The 1977–78 Kent Football League season was the twelfth in the history of the

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, 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 eighteen clubs, including three reserves teams. Seventeen of the clubs competed in the previous season and they were joined by Hythe Town from the Kent County Amateur League. The league was won by Faversham Town, they had been champions seven seasons previously. At the end of the season, following the decision taken in August 1977 to form a Second Division for reserve sides with Division One for 'first teams' only, Dover Reserves, Folkestone & Shepway Reserves and Maidstone United Reserves moved to a newly formed Division Two. The two lowest ranked non-reserve clubs, Slade Green Athletic and Kent Police, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league which was now named Division One.

Challenge Cup

The 1977–78 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by

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, their second win in four seasons. The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in the league, 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

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this season).

Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final

Second Round

* Dover Reserves 1 – 4 Whitstable Town * Sittingbourne 2 – 1 Slade Green Athletic * Faversham Town 1 – 4 Sheppey United *

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1 – 2 Hythe Town * Snowdown Colliery Welfare 4 – 0

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*Dartford Glentworth 3 – 1 Maidstone United Reserves * Kent Police 1 – 2 Medway * Tunbridge Wells 2 – 1 Deal Town

First Round

* Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 0 – 1 Faversham Town *Kent Police 1 – 1

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*REPLAY:

1 – 2 Kent Police *Byes for the other fourteen clubs Sources: *Final: *Semi-finals: ; *Quarter-finals: ; *Second Round: ; ; *First Round: ;

References

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