North Road (Manchester) Cup match against Eccles on 31 January 1885. The earliest recorded four-figure attendance at the ground was 3,000 for a friendly with West Gorton (St. Mark's) on 12 November 1881. This was the first recorded meeting of the two sides that eventually became Manchester United and Manchester City. Notes Bibliography North Road (Manchester) North Road was a football and cricket ground in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. It was the first home of Manchester United Football Club – then known as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club – from its foundation in 1878 until 1893, when the club moved
Waverley Football Club MWFC continued in First Division until 1993. Originally called Burwood United, they played in the Eastern Churches Football Association until 1992. They dropped United out of their name when the name became available. (The original Burwood merged with Essex Heights to form Ashwood Football Club in 1985.) The club participated in First Division in the Southern Football League from 1994 to 1997, until it merged with the Waverley Football Club to form the Waverley Blues. During the 1998 season, the committees of both the Waverley and MWBFC decided to merge the two clubs to form a new dynamic entity that