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Home Grounds used:
Thorneyholme Road, Accrington

Away Grounds visited:
Acre Bottom, Ramsbottom; Turf Moor, Burnley; Lanehead, Bacup; Liverpool Road, Lowerhouse; Dill Hall Lane, Enfield; Alexandra Meadows, Blackburn; Seedhill, Nelson; Centre Vale, Todmorden; Blackburn Road, Rishton; The Worswick Memorial Ground, Rawtenstall; Bentgate, Haslingden; Blackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle; The Horsfield, Colne

First XI playing record:
P 31     W 8     T 1     D 0     L 15     NR 7

Click on this link for the season's First XI scorecards and results

24 players appeared in First XI matches for Accrington in 1997:
Z Afzal; A Akram; NJ Astle; PA Barratt; SG Birtwistle; R Burrows; A Cunliffe; M Demaine; RS Edmonds; SP Greaves; A Greenwood; JP Greenwood; S Heins; TM Hussain; SW Juliff; Masooq Ahmed; Mushtaq Ahmed; I Raja; W Rawstron; S Sadiq; K Shazad; PR Sleep; M Stevenson; MJ Whittle.