Doncaster’s highest ranked Non-League side begin the New Year of 2025 with an exciting test against The Countrymen at Oxford Street.

Greg Young’s Rosso begin 2025 returning home following three consecutive wins over Winterton Rangers, Knaresborough Town and Goole AFC. Rosso’s first game of the New Year against Hallam is also Rossington’s sixth final home game of the current Northern East League Premier season with teams over the halfway point.

With Hallam also experiencing a busy festive period, including four wins and a draw in all competitions during December, Craig Denton’s side who make the trip from The Oldest Football Ground in the World will be looking to complete the league double over Rosso for the first time in 13 years following a strong performance in the previous meeting back in September.

Despite Rosso were convincingly defeated last time out away at Hallam, The Countrymen haven’t won at Oxford Street since the end of April 2018 as on top of Rosso completing the season double over Hallam last year, Doncaster’s highest ranked Non-League side have won and drawn twice in the last four Oxford Street head-to-head matches.

Current Form in All Competitions

Rosso: WWWLL
Hallam: WDWWW

Top Scorers

Rio Allan: 17 goals
Manasse Kianga: 13 goals

Admission Prices

Admission into Oxford Street for both home and away supporters is priced at £6 for adults, £4 for concessions, £3 for children under-16, £2 U12 and free for accompanied U5s. A family ticket is also available for £15 which consists of x2 adults and x2 children. Members of the 50:50 club can receive discounted entry rates of £5 for adults and £3 for concessions. Limited parking is available inside the stadium for players and officials with the rest operating under a first come first serve basis. All visitors must refrain from parking on Oxford Street and York Street if the designated car park at the ground is at maximum capacity. Additional parking is available at The Miners Welfare car park or on West End Lane. The kick-off time for this game is 15:00.

Last Time Out v Hallam

The Countrymen strongly defeated Rosso last time the two-sides met at Sandygate on a cold late September’s Tuesday evening in Sheffield. In front of 445 spectators at The Oldest Football Ground in the World, Hallam took the lead through an unfortunate own-goal on the unlucky 13 minute. Three minutes later and after a moment of individual finish, Paul Sherburn delivered a heroic equaliser with a superb strike to stun the Hallam faithful in the Shed End behind the goal. As in the previous season where Rosso had come back from behind to beat Hallam, it wasn’t to be one of those contests as goals from Rio Allan, Leon Howarth and debutant Brodie Litchfield saw the hosts end up on top with a 4-1 scoreline.