2026/7

HEADLINE

Season - Preview (wip)
The Squad (wip)
Season - Review (wip)
Season - Game By Game (wip)
For The Record (wip)
The Players - Mid Season Report (wip)
Away On Loan (wip)
Retained List (wip)
Agents' Fees (wip)
YCFC Academy (wip)
North Riding Senior Cup (wip)
Pre Season Friendlies - For The Record (wip)

TO UPDATE

*** THIS PAGE IS WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. THE FINAL ISSUE WILL BE SUMMER 2027. UNTIL THEN, SOME CONTENT / SECTIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR WILL REFERENCE PREVIOUS SEASONS ***

Season - Preview (wip)

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Season Tickets On April 3, 2025/6 season ticket prices were announced to general approval, essentially early bird (May 16 cut off) at last season's standard price and EA now a "Family Stand". Later, matchday ticket prices were announced and showed no increase on last season.

  • On March 30, 2026, "3,600+" announced 2025/6 season ticket asle, a club record
  • Season Tickets On 30/03/26, 2026/7 season ticket prices were announced, all showed an increase with an earlier early bird cut off (May 1). On April 2, City announced details of 2026/7 season ticket prices
  • On 10/Apr/2026, it was reported that 1,800 had already been sold, well up on a year earlier
  • On 14/Apr/2026, City reported that over 2,200 had already been sold

TO DO TO DO

TO DO Kit: Pre-season, City announced 3 new kits for the season, in red, blue and black, they all came with familiar runes in the design and were launched at iconic sites around York.

OPEN DAY?

TO DO Geography Once again, the National League will have a strong southern basis. For City, there are 11 (including Southend) southern based opponents in an area broadly defined as the M25 and westwards, 3 opponents are midlands based and 9 (excluding Oldham) are northern based. For City, Truro is only new club and new ground. That game involves a journey of 306 miles as the crow flies or 399 miles by road, City's longest ever journey for a competitive fixture. For Truro, their longest is to Gateshead (451 miles) with other long trips to Hartlepool and Carlisle. Even their "local derby" at Yeovil involves a 280 mile round trip. League newcomers are Carlisle, Morecambe, Brackley Town, Scunthorpe United, Truro City and Boreham Wood whilst the league loses Maidstone, Dagenham & Redbridge, AFC Fylde and Ebbsfleet through relegation and Barnet and Oldham / Southend through promotion. City are set to travel about 7,838 miles in the 2025/6 National League campaign, up from last season, but less than the 7,908 miles during the 2022/3 campaign.

TO DO Matt Uggla's "annual statement" Speaking on York Hospital Ball (July 2025), Matt Uggla said:

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TO DO Form Guide x PSR.

  • Play Offs (6): x
  • Falling (3): x
  • Mid Table (5): x
  • Strugglers (9): x
  • TO DO: Of the above, and with "new money" at several, many teams go into the new season with high hopes.

The Squad (wip)

TO DO

City returned for pre-season training on June xx, xxxx

By August xxth, the eve of the season, City had xx contracted professionals, including x out on loan, either for a full or half season.

It is believed that City got most of their summer targets .... Detail them ....

Season - Review (WIP, plus everything else from here)

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The season, so far, so good:

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  • xxxx City started the season in a sluggish manner, conceding a late equaliser on the opening day against Sutton who surprisingly remained in the lower reaches of the league for most of the season.
  • xxxx Hinsh was sacked after 4 games, apart from a strong performance at Southend, Hinsh’s City side never really got going this season. The fallout continued in November.
  • xxxx Under Maynard, in a 3421 formation, the width and crosses came from wing backs Joe Felix (and increasingly Joe Grey) and Tyrese Sinclair / Alex Newby. Hinsh’s 2 out and out wingers for an hour and 2 more for the last 30 minutes were a thing of the past. Rather than 2 wingers and over lapping full backs, with on the hour replacements, City migrated to wing backs.
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  • Rochdale: They're relentless. But they're vulnerable against teams who give it a go. It just hasn't happened often.
  • There's little real pace in the team meaning that our wingers / wing backs rarely take on the opposing full backs unlike last seaosn when we'd rotate wingers on the hour and have overlapping full backs in operation throughout the game.
  • Sometimes little movement when we have possession, hardly any overlapping or runs into space by the strikers to stretch the defence, meaning lots of side to side or backwards passing.
  • We're a small team, we were regularly out jumped or outmuscled against Southend in particular.
  • Lack a stand out playmaker, note the regular rotation and that no one is a nailed on starting play maker. No one to make telling passes from midfield or to run at defences.
  • Also:
    • Hinsh was named xxxxx
  • Away from the pitch, some events have occurred suggesting that City are taking a more structured approach, whisper it quietly, even a Football League approach, including:
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    Sadly as ever, during the season, City lost a number of well known personalities, including former managers xxx (xx/xx/2024) and xxxt (dd/mmm/2024), former players xxxxxx xxxx (30/Jul/2025), xxx xxxx (17/Oct/2025), xxxx x (31/Oct/2025)), yyyyy (dd/mm/20yy) and player (dd/mmm/yyyy) and supporters (xxxx xxxx (05/Jul/2025), xxx xxxxxxxx (23/Oct/25), xxxxxxxx xxxxxx (19/Sep/25), xxx xxxxxxxx (23/Oct/25), xxxxx xxxxxxx (14/Nov/25), xxxxxx xxx (2025, VP), xxxx xxx (05/Jan/26), xxx xxxx (11/Jan/26), xxxx xxs (21/Feb/26)) and and xxxxxx xxxx (dd/mmm/yy)). and xxxxxx xxxx (dd/mmm/yy)). and xxxxxx xxxx (dd/mmm/yy)).

