The Fleet have nine pre-season friendlies dates in the calendar – with six announced today and three more to be confirmed.

Our traditional summer opener for the Steve Cook Cup at Punjab United kicks off the friendly programme with the newly promoted Gravesend-based club set to take their place in the Isthmian League for the first time. That game takes place on Wednesday, July 1st.

It’s to another Isthmian club we go to for our second match as our old Ryman League rivals Canvey Island host us on July 4th. We also have trips to Aveley and Cray Valley Paper Mills (July 14th and 28th respectively).

Our home run of games – with a total of four to be played at Stonebridge Road – see West Ham United U21s once again make the trip over the river, while we also take on Gillingham and two more clubs to be announced.

The full list is as below:

Weds 1 July v Punjab United (away)
Sat 4 July v Canvey Island (away)
Tue 7 July v tbc (away)
Tue 14 July v Aveley (away)
Sat 18 July v tbc (home)
Tue 21 July v West Ham United U21 (home)
Fri 24 July v tbc (home)
Tue 28 July v Cray Valley Paper Mills (away)
Fri 31 July v Gillingham (home)