Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town: result and report

League Two · Saturday 8 December 2012

Result

Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town

League Two · Saturday 8 December 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town: match report

Northampton Town lost to Cheltenham Town 2-3 in the League Two on Saturday 8 December 2012. The half-time score was 2-2.

Adebayo Akinfenwa opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Adebayo Akinfenwa (2') and an own goal by B. Jones (14'). Cheltenham Town scored through Darren Carter (25'), Chris Zebroski (28') and Darryl Duffy (80').

Discipline: Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards; Cheltenham Town received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Northampton Town were 11th on 29 points from 20 and Cheltenham Town 3rd on 35 points from 20. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 4th with 76 points, and Cheltenham Town 6th with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Northampton Town wins, 4 draws and 2 for Cheltenham Town.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Adebayo AkinfenwaNorthampton Town · 1-0
  • 14'Own goal · B. JonesNorthampton Town · 2-0
  • 25'Goal · Darren CarterCheltenham Town · 2-1
  • 28'Goal · Chris ZebroskiCheltenham Town · 2-2
  • 48'Yellow card · Ishmel DemontagnacNorthampton Town
  • 55'Yellow card · Joe WiddowsonNorthampton Town
  • 68'Yellow card · K. LoweCheltenham Town
  • 80'Goal · Darryl DuffyCheltenham Town · 2-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Northampton Town 4, draws 4, Cheltenham Town 2.

Team news

Northampton Town line-up

Lee Nicholls, Joe Widdowson, Kelvin Langmead, Ben Tozer, Clarke Carlisle, Ishmel Demontagnac, Chris Hackett, Lewis Hornby, Emyr Huws, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Ben Harding

Cheltenham Town line-up

Keith Lowe, Billy Jones, Steve Elliott, Alan Bennett, Sido Jombati, Darren Carter, Russell Penn, Jake Taylor, Scott Brown, Shaun Harrad, Chris Zebroski