The Kuflink Stadium,

Stonebridge Road,

Northfleet,

Kent

DA11 9GN

For matches that are segregated at Kuflink Stadium, away fans must use the turnstiles at the Swanscombe End of the ground. These can be found by going past the home turnstiles and turning right into the car park entry off Stonebridge Road. The away turnstiles are at the end of the driveway on your right.

There is no reserved seating for away supporters at the Kuflink Stadium. The seating area for away supporters is located within the Old Stand. This is limited and is priority seating for the elderly, disabled and pregnant.

This terrace is of a good size, is fairly steep and has recently had new crowd barriers installed upon it. It has a capacity of just under 2,400 supporters. Fans can enjoy a good view of the playing action from this terrace, however it is uncovered and hence open to the elements, so hope that the weather is good. Facilities are quite basic in this end and hot food and drink are available from a mobile burger van.

1. Main Entrance. Reception. Ticket windows, 2. Club Shop, 3. & 9. Disabled Area, 4 & 9. Tea Bar Kiosk, 5. Home Turnstiles, 6. Fleet Social Club/Bar, 7. Geeks Corner Terrace, 10. Priority seating away, 11. Away Bar Portakabin, 12. Away Turnstiles. 13. Access to Main Stand Bar for Home Fans.

View from Swanscombe End.

By Supporters Coach – The Best & Easiest Way.

For the rest of the season away travel is £5 per person for everybody.

For full details – Away Travel Offer – Remaining games (24/25) | WE ARE FGR

NB Away travel is subsidised by FGR and the Supporters Club.

Tickets | Ebbsfleet United (A) | WE ARE FGR

The Coach will depart Stonehouse at 1.30pm, with pick-ups at Sainsbury’s at 1.45pm, and The New Lawn at 2pm.

For full details of Away Travel: –

Click here: – FGR Away Travel – Forest Green Rovers Supporters Club (fgrsc.com)

Book your coach ticket from FGR. 

Click – Tickets | WE ARE FGR

By phone on 0333 123 1889 Monday to Friday, between 9am and 3pm. (Closed Wednesdays)

Please try to book as early as you can.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

From Stroud to Ebbsfleet by train takes about 3 hours and involves crossing London from Paddington to St Pancras.

As this is an evening match please check train times carefully.

The nearest stations are Northfleet (take Gravesend service from Charing Cross, Waterloo East and London Bridge) and Ebbsfleet International.

From Northfleet, go (more or less) straight ahead until you reach the main road. Turn left, walk to the bottom of the hill and the ground is on your right.

The high-speed rail service from London St Pancras to Ebbsfleet International (15-18 minutes journey time) will also take you to within walking distance of the ground. Proceed through Car Park C and out on to the roundabout where you will see the stadium in front of you.

You can get a bus to the ground from Gravesend station. Come out of the station on the Town side and turn right. There are bus stops just by the station – the 480/490 service will drop you outside the ground. Alternatively take the FASTRACK “B” Service, which also serves Ebbsfleet International.

By Car

From the Stroud area it is about 150 miles and takes about 3 hours but as it involves the M25 so who knows?

Exit the M25 at Junction 2 and take the A2 signposted Canterbury. Leave the A2 at the Northfleet/Gravesend West junction. At roundabout, follow signs to Ebbsfleet International Station/A226 which will take you on to Thamesway and past Ebbsfleet International. The stadium is at the end of the road.

CAR PARKING

Ebbsfleet’s own on-site car-park has limited space and is available to those with seasonal car-parking tickets only.

If you hold a disabled/blue badge, Ebbsfleet will try to accommodate parking requests (as capacity allows) but this must be requested at least seven days in advance by emailing info@eufc.co.uk.

There is limited space down side streets and Thamesway (between the station and the roundabout outside the stadium) is designated a ‘Clearway’ and any cars parked along there are liable to be ticketed. There is also limited space available in surrounding residential streets.

