Emley welcome Brighouse Town to the Fantastic Media Welfare Ground on bank holiday Monday for a local derby in the Northern Premier League Division 1 East (3pm)

Following Saturday's thumping 4-0 win away at Consett, Emley sit second (or joint top!) level on 10 points with Cleethorpes Town, so could have a chance to sit on top of the table after the weekend, a remarkable feat given this is Emley's first season at this level for a quarter of a century.

No one will be getting carried away though as it's still early days but Emley have been impressive for spells in most of their games so far, Brighouse moved up to 7th in the table following Saturday's 1-0 win at home to Sheffield FC, their first league win of the season following 3 draws and a defeat.

Brighouse were formed in 1963 as a works team, playing the Huddersfield Works League, winning it numerous times between 1966 and 1975 before joining the West Riding league in 1975, they were renamed Brighouse Town in 1988 and were successful in the West Riding league and cups in the 90's and early 00's, eventually joining the NCEL in 2008, winning promotion to the Premier Division in their second season, they remained in NCEL Premier until promotion to the NPL was secured in 2014.

They are nicknamed "town" and play at St Giles Road in the Hove Edge area of the town which has a capacity of 1,000.

This will be the 7th competitive meeting between the 2 teams with the last one coming in February 2012, an NCEL league cup 3rd round tie at Emley which Brighouse won 2-0, all the previous clashes were in the NCEL, either league or cup, there was a friendly between the sides last season which Brighouse also won 2-1

Last time out:
Consett 0-4 Emley (Pashley 2, Berchil, Keita) Att- 362, NPL D1.E
Brighouse Tn 1-0 Sheffield FC (Gibbons) Att- 176, NPL D1.E

HEAD TO HEAD

Previous meetings:
February 7th 2012, NCEL LC3
EML 0-2 BRI, Att- 132

February 27th 2010, NCEL D1
BRI 3-0 EML, Att- 149

20th January 2010, NCEL LC3
EML 3-3 BRI (5-4pens) (S.Kenworthy, L.Hill, J.Wright) Att- 107

December 5th 2009, NCEL D1
EML 2-1 BRI (M.Stuart, S.Kenworthy), Att- 122

January 17th 2009, NCEL D1
EML 2- 4 BRI (S.Kenworthy, P.Quinn) Att- 126

September 6th 2009, NCEL D1
BRI 1-2 EML (A.Farrell, A.Leech) Att- 340

CURRENT LEAGUE POSITION:
EML: 2/22
BRI :7/22
(ALL COMPETITIONS)
CURRENT FORM:
EML: W, D, W, W, W
BRI: L, D, D, D, W
GOALS SCORED:
EML: 13
BRI: 6
GOALS CONCEDED:
EML: 2
BRI: 9
TOP SCORER:
EML: Amir Berchil (4)
BRI: Myron Gibbons (3)
AVERAGE HOME CROWD:
EML: 412 (405 league)
BRI: 195 (197 league)