Finally on Saturday 18th October 2025, a men's first team game was held on the new 3G pitch, with all the new facilities. The visitors were Dulwich Hamlet, and the game drew a bumper crowd of 1379. The pitch looked excellent, and the run of the ball, as well as the bounce, was good, The new dugouts appeared a good size and well up to the job. The floodlights looked 'different' (lower? Not sure) and still had protective fences round them. Still requiring work? Whatever, they w

By mid-October 2025, everything was in place. The 1st team were due to have an open (ie any fan could attend) training session on the...

In early October 2025 it was announced that the first 1st team match on the new pitch would be on 18th October 2025 vs Dulwich Hamlet....

At the start of October 2025 the pitch was ready, with goals, corner flags and dugouts in place. The pitch surface passed a ball roll...

By the end of the last full week of September 2025, the pitch was fully laid, and the white line makings applied. WE HAVE A FOOTBALL...

By late September 2025, the laying of the playing surface was nearing completion with a majority of the playing surface covered. There...

Well would you believe it?! Just when you thought nothing was going on, the first grass got laid (we all remember our first time!). Even...

In a week when some were hoping the carpet was going to be laid, there appeared to be little to no activity on the playing surface. Does...

By the middle of September, the 'carpet' arrived ready to be rolled out. A momentous moment!! Pictures credit: Clive Arnold Where it was...

In the week that Folkestone Invicta knocked 1-league-higher Maidstone United, out of the FA Cup, the shock pad was laid on the pitch at...

Early September 2025, and after the excitement of the Tarmac being laid, nothing. There was a transporter with a small tipper waiting on...

During the middle of the last week of August, and a week later than expected, the Tarmac laying started, to cover the area of the new...

Entering the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of August 2025, it seems that there had been very little activity for another week. Just as...

Start of the working week in the middle of August 2025, and the urgent activity of creating the 3G pitch...........appears to have...

On the opening weekend of the Isthmian Premier League season, Folkestone Invicta were away, so not at their home ground. Mind you, if...

On 7th August 2025 work on the enlarged perimeter appeared to be started. There had been some discussion (eg on the Folkestone Invicta...

On 6th August 2025, video updates appeared to show that the surface was now flat, but these was a large area on the Grandad Stand side of...

5 days after the official club update on the pitch progress came out, Folkestone Dispatch published a detailed interview with Folkestone...

On 5th August 2025, now that the dainage system was in place, there appeard to be a pipe going in. Or was it going out? With the pipe...

No need for weekend working to get the 3G pitch ready it seems. The first weekend of August 2025 and it seems that we have a flat surface...