    On the club and commercial front:

    • TO DO Read the York-City-FC-Advertising-Brochure-2024-25. At the time of writing (22/07/2025), it is believed that no 2025/6 season update had been issued
    • 14/Jul/2025:
    • 21/Jul/2025:
    • 09/Dec/2025: The Enterprise National League named Stuart Maynard as Manager Of The Month for November with Ollie Pearce winning the player award. Read More. Adam Hinshelwood won the NLS award
    • 23/Dec/2025: Annual mid season survery launched with the results announced on 13/Jan/2026
    • 22/Jan/2026: City announce SDL Car Parts as a new club partner
    • 02/Feb/2026: Robin Valley to launch a range of sustainable menswear jewellry
    • 10/Mar/2026:
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    • dd/mmm/2025: New colour per month
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    Elsewhere:

    • In September, x
    • September 19: Tx

  • 2026/7 Cup prize money
    • FA Cup:
      • Qualifying Round 1: winners - £x / losers - £x
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    • Isuzu FA Trophy:
      • Preliminary round: Winners receive £x, losers receive £x
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    • Season - Game By Game (WIP)

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    1. 26mmdd XXXXXX (HA) WDL n-n: Summary
    2. 26mmdd XXXXXX (HA) WDL n-n: Summary

    UPDATE TO UPDATE Some useful links to the season (and beyond):

    UPDATE League Attendances

    TO UPDATE

    Date

    Opponents

    Competition

    City Home Highest

    7,918

    OLDHAM 21/04/25

    City Home Lowest

    4,494

    BRAINTREE 10/09/24

    City Home Aggregate

    139,167

    6.2% away team fans

    City Home Average

    6,050

    -

    Best LNER away following

    1,453

    OLDHAM 21/04/25

    Lowest LNER away following

    41

    BRAINTREE 10/09/24

    City Away Highest

    8,234

    Oldham 21/01/25

    City Away Lowest

    1,075

    Maidenhead 25/02/25

    City Away Aggregate

    67,511

    23.1% City fans

    City Away Average

    702

    -

    Best City away following

    2,225

    FC Halifax 26/10/24

    Lowest City away following

    272

    Maidenhead 25/02/25

    Awards and cards

    City players missed x games through suspension:

    • x (Straight red v xxxxx (h))

    For The Record (WIP)

    After breaking a number of records last season, the 2025/6 season got off to a record breaking start ....

    • 09/08/25: x
    • 09/08/25: x

    2026/7 - The Players (Mid Season Report (To Complete At End Season) (WIP))

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    2. Xxxxx Xxx x

    Away On Loan (wip)

    • Xxxxx Xxxxx Club (League (Tier n) (dd/mm/26 - duration)). Comment
    • Xxxxz Xxxxz Club (League (Tier n) (dd/mm/26 - duration)). Comment

    TO DO YCFC Loan Watch:

    UPDATE Retained List (wip)

    It is believed that all the loanee professionals will be out of contract at the end of the 2026/7 season.

    UPDATE Agents' Fees (wip, 2025/6 below)

    TO UPDATE February (and the closure of the transfer window) has traditionally seen clubs' spending on agents' fees over the past 12 months published. In 2026, they were published on April 2. See The FA website for full details, including total spend by every club and players involved (although not fees by individual player).

