A trip to South Yorkshire awaits the Latics on Saturday, we travel to face Doncaster Rovers in their own backyard and hopefully to pick up some valuable points in our fight against relegation.
Our first ever meeting back in 1965 came in the 1st round of the FA Cup, a 2-2 draw over at Belle Vue saw the South Yorkshire men brought back to Springfield Park for a Wednesday afternoon replay.
Despite the game being played during ‘office hours’ a crowd of 7,113 witnessed a typical Harry Lyon performance, stretchered off in the first half with damaged ankle ligaments, the Latics number 9, following a tot of whisky, a woodbine and a hefty amount of strapping returned to the field of play and fired home a hat-trick to see the Latics through 3-1 and into the 2nd round.
Donny and the Latics have met 36 times down the years, we have 15 wins, with four of those coming in Doncaster and each one has been memorable. The first win was during our first season as a Football League club, 24 February 1979, a Jeff Wright goal was enough to give us the points and keep our outside chance of gate crashing the promotion places alive. Two of the other three were high scoring affairs, September 1982 Latics winning 3:6, the highest scoring game we’d been involved in at that point, skip forward six years to January 1988 and a thrilling 3:4 win at the old Belle Vue ground.
The last meeting between the two clubs at the Keepmoat Stadium was also very memorable, the last game of the 2017/18 season, Will Grigg’s 2nd half goal enough to beat Doncaster and ensure that the Latics were crowned League 1 Champions for the 2nd time in three years.
Highlights – Doncaster Rovers 0:1 Latics
Earlier this season – 3rd October – we gained a great result against the high flying Donny, Joe Garner’s 59th minute headed goal enough to give the Latics all the points and our first home win of the campaign.
Highlights Latics 1:0 Doncaster Rovers
Full Record v Doncaster Rovers
Played – 36
Won – 15
Drawn – 10
Lost – 11
Last Six Meetings
|
Competition |
Date |
Result |
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League 1 |
03 Oct 2020 |
Latics 1:0 Doncaster Rovers |
|
League 1 |
05 May 2018 |
Doncaster Rovers 0:1 Latics |
|
League 1 |
21 Nov 2017 |
Latics 3:0 Doncaster Rovers |
|
League 1 |
16 Apr 2016 |
Doncaster Rovers 3:1 Latics |
|
League 1 |
16 Aug 2015 |
Latics 0:0 Doncaster Rovers |
|
Championship |
18 Jan 2014 |
Doncaster Rovers 3:0 Latics |
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