Yate Town v Exmouth Town
Southern League Division One South
Monday 26th August 2024 – kick-off 3.00pm
Be there to support YOUR local club.
With no Football League games around this Bank Holiday Monday Yate Town are hoping for a bumper crowd as they entertain high flying Exmouth Town, who like Yate Town have got off to an excellent start to the season with 2nd placed Yate Town taking on 3rd placed Exmouth Town.
Yate Town have started the season well, winning all five of their matches. With two FA Cup victories and three in the League but each League encounter has only been won by the odd goal so it should be a close and entertaining game at the South West Interiors Stadium against the Devon side who are also unbeaten in the League with seven points from nine.
Yate Town manager, Darren Mullings, has a few injury concerns but welcomes back defender Dan Dempsey who was unavailable for the 2-1 win at Bashley on Saturday, for this, their second game in three days, during this busy Bank Holiday period for non-league clubs.
Our opponents:
Season 2022/23 saw Exmouth finish in 14th place in their inaugural season in the Southern League with 46 points from 38 games and last season, after being bottom of the league for long periods their form improved dramatically for them to finally finish in 18th position out of 19 clubs and thus avoiding relegation with only one team going down.
This season has seen the fine from the tail end of last season continue with a 3-0 home win against Thatcham followed by a 2-0 win at Bideford and on Saturday they drew 3-3 at Melksham, with both sides keeping their unbeaten record intact in the League. In an eventful game, Louis Morison, the former Exeter City Academy player, scored all 3 goals for Exmouth after they had been 1-3 down with 15 minutes to go, after Melksham had been reduced to nine men following two players being sent off.
In the FA Cup, having beaten Street 1-0 with a Tom Bath goal in the Extra Preliminary Round, they hosted Brixham in the Preliminary Round on 17th August and were beating Brixham 3-0 when Jack Thorne, who had scored twice, was badly injured and the game was eventually abandoned in the second half. The following Wednesday (21st August) the game was replayed and it was Brixham who surprisingly won 2-0 to inflict Exmouth’s first defeat of the season.
Previous meetings
Last season was the first time that the clubs have met each other in the Southern league, Exmouth Town having been promoted from the Western League in 2022. The first game saw Yate Town win 4-1 for their “Pay What You Want” fixture watched by a crowd of 464, with the game being in doubt with a pitch inspection at 9.30am following heavy rain. It was a game of spectacular goals with Joe Hall
putting the Bluebells into an early lead before stunning strikes from Dylan Lewis and Brendon Opeteri (his only goal for the club) put Yate in front in the first half hour before Ben Steer joined in the act with a tremendous shot for Exmouth to make it 3-1. Ryan Hillier added a fourth in the second half.
Ryan Hillier scores Yate Town’s fourth goal in their 4-1 win at the South West Interiors Stadium last October.
The game at Exmouth in January saw an away win with Joe Guest and Nick McCootie scoring in the first half and Levi Landricombe scoring a stoppage time goal for Exmouth.
The clubs had met before, in the Preliminary Round of the FA Cup in season 2019/20, and after a 2-2 draw at Lodge Road with ollie Mehew scoring twice it was the Devon side who were victorious in the replay.
Also:
Visit our new club shop
The new club shop is open on match days, where you can buy a whole host of new club merchandise, including shirts, tops, Yate Town fixture mugs, key rings, mouse mats, badges and much, much more. So, make sure you take a look. Tracey, who will also be selling match day programmes and 50/50 tickets.
And don’t forget to visit the newly refurbished clubhouse.
The match day programme – with a newly designed front cover
Match day information
Admission prices:
Adult: £12
Concessions: Over 65, Students, NHS, armed forces and fire services – just show correct ID information: £8
Children: (11-17) £5
Under 11: Free
Bristol City, Bristol Rovers and Forest Green fans - show your season ticket at the turnstiles to gain entry for £8
Programmes: £2.50 – with loads of information that is only available via the matchday programme –
so BUY YOUR COPY AT THE GAME with a special feature on new signing Will Christopher and new signing Ross Stearn on the front cover.
The bar is open from 1.00pm
Turnstiles open: 1.00pm
Plenty of parking space available
Food available inside the ground.
Please note that the South West Interiors Stadium is a NO dogs ground (apart from guide dogs).
Yate Town FC website: www.yatetownfc.co.uk
Next up:
Yate Town play an FA Cup First Qualifying Round tie away to Hungerford Town next Saturday (31st
August) and please note that if this game is drawn that there will be a replay at the South West Interiors
Stadium on Tuesday 3rd September with a 7.45pm kick-off