Maidenhead United Football Club

York Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1SF

By Supporters Club Coach – The Best & Easiest Way.

The Coach will be departing Stonehouse at 11.30am, with pick-ups at Sainsbury’s at 11.45am, and The New Lawn at 12pm (midday).

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Away Travel 2024/25 | WE ARE FGR

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Tickets and Travel | Maidenhead United (A) | WE ARE FGR

Book your coach ticket from FGR. Discount for FGR Supporters Club members. Supporters Club Members need to book by phone or in person to get their discount.

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By phone on 0333 123 1889 Monday to Friday, between 9am and 3pm. (Closed Wednesdays), Please try to book as early as you can.

Match Tickets – Maidenhead United FC – Event – Maidenhead United vs Forest Green Rovers (ethicalticketing.org)

BY TRAIN 

From Stroud the journey takes about 1 hour 20 minutes changing at Reading.

Maidenhead Rail Station is served by regular trains from London, Oxford and Reading. It is less than half a mile away from the York Road Ground and is only a five-minute walk to the Bell Street turnstiles or ten minutes to the main entrance.

As you come out of the station entrance turn right and walk up to the main road at the end of the car park. Turn left along this road and cross over to the other side using the nearby pedestrian crossing. Keeping the Bell pub on your right, turn right into Queen Street and then the next right-hand turn into York Road. The entrance to the ground is further down on the right.

BY CAR 

From the Stroud area it is abut 100 miles and takes under 2 hours.

From M4: Exit at J8/9 and take A404(M)/A308(M) exit to High Wycombe/Maidenhead. Follow signs for Maidenhead Central and at roundabout take first exit onto Windsor Road/A308. At next roundabout take third exit onto Stafferton Way. Continue onto Stafferton Link, take a sharp left onto Forlease Road and first exit at mini roundabout onto York Road. 

From M40: Exit at J4 and take the exit for A404. At the next roundabout, take the second exit onto Marlow Road/A308. At the roundabout, take the second exit onto Frascati Way/A308. Take the third left turn onto Broadway, the second right turn onto Park Street then first right turn onto York Road. 

Unfortunately, there is NO parking available at York Road Stadium.  The ground’s town centre location gives the following nearby long stay parking options:

There is the Stripes Bar at the ground itself or next door is the Conservative Club which sells real ale.

FGR supporters are welcome to book for Hospitality in the Alan Devonshire Suite in advance of the match. The benefits of booking hospitality include a hot meal prior to the match and a guaranteed seat in the stand. More details are available via https://ethicalticketing.org/maidenhead-united-fc/event/638851369.

Inside the ground food on offer includes a range of pies, pasties, burgers and hot dogs.

Nearby pubs include –

Crauford Arms – 15 Gringer Hill, Maidenhead, SL6 7LY – Maidenhead’s only community-owned pub is situated just north of the town centre, a ten minute walk from Maidenhead United’s ground. It has free parking so cars can be left at our pub during the match. They welcome all football fans and cater for their needs with matches shown on Sky and BT Sports.

• O’Neill’s – 95-97 King St, Maidenhead SL6 1DP
• The Corner House – 43 Queen St, Maidenhead SL6 1LT
• Gordon’s – 43 Queen St, Maidenhead SL6 1LT

Maidenhead enjoyed their joint-third highest finish in the National League last season as they achieved 14th place.

They are currently in 19th place with  16 points.

Current 6 Match Form –

Maidenhead are 8th with 11 points. FGR are second with 13 points.

Recent Results:-

Maidenhead 1 Crawley 2 – AET.(FA Cup)

BBC Highlights (ex-FGR Shawn McCoulsky scores the goal)-

Maidenhead United 1-2 Crawley Town: FA Cup – BBC Sport – BBC Sport

Yeovil 3 Maidenhead 1

Maidenhead 2 Oldham 2

Maidenhead 1 Hartlepool 1

Maidenhead 3 Taunton 0 (FA Cup)

Taunton 1 Maidenhead 1 (FA Cup)

Southend 0 Maidenhead 2

Manager Alan Devonshire (wearing the hat).

Alan Devonshire the oldest manager (68) in the National League started his playing career at the very highest level at Crystal Palace, but it is with West Ham he is most closely associated with 358 appearances for the Hammers. He ended his playing career at Watford. He played 8 times for England.

His first management role was at Osterley, before moving into Brentford Women, Maidenhead, Hampton & Richmond, Braintree and then returning to Maidenhead

Reece Smith.

When the Magpies are firing, their main man was left winger and one of their own, Reece Smith.  The 22-year-old came through the Magpies academy in 2020 and last season found the net 11 times whilst also recording four assists.

Maidenhead’s current top scorer is Tristan Abrahams with 4 goals.

Summer signings include:-

Tyrese Dyce (Slough Town)
Ruben Carvalho (Wingate & Finchley)
Joseph Ajose (QPR)
Nathan Ferguson (Wealdstone)
Zac Bell (Bristol City)

Shawn McCoulsky played for FGR between January 2019 and 2021.

He made 21 appearances.

He was loaned to Bromley & Halifax before being released in 2021.

Shawn played for Colchester before joining Maidenhead in January 2022.

The Football Association acknowledges that York Road is the oldest continuously used senior association football ground by the same club anywhere in the world. That is because Maidenhead United have called the stadium their home since the club’s formation, with a blue plaque placed just inside the home turnstiles to commemorate the fact. It began life in 1870 as the home of Maidenhead Cricket Club, with the first football match being played in February of the following year.

Maidenhead United was formed in the October of 1870 in order to give the members of the cricket club something to do in the winter months to keep them fit. The club’s first game was played in December when they took on Windsor Home Park at Bond’s Meadow.

Being such an old club, Maidenhead United also have the claim to fame that they were one of the 15 teams that played in the inaugural version of the FA Cup. Maidenhead were knocked out of the inaugural FA Cup 3-0 by Crystal Palace (the world’s oldest professional football Club). Maidenhead reached the competition’s quarter-final stage three times during the 1870s.

In 1894 they were one of the founder members of the Southern League, playing in numerous lower league competitions in the years that followed. In 2016/17 Maidenhead won the National League South, earning promotion to the National League.

In July 2024 Max Kilman was sold by Wolves to West Ham for £40 million. Max had been a Maidenhead player (34 appearances) until 2018 and a sell on clause means that Maidenhead will receive possibly the largest transfer fee, £4 million, ever received by a non-league club.

The clubs mascot is Yorky the Magpie.

• Maidenhead Heritage Centre – Maidenhead Heritage Centre – and ATA exhibition and archive
• BCA Zoo – BCA Zoo
• National Trust’s Cliveden House – Cliveden | Buckinghamshire | National Trust