Supporters  are encouraged to use Ebbsfleet International Station which offers secure matchday parking in its Car Park C for £3. It is just over five minutes’ walk from the ground and is the best bet for a parking space in the area. The club strongly advises use of this car park to avoid problems of vandalism, or cars being ticketed. Please help the gate staff by having small change to hand. High-value notes cannot be changed.

Inside the ground is a comfortable Fleet Lounge Club Bar which is popular with both home and away fans alike.

Away fans have access to refreshments, food and a bar in the Swanscombe End. The Eat Street van will be available for food (hot dogs and burgers) and beverages.

Beers on tap include Hofmeister and Iron Pier, found in the away facility, clearly visible between the standing terrace and seating area.

Both non-alcoholic and alcoholic refreshments along with other foods options can also be found in this bar.

There is a café opposite the home turnstiles and a Costa Coffee across the road from Main Reception.

Nearby pubs include:

• The Queen’s Head and Ye Olde Leather Bottle (both at the top of Stonebridge Hill along Northfleet High Street).
• Spring River (Talbot Ln, Ebbsfleet Valley, Swanscombe DA10 1AZ)
• The Rose Pub (1 Rose St, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 9EQ)
• Ye Olde Coach And Horses (25 The Hill Northfleet, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 9EU)
• The Six Bells – (Old Perry Street, Northfleet, DA11 8BT – 01474 567 309)

Ebbsfleet are currently bottom  (24th) of the National League with 13 points, 18 points from safety.

Current 8 match current form tables –

Overall: FGR = 6th with 15 points, Ebbsfleet = 24th with 4 points.

Ebbsfleet Home Form:- 24th with 2 points.

FGR away Form: – 5th with 13 points.

Reverse fixture, 22 Oct 24: FGR 3 Ebbsfleet 1 (McCallister, Robson, Knowles,)

Recent Results

Ebbsfleet  0 York 2

Rochdale  0 Ebbsfleet 0

Halifax 2 Ebbsfleet 0

Ebbsfleet Mascot – Hooky The Pirate

Recent signing – forward Kymani Thomas.

Goalkeeper Cousins scoring against York, the following week he came close to scoring again.

Mark Cousins – Last season, the experienced goalkeeper performed brilliantly to take the Ebbsfleet player of the year award – the sixth goalkeeper to do so at the Ebbsfleet – and added another piece of history as his 95^th minute headed equaliser at York City saw him become the first No.1 to score for the club in 77 years of their existence.

Recent loan signings –

Josh Passley from Bromley, Aaron Bolger from St Patricks in Ireland, Alex Lankshear (Blackpool), Ryan Carr (Ipswich), George Moncur (Orient), Felix Goddard (Blackburn), Alex Aoraha (QPR).

Permanent signings  – Aaron Cosgrave from Halifax. The 25-year-old arrived on an initial month’s loan in October, which was extended in November. The forward has scored three times in 10 appearances. Striker Kymani Thomas from Waltham Abbey.

New signing Aaron Cosgrave. Cosgrave started his career at Coggeshall Town, Essex.  Cosgrave scored 12 goals in 37 league appearances during the 2017/18 season as Coggeshall won the league and gained promotion to the Isthmian League North Division. Former Coggeshall Town player and Chairman is the singer, Ollie Murs.

Josh Wright – Ebbsfleet’s 3rd manager this season.

Ebbsfleet United appointed former Glasgow Rangers and Queens Park Rangers coach Harry Watling as their new manager in September.

The 34-year-old succeeded Danny Searle, who was sacked in early September with Ebbsfleet bottom of the League.

Harry Watling left his role as Ebbsfleet United manager after just three months in charge.

The 35-year-old led Fleet to just one win and nine losses in his 15 games in charge and the club were six points adrift at the bottom of the National League.

Watling’s only win of the season – a 1-0 win over Hartlepool – came in Watling’s first game in charge

Ebbsfleet’s manager is now Josh Wright. In June 2022, Wright had signed for Ebbsfleet as a player.

