Plymouth added to Avon Combination

The Pilgrims of Plymouth join next season's Avon Combination reserve league as it increases to 26 clubs. Cardiff finished 5th last season in the clubs first proper reserve league for several seasons.

As reported last month the fixtures for 2002/03 are reversed from last season. All the teams that City had to visit last time will visit Ninian Park this time around and vise versa.

It's unsure yet whether City will play Plymouth home or away. Each teams plays each other only once meaning 25 games for the coming season.

City play the follwing teams at home

Barnet
Bournemouth
Bristol City
Colchester
Northampton
Norwich
Orient
Peterborough
Q.P.R.
Reading
Swindon
Wycombe

and away at

Brentford
Brighton
Bristol Rovers
Cambridge
Cheltenham
Crystal Palace
Gillingham
Luton
Millwall
Oxford
Portsmouth
Southend

Fixtures are expected to be announced in the next few weeks.

The final table for last season was

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Q.P.R.	24	14	6	4	52	22	+30	48
2	Palace	24	14	5	5	50	26	+24	47
3	Brentford	24	13	6	5	48	33	+15	45
4	Portsmouth	24	12	6	6	36	22	+14	42
5	Cardiff City	24	11	5	8	41	31	+10	38
6	Peterborough	24	12	2	10	41	39	+2	38
7	Luton Town	24	10	7	7	39	30	+9	37
8	Millwall	24	10	7	7	43	36	+7	37
9	Reading	24	10	6	8	35	25	+10	36
10	Southend	24	9	8	7	35	29	+6	35
11	Leyton	24	11	2	11	37	53	-16	35
12	Norwich City	24	9	7	8	40	38	+2	34
13	Oxford	24	9	7	8	30	35	-5	34
14	Barnet	24	10	2	12	31	34	-3	32
15	Cheltenham	24	9	5	10	30	43	-13	32
16	Bristol	24	9	4	11	31	34	-3	31
17	Gillingham	24	8	6	10	31	34	-3	30
18	Brighton	23	6	11	6	27	25	+2	29
19	Bristol City	24	7	7	10	33	35	-2	28
20	Colchester	24	7	5	12	32	38	-6	26
21	Cambridge	23	7	4	12	27	40	-13	25
22	Wycombe	24	7	3	14	31	44	-13	24
23	Bournemouth	24	6	5	13	26	47	-21	23
24	Northampton	24	4	10	10	25	42	-17	22
25	Swindon	24	4	6	14	22	38	-16	18