Rusthall 4-0 Bearsted - Hopefully the momentum from this cup win will take it into our last six games, says maiden trophy winning Rusthall manager Jimmy Anderson

Rusthall 4 – 0 Bearsted
Location	Flamingo Park, Sidcup-by-pass, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 6HL
Kickoff	03/04/2026 13:00

RUSTHALL  4-0  BEARSTED
Presence & Co Southern Counties East Football League Challenge Cup Final
Good Friday 3 April 2026
Stephen McCartney reports from Flamingo Park

RUSTHALL manager Jimmy Anderson says winning their first major trophy is probably the club’s biggest achievement at the highest level after this impressive statement win over their fellow play-off chasing rivals Bearsted.

 

The Rustics last won a cup back in 2004 when Bexley were defeated 2-0 at Sevenoaks Town’s Greatness Park to lift the West Kent Challenge Shield before the club celebrated winning the Kent County League Division One West title a year later.

But in front of a large, vocal Rusthall following, Anderson’s men claimed their first piece of silverware as a ninth-tier Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division outfit, watched by a crowd of 735 at Flamingo Park, the stadium of Isthmian League Premier Division side Cray Wanderers.

Left-winger Joshua Reid settled the nerves with a clinical finish to give Rusthall the lead.

Reid scored again – taking his tally for the season to 10 goals – before striker Charlie Clover (20^th goal) and right-winger Louie Clarke (24) as Rusthall hit Bearsted on the counter-attack to give Anderson his first trophy in his seven years in charge of the Jockey Farm outfit.

Bearsted, who celebrated winning the Kent County League Inter-Regional Challenge Cup back in 1991, 1994 and 1997, have now suffered back-to-back Cup Final pain, losing the Marlon Button Final to Whitstable Town in the 2007 Kent Senior Trophy Final in Dartford.

Rusthall have defeated Sporting Club Thamesmead (4-3), Chessington & Hook United (6-0), Tunbridge Wells (4-3) and Larkfield & New Hythe (2-1) to reach their maiden Challenge Cup Final.

The Rustics went into this Good Friday Cup Final sitting in fifth-place in the League table with 50 points (14 wins, eight draws and eight defeats).

Bearsted defeated Whitstable Town (3-2), Hollands & Blair (4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw), Hythe Town (3-2) and AFC Greenwich Borough (4-3).

The Bears were in third-place in the table with 55 points (15 wins, 10 draws and seven defeats).

“It feels great, obviously, history has just been made for the club and stuff like that. It’s big occasion for us. It’s probably the biggest achievement what the club has done at the highest level, so yes, it’s a great day. It’s been a great day, probably continue a great day but it was a great performance by the boys today,” said Anderson.

“Career highlight? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…. It helps my CV put it that way, so yes, no, hopefully more to come.

“We’ve spoken for many years now. I’ve been here seven years. Personally, when you’ve got to win on the last day of the season or you can’t lose and you need to get a point to stay in the League, I’ve had that situation.  I’ve missed out on play-offs finishing sixth (last season), so yes, to take this club from Step Six back to Step Five and being an established Step Five side now, yes, it’s certainly a greats day, it’s a Cup.

“It’s a huge day for the club. We knew that coming into it and we didn’t play the occasion.  I thought the fans were superb.  The atmosphere was good, the way we played today was good. Probably could’ve and should’ve scored more goals but it’s 4-0 and it’s a cup win. I would’ve taken one-nil at half-time.

“I know what the boys are capable of doing, it’s just whether they turn up on the day and stuff like that and you need your individuals.  You need a bit of luck.

“We suffered a blow earlier on with Jesse (Hammond) coming off injured. I don’t know if he’s done anything serious, so we’ll have to asses that and we’ve got another game on Monday.  The pitch is quite heavy.  They (the other withdrawn player, Rahman Kareem) just felt a bit tight in hamstring areas, so it should be fine, it should be fine.

“It’s a Cup Final, it’s never going to be easy and the occasion does play it’s part.  You’re at a ground what’s a bit open, so neither one, you kind of, I don’t know, like want a feel of the game, how it’s going to play with the wind and stuff like that.

“I’m not saying the conditions were bad. I know there’s been a lot of talk about should finals be played at this stadium or that stadium. It’s been superb here.  Obviously, for me, this is the first Cup Final I’ve ever got to and I feel like a Cup final’s important to be played at a ground what you don’t go to (for League games), so yes, I feel like this is fantastic – this is what I want.”

