Moulton make the 28 mile journey over to Butlin Road on Tuesday night (KO 7:45) where they play Rugby Town in the 2nd of their UCL Premier South fixtures.

Nicknamed The Valley, Rugby Town were originally named New Bilton Juniors and have been renamed four times. First, in 1956, to Valley Sports. The next time was in 1971 to Valley Sports Rugby, or simply VS Rugby, then in 2000 to Rugby United, and again for the most recent time to Rugby Town F.C. in 2005.

Formed by Keith Coughlan and under the name of New Bilton Juniors, the Valley played their first friendly match in 1956.

In 1956, the club entered the Rugby and District Football League. The club progressed to the Coventry and North Warwickshire Football League in 1963, and to the United Counties League in 1969 changing the name to VS Rugby.

VS Rugby moved into their own ground, Butlin Road, in 1973 the first competitive game there being a 0–0 draw against Burton Park Wanderers in the United Counties League. In 1975 the club was invited to join the West Midlands League, and took part in the FA Cup for the first time in 1976, being knocked out in the first qualifying round.

In 1983 they won The FA Vase, defeating Halesowen Town 1–0.

For the 1983/84 season the club joined the Southern League where success continued with the club winning The Midland Division in 1986/87, The Southern League Cup in 1989/90 and The Birmingham Senior Cup in 1988/89 and 1991/92.

In August 1991, VS Rugby played and beat a strong Manchester United side 1–0 at Butlin Road in a testimonial match. In 1992 the clubs fortunes started to decline and despite reaching the second round of The FA Cup again in the 1992/93 season they were relegated and the then chairman put the club into receivership. A group of supporters however, rescued the club, and they gained promotion behind newly formed Rushden & Diamonds in 1994. The same season the club also again reached the first round of The FA Cup losing at home to Brentford.

VS Rugby changed its name to Rugby United in 2000, and to Rugby Town in 2005. In both cases there was a degree of controversy amongst the supporter base.

Valley came close to promotion twice in the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. In 2012–13 they missed out on the title on the final day before losing to Biggleswade Town in the play-off final at Butlin Road. The following season saw Valley once again in contention for the title on the final day only to fail to secure top spot. Promotion hopes once again ended in the play-offs after a defeat to Slough Town over two legs in the semi-final. The 2014/15 season was less successful for Valley with the club failing to make the play-offs after an inconsistent season.

For the first time in the club's history, Rugby Town were moved into the Northern Premier League system for the 2015–16 season. After a poor start to the season Rugby recovered and finished the season in ninth place. In the 2016/17 season they were condemned to relegation to the Midland Football League on the final day of the season. In the 2021–22 season, Rugby Town achieved their most impressive FA Vase run since they won the competition in 1983. They went out in the last sixteen stage at North Shields FC, one of the longest away visits in the club's history. During 2022–23, Rugby Town led the UCLPremier Division South for much of the season. A poor run of form towards the end of it cost them the league title, but as it eventuated they still attained promotion via being one of the best second-placed teams in the step and achieved promotion back to the Northern Premier League at the conclusion of the 2022/23 season after finishing runners-up to Coventry Sphinx.

At the first season back in Step Four, Rugby had a tough season but an excellent end-of-season run including a final day win at Boldmere St Michaels secured NPL status for another season. The 2024/25 season proved even tougher and a change of managers was not enough to prevent the club finishing in the relegation zone. Only a late withdrawal by Hinckley Leicester Road created a space in the NPL Div 1 Midlands for Rugby to be reprieved for the 2025/26 season.

The 2025/26 season followed in the same vein as the previous season with Rugby ending up at the bottom of the league with 35 points from their 42 games (Won 9; Drew 8; lost 25) and relegated back to the United Counties League Premier South.

On Saturday they opened their season with a 3-0 away win at Histon.

Tuesday’s referee is scheduled as Paul Mihalache who last officiated our 1-0 home win v Hinckley back in March. He also officiated the UCL Div Cup match at home v Boston Town in Nov and our second match in the UCL v GNG Oadby which we won 2-1 at home.