1987–88 Kent Football League

Association football league season June 2024 June 2024 The 1987–88 Kent Football League season (known as the Winstonlead Kent League for sponsorship reasons) was the twenty-second 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 structure comprised two divisions: Division One and Division Two with the latter known as the Reserves Section (reserves teams were not permitted in Division One). Additionally there were two league cup competitions: the Challenge Cup for the Division One clubs and another for the teams in Division Two. Division One Kent Football League Division One 1987–88 Greenwich Borough 342 1086 1986–87 1988–89 The league featured nineteen clubs, eighteen of which competed in the previous season together with one additional club: Danson, transferred from the London Spartan League25 June 1987 Tony Hudd 36 Pyramid holds firm Kentish Express Ashford The league was won, for the second successive season, by Greenwich Borough.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 both bottom clubs, Herne Bay and Crockenhill, were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.23 June 1988 Tony Hudd 80 Clubs in danger of being cut off Kentish Express Ashford League table main WDL Season End Notes GRE Greenwich Borough FAV Faversham Town WHI Whitstable Town SIT Sittingbourne HYT Hythe Town KEN Kent Police CRA Cray Wanderers BEC Beckenham Town TUN Tunbridge Wells RAM Ramsgate DHE Darenth Heathside SWA Alma Swanley MET Metropolitan Police (Hayes) SLA Slade Green FUR Danson DEA Deal Town TPO Thames Polytechnic HER Herne Bay CRO Crockenhill 16 7 13 72 51 9 8 19 35 69 14 8 14 55 53 14 10 12 57 50 16 5 15 61 55 10 9 17 54 60 17 11 8 68 53 11 11 14 57 58 19 4 13 70 58 20 8 8 57 37 23 7 6 92 36 11 5 20 40 67 26 5 5 111 50 11 11 14 41 47 4 6 26 21 82 10 8 18 37 65 10 9 17 44 68 16 8 12 69 66 11 8 17 45 61 orange1 Re-elected REE REE 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete https://www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/nonleaguetables/lt1987-1988.html#KENT1 Non League Tables for 1987–1988: Kent League Division One Non League Matters 13 June 2024; 19 May 1988 45 (col. 1) Winstonlead Kent League https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004048/19880519/202/0025 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Sheerness Times Guardian Challenge Cup The 1987–88 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won, for the second occasion in three seasons, by Tunbridge Wells.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 nineteen clubs in Division One, comprised five single match tie rounds (with the first round featuring three ties) culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground (at Herne Bay F.C.28 April 1988 Results And Fixtures: Fixtures: Saturday: Winstonlead League Cup final Kentish Express 70 Ashford this season). Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final n 3 y 3 1 Quarter-finals Tunbridge Wells 3 Whitstable Town 0 Kent Police 2 Metropolitan Police (Hayes) 1 Hythe Town 3 Sittingbourne 2 Darenth Heathside 0 Cray Wanderers 1 Semi-finals Tunbridge Wells 2 Kent Police 1 Hythe Town 2 Cray Wanderers 1 Final Tunbridge Wells 4 Hythe Town 1 <onlyinclude> Second Round Tunbridge Wells 3 – 1 Beckenham Town Whitstable Town 3– 2 Faversham Town Deal Town 2 – 3 Kent Police Metropolitan Police (Hayes) 3 – 2 Thames Polytechnic Hythe Town 4 – 1 Crockenhill Sittingbourne 1 – 0 Herne Bay Darenth Heathside 1 – 1 (aet) Alma Swanley Replay: Alma Swanley 1 – 3 Darenth Heathside Greenwich Borough 1 – 2 Cray Wanderers First Round Slade Green 0 – 1 Deal Town Metropolitan Police (Hayes) 2 – 1 Ramsgate Alma Swanley 1 – 0 Danson (played at Danson F.C.) Byes for the other thirteen clubs Sources: Final: 5 May 1988 60 Bank Holiday Results, Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League, Division One cup final https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005424/19880505/325/0028 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express Semi-finals: 31 March 1988 87 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Cup semi-finals https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005423/19880331/01773/0039 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger Quarter-finals: 11 March 1988 79 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Cup third rd https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19880311/495/0031 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger Second Round: 20 November 1987 79 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: League Cup 2nd round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005423/19871120/01403/0031 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger; 3 December 1987 71 Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League Cup, round 2 replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005424/19871203/394/0035 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express First Round: 9 October 1987 79 Senior soccer details: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead League Cup first round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005423/19871009/485/0035 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kent Messenger Reserves Section The letter "R" following team names indicates a club's reserves team. Division Two featured mostly reserves teams (which were not permitted in Division One) from clubs from Kent and the adjacent area whose first team played in Division One and other higher ranked leagues. There was a League Cup competition for the teams in the section. Division Two Kent Football League Division Two 1987–88 Fisher Athletic R 306 1036 1986–87 1988–89 The league featured eighteen clubs (including one non-reserve team, Snowdown Colliery Welfare), seventeen of which had competed in the division the previous season together with one additional club, newly reformed Beckenham Town R.25 June 1987 Tony Hudd 36 Pyramid holds firm Kentish Express Ashford The division was won for a then record third successive season (and the fourth time in five seasons) by Fisher Athletic R.http://kentleague.com/Archives/Reserves%20First%20Div%20winners.php