    The non league clubs who spent the most in agent fees in the year to February 2nd 2026 were:

    1. Carlisle United £187,960
    2. York City £169,089
    3. Forest Green Rovers £164,373
    4. Southend United £80,815
    5. Rochdale £42,524

    In total, 45 non league clubs spent £1,174,550 on agents’ fees.

    City’s spend is up on the £109,596 from a year earlier.

    For City, 13 separate player transactions are noted, they are all 8 summer signings, 3 autumn contract extensions, an updated contract (Jeff King) and January signing Morgan Williams.

    Across non league, Forest Green (20), Hartlepool (20) and Morecambe (19) made the most agent payments, in total, 11 clubs made more transactions than City. That is possibly down to City’s relative lack of signings when compared to some others who built a whole new squad. Of those other clubs, City’s average transaction fee was over £13,000, the most of this group. Lee Philpott (3) and Scott James Dutton (2) were the only agents who represented more than one City player.

    Wealdstone (as a season earlier) and Brackley were the only National League clubs to spend no money on agent fees.

    For comparative purposes:

    • In League 2, only Milton Keynes Dons (£341k) and Bristol Rovers (£180k) spent more than City whilst Harrogate spent £82k with Accrington Stanley bottom of the table with just £28k spent, across the division the average spend was £108k.
    • In League 1, only 4 clubs (Doncaster, Exeter, Mansfield and Northampton) spent less than City with an average of spend of £585k across the division
    • In the Championship, the average club spent over £2.9m on agent fees
    • That was dwarfed by Premier clubs who each spent a total of over £460m at an average of over £23m each with Chelsea, Villa (yes, Aston Villa) and Manchester City filling the top 3 spots
    • In Women’s Super League, the average spend was £316k per club.

    UPDATE YCFC Academy (wip - 2026/7 - complete update required)

    Once again, for the 2025/6 season, City competed in the National League Football Alliance North Division (Under 19) alongside 11 other National League and National League North teams (AFC Fylde, Altrincham, Blyth Spartans, Boston United, Chester, FC Halifax Town, Gateshead, Guiseley, Hartlepool, Solihull Moors and South Shields). Promoted Oldham and Farsley Celtic were missing from last season whilst Hartlepool joined, 2 seasons after losing their Football League status.

    15 sides competed in the southern equivalent (3 newcomers ( Dagenham & Redbridge, Sutton and Wealdstone) plus Aldershot Town, Boreham Wood, Dorking, Dover, Eastleigh, Maidenhead, Maidstone, Oxford City, Slough, Southend, Welling and Woking). Dartford dropped out.

    City's National League status means that the Under 18 side are exempt from 2 rounds (Preliminary and 1st Qualifying) of the FA Youth Cup. They'll join the competition in early October. Beyond the Under 19 / 18 side, City run a whole series of age group teams.

    TO DO: City's 2024/5 academy players' profiles.

    TO DO: Home league fixtures were played at City's Wiggington Road training ground (YO32 2RB), usually on a Wednesday afternoon with an early kick off (usually 1pm)) to finish in daylight. Home FA Youth Cup and National League Alliance Cup games are due to be played at the LNER Community Stadium (or another designated home ground). In practice, the home FA Youth Cup tie was played at Selby and home Alliance Cup games at the training ground.

    Amid ever rising costs (and diminishing returns), it is good to see that City still run an academy. In May 2025, Accrington Stanley closed their academy, making 11 full time and 15 casual staff redundant, after chairman Andy Holt significantly reduced his annual input into the club’s running costs. EFL EPPP funding of around £500,000 will barely have covered those staff wages. Recognised as one the most productive EFL academies, Stanley had at least one academy developed player in every first team matchday squad and 2 or more in 85% of the squads during the 2023/4 season.

    However, last season (2024/5), for the second successive season, City's academy fared worse than the previous season in all 3 competitions. With the development squad on hold for another season, the gulf between academy and first team seems bigger than ever.

    Further Reading: National League Under-19 Alliance website.

    Watch all the season's highlights.

