Ahead of today’s league match versus Royston Town (3:00 KO), here are some important bits of information you may want to know…
ADMISSION
Online tickets can be purchased in advance from here.
Note that children under 13 now enter FREE, but must be accompanied by an adult.
- Adults: Online – £13. On the door – £14
- Over 65s: Online – £10. On the door – £11
- Disabled*: Online – £9. On the door – £10
- 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 information.
REMEMBRANCE COMMEMORATIONS
- Members of the Royal British Legion will be outside the ground from about 2:15 for anybody who has not yet donated or bought a poppy this year.
- They will then make their way to the main stand before the kick off.
- Reverend Ray Khan will play The Last Post on his bugle prior to kick off and there will be a one-minute silence.
MATCH SPONSORS
We are delighted to welcome long term supporters Elliott Nash Properties 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.
PROGRAMMES
Matchday programmes are available for £2 near the main entrance.
An online copy is available from here.
Featuring in this edition:
- Usual columns from chairman Rod Brown and manager Scott Adey-Linforth
- A report from when we faced Tamworth four years ago
- Match mascots – Bromsgrove Sporting Colts U11 JN
- Feature looking at Bromsgrove Rovers history from the 1910s and player Harry Merrick
- Quiz on the England football team
- Details of our opponents, Royston Town
- The Non-League Paper column on FA Cup minnows
- Away matches guide
- Update on Bromsgrove Sporting Ladies
50/50 DRAW
Get your 50/50 ticket outside the ground. Just £1 a ticket, with a big prize likely!
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
To take a look at last season’s corresponding league fixture played in December last year, click here.
For a list of both clubs’ recent results and previous encounters, click here.
OPPOSITION
- 2024/25 league position: 11th (Southern League Premier Central)
- This season so far: P14 W1 D5 L8. GD -16. They sit 20th.
- This season – away: P7 W1 D2 L4
- Last five league matches: D1 L4
- Last five league matches – away: W1 D1 L3
- Last league match: AFC Sudbury. Away. 1-1 draw. Tuesday.
- The Crows’ sole league win this season was a 1-2 win at Quorn on 20th September.
- Only Leiston (6) have drawn more than Royston’s five this season – and they’ve drawn the most games of all teams in the current bottom half. These included draws against Redditch, Halesowen and Needham Market.
- They’ve gone six league matches without a win – D2 L4 (extended to eight in all competitions). Only Sudbury and Stourbridge (both seven) are on longer winless runs in the league at present.
- The Sudbury draw brought a run of four league losses to an end for Royston, as it did for Sudbury too.
- Only Sudbury (9) have lost more than Royston’s eight. They are the league’s third lowest scorers (Sudbury and Stamford behind), have the second worst defence (only Sudbury have conceded more) and have the second worst goal difference (Sudbury’s being the worst).
- Only Sudbury have a worst record across every side’s last five games (both have one point, but Sudbury with the worst goal difference). In these five games, no team has scored fewer than Royston’s two and they have the second worst goal difference (-10, Sudbury on -13).
- The Sudbury game ended a three match run with no goal (Harborough H 0-2, Spalding 4-0 A, Real Bedford 2-0 A)
- Royston have conceded at least once in every league game this season – their only clean sheet this season came in a 1-0 FA Cup win at home to Brentwood (Step Three – Isthmian League Premier Division).
- In cup matches this season, they lost in the FA Trophy 0-3 at home to Welling, but won in the FA Cup against Brentwood and Redbridge (Step Four, A, 1-2) before losing 1-5 at home to National League North (Step Two) King’s Lynn.