Bearsted coach Billy Jones added: “Gutted, disappointed but like we said to the boys after ‘don’t let it define us and don’t let is define us what we’re trying to do this season.’

“Fair play to Rusthall, they took their chances albeit the last two were against-the-run-of-play, which we’ve got to go for it but listen, fair play to them.

“We said at half-time, we felt we kind of had the first 15 minutes. I felt we kind of were, we weren’t dominant but we were ok and then they scored and then they were on top and we looked a bit ropey.  We looked a bit disorganised but then towards the back end of the first half I actually thought we looked quite comfortable and we huffed and puffed a little bit.”

Today’s game started at a very slow pace and Bearsted were to be denied by recalled Rusthall keeper Serine Sanneh as the game ticked into the tenth minute.

Right-back Sam Flisher lined up the first of his seven long throws into the Rusthall penalty area, the ball was flicked on at the near-post towards the back stick where attacking midfielder Samuel Stace was denied by the 23-year-old keeper, who smothered the shot low to his right, at the very last minute.

“I can’t remember the minute when Sam Stace has had one blocked on the line by the goalkeeper? It’s an unbelievable save. I think that’s quite early. If we score then it might be a different game but listen, it is what it is,” said Jones.

“Massive chance. I think (had we scored) it would’ve calmed us down even more. What it would’ve done to them, I don’t know. Listen, that’s ifs, buts and maybes isn’t it but if we take it, it might be a different game but we didn’t.

“We said before the game in the team-talk, that sometimes cup finals are always relying on moments and the big moments in the game, we just didn’t get right, either in their box or in our box, so yes, stuff to work on.”

Anderson added: “Great save, great save and that’s Serine for us, that’s it, in my opinion, he’s the best goalkeeper in the league and I’ve got Reece (Hobbs) as well, whose been superb for us.

“When things like that happens, you kind of half feel its your day, do you know what I mean? 

“Like I said, you need characters to step up and I felt like that was the only thing he’s had to do and that’s not me being disrespectful, that’s the only thing he’s had to do today.”

Rusthall started with Jack Kirby as the more advanced striker, with Clover in behind him before the pair switched later on in the first half.

“Did he? Did he, or did he not? Or was it just clever movement? We’ll never know but yes you can tell your people who read this, if he started as a nine or did he start as a 10 or did he start as what you called it the other night? At times (he played as the most advanced striker), at times,” came Anderson’s strange reply.

Rusthall holding midfielder Frank Griffin played the ball along the carpet into Reid – after a spell of pinball inside the Bearsted penalty area – before Reid steered his low left-footed shot past the foot of the near post from 10-yards on the angle (15:20).

Both sides appeared to be feeling the nerves but Rusthall grabbed the lead with 27 minutes and 2 seconds on the clock, courtesy of a fine pass from centre-half Robbie Bissett  - who missed a second-half penalty during Monday’s goal-less stalemate against Hollands & Blair.

Bissett’s left-footed through ball split open Bearsted’s right-back Flisher and Reid cut into box and produced a composed right-footed finish, across keeper Leighton Fanshawe to bounce inside the bottom far corner.

“That’s what you need.  Goals obviously win games and we need to calm our nerves, if there was nerves and it’s a big moment for Josh. We needed that,” admitted Anderson.

“He’s been superb for us all season, but obviously he could’ve potentially chipped in with more goals and today, when it mattered, he popped up with two.”

Jones admitted: “We didn’t get it right. We worked on how they would play on Wednesday, how we thought they would play and listen, it didn’t go right.

“Our full-back and our winger didn’t get that right but it was a good finish.

“Like I say, I felt after they scored, after being a bit disorganised and then we got our foot on the ball. We were kind of good with the ball. We got around their box a little bit and we just didn’t have the final pass or an extra pass or a better touch. On other days, we’re better than that!

“Listen, we’re not too downhearted, yes we’re gutted and we’re disappointed that we haven’t won and we wanted to win. We’re coming to a cup final wanting to win but it hasn’t happened and we move on.”

Kirby, now playing in his usual number 10 position, slipped the ball in between Bearsted’s two centre-halves Sonny Jackson and Ryan Blake to put Clover through on goal but Fanshawe made a big save with his legs as he charged out towards the very edge of his penalty area as Rusthall were playing on the front foot (29:00).

