Football Alliance Cup 2017 - 18: Fourth Round Replay

Torpedo Tranmere  2   Excelsior Marlow  2  (after extra time)

Matchday #4: Results and League Tables

Championship

Blyth Spartans  3   Spartak-Slavia  1
Excelsior Marlow  4   Marxist Polytechnic  0
Hungaria  2   Gainsborough Trinity  2
Liverpool St Helens  8   Dynamo Burnley  1
Northwich Victoria  3   Manchester Central  1
Red Star Mossley  2   Torpedo Tranmere  2
Red Star Wrexham  2   Locomotive Crewe  2
Stalybridge Celtic  1   Marine  3

Second Division

Audenshaw Ajax  4   Sheffield Wednesday  2
Crystal Palace  6   Wimbledon Tooting & Mitcham  3
Hendon Hotspur  2   South Liverpool  1
Merthyr Tydfil  3   Bohemians  1
Newcastle Blue Star  1   Hartlepool Petrochemical  3
Prescot Cables  3   Bradford Comrades  1

Third Division

Everton Stanley  2   Sunderland Automotive  1
Liverpool Hibernian  1   White Star Waterloo  1
Matlock Town  1   Urmston Villa  2
Nelson Proletariat  1   Gateshead Trinity  1
Newcastle Caledonia Thistle  5   Manchester Newton Heath  1
Red Star Bootle  7   Tadcaster Albion  3

2016 - 17 Matchday #2: Results

Championship

Blyth Spartans  7   Dynamo Burnley  2
Hungaria  6   Marxist Polytechnic  2
Liverpool St Helens  3   Northwich Victoria  0
Marine  4   Locomotive Crewe  3
Red Star Mossley  1   Excelsior Marlow  2
Red Star Wrexham  4   Torpedo Tranmere  2
Spartak-Slavia  1   Gainsborough Trinity  2
Stalybridge Celtic  3   Manchester Central  1

Second Division

Bradford Comrades  2   South Liverpool  2
Crystal Palace  2   Sheffield Wednesday  3
Hartlepool Petrochemical  5   Wimbledon Tooting & Mitcham  0
Hendon Hotspur  1   Audenshaw Ajax  2
Newcastle Blue Star  3   Merthyr Tydfil  0
Prescot Cables  1   Bohemians  2

Third Division

Liverpool Hibernian  0   Sunderland Automotive  1
Manchester Newton Heath  5   White Star Waterloo  3
Matlock Town  2   Everton Stanley  1
Newcastle Caledonia Thistle  1   Nelson Proletariat  2  
Red Star Bootle  1   Gateshead Trinity  5
Tadcaster Albion  3   Urmston Villa  2 

'Home' and Change Colours 2015-16 #4: Excelsior Marlow



Marlow and Oxford Merge

Following last season’s relegation from the Championship, it has today been announced that Oxford Excelsior have decided to merge with Marlow, who themselves only just retained their place in the top flight. The new club will be named Excelsior Marlow, based in Marlow, assume Marlow’s Championship status, their playing and honours history (including four league titles and a European Cup, of course), and sport the colours of Marlow, those famous blue and red quartered shirts with white shorts.

A significant consequence of the merger is that it means, of course, that what would have been the now-defunct Oxford’s place in next season’s Second Division becomes vacant - the Football Alliance have moved swiftly to announce that this vacancy will be allocated to the runners-up in the 2014-15 regional leagues promotion play-off, Bohemians. The winners of the play-off, Birkenhead’s Torpedo Tranmere, of the North West Counties League, have automatically replaced the relegated Newcastle United.