A RUN MAID IN HISTORY
MAIDSTONE United are the last Non-League club still standing in this season’s FA Cup and have remarkably already won six FA Cup ties this season – the same number of wins a Premier League club would have to achieve in order to lift the cup itself.
Along the way, the Stones have both had to avoid being on the wrong end of giant-killings as well as causing their own fantastic upsets over Football League opposition.
And the club have set record after record since starting its FA Cup run back in the middle of September, scoring 13 goals across their six games, and now travel to Championship side Ipswich Town in the fourth round.
Maidstone United began their FA Cup campaign with a 4-1 away win at Steyning Town Community from three levels below them, followed by a 2-0 victory on the road at Winchester City. A similar scoreline away at fellow National League South Torquay United took the Stones into the ‘proper’ rounds of the competition for the first time in four years.
A third successive 2-0 away victory at Chesham United equalled the current club’s best FA Cup run and a terrific 2-1 comeback win at home to League Two Barrow saw the current Stones club match the best run of the original Maidstone United club.
And a Sam Corne penalty was the difference as the Stones defeated League 1 opponents Stevenage to take a Maidstone United team into the FA Cup fourth round for the first time ever in what is the 102nd campaign since the Stones first entered the competition in the latter years of the 19th Century.