© 2020 BBC. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Simply scroll down throughout the afternoon for all the latest from the game: Last updated: Saturday, 29 August, 2020, 18:25. The ground is a pleasant 20 minute walk with a pub situated half way. I was rewarded by seeing a steam train (The Duchess of Sutherland) stop at York en-route to Scarborough. Get the latest transfer news and rumours from the world of football. Harrogate Town AFC Limited The Envirovent Stadium Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 7SA 01423 210600 Email Us Company Number: 02523873 Harrogate Town AFC. I settled for a free car park about a 10 minute walk away.

As a long suffering York fan I decided to take a break from the drivel we’ve been subjected to at Bootham Crescent and check out our nearest neighbours who are unbeaten and top of the National League, whilst we languish in the lower reaches of National League North. Unusually away fans were given an enclosure on the side rather than an end stand.

Subscribe Today to Enjoy Match Highlights, Interviews, Fan Cam and Features! This will be mostly achieved by extending the Main Stand towards the South End of the ground and increasing the amount of terrace on the Wetherby Road side and installing a new terrace at the South end itself. Please note that traffic can be quite congested along the A661, so you may wish to allow more time for your journey. Harrogate Town really missed a trick here, they would have made a killing from the many Darlo fans who fell into the same trap. He found Maguire but his cross was nodded away by Will Smith before Wyke could get onto the delivery. Again there is a base of a floodlight near the centre of this stand. The food looked appetising, but I always come well prepared with my own. At the Hospital End of the ground, a new covered terrace was opened in 2014, which is called the Henderson Stand. They spent 15 seasons in this league, twice narrowly avoiding relegation back to the Northern Counties East League. They won the game 1–0 and the scorer was L. Craven with a headed goal. Leave the A1(M) at Junction 47 and take the A59 towards Knaresborough. As a Wigan Athletic fan, I decided to take a week off from my own teams struggles a visit a new ground for me. The Black Cats get us started at the Stadium of Light.

They spent many years in the Yorkshire League during the 1960s and 1970s, and then became a founding member of the new Northern Counties East Football League in 1982. The town's club was brought back in 1935 as Harrogate Hotspurs. However where matches are segregated, which seems to be most matches nowadays, then it does not allow in visiting fans. However, Town lost 5–4 on penalties. I had passed the ground in the car a few times on the way to the Yorkshire Dales. Sorry, no headlines or news topics were found. A decent pub with a choice of ales. To see how, and to learn how to control cookies, I have been informed that the Sainsburys Store has free parking for up to three hours, but if using this please double check any signage in the car park to ensure that this is still the case. © Copyright 1997 - 2020 NewsNow Publishing Limited. Harrogate town centre is around a 20 minute walk away from the ground, where there are plenty of pubs to be found including the Winter Gardens on Royal Baths Road, which is a Wetherspoons outlet. I got to the ground very early and so I retraced my steps a bit and sat on a seat in the park to wait until 2pm before gaining entry to the ground. Subscribe Today to Enjoy Match Highlights, Interviews, Fan Cam and Features! A chatty steward said less than originally expected Barrow fans were coming. An excellent 3-2 win for Town, who just about held on. I was expecting it to be a decent crowd with it being the festive season and a Yorkshire derby as well as visiting another ground to add to my list. Having already beaten Gateshead and Carlisle United, the Black Cats will be looking to make it three from three when the North Yorkshire side come to town. It will be nice to see them, but we obviously want to go out there and get the win first and foremost. Portsmouth soon went a goal down and for the first twenty minutes were struggling to cope with the pitch. The Club have received planning permission to increase the capacity of the CNG Stadium to 5,000 and one that will meet Football League standards.

The latter being more of a pastry which has a filling beef, blue cheese, garlic mushrooms and red wine gravy.

