1977–78 Kent Football League

Association football league season May 2024 May 2024 The 1977–78 Kent Football League season was the twelfth in the history of the Kent Football League, a football competition featuring teams based in and around the county of Kent in England. The league comprised one division and there was also a league cup competition, the Challenge Cup. League table Kent Football League 1977–78 Faversham Town 306 972 1976–77 1978–79 The league featured teams from eighteen clubs, including three reserves teams. Seventeen of the clubs competed in the previous season and they were joined by Hythe Town from the Kent County Amateur League.20 June 1977 Gordon Carpenter Reserves are given the boot Evening Post 20 Chatham The league was won by Faversham Town, they had been champions seven seasons previously.http://kentleague.com/Archives/top-first%20div%20winners.php First Division past winners / runners-up kentleague.com 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130417042108/http://kentleague.com/Archives/top-first%20div%20winners.php 17 April 2013 29 March 2024 At the end of the season, following the decision taken in August 1977 to form a Second Division for reserve sides with Division One for 'first teams' only,26 August 1977 Clubs in Favour of Division 2 Whitstable Times 3 Whitstable Dover Reserves, Folkestone & Shepway Reserves and Maidstone United Reserves moved to a newly formed Division Two. The two lowest ranked non-reserve clubs, Slade Green Athletic and Kent Police, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league which was now named Division One.4 July 1978 Police get a reprieve Mid-Kent Gazette 72 Larkfield, Maidstone main WDL Season End Notes 2 FAV Faversham Town SHE Sheppey United TUN Tunbridge Wells HYT Hythe Town MAI Maidstone United Reserves CRO Crockenhill DAR Dartford Glentworth CHA Medway RAM Ramsgate DEA Deal Town WHI Whitstable Town HER Herne Bay SIT Sittingbourne SCW Snowdown Colliery Welfare SLA Slade Green Athletic FOL Folkestone & Shepway Reserves KEN Kent Police DOV Dover Reserves 15 8 11 55 49 15 8 11 62 46 15 8 11 59 45 13 7 14 47 53 9 0 25 35 87 23 8 3 83 24 6 7 21 37 61 10 9 15 43 72 19 6 9 73 57 6 6 22 34 81 18 6 10 46 39 12 13 9 54 51 8 6 20 44 76 24 5 5 87 32 8 9 17 37 60 4 12 18 40 60 21 10 3 84 36 13 6 15 52 43 #CCCCFF Moved to Division Two TFR TFR TFR orange1 Re-elected REE REE 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete 19 May 1978 75 How it all finished: Kent League https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19780519/351/0031 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 24 May 1978 15 (column 1) Kent League: Final Table https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003350/19780524/207/0015 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive East Kent Times Challenge Cup The 1977–78 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Tunbridge Wells, their second win in four seasons.https://www.scefl.com/league-cup-winners-since-1923 February 2022 Archives: League Cup Winners SCEFL: Southern Counties East Football League 31 January 2024 The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds (with the first round featuring two ties) culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground (at Sittingbourne28 April 1978 Going to a game? Saturday: Kent League Cup Final The Courier 32 Tunbridge Wells this season). Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final n 3 y 2 1 Quarter-finals Whitstable Town 3 Sittingbourne 1 Sheppey United 3 Hythe Town 1 Snowdown Colliery Welfare 0 Dartford Glentworth 3 Medway 2 Tunbridge Wells 6 Semi-finals Whitstable Town 0 Sheppey United 1 Dartford Glentworth 0 Tunbridge Wells 1 Final Sheppey United 0 Tunbridge Wells 1 <onlyinclude> Second Round Dover Reserves 1 – 4 Whitstable Town Sittingbourne 2 – 1 Slade Green Athletic Faversham Town 1 – 4 Sheppey United Crockenhill 1 – 2 Hythe Town Snowdown Colliery Welfare 4 – 0 Herne Bay Dartford Glentworth 3 – 1 Maidstone United Reserves Kent Police 1 – 2 Medway Tunbridge Wells 2 – 1 Deal Town First Round Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 0 – 1 Faversham Town Kent Police 1 – 1 Ramsgate REPLAY: Ramsgate 1 – 2 Kent Police Byes for the other fourteen clubs Sources: Final: 2 May 1978 19 John Mighall Sheppey Hand it to Big Jim https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005096/19780502/226/0019 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Evening Post Semi-finals: 14 March 1978 30 Football Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19780314/293/0030 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; Quarter-finals: 17 January 1978 27 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19780117/253/0027 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; Second Round: 7 October 1977 75 All the senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup 2nd round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005423/19771007/403/0039 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 25 November 1977 77 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup 2nd round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005423/19771125/01162/0037 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 16 December 1977 67 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup 2nd round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19771216/362/0035 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger First Round: 7 October 1977 75 All the senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup 1st round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005423/19771007/403/0039 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 11 November 1977 56 County Soccer Details: Results: Tuesday: Kent League Cup 1st round replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003535/19771111/275/0028 subscription 9 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express References 1977–78 Category:1977–78 in English football leagues