The 1972–73 Kent Football League season was the seventh in the history of the
Kent Football League
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, a
football
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competition featuring teams based in and around the county of
Kent
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in England.
The league comprised one division and there was also a league cup competition, the Challenge Cup.
League table
The league featured teams from twenty clubs, including eight reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by two additional clubs:
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Snowdown Colliery Welfare returning to the league following a one-season absence.
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Sheppey United joined from the
Metropolitan–London League
The Metropolitan–London League was a short-lived football league for clubs in and around London. It was formed in 1971 by a merger of the Greater London League and the Metropolitan League (which had lost several clubs to the Southern League). I ...
and replaced their reserves team.
The Ramsgate Athletic Reserves team from the previous season were renamed
Ramsgate Reserves.
The league was won by
Sheppey United.
At the end of the season
Brett Sports folded and together with
Hastings United Reserves left the league.
Both bottom clubs,
Ashford Town Reserves and
Margate Reserves, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league.
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Challenge Cup
The 1972–73 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Folkestone Reserves – the final occasion it was won by a reserves team.
The competition, contested by all twenty clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final between Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.
The town stands next to th ...
and Folkestone Reserves and played at the former's home ground, the Bull Ground.
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final
Second Round
* Ashford Town Reserves 0 – 2 Ramsgate Reserves
* Sittingbourne 3 – 1 Chatham Town
* Brett Sports 0 – 2 Tonbridge Reserves
* Whitstable Town 2 – 4 Dartford Amateurs
* Sheppey United 2 – 1 Kent Police
* Tunbridge Wells 3 – 1 Slade Green Athletic
* Margate Reserves 1 – 1 Folkestone Reserves
*REPLAY: Folkestone Reserves 2 – 0 Margate Reserves
*Crockenhill
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The hamlet of Skeet Hill falls within the Crockenhill boundary and Skeet Hill Lane in Orpington is in the South East region of England. The postcode is within the Crocke ...
1 – 6 Deal Town
First Round
* Chatham Town 1 – 0 Bexley United Reserves
* Whitstable Town 2 – 0 Hastings United Reserves
* Dover Reserves 0 – 0 Kent Police
*REPLAY: Kent Police 3 – 2 Dover Reserves
* Margate Reserves 4 – 1 Snowdown Colliery Welfare
*Byes for the other twelve clubs
Sources:
*Final:
*Semi-finals:
*Quarter-finals: ;
*Second Round: ; ;
*First Round: ; ;
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kent Football League 1972-73
1972-73
1972–73 in English football leagues