Kingsbury London Tigers have made it into the history books after they became the first Asian football team in west London to take part in the FA Cup.

They played Eton Manor in the extra preliminary round, beating them 1-0.

The club's founder and chief executive Mesba Ahmed told BBC London 94.9: "Sport does bring people together. It's just 12 more games until Wembley."

The Tigers will now travel away to Concord Rangers in the preliminary round on Saturday, 30 August.

It's about young people's opportunities Mesba Ahmed

"We've been established and running as a football team since 1986. I'm the one that founded it in my youth days and at the end of 1999 I formalised it as an organisation.

"And the idea all came from providing young people with a progression route from football right the way to semi-pro.

"It's about young people's opportunities because half of the time young people don't know what's out there for them."

Kingsbury London Tigers currently play in the Premier Division of the Spartan South Midlands League and are a unique football club, representing over 40 nationalities within their 20 teams from under-eights to senior level.

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