1974–75 Kent Football League

Association football league season May 2024 May 2024 The 1974–75 Kent Football League season was the ninth 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 1974–75 Sheppey United 342 1169 1973–74 1975–76 The league featured teams from 19 clubs, including seven reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by Herne Bay who joined from the Athenian Leaguehttps://fchd.info/HERNEBAY.HTM Herne Bay Football Club History Database 5 May 2024 Two teams adopted names of the newly formed local government districts in which they were situated: Chatham Town were renamed Medway;4 February 1974 Chatham vote for Medway Evening Post 32 Chatham Folkestone Reserves were renamed Folkestone & Shepway Reserves.https://fchd.info/FOLKESTS.HTM Folkestone & Shepway Football Club History Database 5 May 2024 The league was won by Sheppey United, their second league title in three years.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, after two seasons in the division, Canterbury City Reserves resigned from the league and both bottom clubs, Dover Reserves and Folkestone & Shepway Reserves, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league.2 July 1975 Two-div plan dropped Evening Post 18 Chatham main WDL Season End Notes yes 2 SHE Sheppey United CHA Medway SIT Sittingbourne CRO Crockenhill DAR Dartford Amateurs TUN Tunbridge Wells TON Tonbridge Reserves WHI Whitstable Town DEA Deal Town HER Herne Bay RAM Ramsgate Reserves MAR Margate Reserves ASH Ashford Town Reserves KEN Kent Police SCW Snowdown Colliery Welfare CAN Canterbury City Reserves SLA Slade Green Athletic DOV Dover Reserves FOL Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 11 6 19 54 73 9 6 21 61 88 27 3 6 93 32 24 5 7 88 40 19 8 9 71 46 14 8 14 72 63 7 7 22 34 75 2 3 31 23 99 12 7 17 56 65 11 5 20 49 61 11 7 18 47 73 12 6 18 59 70 7 12 17 46 83 27 8 1 99 37 26 2 8 90 37 7 8 21 37 73 19 6 11 63 48 20 5 11 67 48 15 12 9 60 58 red1 Resigned from the league RES orange1 Re-elected REE REE 1) points; 2) goal average. complete https://www.scefl.com/kent-scefl-league-tables-since-1972 Kent League Tables: Kent League '74–'75 7 May 2022 SCEFL 29 March 2024 Challenge Cup The 1974–75 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Tunbridge Wells.https://www.scefl.com/league-cup-winners-since-1923 February 2022 League Cup Winners since 1923 SCEFL 29 March 2024 The competition, contested by all nineteen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground (at Sheppey United F.C.16 May 1975 Sheppey holds final Sheerness Times-Guardian 39 Sheerness this season). Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final n 3 y 2 1 Quarter-finals Medway 3 Slade Green Athletic 1 Dartford Amateurs 0 Sittingbourne 1 Sheppey United 0 Tunbridge Wells 1 Margate Reserves 2 3RD1 Replay Snowdown Colliery Welfare 2 2RD1 Semi-finals Medway 2 2RD2 Replay Sittingbourne 2 4RD2 Tunbridge Wells 5 Margate Reserves 1 Final Sittingbourne 0 Tunbridge Wells 1 <onlyinclude> Second Round Herne Bay 2 – 2 Medway REPLAY: Medway 2 – 0 Herne Bay Slade Green Athletic 3 – 1 Ramsgate Reserves Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 0 – 3 Dartford Amateurs Deal Town 1 – 4 Sittingbourne Sheppey United 1 – 0 Canterbury City Reserves Kent Police 0 – 1 Tunbridge Wells Dover Reserves 1 – 1 Margate Reserves REPLAY: Margate Reserves 3 – 1 Dover Reserves Snowdown Colliery Welfare 3 – 2 Ashford Town Reserves First Round Sheppey United 0 – 0 Tonbridge Reserves REPLAY: Tonbridge Reserves 1 – 2 Sheppey United Kent Police 4 – 2 Crockenhill Whitstable Town 1 – 1 Snowdown Colliery Welfare REPLAY: Snowdown Colliery Welfare 3 – 1 Whitstable Town Byes for the other thirteen clubs Sources: Final: 16 May 1975 39 Sheppey holds final https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004048/19750516/343/0039 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Sheerness Times Guardian Semi-finals: 15 April 1975 20 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002513/19750415/323/0020 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 18 April 1975 35 Gordon Carpenter It's Bourne, Hook line'n sinker https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005095/19750418/484/0035 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Evening Post Quarter-finals: 11 March 1975 16 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002513/19750311/251/0016 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 18 March 1975 20 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002513/19750318/286/0020 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times Second Round: 14 January 1975 20 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002513/19750114/374/0020 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 17 January 1975 14 County Soccer Details: Results: Monday: Kent League Cup, 2nd round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003535/19750117/221/0014 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 4 February 1975 14 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002513/19750204/247/0014 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 7 February 1975 12 County Soccer Details: Results: Wednesday: Kent League Cup, 2nd round replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19750207/214/0012 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 18 February 1975 14 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002513/19750218/262/0014 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times First Round: 12 November 1974 16 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002513/19741112/332/0016 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 13 November 1974 23 Sheppey sail on https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005095/19741113/341/0023 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Evening Post; 26 November 1974 16 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002513/19741126/327/0016 subscription 3 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times References 1974–75 Category:1974–75 in English football leagues