The 1975–76 Kent Football League season was the tenth in the history of the

Kent Football League The Southern Counties East Football League is an English association football, football league established in 1966, which has teams based in Kent and Southeast London. Its two divisions are allocated at Step 5 and Step 6 of the National League ...

, a

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competition featuring teams based in and around the county of

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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 nineteen clubs, including seven reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs competed in the previous season and they were joined by Maidstone United Reserves. During the latter part of the season, following liquidation and reformation of the club, the Tonbridge Reserves team was renamed Tonbridge AFC Reserves. The league was won by

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, their first league title in the reformed Kent League. At the end of the season four teams left the league: both the Ashford Town Reserves and Margate Reserves teams were disbanded and resigned; 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participation of reserves sides in the division; and Ramsgate Reserves may have suffered a similar fate had they not been replaced by the club's first team.

Challenge Cup

The 1975–76 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won following a replay by Sheppey United who defeated

in the final with the first match played at Sittingbourne and the second at Sheppey. 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

Second Round

* Ashford Town Reserves 0 – 3 Medway *

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1 – 1 Folkestone & Shepway Reserves *REPLAY: Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 3 – 0

*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

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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: ; *Semi-finals: ; *Quarter-finals: ; *Second Round: ; ; *First Round: ;

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kent Football League 1975-76 1975–76 1975–76 in English football leagues