A 5-3 penalty shootout win saw Margate win the Sid Burvill Trophy on Saturday after a goalless 90 minutes at the Alcaline Stadium.

It was a sweltering lunchtime kick off as Invicta welcomed a familiar opposition, winger Evans Kouassi pulled on the black and amber stripes in front of a home crowd for the first time and immediately showed signs of his quality as he drove at his fullback early on to win a corner that lead to the first effort of the afternoon; a Dan Smith header taken comfortably by the Margate keeper.

Kouassi was next to threaten the Margate goal as he collected a cross to the back post from trialist 7 in the 20th minute but saw his effort well blocked.

“7” was as it again soon after, another cross that caused confusion between the Margate goalkeeper and his defence, dropping to Kouassi who forced a good save from the edge of the box.

With half time approaching, Smith created the next chance as he collected a ball over the top and squared for Matt Young who struck his effort first time but failed to get the power to beat the goalkeeper.

Invicta came out for the second half unchanged, with the manager now looking to put players through full 90 minutes as the season approaches, and the early minutes of the second half saw a flurry of chances to open the deadlock.

Inside 2 minutes Invicta’s front 3 combined well, Smith holding the ball up to feed in “7” who worked with Kouassi before squaring to Smith who fired over under pressure from a defender’s challenge.

Kouassi turned provider again just a minute later, turned his fullback inside and out before delivering a cross to the back post, Young heading back into the area for an onrushing Dean Rance to come onto at pace, the Margate keeper making himself big to deny the effort from point blank rage.

Young created the next chance, this time on the floor with a through ball into the path of “7” who fired over on his weaker foot.

Shortly after “7” departed to be replaced by “18”.

Just after the hour mark Rance went close again, a cross from the left headed clear to the Invicta midfielder who had time and space to pick his spot and looked like he had found the top corner but for a superb fingertip save.

Drury made another change halfway through the second half, this time to his midfield with Young making way for “16”.

With 20 minutes to go, the visitors began to grow into the game, their first chance falling to forward Lukas Franzen-Jones who dragged a shot wide from the edge of the area.

A few minutes later player-manager Ben Greenhalgh fired a free kick over from just outside the box.

Greenhalgh fired over again soon after from a move down the right, then a free kick from a similar position was fired straight into the wall as the afternoon faded into a shootout, only the second time in history that the fixture has finished goalless and only the 5th shootout.

Margate took first at the Cricket Ground End, with both teams perfect until Dean Rance saw his kick saved by the trailing feet of the Margate keeper, leaving Margate captain Harry Hudson to convert their 5th kick to win the shootout.

Margate captain Harry Hudson was presented with the Sid Burvill Trophy by Sid’s three granddaughters Hannah, Alice and Lucy.

The Burvill Family selected a Man of the Match for each team, both number 4s with Invicta captain Ian Gayle and Margate’s Harvey Brand collecting the awards.