Anglian Combination League
Premier Division
Tuesday 13th January 2026
Kick Off 19.45 Actual 19.52
Aylsham 7 University East Anglia 0, attendance 72
44’ 1-0
49’ 2-0
53’ 3-0
76’ 4-0
80’ 5-0
83’ 6-0
90’ + 1, 7-0
@ Youngs Park, 3G Arena
Woodgate Way
Cawston Road
Aylsham
NR11 6UJ
£3 Admission
No Programme.
I’d already visited Aylsham for a game under lights back in February 2017 (4-4 versus Scole United), but this was being shown on the F.A. Full Time website as being on the 3G pitch, which was confirmed by the home club on Twitter. It’s a typical cage set up and runs the opposite way to the main ground, behind the far goal from the clubhouse/car park. There’s a designated spectator area along three quarters of the near side and a pair of perspex dugouts opposite. Admission was taken at the cage entrance and the clubhouse was open for hot food and drinks.
The match was 7th versus 13th (out of 15) in the league table and there was little between the two sides in the first half. Aylsham saw a 25 yarder tipped round the post half an hour in, before breaking the deadlock a minute before halftime, when a ball over the top saw a mix up between goalkeeper and defender, resulting in a collision between them and the ball was lobbed into the empty net from 30 yards. It only took Aylsham four minutes of the second half to double their lead, with an angled shot into the far corner, quickly followed by a third goal four minutes later. UEA managed to hold out for the next twenty minutes, but collapsed by conceding another four goals in the last fourteen minutes. Two via edge of the box finishes, a close range header from a corner and finally a twice deflected shot in stoppage time to round off a resounding 7-0 win, my second successive match with this score.
The win sees Aylsham move up to fourth place in the league table, whilst UEA remain third bottom. A totally trouble free drive up to Norfolk and not too bad coming home, despite there being no access from the M11 onto the M25 eastbound, meaning a diversion in towards London and taking the A406 North Circular and A13 to get back to Dartford Crossing.
