celtic	Home	Won 4-3	2,334	John Grant (2), Rob Elvins, Ricky Newman
25 September 2007	Cambridge United	Away	Drew 1-1	3,610	Dave Winfield
2 October 2007	Exeter City	Home	Won 2-0	2,943	Louie Soares, Joel Grant
6 October 2007	Stevenage Borough	Away	Lost 1-3	3,070	Rhys Day (Penalty)
9 October 2007	Ebbsfleet United	Home	Won 2-0	2,399	Rhys Day (Penalty), Louis Soares
13 October 2007	Burton Albion	Away	Lost 0-2	1,971
20 October 2007	Halifax Town	Home	Won 1-0	2,389	Jonny Dixon
2 November 2007	Weymouth	Away	Won 2-0	1,752	Rob Elvins, Jonny Dixon
17 November 2007	Rushden & Diamonds	Home	Won 2-1	3,110	John Grant, Ben Harding
22 November 2007	Grays Athletic	Home	Won 3-2	2,034	Ben Harding, Jonny Dixon, Joel Grant
2 December 2007	Salisbury City	Away	Won 4-0	1,786	John Grant (3), Ben Harding
8 December 2007	Stafford Rangers	Home	Won 4-3	2,669	Louis Soares, John Grant, Jonny Dixon, Scott Davies
26 December 2007	Woking	Away	Won 1-0	4,356	Kirk Hudson
29 December 2007	Grays Athletic	Away	Lost 1-2	1,210	Jonny Dixon
1 January 2008	Woking	Home	Won 2-1	4,728	Kirk Hudson, Ricky Newman
5 January 2008	Northwich Victoria	Away	Won 2-1	871	Kirk Hudson, Joel Grant
19 January 2008	Forest Green Rovers	Home	Lost 0-1	2,895
26 January 2008	York City	Lost	Lost 0-2	3,092
29 January 2008	Oxford United	Home	Won 1-0	2,754	John Grant
9 February 2008	Farsley Celtic	Away	Won 3-1	662	Danny Hylton, Kirk Hudson (2)
12 February 2008	Cambridge United	Home	Drew 0-0	3,259
17 February 2008	Stevenage Borough	Home	Won 3-1	3,261	Joel Grant, John Grant, Danny Hylton
1 March 2008	Kidderminster Harriers	Home	Won 2-1	2,835	Danny Hylton, Ben Harding
3 March 2008	Torquay United	Away	Won 2-1	4,510	Danny Hylton, Scott Davies
11 March 2008	Histon	Home	Won 3-1	2,177	Kirk Hudson (2), Scott Davies
22 March 2008	Altrincham	Home	Won 2-1	2,991	Anthony Charles, Scott Davies
24 March 2008	Crawley Town	Away	Won 1-0	1,940	Lewis Chalmers
27 March 2008	Droylsden	Away	Drew 2-2	733	Junior Mendes, O.G
29 March 2008	Stafford Rangers	Away	Won 2-1	981	Rob Elvins, John Grant
5 April 2008	Salisbury City	Home	Won 2-1	3,388	Rob Elvins, Danny Hylton
8 April 2008	Ebbsfleet United	Away	Drew 2-2	1,439	John Grant (2)
12 April 2008	Burton Albion	Home	Won 1-0	5,791	Rob Elvins
15 April 2008	Exeter City	Away	Drew 1-1	5,005	Scott Donnelly
19 April 2008	Halifax Town	Away	Drew 0-0	1,545
22 April 2008	Weymouth	Home	Drew 0-0	5,980	-
26 April 2008	Rushden & Diamonds	Away	Drew 1-1	2,197	John Grant

FA Cup

For information on this season's FA Cup, see FA Cup 2007–08.

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
4th QR	27 October 2007	Crawley Town	Away	Drew 1-1	1,934	Jonny Dixon
4th QR Replay	30 October 2007	Crawley Town	Home	Won 1-0	2,058	Louie Soares
1st	10 November 2007	Cambridge United	Away	Lost 1-2	3,547	Jonny Dixon

FA Trophy

For information on this season's FA Trophy, see FA Trophy 2007–08.

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
1st	15 December 2007	Hayes & Yeading United	Away	Won 5-0	435	Jonny Dixon (2), John Grant, Scott Davies, Kirk Hudson
2nd	12 January 2008	Woking	Away	Won 4-2	2,570	John Grant (2), Louie Soares, Anthony Charles
3rd	2 February 2008	Braintree Town	Home	Won 3-0	1,772	John Grant (2), Ben Harding
QF	23 February 2008	Tamworth	Away	Won 2-1	1,204	Dave Winfield, Kirk Hudson
SF 1st Leg	8 March 2008	Ebbsfleet United	Away	Lost 1-3	2,483	Junior Mendes
SF 2nd Leg	15 March 2008	Ebbsfleet United	Home	Drew 1-1 (Lost 2-4 on Aggregate)	4,344	Junior Mendes
Ebbsfleet United won 4-2 on aggregate

Setanta Shield

For information on this season's Setanta Shield, see Conference League Cup 2007–08.

