League 2
Monday 6th October 2025
Kick Off 20.00 On Time!
Harrogate Town 1 Crewe Alexandra 2, attendance 2,503
5’ 1-0
29’ 1-1
87’ 1-2
@ The Exercise Stadium
Wetherby Road
Harrogate
HG2 7SA
£26 Admission (£3 increase paying on day)
£5 Programme available, didn’t bother buying.
Tonight was another tidy up of ‘The 92’. I’d last been here way back in May 1991, where I witnessed a 1-1 draw versus Farsley Celtic in a Northern Premier League match, but tonight was a chance to visit the ground whilst it’s hosting as a Football League ground. The changes since then are immense and they’ve done well to develop it into a ground that now has a reported capacity of around 5,000 of which 2,000 are seated. It’s a real hotch potch of a ground, with seven different stands and the viewing, at least from the standing areas, is not great and that was with a crowd of just half capacity which apparently included 285 with the visitors. The ground is on the right hand side of the A661 when entering the town from the south. There’s no official parking, but plenty in the surrounding housing estates, with no restrictions for midweek night matches.
The game pitted 16th against 12th and was less negative than I’d been expecting at this level. It probably helped that Harrogate went ahead after just five minutes, when a cross from the left was finished with a downward header at the far post by Jack Muldoon. Crewe levelled the scores just before the half hour mark, when a corner was played to the near angle of the 18 yard box from where a first time shot from Reece Hutchison was hit left footed, looping over the ‘keeper into the far corner. The second half was back and forth, with both teams going for the win. Crewe had a shot cleared off the line with six minutes left, but did manage to nick a winner three minutes later, when a break from the centre circle saw Max Saunders curl a 25 yarder into the far corner. The win sees Crewe move up to fifth in the league table, six points adrift of leaders Walsall.
I’d had no traffic problems heading north, once I’d cleared the M25. I was certainly glad to be staying over though, as the game never finished until 21.56.
