Kidsgrove Athletic 2 Vauxhall Motors 0, 16/11/24. Hollinwood Road, Northern Premier League Division One West. Founded in 1952, the home club has worked its way up through local leagues and via the North West Counties League to Step 8 of the English football pyramid. Kidsgrove, lying 13th in the division, beat their top-of-the-table visitors 2-0, watched by a crowd of 288 spectators. Photos by Colin McPherson.

Caernarfon Town play Crusaders in a Europa Conference first qualifying round, first leg tie, which was played at Bangor City’s Nantporth stadium as the home club’s ground does not currently meet UEFA standards. This was the first time the Cymru Premier club, founded in 1937, had qualified for a European competition. Caernarfon Town won the match 2-0, watched by a crowd of 1008 spectators. Photos by Colin McPherson.

SV Tasmania Berlin 0 Hansa Rostock II 1, 04/08/2024. Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark, NOFV Oberlia Nord. The home club were originally founded in 1900 and have had a peripatetic existence in local, regional and national football, including spending one season in the Bundesliga in the 1960s when they secured the lowest-ever points total in top-flight history and going bankrupt and reforming in 1973. The visitors, representing the second team of 3. Bundesliga Hansa Rostock, won this match 1-0, watched by 250 spectators in the regional fifth tier of German football. Photos by Colin McPherson.

Carlisle United 2 Fleetwood Town 3, 14/09/24. Brunton Park, EFL League 2. Carlisle United play Fleetwood Town in an EFL League 2 match at Brunton Park. Both teams were relegated from League One last team, with the home team’s American owners the Piatak family sacking their manager Paul Simpson after their last home game, a home defeat by Tranmere Rovers. Fleetwood won this match 3-2, watch by 7,090 spectators. Photos by Colin McPherson.

Golcar United v New Mills, FA Vase First Qualifying Round, Skye Direct Stadium, 24th August 2024. New Mills won 6-5 on penalties after a 2-2 draw. A run of home matches and a clash with a Huddersfield home game resulted in a below average attendance of 138. The pitch was lowered by three feet on the clubhouse side and raised by approximately the same amount on the other side in 2018. Photos by Paul Thompson.

Oxenhope Recreation v Ripon City, West Yorkshire League Premier Division, 12th October 2024. Oxenhope is a village 10 miles west of Bradford in the south Pennines, with a population of approx. 2,500. Oxenhope Rec FC was founded in 1912. Season 2024-25 is their first back in the West Yorkshire League Premier Division since promotion. An eventful game saw Oxenhope race to a 7-3 half time lead. A red card for Oxenhope and two late goals for Ripon made for tense finish, but Oxenhope held out for a 7-5 to move up to 5th place.

Rochdale 0 Southend United 1, 19/10/24. Crown Oil Arena, National League. Rochdale play Southend United in a National League match at the Crown Oil Arena. The home club has played at the ground, known formally as Spotland Stadium, since their formation in 1907. The visitors won this match 1-0, watched by 2806 spectators in a game which kicked-off at 5.30 to accommodate television coverage. Photos by Colin McPherson.

Buxton v Chester, National League North, 11th January 2025. At approx. 1000 feet above sea level Buxton’s Silverlands ground is the highest in England. After heavy snowfall, volunteers cleared the pitch and stadium to enable the game to go ahead on Buxton’s 4g pitch. Their efforts were in vain as Chester came from 1-0 and 2-1 down to win 2-4, in front 1012 fans.

Tamworth 3 Boston United 0, 18/01/2025. The Lamb Ground, National League. Tamworth play Boston United in a National League fixture at the Lamb Ground. Formed in 1933, the home club have played at their current ground since a year after their formation. Tamworth won the game 3-0, watched by 1479 spectators, a week after they had lost by the same scoreline after extra time at home to Premier League Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup. Photos by Colin McPherson.

Huddersfield Women v Middlesbrough Women, 23rd February 2025, Women’s National League Division One North, Stafflex Arena. Middlesbrough won 1-0 with a goal scored direct from a corner on a wet and windy afternoon, in front of a crowd of 71. The win cemented Middlesbrough's second place in the table, behind leaders Cheadle on goal difference. Huddersfield women play their home games at the Stafflex Arena, home of Shelley FC. The arena has five pitches and was built as a sports facility for a psychiatric hospital which closed in 1992.