2022–23 Grimsby Town F.C. season

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Grimsby Town

2022–23 season

Owners

1878 Partners (63.1%)
The Mariners Trust (13.5%)
Mike Parker (10.5%)
Other Shareholders (12.9%)

Chairman

Manager

Stadium

11th

Quarter-finals

Second round

Second round

Top goalscorer

League: Harry Clifton (7)
All: Harry Clifton (9)

Home colours

Away colours

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The 2022–23 season is the 145th season in the existence of Grimsby Town Football Club and the first season back in League Two since the 2020–21 season following promotion in the previous season. In addition to the league, they will also compete in the 2022–23 FA Cup, the 2022–23 EFL Cup and the 2022–23 EFL Trophy.

During the pre-season, the club sold a record number of season tickets, hitting 4,000 on 22 June 2022.^[1]

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Ref
1 July 2022^[a]	LB	Anthony Glennon	Burnley	Free Transfer	^[2]
1 July 2022	RM	Otis Khan	Leyton Orient	Undisclosed	^[3]
1 July 2022^[b]	CB	Niall Maher	FC Halifax Town	Free Transfer	^[4]
1 July 2022^[c]	CF	Danilo Orsi	Harrogate Town	Free Transfer	^[5]
1 July 2022^[d]	CM	Stephen Wearne	Sunderland	Free Transfer	^[6]
15 July 2022	AM	Kieran Green	FC Halifax Town	Undisclosed	^[7]
15 July 2022	DM	Bryn Morris	Burton Albion	Free Transfer	^[8]
1 September 2022	CM	Alex Hunt	Sheffield Wednesday	Undisclosed	^[9]
27 September 2022	GK	Jamie Pardington	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Free Transfer	^[10]
31 January 2023	RB	Josh Emmanuel	Hull City	Undisclosed	^[11]
3 February 2023	LB	Owen Gallacher	Crawley Town	Free Transfer	^[12]

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Ref
30 June 2022	CF	Luis Adlard	Grimsby Borough	Released	^[13]
30 June 2022	CM	Scott Burgess	York City	Released	^[14]
30 June 2022	CM	Giles Coke	Retired	Released	^[15]
30 June 2022	LB	Adam Crookes	York City	Released	^[14]
30 June 2022^[a]	DM	Ben Fox	Northampton Town	Free Transfer	^[16]
30 June 2022	CF	Lenell John-Lewis	York City	Released	^[17]
30 June 2022	GK	James McKeown	Finn Harps	Released	^[13]
30 June 2022	CM	Danny Rose	Darlington	Released	^[13]^[18]
30 June 2022	LW	Érico Sousa	Boreham Wood	Released	^[13]
30 June 2022	CM	Luke Spokes	Bath City	Released	^[19]
30 June 2022	RW	Max Wright	Harrogate Town	Released	^[13]^[20]
7 July 2022	CB	David Longe-King	Dagenham & Redbridge	Undisclosed	^[21]
2 August 2022	CF	John McAtee	Luton Town	Undisclosed	^[22]
4 January 2023	GK	Jamie Pardington	Larne	Released	^[23]^[24]
16 January 2023	RW	Jordan Maguire-Drew	Yeovil Town	Mutual Consent	^[25]^[26]
24 March 2023	AM	Stephen Wearne	Gateshead	Free Transfer	^[27]

Date	Pos	Player	Loaned from	On loan until	Ref
21 July 2022	RM	Brendan Kiernan	Walsall	24 January 2023	^[28]
28 July 2022	CB	Andy Smith	Hull City	End of Season	^[29]
2 August 2022	CF	John McAtee	Luton Town	End of Season	^[22]
8 August 2022	CF	Aribim Pepple	Luton Town	12 January 2023	^[30]^[31]
1 September 2022	AM	Lewis Richardson	Burnley	26 January 2023	^[32]
1 September 2022	CF	Keyendrah Simmonds	Birmingham City	14 January 2023	^[33]
14 January 2023	LM	Mikey O'Neill	Preston North End	End of Season	^[34]
31 January 2023	CF	Tom Dickson-Peters	Norwich City	End of Season	^[35]
31 January 2023	CF	George Lloyd	Cheltenham Town	End of Season	^[36]

