Bury 3-0 Northampton Town: result and report

League One · Saturday 22 April 2017

Result

Bury 3-0 Northampton Town

League One · Saturday 22 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bury 3-0 Northampton Town: match report

Bury beat Northampton Town 3-0 in the League One on Saturday 22 April 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.

James Vaughan opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Bury's goals came from James Vaughan (3'), George Miller (72') and James Vaughan (90+2'). Northampton Town did not score.

Discipline: Bury received no yellow cards; Northampton Town received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Bury were 20th on 47 points from 44 and Northampton Town 16th on 52 points from 44. Bury went on to finish that season 19th with 50 points, and Northampton Town 16th with 53.

Bury lined up in a 5-3-2 and Northampton Town in a 4-1-3-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bury wins, 3 draws and 1 for Northampton Town.

Going into the match Bury's last five read D-L-L-L-D and Northampton Town's D-L-L-D-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · James VaughanBury · 1-0
  • 55'Yellow card · Brendan MoloneyNorthampton Town
  • 72'Goal · George MillerBury · 2-0
  • 90+2'Goal · James VaughanBury · 3-0

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Bury 4, draws 3, Northampton Town 1.

Team news

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Bury line-up (5-3-2)

Joe Murphy, Taylor Moore, Leon Barnett, Antony Kay, Cameron Burgess, Greg Leigh, Andrew Tutte, Ryan Lowe, Paul Caddis, James Vaughan, Tom Pope

Northampton Town line-up (4-1-3-2)

David Cornell, Brendan Moloney, Zander Diamond, Lewin Nyatanga, Aaron Phillips, Shaun McWilliams, Neal Eardley, Paul Anderson, Matthew Taylor, Marc Richards, A. Revell