Chairman Michael Sinclair Ground Bootham Crescent | Manager Denis Smith Football League Fourth Division 1st (promoted) | |
FA Cup Second round
(eliminated by Rochdale) League Cup First round
(eliminated by Grimsby Town) | ||
The 1983–84 season was the sixty-second season of competitive association football and fifty-fifth season in the Football League played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. They finished in first position in the 1983–84 Football League Fourth Division, in doing so becoming the first Football League club to reach one hundred points in a season. By winning the Fourth Division championship, York earned the first major honour in the club's history.
They entered the 1983–84 FA Cup in the first round, beating Macclesfield Town in a replay before losing at home to Rochdale in the second round. They were knocked in the first round of both the 1983–84 Football League Cup and 1983–84 Associate Members' Cup, being beaten by Grimsby Town and Hull City respectively.
Eighteen players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were eleven different goalscorers. Defender John MacPhail, midfielder Gary Ford and striker John Byrne played in all fifty-two first-team matches over the season. Byrne finished as leading goalscorer with twenty-eight goals, of which twenty-seven came in league competition and one came in the FA Cup. The winner of the Clubman of the Year award was MacPhail.