YORK City's average home attendance in the Nationwide Conference was a respectable 2,333.

However, it is still a huge drop from their final Football League season when they averaged 3,963.

This is the third lowest in the club's history. Only 1977/78 (2,139) and 1980/81 (2,162) were worse. City had to apply for re-election to the Football League at the end of both those seasons.

Other facts and figures to emerge from a painful maiden Conference season unveiled by club statistician David Batters are:

The final tally of 39 league goals is the joint second lowest in the club's history, matching the 1975/76 season when the team also played 42 games in the old second division and the 46-match total of 1999/2000. Only the 2003/2004 season mustered less league goals with 35.

City also failed to score in 20 of their 42 league games, which is the worst ratio since the 1972/73 team fired 23 blanks in their 46-match campaign.

Paul Groves is only the second player since 1996/97 to appear in every League game for the club (38 + 4 sub appearances). Alan Fettis is the other player in 2000/01.

City used 33 players during the season as opposed to 37 in 2003/04. The club record of 38 was set in 2000/01.

City failed to complete a Conference double while losing twice to Aldershot, Hereford United Scarborough and Woking.

For the second successive season City failed to win a cup game. Their last success in a cup competition was in November 2002 when they beat Swansea City 2-1 at Bootham Crescent in the second round of the FA Cup.

Updated: 10:40 Tuesday, April 26, 2005