The LNER Community Stadium is one of the genuinely new away days this season. York City came up as National League champions in April, so their ground joins the 92 for 2026/27 after ten seasons away, and plenty of people chasing the full set have never been through the turnstiles. Even the ones who did York back in the day did Bootham Crescent, which closed in February 2021 and has since been cleared for housing. That tick does not carry over. You need this one.

Here is how to do it properly: where they put you, how to get out to Monks Cross, and why York is worth an earlier train than the fixture strictly requires.

The away end at the LNER Community Stadium

York's own away supporters' guide, updated in September 2026, puts visiting fans in the West Stand, blocks WH and WI, down the side of the pitch. When the allocated section sells out, more blocks open next to it, usually WF and WG. Some older ground guides still send you behind the goal in the North Stand, so go with the club's version. Chesterfield sold 2,200 for their visit in 2026 and were housed along the West Stand, which tells you how far that side stretches when a club travels in numbers.

The ground holds 8,500, all seated and all covered, and because it went up in one piece in 2021 there is no awkward corner block or pillar to dodge. From the West Stand you watch the whole length of the pitch, level with the play. What you trade away is character. This is a modern bowl on the edge of a retail park, built for sightlines rather than ghosts, and the noise depends almost entirely on how many of you travel. Bring the drum if you have one: the club says drums are allowed for away supporters once a steward has inspected them, and flags and banners are welcome with a valid fire safety certificate. The kiosks on the North and West Stand concourses do pies, burgers and hot dogs, and they are card only.

Ticket prices change by fixture and category and York publish theirs per game, so take the number off the club's own ticket page rather than a guide. Your own club normally sells your allocation. If York are selling on the day, the West Stand booth handles it, and the club warns that prices go up for on-the-day sales, so buy ahead wherever you can. If you want the general rules behind how allocations get set in the first place, we covered them in away end capacity at English grounds.

Three miles out: York station to the turnstiles

York station is about three miles from the stadium, and the number 9 Park and Ride bus is the everyday way to cover it. It picks up outside the station, runs to Monks Cross every 10 to 12 minutes, and takes around 20 minutes end to end. Stops on Kathryn Avenue and Monks Cross Drive leave you a couple of minutes from the turnstiles. A taxi does it in 15 to 20 minutes and ground guides put the fare at about £10 to £12.

On a matchday there is a better ride out. The Y22 is York City's own shuttle, numbered for 1922, the year the club was founded, and York Pullman run it from the Stonebow in the city centre straight to the stadium. It leaves two hours before kick-off, so 1pm for a 3pm game and 5:45pm for a 7:45pm one, and heads back the moment the match ends. An adult return is £4 and a child return £2, paid on board by cash or contactless. The station is not on its route, so if you have come off the train, walk into town first. You were going to anyway.

Visiting fans get their own lift home as well. York's away guide describes the Y23, parked right outside the West Stand at full-time and running straight to the city centre until the ground is clear. Extra services are sometimes added match by match, and the club says it passes the details to your club beforehand, so check what yours has published.

Walking is technically possible and takes over an hour along main roads, which is a waste of an afternoon in a city like this one. For midweek fixtures, look up the last bus before you settle in anywhere. York say First York put on extra buses for evening games, with one confirmed after the final whistle, but the last scheduled bus leaves Monks Cross Park and Ride at 10pm, which gets tight after a 7:45pm kick-off that runs long.

Parking, and the park and ride if you drive

Sat nav YO32 9AF. The Monks Cross Park and Ride site next to the ground sets aside 400 spaces for matchday users, more than 100 of them accessible, at a published £5 per car. You book those in advance on York's ticketing site: pick the fixture, choose Car Parking, and book through the Home Tickets tab even as an away fan, because home and away drivers share one pool. A steward scans your ticket at the entrance. The club says parking is not permitted in any other local car park, and on matchdays the stadium's operator cuts the maximum stay in the parking around the ground from four hours to two. Vangarde Shopping Park next door sells up to six hours for £5 from the screens outside the shops, handy if you plan to eat there before the game. The stadium's own north car park, off Jockey Lane, is for leisure centre, library and NHS visitors and is stewarded on matchdays, though it is the best spot for dropping off or picking up anyone arriving by car. Sort your space in advance instead of turning up hopeful.

