Redcar Athletic - Green Lane

Redcar Athletic FC 

Green Lane

Redcar 

North Yorkshire

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Ground Number: 1540

Monday 6th April 2026
Redcar Athletic 2-1 Bridlington Town
NPL D1 East

REDCAR ATHLETIC FC - A BRIEF HISTORY

The club was established in 1993 and was initially known as TEESSIDE ATHLETIC. For the first 12 years of their history, they were competitive in the Teeside League, but never won a title. In 2005, they made the step up to the Wearside League, changing their name to REDCAR ATHLETIC in 2010. They were runners-up to Stockton Town in 2016 and Jarrow in 2017 before winning the title in 2018. This earned them promotion to the Northern League D2, where they finished 7th in their debut season. Results over the two pandemic seasons saw the club promoted to Division 1. Redcar won the title last season, sealing promotion to the NPL D1 East, where they were crowned champions this season.

Redcar Athletic had their best FA Cup run this season, beating North Ferriby & Guisborough Town before losing 5-2 at Pickering Town in the 2nd Qualifying Round. Last season saw their best FA Vase run as they beat West Auckland Town, Prudhoe YCS & Whickham before a 2-1 loss against North Shields in the 3rd Round.  Local cup wins include two Monkwearmouth Cups, the Shipowners Cup in 2009, the Wearside League Cup in 2007 and the Total Sport Alan Hood Memorial Cup in 2017. Their record home attendance of 1,781 came against Hartlepool United for a pre-season friendly in July 2023.

The seaside town of Redcar has a population of 37,000 and is located around seven miles from Middlesbrough. It is a destination for holidaymakers, although not as much as it was in its heyday. There was also a steelworks in the town before a decline in the value of steel meant that it was closed. The town is also home to a running club, a cricket club and a rugby club. There's also Redcar Town FC, who are doing very well in the Northern League D2. Famous people from the town include the footballer David Wheater.

MY VISIT

In terms of the Northern Hop, had I stuck to the original schedule, it would have been five visits. For four of them, I was either unwilling or unable to find an alternative, but for the final game of the hop at Sunderland West End, I was able to switch it out for one of the three clubs I needed at step 4, the others being Ashington & Jersey Bulls. I was not quite able to match some other hoppers, such as QPR's Tony Incenzo, who had completed the top ten levels at Fulwood Amateurs today, but I was quite proud that I was down to 55 to complete the same feat. Quite a few hoppers had drifted to other games, so I was pleased when the official hop Twitter announced that the crowd was 475. The club was resigning from the Northern League at the end of the season due to a failure to attract fans, so it was nice to see them get a good send-off.

 

From our game at Jarrow, it was a slow getaway thanks to the roads not being used to the volume of traffic. We stopped at ASDA in Boldon to get enough petrol to get us home. From there, it was an hour to Redcar with a ten-minute wait at a level crossing near the ground. Parking was £2 in the spacious car park. Entry was a reasonable £10. I went into the shop, although it was a bit chaotic as they had not originally intended to open. No prices were on display, and it was exact cash only. I got myself a warm-up top from the sale rail for a fiver. From there, it was food; a double nacho cheeseburger was very filling at £8. I wasn't intending on a pint, but with limited soft drinks, I got a pint of Thatchers Gold for a fiver and went outside. The hosts were given a guard of honour onto the pitch to celebrate them being champions.

Redcar Athletic had already sealed the title and were a remarkable twenty-five games unbeaten. Bridlington were in 11th, but were six games unbeaten. Bridlington edged the game and went ahead at 25 minutes, Joe Pratley from 25 yards, following up a free kick and shooting past the flailing keeper. They were only ahead for a minute as Adam Boyes followed up a keeper's parry to equalise. Just before halftime, the champions took the lead, a penalty from Louis Johnson. Redcar were dominating by now and had a couple of goals disallowed.

