The
2008–09 season was the 109th season of competitive association football and 58th season in the
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
played by
Shrewsbury Town Football Club, a professional football club based in
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
, Shropshire, England. Their eighteenth-place finish in 2007–08 meant it was their fifth consecutive season
League Two. The season began on 1 July 2008 and concluded on 30 June 2009.
Paul Simpson, starting his first full season as Shrewsbury Town manager, made six permanent summer signings. They finished seventh in the table, and after beating
Bury in the play-off semi-final, they lost 1–0 to
Gillingham in the
final at
Wembley Stadium. Shrewsbury lost in their opening round matches in both the
2008–09 FA Cup
The 2008–09 FA Cup (known as The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON for sponsorship reasons) was the 128th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; the FA Cup. A record 762 clubs were accepted for the competition; one club, South Nor ...
and the
League Cup, and were eliminated in the Southern section semi-final of the
Football League Trophy.
32 players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were 17 different goalscorers.
Grant Holt finished as leading scorer with 28 goals, of which 20 came in league competition, one came in the FA Cup and seven came in the Football League Trophy. Holt was recognised for his contribution to the season receiving the League Two Player of the Year award and was included in the
PFA Team of the Year
The Professional Footballers' Association Team of the Year (often called the PFA Team of the Year, or simply the Team of the Year) is an annual award given to a set of 55 footballers across the top four tiers of men's English football; the Premie ...
for League Two.
Match details
League Two
League table (part)
FA Cup
League Cup
League Trophy
League Two play-offs
Transfers
In
Out
Loans in
Squad
:Source:
:Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as
substitute.
:Players with squad numbers struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.
:Players with names ''in italics'' and marked * were
on loan
In sports, a loan involves a particular player being able to temporarily play for a club other than the one to which they are currently contracted. Loan deals may last from a few weeks to a full season, sometimes persisting for multiple seasons ...
from another club for the whole of their season with Shrewsbury Town.
:Key to positions: GK –
Goalkeeper; DF –
Defender; MF –
Midfielder; FW –
Forward
Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.
Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
** Point forward
** Power forward (basketball)
** Sm ...
Notes
References
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