National League U19 Alliance

North Division

Wednesday 8th October 2025

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.56

F.C. Halifax Town U19 2 Blyth Spartans U19 2, attendance 22

4’ 1-0

9’ 2-0

43’ 2-1

55’ 2-2

@ Wyke Community Sports Village, 3G Pitch

Wilson Road

Wyke

BD12 9HA

No Admission or Programme.

After an overnight stop following the game at Barrow last night, this game fitted in perfectly with my intended evening game. F.C. Halifax Town play their U19 Alliance games at Wyke Community Sports Village, which is roughly halfway between Brighouse and Bradford. It’s a standard cage set up, with viewing along one side. On the far side is just a single dugout, which was used today by the visitors. There’s plenty of car parking here, with toilets available inside the changing room building.

The match was 2nd versus 6th in the league table, with Halifax having three wins and one defeat from their opening four games, whilst Blyth were unbeaten, with one win and two draws from their games. Halifax got off to a flyer, when a well worked corner to the angle of the box was lashed into the bottom corner after just four minutes. Five minutes later they doubled their lead, when an original cross was headed out to the edge of the box, but was volleyed straight back, giving the ‘keeper no chance. Two minutes before halftime Blyth pulled a goal back, when a shot was half blocked before the rebound was hit into the bottom corner from the edge of the D. Ten minutes into the second half the visitors made it 2-2, when a cross from the right was hit first time, with a curling shot into the far bottom corner from just inside the box. Blyth came closest to getting a winner, midway through the half, with a shot that hit the angle of crossbar/post with the ‘keeper nowhere near it.