Wexford FC secured their spot in the First Division playoffs tonight with a hard earned victory over Kerry FC in Mounthawk Park.

Webb’s superb strike inside the first five minutes gave the away side the lead before Kelliher's 10th league goal of the season put Kerry level. Thomas Oluwa netted the winner with twenty minutes to go from close range.

Kerry face Waterford next Saturday in their final home game of the season with Wexford facing a home tie against Cobh, two sides who look likely to meet in the postseason.

The side looking for their first playoff appearance in their history started in fine form, controlling all the early possession with Kerry struggling to get a hold of the ball.

The away side took the lead through a real moment of magic, Reece Webb picked up the ball on the right hand side and got past the Kerry left back Sean O’Connell before unleashing a fine effort into the top left hand corner, nothing that Axworthy could do about it as Wexford took the lead.

It took going behind for Kerry FC to find their feet, with Sean O’Connell and Ethan Kos proving likely on the Kerry left. Sean McGrath and Nathan Gleeson had efforts off target before the first major chance which Kerry took.

Ethan Kos played a long ball along the floor to Ryan Kelliher who picked it up off the left and did well to hold up, before sitting down his defender, shifting the ball to his right and bending an effort into the far corner past Ireland u21 International Owen Mason.

After the equaliser, the remainder of the half played out in a very entertaining fashion, with both sides showing no fear in playing forward passes, a lot of which coming from the space in midfield. Neither team managed to take a lead before the half as the sides went in level.

The intensity began to die down in the second half along with the swirling win, as the yellow cards started to flash. First Dobbs of Wexford followed seconds later by Gleeson for the hosts. Wexford did force a free kick from 20 yards which Crawford stood over but just bent the ball too far past the post, a tough position to score from.

Wexford retook the lead with just over twenty minutes on the clock, the ball was played in from the left which broke to Cian O’Malley who laid the ball back to Oluwa who was free in the box and slotted into the bottom left corner from about 10 yards. There was some worry for Kerry as a clash near the edge of the box left Cian Barrett down with a head injury for a couple of minutes, needing to be replaced by Alex Ainscough.

The away side were unlucky not to double their lead six minutes from time, Corban Piper saw his initial effort blocked but caught the rebound well, only to be denied by Ethan Kos on the line for Kerry, The American centre back once again putting in a fantastic performance.

Kerry did push for a late equaliser into the seven additional minutes, including two chances for Cian Brosnan to float the ball into the box but could not find a teammate, as Wexford held out for victory on a historic night for the club.