The 2015–16 Kent Invicta Football League season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Pain & Glory Sports Kent Invicta League, was the fifth and last in the history of

Kent Invicta Football League The Kent Invicta Football League was a football league in England, formed in 2011 to commence operations for the 2011–12 season. It covered the traditional English county of Kent, some of which is now in Greater London. It merged with the South ...

, a

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competition in England for clubs located in and adjacent to the historic county of

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. At the end of the season, the league merged with the

Southern Counties East League The Southern Counties East Football League is an English 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 System (which equates ...

and became the lower division of the merged league. The league comprised one division and there was also a league cup competition, the Challenge Trophy.

The League

The league comprised twenty clubs of which fifteen competed in the league the previous season, together with five additional clubs: * AC London, elected into the Football Pyramid for the first time * APM Contrast, promoted from the

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Premier Division *

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, elected from Kent County League Division Two West * Forest Hill Park, elected from Kent County League Division One West * Phoenix Sports reserves, elected from Kent County League Division One West

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were league champions and took promotion, along with runners-up Sheppey United, to the

Premier Division (their post-merger top division). After the season AC London moved to the

Combined Counties League The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half of Greater Lond ...

and the rest of the clubs formed the bulk of the SCEFL Division One for the following season.

League table

Results

Challenge Trophy

The 2015–16 Kent Invicta League Challenge Trophy, sponsored by Pain & Glory Sports, was won by

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. The competition was contested by all twenty teams from the league over four single tie rounds to reach the final, played on a neutral ground (at Sheppey United this season).

First round

Eight clubs competed in four first round ties with the remaining clubs receiving byes.

Second round

Sixteen clubs competed in eight second round ties.

Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final

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References

External links

Kent Invicta Football League
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