Lincoln City Chase 103 Points Against Port Vale — Port Vale Vs Lincoln City
Lincoln City can complete their first league double over Port Vale since 1983-84 in port vale vs lincoln city if they finish the final day with a win. That would lift them to 103 points, a total bettered by only one League One side since the 2004-05 EFL rebrand.
Lincoln City and Port Vale
The recent edge sits with Lincoln. They beat Port Vale 1-0 in November, while Port Vale’s only win in the last seven league meetings came in October 2022, also by 1-0. Those results leave Lincoln one victory away from a rare season sweep against a side that has made the head-to-head tighter than the points table might suggest.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up, so the final-day stakes are already in place. Lincoln do not need a margin of victory, only another clean result to turn a strong campaign into one of the highest league totals in the division’s recent history.
Port Vale on the final day
Port Vale’s own record on the last day of EFL seasons gives Lincoln another route into the numbers. They have won just one of their last 13 games that fell on the final day, including the curtailed 2019-20 season, and that lone success came against Exeter in 2022 by 1-0. The pattern is ugly enough that any late pressure from Lincoln will lean on a familiar weakness rather than a one-off wobble.
That is the complication in this fixture. Lincoln’s target is straightforward, but Port Vale are not facing a dead rubber in the usual sense; their recent history on the final day has been poor, yet it has still included one win and six losses across that stretch, which is enough to keep the door open for an awkward finish if they hold their shape.
League One points chase
The cleanest measure of what Lincoln can still take from the day is the total itself. A win would take them to 103 points, and only Birmingham City’s 111 in 2024-25 have produced a larger League One haul since the 2004-05 rebrand. That places this match beyond a routine finale.
So the equation is simple for Lincoln: match the season-long standard one more time and the numbers will stand out beside any recent League One campaign. Port Vale’s recent results against them and on final day give Lincoln the opening; the points total would supply the finish.
