Check out all the important pre-match Opta stats ahead of all the action in Sky Bet League One this weekend...
Blackpool V Bristol Rovers
● Blackpool have won each of their last four league games against Bristol Rovers, winning this exact fixture last season 3-1.
● Bristol Rovers have lost each of their last three away league games against Blackpool, since a 3-0 victory at Bloomfield Road in November 2018.
● This century, Blackpool have won just two of their 12 final games of a league campaign that have come at Bloomfield Road (D6 L4), with their last victory coming against Bristol Rovers in 2021 (1-0).
● Bristol Rovers have lost four of their last five league games against sides from Lancashire (D1), conceding 2+ goals in all four of those losses.
Bolton Wanderers V Stevenage
● Bolton Wanderers are unbeaten across their prior five league games against Stevenage, winning four of those matches including the reverse fixture back in October last year (4-1 – D1).
● Stevenage have lost eight of their last 11 away league games against sides from Greater Manchester (W1 D2), with their sole victory coming against Wigan Athletic in January 2024 (3-2).
● Bolton are unbeaten across their last four games to end a league campaign (W3 D1, excl. 2019-20), scoring 3+ goals in each game.
● Excluding 2019-20, Stevenage have won their final league fixture in each of the last five seasons, since a 1-0 defeat to Wycombe in 2017-18.
Cambridge United V Birmingham City
● Cambridge United won their last home league games against Birmingham City, a 1-0 victory in April 1995 in the third tier.
● After winning the reverse fixture 4-0 in February, Birmingham City will be looking to complete a first league double over Cambridge United.
● Excluding 2019-20, Cambridge are unbeaten across their last four six games of a league season (W3 D3), since losing 1-0 to Wycombe in 2016-17.
● Birmingham have lost four of their last five games to end a league campaign (W1), though their last in the third tier saw them beat Huddersfield Town 2-1 away from home in 1995.
Charlton Athletic V Burton Albion
● Charlton Athletic have lost just one of their last seven league games against Burton Albion (W4 D2), failing to score in just one of those matches.
● Burton Albion have won just one of their five away league games against Charlton Athletic (D1 L3), a 2-1 victory in February 2021.
● When finishing a league campaign on home soil, Charlton have won each of their last three games without conceding a goal in the process.
● Burton have previously finished just one of their Football League campaigns against opposition from London, a 2-1 loss to Barnet in May 2012. Excluding 2019-20, the Brewers have failed to win any of their last eight final day EFL fixtures (D2 L6).
Huddersfield Town V Leyton Orient
● Huddersfield Town are unbeaten across their last eight league games against Leyton Orient (W5 D3), scoring 2+ goals in the last seven of those matches.
● Leyton Orient have won just two of their 30 away league games against Huddersfield Town (D12 L16), though those two victories have come across their last five visits.
● Huddersfield have won each of their last two final games of a league campaign at home, beating Bristol City in 2022 and Reading in 2023 both via 2-0 scorelines.
● On the four occasions this century Leyton Orient have finished a Football League campaign with a match against a side from Yorkshire, they are winless across that time (D3 L1).
Lincoln City V Wrexham
● Lincoln City have lost just two of their last 11 home Football League games against sides from Wales (W8 D1), winning each of their last two whilst scoring exactly three goals in both.
● Wrexham have won each of their last five Football League games against Lincoln City, by a combined 11-3 scoreline.
● Excluding 2019-20, each of Lincoln’s last 12 final games of a Football League campaign have come on home soil, with the Imps winning two of their last three (L1).
● Wrexham have won each of their last three final games of a Football League campaign, with their only away match in that time witnessing the Welsh side beat Lincoln 4-2 in 2008.
Mansfield Town V Exeter City
● Mansfield Town have lost four of their last six league games against Exeter City (W1 D1), failing to score in three of those matches.
● Exeter City have lost just one of their last 12 away Football League games against Mansfield Town (W7 D4), failing to score in just one match during that time.
● Excluding 2019-20, Mansfield are unbeaten across their last four final games of a Football League campaign (W2 D2), since losing 1-0 to MK Dons in 2018-19.
● Exeter have netted just 19 goals in total across their 22 away league games this season (W7 D5 L10), their fewest on the road in a Football League campaign since 2011-12 (15).
Northampton Town V Wigan Athletic
● Northampton Town have won just one of their last 11 league games against Wigan (D1 L9), scoring multiple goals in just one of those matches.
● Wigan Athletic have won four of their last five away league games against Northampton (D1), keeping a clean sheet in each of those victories.
● Northampton have lost just one of their last nine final games of a Football League season (W4 D4), though their only defeat in that time did come during their last such match on home soil – a 2-1 defeat to Mansfield Town in 2020.
● Across their final game of their last three league seasons, Wigan remain unbeaten (W2 D1) and have kept a clean sheet in each match.
Reading V Barnsley
● Reading have lost just one of their last 13 league games against Barnsley (W5 D7), though the Royals are winless across their last four meetings with the Yorkshire side (D3 L1).
● Barnsley won their last away league game against Reading 3-1 in December 2023 and could win consecutive away games for the first time since March 2014.
● Reading have won just one of their last seven final day fixtures in the Football League (D3 L3), though that sole victory did come last season with a 3-2 success on home soil against Blackpool.
● Barnsley are winless across their last four games that have come on the final day of a league campaign (D2 L2), since a 2-1 win against Brentford in 2020.
Rotherham United V Peterborough United
● Since 1979, Rotherham United have lost just one of their 13 home league games against Peterborough United (W5 D7).
● Peterborough United are unbeaten across their last four away league games against sides from Yorkshire (W3 D1), last enjoying a longer un in the county between August 2014 and March 2016 (seven games).
● Rotherham are unbeaten across their last four final games of a league season (W2 D2), winning their final fixture of last season 5-2 against Cardiff City on home soil.
● Excluding 2019-20, Peterborough have won four of their last five final games of a league campaign (D1), scoring 3.4 goals on average per fixture across that time.
Shrewsbury Town V Crawley Town
● After losing their first league game against Crawley Town 2-1 in October 2011, Shrewsbury Town are since unbeaten across their last six against them (W3 D3).
● Crawley Town have failed to win any of their three away league games against Shrewsbury Town (D1 L2), only ever facing Salford City (5), Scunthorpe United (5), Bristol Rovers (4), Coventry City (4) and Plymouth Argyle (4) more times away from home without victory in the EFL
● Shrewsbury have failed to win any of their last 10 final games of a league campaign (D2 L8), since a 3-2 win over Portsmouth in 2013.
● Crawley have lost 14 of their away games this season in League One and could equal their record for most away defeats in a Football League campaign with another here alongside 2015-16, 2018-19 & 2022-23 (all 15).
Wycombe Wanderers V Stockport County
● Wycombe Wanderers are unbeaten across their last three league games against Stockport County, keeping a clean sheet in each.
● Stockport County have failed to win any of their last six away league games against Wycombe Wanderers (D2 L4), never scoring more than one goal in any of those matches (two in total).
● Excluding 2019-20, Wycombe Wanderers have ended their league campaigns with a win in six of the previous seven seasons (D1).
● Stockport have won just two of their last 30 away Football League games in the final match of a campaign since 1958 (D7 L21).