Reserves First Division winners / runners-up kentleague.com 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130418065959/http://kentleague.com/Archives/Reserves%20First%20Div%20winners.php 18 April 2013 26 April 2024 At the end of the season both bottom clubs, Hythe Town R and Herne Bay R were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.23 June 1988 Tony Hudd 80 Clubs in danger of being cut off Kentish Express Ashford Prior to the start of the next season champions Fisher Athletic R and Darenth Heathside R withdrew. main WDL Season End Notes FIS Fisher Athletic R ASH Ashford Town R FAV Faversham Town R DOV Dover Athletic R SIT Sittingbourne R DHE Darenth Heathside R SCW Snowdown Colliery Welfare WHI Whitstable Town R SHE Sheppey United R HAS Hastings Town R RAM Ramsgate R DEA Deal Town R FOL Folkestone R BEC Beckenham Town R TPO Thames Polytechnic R MAR Thanet United R HYT Hythe Town R HER Herne Bay R 23 5 6 77 25 10 3 21 54 74 16 11 7 63 43 11 6 17 59 75 19 6 9 64 47 21 4 9 71 38 12 3 19 47 80 27 4 3 111 21 13 6 15 60 69 8 2 24 41 86 8 4 22 41 85 7 9 18 36 68 13 2 19 54 56 16 9 9 59 47 14 3 17 57 53 19 5 10 72 52 10 3 21 39 73 13 7 14 31 44 red2 Resigned RES RES orange1 Re-elected REE REE 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete https://www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/nonleaguetables/lt1987-1988.html#KENT2 Non League Tables for 1987–1988: Kent League Division Two Non League Matters 13 June 2024; 19 May 1988 45 (col. 1) Winstonlead Kent League: Division Two https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004048/19880519/202/0025 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Sheerness Times Guardian Division Two Cup The 1987–88 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won, for a second successive season, by Sittingbourne R.http://kentleague.com/Archives/League%20cups/Reserves%20Cup%20ex%20winners.php Reserves Division(s) League Cup kentleague.com 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130418091817/http://kentleague.com/Archives/League%20cups/Reserves%20Cup%20ex%20winners.php 18 April 2013 29 March 2024 The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in the division, 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 Faversham Town F.C.12 May 1988 Soccer Results And Fixtures: Fixtures: Monday: Winstonlead Kent League Cup (division 2) Final Kentish Express 62 Ashford this season). Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final n 3 y 2 1 Quarter-finals Ashford Town R 2 Deal Town R 0 Sittingbourne R 4 Hastings Town R 1 Sheppey United R 1 Beckenham Town R 0 Fisher Athletic R 4 Darenth Heathside R 1 Semi-finals Ashford Town R 4RD21 After extra time, score at 90 minutes: 2–2 0 Sittingbourne R 4RD21 1 Sheppey United R 3 Fisher Athletic R 2 Final Sittingbourne R 3 Sheppey United R 2 <onlyinclude> Second Round Herne Bay R 1 – 4 Ashford Town R Deal Town R 6 – 0 Thames Polytechnic R Thanet United R 2 – 4 Sittingbourne R Folkestone R 2 – 3 Hastings Town R Ramsgate R v Sheppey United R Whitstable Town R 1– 2 Beckenham Town R Faversham Town R 0 – 1 Fisher Athletic R Dover Athletic R 2 – 3 Darenth Heathside R First Round Ashford Town R 1 – 0 Hythe Town R Faversham Town R 3 – 1 Snowdown Colliery Welfare Byes for the other fourteen clubs Sources: Final: 19 May 1988 27 Mawson double seals cup in late late thriller https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002521/19880519/026/0026 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive East Kent Gazette Semi-finals: 7 April 1988 40 Reserves tilt for cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002521/19880407/040/0040 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive East Kent Gazette; 21 April 1988 38 Soccer Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: Division 2 League Cup, semi-final https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19880421/433/0038 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 28 April 1988 71 Reserves crash out in replay https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005424/19880428/460/0035 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express Quarter-finals: 11 February 1988 69 Results And Fixtures: Winstonlead Kent League Cup, round 3 https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19880211/399/0037 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 10 March 1988 60 Soccer Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: Division 2: League Cup, Round 3 https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005424/19880310/441/0028 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 10 March 1988 42 McLeod Double Secures Semis Spot https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002521/19880310/044/0044 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive East Kent Gazette Second Round: 12 November 1987 62 Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: Division 2 Cup, second round https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0005424/19871112/369/0034 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 19 November 1987 61 Results, Fixtures, Tables: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: Dvision 2 Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19871119/419/0033 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 26 November 1987 63 Soccer Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: Division 2 Cup, round 2 https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19871126/414/0035 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express; 7 January 1988 60 Holiday Results, Fixtures, Tables: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League: League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19880107/368/0032 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express First Round: 8 October 1987 62 Soccer Results And Fixtures: Results: Saturday: Winstonlead Kent League Division 2: League Cup https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005424/19871008/360/0034 subscription 13 June 2024 British Newspaper Archive Kentish Express References 1987–88 Category:1987–88 in English men's football leagues