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Wolves' 2016/17 season – in numbers

Wolves correspondent Tim Spiers crunches some numbers to tell the stories of the season.

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Clockwise from top left; Helder Costa, Jeff Shi, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, celebrations at Anfield, Paul Lambert and Walter Zenga (© AMA SPORTS PHOTO AGENCY)

30,000,000 – Amount in pounds that Fosun paid to buy Wolves from Steve Morgan

27,000,000 – Estimated amount in pounds that has been spent on transfer fees alone

24,000,000 – Estimated amount in pounds spent in transfer fees during the previous four seasons

13,000,000 – Transfer fee for Helder Costa, Wolves' record signing

30,193 – Attendance for the FA Cup fifth round defeat to Chelsea, Molineux's biggest crowd since 1981

21,570 – Average attendance at Molineux (up from 20,156 last season)

8,300 – Fans who packed into the Anfield Road End for the 2-1 FA Cup win at Liverpool

500 – Career appearances now made for club and country by Dave Edwards

180 – Seconds Wolves took to turn a 1-0 deficit at Brentford into a much-needed 2-1 victory with goals in the 86th (Matt Doherty) and 89th (Helder Costa) minutes

93 – Total bookings received by the squad, putting Wolves second bottom of the fair play table (they were second top last season with 49 yellows)

87 – Days Walter Zenga was Wolves' head coach. He oversaw 17 matches – the third shortest reign in Wolves history behind Bill McGarry (12 matches, 1985) and Terry Connor (13 matches, 2012)

58 – Final points total from 46 matches, the same total as same as last season

53 – Seconds into the game that Richard Stearman gave Wolves the lead at Anfield

43 – Percentage increase in Early Bird season ticket sales. The total of 14,502 was the fourth highest in the 15 years the initiative has been run

43 – Goals scored in 23 league games by Scott Sellars' under-23 side, who finished second in the table

42 – Amount in pounds Wolves fans were charged by Leeds United for pay-on-the-day tickets for their Easter Monday fixture

42 – Combined months of first-team action missed by cruciate knee ligament victims Nouha Dicko, Jordan Graham and Michal Zyro

34 – Days it took new owners Fosun to sign 12 players before the summer transfer deadline (seven permanent, five on loan)

31 – Hours of playing time Jon Dadi Bodvarsson went without scoring, before netting at Bristol City in April

31 – Years since a central midfielder (Andy King) scored 10 goals in a season for Wolves. Dave Edwards reached that number in 2016/17 – a career-high

28 – Points won at Molineux from 23 matches

27 – Minutes of league football played by loan signing Ola John

25 – Minutes Wolves took to transform a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 lead against Fulham in December, only to concede a late equaliser

24 – Substitute appearances made by Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, the most in the squad. He also started 24 matches

17 – Minutes it took Barnsley to score four goals at Molineux in September to inflict a 4-0 defeat on Wolves, their heaviest of the season

16 – Players signed between July 1 and January 31

16 – Morgan Gibbs-White's age when he made his first-team debut at Stoke

16 – Days before the start of the season that Fosun's takeover was completed

13 – Goals scored by Wolves' strikers/forwards (Jon Dadi Bodvarsson three, Nouha Dicko three, Joe Mason three, Andreas Weimann three, Paul Gladon zero and Bright Enobakhare zero) from a combined total of 141 appearances

12 – Months between Richard Stearman being sold for footballing reasons, then re-signed on loan from Fulham

10 – Bookings received by Romain Saiss, Danny Batth and David Edwards, the joint-highest in the squad

10 – Goals scored in a recent 11-game under-23 run by Donovan Wilson

8 – Assists provided by Helder Costa, to add to his 12 goals

7 – Matches in a nine-game spell in which Wolves conceded in the first 15 minutes (Sep 27–Nov 26)

6 – Matches Zenga went unbeaten at the start of his Wolves tenure. He then lost six of his next 10

6 – Goals out of 15 Goal of the Season contenders scored by Helder Costa

6 – Goals scored against Wolves by ex-players (Rajiv Van La Parra, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Adam Hammill, Adam Le Fondre, Michael Kightly and David Davis)

5 – Consecutive defeats in February, making it the worst February in Wolves’ 140-year history

5 – Consecutive victories from March onwards, which eased Wolves' relegation fears

5 – Consecutive matches Wolves had lost in the FA Cup before beating Stoke and Liverpool

4 – Head coaches who took charge of the first team (including pre-season); Kenny Jackett, Walter Zenga, Rob Edwards, Paul Lambert

3 – Academy players to be handed their debuts (Harry Burgoyne, Morgan Gibbs-White and Connor Ronan). Donovan Wilson, who moved from Bristol Rovers two years ago, also made his first-team bow

3 – Gongs won by Helder Costa at the player of the year awards (player of the season, players' player of the season and goal of the season)

2 – Loan signings who were moved to other clubs as part of a "sub-loan" agreement (Joao Teixeira and Ola John)

2 – Penalties saved by Harry Burgoyne in Wolves' Checkatrade Trophy shoot-out victory against Sunderland. He made his first-team debut five days later

2 – League appearances made by £1million signing Paul Gladon

2 – 94th minute goals scored by Burton Albion against Wolves this season, turning scores of a 1-0 Wolves win and a 1-1 draw into a 1-1 draw and a 2-1 defeat

1.32 – Points won per game under Lambert (slightly up from Zenga's record of 1.14)

1 – League titles won by Wolves players this season, after Ethan Ebanks-Landell enjoyed a successful campaign with League One winners Sheffield United