 

We made a pretty hasty exit, as it was a 4.5-hour drive home. I'd have liked to have seen the trophy lift and celebrations, but I was all footballed out by now. There was disappointing news from back home - Wycombe had surrendered a 1-0 lead at home to Bradford City to lose 2-1. We listened to the fallout from this on our local radio station, stopping briefly for a drink for hydration at a petrol station. At 6, we switched to Greatest Hits Radio for the long journey home. I'd have liked to have listened to an audiobook to help the journey pass, but a talkative Colin remained awake for the whole journey. I dropped him off at 9.05 and, due to him taking a while to get his stuff out of the car, was back home by 9.25. I had a huge amount of admin to catch up on, and I helped this pass with half a cider and a bottle of Kriek Beer. It had been a boozy weekend due to my chilling once we'd got back to the hotel. It had also been an enjoyable time, despite four distant revisits. Sunday was the runt of the litter with no new grounds, but I still got something out of the day. All in all, tickets, hotels and car costs had come in at £235, though I'd spent a lot more on food and drink.

THE GROUND

GREEN LANE has seen a lot of development in a short space of time, and as a result, it is the standard array of metal stands added as they've gone up the leagues. There are around 200 seats and 300 standing under cover. The rest of the ground is open. The bar offers a reasonable range with great service, and the food is filling. The club shop has a reasonable range. The car park is spacious, but the ground is quite a way out of town.

Jarrow - Perth Green CA

Jarrow FC

Perth Green CA

Inverness Road

Jarrow 

NE32 4AQ

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Ground Number: 1539

Monday 6th April 2026

Jarrow 2-2 Boldon CA

Northern League D2

JARROW FC - A BRIEF HISTORY

Though there have been previous versions of the club, this incarnation was established in 1980. Initially, they played in the South Tyne Senior League before moving onto the Tyneside Amateur League in the latter part of the decade. In 1991, they joined the Wearside League, starting in Division 2. They won promotion to Division 1 in 1993 after a 3rd place finish. They struggled at first, finishing bottom in their first season, but would remain long-time members of the top tier. Finishes improved, and by 2017, they were champions, winning promotion to the Northern League D2. They've been there ever since, their best finish coming last season when a 3rd place finish was achieved. They beat Chester Le Street Town on penalties in the playoff semis after a goalless draw. Another 0-0 followed in the final, but this time, Thornaby won the shootout.

Jarrow have been entering the FA Vase since 2018. Their best run came in 2020 when they beat Steeton, Birtley Town and Yorkshire Amateur before they lost on penalties to Warrington Rylands in the 2nd Round. Jarrow is a town in South Tyneside. Historically, County Durham, it is on the south bank of the River Tyne, about three miles from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyne Tunnel and is five miles east of Newcastle upon Tyne. The population is just under 10,000. In the eighth century, St Paul's Monastery in Jarrow (now Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey) was the home of the Venerable Bede, who is regarded as the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar and the father of English history. The town is part of the historic County Palatine of Durham. From the middle of the 19th century until 1935, Jarrow was a centre for shipbuilding and was the starting point of the Jarrow March against unemployment in 1936. The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s. Around 200 men, or "Crusaders" as they preferred to be called, marched from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town following the closure in 1934 of its main employer, Palmer's shipyard. The petition was received by the House of Commons but not debated, and the march produced few immediate results. The Jarrovians went home believing that they had failed.

The original Jarrow club was formed in 1894 after Jarrow Rangers folded. A year after it was disbanded in 1902, a new Jarrow F.C. emerged, which lasted until 1909. The current club is a continuation of a club originally known as Jarrow Croft Villa. A third Jarrow FC were established in 1912, although they can trace their way back to the turn of the century with them winning the South Shields Junior League in contentious circumstances, with rival club Regent Athletic also laying claim to the title; after the league resolved the matter in favour of Jarrow Croft, a Regent Athletic member, Thomas McClasham, beat up the league secretary, and destroyed his hat, for which he was fined £2. The club won the Northern Amateur League in 1904, having only lost a single match, before winning the Newcastle Amateur League in 1910. That year, they joined the North Eastern League.

