Crawley Town 1-2 Newport County: result and report

League Two · Saturday 9 August 2025

Result

Crawley Town 1-2 Newport County

League Two · Saturday 9 August 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Crawley Town 1-2 Newport County: match report

Crawley Town were beaten by Newport County 1-2 in the League Two on Saturday 9 August 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Kai Whitmore opened the scoring in the 67th minute. Crawley Town's goal came from Max Anderson (90+6'). Newport County scored through Kai Whitmore (67') and Liam Shephard (70').

Discipline: Crawley Town received 1 yellow card; Newport County received 2 yellow cards.

Crawley Town went on to finish that season 22nd with 40 points, and Newport County 20th with 43.

Crawley Town lined up in a 3-5-1-1 and Newport County in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Matthew Baker of Newport County (7.6), level with Ade Adeyemo (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crawley Town wins, 1 draw and 0 for Newport County.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 47'Yellow card · Lee JenkinsNewport County
  • 60'Yellow card · Kai WhitmoreNewport County
  • 67'Goal · Kai WhitmoreNewport County · 0-1
  • 70'Goal · Liam ShephardNewport County · 0-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Jay WilliamsCrawley Town
  • 90+6'Goal · Max AndersonCrawley Town · 1-2

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Crawley Town 3, draws 1, Newport County 0.

Team news

Crawley Town line-up (3-5-1-1)

Harvey Davies, Charlie Barker, Dion Conroy, Josh Flint, Harry McKirdy, Reece Brown, Jay Williams, Kyle Scott, Ade Adeyemo, Gavan Holohan, Kabongo Tshimanga

Newport County line-up (4-1-4-1)

Nik Tzanev, Liam Shephard, Lee Jenkins, Matthew Baker, Tom Davies, Matthew Smith, Joe Thomas, Cameron Antwi, Kai Whitmore, Michael Reindorf, Gerard Garner