Worthing first played Sutton United on 26th November 1955, in an FA Amateur Cup Fourth qualifying
Round tie, losing 3-0 at Gander Green Lane.
It was 24 years before the two teams met again and this time the Reds lost 7-0 at Sutton in a pre-season friendly, this being our largest margin of defeat in these encounters. The Rebels have played them four more times in pre-season matches, all at Woodside Road, between 1988 and 2010.
In the 1982/83 season, as an Isthmian League Division 1 side, we played Premier Division Sutton at home in an Isthmian League Cup tie, losing 2-1. The following season we played them again in the League Cup, this time losing 4-0 in Surrey.
Also in 1983/84, having won Division 1 the previous campaign, we now faced Sutton in the Isthmian
League Premier Division. Having lost the away fixture at the beginning of April, the Club recorded our first victory against United a fortnight later, winning 2-1 at Woodside Road.
We faced each other in the Isthmian League Cup for the third successive season, this time losing 2-1 in Worthing following a 2-2 away draw. Both league fixtures also ended 2-2, as we battled with Sutton for the championship, eventually finishing as runners-up, four points behind our opponents.
Sutton had not applied for promotion to the Gola League (now the National League), with promotion not being automatic at this time. Worthing did apply, but this was rendered irrelevant following destruction of our main stand by fire late in the season.
Sutton did take promotion at the end of 1985/86 after finishing as champions again, having taken four points off us from the league encounters.
We lost an Isthmian League Full Members’ Cup tie at Sutton in 1993/94, before facing them in the Premier Division again in 1995/96. The home fixture saw us record our highest winning margin (5-2), but we lost away towards the end of the season as we were heading for relegation.
The most recent encounters came when we played Sutton in the FA Trophy, coinciding with their epic FA Cup
run of 2016/17. After a 2-2 home draw, we travelled to Surrey for the replay and, after Sam Rents had scored, Lloyd Dawes netted an injury-time penalty to take the match into extra-time, the home team eventually triumphing 3-2.
A summary of our results against these opponents is shown below:
A summary of our results against these opponents is shown below:
Competition Played Won Drawn Lost Scored Conceded FA Amateur Cup 1 0 0 1 0 3 FA Trophy 2 0 1 1 4 5 Isthmian League Premier Division 8 2 3 3 13 14 Isthmian League Cup 4 0 1 3 4 10 Isthmian League Full Members’ Cup 1 0 0 1 1 5 Friendly 5 1 1 3 5 16 Total 21 3 6 12 27 53
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