Maidstone United are in line for a £100,000 windfall towards their Gallagher Stadium expansion after winning promotion to Conference South.

Stones qualify for extra funding from the Football Stadia Improvement Fund, in addition to the £150,000 grant they have already secured for the £600,000 project.

Co-owner Terry Casey said: "The application went in Sunday morning after we knew we'd got the promotion.

"We'd done huge amounts of work in advance of the application going in and we are eligible, as a Conference club, for an extra £100,000 on top of the £150,000 we got as a Ryman club.

"We are hoping to get it and we're rather putting it in the budget now as pretty much a done deal.

"It's not a done deal but we're being told that it should be okay."

Stones are extending their main stand to include another 350 seats.

They will also add extra terracing and gates to raise capacity from 2,226 to just over 3,000.

Work is scheduled to start on May 20.