Preview: Stags v Forest Green

8 April 2024

Mansfield Town face Forest Green Rovers tomorrow evening in a Sky Bet League Two contest at One Call Stadium (7:45pm kick-off). Here's all you need to know...

Please note that One Call Stadium is a cashless Stadium. Cash is not accepted anywhere in the ground on matchdays or during the week.
Quarry Lane Road will be closed 20 minutes before full-time until the club car park is cleared.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.
Tickets are available to Stags’ supporters in blocks A and B of the North Stand for this match, and all remaining home fixtures this season. More here.
Supporters who have purchased tickets in the North Stand for tomorrow’s match at home to Forest Green will be able to enter the stadium via turnstiles 11 and 12 at the rear of the North Stand. Exit after full-time will be via the Ian Greaves Lower Tier.
Supporters should also note that the pedestrian gate between the North Stand and the Ian Greaves Stand will be closed from approximately 20 minutes before full-time until away supporters have departed.
Portland Retail Park have politely asked us to remind supporters that parking is not permitted on their site on a matchday.
Are you a first-time visitor to One Call Stadium? If so, you may wish to check out our useful first-time guide.

Manager Nigel Clough expects the same matchday squad that was used on Saturday against Crawley.

The referee for Tuesday’s game is Daniel Middleton. Mr. Middleton will be assisted by Wayne Grunnill, Bradley Hall and fourth official, Danny Guest.

Mansfield Town’s final three home games of the season are all-ticket.

Ticket prices for the 2023/24 league campaign at One Call Stadium can be found below.

Match tickets will be available to purchase by calling 01623 482 482 (option 1), by visiting the ticket office at One Call Stadium, or online via stagstickets.co.uk.

Supporters should note that pre-purchased tickets bought online will only be available at the discounted rate up until midnight the day prior to each home fixture.

The prices for tickets bought in advance of matchday are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane/North Stand
Adult	£24	£23	£21
Senior (65+)	£21	£20	£19
Young Adult - 18-21	£19	£18	£17
Early Junior 13-17	£16	£15	£14
Early Junior 07-12	£12	£11	£10
Under 7	FREE	FREE	FREE
Family (1 adult 1 child)			£24

Parking is unfortunately unavailable at One Call Stadium.

All reserved car parking spaces are within the location of the Ian Greaves Stand car park. Please note that the car park shuts 30 minutes prior to kick-off due to safety regulations.

The following sites, owned by Mansfield District Council and with easy access to One Call Stadium are Grove Street, Victoria Street, Garden Road and Church Lane.

Charges are as follows:

Grove St 50p/hr

Victoria St 50p/hr

Garden Rd 50p/hr

Church Lane 80p/hr

All of the above pay and display surface level car parks offer cashless parking via RingGo as an additional way to pay.

Every car park has a unique code so people can either pay over the phone, by text, online or by using a free smartphone app.

Details of how to do this are displayed in each car park. Information about all Mansfield District Council car parks can be found at www.mansfield.gov.uk/carparks.

Where do I go when I get to One Call Stadium?

Hospitality

If you are a hospitality guest, please enter the stadium via the brown double doors to the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand, which is the entrance to our hospitality suites.

The doors are located to the left of the Fans' zone bar/merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen, backing onto the main car park and sign-posted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Media

Members of the media are asked to also head to the entrance to our hospitality suites, where our media steward will provide you with the necessary accreditation.

The required entrance is located to the left of the merchandise stall/Fans’ Zone bar outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen and signposted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Sandy's Bar & Kitchen will be open from 12pm.

The main menu will be served from 3pm (matchday menu from 5.30pm).

The Fan Zone Bar will be open from 6pm.

Supporters – inside the UK and abroad can watch the match live for just £10. Purchase your video match pass by clicking here.

Monthly/annual subscribers to iFollow Stags can hear audio commentary of the game as part of their subscription. Alternatively, an audio commentary pass can be purchased for just £2.50 by clicking here.

Commentary will be by iFollow Stags' Martin Shaw and Lee Wilson.

Commentary for the visually impaired will be provided by Alan March Sport. Collect your headsets from the Kevin Bird Suite/Hospitality entrance at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand.

You can follow all the action from the fixture live via our Twitter match updates here.

The match centre on mansfieldtown.net will also contain Opta-populated updates and can be accessed here.

A report from the match will be published on the club website following the full-time whistle, and post-match reaction from the dressing room will be available to view on mansfieldtown.net and iFollow Stags.

Follow us across our social media accounts to keep fully updated on all areas of a Stags’ matchday. Click the below links to redirect to the corresponding social media account.

Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 1-0 Forest Green

9 April 2024

Tom Nichols’ first-half goal was enough to give Mansfield a vital 1-0 win as promotion-chasing Stags deservedly beat Forest Green at One Call Stadium.

The amber and blue dominated proceedings throughout and despite a couple of second-half chances for relegation-haunted Rovers, the Stags, in truth, should have won by a greater margin.

Mansfield goalkeeper Christy Pym produced a fine double stop in the second period but his opposite number, American shot-stopper Vincente Reyes was by far the busier of the two goalkeepers.

The result propels Mansfield back into the top three ahead of another important encounter this Saturday away at promotion rivals MK Dons.

Four changes were made from Saturday’s 4-1 loss at home to Crawley.

Left-back Stephen McLaughlin, midfielders Hiram Boateng and George Maris and forward Tom Nichols replaced George Williams, Elliott Hewitt, Ollie Clarke and Will Swan.

In a change just after the warm-up, George Cooper replaced Elliott Hewitt on the subs’ bench.

In the game’s first effort, diminutive midfielder Louis Reed struck wide from 20 yards after three minutes.

Maris then let fly from a similar distance in the sixth minute, but Rovers’ goalkeeper Vincente Reyes was well behind it with the aid of a deflection.

The Forest Green ‘keeper was in the thick of the action and had to produce a smarter stop in the ninth minute to tip over Boateng’s dipping strike.

Stags carved out another promising attack on 14 minutes which ended with Davis Keillor-Dunn skewing a hit past the target from the right of the box.

At the other end, Jordan Moore-Taylor prodded beyond the right-hand post from a Forest Green corner in the visitors’ first real noteworthy opportunity.

But it was Stags who looked the most likely to open the scoring and Keillor-Dunn again caused problems, turning cleverly just inside the box before the forward’s shot was deflected behind for a corner.

And eventually Mansfield took the upper hand on 20 minutes.

Boateng delivered delicately with the left boot into the box and Nichols stretched to send a looping header into the air which deceived Reyes by creeping into the far corner.

Veteran defender Richard Keogh prevented Rovers from falling further behind on 32 minutes by sliding across the box to block Maris’ low drive, which would surely have otherwise tested Reyes.

Stags continued to boss the game and looked to double their advantage on 42 minutes, but Reyes claimed Maris’ ten-yard shot on the turn.

In the final minute of the half, Stags’ goalkeeper Christy Pym did well to claw away a dipping free-kick by Charlie McCann to keep Mansfield in the box seat heading into the break.

Stags carried on their impressive attack-minded approach in the second-half and within five minutes of the restart Reyes had to beat away Nichols’ powerful strike following neat setup work by Boateng.

Keillor-Dunn was next to come close to a goal as he weaved beyond two defenders to break into the right of the box, but his final shot was well off target.

Just past the hour, Keillor-Dunn again tried his luck and this time his left-footed curling effort flew narrowly over the angle from just inside the area.

On 69 minutes, McLaughlin fired a low free-kick beyond the defensive wall from 22 yards but Reyes watched it all the way.

Akins came to the rescue for Mansfield a minute later.
After a rare Rovers’ charge forward, Akins managed to get in front of his man on the cusp of the goal area to turn behind a dangerous right-flank cross.

Stags then made a double change as Ollie Clarke and Will Swan were introduced for Quinn and Maris.

And on 81 minutes another two substitutions were made as Aaron Lewis and James Gale entered the fray for Keillor-Dunn and Nichols, the latter having collected a yellow card.

And within three minutes of action, Lewis was yellow carded for a strong challenge near the halfway line.

On 87 minutes, Stags had Pym to thank for a top drawer double save, firstly palming away Emmanuel Osadebe’s low strike and also pushing aside away Kyle McAllister’s follow-up.

George Williams then took the place of Stephen McLaughlin in Stags’ last change.

Clarke was cautioned for a late challenge in stoppage time and giant defender Ryan Inniss also went into the book for a push on the same man.

And after five minutes of stoppage time, there was relief and jubilation in equal measure as referee Daniel Maddison blew for full-time.

STAGS: Pym, Akins, Flint, Bowery, McLaughlin )Williams 88), Reed, Boateng, Quinn (Clarke 72), Maris (Swan 72), Keillor-Dunn (Gale 81), Nichols (Lewis 81)

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Cooper

FOREST GREEN: Reyes, Moore-Taylor, Keogh, Inniss, Robson (Dabo 64), McCann, Osadebe, Bunker (Jones 64), Thompson (McAllister 82), Garrick (Maddox 82), Doidge

UNUSED SUBS: Searle, Bernard, Omotoye
REFEREE: Daniel Middleton

ATTENDANCE: 7,245 (80 away fans)