Archive Updates

The 1908/09 season filled out: 28 more matches, with line-ups, goal times, crowds and gate receipts, plus this month's results

• 1908/0928 new matches · 11 dates corrected · 12 results · 46 line-ups · 48 sets of scorers · 26 crowds · 20 match notes
• 1983/841 line-up
• 1995/961 line-up
• 2026/276 new matches · 2 line-ups

New results

• 21 Oct Southend United 3–3 Wealdstone Drew
• 21 Oct Bishop's Stortford 5–2 Southend United Lost
• 23 Oct Southend United 8–1 Barking Won
• 30 Oct Southend United 2–5 AFC Wimbledon Lost
• 31 Oct Wealdstone 3–2 Southend United Lost

Players: 25 new players

Youth and reserve football from 1985 to 1991: 66 more matches, and Essex cup competitions given their proper names

• 1973/7418 line-ups · 12 sets of scorers · 4 match details corrected
• 1974/7538 line-ups · 7 sets of scorers
• 1986/8725 new matches · 1 line-up · 5 match details corrected
• 1988/895 new matches · 4 dates corrected · 1 result · 23 match details corrected
• 1990/914 new matches · 27 match details corrected
• 1996/9733 line-ups · 1 set of bookings · 5 match details corrected

Players: 4 biographies

Loan players now have their own list, with the two newest, the Worthing draw and a 1984 friendly against Aveley

178 loan players since 1912/13, from 73 clubs, listed by season and by the club that lent them.

• 1984/851 new match
• 1993/9410 line-ups · 1 set of scorers
• 1994/9527 line-ups · 4 sets of scorers
• 2026/271 new match · 1 crowd

New results

• 27 Oct Worthing 3–3 Southend United Drew

Players: 2 new players · 3 biographies · 18 dates of birth

Corrections to dates and results, and two newly added matches

• 1945/461 date corrected
• 1946/471 date corrected · 1 set of scorers
• 1947/481 line-up
• 1984/851 line-up
• 1993/941 date corrected
• 2018/192 results

Players: 1 new player · 15 biographies

Full names for Jack Robson, Robert Schooling and Walter 'Connie' Church, and the Halifax result

Line-ups are filled in for a number of friendlies and reserve games from the 1950s to the 1970s, a 1953 Essex Professional Cup tie now has its date, and missed penalties since 2015 now show the minute. Every old address for a renamed player still works.

• 1912/134 line-ups · 1 set of scorers
• 1932/3348 line-ups · 13 sets of scorers
• 1965/6612 line-ups · 3 crowds
• 1966/6715 line-ups
• 1967/685 line-ups · 1 set of scorers
• 2026/273 new matches · 2 dates corrected · 14 sets of bookings

New results

• 18 Sep Procision Reading Reserves 0–7 Southend United Won
• 10 Oct Boston United 2–1 Southend United Lost
• 16 Oct Queens Park Rangers College Reserves 0–1 Southend United Won
• 17 Oct Southend United 1–2 Berkhamsted Lost
• 24 Oct Southend United 2–2 FC Halifax Town Drew

Players: 8 new players · 14 biographies · 8 dates of birth

More line-ups and goalscorers for 1906 to 1915, and the latest 2026/27 results

• 1906/073 dates corrected · 23 results · 52 line-ups · 47 sets of scorers · 13 crowds · 4 match notes
• 1907/081 match removed · 73 line-ups · 28 sets of scorers
• 1908/0944 line-ups · 14 sets of scorers
• 1909/1049 line-ups · 17 sets of scorers · 1 match note
• 2004/051 date corrected · 47 line-ups · 2 crowds · 14 match details corrected
• 2005/0648 line-ups · 1 match note · 17 match details corrected

New results

• 25 Aug Milton Keynes Dons 4–1 Southend United Lost
• 2 Sep Southend United 6–0 Maidenhead United Won
• 7 Sep Southend United 7–0 Billericay Town Won
• 9 Sep Forest Green Rovers 1–1 Southend United Drew
• 9 Sep Southend United 7–0 Hertford Town Won
• 18 Sep Procision Reading Res 0–7 Southend United Won
• 23 Sep King's Lynn Town 6–3 Southend United Lost
• 25 Sep Barking Abbey 0–2 Southend United Won
• 30 Sep Billericay Town 2–2 Southend United Drew
• 2 Oct Southend United 6–2 Watford Wa Reserves Won
• 6 Oct Southend United 2–4 Swindon Town Lost
• 7 Oct Dorking Wanderers 0–6 Southend United Won
• 7 Oct Southend United 8–2 Wroxham Won
• 13 Oct Little Oakley 4–0 Southend United Lost
• 13 Oct Southend United 5–0 Needham Market Won
• 16 Oct Queen'S Park Rangers College Res 0–1 Southend United Won

