Matchday #25: Results and Updated League Tables

Championship

Blyth Spartans  6   Excelsior Marlow  2
Gainsborough Trinity  2   Torpedo Tranmere  2
Hungaria  1   Liverpool St Helens  4
Locomotive Crewe  2   Red Star Mossley  5
Marine  2   Dynamo Burnley  0
Red Star Wrexham  3   Marxist Polytechnic  1
Spartak-Slavia  4   Manchester Central  3
Stalybridge Celtic  1   Northwich Victoria  1

Second Division Promotion Group

Bohemians  4   Audenshaw Ajax  4

Hartlepool Petrochemical  1   South Liverpool  3

Prescot Cables  4   Bradford Comrades  1

Second Division Relegation Group

Hendon Hotspur  3   Crystal Palace  3

Newcastle Blue Star  2   Sheffield Wednesday  2

Wimbledon Tooting & Mitcham  0   Merthyr Tydfil  3

Third Division Promotion Group

Gateshead Trinity  5   White Star Waterloo  3

Red Star Bootle  2   Nelson Proletariat  1

Sunderland Automotive  1   Matlock Town  2

Third Division Relegation Group

Manchester Newton Heath  3   Newcastle Caledonia Thistle  7

Tadcaster Albion  5   Liverpool Hibernian  3

Urmston Villa  1   Everton Stanley  2

'Home' and Change Colours 2015-16 #27: Merthyr Tydfil

 

Founder members of the Football Alliance First Division, Merthyr Tydfil finished bottom of the table at the end of that inaugural 1980-81 season and were relegated to the third tier, but subsequently revived to become the first team from Wales to achieve promotion to the Championship in 1992.

Although their stay was brief, suffering instant demotion back to the second level in 1993, and not having returned to the top flight since, Merthyr Tydfil remain one of only three Welsh clubs, with first Caernarfon Town and then Wrexham, to have played at Championship level.

Despite a ninth-placed finish in the third tier in 2013-14, Merthyr Tydfil were elected to take up a place in last season's reformed Football Alliance Second Division, finishing 15th, a mere place and point from relegation.





Matchday 17 Results & Updated Tables

Championship

Blyth Spartans  5   Hartlepool United   3

Burnley  3   Manchester City   2

Gainsborough Trinity  4   Oxford Excelsior   2

Marlow  0   Liverpool St Helens   2

Matlock Town  3   Wrexham   1

Mossley  2   Stalybridge Celtic   1

Northwich Victoria  2   Hungaria   2

Red Star Sunderland  5   Audenshaw Dynamo   3

Second Division

Bradford City  6   Gateshead Dynamo   3

Crewe Alexandra  2   Manchester Newton Heath   1

Crystal Palace  5   Newcastle United   2

Marine  0  Inter-Italiano   1

Merthyr Tydfil  3   Spartak-Slavia   2

Nelson CBR  1   Sheffield Wednesday   4

Newcastle Blue Star  4   Hendon Hotspur   2

South Liverpool Red Star  10   Atletico Espanol   1