Kent Senior Trophy – 2024/25
DFDS Kent Senior Trophy – 2024-25 Season
Final
Sunday 13th April
Larkfield & New Hythe 3-2 Whitstable Town
Maidstone United FC
Larkfield & New Hythe are the 2024/25 Kent Senior Trophy winners after a 3-2 victory over Whitstable Town.
The Larks took a 1-0 lead into the break thanks to a stunning free-kick from eventual Man of the Match Tyler Ibe.
Ibe was to get the second from the penalty spot before he laid on the third for Tyrell Richardson in a dominant spell for Larkfield.
The Whitstable comeback was sparked by a goal direct from a corner from Robbie Rees and minutes later it was 3-2, when Jake McIntyre netted from the spot.
With no further goals Whitstable will have to wait until Wembley to have a chance of lifting a Cup but they watched on and applauded deserved victors in Larkfield & New Hythe.
Semi Finals
Bearsted 1-1 Larkfield & New Hythe
(Sam Flisher – Tyler Ibe)
Larkfield win 7-6 on penalties.
Stansfeld 0-3 Whitstable Town
(Dean Grant x2, Ashdon Day)
The Kent Senior Trophy Final will be played between Larkfield & New Hythe and Whitstable Town following away wins for both teams today.
Larkfield needed penalties to get past Bearsted and did so after a 1-1 normal time draw in which Tyler Ibe opened the scoring before a late leveller from Sam Flisher for the Bears.
Whistable beat Stansfeld 3-0 at the Artic Stadium. Dean Grant scored first and last with Ashdon Day netting in between.
Quarter Finals
Stansfeld 5-2 Staplehurst Monarchs
(Dario Sesay-De Luca x2, Chris Alhassan x2, Jack Calvert – Dan Ashton, Callum Gallie)
Faversham Town 1-3 Whitstable Town
(Danny Parish – Harvey Smith x2, Ronald Sithole)
Glebe 2-5 Bearsted
(Alex Arif, Paul Lee – Connor French, Dan Melvin, Jesse Darko x2, Robbie Roberts)
Snodland Town 0-1 Larkfield & New Hythe
(Bryan Zepo)
Bearsted and Larkfield & New Hythe were the first 2 sides through to the Kent Senior Trophy semi-finals after away wins on Saturday.
Bearsted twice went behind at Glebe but powered back to win 5-2 while a single Bryan Zepo goal was enough for Larkfield to get past Snodland Town.
On Sunday, Stansfeld came from 2-0 down to beat Staplehurst Monarchs 5-2. Dario Sesay-De Luca and Chris Alhassan scored twice with Jack Calvert getting the other, after Dan Ashton and Callum Gallie had put Staplehurst ahead.
Whitstable Town were the final of the four teams to make their way into the semi-finals following their midweek win at Faversham Town. Harvey Smith claimed a double for Whitstable and Richard Sithole added the other, meaning Danny Parish’s late effort was a mere consolation.
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.