Match Preview: GNG Oadby Town (A), Tues 3rd Feb, 7:45PM
Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026
Time: 7:45pm
Opponent: Guru Nanak Gurdwara Oadby Town FC
Venue: Riverside Football Ground, 51 Braunstone Lane East, Braunstone, Leicester, LE3 2FD
Admission Prices: £6 Adults, £3 Concessions, Under 16s free
Weather forecast: Drizzle, 5°C
Nuneaton Town make a third attempt to play their league game away at GNG Oadby Town on Tuesday night.
The match comes a few weeks after their surprise 3-1 FA Vase defeat at the same venue, and Nuneaton will be looking to both seek vengeance, and extend their lead at the top to 10 points with 2nd placed March Town United not in action.
Nuneaton come here in excellent form having won every game since that defeat, extending their perfect 2026 to 4 matches with an eventful 5-2 win over Eynesbury Rovers. An injury to the referee meant the game was stopped for over half an hour while a replacement official was sourced, with Nuneaton also having to come from behind after an early Eynesbury goal. A Loyiso Recci header and a Kai Thomas rebound quickly turned the lead in Nuneaton's favour before the break in play. Eesa Sawyers side foot effort and James Harrison's curler from the edge of the box were possibly two of Nuneaton's latest ever first half goals, before Kyle Jardine replied to Eynesbury's consolation goal in the dying minutes.
Oadby won the battle of the bottom two 2-1 over Bugbrooke St Michael's on Saturday, with a double from Rizvan Hussain, and their games in hand could prove the difference between playing in the United Counties Premier Division South or Division 1 next season, with 5 points to make up on Northampton Sileby Rangers and 3 games in hand.
Oadby currently sit in 19th with 4 wins, 4 draws and 16 losses, and no longer have top scorer Mario Mendez at the club after he moved to Barwell a couple of weeks ago. However full concentration is needed to make it 9 league wins on the spin, and with just 10 more needed at most to secure back to back league titles and get the club back to Step 4 at the earliest opportunity, Nuneaton will not want to let up.
Last 5:
GNG Oadby Town:
Sat 31 Jan: GNG Oadby Town 2-1 Bugbrooke St Michael's
Sat 24 Jan: GNG Oadby Town 0-5 Histon
Tue 20 Jan: Daventry Town 3-0 GNG Oadby Town
Sat 17 Jan: Coventry United 6-0 GNG Oadby Town (FA Vase 4th Round)
Tue 30 Dec: GNG Oadby Town 0-2 Barwell (Leics CC)
Nuneaton Town:
Sat 31 Jan: Eynesbury Rovers 2-5 Nuneaton Town
Sat 24 Jan: Hinckley 1-2 Nuneaton Town
Sat 17 Jan: Nuneaton Town 3-0 Leicester Nirvana
Sat 3 Jan: Nuneaton Town 4-0 Newport Pagnell Town
Sat 27 Dec: Nuneaton Town 2-1 Coventry United
Previous meetings:
Sat 6 Dec 2025 - FA Vase 3rd Round
GNG Oadby Town 3-1 Nuneaton Town
(Jardine)
Tue 29 Jul 2025 - UCL Premier South
Nuneaton Town 4-1 GNG Oadby Town
(Jardine, C Jones, Crossley, Sawyers)
Directions from Nuneaton town centre:
Take the A47 to the A5 via The Long Shoot, head east to the M69 junction and then follow the M69 to Leicester. At the end, take the 2nd exit at the roundabout to cross under the M1 onto the A5460, and then at the roundabout for Fosse Park, take the 2nd exit onto Narborough Road South A5460. Travel 1 mile to the traffic lights at the Jaguar car sales, then turn right onto Braunstone Lane East, the ground is then on the left at the back of the car park.
Public transport:
Possibly the most convenient way is the 17:51 Stansted Airport Train that stops in Leicester at 18:16. Then walk about 8 minutes to Rutland Street and take the X6 bus towards Coventry, stopping at Rowley Fields Avenue at 18:54.
Returning the only possible route is the X6 from Rowley Fields Avenue at 21:59 to Hinckley, then a train or bus back to Nuneaton (22:46 to Birmingham New Street stops at Nuneaton at 22:52).
