AFC Bournemouth 3-1 Tranmere Rovers: result and report

League One · Saturday 20 October 2012

Result

AFC Bournemouth 3-1 Tranmere Rovers

League One · Saturday 20 October 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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AFC Bournemouth 3-1 Tranmere Rovers: match report

AFC Bournemouth defeated Tranmere Rovers 3-1 in the League One on Saturday 20 October 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.

Jake Jervis opened the scoring in the 39th minute. AFC Bournemouth's goals came from an own goal by Ben Gibson (53'), Harry Arter (58') and Simon Francis (72'). Tranmere Rovers scored through Jake Jervis (39').

Discipline: AFC Bournemouth received 5 yellow cards; Tranmere Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game AFC Bournemouth were 21st on 11 points from 12 and Tranmere Rovers 1st on 30 points from 12. AFC Bournemouth went on to finish that season 3rd with 83 points, and Tranmere Rovers 10th with 67.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 AFC Bournemouth wins, 1 draw and 2 for Tranmere Rovers.

Going into the match AFC Bournemouth's last five read W-L-L-L-L and Tranmere Rovers's W-W-W-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Yellow card · Simon FrancisAFC Bournemouth
  • 31'Yellow card · Harry ArterAFC Bournemouth
  • 39'Goal · Jake JervisTranmere Rovers · 0-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Zoumana BakayogoTranmere Rovers
  • 53'Own goal · Ben GibsonAFC Bournemouth · 1-1
  • 58'Goal · Harry ArterAFC Bournemouth · 2-1
  • 72'Goal · Simon FrancisAFC Bournemouth · 3-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Marc PughAFC Bournemouth
  • 87'Yellow card · J. PartingtonAFC Bournemouth
  • 90+2'Yellow card · C. DanielsAFC Bournemouth

Head-to-head

6 meetings: AFC Bournemouth 3, draws 1, Tranmere Rovers 2.

Team news

AFC Bournemouth line-up

Simon Francis, Tommy Elphick, Miles Addison, Marc Pugh, Harry Arter, Shaun MacDonald, Josh McQuoid, Lewis Grabban, Charlie Daniels, Lee Barnard, David James

Tranmere Rovers line-up

Owain Fôn Williams, Danny Holmes, Ash Taylor, Liam Palmer, Zoumana Bakayogo, James Wallace, Jake Cassidy, Adam McGurk, Abdulai Bell-Baggie, Jake Jervis, Ben Gibson