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2010–11 Notts County F.C. season

Notts County
2010–11 season
Chairman Ray Trew
Manager Martin Allen
Football League One 19th
FA Cup 4th Round
League Cup 3rd Round
Football League Trophy 1st Round
Top goalscorer League: Lee Hughes (13)
All: Lee Hughes (16)
Highest home attendance 11,355 (vs Sheffield Wednesday, 2 October 2010)
Lowest home attendance 3,235 (vs Gateshead, 6 November 2010)
Average home league attendance 7,776

Notts County are the oldest club in the Football League and the 2010–11 season was their 122nd year in The Football League. After a successful season in League Two, the club gained promotion to League One following a win against Morecambe on 17 April 2010 and were crowned as League Two champions after a 5–0 win at already relegated Darlington ten days later. Manager Steve Cotterill left the club at the end of the season, and was replaced by Craig Short. Short was sacked on 26 October 2010, and replaced by Paul Ince. Ince left the club on April 2011, and was replaced by Martin Allen.

Nike continues as the shirt designer and Lorien Connect is the new shirt sponsor. Nike have gone for another traditional Notts County style shirt, with black and white stripes, however the arm only contains one strip which is on the underside of the kit. The Shirt Sponsor is given an aqua blue and burgundy colouring whilst the Nike logo is red.

In their first week of pre-season, Notts County travelled to Austria to play SV Austria Salzburg, who they beat 2–1. Graeme Lee scored in the eight minute with Ben Davies claiming the assist. New signing Ben Burgess could have them put them 2–0 up but hit it wide, then Lee Hughes hit the cross bar. At half-time Luke Rodgers, Karl Hawley and new keeper Stuart Nelson came on to replace Hughes, Burgess and new no.1 Rob Burch. 27 seconds later County were 2–0 up with Luke Rodgers scoring. In the 50th minute Wührer scored for Salzburg. Five trialist came on including Krystian Pearce and Mansour Assoumani also new signing John Spicer made his debut. Notts County continued their tour of Austria, playing Polish team Arka Gdynia, Denis Glavina scored just before half-time to give the Polish team the lead and the win. Notts County's first home pre-season game was against Premier League outfit Stoke City, the final score was 0–0 with the Magpies impressing the home crowd. Notts County impressed again at Meadow Lane with a 2–1 win over Championship outfit Cardiff City, Lee Hughes scored a double before the break to put County 2–0 up and near the hour mark Scottish international, Ross McCormack pulled one back for the Bluebirds. Notts County put up a hard performance against Championship side Sheffield United, United took the lead in the 87th minute through a Ched Evans strike.


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