Chairman Douglas Craig Ground Bootham Crescent | Manager Alan Little Football League Second Division 16th | |
FA Cup Second round
(eliminated by Wigan Athletic) League Cup Second round
(eliminated by Oxford United) | ||
The 1997–98 season was the seventy-sixth season of competitive association football and sixty-ninth season in the Football League played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, Yorkshire, England. They finished in sixteenth position in the twenty-four-team 1997–98 Football League Second Division. They were eliminated from the 1997–98 FA Cup in the second round by Wigan Athletic, from the 1997–98 League Cup in the second round by Oxford United, and from the 1997–98 Football League Trophy in the Northern section second round by Blackpool.
Twenty-eight players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were sixteen different goalscorers. Midfielder Mark Tinkler missed only two of the fifty-three competitive matches played over the season. Striker Rodney Rowe finished as leading goalscorer with sixteen goals, of which eleven came in league competition, three came in the FA Cup, one came in the League Cup and one came in the Football League Trophy.