    2025/6 National League Youth Alliance

    Date

    Competition

    Opponents

    Venue

    Result

    Scorers (and notes)

    03/09/25

    NLFAU19N

    BOSTON UNITED

    H (Training Ground)

    3-2

    Day 2, Greening

    10/09/25

    NLFAU19N

    South Shields

    A (Leisure United Downhill (Sunderland))

    3-2

    Day, OG, Roberts

    17/09/25

    NLFAU19N

    HARTLEPOOL UNITED

    H (Training Ground)

    0-2

    -

    24/09/25

    NLFAU19N

    FC HALIFAX TOWN

    H (Training Ground)

    1-3

    Greening

    02/10/25

    FAYC Q2

    Bradford PA

    HA (Horsfall Stadium)

    6-0

    Greening 3 (1p), Campbell, Kettlewell, Hewson

    16/10/25

    FAYC Q3

    BORO RANGERS

    H (Mill Lane, Pickering)

    5-2

    Kydd 2, Farrar 2, Hewson

    22/10/25

    NLFAU19N

    GUISELEY

    H (Training Ground)

    0-2

    -

    1. BOSTON (H) (03/Sep/25) (National League Youth Alliance League (North)) W 3-2
      2 late goals saw City come from behind to win after Donny Day had given City a half time lead in their opening game of the season
      From a dangerous position, Sutton Greening equalised with a free kick into the bottom corner before Donny Day got on the end of a cross in the final minute to win it
      YCFC match report
      CITY (1-11): White; Newall (Clarke 65'), Binns (Campbell 86), Belleh ( c ), Baker, Beadle, Tweed (Kydd 75), Shaw (Roberts 75), Hewson (Russell 29), Greening, Day. Subs (Unused): -
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    UPDATE: It was a largely disappointing season for the academy team. In terms of performance, overall 2024/5 was, once again, possibly less successful when compared to the previous season's successes. In both the FA Youth Cup and National League Youth Alliance Cup, City failed by one round to go as far as last season. The team exited the FA Youth Cup in their first game and lost in the Alliance League Cup northern semi final. In the league, City's 5th place finish was a place below last season’s finish ending with just one point from the last 6 games. Both of the 2024 scholars who were awarded their first professional contracts last summer, Bill Marshall and Leon Gibson-Booth were released by the end of the year.

    First year scholars Ben Farrar and Eddie Kettlewell both scored well without being prolific across the whole season. Captain George Grumley moved between centre back and defensive midfield and made a brief cameo first team debut at Oldham in January, making his mark with a fine crunching, but fair, tackle.

    Beyond Grumley, it is difficult to see which second year scholars might warrant a professional contract. That is disappointing in light of City introducing a development squad for next season. XXXX

    Throughout the season, Benji Tate, a year 2 right back scholar was the only player to have a loan spell in "mens' football", 2 months at Bishop Auckland (NPL Division 1 East (Step 8)) in the autumn, unfortunately, his game time was extremely limited.

    The age old question remains. When will we see our youth products in our first team?

    North Riding Senior Cup (TO DO 25/6 below)

    1. YARM & EAGLESCLIFFE (A) (26/Nov/25) L 3-3 (0-3 penalties)
      Despite summer reports that City had paid a fee not to enter the 2025/6 North Riding (CLS Sports) Senior County Cup, City entered the competition at the Round 2 (Last 16) stage and were drawn away to Yarm & Eaglescliffe. Formed in 2017, they play in the Ebac Northern League Division Two (Level 10, Step 6, 5 steps below City) and sat second in the table, six points behind leaders Redcar Town, at the time of the fixture. They play their home games at Billingham Town's Bedford Terrace ground. Given the wet night and heavy usage, the pitch wasn't in the best condition
      City, consisting entirely of academy players, lost 3-0 on penalties after the game ended 3-3 after 90 minutes, a repeat of a season earlier when City exited on penalties away to TIBS. Once again, the men outwitted the boys
      2 down, goals from Ben Farrar and an excellent finish into the top corner from Sutton Greening saw City draw level on 69 minutes. Yarm re-took the lead after they'd been reduced to 10 players, a second sending off saw them down to 9 men before before Greening equalised from the spot in injury time after Ben Farrar had been brought down
      The card happy referee seemed to think he was the man of the match
      Post match, Dan Wilson felt City "controlled the first half hour, (but were) bad in both boxes, (something which is) happening over and over again" and attributed the 2 opening goals to defensive lapses. He added that Sutton Greening changed the game when he came on and Eddie Kettlewell was a class apart throughout the game
      Yarm scored all their 3 penalties whilst for City, Greening and Tom Hewson's were saved before Farrar skied over the bar
      York City: White, Shaw, Beadle (Hewson 78), Belleh ( C ), Newall (Kydd 78), Russell, Kettlewell, Stiver (Binns 78), Farrar, Day (Greening 60), Roberts (Baker 53). Subs Not Used: -.
      Yarm & Eaglescliffe: Lee Roberts, Jack Dalton, Conway (Hillerby 90+5), Joe Dalton (Bulmer 57), Wild ( C ), Dougall, Marshall, Stewart-Titchiner, Williams (Scaife-Wheatle 89), Larkin, Steven Roberts (Cheesebrough 71, (Atkinson 90+3)). Subs Not Used: -.
      Att: TBC
      YCFC match report

