1973–74 Kent Football League

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The 1973–74 Kent Football League season was the eighth 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
Season1973–74
ChampionsChatham Town
Matches played342
Goals scored1,159 (3.39 per match)

The league featured teams from 19 clubs, including eight reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by Canterbury City Reserves.[1]

The league was won by Chatham Town, for the second time in three seasons.[2]

At the end of the season Bexley United Reserves resigned from the league and both bottom clubs, Snowdown Colliery Welfare and Folkestone Reserves, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league.[3]


Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GAv Pts Season End Notes
1 Chatham Town 36 29 4 3 113 31 3.645 62
2 Sittingbourne 36 27 5 4 97 29 3.345 59
3 Sheppey United 36 19 9 8 80 41 1.951 47
4 Bexley United Reserves 36 16 8 12 57 51 1.118 40 Resigned from the league
5 Dartford Amateurs 36 15 9 12 76 66 1.152 39
6 Crockenhill 36 14 9 13 55 55 1.000 37
7 Margate Reserves 36 14 9 13 64 64 1.000 37
8 Tunbridge Wells 36 15 6 15 71 54 1.315 36
9 Deal Town 36 14 8 14 59 56 1.054 36
10 Kent Police 36 13 9 14 57 60 0.950 35
11 Whitstable Town 36 13 9 14 52 57 0.912 35
12 Slade Green Athletic 36 11 11 14 55 73 0.753 33
13 Tonbridge Reserves 36 14 5 17 38 54 0.704 33
14 Canterbury City Reserves 36 12 7 17 50 62 0.806 31
15 Ashford Town Reserves 36 10 11 15 64 80 0.800 31
16 Dover Reserves 36 8 11 17 45 70 0.643 25[a]
17 Ramsgate Reserves 36 11 2 23 42 78 0.538 24
18 Snowdown Colliery Welfare 36 8 8 20 45 88 0.511 24 Re-elected
19 Folkestone Reserves 36 7 4 25 39 90 0.433 18
Source: "Kent League Tables: Kent League '73–'74". SCEFL. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2024. & "Kent League". Kent & Sussex Courier. 31 May 1974. p. 29. Retrieved 3 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive. (for adjusted Tonbridge R goals against total)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average.
Notes:
  1. ^ Dover Reserves were deducted two points for playing an ineligible player.

Challenge Cup

The 1973–74 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Sittingbourne.[4]

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.[5] this season).

Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
         
Slade Green Athletic 2 0[a]
Snowdown Colliery Welfare 2 1[a]
Snowdown Colliery Welfare 0
Sittingbourne 3
Sittingbourne 4
Ashford Town Reserves 0
Sittingbourne 2
Chatham Town 1
Kent Police 1
Dartford Amateurs 2
Dartford Amateurs 1 1[c]
Chatham Town 1 2[c]
Sheppey United 2 1[b]
Chatham Town 2 2[b]
  1. ^ a b Replay
  2. ^ a b Replay
  3. ^ a b Replay

Second Round

First Round

Sources:

References

  1. ^ "League shuffle mooted". Kent Messenger. Larkfield, Maidstone. 22 June 1973. p. 16.
  2. ^ "First Division past winners / runners-up". kentleague.com. 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Boxley (sic) bow out with a fine". Evening Post. Chatham. 18 July 1974. p. 31.
  4. ^ "League Cup Winners since 1923". SCEFL. February 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Hales ban hits Chats". Evening Post. Chatham. 7 May 1974. p. 28.
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