Moulton travel the 52 miles South on Sat 23 August to play Risborough Rangers in the FA Vase 1st Round Qualifying (KO 3:00).
Risborough Rangers Football Club are a football club based in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England. They are members of the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division.
Nicknamed ‘Rangers’ or ‘Borough’, they were formed in 1971 as a team of 12-year-olds who wanted to play competitive football and in the 1975–76 season, the previous years Under 16's entered into men's football via the Wycombe & District League. Moving on to more recent times, because of the ongoing re-construction of the non-league system the club made a lateral movement to the Hellenic League Division One East from the Spartan for the start of the 2019–20 season. The 2019–20 season saw Rangers unbeaten and top the league by 12 points with a game in hand over 2nd place Abingdon United after playing 23 games out of the full 32. The COVID pandemic put an end to any hopes of promotion to step 5 for the first time in the clubs history as the season was officially voided. However, in 2021 the club were promoted to the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. The 2023–2025 seasons saw a major period of transition. For the 2023–24 season, Risborough were moved laterally to the Combined Counties Football League Premier Division North. This had quite the affect on the squad due to the geographical change with a few big names departing midway through the season. At the end of the 2023/34 season the team ended with a mid-table finish. After a complete overhaul of squad personnel with 1 player still in the squad at December 2024 who was in the squad the same time 12 months previous, and a run of poor results, the club parted ways with their manager and a new manager came in on 21 December 2024 to attempt to put an end to Risborough's poor form. Unfortunately, the run of poor results continued and Risborough finished 18th out of 20 (38 games; 8 wins; 12 draws; 18 defeats; 36 pts), avoiding relegation by a single goal on goal difference. At the end of the season, the new manager left the club. This marked the end of 2 dark seasons for Risborough Rangers, going through 4 managers. During the close season Rangers appointed their 5th manager in recent times and with the club also receiving a lateral move back to the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division, Rangers are now looking forward to the 2025/26 after a couple of turbulent seasons.
Currently they occupy 14th place in the league with 1 win (4-1 at home v Aylesbury Vale Dynamos), 1 draw (1-1 on the opening day of the season at home v Biggleswade United) and 2 defeats (both away, 0-2 v Sawbridge Town and 0-1 v Winslow United). Before our match they have an FA Cup home tie v Virginia Water (16/8) and a league match away v Harpenden Town (19/8).
‘Rangers’ play in an all Red strip.