National League U19 Alliance

League Cup 3rd Round

Wednesday10th December 2025

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.03

Enfield Town U19 1 Folkestone Invicta U19 2, attendance 7

12’ 1-0

34’ 1-1

86’ 1-2

@ Enfield Playing Fields, 3G Pitch

Donkey Lane

Enfield

EN1 3PL

No Admission or Programme.

F.A. Full Time was (still is) showing this game as being played at Queen Elizabeth II Stadium, which hosts Enfield Town’s first team games, which I’d visited in 2011. Although the players used the changing rooms there, the game was actually on the 3G pitch on Enfield Playing Fields, about 300 yards away, on the right hand side when heading south from the M25 at J25, running parallel with the A10. It’s a standard cage set up, with spectator access along three quarters of one side.

An easy tap in saw Enfield break the deadlock after twelve minutes, with Folkestone levelling the scores eleven minutes before halftime, with a low shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the box. Folkestone had the better chances in the second half, hitting the crossbar and having another effort cleared off the line, before grabbing a late winner, avoiding a possible penalty shoot out, when a cross from the left was side footed in at the far post.

I ignored the quick route on the M25, going via Dartford Crossing, by opting to go westbound instead, which was only eight minutes longer, but avoided the toll. Came back the same way, which took 40 minutes longer, not helped by enforced 40 mph and 50 mph speed limits all the way from J25 to J10.