“I think we’re a bit open on that situation but it’s a good save in the end,” added Jones.

Reid was a threat to Flisher during the first half and he once again cut inside the right-back before stroking his right-footed drive towards goal from 30-yards, which was comfortably gathered in the Bearsted keeper’s midriff.

Flisher then had his pocket picked by the hungry Reid some 35-yards from goal before his sublime angled pass was controlled inside the box by Clover and his right-footed shot in the middle of the penalty area forced Fanshawe to dive to his left to use a strong left hand to push towards safety, as Rusthall carved out a glorious goalscoring chance with 36:02 on the clock.

“Charlie beat himself up a bit about not scoring that goal because obviously we were on top at that point.  We started to dictate how we was going to play and it was a big moment, a big moment,” admitted Anderson.

“This is what I mean, we needed to kind of kill it off and go in at half-time potentially two-nil up.

“We were against the wind and I feel like it benefited us a bit by going against the wind and then we got in at half-time one-nil up.”

Bearsted were suffering from stage fright – offered little threat and their 21-goal lone striker Jake Embery was struggling to pop out of the pocket of Rusthall’s centre-half Daniel Blunn.

Kevin Stevens’ side just didn’t prove here today that they have the minerals to handle such occasions, which will be alarming should they reach the play-off final next month.

Bearsted did produced a trademark sweeping move (46:51) when Bisset’s ball forward was intercepted by Bearsted holding midfielder Jack Palmby, before the ball was worked forward and they impressed outside the box with some neat slick passing.

Embery dropped deep, Stace and left-back Conrad Lee (who finished the game in the sin-bin) linked up outside the box before left-winger James Bessey-Saldanha’s right-footed drive from outside the D flew straight down Sanneh’s throat for a comfortable catch at head height.

“I think that’s the bit we’re talking about in terms of being in and around the box, we’re trying to be clever with the way we play and in other games we’ve been really good at that.  Fisher last week (2-1 win), we were excellent at home doing that but this week it weren’t to be on that occasion,” admitted Jones.

Anderson added: “He’s a good player James and we knew he was one of their main threats today.”

Both were asked their thoughts going into the dressing rooms at the interval.

Anderson said: “What was said was that we could’ve, maybe should’ve killed the game off a little bit more, instead of being just 1-0 up but at the minute we’re the team what’s winning the game.

“They needed to come at us. We knew spaces would open up. We felt quite in control of the game. We knew their wingers would have a say in the game at some point but we just needed to keep them quiet and we just didn’t need to go wondering and try to chase the second goal. If we were patient and just bided our time, then it would come.”

Jones added: “I think we were lucky to not be more than one-down at times, especially when Clover’s gone one-on-one. Also at the same time, we could’ve gone in at one-all if Sammy had finished that. If we had been better in and around the box, so it wasn’t doom and gloom.

“It was like this is what we need to do. This is how we need to play. We need to be better with the ball and I felt first 10-15 minutes I thought we were really strong with the ball. Whether they (Rusthall) decided to sit in or whether they couldn’t get the ball off us, I’m not quite sure how they worked.

“Maybe they went on the counter a bit more and that’s where they ended up scoring their goals from because they weren’t quite good enough with the ball.”

Bearsted just didn’t perform to their usual levels and Bessey-Saldanha cut the ball onto his right-foot and put in a cross into the penalty area were quiet right-winger Ashton Mitford kn\=ocked his downward header harmlessly past the far post (3:25).

The second half started really flat and Bearsted just didn’t look like scoring.  Rusthall were to be denied a second on the hour-mark, on the counter-attack.

A deep Clover was inside the Rusthall half and his through ball released Kirby in behind, who skipped past Fanshawe, who had rushed out of his penalty area and Palmby was on hand to smash his first-time clearance behind for a corner before Kirby could apply the finish into an empty goal.

“See what I’m trying to say?” added Anderson.  “It opened up and space became available and we just need to keep trying and trying.

“But at that point I did think they were maybe going to nick a goal here because we missed not three sitters but we had three chances, three good chances in the game and we hadn’t put it to bed at that point.”

Jones said: “I mean, again we’re trying to play, we’re trying to get in good areas of the pitch and we’re trying to force them to make errors and we end up making errors ourselves and then we get down on the counter but fair play to Palms, he got back in the right position.”

