1975–76 Kent Football League

Association football league season May 2024 May 2024 The 1975–76 Kent Football League season was the tenth 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 1975–76 Sittingbourne 342 1265 1974–75 1976–77 The league featured teams from nineteen clubs, including seven reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs competed in the previous season and they were joined by Maidstone United Reserves.2 July 1975 Two-div plan dropped Evening Post 18 Chatham During the latter part of the season, following liquidation and reformation of the club, the Tonbridge Reserves team was renamed Tonbridge AFC Reserves.26 March 1976 Angels fall but soccer goes on Kent & Sussex Courier 25 Tunbridge Wells The league was won by Sittingbourne, their first league title in the reformed Kent League.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 four teams left the league: both the Ashford Town Reserves and Margate Reserves teams were disbanded and resigned;9 July 1976 Mike Bennett Building for the future Kentish Express 28 Ashford2 March 1976 Reserves may be disbanded Thanet Times 34 Margate Tonbridge AFC Reserves resigned as their re-election was unlikely as the league was reducing the participation of reserves sides in the division; and Ramsgate Reserves may have suffered a similar fate had they not been replaced by the club's first team.9 July 1976 Gordon Carpenter League bans the reserves Kentish Messenger 17 Larkfield, Maidstone main WDL Season End Notes yes 2 SIT Sittingbourne DAR Dartford Amateurs TUN Tunbridge Wells SHE Sheppey United DEA Deal Town CHA Medway CRO Crockenhill KEN Kent Police SCW Snowdown Colliery Welfare SLA Slade Green Athletic MAI Maidstone United Reserves MAR Margate Reserves HER Herne Bay WHI Whitstable Town FOL Folkestone & Shepway Reserves ASH Ashford Town Reserves DOV Dover Reserves TON Tonbridge AFC Reserves RAM Ramsgate Reserves 8 5 23 57 117 22 5 9 90 43 20 4 12 84 52 23 10 3 93 42 23 4 9 74 29 4 9 23 36 92 10 4 22 50 79 11 7 18 59 72 15 10 11 80 45 10 14 12 59 62 12 6 18 53 79 2 5 29 38 131 17 5 14 64 53 23 9 4 91 44 26 5 5 87 38 15 5 16 51 63 4 7 25 38 87 23 9 4 100 37 10 5 21 61 100 red1 Resigned (team disbanded) RESD RESD red1 Resigned RES orange1 Re-elected (replaced by first team) REE 1) points; 2) goal average. complete https://www.scefl.com/kent-scefl-league-tables-since-1972 Kent League Tables: Kent League '75–'76 7 May 2022 SCEFL 29 March 2024 Challenge Cup The 1975–76 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won following a replay by Sheppey United who defeated Sittingbourne in the finalhttps://www.scefl.com/league-cup-winners-since-1923 February 2022 Archives: League Cup Winners SCEFL: Southern Counties East Football League 31 January 2024 with the first match played at Sittingbourne and the second at Sheppey.14 May 1976 County Soccer Details: Nearly 3,000 people ... Kentish Express 27 Ashford The competition, contested by all nineteen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final. Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final n 3 y 2 1 Quarter-finals Tunbridge Wells 0 3RD1 Replay Medway 0 1RD1 Maidstone United Reserves 0 Sittingbourne 1 Slade Green Athletic 1 Sheppey United 4 Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 1 Kent Police 2 Semi-finals Tunbridge Wells 1 0RD2 Replay Sittingbourne 1 1RD2 Sheppey United 3 Kent Police 2 Final Sittingbourne 2 2RD3 Replay Sheppey United 2 4RD3 <onlyinclude> Second Round Ashford Town Reserves 0 – 3 Medway Crockenhill 1 – 1 Folkestone & Shepway Reserves REPLAY: Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 3 – 0 Crockenhill Kent Police 0 – 0 Snowdown Colliery Welfare REPLAY: Snowdown Colliery Welfare 1 – 0 Kent Police Maidstone United Reserves 5 – 2 Ramsgate Reserves Sittingbourne 3 – 1 Deal Town Slade Green Athletic 2 – 0 Margate Reserves Whitstable Town 1 – 4 Sheppey United Tunbridge Wells 3 – 0 Herne Bay First Round Dover Reserves 3 – 7 Margate Reserves Tonbridge AFC Reserves 0 – 1 Deal Town Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 2 – 0 Dartford Amateurs Byes for the other thirteen clubs Sources: Final: 14 May 1976 27 County Soccer Details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup, final https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003535/19760514/247/0027 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 14 May 1976 27 County Soccer Details: Results: Tuesday: Kent League Cup, final replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003535/19760514/247/0027 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express Semi-finals: 16 April 1976 16 Senior Soccer Details: Results: Saturday: Kent League: League Cup semi-finals https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19760416/263/0016 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 16 April 1976 16 Senior Soccer Details: Results: Tuesday: Kent League: Cup semi-final replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19760416/263/0016 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger Quarter-finals: 9 March 1976 39 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19760309/331/0039 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 30 March 1976 27 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002514/19760330/203/0027 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times Second Round: 13 January 1976 30 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19760113/272/0030 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 20 January 1976 22 Soccer Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002514/19760120/194/0022 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 27 January 1976 27 Soccer Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002514/19760127/249/0027 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times First Round: 18 November 1975 30 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19751118/311/0030 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times; 2 December 1975 28 Results: Kent League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002514/19751202/285/0028 subscription 7 May 2024 British Newspaper Archive Thanet Times References 1975–76 Category:1975–76 in English football leagues