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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Reds will launch their forty-two match 2026-27 Northern Premier League campaign at Gainsborough Trinity on Saturday, having concluded a solid preseason with a narrow win at Clitheroe last week.

Billy Barr will take Workington into their fortieth season of Northern Premier football on Saturday. And they go into action as a Premier Division outfit having pulled off the great escape in April, avoiding relegation by the narrowest of margins.

After over a fortnight without any action, Reds will travel to Lancashire on Saturday for what will be a testing afternoon against Clitheroe (3pm).

Workington supporters have their first opportunity to watch the team at our new temporary base on Friday, as we entertain Carlisle United (7.45pm) in our first home friendly of the summer.

Billy Barr will take his squad to Whitehaven on Tuesday (7.30pm) for their third pre-season outing.

Workington’s pre-season campaign continues on Saturday when they travel to the south of the county for, arguably, their toughest game of the summer!

After eighty-eight games and over 250 goals in the wonderful, but protracted FIFA World Cup, normal football returns to Frenchfield (2pm) on Saturday when Reds take on Penrith in our first pre-season game of the summer.

All roads lead to Borough Park on Saturday as Reds bring down the curtain on their thirty-ninth season of Northern Premier League football.

Two crucial league games remaining in our thirty-ninth campaign of Northern Premier football and, as things stand, there is still work to do.

Just two away games remaining for Billy Barr’s Workington with the first of those on Saturday at mid-table Ashton United (3pm).

If Reds are to continue their excellent form over a hectic weekend, they are going to have to take points from two of the three teams they have never beaten in Northern Premier League action.

Both Reds and Hednesford Town have the same objective over the final month of contrasting seasons.

Reds will take a break from the pressure of relegation worries on Tuesday when they head for Frenchfield, Penrith to take on Kirkoswald in the Cumberland Cup semi-final (7.45pm).

With just a week before the registration deadline, manager Billy Barr has been busy trying to add to the squad for those so important last seven games of the season.