[2] Four fringe players were released and the trio of Darren Freeman, Charlie Oatway and Paul Watson were sold to Brighton & Hove Albion for a combined £30,000 fee.

[4] Days earlier, centre back Hermann Hreiðarsson had been sold for a club-record £2,500,000 fee to Wimbledon, which weakened the defence.

[3] The season began to drift away from Brentford in November 1999, with injuries causing a run of eight defeats in 10 games.

[4] £100,000 was spent on new forwards Julian Charles and Lorenzo Pinamonte either side of the Millennium, neither of whom made an impact.

[2] One record was set during the season, that of the shortest Football League career with Brentford,[5] when trainee Clement James made a substitute appearance of 8 minutes on his debut versus Stoke City on 8 April 2000.