Match reports from August 2026

Saturday 15 August
Chester 2 King’s Lynn Town 0
Pre-season friendly
Attendance: 2,616 Half Time: 2-0
Booked: Weeks.

Chester: Hewitson, Burroughs, Woodthorpe, Weeks, Griffin, Peers (Abreu 85), Waters (Moore 85), Ward, Woods (Hazel 65), Campbell (Murphy 74), Reed. Subs not used: Davies, Kenny, Lomax.
King’s Lynn Town: Hollingshead, Doherty, Mills, Clunan, Crane (Leach 62), Scott (Ubaezuonu 71), Jones, Nwabueze, Tunnicliffe (Hall-Johnson 62), Lindsay (Hamilton 62), Thomas. Subs not used: Thomas, McCammon, Rubio.
Referee: Oliver Noonan.

Great result for Chester on their home return.

Saturday 8 August
Chorley 1 Chester 2
Pre-season friendly
Attendance: 1,996 (800 Chester) Half Time: 0-1
Booked: Woods, Weeks, Woodthorpe, Hewitson.

Chorley: Stowell, Henley (Ellis 90), Smith, Hunt, Calveley, Clarke, Blakeman (Bala 90), Rowe (Fielding 90+5), Hazlehurst (Whitehouse 74), Taylor, Popoola (Cummins 67). Subs not used: Bird, Moore.
Chester: Hewitson, Burroughs, Woodthorpe, Weeks, Griffin, Peers (Hazel 68), Waters (Lomax 90), Ward, Woods (Moore 78), Campbell (Murphy 88), Reed. Subs not used: Davies, Kenny, Rosenblatt.
Referee: Jonathan Maskrey.

Around 800 Chester fans made their way to Victory Park on Saturday and they were rewarded with an opening day three points.

With the season onky four minutes old a moment of hesitancy from Declan Weeks saw the midfielder concede a penalty. Up stepped Anjola Popoola but he put his spot kick wide.

The Blues opened the scoring on 26 minutes as Ma'kel Campbell received the ball on the edge of the box and fired a shot first time past Stowell.

Chester should have doubled their lead as Tom Peers was sent through one-on-one five minutes before the break but fired wide.

The Magpies drew level on the hour mark as a sublime finish from Elliot Taylor out on the right gave Luke Hewitson no chance in the Blues goal.

Both sides created chances as the game wore on but it was to be Billy Waters who would secure all three points in the dying minutes tapping home Wards left wing cross to the delight of those travelling fanvs behind the goal.

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