York 4 Ebbsfleet 0

Maidstone 3 Ebbsfleet 0 (FA Cup)

Ebbsfleet 2 Rochdale 2

Ebbsfleet  1 Oldham 2

Maidenhead 2 Ebbsfleet 1

Ebbsfleet Mascot – Hooky the Pirate.

Goalkeeper Cousins scoring against York City. The following week he almost repeated the feat.

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.

Current top scorer is Dominic Poleon with 4 goals.

Summer Signings include

Jim Kellermann (Woking)
Lewis Page (Dagenham & Redbridge)
Louis John (Sutton United)
Tyler Cordner (York City)
Giles Phillips (Oxford City)
Wesley Fonguck (Southend United)
Jephte Tanga (Leyton Orient)

Since the appointment of the new manager in September there have been several other signings:-

Defender Jack Wakeley, Defender Anthony Stewart, Defender Todd Kane, Midfielder Sha’mar Lawson (on loan from Millwall).

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.

Watling worked alongside Michael Beale when he was in charge of QPR and Rangers and was also head coach of USL Championship side Hartford Athletic for 18 months from January 2021. David Kerslake will be Watling’s assistant manager while John Cotton has been named as first-team coach.

Watling earned his UEFA B licence at age 18, UEFA A licence at 26 and his UEFA Pro licence at 33, which at the time made him one of the youngest coaches in England to have such coaching licence’s

Watling is married to professional footballer and Northern Ireland International player Ciara Watling who currently plays for Southampton.

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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 is aimed for August 2026. The relocation will see the demolition of Stonebridge Road.