Exeter City 1-0 Accrington Stanley: result and report

League Two · Saturday 23 January 2016

Result

Exeter City 1-0 Accrington Stanley

League Two · Saturday 23 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Exeter City 1-0 Accrington Stanley: match report

Exeter City defeated Accrington Stanley 1-0 in the League Two on Saturday 23 January 2016. The half-time score was 1-1.

Shay McCartan opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Exeter City's goals came from Tom Nichols (5') and Christian Ribeiro (79'). Accrington Stanley scored through Shay McCartan (3').

Discipline: Exeter City received 3 yellow cards; Accrington Stanley received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Exeter City were 15th on 32 points from 26 and Accrington Stanley 9th on 40 points from 23. Exeter City went on to finish that season 10th with 66 points, and Accrington Stanley 3rd with 84.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Exeter City wins, 2 draws and 2 for Accrington Stanley.

Going into the match Exeter City's last five read D-D-L-L-L and Accrington Stanley's W-W-L-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Shay McCartanAccrington Stanley · 0-1
  • 5'Goal · Tom NicholsExeter City · 1-1
  • 65'Yellow card · James McAllisterExeter City
  • 74'Yellow card · Alex NichollsExeter City
  • 76'Yellow card · Christian RibeiroExeter City
  • 79'Goal · Christian RibeiroExeter City · 2-1
  • 84'Yellow card · Billy KeeAccrington Stanley
  • 84'Yellow card · Matthew PearsonAccrington Stanley
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Joe WrightAccrington Stanley

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Exeter City 5, draws 2, Accrington Stanley 2.

Team news

Exeter City line-up

Robert Olejnik, James McAllister, Jordan Moore-Taylor, Troy Brown, Matt Oakley, Tom McCready, Jordan Tillson, Joel Grant, Alex Nicholls, Tom Nichols, Jayden Stockley

Accrington Stanley line-up

Jason Mooney, Matty Pearson, Joe Wright, Adam Buxton, Brad Halliday, Piero Mingoia, Sean McConville, Matt Crooks, Seamus Conneely, Shay McCartan, Billy Kee