1996-97 Season Summary In Charts

Substitutions, red cards, top scorers and partnerships, chart by chart

The 1996-97 season in charts. Substitutions and red cards are shown as heat maps: one row per club, 90 one-minute squares running left to right, shaded from white (no events) to the deepest colour (the most events in that minute), with the half-time mark as a vertical line at 45'. The season's top five scorers and most productive assist-scorer partnerships follow. Generated from the per-match event feed (goals, cards and substitutions) rather than the aggregate match results.

Substitutions by Team and Minute

Each row is a club · each square is one minute, shaded by how many subs were made

Southampton made the most substitutions (92).

Red Cards by Team and Minute

Straight reds and second yellows, by the minute they were shown

Arsenal, Coventry City and Sunderland had the most red cards (5) whilst Nottingham Forest had none at all.

Top 5 Scorers

1996-97 Golden Boot standings

Alan Shearer won the Golden Boot with 25 goals.

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	25
2	Ian Wright	Arsenal	23
3	Robbie Fowler	Liverpool	18
4	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	Manchester United	18
5	Dwight Yorke	Aston Villa	17

Top 5 Partnerships

1996-97 most productive assist-scorer pairings

The best partnership was Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright of Arsenal (4 goals).

#	Player	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dennis Bergkamp	Ian Wright	Arsenal	4
2	Nigel Winterburn	Ian Wright	Arsenal	3
3	Patrick Vieira	Ian Wright	Arsenal	2
4	Tony Adams	Dennis Bergkamp	Arsenal	2
5	Mark Draper	Savo Milosevic	Aston Villa	2