Preview: Stags v Morecambe

10 August 2023

Mansfield Town face Morecambe this Saturday in Stags’ first home league match of the season at One Call Stadium (3pm 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.
The club advises supporters to enter the stadium as early as possible once turnstiles open at 1.30pm.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.
The One Call Stadium car park will be closed 15 minutes prior to full-time until footfall reaches a safe level to enable supporters to leave the ground on foot.
Are you a first-time visitor to One Call Stadium? If so, you may wish to check out our useful first-time guide.

Left-back Calum Macdonald is suspended for the contest following his red card at Crewe on the opening day of the season.

Defender George Williams (thigh) is likely to be out for ‘a couple of weeks’.

James Gale (thigh) will be out for a ‘week or two’ according to boss Nigel Clough.

Forward Will Swan is back on the grass doing one-to-one training and will hopefully return to full training after the weekend.

The referee for Saturday's match is Scott Simpson. Mr. Simpson will be assisted by Steven Rushton, Daniel Robinson and fourth official, David Richardson.

Limited tickets remain on sale for the Saturday’s game.

Tickets are available for the contest online at: stagstickets.co.uk.

Alternatively, supporters can purchase tickets in person from the club’s ticket office at One Call Stadium and over the phone at: 01623 482 482 (opt 1) from 10am-5pm on Monday or up until kick-off on matchday.

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

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
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
Hospitality - Purchase Adult	£70
Hospitality - Upgrade Adult*	£55
Hospitality - Purchase U16	£55
Hospitality - Upgrade U16*	£40

*Upgrade only available to season ticket holders

Matchday prices are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£26	£25	£23
Senior (65+)	£23	£22	£21
Young Adult - 18-21	£21	£20	£19
Early Junior 13-17	£17	£16	£15
Early Junior 07-12	£13	£12	£11
Under 7	FREE	FREE	FREE
Family (1 adult and 1 child)			£24
Hospitality - Purchase Adult	£70
Hospitality - Upgrade Adult*	£55
Hospitality - Purchase U16	£55
Hospitality - Upgrade U16*	£40

*Upgrade only available to season ticket holders

Carer tickets are free subject to the disabled supporter being on the higher rate of disability or enhanced PIP.

The club’s family ticket offer - which allows one adult and one child to watch a match for just £24 - can be purchased via telephone on 01623 482 482 (option 1) or in person at the Stags' ticket office on Quarry Lane.

Family tickets can also be bought online (when selecting an adult and a child in block A of the Quarry Lane Stand). Purchase yours now by clicking here.

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 11.15am to show England Women's World Cup quarter-final against Colombia.

The matchday menu will be served from 12.30pm.

The Fan Zone Bar will be open from 12.30pm

Unable to make it to the game on Saturday?

iFollow Stags subscribers (UK only) can hear live full match commentary of our clash against Morecambe for just £2.50.

Commentary of the contest will be provided by Martin Shaw and Dean Foulkes. Coverage starts approximately seven minutes before kick-off.

Overseas subscribers can watch the match for £10, by purchasing a match pass.

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.

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Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 3-0 Morecambe

12 August 2023

Lucas Akins scored twice as Mansfield Town swept aside Morecambe at One Call Stadium with a 3-0 win.

The forward headed Stags into a first-half stoppage time lead, and after Keillor-Dunn scored just past the hour, Akins fired home from the penalty spot late on as Nigel Clough’s men coasted to victory.

Mansfield recorded 27 shots at goal as opposed to Morecambe’s three; a stat which accurately reflected this one-sided encounter.

Stags again should have scored more, but a combination of wasteful finishing and goo goalkeeping denied Mansfield a greater victory.

Baily Cargill replaced Jordan Bowery at left-back in the only change to the line-up from Tuesday’s excellent 2-0 victory at home to Grimsby in the Carabao Cup.

Midfielder George Maris missed out as his partner was taken into labour.

