Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2026, Kick-off 15.00
Isthmian League South East Division
Pilot Field, Hastings
Admission: £12.00
Programme: £3.00
Attendance: 1,220
Saturday, 5 September 2026
Hailsham Town 1 v 1 Saltdean United
Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2026, Kick-off 11.00
Southern Combination League Division One
The Beaconsfield, Hailsham
Admission: £6.00
Programme: 50p
Attendance: 160
Sunday, 30 August 2026
Charlton Athletic 1 v 0 Preston North End
Saturday 29th August 2026, Kick-off 15.00
EFL Championship
The Valley, Charlton
Admission: Season Ticket
Programme: £4.00
Attendance: 17,256 (962 away)
A match report can be read by clicking here , also copied and pasted below
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Addicks make it three in three with win over Preston
Charlton 1 Preston North End 0
The Addicks made it three league wins on the spin at The Valley on Saturday afternoon, beating Preston North End 1-0 in the Sky Bet Championship.
The result sent Charlton to the top of the league table as Karlan Grant bagged his first goal back at the club with a fine finish in front of the Covered End.
Nathan Jones made one change for the team that beat West Ham United last weekend, as Ivan Mesík started in place of the injured Billy Koumetio.
There was nothing to report in the opening stages of the match as both sides looked to break the deadlock.
On 23 minutes, Tyreece Campbell sent a dangerous cross into the area, which Aflie Devine did well to turn away under pressure from Miles Leaburn.
Shortly after, Harry Clarke managed to get the better of Mesík down the right-hand side and fed the ball through to Callum Lang who was lurking in the area. Skipper Lloyd Jones produced an excellent piece of defending to shield the ball out for a goal-kick.
Andrija Vukcevic sent a searching cross that was met by Lang, who couldn’t direct it on target while, at the other end, Campbell floated a well-weighted ball towards Leaburn, who nodded it narrowly wide of the post.
Both sides had chances throughout the first 45 minutes, but neither could seriously test the goalkeepers.
The Addicks had a chance to go ahead just before half-time after being awarded a free kick in a dangerous position. Grant stepped up to take it but saw his effort fly narrowly just past the goal.
The gaffer made his first switch at the interval, as Sonny Carey was replaced by Millenic Alli.
Charlton upped the tempo at the start of the second half. Charlton soon got their reward for their increased pressure, as Grant opened the scoring on 56 minutes. Alli’s cross found the number nine in the box, who held up the ball brilliantly. He managed to turn and squeeze his shot in at the near post beyond Daniel Iversen to give the Addicks a well-deserved lead.
Alan Mwamba entered the fray just after the hour mark, as Nathaniel Chalobah was forced off and the academy graduate made an impact, seeing a shot well blocked following his introduction.
The midfielder was at the heart of the action of much if the action and fed a lovely ball through to Leaburn, but the striker fired his effort off target.
Towards the end of the game, sub Micah Mbick had the chance to make it two, but Clarke managed to thwart his effort.
The Addicks held firm to make it three league wins from three in the league. The result meant that Charlton sit the top of the Championship table with three wins from three - the only side remaining in the EFL with maximum points.
Charlton: Okonkwo; McNamara, Jones (c), Bell, Mesík; Coventry, Chalobah (Mwamba 63); Campbell (Asiimwe 90+4), Carey (Alli 46), Grant (Rankin-Costello 90+4), Leaburn (Mbick 88)
Subs (not used): Brooks, Knibbs, Ouma, Apter
Goal: Grant 56
Assist: Alli 56
Booked: Rankin-Costello 90+5 (foul on Burgzorg)
Preston North End: Iverson; Lindsay, Clarke, Gibson; Offiah (Erabi 70), Leroy, Thompson (Small 77), Vukevic (Wiley 89); Lang (Mills 70), Devine; Burgzorg
Subs (not used): Nicholls, Valentín, Storey, Moran, Gryba
Booked: Leroy 54 (foul on Grant)
Referee: Tom Reeves
Attendance: 17,256 (962 from Preston)
Bexhill United 2 v 2 Roffey
Friday 28th August 2026, Kick-off 19.30
Southern Combination League Premier Division
Little Common Recreation Ground, Bexhill-on-Sea
Admission: £8.00
Programme: Free
Attendance: 130
A match report can be read by clicking here, also copied and pasted below.
Bexhill and Roffey fight out Friday night draw
It was a rare treat for Bexhill fans to have both Friday night football under the lights, and at a venue close to home, to get the Bank Holiday weekend underway.
Having played “home” games at a range of far flung venues while the cricket season sees out its dog days and we wait for the Polegrove to be returned to football use, it was lovely to be able to use the facilities at nearby Little Common for the league clash with Roffey.
It may be the last knockings of summer but there was a definite whiff of autumn in the air as the wind picked up across the recreation ground and the lights kicked into action.
Pirates boss Jay Skinner-Swain shuffled his pack again, drafting Tom Vickers into central defence and shifting Dale Penn out to left-back.
Roffey are no mugs and have had a decent start to the season, sitting in the top half of the table close to Bexhill, and they shaped up strongly in the opening exchanges to go toe to toe with their hosts.
They weren’t in town to play for a draw and that created space behind their back four. Jack Shonk and Ash Latuske came close to exploiting that on five minutes when they broke clear with Latuske seeing his shot dealt with by the keeper.
Roffey were testing the Bexhill defence but the game was wide open and on 18 minutes the ball fell for Charlie Playford and, with the Boars keeper in no man’s land, he just failed to lob him from distance.
Minutes later Bexhill broke through. A clever free-kick from Richie Welch was picked up inside the box by Ryan Moir and he rolled the defender to juggle the ball onto his left peg and rifle it home.
Roffey came strong as the clock wound down to half-time and on the brink of the break they levelled the score with a deep corner nodded back into the danger zone by the impressive Tresor Difika and Meeres snapped up the chance to head it home.
The game was well set up for the second half with two evenly matched teams but as the wind picked up it started to influence the business on the pitch.
The play switched from end to end but both defences held strong until the 55th minute when great strength and pressing from Theo Coombs won the ball for Bexhill just inside the Roffey half and he drove on before setting up Moir with a great pass that allowed him to cut in and deliver a quality finish.
This was one of those games when you knew a one goal lead was unlikely to be enough. Roffey pressed Bexhill, shoving the Pirates back deeper and deeper. There was some last-ditch defending as Bexhill fought to hold the three points and on 80 minutes Finn Holter got down sharply to pull off an important save.
It was a warning, and a couple of minutes later Roffey got their equaliser. Mase picked up on a through ball and smashed it first time past Holter into the roof of the net.
Bexhill went looking for the chance to take the lead for a third time and threw on subs to inject fresh legs and energy but at the final whistle it remained 2-2. Probably a fair reflection on the game and a great advert for Friday night football.