Redditch United Fixtures and Results: the Next Match, October 2026

The league issues a fixture list in the summer covering all forty-two matches, and it starts changing almost immediately. Cup competitions are drawn as they go: the FA Cup qualifying rounds in the early autumn, the FA Trophy from the autumn, and the county cups whenever the county association schedules them. Each drawn tie displaces a league fixture, which is then re-dated into a free midweek.

Weather does the rest. A 3G surface removes most of the postponement risk at the Valley Stadium itself, but half the fixtures are away, and a grass pitch at an away ground in January is postponed on the referee's inspection rather than by agreement. Every postponement has to land somewhere, and there are only so many Tuesdays.

Midweek matches in this division kick off on a Monday at 19:45, which is unusual in English football and worth planning around. For a club with a working squad and a travelling support, a Monday night away fixture two hundred miles from home is the hardest date on the calendar, and a run of them in February is what a congested spring actually looks like.

The practical advice for anyone using this page: the dates for the next two or three matches are firm, the dates a month out are provisional, and the dates in the second half of the season are a plan. The list is re-read from the league's record daily, so it reflects the current plan rather than the one published in July.

Home advantage is worth more at step three than it is in a professional division, and for unglamorous reasons. The travelling side has usually come by minibus or by car after work, the pitch is unfamiliar, and at a ground with an artificial surface the visitors may not have played on one for a month. A club with a run of home fixtures in a congested spell is in a materially better position than one with the reverse.

The scores on this page are written from Redditch's point of view, not home-first, which is unusual for a results table and deliberate. A supporter reading a results list wants to know whether the club won, and a home-first convention makes that a two-step calculation on every away row.

Three things happen at this level that rarely happen higher up, and all three affect what appears in a results list. A match can be abandoned after kick-off, in which case the competition decides whether it is replayed in full, awarded, or expunged. A club can fail to fulfil a fixture, which is usually awarded to the opponent with a points deduction attached. And a club can fold mid-season, at which point its record may be removed from the table entirely and every result against it deleted.

Redditch have been on both sides of that. A home match against Chesham United in October 2011 was abandoned after a player struck the referee. In the 2010/11 FA Trophy the club went through to the first round proper without playing, because the opponents drawn against them folded before the tie.

None of those outcomes is a scoreline, and none of them fits a results table cleanly. Where the league's record carries a match without goals and without a status of full time, this page shows a dash rather than inventing a result for it.