Dover look set to be kicked out of this season’s Kent Senior Cup. The National League South bottom team progressed to the Quarter-Final stage of the competition with a 4-0 victory at Isthmian South East Beckenham last Tuesday.
But it has since come to light that 22-year-old defender Nico Jones had - seemingly unknowingly - already played in the Kent Senior Cup this term for Welling United in a 7-1 defeat to Sevenoaks in November and therefore was ineligible.
Ironically, Jones was sent off for a second bookable offence at Beckenham. Whites are in contact with the Kent FA - but manager Jake Leberl concedes the situation doesn’t look good for Dover, who would have been due to face Ebbsfleet in the next round.
He said: “I was really pleased with the boys that came in and played, especially the two full-backs. “Unfortunately, we had an incident where one of the lads (Jones) played in the competition for Welling.