Rusthall deservedly killed the game off by scoring their second goal of the game, with 23 minutes and 44 seconds on the clock.

None of the Bearsted players could be bothered pressing the two Rusthall players involved in this clinical counter-attacking move.

Right-back Rahman Kareem was given the freedom to roam from his berth on the pitch into space inside the Bearsted half on the other side of the pitch before playing in a precise low through ball to released Reid, who easily cut inside to drill his right-footed shot across the keeper into the far corner from 15-yards.

“Rahman Kereem’s played a lovely ball for Reid and he’s cut inside and drilled it – it’s a great goal,” said Anderson.

“Rahman’s come off with a tight hamstring but it’s a great assist by him. He’s drove from right-back all the way across the pitch, slipped Reidy in, he’s cut inside, gone onto his stronger foot, drilled it. It’s a great goal! Two-nil in a final, that’s exactly what you need and want.”

Jones said: “I think when you look back on it, when we analyse it, I think it’s actually a poor goal from us to concede.

“I think Flish gets caught in the wrong position and gets a ball down inside of him.  To be fair, the winger takes it really well and he was a threat. He was a danger and we just didn’t deal with it properly.

“Listen, you’ve got to give massive credit to them because when you come into a game like this, they had to have a game plan as well. I think they were more comfortable without the ball than with the ball.

“We went to watch them on Monday night and I think we made good enough notes as a coaching team – although it doesn’t seem like that now having got beat 4-0!

“But I thought we gave the boys enough information in terms of what they do and how they can hurt us and what worries us a little bit is that when you give that information to players, it still happens.

“It’s kind of are the messages going in? Are they understanding how we’re putting it across to them? But listen, like I said at the very start, fair play to them. They’ve gone on and won 4-0. It doesn’t define our season, we’ll be fine and we’ll be ready to go on Monday against Faversham Strike Force.”

Bearsted substitute winger Nathan Light played Embery in behind substitute right-back Louis Anderson and Embery jumped out of Blunn’s pocket to sweep his left-footed shot towards the bottom near corner from eight-yards, only for Sanneh to comfortably hold the ball low down at his near-post.

Bissett threaded a free-kick along the deck and good movement by Clarke resulted in a comfortable save from the busier of the two goalkeepers.

“Their keeper, actually, I thought he played really well. I know he’s conceded four but he did really well today,” added Anderson.

Rusthall went direct with their third goal, timed at 32 minutes and 15 seconds on the clock, as Jackson allowed the ball to sail over his head.

Blunn travelled towards the half-way line before drilling his long right-footed diagonal over the top. Clover brought the ball down and under control, cut into the box and clinically placed his right-footed shot across the keeper to find the bottom far corner in a one-v-one.

“That’s the thing, when the game opens up, you can do that because they changed it. They went three at the back, two up top, so then all off a sudden you can exploit the space what they’ve left,” said Anderson.

“Yes, Charlie needed that goal. He was beating himself up with the two misses he missed in the first half.”

Jones added: “I think when you look at that, when you look at that ball, usually you have your right-back (Flisher) covering, if that was to happen but we’re up the pitch because we’re looking to play again and the gaps are opening up again, so good ball.  You could say our centre-half didn’t do a good enough job but I thought Sammy was fine today, albeit that goal. I mean he could’ve done a little bit better but listen I think they’ve had it tough today.”

Bearsted went three-at-the-back and Rusthall were expecting Flisher to line up another long throw, but this time he threw it short to Jackson, who was in space and drilled his 30-yarder through a crowded penalty area and well wide of the far post.

Flisher’s penultimate long throw was cleared and Bessey-Saldanha was tackled by the giant figure of Rusthall substitute holding midfielder Thompson Adeyemi on the edge of the penalty area - but the ball fell to Nathan Light, who swept his left-footed drive across the keeper and past the far post from 19-yards.

Rusthall put the icing on the cake by scoring their fourth goal, timed at 43 minutes and 27 seconds on the clock.

Griffin, who was just inside the Rusthall half inside the centre-circle, played a deck pass to feed Kirby in space on the right and his through ball put Clarke in on goal and his left-footed shot was initially saved by Fanshawe, diving to his left, but the ball spun towards the goal line and crossed the line before Ayodeji Adeyemi could smash the ball into the bottom right-hand corner.

