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A BIG THANK YOU FROM THE COMMUNITY TEAM

Thank you to those of you for attending our first community day of the 2023/24 season. Although not quite the huge event I would have liked to have run, but with 3 weeks to put it together, I feel like the day was a success, even with the Great British Summer having other ideas!

A big thank you goes out to my team of volunteers, for handing out the giveaway bags and balloons as well as tirelessly running the various raffles and children’s tombola, both of which raised funds which will be used to continue our work within the community over the coming season.

The inflatable football pitch, provided and staffed by Holly and Lou at the Football Fun Factory, proved popular and a huge success. Thank you, Holly and Lou, for coming along, we hope to see you again at future events.

Photos courtesy of Neil Care

 

The amazingly talented Tracey was providing non-stop face painting for the children and even some of the adults were spotted showing off their painted faces too. Thank you Tracey for all of your hard work.

I was hugely grateful of the generosity shown from local pubs, The Old Endeavour and The Red Lion, for supporting the day with contributions to the Bucket of Booze raffle, alongside donations from supporters of the club.

The re-appearance of Captain Crab was a delight to see as he made his way around the ground posing for photos. I think we need to see Captain Crab more often, however, this is not always possible due to staffing. So, if anyone would like to offer themselves as a potential Captain Crab contender, please drop me an email.

Local band Turmoil played a sensational set in the Centre Spot bar and we hope to see them again soon at Crabble.

Over the coming weeks, we look forward to supporting LDC Care with their activities day up on the Community Training Pitch, as well as being on the lookout for news that the reading packs we have sponsored have been found. The initiative is to keep children reading over the summer holidays and has been organised by the Secret Garden Book Shop. We wish Caroline every success with this project and are glad to have helped give something back to the children of Dover.

With the season almost upon us, work is going into giving your match day experience a more community feel. I have plenty of ideas but am always happy to hear your thoughts. You are after all the club’s community. Any ideas and suggestions can be sent to me directly on [email protected]

Existing projects currently running are the Happy Feet football sessions, which run every Saturday morning on the Community Training Pitch. Ages 5-10 years play from 9am-10am and ages 11-15 years play from 10.15am-11.15am. Sessions cost £4 per child per session.

On a Sunday morning, Walking Football sessions are held from 10am-11am, up on the Community Training Pitch. These sessions are anyone aged 45 and over. Sessions cost £4.

I will update you all over the next few weeks with upcoming events and look forward to seeing and talking you on match days.

Vikki

COMMUNITY DAY SUCCESS

We hold our first community day of the season.

With the season fast approaching, we held our first community day of the year. There were prizes to win in the children’s tombola as well as a meat raffle, bucket of booze and a chance to win a mascot for a match day. Hopefully some of you have woken up as winners this morning. The first team were then put through their paces with an open training session which consisted of a period of keep ball followed by a short match, with the yellows defeating the blues 2-0.

Captain crab was on hand to make sure that everything ran smoothly before the band Turmoil sung us out with a cracking selection of tunes. It was a fantastic day and one that will be repeated midway through the campaign.

We would like to thank all of you that volunteered, sponsored and gifted towards our day and well done to our community team on a day well done, despite the rain.

Raffle winners:

Shirt – Emma Cook

Meat – Kay Holness

Bucket of Booze x 2 – Paula Lewis & Val McLester

Match Day Mascot – Jamie Yelverton

There is still time to get your season ticket by clicking HERE.

We are also offering the chance to book mini season tickets for games in blocks of 5. Click HERE for more details.

We have a game at Deal Town on Tuesday night followed by our final match at home against Ashford United next Saturday before the season opener with Torquay United on the 5th August. It’s nearly time to get down to business and you don’t want to miss out.

COYW.

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 19th July 

 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

COMMUNITY DAY & OPEN TRAINING SESSION

Come and get involved as we throw our first community day.

With the re-energised Community Trust team being assembled in the summer, we look forward to throwing our first community day of the season. Come along and see what fun and entertainment we will have at Crabble, with the added bonus of the first team completing an open training session, followed by an in house match. We would love to see some new faces as well as old, so why not bring a friend or family member, and come and take a look at what we will be doing this campaign. And best of all, admission will be FREE for all.

Following the first team training session there will be some live music in the Centre Spot with a chance to meet and greet the players and management team. Why not bring along something for them to sign?

The running order for the day will be as follows:

  • 12-2pm – Inflatable Football Pitch supplied by the Football Fun Factory
  • Face Painting and Temporary Tattoo’s
  • A Shirt Raffle
  • Raffle to Win a Bucket of Booze.

Raffle tickets will be £1 each but the face painting and inflatable football is FREE and will be held on the community pitch behind the stadium.

  • 2pm – First Team begin Open Training Session on main pitch
  • 2.45/3pm – First Team in house match
  • 4-6pm – Live Music from Turmoil, in the Centre Spot.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible.

COYW.

 

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 12th July 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 5th July 

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 28th June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 21st June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck

THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – THE FINALE

Which shirt will be crowned the best home strip ever?

We now reach the semi final stage of the competition with only four shirts remaining. If you missed the earlier rounds, you can catch up by clicking here THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – DOVER ATHLETIC FC.

Semi final match one saw an old classic take on its more recent counterpart. The Gomez 2015 shirt would have its work cut out with the CountryWide Derv shirts clear winners in the early rounds and it would prove to be the same outcome with this. The 1993 Plaaya shirt was an astounding winner, gaining 59% of the votes to become the first Dover home shirt in the final.

Semi final two saw two heavyweights go head to head. Another Plaaya Countrywide Derv, this time the 1995 edition, faced off against our millennial shirt, the 2000/02 Vandanel Jenkins & Pain. On paper it looked to be a tight affair and the voting was in agreement with the 1995 shirt narrowly scraping through to the final with a 52.1% win ratio.

And so onto the final…

The showpiece contained two similar shirts from the early to mid 90’s so one would think it would be a tight, cagey affair as most finals are. It really wasn’t. The 1993 edition romped to victory with 72% of the votes to be Crowned the greatest Dover Athletic home shirt.

Massive thanks again to all involved. A really fantastic bit of nostalgia. Maybe an away one next summer, lads?

STRIKER – DID YOU HIT THE NET?

Latest Striker results for Wednesday 14th June

Congratulations to all the winners and better luck next time if your name wasn’t drawn out. It could well be your time next week.

For anyone who doesn’t know how the Striker Lottery works well let me explain if for you. Each week, so long as you have paid your £1 weekly subscription, your number will be entered into a draw. If your number is drawn, congratulations – you’re a winner! It’s as simple as that. The draw is held every Wednesday. Keep an eye on the website and social media pages for full details. Who knows, your number could scoop the £1,000 top prize.

Please note that only paid-for tickets are entered in the draw. For your convenience, your membership fee can be collected from you, or you can pay at the Club Office or, to save time, you can pay monthly or quarterly by standing order.

Contact [email protected] to register your interest and good luck