Date: Wednesday, August 27 2025
Kickoff Time: 2000 Hrs BST
Venue: Blundell Park, Cleethorpes
League Cup Form Guide
Manchester United:
Grimsby Town: W
Previous League Cup Meetings
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All-Time League Cup Record
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Draws:
Pre-Match Pressers
Rúben Amorim
David Artell
Team News
Manchester United
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Grimsby Town
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Know The Opposition
Grimsby Town Football Club (nicknamed The Mariners) is a professional association football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that competes in EFL League Two, the fourth level of the English football league system. Grimsby Town was formed in 1878 after a meeting held at the Wellington Arms public house in Freeman Street, Grimsby. The club was originally called Grimsby Pelham. In 1888 the club first played league football, joining the newly formed 'Combination'. The league soon collapsed and the following year the club applied to join the Football League, an application that was refused. Instead the club joined the Football Alliance. In 1890 the club became a limited company and in 1892 finally entered the Football League, when it was expanded to two divisions.
Grimsby Town is the most successful team of the three professional clubs in historic Lincolnshire, being the only one to play top-flight English football. It is also the only club of the three to reach an FA Cup semi-final (doing so on two occasions, both times during the 1930s). It has also spent more time in the English game's first and second tiers than any other club from Lincolnshire. Grimsby Town's relegation in 2010 made them the sixth club to compete in all top five divisions of English football (after Wimbledon, Wigan Athletic, Carlisle United, Oxford United and Luton Town, and before Leyton Orient, Notts County and Oldham Athletic). Grimsby's 1939 FA Cup semi-final attendance of 76,962 versus Wolverhampton Wanderers is still a record at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium. In 1954 they became the first English club to appoint a foreign manager, Hungarian Elemér Berkessy.
Notable former managers include Bill Shankly, who went on to guide Liverpool to three League titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup triumph, and Lawrie McMenemy who, after securing promotion to the then Third Division in 1972, moved to Southampton where he won the FA Cup in 1976. Alan Buckley is the club's most successful manager; he had three spells between 1988 and 2008, guiding the club to three promotions and two appearances at Wembley Stadium during the 1997–98 season. Grimsby Town's rivals include Hull City, Scunthorpe United, Lincoln City, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, and Barnsley. They also share smaller historical rivalries with Doncaster Rovers and Rotherham United depending on divisional overlap. The club plays its home games at Blundell Park, having previously played at Clee Park, Lovett Street and Abbey Park.
Referee
Tony Harrington.
Familiar Faces
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