“Louie Clarke’s goal. One hundred percent, he needed that.  He needs to get back to goalscoring form and yes, 4-0 it flatters us a bit I suppose. I don’t know. We’ve had enough chances, as a collective, I think we’ve played really well today and we’ve won our first cup in ages, so it’s great,” said Anderson.

Jones added: “You’ve got your heart in your mouth because you know you’re kind of out of position. We’ve got to go for it, 3-0 in a cup final. If doesn’t matter if you do go free a little bit and you get done. You get sucker punched with the fourth. It happens all the time in any level of football, so we can’t be too disappointed with it.

“Of course it does (hurt). Listen, we’ve never been in this Cup (Final). I don’t know their history and what they’ve done and what they haven’t done.  I mean, listen, I thought the crowd was great. I don’t know what the attendance was – 735 – but we’ll be lucky to get 73 sometimes at our place!

“I thought our support were great. I thought their support was great. I thought it was an entertaining final. I think there were parts of it where it was back and forth a bit, basketball ish and it just happens they’ve come out as winners and we’ve come out as losers but it’s a part of a final.”

Stevens even threw on centre-half Philip Headley to play up front alongside Embery but neither had the quality to get past a resilient Rusthall back four.

Substitute holding midfielder Joshua Wisson floated a long ball into the Rusthall box where Headley rose to guided his free-header into Sanneh’s gloves but Bearsted put in a lacklustre performance on this big occasion and questions will be raised whether they can handle a play-off final should they reach it as they simply never turned up in Chislehurst today.

Rusthall’s players and management seemed to take forever to leave the Flamingo Park playing surface as they wanted to soak up their achievement.

“It feels great, it feels great,” said Anderson, with the winners medal around his neck, often holding the medal during his post-match interview.

“A lot of people wanted photos, the boys are enjoying it, drinking now, having photos and the boys are, I think, going for a quiet drink tomorrow, shall I say and then we’ve got another big game on Monday away to Tunbridge Wells.”

Both Rusthall and Bearsted face a big month ahead to see which club will join champions Whitstable Town in the Isthmian League South East Division next season.

Fisher (55 points, 30 of 36 games) are in second-place, Bearsted are in third, Larkfield & New Hythe (50 points from 31) and Rusthall are in the play-off zone going into Easter Saturday.

Sutton Athletic (49 points from 32), Hollands & Blair (48 points from 32), Punjab United (47 points from 30), Phoenix Sports (46 points from 31), Erith & Belvedere (43 points from 32), Snodland Town (43 points from 30) and Tunbridge Wells (43 points from 30) are all within a shout of grabbing a place.

Jones insists his side will bounce back on Monday when third-from-bottom side Faversham Strike Force visit Honey Lane.

“Do you know what, after this result, I said to them out there, don’t let this define us, what we’re going to do in the season.

“However, Monday’s massive because if anything and this is no disrespect to Faversham Strike Force, but you kind of what to go against someone who are in the play-offs because it makes you focus a bit more and our worry is that might not happen Monday.

“It’s our job to pick them back up and we’ll be fine. They’ve done it all season. We’ve had a heavy defeat, we got beat by Larkfield three weeks ago and went on to beat Sutton and Fisher at home, so we’re capable of playing good football and getting results.

“Now, like the gaffer said and rightly so, we’ve got a four massive cup finals in Faversham Strike Force, we’ve got Stansfeld (away, 11 April) we’ve got Sutton (home, 25 April) and we’ve got to play these again (away, 18 April) and then after that, who knows?

“But we’ll be focused, we’ll be ready to go on Monday and fingers crossed, we’ll be ok.”

Rusthall hold the advantage over Bearsted for the next game between the two sides, including any play-off as Rusthall handled the occasion and the high pressure and large crowd the better of the two sides.

“Personally looking back on it, is you know a bit more about them and they’re a good enough side and so are we to be in the play-offs and I think if both teams don’t end up being in the play-offs, something majorly has gone wrong this season, being both of us have been in and around it for most of the season,” said Jones.

“So we’ll get to play them second to last game of the season and hopefully we’re back in it already or someone needs the points to secure it, I don’t know.

