Match Previews

Preview | Stockport County v Wanderers

1st August 2025

Another Wanderers campaign begins this Sunday away at Stockport County in front of a sold out away end of 1,193 Whites.

The Wanderers went all of pre-season unbeaten with five wins and one draw scoring 13 goals and conceding just three.

Stockport County just missed out on automatic promotion last season finishing in 3rd behind Birmingham City and Wrexham.

County went into the play-offs and faced Leyton Orient over two legs. An incredibly tight two fixtures resulted in a penalty shoot-out which Orient were victorious in who headed through to the Wembley play-off final.

Press Conferences

Steven Schumacher: "It's been a long off-season, an equally long pre-season and a decent pre-season. We feel like we've done some good work, we've brought in new players to the squad.

"You've got to play everyone, getting drawn on the opening day against a local rival adds a bit of excitement and drawn against a team who did really well last year who were really strong again poses its own challenge.

"They're a strong outfit they've got loads of decent players, they've got loads of momentum from last year done so well to get to the playoffs.

"They'll be aware of what we've been doing, they'll understand what our pre-season games have looked like and the players who are in good form.

"We just ask the players to go and be confident, stick to the plan of what we've been doing. We've drummed in certain messages from day one of pre-season on what we need to look like as a team so we want them to go out and implement those messages if they can.

Team News

For the Whites there are no new injuries to speak of following last week's final pre-season game against Preston North End. Summer signing Charlie Warren will be back in contention following the wrist injury he suffered against Barrow.

After joining the club in the past few weeks, new signings Mason Burstow and Ethan Erhahon are ready to play a part in Sunday's league opener if called upon.

Kick-off

Sunday 12:00pm

Referee

Elliot Bell is the man in the middle on Sunday. He last officiated Wanderers back in November in the win over Fleetwood Town in the Vertu Trophy.

Tickets/Wanderers TV

This game is sold out and no tickets will be available on the day.

For those not going to the game, audio passes will be available, as always, for UK-based supporters to listen to full commentary with Derek Clark and John McGinlay via Wanderers TV. Those based internationally can stream the game through a live video match pass on Wanderers TV.

Click HERE to purchase a pass.

Travel Information

Ahead of the game this weekend, the club would like to provide a travel update in terms of public transport for fans travelling to Stockport on Sunday.

Due to ongoing engineering works by Network Rail at Greek Street, there will be no train services operating between Manchester Piccadilly and Stockport on Sunday 3rd August.

While a rail replacement service will be in place, capacity on these buses will be limited. To help Wanderers fans travel to Stockport County, TfGM will be providing a direct bus service from Bolton Interchange to Stockport County (Edgeley Park).

Departure times from Bolton Interchange (Stand G):