EFL League One · first half goals
Stevenage First Half Goals
In 150 EFL League One matches, 56.7% of Stevenage’s first halves produced a goal, 35th of the 35 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 38.7% of them and conceded in 34.0%.
What Stevenage’s first halves look like
Stevenage guard the first half better than they attack it: 5th of 35 in the division for early goals conceded, 26th for scoring them. A goal arrives before halftime in 56.7% of Stevenage’s EFL League One matches. Set against the EFL League One figure of 70.1%, that is a full 13.4pp adrift. Goalless first halves are the norm rather than the exception here, at 43.3%.
Getting two before the break is a stretch in this fixture: 22.0% against 32.8% across the division. Home advantage arrives early for Stevenage: they open the scoring account before halftime in 44.0% of home matches and only 33.3% of away ones, 10.7pp between them.
Stevenage sit last of the 35 published EFL League One clubs for the share of their first halves that produce a goal. An early goal in Stevenage’s matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 39% of the time, where the division manages 47%.
Every figure on this page rests on 150 completed Stevenage matches over 4 seasons (2023 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Stevenage first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 56.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 22.0% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 7.3% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 0.86 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 38.7% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 34.0% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.46 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.40 |
| Matches counted | 150 |
| Seasons covered | 4 (2023 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 56.0% | 25.3% | 44.0% | 30.7% | 0.89 | 75 |
| Away | 57.3% | 18.7% | 33.3% | 37.3% | 0.83 | 75 |
Stevenage score before halftime 44.0% of the time at home against 33.3% away, a gap of 10.7pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Stevenage against EFL League One
| Line | Stevenage | EFL League One | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 56.7% | 70.1% | −13.4pp |
| Over 1.5 | 22.0% | 32.8% | −10.8pp |
| Over 2.5 | 7.3% | 10.5% | −3.2pp |
Counted from 150 matches · 4 seasons · 2023 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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