Chairman Douglas Craig Ground Bootham Crescent | Manager Alan Little Football League Second Division 20th | |
FA Cup Third round
(eliminated by Hednesford Town) League Cup Third round
(eliminated by Leicester City) | ||
The 1996–97 season was the seventy-fifth season of competitive association football and sixty-eighth season in the Football League played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, Yorkshire, England. They finished in twentieth position in the twenty-four-team 1996–97 Football League Second Division. They were eliminated from the 1996–97 FA Cup in the third round by Hednesford Town, from the 1996–97 League Cup in the third round by Leicester City, and from the 1996–97 Football League Trophy in the Northern section quarter-final by Carlisle United.
Thirty-one players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were sixteen different goalscorers. Defender Tony Barras played in all fifty-seven first-team matches over the season. Neil Tolson finished as leading goalscorer with seventeen goals, of which twelve came in league competition, two came in the FA Cup and three came in the League Cup.