Wright played for Charlton, Scunthorpe, Millwall, Orient, Southend, Bradford and Crawley and also had various loan moves too.

Wright is the brother of ‘The Only Way is Essex’ stars Mark and Jess Wright

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Knowles – Celebrating scoring in the reverse fixture in October 2024.

Founded in 1946 from the merger of Gravesend & Northfleet, they were known as Gravesend & Northfleet until changing to their current name in 2007. Gravesend & Northfleet started in the Southern League, which they won in the 1957–58 season. In 1974–75, they were promoted to the Southern League Premier Division before becoming founding members of the Alliance Premier League ahead of the 1979–80 season. They rejoined the Southern League in 1982. Ahead of the 1997–98 season, they joined the Isthmian League. They won the league in 2001–02 to again reach the top level of the non-League system. After having changed their name to Ebbsfleet United in 2007, they won the FA Trophy in 2007–08. They were relegated to the Conference South in 2010, but would return immediately, before being relegated again in 2012–13. After two unsuccessful play-off attempts, Ebbsfleet were successful at the third, defeating Chelmsford in the play-off final. In their first season back in the fifth tier, Ebbsfleet reached the play-offs but were unsuccessful. They were relegated back to the National League South in 2019–20, before returning to the renamed National League as champions in 2022–23. Home matches have been played at Stonebridge Road since the club’s inception

Between 2008 and 2013, the club was owned by the web-based venture MyFootballClub, whose members voted on player transfers, budgets and ticket prices among other things instead of those decisions being made exclusively by the club’s management and staff as at most other clubs. Membership numbers steadily declined. KEH Sports Ltd, a group of Kuwaiti investors agreed in May 2013 to take over the club

In April 2024 plans were approved for a new 8,000-seater stadium in Northfleet as part of a wider regeneration of the area, completion aimed for August 2026. The relocation will see the demolition of Stonebridge Road.

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FGR’s Doidge contests the ball will Ebbsfleet’s Stewart in the reverse fixture in October 24.

• Charles Dickens is associated with Gravesend and villages around the area. Many of the links between him and Gravesend are still in evidence –  at Chalk he spent his honeymoon, at Higham he lived and died, and at Cobham he found inspiration for ‘Pickwick Papers’
• Pocahontas (1595–1617), the first Native American girl or woman to visit England. She was taken ill on her return voyage to America and died aged 21 after coming ashore at Gravesend. She was buried under the chancel of St George’s parish church.
• Gordon of Khartoum (1833–1885), lived in the town from 1865 to 1871. As commander of the Royal Engineers, he supervised the construction of the forts guarding the Thames downstream from Gravesend, including New Tavern Fort. While in Gravesend, Gordon devoted himself to the welfare of the town’s “poor boys”, establishing a Sunday School and providing food and clothes for them from his Army wages. His links with Gravesend are commemorated locally on the embankment at the Riverside Leisure Area, which is known as the Gordon Promenade, and at Khartoum Place that lies just to the south
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• The composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  (1844–1908) was an officer in the Russian Navy and was posted to Gravesend in 1862, where he wrote part of his first symphony.
• Chris Simmons (born 1975 at Gravesend), television and stage actor best known for his roles as DC Mickey Webb in The Bill, Mark Garland in Eastenders and Stuart Summer in Hollyoaks.
• Marc Guehi (born 2000), English international footballer who plays at the very highest level for Crystal Palace, went to school in Gravesend.
• Gemma Arterton (born 1986), actress, was born at Northfleet and went to school in Gravesend..
• Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), English chemist and Nobel Prize winner for “contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry”.
• Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), creator of the Beaufort Scale, was stationed at Gravesend.
• Sir Peter Blake (born 1932), artist who trained at Gravesend School of Art. The Blake Gallery opened at the Woodville Halls in the town.
• Laura Coombs (born 1991), England footballer.