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Carlisle United could become the first English club in almost 50 years to go 30 league games without a draw, should they avoid a stalemate against York City on Saturday.

The Cumbrians haven’t shared the spoils in Sky Bet League 2 since September, when they battled out a 4-4 thriller with AFC Wimbledon.



If there is a winner at Bootham Crescent this weekend, the visitors will become just the 29th side since 1888 to have gone 30 league games without a draw.

Carlisle’s previous club record for games without a draw was 26, set in 1930.

The club's manager Keith Curle said: “A run like this shows it’s all or nothing with us. We’re certainly a team that’s all in.

“There have been games where we’ve been in front and lost, but there have been other games where it’s been 0-0 or 1-1 and we haven’t settled for it. We’ve gone for it.

“That’s something I don’t want to take away from the team. I want us to be playing entertaining and attacking football. If we lose a game that could have been a draw, but win others that also looked to be a stone-cold draw, then I’m going to have to take that."

Blackburn Rovers were the last side to elude the draw for 30 games back in 1966, and Saturday could see that happen for just the seventh time post-World War Two.

Aston Villa hold the record for the most successive games without a draw, when they didn't share the points for 51 matches throughout 1891.

Club	Season	Draw count
Aston Villa	1891	51
Sunderland	1908	46
Stoke City	1895	46
Bradford PA	1913	44
Leicester City	1909	44
Walsall	1894	44
Birmingham City	1893	43
Darwen	1896	40
Portsmouth	1928	38
Sheffield United	1905	38
Bristol Rovers	1948	37
Wolves	1930	37
Stockport Co	1947	36
Lincoln City	1894	36
West Brom	1915	35
Bristol City	1904	35
Doncaster	1935	34
Newcastle	1896	34
Reading	1936	33
Rochdale	1926	33
Middlesbrough	1925	33
Burton Wanderers	1896	32
Reading	1959	31
Tranmere	1953	31
Plymouth	1947	31
Accrington	1928	31
Blackburn	1966	30
Burnley	1908	30

Data provided by ENFA