1974–75 Kent Football League
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
| Season | 1974–75 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Sheppey United |
| Matches played | 342 |
| Goals scored | 1,169 (3.42 per match) |
← 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 League[1]
Two teams adopted names of the newly formed local government districts in which they were situated: Chatham Town were renamed Medway;[2] Folkestone Reserves were renamed Folkestone & Shepway Reserves.[3]
The league was won by Sheppey United, their second league title in three years.[4]
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.[5]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts | Season End Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheppey United | 36 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 99 | 37 | 2.676 | 62 | |
| 2 | Medway | 36 | 27 | 3 | 6 | 93 | 32 | 2.906 | 57 | |
| 3 | Sittingbourne | 36 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 90 | 37 | 2.432 | 54 | |
| 4 | Crockenhill | 36 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 88 | 40 | 2.200 | 53 | |
| 5 | Dartford Amateurs | 36 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 71 | 46 | 1.543 | 46 | |
| 6 | Tunbridge Wells | 36 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 67 | 48 | 1.396 | 45 | |
| 7 | Tonbridge Reserves | 36 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 63 | 48 | 1.313 | 44 | |
| 8 | Whitstable Town | 36 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 60 | 58 | 1.034 | 42 | |
| 9 | Deal Town | 36 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 72 | 63 | 1.143 | 36 | |
| 10 | Herne Bay | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 56 | 65 | 0.862 | 31 | |
| 11 | Ramsgate Reserves | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 59 | 70 | 0.843 | 30 | |
| 12 | Margate Reserves | 36 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 47 | 73 | 0.644 | 29 | |
| 13 | Ashford Town Reserves | 36 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 54 | 73 | 0.740 | 28 | |
| 14 | Kent Police | 36 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 49 | 61 | 0.803 | 27 | |
| 15 | Snowdown Colliery Welfare | 36 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 46 | 83 | 0.554 | 26 | |
| 16 | Canterbury City Reserves | 36 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 61 | 88 | 0.693 | 24 | Resigned from the league |
| 17 | Slade Green Athletic | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 37 | 73 | 0.507 | 22 | |
| 18 | Dover Reserves | 36 | 7 | 7 | 22 | 34 | 75 | 0.453 | 21 | Re-elected |
| 19 | Folkestone & Shepway Reserves | 36 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 23 | 99 | 0.232 | 7 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average.
Challenge Cup
The 1974–75 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Tunbridge Wells.[6]
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.[7] this season).
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Medway | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Slade Green Athletic | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Medway | 2 | 2[b] | ||||||||||||
| Sittingbourne | 2 | 4[b] | ||||||||||||
| Dartford Amateurs | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Sittingbourne | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Sittingbourne | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Sheppey United | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Margate Reserves | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Margate Reserves | 2 | 3[a] | ||||||||||||
| Snowdown Colliery Welfare | 2 | 2[a] | ||||||||||||
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: "Sheppey holds final". Sheerness Times Guardian. 16 May 1975. p. 39. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Semi-finals: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 15 April 1975. p. 20. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; Carpenter, Gordon (18 April 1975). "It's Bourne, Hook line'n sinker". Evening Post. p. 35. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Quarter-finals: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 11 March 1975. p. 16. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 18 March 1975. p. 20. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Second Round: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 14 January 1975. p. 20. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "County Soccer Details: Results: Monday: Kent League Cup, 2nd round". Kentish Express. 17 January 1975. p. 14. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 4 February 1975. p. 14. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "County Soccer Details: Results: Wednesday: Kent League Cup, 2nd round replay". Kent Messenger. 7 February 1975. p. 12. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 18 February 1975. p. 14. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- First Round: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 12 November 1974. p. 16. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Sheppey sail on". Evening Post. 13 November 1974. p. 23. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 26 November 1974. p. 16. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
References
- ^ "Herne Bay". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "Chatham vote for Medway". Evening Post. Chatham. 4 February 1974. p. 32.
- ^ "Folkestone & Shepway". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
- ^ "First Division past winners / runners-up". kentleague.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Two-div plan dropped". Evening Post. Chatham. 2 July 1975. p. 18.
- ^ "League Cup Winners since 1923". SCEFL. February 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Sheppey holds final". Sheerness Times-Guardian. Sheerness. 16 May 1975. p. 39.