Preview: Stags v Colchester

21 March 2024

Mansfield Town face Colchester United this Saturday in a Sky Bet League Two contest at One Call Stadium (12.30pm 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 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.

Defender Elliott Hewitt could return to the Stags’ bench after a long spell on the sidelines following an ACL injury he sustained in April last year.

The referee for Saturday's match is Simon Mather. Mr. Mather will be assisted by Kevin Howick, Grant Taylor and fourth official, Scott Tallis.

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
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/North Stand
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.

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 10am.

Breakfast cobs will be served from 10.30am.

The Fan Zone Bar will be open from 10.30am.

Supporters can watch the match live on Sky Sports.

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.

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.

Supporters – outside the UK – can watch Saturday’s game for just £10.
Click here to purchase your video match pass.

Commentary will be by iFollow Stags' Martin Shaw and Dean Foulkes.

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 1-1 Colcheste

23 March 2024

Lewis Brunt’s 64th minute equaliser secured a point for league leaders Mansfield Town at home to Colchester United in a hard-fought encounter this afternoon.

The defender coolly tapped the ball home following a corner to cancel out Harry Anderson’s 12^th minute opener.

Stags remain top of the league, five points clear of second placed Stockport ahead of the Hatters’ match against MK Dons at 5.15pm later today.

Nigel Clough named an unchanged side from the team that beat Bradford 5-1 last weekend. Last season’s Player of the Season, Elliott Hewitt, returned to the Mansfield bench after recovering from an ACL injury sustained last April.

Following an evenly contested opening, Stags crafted the game’s first opportunity on three minutes. After Lewis Brunt impressively dispossessed Colchester winger Jayden Fevrier to spark a counter-attack, forward Lucas Akins teed up Hiram Boateng on the edge of the box who blasted narrowly over with his side foot.

Having endured a period of Stags’ pressure, Colchester took the lead on 12 minutes. Fevrier’s guided cross into the box from the left was touched into the path of Harry Anderson by Tom Hopper. The wing-back showed clever feet before smashing a low effort across goal and into the bottom left corner.

Mansfield responded by dictating possession and came close to creating a number of chances in the period after Anderson’s opener.

On 28 minutes, a well-flighted Stephen Quinn cross picked out Davis Keillor-Dunn inside the box, but the forward steered his cushioned header narrowly wide from 10 yards.

A minute before the break Mansfield were in through Will Swan after a heavy touch from a Colchester man. The forward advanced into the box, took the ball wide left and forced Owen Goodman into a strong one-on-one save.

The visitors continued to pose a threat on the counter-attack after the break as former Mansfield Academy product Alistair Smith found space to turn and shoot narrowly wide on 53 minutes following a swift attack down Stags’ right.

The hosts continued to cause problems in the final third and came close to an equaliser through Keillor-Dunn on 56 minutes. Clever interplay between him and Bowery on the left played the attacker into the box, and Keillor-Dunn’s shot was denied by a last-gasp Jay Mingi block.

Six minutes later, Stags were denied again by Goodman who tipped Baily Cargill’s header around the post after being found by another excellent Quinn cross.

The subsequent corner dropped inside the Colchester box and a goalmouth scramble ensued with Brunt emphatically edging the ball over the line to equalise for Mansfield.

The hosts were forced into a change on 70 minutes after Cargill sustained an injury as Stephen McLaughlin replaced him at left back.

The visitors collected two cautions in as many minutes on 74 and 75 as Samson Tovide clattered into Louis Reed before Hopper arrived in late on McLaughlin.

With Mansfield camped inside the Colchester half, the visitors almost retook the lead on 83 minutes through another quick attack up field. A long forward ball was played into U’s striker Tovide, who gathered and let fly from outside the box, forcing Pym to tip the ball onto the post with a crucial diving save.

Three minutes later, Arthur Read’s corner ball settled nicely for substitute Ellis Iandolo inside the box, who looped a header towards the top left corner, only to be superbly denied again by Pym.

Two minutes later Ollie Clarke crafted a fine opening for Stags, playing a quick cross into the Colchester box from the right. The ball settled nicely for Swan who seemed to be felled as he coiled to shoot, with no award of a penalty.

In the end, Mansfield were forced to settle for a point at One Call Stadium but remain at the summit of Sky Bet League Two.

STAGS: Pym, Bowery, Flint, Brunt, Cargill (McLaughlin 71’), Reed, Boateng (Clarke 71’), Quinn, Keillor-Dunn, Akins, Swan (Nichols 90+1’).

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Hewitt, Lewis, Gale.

COLCHESTER: Goodman, Mingi, Dallison, Hall, Anderson, Smith, Read, Fevrier (Chilvers 90’), McGeehan, Ihionvien (Tovide 58’), Hopper (Iandolo 79’)

UNUSED SUBS: Hornby, Harbottle, Jay, Akinde.

REFEREE: Simon Mather

ATTENDANCE: 7,517 (248 away)