Ebbsfleet United’s commercial activities are enjoying a boom period as the club announced this morning that all major sponsorships have been sold, all pitch perimeter and programme advertising is sold out, season-ticket sales have doubled to 600 and Fleet hospitality-suite memberships have trebled.

Moreover, only two player kit sponsorships remain and enquiries for match, match ball and programme sponsorships are very healthy bearing in mind the fixtures are not published until 5th July.

Vice chairman Peter Varney told FleetOnline: “The progress made by Dave Archer [pictured above with Jack Powell] and his team during the close season has been astonishing. This sort of progress does not happen by accident. It is the result of an awful lot of hard work. This club is definitely heading in the right direction and long may it continue.”