Dover Athletic’s former captain Kevin Lokko has joined newly promoted EFL side Harrogate Town.

Whites boss Andy Hessenthaler had hoped to keep the man he made skipper but the 24-year-old was one of seven who left at the end of their contracts.

Lokko was voted fans’ player-of-the-year at the end of the shortened 2019/20 season in what was his second year at the club. He had picked up the players’ player-of-the-year award the previous season.

Harrogate won promotion to the football league for the first time in their history through the National League playoffs, beating Notts County in the final.

The Yorkshire side will be groundsharing with Doncaster Rovers next season while their own 3G pitch is being replaced by a natural surface, as per Football League rules.

Lokko started his career at Norwich City and played for both Welling United and Maidstone United before joining Dagenham & Redbridge. It was from there that he moved to Dover.

Last season’s Dover Athletic team is gradually being broken apart. While Lokko has moved on, Whites’ leading scorer last season Inih Effiong is also playing in League 2 next season, after his new club Stevenage were saved from the drop after Macclesfield Town’s relegation.

All of the club’s contracted players are transfer listed and available for free.

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