LEAGUE TWO - MAKE-UP 2016/17 (Monday 30th May 2016) Wanderers will travel close to an additional 800 miles during the 2016/17 League season compared to the 2015/16 campaign. Wimbledon’s victory over Plymouth Argyle in the League Two Play-Off Final on Monday 30th May finalised the League Two make-up for the 2016/17 season. Total round-journey trips for Wanderers in League Two in 2016/17 will be just shy of 6,600 miles compared to 5,800 for 2014/15. The step up in matchday mileage comes down to the loss of four of the sub 100 mile journeys (Oxford – 28 miles, Wimbledon 58 miles, Dagenham 62 miles and Northampton 63 miles). Oxford United’s promotion means that Wanderers’ ‘local derby’ now becomes the 43 mile trek to Luton Town. The longest trip remains the 570 round trip to Carlisle United, but relegated Blackpool and promoted Grimsby Town join the long hauls in excess of 200 miles away from Adams Park, which number seven after Plymouth blew out in the play-offs for the second season running. The trip to Bloomfield Road to play fallen from grace Blackpool will be Wanderers’ first meeting with The Tangerines since the 2003/4 season. During the intervening years they rose to the heights of the Premier League (promoted at the end of the 2009/10 season) but their fall to the basement division comes after successive relegations under the cloud of the Oyston ownership debacle. Moving in the other direction are Grimsby Town , who were promoted back to the Football League via the play-offs and will meet Wycombe for the first time since the 2008/9 season. Also promoted from the ‘Conference’ after just a season’s absence from the Football League are Cheltenham Town – thus proving again that relegation to non-League football is not always the negatively perceived ‘end of the world’. Having said that, Torquay, Tranmere and Stockport fans may hold a different view. Wanderers will also renew League acquaintances with Colchester United during the 2016/17 campaign. The U’s were relegated back to the Football League dungeon after flirting briefly in the ‘Championship’. It will be the first League meeting between the old rivals since 2009/10. Also coming down to League One are Doncaster Rovers. Wanderers famously beat Rovers on penalties during the 2006/7 run to the Football League Cup Semi-Final but the two sides have only met in League competition during the 1993/94 Division Two season. Since then the two sides have managed to by-pass each other on their way up and down the divisions. Wanderers’ 174 mile 2016/17 trip to Doncaster is also scheduled to be the first ever visit for Wycombe to Rovers’ ‘Keepmoat Stadium’. The 15,000 capacity venue was officially opened in August 2007 as a replacement for Rovers Belle Vue ground which they had resided at since 1922. Aside from the 1994 Football League meeting there, in 1955 Wanderers lost a FA Amateur Cup Semi-Final at Belle Vue – going down 1-0 to Bishop Auckland before a near 25,000 gate. League trips lost to Wanderers for 2016/17 include the relatively short tip to Dagenham (62 miles – 5th shortest of 2015/16), plus the 217 mile (5th longest distance) trek to York City. With The Minster Men set to move from Bootham Crescent after more than 80 years residency, Wanderers’ match there in April 2016 could well be the final clash on the famous Yorkshire ground. Fixtures are out on Wednesday 22nd June 2016. Click here to read all the latest Wycombe news

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