ST IVES Town will include two former Football League players and a current Peterborough United professional in their ranks when they visit York City.

One-time Barnet forward Danny Kelly is set to lead the line for the Cambridgeshire visitors during the third qualifying round tie at Bootham Crescent, while ex-Peterborough centre-back Mark Coulson will be marshalling the troops at the other end of the pitch.

Sam Cartwright, meanwhile, has been drafted in on loan from the Posh, where he is two months into a three-year contract, having featured for the League One title-chasers in pre-season.

He has since made 13 appearances and scored two goals for St Ives - both in the Cup.

Kelly, 27, made three sub outings in League Two, while 32-year-old Coulson has eight appearances to his name for the London Road club.

Winger Jordan Patrick, meanwhile, will not be facing the Minstermen for the first time in his career, having played 49 games and netted three times in the past for former Conference foes Cambridge United.

Otherwise, the Evo-Stik League South Premier Central side can also draw upon the services of players who were on the academy books of the likes of Peterborough, Norwich, West Ham and Northampton.

With five goals scored and five conceded this term, St Ives simultaneously boast their division’s worst strikeforce and best defence and lie eighth in a 22-strong table that is headed by Kettering.

Kelly and fellow recognised strikers George Bailey and Dylan Wilson have only managed one goal – courtesy of the latter – in 28 collective outings and the club have failed to net in their last three league contests, with a 1-0 home defeat to Coalville followed by goal-less draws against Stourbridge and AFC Rushden & Diamonds.

Winger Ben Seymour-Shove is the team’s top scorer with four goals in all competitions for a club that launched the career of Northern Ireland and Sheffield United striker Connor Washington who, while combining his work as a postman, netted 52 goals in 50 games in the last of his four seasons with the then United Counties League Saints before moving to Newport for £5,000 in 2012

Ex-Corby and Brackley midfielder Tom McGowan, meanwhile, has been this season’s most consistent performer, with four man-of-the-match awards from his 12 appearances.

St Ives is a market town that lies five miles east of Huntingdon and 12 north-west of Cambridge, which has a population of 16,000, compared to the 22,000 people that reside in Acomb.

The football club was formed in 1887, but had never previously progressed past the first qualifying round of FA Cup - a feat they had also only managed twice in 2006 and 2009.

Their Westwood Road ground has a 2,000 capacity and manager Ricky Marheineke is currently enjoying his fifth season in charge, having guided the Saints into the Southern League’s premier division following a 2016 2-1 play-off final victory over AFC Rushden & Diamonds in front of 1,523 fans.

St Ives will meet City hoping to extend an unbeaten six-game run, but have drawn four of those matches. The two wins have come in Cup replays against Grantham (2-0) and Saffron Walden Town (3-1).