Emley 2-0 Sheffield – Yorkshire League Division 1
Emley won their second Yorkshire League title on a rainy evening in May 1978 with a victory against the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC. Emley had finished runners-up on goal average the previous season to Winterton, but a win here would put them beyond the...
Emley 3-3 Winterton Rangers – Yorkshire League Division 1
Emley and Winterton have a rivalry that dates back to the 1970’s when the two clubs went head-to-head over several seasons, competing for the Yorkshire League Division One title. They met at Emley early in the 1977-78 season with Winterton as the current Yorkshire...
Emley 3-1 North Shields – FA Trophy 1st Qualifying Round
Emley have had many tough battles against teams from the North-east over the years and the two matches in the Trophy first qualifying round in 1977 were no exception. The previous Saturday Emley had travelled to Tyneside to meet North Shields and led 1-0 from a...
Emley 2-1 Thackley – Yorkshire League Cup Quarter-Final
Forty-six years ago, almost to the day, Emley met Thackley in the fore-runner to the Northern Counties East League Cup, the Yorkshire League Cup, with a semi-final place at stake. On that occasion Emley were lucky to progress despite dominating large parts of the...
Emley 3-0 Hallam – Yorkshire League Cup 4th Round
Emley and Hallam have a long history of rivalry stretching back into the 1970s when both were in the Yorkshire League. In the 1976-77 season the clubs met in a fourth round Yorkshire League Cup tie at the Welfare Ground as Emley went for a league and cup double. The...
Emley 9-1 Stocksbridge Works – Yorkshire League Cup
In 1976 Stocksbridge Works visited Emley in the Yorkshire League Cup as a Yorkshire League Division 3 side. They were a long way from the Stocksbridge Park steels side we see today riding high in the Northern Premier League Eastern Division. Emley were the Division...
Emley 4-2 Maltby Main – Yorkshire League Division 1
Emley first met Maltby Main in a league game in a Christmas fixture in 1975. Maltby had just been promoted into Division One and Emley were flying high with real hopes of winning the title. The match was incident packed, with no less than four penalties be ing...
Emley 4 Shildon 2 – FA Trophy Preliminary Round
Following the demise of the FA Amateur Cup in 1974 and its replacement by the Vase, Emley’s previous success meant they were placed in the much tougher competition – the FA Trophy, which included the best semi-professional sides in the country. In their first season...
Emley 1 Yorkshire Amateur 0 – Yorkshire League Division 1
Emley and Yorkshire Amateur enjoyed a number of close battles in Emley’s first few years of Yorkshire League membership. But, in 1974 the teams met twice near the end of the season with the results critical to Emley’s chances of winning the league title. The first...
Emley 2 Evesham United 0 – FA Amateur Cup 1st Round
The 1973-74 season was the last season the FA Amateur Cup was played for. It would be replaced the FA vase the following season as the FA abolished the distinction between professional and amateur clubs. Emley had had a couple of poor years in the competition...