Football League Division Three (South)
Saturday, January 5, 1957

Brighton and Hove Albion Swindon Town
D.Foreman (3'), D.Tennant (20')
 HT: 2-0
Attendance:  6,370   Referee:  K.G. Aston


1
GILL
2
THOMAS
3
LANGLEY
4
TENNANT
5
WHITFIELD
6
WILSON
7
GORDON
8
HUMPHRIES
9
HARBURN
10
FOREMAN
11
NEATE
1
CHANDLER
2
LEE
3
PEMBERY
4
CROSS
5
JACK
6
MCSHANE
7
GIBSON
8
RICHARDS
9
OWEN
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Eric GILL
                 
Ray CHANDLER
1
2
Rees THOMAS
                 
Jimmy LEE
2
3
Jimmy LANGLEY  
                 
Gordon PEMBERY
3
4
Des TENNANT
               
Jim CROSS
4
5
Ken WHITFIELD
                 
Vince JACK
5
6
Glen WILSON
                 
Anthony MCSHANE
6
7
Denis GORDON
                 
Dave GIBSON
7

8
Bob HUMPHRIES
                 
John RICHARDS
8

9
Peter HARBURN
                 
Maurice OWEN
9
10
Denis FOREMAN
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
Derek NEATE
                 
Arnold DARCY
11















Results on Saturday, January 5, 1957: League Table
 
  Brighton and Hove Albion 2 - 0 Swindon Town  
  Colchester United 3 - 2 Coventry City  
  Northampton Town 4 - 1 Gillingham  
  Norwich City 2 - 2 Walsall  
  Plymouth Argyle 5 - 0 Exeter City  

Table as at Saturday, January 5, 1957:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Southampton 25 15 6 4 45 22 2.05 36 
2 Torquay United 26 13 8 5 45 40 1.13 34 
3 Colchester United 27 13 7 7 56 36 1.56 33 
4 Shrewsbury Town 25 9 12 4 38 34 1.12 30 
5 Newport County 23 9 10 4 33 19 1.74 28 
6 Ipswich Town 26 12 4 10 55 35 1.57 28 
7 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 26 10 8 8 48 33 1.45 28 
8 Northampton Town 27 10 7 10 43 38 1.13 27 
9 Reading 25 11 5 9 45 41 1.10 27 
10 Brighton and Hove Albion 27 10 7 10 48 44 1.09 27 
11 Brentford 26 9 8 9 44 42 1.05 26 
12 Watford 26 11 4 11 43 43 1.00 26 
13 Queens Park Rangers 26 9 8 9 32 34 0.94 26 
14 Gillingham 27 8 9 10 38 49 0.78 25 
15 Walsall 27 7 10 10 40 40 1.00 24 
16 Millwall 25 9 6 10 35 53 0.66 24 
17 Southend United 26 8 7 11 41 44 0.93 23 
18 Crystal Palace 25 6 11 8 37 42 0.88 23 
19 Exeter City 26 7 8 11 34 41 0.83 22 
20 Aldershot 26 8 6 12 47 59 0.80 22 
21 Norwich City 27 5 11 11 33 45 0.73 21 
22 Coventry City 25 7 7 11 34 47 0.72 21 
23 Plymouth Argyle 25 7 6 12 31 42 0.74 20 
24 Swindon Town 26 8 3 15 42 64 0.66 19 

Key: Promotion Re-election