Players: 37 new players · 9 biographies · 7 dates of birth

The Boston and Berkhamsted games added, and full names for Peter Knight, Dave Milton and others

Players known only by an initial now have their first names: Peter Knight, Dave Milton, Clifford Mills, Stephen Wheatley and Frank Ward among them. The 1949/50 Colts matches are now listed as youth games, and the 1922 Southend Hospital Cup match at Arsenal has its line-up. Every old address for a renamed player still works.

• 1949/5025 dates corrected · 1 result · 3 line-ups
• 1957/5813 line-ups · 2 sets of scorers
• 1958/5934 line-ups · 4 sets of scorers
• 1959/6014 line-ups · 2 sets of scorers
• 1965/661 date corrected · 11 line-ups
• 1980/8110 line-ups

New results

• 10 Oct Boston United 1–2 Southend United Won
• 17 Oct Southend United 1–2 Berkhamsted Lost

Players: 16 new players · 3 biographies · 4 dates of birth

Full names for a dozen players, and 71 new entries on the players list

Players known only by an initial now have their first names — Harold Scaife, Herbert Childs, Alan Phillips, Dave Griffin among them — and a few spellings are corrected (William Hagger, Christian Hyslop). Every old address for them still works.

• 1907/0812 line-ups · 2 sets of scorers
• 1938/3915 line-ups · 3 sets of scorers
• 1990/9113 line-ups · 1 set of scorers · 1 set of bookings · 1 match note
• 1991/9220 line-ups
• 1995/9621 line-ups · 2 sets of scorers · 1 set of bookings
• 2025/2648 line-ups · 9 sets of scorers · 3 sets of bookings

Players: 71 new players

The 1907/08 season, and line-ups for the seasons either side of it

Seventeen matches of 1907/08 are new, and its line-ups, scorers and results were added or corrected across the season. Line-ups changed in every season from 1906/07 to 1913/14, and 76 players join the archive.

• 1907/0817 new matches · 3 dates corrected · 35 results · 68 line-ups · 65 sets of scorers · 33 crowds · 10 match notes · 4 match details corrected
• 1909/1069 line-ups · 1 match note
• 1910/111 date corrected · 57 line-ups · 13 sets of scorers · 1 match note
• 1940/411 match removed · 34 line-ups · 18 sets of scorers · 1 crowd · 5 match notes · 2 match details corrected
• 1945/4642 line-ups · 15 sets of scorers · 1 match detail corrected
• 1961/6247 line-ups · 10 sets of scorers

New results

• 26 Sep Southend United 2–4 Barrow Lost
• 30 Sep Eastleigh 1–1 Southend United Drew
• 3 Oct Southend United 3–1 AFC Fylde Won

Players: 76 new players · 48 biographies · 1 date of birth

Wartime line-ups and scorers for 1945/46, and 75 player biographies

• 1939/4021 line-ups · 1 set of scorers
• 1945/463 results · 46 line-ups · 29 sets of scorers · 16 match notes · 2 match details corrected
• 1946/476 dates corrected · 18 line-ups · 2 sets of scorers · 2 match notes
• 2016/171 line-up
• 2026/272 new matches

New results

• 15 Sep Southend United 3–1 Tamworth Won
• 19 Sep Gateshead 1–6 Southend United Won

Players: 28 new players · 75 biographies · 7 dates of birth

The first results of 2026/27, and match notes for 1909/10

• 1909/1014 match notes
• 1910/112 match notes · 1 match detail corrected
• 1959/604 dates corrected
• 1971/723 dates corrected
• 1981/821 new match · 1 date corrected · 1 match note
• 2026/274 new matches · 1 line-up · 1 crowd · 9 match details corrected

New results

• 28 Aug Southend United 1–3 Kidderminster Harriers Lost
• 31 Aug Woking 1–1 Southend United Drew
• 5 Sep Southend United 3–2 Yeovil Town Won
• 12 Sep Carlisle United 2–2 Southend United Drew

Players: 1 new player · 7 biographies · 1 date of birth