As the only Yorkshire ground in the top five tiers of the English football pyramid and as a proud Yorkshireman this visit was a must. A bank of Portaloos made up the facilities, which I didn't have the need for. Find train times, prices and book tickets with Trainline. There was no segregation so away fans could walk around to stand behind the goal their team was attacking for both halves. We live 30 miles away easy journey and parked in the Pay and Display Council Car Park at the adjoining the Odeon Cinema that cost 70p per hour. Otherwise, you will need to street parking further away or in a town centre car park, around one mile away. Sunderland AFC v Harrogate Town LIVE: Match updates, stream details, reaction, analysis and more from the Stadium of Light friendly. [1] At the end of the season the club finished fifth and qualified for the promotion play-offs, but lost 1–0 to eventual winners Stafford Rangers. By Pixelbuilders | … The map is centered on the football ground. Harrogate Town AFC have now confirmed the 20-man squad available for selection for the upcoming National League Play-offs. There are houses all around the stadium where you can park, obviously at your own risk but it seemed like a nice area so I took my chances. By the time I got back to the car, the traffic had died down. The ground was decent for National League with the away fans situated in seats and terracing along the side. However, there is the nearby Kingswood Surgery on Wetherby Road (HG2 7SA) which offers parking at £5.

The unlit (apart from moonlight and distant traffic) walk across the park was accompanied but everyone was thankfully in a rush and the local dogs/owners are obviously meticulously clean. Pompey fans were not impressed with the TV schedule as it was a difficult journey at any time but a Monday night fixture was taking the proverbial.

I was debating going to this one as we'd had two home games in a row so I hadn't had a weekend with the wife for a while, but once she told me she was spending the day with her sister I threw the home shirt on, jumped in the car and set off for Harrogate. On one side is the modern looking Main Stand, which is called the Greene King IPA Family Stand. Unfortunately, this terrace does have the base of a floodlight pylon located near the middle of it and the roof only extends over the back rows. Just as well I didn’t “wing it” in the hope of following vast hoards of fans towards a beckoning floodlit area!

All reasonably priced. The home fans in the terrace made some noise as well which made for a great and friendly atmosphere, only subdued by the result. Sunderland have a clean bill of health for their final friendly of the summer. We stayed in a Travelodge in the Centre of Town and it took about 20 minutes to reach the ground. It is around 15 rows high and although pre-fabricated it is fairly steep.

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The 12 seater transparent dug-outs in front of the main terrace, however, gave the appearance of being bought from a catalogue and of a temporary nature. They moved league once again for their third season, leaving the West Riding League and moving into the Midland Football League. The atmosphere was great, with a crowd of over 1900, half of them from Grimsby. It was an easy walk from the railway station to the ground along some very nice roads and across The Stray or Two Hundred Acre park. Comment on the game itself, atmosphere, stewards, pies, facilities etc.. A cracking good cup tie, with a few heavy tackles thrown in. The club is nicknamed "Town" and also the "Sulphurites", due to Harrogate's famous sulphur springs. Tad Nowakowski, father of player Adam, also joined the board to help improve community links. Turn left at the roundabout into Station Avenue. It included the reserve teams of Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley. Booking train tickets in advance will normally save you money! A cold 20 minute walk back to The Tap on Tower Street for some drinks followed by a late-night pizza. However, I then celebrity spotted Harry Gration (Yorkshire correspondents know him from BBC Look North) so this tempered my venomous fury… Town top of the National League! I had ample time to spare to catch the 17.15 to Leeds. Harrogate Town were on top from early on, but Gloucester did manage to pull one back, but the home team then went on to clinch it with two more goals to make it a comfortable 3-1 home win. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. A few home shirts in evidence, along with a few of ours. There was a good following from Notts. A word on the catering, it's amazingly good for any level, reasonably priced & the Steak Pie with gravy I had (I wasn't going to but it looked so good) was sensational. On one side of this terrace (towards the 1919 Venue end of the ground) is a new small covered seated stand, which has around 150 seats in six rows. The club competes in League Two, the fourth tier of English football from the 2020–21 season after winning the 2019–20 National League play-offs. Four portaloos for circa 1500 Darlo fans was a bit awkward. The club is nicknamed "Town" and also the "Sulphurites", due to Harrogate's famous sulphur springs.

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