    Pre Season Friendlies - For The Record - TO DO 25/6 BELOW

    1. GARFORTH (A) (08/Jul/25) L 0-1
      Watched by a 1,142 crowd, Garforth's winner came in the 69th minute when Owen Marshall floated the ball over the head of York City's 'keeper who was off his line
      City fielded a second string in the first half and introduced a string of academy players as the second half progressed
      City included 2 triallists, Ben Starkie, a Tanzanian international from Harborough Town at right back from the start with a young keeper, believed Harry Christy, a 21 year old keeper released by Leeds in the summer
      York City: Sykes-Kenworthy (Triallist (Harry Christy (ex Leeds)) 60’); Triallist (Starkie) (Silvester 60’ (Roberts 90+’)), Fallowfield (Beadle 60’), Aguiar (Newall 60’), John (Shaw 60’); Batty (Baker 60’), McLaughlin (Tweed 60’); Gravata (Russell 60’ (Kydd 90+’)), Armstrong (Belleh 60’), Fadera (Greening 60’); Chadwick (Farrar 52’). Subs Not Used: Binns.
      Garforth Town: Flatters, Ejupi, Tweddle, Marshall (O), Emery, Barkway, Marshall( C ), Savage, Aldrich, Colville, Connolly.
      Att: 1,142
      YCFC match report
    2. SALFORD (H) (11/Jul/25) D 3-3
      The game was abandoned 6 minutes from full time after an East Stand supporter appeared to make monkey noises at a Salford player as he was being substituted. There was an on pitch fracas and a Salford player had to be stopped from climbing into the stand to confront the spectator. City were quick to issue a statement. Some social media reports suggested that a fan, who was ejected, was making fun of one of the Salford players in somewhat high pitched squeaky voice without resorting to racial abuse. 5 days after the game, Salford issued a 9 minute video of the incident featuring Karl Robinson, Gary Neville and players
      After Ollie Pearce struck twice, Will Wright pulled a goal back for the visitors before the break. Goals from Tom Edwards and Will Wright put the visitors ahead before Mo Fadera equalised with a left footed shot from inside the box
      On September 19, City issued a statement to say the North Yorkshire Police had found no evidence to support a claim of racial abuse
      York City (First Half): Male; Fagan-Walcott, Palmer, Howe, Kitching; Felix, Boateng; Newby, Banks, Sinclair; Pearce.
      York City (Second Half): Watson; Triallist (Starkie), Fallowfield, Newall, Brookes; Batty, Hunt, Fadera, Armstrong, Nathaniel-George; Stones. Subs (Usage Not Recorded): Farrar, Belleh, Russell.
      Salford: Chapman, Ashley, Woodburn, Grant, Austerfield, Mnaga, Triallist, Cesay, Oluwa, Garbutt, Wright. Subs (Usage Not Recorded): Ayina, Berkoe, Edwards, Malcolm, Curran-Nicholls, Butt, Heys, Showman, Longelo.
    3. SHEFFIELD U (H) (15/Jul/25) L 2-6
      City went down to a 2-6 against Sheffield United who missed out on a Premier League spot in the play offs last season
      City were 3 down at the break when United changed their whole line up. Soon 4 down, City (Hunt) pulled a goal back just after the hour before changing the whole side. A second goal (Fallowfield) soon followed before United added 2 more goals
      In the 77th minute, the game was stopped to allow a minute's applause for Graeme Crawford, who passed away in May after a long illness and featured for United before joining City
      Despite the scoreline, City weren't outclassed, it was an entertaining game and City had a good workout but were punished when giving the ball away. United were that bit sharper and quicker and showed how to keep an effective press going
      5 days later, Sheffield United won 5-0 at Rotherham
      York City: Male; Fagan-Walcott, Palmer, Howe, Kitching; Felix, Hunt; Newby, Banks, Sinclair; Pearce.
      York City (66th minute): Sykes-Kenworthy, Fallowfield, Newall, McLaughlin, Brookes; Batty, Armstrong; Grey, Nathaniel-George, Fadera; Stones.
      Sheffield U: Cooper, McCallum, Cannon, O’Hare, Brooks, Ahmedhodzic, Robinson, Campbell, Marsh, Blacker, Seriki. Subs (Whole team changed at half time): Davies, Sasnauskas, Bindon, Norrington-Davies, Burrows, Hampson, Caceres, Hamer, Ukaki, Moore, One, Faxon, Curtis.
      Att: 3,410
      YCFC match report.