Drinking before a game at Monks Cross

Monks Cross is a retail park, and within walking distance the pub options are thin. The Pear Tree Farm is the nearest proper one, around half a mile away at the northern end of the complex. The Hollywood Bowl beside the ground normally admits away fans and serves food, and the chains across Monks Cross and Vangarde will feed a coachload without any drama.

Which is why most away supporters drink in York and get the bus out at about half one. Do that. Grimsby Town's supporters' guide says there are no designated away pubs in York and names the Postern Gate, a Wetherspoon on Piccadilly (YO1 9NX), and the Slug and Lettuce on Back Swinegate (YO1 8AD) among the most popular. Both sit in the old centre within easy reach of the Stonebow, so the last round and the Y22 fit together nicely. The city centre is three miles behind you once you are at the ground, so there is no nipping back, but a couple of hours in York beats a couple of hours on a retail park by a distance that is hard to overstate.

York is the reason to catch the early train

The National Railway Museum is a five to ten minute walk from the station, free to get into and open seven days a week from 10am. Turn left out of the station, past the Royal York, then left onto Leeman Road. For anyone travelling with kids it is the easiest pre-match hour in English football.

Beyond that the centre is compact and walkable: the Minster, the Shambles, and about two miles of medieval city walls with free access to the sections that are open. Three hours and you have had a full day out before anyone has kicked a ball. York is one of the few away trips where the non-football half is the bit people talk about on the way home.

York City's start back in League Two

York sit fourth in the League Two table with 14 points from eight games, one behind Barnet, Cheltenham Town and Bristol Rovers, who are all on 15. That is the position as of 27 September 2026.

The 3-0 win over Gillingham on Saturday 26 September was the most convincing home afternoon so far. Joey Grey scored inside two minutes from an Ollie Pearce pass. York took 65% of the ball, had 17 shots to Gillingham's 6, and Gillingham finished the game without a single effort on target. Zane Albarus was booked on the hour and sent off on 70 minutes, after which Jovan Malcolm and Pearce scored within four minutes of each other, both teed up by Harry Boyes. Adrian's York City vs Gillingham preview has the team news that went into it.

The promotion behind all this was emphatic: 108 points and 114 goals, both club records, with the season effectively settled at Rochdale on 25 April. Rochdale came up alongside them through the play-off final, while Barrow and Harrogate Town dropped out of the Football League. Two in, two out, which is exactly how the 92 list changes every season.

Every York City home game left in 2026/27

These come from ONTOUR's fixtures feed, pulled on 27 September 2026 and converted from UTC to UK time. League fixtures move for television, so check yours before you book a train.

New Year's Day at 3pm is the pick if you fancy making a weekend of it, with the city still lit up and the trains quiet.

Planning the day on ONTOUR

ONTOUR is free, and this is the kind of Saturday it was built around. Follow York City in the app and you get matchday alerts before kick-off, kick-off times converted to wherever you happen to be reading from, and a club page carrying results, form and the table. Live scores, fixtures and lineups run across 37 competitions in 17 countries and regions, so the rest of your Saturday is covered while you are on the bus back. Groups handle the organising: who is driving, who is on the number 9, who is meeting at the Railway Museum at eleven.

On the day itself, the photos and videos you take attach to the actual fixture rather than drifting loose in a camera roll, with the score and the lineups sitting alongside them. Supporters are logging the grounds they stand in every week, at every level of the pyramid, and the achievements build on top of that: away days, derbies, European nights, new grounds, new countries. If you are working through the full set, the 92 Club page carries the current list with the two clubs who came in this summer.

A quick note, since it comes up: ONTOUR the football app has no connection to the logistics, travel or clothing companies with similar names. The name means being on tour with your club, which is what all of this is for.

If you are new to collecting grounds, groundhopping for beginners is the place to start. And for the opposite end of the away day spectrum, the Craven Cottage away day guide covers a ground you reach on foot along the Thames.

Do York while the 3pm light still holds. Walking back down Monks Cross Drive in late October with the bus queue forming and the Minster somewhere behind the retail park is a better Saturday than the postcode has any right to give you.

Sources: York City FC's away supporters' guide (September 2026) and matchday guide pages; the LNER Community Stadium's getting here page; York Pullman's York City FC shuttle page; York City Supporters' Trust on the launch of the Y22; J D Wetherspoon and Slug and Lettuce listings for the pubs. Secondary: Grimsby Town and Chesterfield FC supporters' guides to York, and ground guides for taxi fares. ONTOUR fixtures and standings data, pulled 27 September 2026.

Written with AI assistance and edited by a human before publication.