Following on from the Blue Square North article I thought I would update the statistics before Saturday’s home game against Gloucester City.

Unbeaten League Run

Last Saturday’s win at Harrogate Town marked the 25th unbeaten league game since the defeat at Boston United. As mentioned in previous articles the overall club record is 31 games in the Combination between January 1908 and March 1909 so this could be beaten before the end of the season.

Unbeaten Home Record

Chester are now unbeaten in 31 league and cup games at the Exacta Stadium. This means that if they can avoid defeat in the last four home matches of the season they will equal the post-war record set between November 1973 and January 1975 when Ken Robert’s Blues were unbeaten in 35 games at Sealand Road. In this current sequence there has been 25 league fixtures, two FA Cup ties, one FA Trophy match and three Cheshire Senior Cup games.

Goals

Chester are on target to score 100 goals for the third consecutive season. Since the club was reformed there have been 297 league goals so the third goal (hopefully against Gloucester on Saturday) will be the club’s 300th in the league.

Cheshire Senior Cup

Chester will be appearing in the Cheshire Senior Cup Final for the first time since 1932 when they beat Crewe Alexandra 1-0 at Gresty Road in their first season as a Football League side. Having fielded a predominantly reserve team in the earlier rounds they relied on the first team in the final which was held a week after the end of the Division Three North season. Crewe, who finished three places below Chester in the league, also relied on their first eleven.

This was the seventh county cup victory for the club and came 12 months after they had beaten the Alex 6-1 at Northwich in the 1931 final. Chester never had the opportunity to make it three on the run as they voluntarily withdrew from the competition the following year along with other Football League sides Tranmere Rovers and Crewe. Although the exile was short lived the club has never returned to the final they first won in 1895. The match against Stalybridge Celtic will give the club the opportunity to win one of football’s oldest cup competitions and most handsome trophies.

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