Home start for Reds

Workington will launch the 2025-26 season with a home game against Whitby Town and bookend the campaign, again on home soil but probably at Derwent Park, by hosting Leek Town on the final Saturday in April.

Whitby Town will travel east to west for the Premier Division opener on 9th August with away games at Stockton Town and Hednesford Town Reds’ first road trips.

They will make their shortest journey (86 miles) to Lancaster City on the August Bank Holiday Monday.

But, their longest trip of the season, has been scheduled for Boxing Day – at newcomers Cleethorpes Town!

The reverse fixtures against Lancaster and Cleethorpes will be played on New Year’s Day and Easter Monday respectively.

Apart from the first away game at Stockton Town, Reds will also travel to the north east on a Tuesday for the game at Hebburn Town.

Darren Edmondson’s side will make two trips to Warrington during April, visiting Rylands on the 4th and Town a fortnight later.

The longest trips this season will be to Cleethorpes Town (207), Ilkeston Town (206) and Rushall Olympic (202) with Hednesford Town and Gainsborough Trinity also in the ‘four hours plus’ journey bracket.

Reds will travel 2,951 miles to their twenty away games.

Workington have started with a home game on six occasions in the last decade, winning four of those, drawing once and losing once.

The last time they faced Whitby Town on the opening Saturday was back in 1997 with Reds emerging 3-2 winners in North Yorkshire. Whisper it quietly, though, the 97-98 season finished in relegation!

The FA Cup campaign will begin on 30 August at the First Qualifying Round stage with Trophy interest getting underway over the first weekend in October.

Sat Aug 9 Whitby Town (H)

Tue Aug 12 Stockton Town (A)

Sat Aug 16 Hednesford Town (A)

Tue Aug 19 Warrington Rylands (H)

Sat Aug 23 Ashton United (H)

Mon Aug 25 Lancaster City (A)

Sat Aug 30 Emirates FA Cup 1Q

Sat Sep 6 Bamber Bridge (A)

Tue Sep 9 FC United of Manchester (H)

Sat Sep 13 Emirates FA Cup 2Q

Tue Sep 16 Hebburn Town (A)

Sat Sep 20 Prescot Cables (H)

Sat Sep 27 Ilkeston Town (A)

Sat Oct 4 Isuzu FA Trophy 3Q

Sat Oct 11 Gainsborough Trinity (H)

Sat Oct 18 Morpeth Town (A)

Sat Oct 25 Guiseley (H)

Sat Nov 1 Stocksbridge Park Steels (A)

Sat Nov 8 Hyde United (H)

Sat Nov 15 Rushall Olympic (A)

Sat Nov 22 Warrington Town (H)

Sat Nov 29 Leek Town (A)

Sat Dec 6 Bamber Bridge (H)

Sat Dec 13 FC United of Manchester (A)

Sat Dec 20 Stockton Town (H)

Fri Dec 26 Cleethorpes Town (A)

Thu Jan 1 Lancaster City (H)

Sat Jan 10 Whitby Town (A)

Sat Jan 24 Hebburn Town (H)

Sat Jan 31 Prescot Cables (A)

Sat Feb 7 Ilkeston Town (H)

Sat Feb 14 Gainsborough Trinity (A)

Sat Feb 21 Morpeth Town (H)

Sat Feb 28 Rushall Olympic (H)

Sat Mar 7 Guiseley (A)

Sat Mar 14 Stocksbridge Park Steels (H)

Sat Mar 21 Hyde United (A)

Sat Mar 28 Hednesford Town (H)

Sat Apr 4 Warrington Rylands (A)

Mon Apr 6 Cleethorpes Town H

Sat Apr 11 Ashton United (A)

Sat Apr 18 Warrington Town (A)

Sat Apr 25 Leek Town (H)