Stags dominated the ball in the opening stages, however it was Morecambe who were presented with the game’s first chance after seven minutes.

Right-back Callum Johnson was unable to effectively clear a cross, but Mansfield were spared as Tom Bloxham volleyed over from ten yards.

It was the Shrimps only opening of the first-half and at the other end, Stags had a double chance in the 14th minute to break the deadlock.

Firstly, midfielder Aaron Lewis delivered from the right to the edge of the goal area, but Davis Keillor-Dunn’s snapshot was blocked by Morecambe’s Jacob Bedeau.

And less than a minute later, Johnson’s pin-point cross from the same flank could only be headed wide by forward Lucas Akins at the back post.

Stags were finding their rhythm and Rhys Oates was next to have a crack from 20 yards, which arrowed narrowly wide of the left post.

Midfielder Louis Reed had a similar effort on 21 minutes which met the same outcome as Mansfield began to push the visitors’ defence back further.

Lewis then lined one up two minutes later, but his 22-yard drive flew high and wide.

Morecambe shot-stopper Stuart Moore was called into action on 24 minutes.

Frontman Rhys Oates kept onside to break forward on the inside left, before rifling a shot at goal which Moore was equal to as he pushed around the post.

On the half-hour mark, Alfie Kilgour saw his crashing drive arrow off target before Akins was presented with a double chance.

Moore made a good stop from Akins’ 15-yard hit and then from the follow-up, the forward struck into the side netting.

Morecambe remained pinned in and around their box and Stags went close again when Aaron Lewis’ 27-yard free-kick was curled behind.

Morecambe’s JJ McKiernan and captain Donald Love were booked within a minute before Stags finally broke the seal with a stoppage time goal.

From just outside the box on the left side, Stephen Quinn clipped a dangerous free-kick into the area and Keillor-Dunn rose well to flick deeper into the goal area, where Akins nodded home from close range.

Inside 90 seconds of the second-half, Akins tried to turn provider by slipping to Oates on the left, but his forward partner lashed over.

On 51 minutes, the tenacious Oates robbed Morecambe of possession before curling over from the left of the box.

Just as Derek Adams’ side began to show some attacking intent, they parted like the red sea at the other end as Stags doubled their lead on 62 minutes

Morecambe gave away the ball casually and Davis Keillor-Dunn was allowed space and time to dart through the middle before planting his shot to the right of the diving Moore.

Stags made a double change as Quinn and Cargill made way for Hiram Boateng and Jordan Bowery.

Oates then produced a top-drawer one-handed stop from Moore, as he got down low at full-stretch to deny the forward’s well-struck effort.

The Stags’ sharp-shooter was determined to find the net and again struck narrowly over from 18 yards after Keillor-Dunn’s lay off.

And on 86 minutes, Oates helped Mansfield to their third goal after being bundled to the ground inside the box.

Akins stepped up right-footed to send the goalkeeper the wrong way to give Stags a third goal after 87 minutes, putting Morecambe well out of sight.

Nigel Clough then made a treble change as Anthony Hartigan, Ollie Clarke and McKeal Abdullah replaced Louis Reed, Aaron Lewis and Rhys Oates.

In stoppage time, Jordan Slew missed a sitter at the back post from a right-wing cross, but by that time the outcome was already beyond doubt.

STAGS: Pym, Johnson, Kilgour, Flint, Cargill (Bowery 65), Reed (Hartigan 89), Lewis (Clarke 89), Quinn (Boateng 65), Keillor-Dunn, Oates, (Abdullah 89) Akins

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Cooper

MORECAMBE: Moore, Love (Davenport 71), Bedeau, Rawson, Songo’o, Bloxham (Slew 71), King, Mellon (C. Smith 90), McKiernan (Taylor 60), Mayor (Melbourne 60), Senior

UNUSED SUBS: A. Smith, Stokes

REFEREE: Scott Simpson

ATTENDANCE: 6,695 (192 Morecambe fans)