“All we can focus on now is Monday, getting a squad together, hoping that there’s no injuries. We’ve got one suspension for Monday (Flisher). Listen, we’ll look at it, we’ll evaluate, sometimes when it happens you’ve got to say it’s happened and you move on. You can’t go back, can’t change anything of it but what we can do is to make sure that the players prepare themselves right, make sure we analyse Faversham Strike Force, make sure we understand what they do, what their strengths and weaknesses are and we’ll have a bang right good go on Monday.”

Anderson, meanwhile, takes his side to Culverden Stadium for the Rocks’ derby on Monday.

“It’s a derby, they’ll want to get one over us, so yes, we can sit back and see some of the results tomorrow, what goes on,” said Anderson.

“We’ve got six games now, six more cup finals that we’ve got to turn up and do the business – or eight – but six first of all. That’s what we’ve got to worry about. We’ll worry about Tunbridge Wells first, that will be tough.

“I’m not really looking forward to it. Everyone who tells me that the pitch hasn’t improved at all this season, so it’s going to be hard to try to play on it.

“They’ve got some good players. Regan Corke’s obviously in good form – (scoring a hat-trick in Tuesday night’s 5-0 home win to relegate managerless Hythe Town), so they have loads of threats and it’s a derby. It’s kind of a little bit of a cup final, form goes out of the window. It’s whoever turns up on the day and you need a little bit of taking risks, I suppose.

“I remember you saying to me, you interviewed me (earlier on in the season) and you said ‘do you think we’re probably that club what needs a bit of silverware now, I need a bit of silverware?’

“We’re going in the right direction. I think today hopefully the momentum from this cup win will take it into our last six games, potentially, yes. It’s one game though. It’s an occasion. It’s one game, like we have another, I can’t stress how big Monday will be. We need to go there and pick up points. We need to keep getting points, so they will want to upset whatever we’re doing.  They’re doing well this season.

“They played Hythe the other day but Hythe have changed their manager four times, they’ve changed their squad probably about 80 times (using 92 players), so I don’t know, we’ll see.  We’ve got to go there and it will be tough. Kennington have got to go there tomorrow, so a tough game.

“The fans were amazing and it’s great. It’s great for them. They’re all absolutely over the moon that we’ve got this over the line and we put on a show.

“I wanted to win. You’re kind of in finals you don’t play the occasion, you just win the game however. But we won it our way today and that was the most beautiful thing about it. No one can talk rubbish about my team and how we played. We played football today and we’ve done a very good job on a very good side.

“Listen, they’re third in the League. They’re going to be in the play-offs, I said that to you the other day. I think they’ve got one foot in the play-offs already.

“How do we join them? By winning games, by staying focused and ticking them off and winning games, so they’re a very good side.  This is one game. It means sod all in the League. It’s just a cup and we’ve turned up on the day and we’ve got the job done. Now we need to bring ourselves back down (after a weekend of celebrations) and get back to work on Monday.”

The Challenge Cup winners also play Chislehurst Glebe (away, 11 April), Stansfeld (home, 14 April), Bearsted, Snodland Town (away, 21 April) and Holmesdale (away, 25 April).

Rusthall: Serine Sanneh, Rahman Kareem (Thompson Adeyemi 71), Jesse Hammond (Louis Anderson 21), Frank Griffin, Robbie Bissett, Daniel Blunn, Joshua Reid (Yassin Fares 81), Jeffrey Njuguna, Jack Kirby, Charlie Clover (Ayodeji Owoeye 81), Louie Clarke.
Sub: Reece Hobbs

Goals: Joshua Reid 28, 69, Charlie Clover 77, Louie Clarke 89

Booked: Thompson Adeyemi 70

Bearsted: Leighton Fanshawe, Sam Flisher, Conrad Lee, Jack Palmby (Joshua Wisson 79), Ryan Blake, Sonny Jackson (James Nurden 82), James Bessey-Saldanha, Aiden Clark (Nathan Light 72), Jake Embery, Samuel Stace (Phillip Headley 79), Ashton Mitford (Jarred Trespaderne 79).

Booked: Billy Jones 70 (coach)

Temporary Dismissal: Conrad Lee 90

Attendance: 735
Referee: Mr Byron Beard
Assistants: Mr Matthew Jackson & Mr Liam Broom
Fourth Official: Mr Grant Steele

(Apologies - the website backoffice is not allowing me to publish the photograph sent in by Alan Coomes of Rusthall celebrating with the trophy post match)