Bristol City fans make a return to Doncaster Rovers' Keepmoat Stadium after the 1-0 win back in March 2007.

Can they make history and collect maximum points in successive matches there?

In all, City fans have travelled to watch Doncaster Rovers at three different venues since they joined the Football League in Division II at the start of the 1901/02 season, but coming away with maximum points still remains a rarity.

Rovers had played their matches in the Belle Vue area of Yorkshire for some years before they moved to the Intake Ground behind the Yorkshire Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.

Both City and Rovers were making their Football League debuts in the 1901/02 season and it was on October 5, 1901 that the Robins played their first match away at Doncaster and found the home side in fine form, having drawn 3-3 with Burslem Port Vale and then putting another trio of goals past Gainsborough Trinity.

As for the City team under Sam Hollis, they were also making good headway in league football with a 2-0 opening day win at Blackpool and then home victories against Stockport 3-0 and Glossop 2-0.

But as with away defeats at Port Vale (3-0) and Newton Heath (later to become Manchester United, 1-0) so it was at Doncaster as the home side walloped City 3-0.

The following season saw a 0-0 draw in February 1903 as Doncaster dropped out of the League having failed in their re-election at the end of the 1902/03 season despite finishing third bottom in Division 2.

It was March 25, 1905 that City were back in this part of Yorkshire and made it a successful one as they recorded their first away win at Doncaster with a 2-0 victory and was enough to keep the Robins in fourth spot in Division II.

For Doncaster it was the end of the line as another attempt to win votes in the end of season re-election campaign failed. It would be 18 years before Rovers regained their league status, joining Division Three North for the 1923/24 season.

There had been a gap of half a century before City supporters travelled north to Doncaster on November 26, 1955 to take on Rovers at their Belle Vue ground, their home since 1922.

Rovers were managed by Peter Doherty, a former Irish international who had steered the club to the Third Division North title in 1949/50 when he bagged 26 goals himself as he directed play from the pitch. He is remembered by City fans for his two year tenure in the hot seat at Ashton Gate from January 1958 that led to relegation to Division III in 1960.

For the next three seasons City couldn't even pick up a point as the 3-2 defeat in 1955 was followed twelve months later by their worst showing at Belle Vue when they went down 4-1 in front of 12,472 spectators, the largest to watch a League meeting between the two. The trio of successive defeats was completed with a 2-1 loss in February 1958 as Rovers finished bottom of Division 2.

It was at the beginning of the 1980's that City were reacquainted with Doncaster where, on May 18 1982, City's new-look side following the departure of the "Ashton Gate eight" in February, notched up the club's first ever point at Belle Vue with a spirited 2-2 draw, courtesy of late strikes from debutant Steve Thompson and Ricky Chandler within the final ten minutes.

The Belle Vue hoodoo was finally broken on December 19 1987, before 1,819, ironically the lowest attendance for this league fixture as the Robins come back from a goal down on ten minutes to finish the match 2-1 winners through Alan Walsh and Carl Shutt strikes, the latter scoring the winner with eight minutes left.

Doncaster ended their 68-year status as a league club when they finished bottom of Division 3 (the old Fourth Div) in 1997/98.

They returned in 2002/03 via the Nationwide Conference play-off's as Yeovil went up as Champions with a certain Gary Johnson as the named Manager of the Year.

Doncaster moved into their new Keepmoat Stadium on January 1, 2007 and celebrated with a 3-0 win over Huddersfield in front of 4,470 fans, a figure that was down to just 7,945 when Bristol City recorded their first league win at Doncaster's new ground in late March with a late Jamie McCombe goal two minutes from time.

● When Gary Johnson's Yeovil played Doncaster Rovers at Belle Vue in their race for promotion to the football elite in 2002/03 they were 4-0 winners.