Kent Senior Trophy – 2024/25
DFDS Kent Senior Trophy – 2024-25 Season
Third Round
Stansfeld v Staplehurst Monarchs
Faversham Town v Whitstable Town
Glebe v Bearsted
Snodland Town v Larkfield & New Hythe
Ties are due to be played on Saturday January 18th
Second Round
Minster 1-1 Bearsted (3-5 pens)
(Harry Holden – Connor French)
Faversham Strike Force 1-3 Stansfeld
(Dan Lott – Greg Williams, Archie Panyi, Kameron Mendez)
Larkfield & New Hythe 3-3 Hollands & Blair (4-1 pens)
(Matt Day x3 – Devonte West, Tom Walmsley, Thomas Ngegba)
Snodland Town 2-1 Meridian VP
(Liam Parle, Ryan Thompson – Joseph Ogunbiyi)
Staplehurst Monarchs 5-1 Fisher
(Luke Adams x3, Jack Hyslop, Jack Bray – Charles Yiadom-Kanadu)
Sutton Athletic 3-4 Glebe
(Arlie Desanges, Conor Evans x2 – Jamie Philpot, Zak Loveridge, David Ajao, Kelvin Bakare)
Faversham Town 2-0 Tunbridge Wells
(Johan Caney-Bryan x2)
VCD Athletic 1-2 Whitstable Town
(Zak Bryon – Josh Oliver, Dean Grant)
Bearsted were the first name into the Third Round after their penalty shoot-out win at Minster on Friday night.
The Bears were joined by Stansfeld, Larkfield & New Hythe, Snodland Town, Staplehurst Monarchs, Glebe and Whitstable Town following their games on Saturday.
Faversham Town v Tunbridge Wells was abandoned after an hour at the Culverden Stadium but then replayed on the following Tuesday. Faversham won 2-0.
First Round (Saturday 12th October)
Glebe 4-1 Lewisham Borough
Faversham Town 3-3 (4-2pens) Rusthall
Halls AFC 0-0 (3-4pens) Meridian VP
Minster FC 2-2 (7-6pens) Lydd Town
Welling Town 0-3 Sutton Athletic
Tunbridge Wells 3-1 Erith & Belvedere
Hollands & Blair 0-0 (4-3pens) Holmesdale
Canterbury City 0-1 Whitstable Town
Croydon 0-4 VCD Athletic
Snodland Town 2-1 SC Thamesmead
Larkfield & New Hythe 4-3 West Wickham
Forest Hill Park 1-2 Stansfeld
Fisher 2-1 Corinthian
Bearsted 2-0 Kennington
Staplehurst Monarchs 3-0 Rochester United
Greenways 1-4 Faversham Strike Force
The Kent Senior Trophy First Round action got going on Friday night with Canterbury City hosting Whitstable Town.
Dean Grant got the only goal of the game in the 3rd minute to put Whitstable into the next round.
On Saturday there were 15 further ties, with four of them needing to be decided by penalties.
Preliminary Round (Saturday 14th September)
Larkfield & New Hythe 2-1 Lordswood
Punjab United 0-0 Lewisham Borough
(Lewisham win 5-4 on pens.)
Sheppey Sports 2-2 Sutton Athletic
(Sutton win 4-3 on pens)
SC Thamesmead 3-1 FC Elmstead
The first two games in the Preliminary Round were both decided by penalties, with Sutton Athletic and Lewisham Borough each prevailing.
Sutton drew 2-2 at Sheppey Sports. Kola Salami and England Kurti put the visitors 2-0 up at the break but responses from Corey Spencer and Simon Gyimaha saw the game go to spot kicks.
Punjab United v Lewisham Borough finished goalless before the First Division side came out best from 12 yards.
On Monday night SC Thamesmead beat FC Elmstead 3-1. Steve Karkari scored twice for the Acre with Raphael President getting the third. Stacey Petrou grabbed Elmstead’s goal.
Larkfield & New Hythe completed the round with a 2-1 win against Lordswood. With the game looking to finish level Bryan Zepo popped up with a late winner and now the Larks go through to face West Wickham.