Exeter City FC’s promotion-winning heroes will be celebrated next week with an open top bus parade.

The team, known as the Grecians, secured a top-three place in League Two last week with a home win over Barrow, ensuring promotion to League One – the third tier of English football – for the first time since 2012.

Exeter City FC’s promotion-winning heroes will be celebrated next week with an open top bus parade.
The team, known as the Grecians, secured a top-three place in League Two last week with a home win over Barrow, ensuring promotion to League One – the third tier of English football – for the first time since 2012.
And it could be a double celebration if Matt Taylor’s men win the league title in their final match on Saturday [7 May]. Play-off chasing Port Vale are the visitors to a sold-out St James’ Park.
The parade will begin in Exeter High Street from 6 p.m. on Monday [9 May], slowly making its way towards the city’s historic civic building, Guildhall.
The players will be greeted by Exeter’s former lord mayor Yolonda Henson, who will congratulate the club and address the crowds from one of the parade buses.
Councillor Henson will host a civic reception with invited guests inside the Guildhall, before some of the players and manager Matt Taylor are expected to appear on the balcony just before 7 p.m. for photographs and to greet the crowds.
The event is likely to conclude at around 7.15 p.m.
Cllr Henson said in a statement: “On behalf of everyone in the city I want to congratulate Exeter City on their incredible achievement. We are very much looking forward to the parade and civic reception on Monday – it will be an amazing occasion and I know everyone is very much looking forward to it.”
This season’s promotion is the sixth in Exeter’s history – their first since back-to-back promotions in 2008 and 2009 under former boss Paul Tisdale which were also celebrated with open top parades.
Should they win the league title on Saturday, it will be just the second since the club was founded in 1901 – the other being in 1990.  Captain Matt Jay will lift the League Two trophy if Exeter equal or better second-placed Forest Green Rovers result.