After the hectic league schedule in August, the action fluctuates between League, Cup and Trophy matches in September, although the aim is to maintain the winning feeling whatever the competition.

Match photos from the Workington vs Marske game on Saturday 5 September 2026.

A welcome break from league action with the FA Cup staged at the Fibrus Community Stadium for the first time.

Forget the fact that Workington were convincing winners in their last league outing and that Marske United suffered their heaviest defeat of the season in midweek.

A fourth successive win for Billy Barr’s outfit, and all against teams they didn’t get the better of last season.

We end a hectic August with our first ‘derby’ of the new season as our Bank Holiday Monday takes us to Lancaster City. The mid-table battle at the Giant Axe (3pm) falls as both teams have hit form after indifferent starts. Jimmy Marshall’s Dolly Blues have won at Bury and Guiseley in the last week – two outstanding results probably not predicted outside of Lancaster. But Billy Barr’s team have kick-started their campaign with three successive victories, two at home and one o

Match photos from the Workington vs Leek game on Saturday 29 August 2026.

Workington supporters have come to expect nerve shredding afternoons and plenty of finger nail biting, and this entertaining encounter was just another day at ‘the office’ where the blood pressure reading went up and down the scale.

Two games to go in what has been a demanding August, before the NPL fixture calendar eases slightly.

For the second successive home game, Reds recovered from a 2-0 deficit but, unlike the recent Guiseley fixture, they finished with a victory – their first in a competitive outing at the Fibrus Community Stadium.

As good as Saturday’s result was at Broadhurst Park, it will feel even better if we can take something from Warrington Rylands, tonight, making a fifth visit to Workington but their first to the Fibrus Community Stadium.

An eventful afternoon at Broadhurst Park culminated in Reds obtaining that elusive first win of the season, at the fifth attempt, extending their unbeaten record on the ground to four matches in the process. Workington scored all three goals in this early season bottom four clash and that was obviously a major talking point afterwards. But the game will also be remembered for a unique incident with less than twenty minutes on the clock. Reds’ Jack Dickinson was at the centre

Hands up if you expected Workington to be in the bottom four of the Premier Division after four games? Quite a few, I suspect, based on what was a tough start to the campaign. Hands up if you thought FC United of Manchester would be in a similar position after the same number of matches? Not many at all, having been labelled amongst the promotion favourites by ‘those in the know’. Yet, here we are previewing the ‘bottom four derby’ with both teams going into an encounter th

Reds remain consistently inconsistent, and produced another Jekyll and Hyde performance – encouragingly good in the first half but abjectly poor in the second. And it prompted a frustrated response from Billy Barr who labelled the side as ‘a forty-five-minute team’ shortly after they had slumped to their heaviest defeat under his tenure. The first-ever meeting between the clubs was refreshingly open with play switching from end-to-end throughout. Yet, whereas Workington lack

Reds will play in Oldham on Wednesday, fifty-one years since their last visit, but they won’t be making their way to Boundary Park like they did in the mid-seventies!

Match photos from the Workington vs Guiseley game on Saturday 15 August 2026.

Skipper Matty Douglas got Reds back on track after they looked hopelessly lost in a disjointed first half. Reds were lucky to be only two goals in arrears at the break, but a much-improved display in the second saw them salvage the game, grabbing their first goals and point of the season in the process. Douglas made a vital clearance at the end of the first half to prevent Amir Berchil netting a third goal. Had that gone in, it would have been all over. And it was Douglas wh

Billy Barr and Ian Richards will lead their teams into NPL Premier Division action at the Fibrus Community Stadium on Saturday and the two managers have a few things in common.

Do we scold Reds for not seeing out the game at the eleventh hour (probably) or do we praise Redcar for their winning mentality (definitely)?

There has been no time to dwell on Saturday’s opening day defeat at Gainsborough Trinity, with Reds now focused on the historic first NPL fixture at the Fibrus Community Stadium on Tuesday evening (7.45pm). And what a cracking game to launch our groundshare arrangement with Workington Town RLFC, as all-conquering Redcar Athletic travel from east to west for the inaugural meeting between the clubs. Fibrus Community Stadium Athletic made a good solid start to the season at the