AFC Rushden & Diamonds will be playing in the Emirates FA Cup on Saturday when they travel to face Deeping Rangers in the Preliminary Round of the Competition.
If the scores are level after 90 minutes the game will be replayed at Hayden Road on Tuesday 4th September (KO 7:45pm).
The winners of the tie will play in the First Qualifying Round of the competition.
Rangers play at The Haydon Whitham Stadium, Outgang Road, Towngate East, Market Deeping, Lincs PE6 8LQ. Directions for the 40 mile trip from Rushden are here.
Admission is £8 and £5 U16s £1. The club bar is outside of the ground with no facilities inside.
Hot food is available inside the ground.
The club is running a coach for this fixture – details here.
Our Opponents
Deeping Rangers FC was founded in 1966, starting in the Peterborough & District Leagues. They joined the UCL in 1999, narrowly missing promotion from Division One in their first season, but they then won the league the following season, and have remained in the Premier Division since then. They won the UCL Premier in 2006-07 – see here for more details of their history.
Outgang Road was the venue for the Diamonds first game at Step 5 level, and they recorded a 3-2 victory – report here, and they have also recorded a victory in an FA Cup game there.
The Rangers club website is here and their twitter feed here. They play in Claret and Blue.
Other Info
There is a Diamonds Match Diary
here, and the club twitter feed will provide the latest information before, during and after the match using the link
https://twitter.com/AFCRD or by following
@AFCRD. See below for details of all the social media options for following the Diamonds, spearheaded by
Radio Diamonds for most league games.
Player and Match Sponsorship options are detailed in the Commercial Section of this website as detailed
here.
The latest fixture news is
here. You can find a directory of all of the EVO-STIK Premier Division Central, with links to web pages, twitter feeds etc
here, where you will also find a set of links to other useful resources.
There are a range of social media options available to help follow the Diamonds, with the well used and liked
twitter feed to the fore, as well as a
Facebook page and Club Instagram Page (follow afcrd), and a Snapchat service, accessible on mobile platforms such as an
iOS or
Android Phone, so you can follow the live matchday story by finding afcrd on Snapchat.
Radio Diamonds will broadcast commentary on the game – details
here.
Don’t forget you can get a regular Diamonds news bulletin delivered to your inbox, including details of all the forthcoming fixtures by signing up to the Club Newsletter – you will see a sign-up box on the right-hand side of the site homepage – just under the Gold Bond Logo.
For details of the history of AFC Rushden & Diamonds see
here.
There are details on how to become a member of AFC R&D
here, as well as news on Season Tickets, Multiple Game Tickets and related prices
here.
The club depends upon volunteer support from its fanbase. If you would like to join the group who help either on matchdays or behind the scenes please get in touch.
People accessing the website via Tablet or Mobile who want to access some of the nested menus on the website may find the “
Quick Links” tab useful – found just under the “Auto Windscreens” logo on the homepage.
AFC Rushden & Diamonds will be playing in the Emirates FA Cup on Saturday when they travel to face Deeping Rangers in the Preliminary Round of the Competition.
