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Macron NCEL 2025/26 Match Review #71

12th April, 2026

Beverley Town and Tadcaster Albion will meet each other in next weekend's Macron NCEL Premier Division Play-Off Final with the prize of Step 4 football on offer for the winner.

Both edged nervy semi-finals on Saturday to keep alive their hopes of promotion alongside champions Liversedge.

McCauley Snelgrove's 71st minute penalty secured Beverley a 1-0 win over visitors Barton Town in a game that saw five red cards, four of which came deep in stoppage time, with Barton picking up all-but one of them as their season came to a disappointing end.

Just shy of a thousand people watched the game that was an all-ticket affair at Norwood Park whilst 902 watched the other tie at the Home of Football Stadium as Tadcaster came from two goals down to force a penalty shoot-out.

Alexander Hardwick and Samuel Greenhouse had given hosts Sheffield a decent lead by the interval and that is how it stayed until the last quarter-of-an-hour when Miguel Cassama struck twice to take it to spot kicks in dramatic fashion.

And, it was the Brewers who prevailed 4-3 in the shoot-out to set up the clash with Beverley who are in the final for a second successive year but this time round will have home advantage.

Meanwhile, the last game of the Premier Division regular season was played with Knaresborough Town ending the campaign in ninth after their 2-1 home win over Liversedge.

Slater Barkham-Barnes got both of their goals, sandwiching an equaliser from Alfie Dean for Sedge who finish with a fourteen-point lead at the top of the table.

Most of the sides in Division One completed their seasons on Saturday with just a couple of games remaining that will be played in midweek.

Wakefield AFC and Worsbrough Bridge Athletic secured home advantage in their Division One Play-Off Semi-Finals next weekend as they both won to ensure they end the campaign in either second or third spot.

Ify Ofoegbu's opener was added to by a Musa Dukuray Conteh own goal and further strikes for Thomas Hinton and Eliel Anku before half-time as Wakefield strolled to a 4-1 victory at Route One Rovers, Anees Younis with a consolation for the hosts in the second period.

And, the Briggers beat basement visitors Glasshoughton Welfare 3-0, Akram Lasalire, Harrison Marvin and Jake Squires with the goals.

Harrogate Railway Athletic and Leeds UFCA will find out who their hosts will be when Worsbrough play their final league game on Tuesday night, and both kept their good form going into the play-offs with wins to wrap up their regular campaigns.

Nathan Heaton and Alex Ingham were the Rail's scorers in a 2-1 defeat of hosts Selby Town who had taken an early lead through Maximillian Bauer.

And, Omar Sanyang and Finlay Ellis found the net as UFCA won 2-0 at home to Ilkley Town who end the season in eighteenth spot.

Champions Dearne & District concluded an excellent campaign for them in the most fitting way possible as a Cian Guest double was added to by Joshua Dacre and Adam Baskerville as they beat hosts Crowle Colts 4-0 to end on 110 points, the most accrued by a team in any NCEL season.

Brigg Town finish in sixth after Adam Drury, Reece York and Donavan Day struck in their 3-0 win at Athersley Recreation whilst Armthorpe Welfare move up to seventh above Route One Rovers.

William Mendonca's brace led Welfare to a 2-1 home victory over Doncaster City, Billy Grimshaw with the visitors' goal.

Marc Newsham struck a hat-trick as Club Thorne Colliery dispatched visitors Nostell Miners Welfare 4-0 whilst Goole AFC also won at home by the same margin, Luis McCabe with a late double against Louth Town.

There were two goals each for James Law and Mark Ferguson as South Leeds grabbed a top-half finish in the table as they won 4-1 at home to Winterton Rangers.

And, Nathan Jarman, Dean McCarthy and Joshua Fraiwald were the scorers in Appleby Frodingham's 3-2 home victory over Maltby Main.

Photo: Action from Brigg Town's final game of the Macron NCEL Division One season, a 3-0 victory at Athersley Recreation as the Zebras end the campaign in sixth position. (Picture: Anna Bäckström)



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