Stat Attack: Yeovil Town vs. Notts County, 6 August 2016

Notts County and Yeovil Town have only met 13 times over the years.

The first game took place at Meadow Lane on 4 November 1961, with the Magpies beating their opponents 4-2 in the FA Cup. That was the only meeting of the two pre-21st century - the 12 meetings following that game all took place between 2004 and 2016.

Yeovil have the upper edge in the head-to-head with 6 wins, 5 defeats and 2 draws against Notts.

Yeovil Football Club was founded in 1890, and shared their ground with the local rugby club for many years. Five years later they were renamed Yeovil Casuals and started playing home games at the Pen Mill Athletic Ground.

In 1907 the name Yeovil Town was adopted, which on amalgamation with Petters United became Yeovil and Petters United. The name reverted to Yeovil Town prior to the 1946–47 season.

The Somerset outfit have spent most of their existence in the lower leagues, though they briefly made a name for themselves in the 1948-49 season when they beat Sunderland 2-1 in the FA Cup fourth round.

In the 1980s, Yeovil were founder members of the Football Conference, where they remained for the next two decades, save for a few relegations to the Isthmian League which usually resulted in an instant return to the above tier.

Yeovil Town earned promotion to the Football League in the 2002-03 season, by winning the Football Conference by a record 17 points margin, accumulating 95 points and scoring 100 goals, remaining unbeaten at Huish Park.

In their second ever season in the Football League, the Glovers went one better by achieving promotion to the third tier as champions of League Two, and in the following years even reached the League One playoffs, beating Nottingham Forest in the semi-finals in 2006-07 before losing to Blackpool in the final at Wembley.

Six years later, however, Yeovil achieved what had been deemed unthinkable a decade earlier - they reached the second tier of English football after beating Brentford in the 2013 League One play-off final. Their stay in the Championship was brief, however, and they went on to suffer back-to-back relegations, leaving them in the bottom tier of the Football League.

Yeovil is a pretty small town, home to just 40,000 people - two Meadow Lanes' worth of people could comfortably take in the entire population!

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Yeovil captain Darren Ward is a doubt for their opening League Two clash against Notts County on Saturday - he is still recovering from a knee injury.

Alex Lawless could make his debut after securing a deal at Huish Park, following his release from Luton Town.

Swansea loan duo Liam Shephard and Ryan Hedges should feature but frontman Francois Zoko, formerly of Notts, is set to miss out as he struggles for fitness.

John Sheridan's first competitive match as Magpies boss will most likely see several players making their bows for the club.

Striker Vadaine Oliver became the club's eighth signing of the summer when he joined on loan from York City earlier this week.

Rob Milsom will not be available but should be able to play in a couple of weeks, while fellow midfielder Curtis Thompson remains sidelined by an ankle injury and new captain Michael O'Connor is also unavailable for the game.

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