Three impressive stats behind Mansfield Town's historic League One season, including Liam Roberts clean sheet tally
As well as finishing the season with the joint-third strongest defence in League One, Mansfield Town recorded other interesting stats they can build on this summer.
Stags secured their highest finish in the football pyramid since 1987 with their impressive run of results towards the end of the 2025/26 campaign – including a nine-goal thriller against Cardiff City to wrap things up.
With just one defeat in 15 games, Nigel Clough’s side worked their way up the table and finished in tenth place, 11 points better off than last year’s total.
Mansfield Town’s defence was identified as their strongest area throughout the term. They conceded just 50 goals from 46 games played – level with promoted Cardiff City and behind only champions Lincoln City (41) and sixth-placed Stevenage (46).
Here are three more stats from the League One season that Stags fans can feel positive about heading into the upcoming summer transfer window.
Liam Roberts in top ten for clean sheets kept this season
Your Chad Readers’ Player of the Year Liam Roberts has enjoyed a stellar debut season in Stags colours. The 31-year-old signed with Mansfield from Millwall last June and started 42 of this season’s 46 league games, keeping 13 clean sheets along the way.
Roberts’ tally is the joint-fifth highest in the official League One stats, alongside Sam Tickle of Wigan Athletic and Josh Keeley of Luton Town. Bradford City keeper Sam Walker (14), Cardiff’s Nathan Trott (16) are third and second respectively, while George Wickens of Lincoln City and Stevenage’s Filip Marschall top the charts with 19 clean sheets each.
Stags score 11 goals outside the box
There were plenty of impressive long-range goals scored in League One this season and Mansfield Town were responsible for 11 of them.
In the list of goals scored from outside the box, Stags sit with the joint-fifth most on their tally. Bradford and Plymouth Argyle also scored 11, while Luton scored 12. Leyton Orient and Barnsley are joint-third with 13, Lincoln and Reading tied with 14 each, while Cardiff topped the table with 15 goals scored from outside the box.
Stags finish in top three for tackle success in League One
Another stat to accentuate how Stags’ defence was a key part of their success this season. Mansfield finished the campaign with the third-highest tackle success in the whole division, boasting 63.17 percent. Only Rotherham United (63.95 percent) and Plymouth (64.48 percent) scored higher.
Stags’ tackle efforts were the second best in the league’s top ten, as the Pilgrims finished in eighth place, eight points higher than Clough’s side.