Ahead of Saturday’s final home league match versus Real Bedford (3:00 KO), here are some important bits of information you may want to know…
ADMISSION
Note that children under 13 now enter FREE, but must be accompanied by an adult.
Also, ticket prices have been lowered for the remainder of the season – information can be read here.
- Adults – £12
- Over 65s – £9
- Disabled* – £8
- Youth (13 – 17) – Online – £5. On the door – £6
- Children (0 – 12, must be accompanied by an adult): Free of charge
*Disabled Tickets with Qualifying ID; Attendant/Carer enters FREE. Information here.
Visitors to the UK Electrical Stadium should be aware of our Code of Conduct.
YOUTH MEMBERSHIP
Under 18s must be accompanied – unless a youth membership card is applied for. Ask at reception or the bar for more details should you wish to obtain one.
Equally, you can email commercial@bromsgrovesporting.co.uk for more details or click this link.
ADDRESS
The UK Electrical Stadium, Birmingham Road, Bromsgrove, B61 0DR
CAR PARKING
Go here for complete parking information.
PROGRAMMES
Matchday programmes are available for £2.
50/50 DRAW
Get your 50/50 ticket outside the ground. Just £1 a ticket, with a big prize likely!
MATCH SPONSORS
We are delighted to have longstanding club sponsor and member of our five-strong consortium Elliott Nash as sponsors for this match.
Every member of the Elliott Nash team has the relevant qualifications, training and certification to do their job – whether they are working with asbestos, working at height, driving diggers or JCBs, working on scaffolding or using specialist concrete cutting equipment. They also arrange annual refresher training as a reminder and in case of any relevant changes to health and safety legislation.
ROUSLER BAR MATCHES
- Aston Villa’s game at Fulham (12:30 KO) will be shown on our screens before our match kicks off. As a SPECIAL OFFER, if you come before the second half of the Villa game begins, you can get your match ticket for just £10 from the bar!
- Then, the FA Cup semi final between Manchester City and Southampton (5:15 KO) will be shown during our end of season awards and afterwards.
HALF TIME EVENTS
- At half time, we are inviting sides from all areas of the Sporting family (Colts, Ladies, Ladies Development and Girls) to perform a lap of honour of the pitch, to celebrate their achievements this season.
END OF SEASON AWARDS
- In the Rousler Bar after the game, we will hold our end of season awards presentation. This will include Player of the Season, as voted for by our fans at the Halesowen game on Easter Monday.
- Players’ Player, Manager’s Player and Directors’ Player are just some of the other awards up for grabs!
- The Players’ Player award has been donated by Chris Hooper’s family and will be known as the Chris Hooper Memorial Shield. Gary, Claire and Alex, from Chris’s family, will be presenting the initial awarding of this trophy.
KIT FOR THIS MATCH
We will be wearing our red home kit.
LIVE UPDATES
Via our Twitter/X (@SportingFC), Facebook (Bromsgrove Sporting FC) and Instagram (rouslersofficial).
Twitter/X will be more in-depth than Facebook and Instagram.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
This will be our first meeting at home, so to take a look at the away fixture in January, click here.
For a list of both clubs’ recent results and previous encounters, click here.
OPPOSITION
- This season so far: P41 W23 D9 L9. GD +35. 78 points. They sit 3rd (of 22 teams)
- This season (away league games): P20 W11 D4 L5. GD +18. 37 points
- Last five league games: W3 L2
- Last five league away games: W2 D1 L2
- Most recent league game: 3-2 home win vs Alvechurch (Saturday)
- Most recent away league game: 1-4 win at Redditch (11th April)
- Their third place is guaranteed ahead of next week’s play-offs; they can neither go up to second or down to fourth.
- With 81 goals this season, only Spalding (99) have scored more.
- In keeping with their third place in the league, they are the team with the third most wins, the third least losses, and have conceded the third least goals.
- And, somewhat unsurprisingly, away from home this season, they are the team with the third most points, the third most wins, the third least losses, the third most goals, and the third least conceded.
- Only Harborough (13) have scored more than the Pirates’ 12 across every side’s last five league games. Their games have seen a total of 18 goals in the last five (six conceded, 18 total); only Harborough’s games have seen more goals across this period (also six conceded, 19 total).
- Outside of the four teams already relegated, Real Bedford and Sporting are the only two sides not to have drawn a league game in their last five, with their last league draw being seven games ago – a 2-2 at home to Harborough (24th March).
- They have scored in seven of their last eight league games – a 1-0 loss at home to Leiston (14th April – two games ago) being the one where they never.
- They have kept one clean sheet in their last seven league matches – that being in a 4-0 home win versus Bishop’s Stortford (6th April).
- Their last draw on the road was three away games ago – a 1-1 at Harborough on 14th March.
- In their last 11 away league games, they’ve only failed to score on one occasion (a 1-0 loss at Quorn on 7th March – four away games ago).
- They have conceded in their last six away league games – their last away league clean sheet being a 5-0 win at Bishop’s Stortford on 17th February.
- Ben Stevens, their second highest scorer this season with 15 goals, has scored in their last three league away games (and has scored eight in their last seven away league matches).
- Top scorer, as per footballwebpages.co.uk: Josh Allen (26 goals – the second highest in the league, behind Halesowen’s Jason Cowley on 31). Allen has scored five in their last four league matches.
