Chairman Hugh Kitchin Ground Bootham Crescent | Manager Sam Bartram Football League Third Division North 7th | |
FA Cup Second round
(eliminated by Hull City) Top goalscorer League: Arthur Bottom (21)
All: Arthur Bottom (22) | ||
The 1956–57 season was the thirty-fourth season of competitive association football and twenty-seventh season in the Football League played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, Yorkshire, England. They finished in seventh position in the twenty-four-team 1956–57 Football League Third Division North. They entered the 1956–57 FA Cup in the first round and lost in the second to Hull City.
Twenty-one players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were nine different goalscorers. Goalkeeper Tommy Forgan and forward Peter Wragg played in all forty-nine first-team matches over the season. Arthur Bottom finished as leading goalscorer with twenty-two goals, of which twenty-one came in league competition and one came in the FA Cup.