West Yorkshire League
Division 2
Wednesday 25th March 2026
Kick Off 19.30 Actual 19.28
Swillington Saints 4 Mount St. Mary’s 1, attendance 16
23’ 0-1
34’ 1-1
37’ 2-1
60’ 3-1
82’ 4-1
@ Swillington Sports & Social Club
Floodlit Football/Rugby Pitch
Wakefield Road
Swillington
LS26 8DT
No Admission or Programme.
Swillington Saints use two different pitches here at Swillington Sports & Social Club to host home games. On Saturdays, they use the railed pitch furthest from the clubhouse/changing rooms, but for midweeks they have use of the floodlit pitch that runs parallel to it, which also has rugby posts in situ, nearer to the clubhouse (open for hot and cold food and drinks) and railed on three sides, one touch line sharing the rail of their main pitch.
I’d had an almost instant reply from the home club that the game was being played here, so headed up the M1, just to the east of Leeds, where 10th were hosting 13th (out of 15) in the third (bottom division) level of the West Yorkshire League. It was the visitors who broke the deadlock midway through the first half, sweeping in from close range after a cross from the right wasn’t cleared. A far post header, from a diagonal free kick, saw Swillington draw level eleven minutes later and another header, nipping in front of the ‘keeper to nod in a cross from the right, then saw them take the lead eight minutes before halftime. Unusually for a midweek game, especially with a bitingly cold wind, everyone stayed on the pitch at halftime, with the interval lasting just six minutes. On the hour mark Saints made it 3-1, when a near post corner was helped into the net by the ‘keeper, as he attempted to flick the ball over the crossbar at the near post and they rounded off the scoring with eight minutes left, tapping in at the far post from a cut back that went right across the six yard box without being cleared.
The journey north was totally trouble free. The journey home wasn’t. Diverted off the M1 between J33 and J31 and again coming off at J15a, via A43 and M40, due to a closure of the M1 lower down between J9 and J8. M25 then closed from J15 to J14 and down to a single lane from J11 to J9.
