THEY say all good things come in threes, and for fans of Kidlington FC that saying may well come true this season.

The club is already through to the quarter-finals of the FA Vase, are sitting pretty in fourth place in their league and have now been boosted with news cash has been allocated for much-needed improvements.

Board members have announced a £27,500 fund to give their Yarnton Road ground an extra 50 seats to the main stand, putting in two new turnstiles, a media area and hospitality facilities for visiting officials.

The work, which will be completed by the end of March, is part of Football Association requirements for teams wanting to play at a semi-professional level.

This season’s biggest success story has come in the FA Vase, which features both semi-professional and amateur teams from lower down the league pyramid.

On Saturday the first team beat Humberside-based club Cleethorpes Town to reach the quarter-finals, the furthest stage in their history.

The club also lie fourth in the Hellenic League Premier Division – nine levels below the Premier League – and staff are hopeful of a promotion party come the end of the season.

Commercial manager Nick Duval, who has been part of the club’s charitable trust since it was formed in October last year, said it was “marvellous what the club had been able to achieve”.

He added: “Our success is the kind of thing that many of our players have dreamed about, and that includes me as well.

“We are indebted to the Kidlington Recreational Trust, which has leased us the ground, we’ve had great support from people in the village and this is a real community effort.

“We really have been making history recently. Virtually all of our players have come from Kidlington and they are well-known to people in the local area.”

The money for the project is expected to come from FA grants, with extra funding from charity events and the team’s social club.

Club secretary David Platt, who joined the club as a player 23 years ago, said: “It’s a very exciting time for the team.

“This money has given some degree of financial control as well. It has meant we are able to finance these things that we could not have done in the past.

“The focus will now be on winning as much as we can this season.”

The alterations will bring the ground up to the required standard for Southern League football, the level above Kidlington at the moment.

Currently the ground has a capacity of 2,000 people.

A planning application has also been submitted to divert the public footpath, which currently runs diagonally across the park from Yarnton Road to the pitch, but may be moved alongside the river instead.