League:
Level
Coca Cola League 2
Position:
23rd
Relagated from the Football League.
FA Cup:
Second Round
League Cup:
First Round
Chairmen:
Firoz Kassam, Nick Merry
Managers:
Brian Talbot, Darren Patterson, Jim Smith.
Top Scorer:
Steve Basham (13)
Notable Players:
Jon Ashton, Steve Basham, Lee Bradbury, Chris Hackett, Chris Hargreaves, Lee Mansell, Barry Quinn, Leo Roget, Chris Tradiff, Chris Willmott.
Firoz Kassam sold the club (but not the stadium) to a consortium of businessmen headed by former manager Jim Smith. Despite Jim Smith’s previous success at Oxford, he was unable to prevent the club dropping out of the Football League.
This was to be the last of 5 seasons that TFG produced Oxford United's kits.
After using the same style for 6 years, the Football League changed their numbers and lettering to a custom design. This version remained in use up to the 2015 season.
Again, the Coca-Cola competition patches featured.
Long
sleeves
A new home kit was introduced with the previous season's yellow shorts and socks often paired away from home. Indeed, the clubs official first-choice colours were only worn once away from the Kassam Stadium.
For reasons unknown, the all-yellow combination was worn for the final home game of the season.
Long
sleeves
The previous season's black change kit was retained, however, for this season it would only feature in its all-black form.
Embarrassingly, Oxford United twice had to wear their opponent's kit during this season (details below).
Oxford United had planned to wear black shirts and white shorts, believing that Barnet would be wearing their traditional combination of orange shirts and black shorts. Barnet had registered these colours with the football league, indeed they'd worn this colour combination during their pre-season friendlies.
However, in a most unusual move, Barnet swapped their home and change kits just 2 days before the start of the league campaign. This important detail appeared to have been poorly communicated, resulting in Oxford United bringing a nearly identical colour combination to the match.
Oxford United was asked to wear Barnet’s reserve team away shirts, paired with their own white shorts. Presumably, the red socks were mustered from Barnet's kit room.
Kit Clash
The away match at Boston was always going to be a tricky one for Oxford United, as neither their yellow nor black shirts were really suitable for the trip to York Street.
Oxford United sort advice prior to the fixture, reportedly from the match referee Mick Russell. It was agreed that United would wear their all-yellow strip.
However, once at the ground, the referee had a change of mind and decided that Oxford’s yellow shirts were too similar to Boston’s gold and black hooped shirts.
Boston’s white and blue youth team kit was provided for Oxford United to wear.
Kit Clash
Grimsby
Away
Torquay
Home
Wycombe
Home
Lincoln
Away
Gillingham
Away
Stockport
Home
Shrewsbury
Away
Rushden
Home
Bristol Rov
Away
Darlington
Away
Bury
Home
Rochdale
Away
Barnet
Away
Carlisle
Home
Northampton
Away
Brentford
Away
Boston
Home
L Orient
Away
Eastbourne
Away
Wrexham
Home
Eastbourne
Home
Carlisle
Away
L Orient
Home
Grimsby
Home
Cheltenham
Away
Cheltenham
Away
Torquay
Away
Cheltenham
Home
Lincoln
Home
Cheltenham
Away
Notts C
Home
Mansfield
Home
Chester
Away
Shrewsbury
Home
Peterboro'
Away
Macclesfield
Away
Darlington
Home
Rushden
Away
Rochdale
Home
Macclesfield
Home
Cheltenham
Home
Wycombe
Away
Stockport
Away
Bristol Rov
Home
Notts C
Away
Bury
Away
Peterboro'
Home
Mansfield
Away
Chester
Home
Barnet
Home
Boston
Away
Northampton
Home
Wrexham
Away
L Orient
Home