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
4th	22 December 2007	Oxford United	Home	Won 1-0	1,573	Kirk Hudson
5th	5 February 2008	St Albans City	Away	Won 4-0	375	Rob Elvins (2), Kirk Hudson, Scott Donnelly
QF	26 February 2008	Crawley Town	Away	Won 6-2 (A.E.T)	827	Rhys Day (2), Kirk Hudson, Scott Donnelly, Danny Hylton, Joel Grant
SF	18 March 2008	Woking	Home	Drew 2-2 (Aldershot Town win 4-3 on Penalties)	1,629	Anthony Straker, Joel Grant
Final	3 April 2008	Rushden & Diamonds	The Recreation Ground, Aldershot	Drew 3-3 (Aldershot Town win 4-3 on Penalties)	3,714	Junior Mendes, Scott Donnelly, Kirk Hudson

Hampshire Senior Cup

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
27 November 2007	Christchurch	Home	Won 4-0	287	Miles Jones, Rob Elvins (2), Louie Soares
4 December 2007	Hamble ASSC	Away	Won 3-0	119	Kirk Hudson (2), Scott Donnelly
19 February 2008	Basingstoke Town	Home	Lost 1-2 (A.E.T)	557	Lewis Phillips

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Aldershot Town (C) (P)	46	31	8	7	82	48	+34	101	Promotion to League Two
2	Cambridge United	46	25	11	10	68	41	+27	86	Qualification to Conference playoffs
3	Torquay United	46	26	8	12	83	57	+26	86
4	Exeter City (P)	46	22	17	7	83	58	+25	83
5	Burton Albion	46	23	12	11	79	56	+23	81
6	Stevenage Borough	46	24	7	15	82	55	+27	79
7	Histon	46	20	12	14	76	67	+9	72
8	Forest Green Rovers	46	19	14	13	76	59	+17	71
9	Oxford United	46	20	11	15	56	48	+8	71
10	Grays Athletic	46	19	13	14	58	47	+11	70
11	Ebbsfleet United	46	19	12	15	65	61	+4	69
12	Salisbury City	46	18	14	14	70	60	+10	68
13	Kidderminster Harriers	46	19	10	17	71	60	+11	67
14	York City	46	17	11	18	71	74	−3	62
15	Crawley Town	46	19	9	18	73	67	+6	0601
16	Rushden & Diamonds	46	15	14	17	55	55	0	59
17	Woking	46	12	17	17	53	61	−8	53
18	Weymouth	46	11	13	22	53	73	−20	46
19	Northwich Victoria	46	11	11	24	52	78	−26	44
20	Halifax Town	46	12	16	18	61	70	−9	0422
21	Altrincham (R)	46	9	14	23	56	82	−26	41	Relegation to Conference North/Conference South
22	Farsley Celtic (R)	46	10	9	27	48	86	−38	39
23	Stafford Rangers (R)	46	5	10	31	42	99	−57	25
24	Droylsden (R)	46	5	9	32	46	103	−57	24

Updated to games played on 26 Apr 2008.
Source: Football Conference
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Deducted 6 points for a breach of financial regulations.
² Halifax deducted 10 points for entering administration
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Goalscorers

• IN ALL COMPETITIONS

Name	League	FA Cup	FA Trophy	Setanta Shield	Hampshire Senior Cup	Total
John Grant	20	-	5	-	-	25
Kirk Hudson	7	-	2	4	2	15
Scott Davies	10	-	1	-	-	11
Jonny Dixon	7	2	2	-	-	11
Rob Elvins	7	-	-	2	2	11
Louie Soares	4	1	1	-	1	7
Ben Harding	5	-	1	-	-	6
Danny Hylton	5	-	-	1	-	6
Joel Grant	4	-	-	2	-	6
Rhys Day	3	-	-	2	-	5
Scott Donnelly	1	-	-	3	1	5
Lewis Chalmers	3	-	-	-	-	3
Junior Mendes	1	-	1	1	-	3
Ricky Newman	2	-	-	-	-	2
Dave Winfield	1	-	1	-	-	2
Anthony Charles	1	-	1	-	-	2
Anthony Straker	-	-	-	1	-	1
Miles Jones	-	-	-	-	1	1
Lewis Phillips	-	-	-	-	1	1

Records

Aldershot Town secured a number of records during the 2007–08 season:

• The 101 points recorded surpassed the previous Conference record of 95 points set by both Yeovil Town and Dagenham & Redbridge.
• Aldershot Town recorded 31 victories which is also a Conference record surpassing the 28 victories recorded by Colchester United (1991–92), Yeovil Town (2002–03) and Accrington Stanley (2005–06).
• A total of 18 home league victories were recorded. This is a record for any Aldershot team since the inception of Aldershot F.C. in 1926.

The record is as follows:

Aldershot Town 17: (1993–94) (2002–03)

16: (1997–98)

15: (2000–01)

14: (1992–93) (1994–95)

Aldershot FC

16: (1960–61) (1961–62) (1969–70) (1978–79)

15: 1963–64) (1977–78)

14: (1959–60) (1964–65) (1966–67) (1972–73) (1983–84)

• The 5,980 attendance versus Weymouth was the highest home league crowd since the inception of Aldershot Town in 1992.
• Aldershot Town were the only team in the Conference who did not lose a single game when featured live on Setanta Sports during the 2007–08 season.

External links

• Official Website