The club was renamed Jarrow in 1912, and for the first two years of World War 1, they played in the North Eastern League–Tyneside Combination. After the war, the club were renamed Palmers Jarrow, before reverting to Jarrow in March 1920. They finished bottom of the North Eastern League in 1924, and moved to Campbell Park in Hebburn the following season; plans to rename themselves Jarrow and Hebburn were dropped after the Durham FA refused permission. In 1931, the club reached the first round of the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–0 at Third Division North club Crewe Alexandra. Jarrow won the Durham Challenge Cup in 1933, beating Spennymoor United 2–1 in the final. They retained the trophy the following season with a 1–0 win over Cockfield and were also North Eastern League runners-up. The loss of their Campbell Park ground to the army in March 1939 led to the club resigning from the league at the end of the season. After World War 2 Jarrow rejoined the Northern Alliance, but they withdrew from the league during the 1948–49 season after 23 matches. They dropped into the Northern Combination and subsequently disappeared.

MY VISIT

From one revisit at Billingham Town to another at Crook took 40 minutes. The turnstile was cash only, and so we parked in town and went to a cash machine before walking to the ground. It was £8 to get in, plus I paid £2 each for a history book and a pin badge. The game saw Shildon win 2-1 in a local derby, with the high-flying visitors having by far the better of the game. It was great to visit such an iconic ground again. The third at Durham United, I'd only been to in September, and it wasn't the best. Even so, the organisation was excellent, and it was good to get some daytime photos. The cheese toastie was OK for a pre-packed item, but nothing to write home about. I got some cakes out of my car to save money, but we had tons of time to kill before kickoff.  Despite the disappointment at visiting the same ground so close together. This was the game of the hop. Durham went 2-0 up; the opener was a real beauty. Esh Winning pulled it back to 2-2, and I was really willing them on as they had been fantastic to me when I visited them for ground 1000. However, it was Durham who won 4-2, probably deserved, thanks to hat-trick hero Phil Kay. They hosted pretty well, too, though the food was very meh.

From there, we headed back to the hotel. I had a few pints of cider to use up before we left the room, and so this helped me chill as I sorted out photos. I was in bed just after 11, waking at 6.30. We spent until 8.45 relaxing and getting ready before driving to the William De Wessyngton Wetherspoons for breakfast. It was the standard breakfast muffin, black pudding and Strawberry Monster for breakfast. From there, it was a 15-minute drive to the ground, where I parked in the street outside. Entry was £5 as was a nice pennant. It was good to meet up and chat with various people as we waited for kickoff.

 

Jarrow were 3rd in the table with 80 points from 39 games. They'd won four in a row, including a 4-1 win over Grangetown in their last game. Boldon were second bottom with 32 points from 38 games. They were without a win in six, including a 7-1 loss at Thornaby on Saturday. The attendance was announced as 507 during the first half, which saw Boldon dominate. They'd had a perfectly good goal disallowed a couple of minutes before they were awarded a disputed penalty. Jordan Laidler dispatched, and justice was done as far as the scoreline was concerned. In the second half, Jarrow were by far the better side. They equalised on 64 minutes, a decent run and strike from Jay Barber, who had only just come on as a sub. A minute earlier, the Boldon manager had been sent off after an altercation with the referee. Jarrow went ahead on 74 minutes when Ryan Hardie latched onto a loose ball and finished from close range. Just as the game looked safe, Jack Devlin embarrassed the keeper as an error allowed Boldon to equalise in the third minute of injury time.

 

THE GROUND 

PERTH GREEN CA is a decent facility, albeit with the standard metal stands dropped in. Around 50 seated and 50 standing can be accommodated under cover. The rest of the ground is open hard standing, with plenty of room for expansion. Food is decent and at excellent prices, but the bar is quite basic. There is also a fair range of merchandise. The club are nice and friendly, as are the fans. There is a decent amount of parking and public transport links.