Coventry City 0-2 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 April 2012

Result

Coventry City 0-2 Doncaster Rovers

Championship · Saturday 21 April 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Coventry City · Doncaster Rovers · Championship predictions

Coventry City 0-2 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Coventry City were beaten by Doncaster Rovers 0-2 in the Championship on Saturday 21 April 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.

James Hayter opened the scoring in the 81st minute. Coventry City did not score. Doncaster Rovers scored through James Hayter (81', penalty) and Simon Gillett (87').

Discipline: Coventry City received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Doncaster Rovers received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Coventry City were 23rd on 40 points from 44 and Doncaster Rovers 24th on 33 points from 44. Coventry City went on to finish that season 23rd with 40 points, and Doncaster Rovers 24th with 36.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Coventry City wins, 3 draws and 1 for Doncaster Rovers.

Going into the match Coventry City's last five read L-D-L-D-W and Doncaster Rovers's D-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 80'Red card · Richard KeoghCoventry City
  • 81'Penalty goal · James HayterDoncaster Rovers · 0-1
  • 87'Goal · Simon GillettDoncaster Rovers · 0-2

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Coventry City 3, draws 3, Doncaster Rovers 1.

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Joe Murphy, Richard Keogh, Chris Hussey, Martin Cranie, Jordan Clarke, Gary McSheffrey, Oliver Norwood, Conor Thomas, Gaël Bigirimana, Cody McDonald, Clive Platt

Doncaster Rovers line-up

Gary Woods, George Friend, Sam Hird, James Husband, John Oster, Simon Gillett, James Coppinger, Chris Brown, Fabien Robert, James O'Connor, Adam Brian Lockwood