LEYTON'S LISBEI LINKS TO THE VASE AND TROPHY

 Where is Brackley? Northamptonshire! The club is based at St James' Park, Brackley and the Saints are holders of the Buildbase FA Trophy, the Trophy designed in 1969 for Non-League clubs playing between Tier 5-8. (Tier 4 being Football League Division 2).

Last season Brackley won the FA Trophy beating Bromley 5-4 on penalties at Wembley after a thrilling 1-1.

The final was played on the same day as the Buildbase FA Vase Final, also a Non-League competition for clubs below Tier 8, a competition founded in 1974.

These two competitions took the place of the FA Amateur Cup when the national game went "professional" for all. The standard of entry is decided by which level of the Pyramid clubs are in after the previous season.

Last season's FA Vase Final saw Thatcham Town, the Kingfishers, from Berskshire beat Stockton Town 1-0 from the North-east, also at Wembley, on Non-League Day.

On May 19th this year at Wembley, Leyton Orient take on AFC Fylde with a winner's pride of £20,000.

FA Trophy winners get £60,000 and runners up £30,000. Semi-final winners get £20,000.
FA Vase winners earn £30,000 and Losers £20,000 whilst semi-final winners earn £5500 and losers £1750.

This season's Trophy final will be between Leyton Orient and AFC Fylde. Orient beat AFC Telford Utd 3-1 over the two leg semi-final and are coached by Kevin Lisbei-see below- who played 111 times for the Orient and ten times for Jamaica.
Fylde beat Stockport County 3-2.

The Vase Final will be between:
Cray Valley Paper Mills from Eltham near Greenwich, play in the Southern Counties East Premier, and have beaten St Austell FC in the South-west, Irlam in the North-west, West Auckland in the North-east and back to Northwich Victoria amongst their nine conquests. Lisbei played briefly for "Paper Mills" at the end of his playing career.

Chertsey Town, 

The "Curfews" (named after a local church bell that rang out as night fell-hence the curfew) from Surrey play in the Combined Counties League. Town have not travelled quite so far but have beaten NINE clubs including St Panteleimon, Baffin Milton Rovers and Canterbury City.