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Saturday 4th July 2026

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.59

Storeys 0 Lancaster City 8, attendance 325

4’ 0-1, 20’ 0-2, 27’ 0-3 (pen), 31’ 0-4, 33’ 0-5

49’ 0-6, 51’ 0-7, 85’ 0-8

@ York Road

Bowerham

Lancaster

LA1 4DN

No Admission or Programme.

With a ticket purchased for the Rugby League Magic Weekend at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium tomorrow, I needed a game in the north somewhere today and this game was perfect. Although the ground is called York Road (there is a narrow pedestrian alleyway leading off here), the car park and main entrance are actually off Wellington Road. The changing room building is first, with a small sided pitch in front and the main pitch fifty yards beyond, running widthways. It’s fully railed, with a mesh infil and has a pair of dugouts on the far side. Hot food and drink was available from a mobile catering van, which seemed to cope okay, as there were over four hundred here if you added in the kids who weren’t there to actually watch the game, but just run around annoying those that were.

The match was West Lancashire League Division 2 (Step 9) versus Northern Premier League Premier Division (Step 3). As expected, it was an easy win for the visitors. They opened the scoring after four minutes and doubled their lead after twenty. After the now obligatory drinks break, they scored a penalty two minutes later and a fourth goal minutes later. Quickly followed by a tap in to make it 0-5 after thirty three minutes, which surprisingly remained the halftime score. Lancaster changed their entire team at halftime and two goals in the opening six minutes of the second half saw them make it 0-7. They didn’t get goal number eight until five minutes from the end, with a header flicked on at the near post, that should really have been cleared by a defender stood on the far post, but he failed to make any contact.