U's 3-0 Barrow: 25th April 2026

Hopefully, the last home game of the season

It’s 6pm on the day of Cambridge United’s (hopefully) last home match of the season. A warm sun is out, the mood is relaxed, spirits are high, some of the players are on the pitch mingling with relatives and having kickabouts with their children.

If there are similar scenes this coming Saturday, people of a U’s persuasion being on the pitch at Gresty Road following the conclusion of the final game of the regular season, rather than everyone hastily heading home and starting preparations for a playoff campaign, then we are in for a famous day ahead.

For Cambridge United and over 2,300 of their fans will head to Crewe this weekend knowing that victory will secure promotion and an immediate return to the third tier, to which they were last promoted five years ago when the closest fans could get to the action was the outside of the Abbey due to the season being played behind pandemic-induced closed doors.

Had Tuesday night’s game against Grimsby gone the other way, Saturday’s 3-0 stroll against Barrow would have been a promotion clincher, rendering the Crewe game unimportant. Had Grimsby not snatched a winner in injury time, only a draw at Crewe would be enough to clinch third thanks to a vastly superior goal difference to Salford.