Match Details:

DFDS KENT SENIOR CUP SECOND ROUND
DOVER ATHLETIC v CRAY VALLEY (PM)
TUES 29TH OCT 2024 – KICK OFF 19.45pm

VENUE: Megger Community Stadium, Crabbie Athletic Ground, Lewisham Rd, River, Dover CT17 0QJ

ADMISSION: Adults £10, U18 £8 U11 Free with a paying adult
PLEASE NOTE: Payment by card only at the turnstile - No cash accepted at the ground, it is a cashless ground.

Tonight's game will be decided on penalties if the scores are level at 90 minutes.

Match Officials:
Referee: Benjamin McDonald
Assistants: William Rough and Jack Packman

Our Opponents:
Nickname: The Whites
Last Three Seasons:
2023/24 National South 24th - relegated
2022/23 National South 20th
2021/22 National Premier 23rd - relegated

Dover Athletic currently sit top of the Isthmian Premier Division on 23 points from 11 games , three points ahead of Cray Valley (PM) in 5th place. The Whites are the divisions top scorers with 33 goals in those 11 games. Leading the way is George Nikos on 12 all scored in the league.

Research tells me that Dover Athletic were formed to replace the folded Dover for season 1983/84. Dover / Dover Athletic have won the Kent Senior Cup on 9 occasions, the last of which was in 2016/17 when they beat Welling United 2-0 in the final at the Gallagher Stadium, Maidstone. They have also been runners-up 8 times and beaten semi-finalists 16 times. A total of 33 seasons in which they have reached the last four of the competition.

Cray Valley (PM) are competing in the competition for only the fifth time, having qualified on reaching step 4 for the first time in season 2019/20. Their best performance to date was reaching the quarter finals in season 2022/23 losing 3-0 to Margate, after victories against Folkestone Invicta and Bromley in rounds one and two. In the first round of this seasons cup, Cray Valley (PM) beat Ashford United 3-0. Dover Athletic had a bye in the first round.

It will be the first meeting between the two sides.