Sources
Where this comes from
Sources and licences
Nothing here is our own research. The record is assembled from the work of others, cross-checked where they overlap, and every fact keeps a note of who said it. These are the people whose work it rests on.
Reusing this material
This archive is not under a single licence. Each source is held on its own terms, and Down The Den cannot grant more than it was given.
Individual facts — a score, a date, a crowd — belong to nobody. What follows matters if you want a substantial part of the record rather than a handful of results.
Required attribution
These are shared under licences that oblige us to credit them wherever their material appears. That is a condition of use, not a courtesy.
Fjelstul English Football Database
Contains data from the Fjelstul English Football Database v1.1.0 by Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D. (c) 2024, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Held under: CC BY-SA 4.0
If you want to reuse it: Facts taken from here that came from this database may be reused under CC BY-SA 4.0: credit the original, and license what you build on it the same way.
English Wikipedia
Includes material from English Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Held under: CC BY-SA 4.0
If you want to reuse it: Wikipedia supplied the roster -- which players and managers to look up -- and the tenure dates of forty managers. Those dates may be reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Credited
These are used with permission or under terms that ask for nothing in return. They are named because the work is theirs.
TownEnders
Southern League results supplied by TownEnders.
TownEnders also supplies the additional Swindon–Millwall fixtures and structured match details held in this private archive.
Held under: Owner-approved reuse in the private invited Down The Den archive
If you want to reuse it: Not ours to pass on. Contact TownEnders about reuse of their work.
Wikidata
Includes data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0.
Held under: CC0 1.0
If you want to reuse it: CC0 places this in the public domain. Every date of birth, place of birth and height in the archive came from here, and none of them carries any condition at all.
engsoccerdata
Includes data from engsoccerdata by James P. Curley.
Held under: Permission from the author, given to Down The Den
If you want to reuse it: Not ours to pass on. The permission was given to this project. Anyone wanting to reuse this material should approach the author, whose own repository is linked above.
Millwall History Files
Includes data from the Millwall History Files, used by permission.
Held under: Permission from the Millwall History Files, given to Down The Den
If you want to reuse it: Not ours to pass on. The permission was given to this project, and the work remains theirs. Anyone wanting to reuse it should ask them.
How the record is put together
Where two sources agree, the fact is corroborated and says so. Where one source alone holds it, it says that too. Where they disagree, both accounts are kept and the fact is shown as disputed rather than quietly decided. A fact nobody records is shown as missing, never as a zero.