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During the 1949–50 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Second Division. In his first season as manager, Jackie Gibbons guided the club to a 9th-place finish, a marked improvement on near-relegations in the previous two seasons.
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Season summary
1949–50 marked the first season since 1925–26 that Brentford would play under the management of someone other than Harry Curtis, with former player Jackie Gibbons having taken over the Griffin Park hotseat at the end of the 1948–49 season. A new-look team toured Sweden under Gibbons in pre-season, with new forward signings Ken Coote, Jimmy Hill and Dennis Rampling in attendance. Joe Crozier, the team's near-ever-present goalkeeper since September 1937, elected to retire from full-time football and would be replaced by his backup, Alf Jefferies.
Brentford had a mixed season in the Second Division, with just three victories in the opening 15 matches leaving the team with too much ground to make up to challenge for promotion. A turnaround in form elevated the Bees from 21st place on 5 November 1949 to a season-high 7th on 8 April 1950. Two losses, a win and a draw from the final four matches saw the club drop to 8th. Brentford finished the campaign having conceded only 12 league goals at Griffin Park, the best home record in each of the top two divisions.
League table
P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points