Date	Pos	Player	Loaned to	On loan until	Ref
27 September 2022	GK	Ollie Battersby	Ilkeston Town	1 January 2023	^[37]
7 October 2022	DF	Jamie Bramwell	Whitby Town	7 December 2022	^[38]^[39]
14 October 2022	DF	Jaz Goundry	Grimsby Borough	14 November 2022	^[40]
14 October 2022	FW	Edwin Essel	Grimsby Borough	28 January 2023	^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]
14 October 2022	DF	Harvey Tomlinson	Whitby Town	14 November 2022	^[40]
1 November 2022	MF	Stephen Wearne	Torquay United	1 January 2023	^[44]^[45]
17 November 2022	DF	Jaz Goundry	Matlock Town	17 December 2022	^[46]
25 November 2022	DF	Harvey Tomlinson	Cleethorpes Town	17 March 2023	^[47]^[48]^[49]^[50]
26 November 2022	MF	Aaron Braithwaite	Whitby Town	End of Season	^[51]^[48]^[52]^[53]^[54]
2 December 2022	DF	Shaun Pearson	Boston United	2 January 2023	^[55]
16 December 2022	RW	Jordan Maguire-Drew	Yeovil Town	16 January 2023	^[56]
13 January 2023	DF	Jamie Bramwell	Gainsborough Trinity	13 February 2023	^[57]
3 March 2023	CB	Jamie Bramwell	Whitby Town	End of Season	^[58]
11 March 2023	RB	Jordan Cropper	Barnet	End of Season	^[59]^[60]
24 March 2023	CF	Edwin Essel	Cleethorpes Town	End of Season	^[54]
24 March 2023	CB	Jaz Goundry	Grimsby Borough	End of Season	^[54]

9 July 2022 Friendly	Cleethorpes Town	0–2	Grimsby Town	Grimsby
14:00 BST		Report	McAtee 37' Orsi-Dadomo 85'	Stadium: Myenergi Stadium Attendance: 2,000

12 July 2022 Friendly	Hull City U23s	1–6	Grimsby Town	North Ferriby
13:00 BST	Hinds 14'	Report	Clifton 37' Khouri 41' McAtee 42' Tomlinson 51' Essel 75' Glennon 82'	Stadium: Grange Lane Attendance: Behind closed doors.

16 July 2022 Friendly	Alfreton Town	0–4	Grimsby Town	Alfreton
15:00 BST		Report	McAtee 15' Waterfall 25' Wearne 77' Braithwaite 84'	Stadium: Impact Arena Attendance: 407

19 July 2022 Friendly	Grimsby Town	0–0	Lincoln City	Cleethorpes
19:30 BST		Report		Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 3,813

20 July 2022 Friendly	North Ferriby	1-0	Grimsby Town XI	North Ferriby
19:30 BST	Donald 41'	Report		Stadium: Grange Lane Attendance: 398

23 July 2022 Friendly	CD Tenerife B	0-4	Grimsby Town	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
17:30 WEST			Pearson McAtee Kiernan Efete	Stadium: Tenerife Training Top Field 3 Attendance: Behind closed doors

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
League Two	30 July 2022	May 2023	Matchday 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
FA Cup	5 November 2022	TBC	First round	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
EFL Cup	10 August 2022	TBC	First round	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
EFL Trophy	TBC	TBC	Group stage	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
8	Mansfield Town	46	21	12	13	72	55	+17	75
9	Barrow	46	18	8	20	47	53	−6	62
10	Swindon Town	46	16	13	17	61	55	+6	61
11	Grimsby Town	46	16	13	17	49	56	−7	61
12	Tranmere Rovers	46	15	13	18	45	48	−3	58
13	Crewe Alexandra	46	14	16	16	48	60	−12	58
14	Sutton United	46	15	13	18	46	58	−12	58

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
44	15	13	16	48	54	−6	58	6	10	6	23	25	−2	9	3	10	25	29	−4

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H
Result	L	D	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	D	W	W	D	L	L	L	D	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	D	D	L	D	W	W	D	D	D	L	L	W	D	W	L	W
Position	21	18	14	16	14	9	9	8	8	12	13	11	10	10	11	13	14	16	16	14	16	16	16	16	16	17	19	16	17	16	17	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	13	12	13	11

26 July 2022 Friendly	Grimsby Borough	3-3	Grimsby Town XI	Grimsby
19:00 BST	Adlard 19' Kendall 57' Drury 74'		12' 15' 37'	Stadium: Bradley Stadium Attendance: 270

18 October 2022 Friendly	Grimsby Town XI	2-0	Sheffield United XI	Cleethorpes
12:30 BST	Maguire-Drew Simmonds	Report		Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: Behind closed doors

30 July 2022 1	Leyton Orient	2–0	Grimsby Town	Leyton
15:00 BST	James 45+1', 56' Hunt 45+4' Moncur 49' (pen.) Beckles 87'	Report	Taylor 76' McAtee 90'	Stadium: Breyer Group Stadium Attendance: 8,557 Referee: Christopher Pollard

6 August 2022 2	Grimsby Town	1–1	Northampton Town	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST	Maguire-Drew 88'	Report	Hoskins 74' Haynes 90+1'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 7,154 Referee: Thomas Parsons

