With less than a week to go until the start of the 2021-2022 Sky Bet Championship TykesMad gives you the run down on Barnsley and all of the teams they will face and how they fared in 2020-2021.
Founded: 1863
Manager: Michael O’Neill (since 8th November 2019) - P:84 W:32 D:22 L:30
Address: Bet365 Stadium, Stanley Matthews Way, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 4EG
Website: www.stokecityfc.com
FootyMad site: www.stokecity-mad.co.uk
2020-2021:
W: 15 D: 15 L: 16 F: 50 A: 52 GD: -2 Points: 60
Home Record: W: 9 D: 5 L: 9 F: 29 A: 28 (Division rank: 13th)
Away Record: W: 6 D: 10 L: 7 F: 21 A: 24 (Division rank: 14th)
Final League Position: 14th
FA Cup: Third Round; Stoke 0-4 Leicester (James Justin 34, Marc Albrighton 59, Ayoze Perez 79, Harvey Barnes 81)
League Cup: Fifth Round; Stoke (Jordan Thompson 53) 1-3 Tottenham (Gareth Bale 22, Ben Davies 70, Harry Kane 81)
Previous results:
Stoke 0-0 Blackpool. Stoke win 5-4 on penalties
Wolves 0-1 Stoke
Stoke 1-0 Gillingham
Aston Villa 0-1 Stoke
Most Appearances: Jacob Brown - 46
Top Scorer: Nick Powell - 12
Most Yellow Cards: James McClean - 9
Most Red Cards: James Chester/Harry Souttar/Neil Collins/Rhys Norrington-Davies - 1
Last Five League Positions: 14th (Championship), 15th (Championship), 16th (Championship), 19th (Premier League), 13th (Premier League)
Head to Head Record
Barnsley Wins: 23
Draws: 17
Stoke Wins: 22
Most Recent League Meetings
24/02/2021 Barnsley (Callum Styles 9, Daryl Dike 90) 2-0 Stoke (Championship)
21/10/2020 Stoke (Tyrese Campbell 44, Tommy Smith 48) 2-2 Barnsley (Elliot Simoes 18, Dominik Frieser 45) (Championship)
Last Five Results v Barnsley: lost 2-0, drew 2-2, won 4-0, won 4-2, drew 3-3
Meet in 2021-2022 on: 15th September at Bet365 Stadium and 26th December at Oakwell
2021-2022
Up to 1st August 2021:
Pre-Season Results
09/07/2021 Stoke 1-1 Hibernian
17/07/2021 Linfield 0–6 Stoke
20/07/2021 Crewe Alexandra 2–3 Stoke
24/07/2021 Stoke 2–0 Aston Villa
27/07/2021 Wigan Athletic 2–1 Stoke
31/07/2021 Stoke 1–1 Wolves
W:3 D:2 L:1
Odds to win the League: 25/1
Odds for Promotion: 15/2
Top Six Finish: 3/1
Odds for Relegation: 7/1
Summer 2021 Transfers: Up to 1st August 2021:
In:
- Ben Wilmot (from Watford)
- Mario Vrancic (from Norwich)
- Jack Bonham (from Gillingham)
Out:
- Nathan Collins (to Burnley)
- Kevin Wimmer (to Rapid Vienna)
- Jordan Cousins (to Wigan)
- Ryan Woods (to Birmingham)
- Moritz Bauer (to Ufa)
- John Mikel Obi (to Kuwait SC)
- Bruno Martins Indi (to AZ Alkmaar)
- Liam Lindsay (to Preston)
- Benik Afobe (to Millwall, loan)
- Peter Etebo (to Watford, loan)
- Blondy Nna Noukeu (to Crawley, loan)
- Badou Ndiaye (to Aris Saloniki)
- Lasse Sorensen (to Lincoln)
- Sam Vokes (to Wycombe)