P&Co. SCEFL Challenge Cup 2024/25
P&Co. SCEFL Challenge Cup 2024/25
Challenge Cup Final
Friday 18th April
Forest Hill Park 0-5 Snodland Town
at Cray Wanderers FC
Snodland Town are the 2024/25 P&Co. SCEFL Challenge Cup Champions following a 5-0 win in the final against Forest Hill Park.
A league record of 1,531 turned out at Cray Wanderers for this Bank Holiday Final and Snodland used the the atmosphere to race out of the traps and build up a quick lead.
Stanley Oldfield was almost unplayable in the first half, scored twice early on and only some fine keeping from ‘Big G’ denied the Snodland Striker a first half hat-trick.
A dominant opening 45 was confirmed by Charlie Sheringham’s close range finish meaning Snodland went into the break 3 goals to the good and on course to comfortably lift the Cup.
To be fair to Forest Hill they really improved in the second half and Josh Fowler was regularly called into action but wasn’t letting anything get beyond him.
An injury to Oldfield saw him replaced by Kayden Turner-Bernard on the hour mark and the substitute himself scored twice to hand his side the comfortable victory.
Challenge Cup Semi Finals
Forest Hill Park 2-1 Punjab United
(Reece Barrett, William Bell – Wayne Bushell)
Snodland Town 3-1 Sutton Athletic
(Charlie Wright, Stanley Oldfield, Liam Parle – Ben White)
On Tuesday night the first semi-final took place with Snodland Town hosting Sutton Athletic. Snodland raced out of the traps and were 3-0 up at the break thanks to goals from Charlie Wright, Stanley Oldfield and Liam Parle. Ben White pulled one back for Sutton late on but it was not enough and Snodland take their place in the Challenge Cup Final.
We will have a First Division side in the Final for the first time ever after Forest Hill Park beat Punjab United 2-1. Wayne Bushell had given Punjab a 36th minute lead but Reece Barrett quickly levelled the scores. In the second half William Bell got the winner for Forest Hill sparking huge celebrations from the Punters Row at the Ladywell Arena.
Challenge Cup Quarter Finals
Snodland Town 3-2 Faversham Town
(Kayden Turner-Bernard, Kaylam Burgess, Bailee Cain – Nathan Wood, Matt Newman)
Rochester United 1-2 Punjab United
(Mack Reilly – Wayne Bushell, Alfie Moynes)
Sutton Athletic 2-1 VCD Athletic
(Taylor Fisher, Enoch Muwonge – George Whitelock)
Forest Hill Park 2-1 Holmesdale
(Georgi Steeds, Ryan Johnson – Oghosa Williams)
Challenge Cup Third Round
Lordswood 0-2 Snodland Town
(Aidan Clark, Lewis Sharp)
Kennington 3-5 Rochester United
(Fin Dent x2, Rajan Sahni – Liam Wilkins, Luis Dos Santos, Hicham Akhazzan, Mack Reilly, Lucas Payne)
Faversham Town 4-1 Staplehurst Monarchs
(Tashi-Jay Kwayie, Ben Gorham, Sam Hasler, Johan Caney-Bryan – Dan Ashton)
Holmesdale 0-0 Rusthall
(Holmesdale win 6-5 on pens)
Greenways 1-6 Sutton Athletic
(Timmy Babington – Conor Evans x2, Arlie Desanges, Taylor Fisher x3)
Croydon 0-1 Punjab United
(Ryan Hayes)
Glebe 1-2 VCD Athletic
(Reggie Rye – Francis Babalola x2)
Erith & Belvedere 0-2 Forest Hill Park
(Georgi Steeds, Ed Mbango)
Challenge Cup Second Round
Kennington 1-1 Hollands & Blair (8-7 on pens)
(Kyron Lightfoot – Chris Edwards)
Punjab United 4-1 SC Thamesmead
(Steve Ratcliff, Malachi Hudson x2, Lea Dawson – Harry Main)
Soul Tower Hamlets 1-3 Glebe
(Zachary Thomas – Kelvin Bakare, Jamie Philpot, David Ajao)
Sutton Athletic 2-1 Stansfeld
(Taylor Fisher, Jamal Abubakari – Nathan Asiedu)
Bearsted 1-3 Lordswood AFC
(Robbie Roberts – Aaron Simpson – Elliott Duncan x2)
Faversham Town 2-0 Faversham Strike Force
(Ian Draycott, Kieron Campbell)
Greenways 2-0 Fisher
(Harvey Donnelly, Andy Pierce)
Rusthall 8-0 Meridian VP
(Jack Lyons x2, Charlie Clover x3, Jack Kirby x2, Kalani Barton)
Snodland Town 2-0 Canterbury City
(Aidan Clark, Stanley Oldfield)
Staplehurst Monarchs 1-0 Whitstable Town
(Luke Adams)
Bridon Ropes 0-0 Croydon
(Croydon win 6-5 on pens)
Erith & Belvedere 2-1 Lewisham Borough
(Tyller Davis-Whitlock, Luca Sanford – Ryan Brown)
Forest Hill Park 2-1 Welling Town
(Reece Barrett, Ulrich Fischer – Ayodeji Owoeye)
Halls AFC 1-2 Holmesdale
(Alfie Clark – Nathaniel Murray, Mecca Samuels)
Lydd Town 0-8 Rochester United
(Mack Reilly x3, Lucas Payne, Tom Loynes, Luis Dos Santos x2, Liam Wilkins)
VCD Athletic 2-1 Corinthian
(Richard Jimoh, Ollie Freeman – Simon Walton)
Challenge Cup First Round
Canterbury City 2-1 Larkfield & New Hythe
(Connor Coyne x2 – Chibueze Innocent)
Lydd Town 4-0 Sheppey Sports
(Sam Adams, Ryan Philpott x2, Tom Walmsley)
Clapton Community 1-3 Bridon Ropes
(Adam Sidky – Kian Houston, Rhonan Dunphy, Jamie Thuillier)
Forest Hill Park 0-0 Tunbridge Wells (3-2 pens)
Tooting Bec 3-3 Greenways (4-5 pens)
(Nile Waite x2, Joe Martin – Mike Seki, x2, Ashley Poppy)
Fisher 4-0 FC Elmstead
(Courtney Barrington, Kesna Clarke x2, Charles Yiadom-Konadu)
The draws for the early rounds were carried out in the grounds of the Salomons Estate, Tunbridge Wells, by Michael and Lily from our sponsors Presence & Co.
All 38 SCEFL teams were in the First Round Draw, where there will be just 6 games as we cut down to 32 teams for the Second Round.
Fixture dates will be communicated in due course.
Challenge Cup – Football Web Pages