Welcome to York ...........too posh to buy!
Sep 05, 2025
National League: Yeovil Town- York City
Welcome to York!
| 16 | Yeovil Town | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 7 | WLLL | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 17 | Boston United | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 7 | XLWL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||
| 18 | Braintree Town | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 7 | LOLW | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 19 | York City | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | XOWX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 20 | Sutton United | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -6 | 5 | LWLL | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||
| 21 | Woking | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 5 | XWXL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||
| 22 | Truro City | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 4 | XWLL | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 23 | Morecambe | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -7 | 3 | LLLW | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 24 | Solihull Moors | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 3 | LLLL | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Both teams are former Football League sides. Yeovil dropped out in 2018-19 and even played sixth Tier football (this is Tier 5) in 2023/24, incredibly, given how respective fortunes have changed subsequently, they actually BEAT Brentford in the 2013 League 1 playoffs to go up to the Championship! City were last in the FL in 2015/16 and have had their own rollercoaster ride subsequently. However, in National League terms, they remain a "big" club and averaged crowds of almost 6,000 last season, when they finished second with 96 points, a total which would have won the title in more seasons than not. That was not considered good enough and they parted company with head coach Adam Hinshelwood last week, I understand there was more to all that than has been publicly announced, he was said to have applied for a couple of jobs and City immediately announced his replacement, who is Stuart Maynard, more of him later.
To provide some background information, last November I wrote ....
They (City) were a Football League team for 75 years until 2003-04, they did return for four seasons until 2015-16, but then suffered back to back relegations and fell to Tier 6 where they stayed until 2022 when they returned to the National League. City have a good supporter base which they have retained and after two years treading water, have kicked on this season. Wealthy Canadian owners, the Uggla family, took over 17 months ago , they and a "silent partner" own 75% of the club and supporters the other 25%. They signed a handful of players with league experience this summer and obviously, looking at the table, those have worked well. What I am especially keen on is that when they could have easily sat back and watched how this played out, but they have made further additions this month (which you can still do at this level) and brought in some real quality.
Head coach Adam Hinshelwood was a professional footballer, as was his father and grandfather, his uncle managed Brighton and his son Jack plays for them and they are a football family who have almost always been based on the South Coast and Adam has coached there throughout his career. Therefore, when he was identified as the man that City wanted, I assume it look a very good salary and long contract, which we know he has, to tempt him up to Yorkshire.
Former City player and Brentford star Clayton Donaldson was also appointed this week as Head of Development, but back to those recent signings .............
WB Jeff King joined from L2 Swindon Town, he was "elite" at this level, making the National League Team of the Season in 22/23 and playing a big part in the Chesterfield side who won the league by 12 points last season. Winger David Ajiboye was an ever present for the Sutton United side who won the NL in 20/21 and was signed for a good fee by Peterborough United in 2023. He played 40 L1 games for Posh last season and 6 this, but agreed to make the switch on loan, as he knows Hinshelwood well. United are notoriously tough transfer negotiators and even on a short term basis, this would not have been a cheap loan.
BTW, York City were the first club that Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney looked at before Wrexham, but considered the city "too posh", so were obviously well aware, even at that stage, of what was likely to make good television.
City were the best away team in the National League last season with a 13-5-5 record and are unbeaten so far in this campaign and despite only playing 4 games, three of those have been on the road, as their home pitch is being worked on with some drainage issues ....
| 09-Aug-2025 | NL (1) | York City | 2-2 | Sutton United |
| 16-Aug-2025 | NL (2) | Truro City | 0-2 | York City |
| 20-Aug-2025 | NL (3) | Southend United | 0-0 | York City |
| 25-Aug-2025 | NL (5) | Woking | 1-1 | York City |
They have had 12 days to rest up and prepare solely for this game and 7 of those with Maynard, who led Wealdstone to back to back best seasons in 35 and 36 years respectively in this league and on a tiny budget. He was then poached by a MUCH bigger club in Notts County and took them into 6th place in League 1 and the playoffs in his full season ( 2024/25) in charge, but was dismissed as that was not "what the board believed the team was capable of". City signed some very experienced players this off season, including four from league teams, but all of whom had been promoted from the National League.
Yeovil have played back to back road games in quick succession, in Halifax last weekend and Solihull on Tuesday, that is a combined 1,300km and some 16 hours on the motorway, all with the smallest squad in the National league and very little rotation (one player). City are a net +5.0 xG across their opening four starts and can claim a 5th straight h2h win in this series, the last two here in Somerset without conceding.
1.75 units York City -1 ball @ 2.61 asian line.
Good luck!
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