13 August 2022 3	Rochdale	0–1	Grimsby Town	Rochdale
15:00 BST	Ebanks-Landell 37' Seriki 46' Nelson 49' Tulloch 60'	Report	Clifton 29' Morris 45+3' Waterfall 90+2'	Stadium: Spotland Referee: Thomas Kirk

16 August 2022	Grimsby Town	Abandoned	Carlisle United	Cleethorpes
19:45 BST			Mellish 16'	Stadium: Blundell Park Referee: Simon Mather
Note: Match was abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch.^[66]

20 August 2022 4	Grimsby Town	0–0	Sutton United	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST	Waterfall 42' Holohan 47' Green 86'	Report	John 34' Boldewijn 86'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 6,239 Referee: Martin Woods

27 August 2022 (2022-08-27) 5	Walsall	1–2	Grimsby Town	Bescot
15:00 BST	Johnson 5', 22'	Report	Clifton 77', 82' Pepple 90+6'	Stadium: Poundland Bescot Stadium Attendance: 5,644 Referee: Peter Wright

3 September 2022 (2022-09-03) 6	Newport County	0–2	Grimsby Town	Newport
15:00 BST	Bennett 22' Evans 90+2'	Report	Morris 63' Kiernan 80' Clifton 83' Smith 88'	Stadium: Rodney Parade Attendance: 4,251 Referee: Scott Oldham

10 September 2022 (2022-09-10)	Grimsby Town	Postponed	Crewe Alexandra	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST				Stadium: Blundell Park
Note: Fixture was postponed as a mark of respect following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.^[67]

Transfers

In

Out

Loans in

Loans out

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

League Two

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

FA Cup

EFL Cup

EFL Trophy

First-team squad

References

13 September 2022 (2022-09-13) 7	Grimsby Town	1–1	Gillingham	Cleethorpes
19:45 BST	Taylor 7' Holohan 90'	Report	Mandron 14', 86' Adelakun 78'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 5,960 Referee: Andy Haines

17 September 2022 (2022-09-17) 8	Colchester United	0–1	Grimsby Town	Colchester
15:00 BST	Longstaff 36'	Report	Efete 42' Clifton 63' Kiernan 78'	Stadium: JobServe Community Stadium Attendance: 3,167 Referee: Sunny Gill

24 September 2022 (2022-09-24) 9	Grimsby Town	1–2	Swindon Town	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST	Taylor 25' Glennon 48'	Report	Jephcott 13', 87' Darcy 44' Khan 49' 62' Hutton 85' Blake-Tracy 90+7'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 6,805 Referee: Declan Bourne

27 September 2022 10	Grimsby Town	1–2	Carlisle United	Cleethorpes
19:45 BST	Efete 65' Hunt 71'	Report	Moxon 7' Dennis 44' Guy 67' Armer 68'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 6,447 Referee: Simon Mather

1 October 2022 (2022-10-01) 11	Salford City	1–1	Grimsby Town	Salford
15:00 BST	Vassell 2'	Report	Richardson 29' Clifton 62'	Stadium: Moor Lane Attendance: 3,521 Referee: Marc Edwards

8 October 2022 (2022-10-08) 12	Grimsby Town	3–0	Crawley Town	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST	Glennon 4' Holohan 52' Kiernan 81' Taylor 85' 90+3'	Report	Lynch 3'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 6,068 Referee: Anthony Backhouse

15 October 2022 (2022-10-15) 13	Stockport County	1–3	Grimsby Town	Edgeley
15:00 BST	Madden 41' 57' Camps 72'	Report	Clifton 24' Holohan 30' Green 40' Glennon 55' Efete 67' Taylor 90+3' Hunt 90+5' Crocombe 90+5'	Stadium: Edgeley Park Attendance: 9,464 Referee: Alan Young

22 October 2022 (2022-10-22) 14	Grimsby Town	0–0	Bradford City	Cleethorpes
15:00 BST	Kiernan 36'	Report	Wright 47'	Stadium: Blundell Park Attendance: 8,020 Referee: Martin Coy

25 October 2022 (2022-10-25) 15	Barrow	1–0	Grimsby Town	Barrow-in-Furness
19:45 BST	Brough 31' Kay 39' Canavan 51' Waters 75'	Report	Waterfall 51' Hunt 90+3'	Stadium: Furness Building Society Stadium Attendance: 3,301 Referee: Ben Toner

29 October 2022 (2022-10-29) 16	Hartlepool United	2–1	Grimsby Town	Hartlepool
15:00 BST	Tumilty 17' Lacey 56' 78' Maher 82' (o.g.)	Report	Holohan 6' Morris 18' Waterfall 31'	Stadium: Suit Direct Stadium Attendance: 4,600 Referee: Samuel Barrott