# 1975–76 Kent Football League

The 1975–76 Kent Football League season was the tenth 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

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 Sittingbourne, 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participation of reserves sides in the division; and Ramsgate Reserves may have suffered a similar fate had they not been replaced by the club's first team.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts | Season End Notes |
| 1 | Sittingbourne | 36 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 87 | 38 | 2.289 | 57 | |
| 2 | Dartford Amateurs | 36 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 93 | 42 | 2.214 | 56 | |
| 3 | Tunbridge Wells | 36 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 100 | 37 | 2.703 | 55 | |
| 4 | Sheppey United | 36 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 91 | 44 | 2.068 | 55 | |
| 5 | Deal Town | 36 | 23 | 4 | 9 | 74 | 29 | 2.552 | 50 | |
| 6 | Medway | 36 | 22 | 5 | 9 | 90 | 43 | 2.093 | 49 | |
| 7 | Crockenhill | 36 | 20 | 4 | 12 | 84 | 52 | 1.615 | 44 | |
| 8 | Kent Police | 36 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 80 | 45 | 1.778 | 40 | |
| 9 | Snowdown Colliery Welfare | 36 | 17 | 5 | 14 | 64 | 53 | 1.208 | 39 | |
| 10 | Slade Green Athletic | 36 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 51 | 63 | 0.810 | 35 | |
| 11 | Maidstone United Reserves | 36 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 59 | 62 | 0.952 | 34 | |
| 12 | Margate Reserves | 36 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 53 | 79 | 0.671 | 30 | Resigned (team disbanded) |
| 13 | Herne Bay | 36 | 11 | 7 | 18 | 59 | 72 | 0.819 | 29 | |
| 14 | Whitstable Town | 36 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 61 | 100 | 0.610 | 25 | |
| 15 | Folkestone & Shepway Reserves | 36 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 50 | 79 | 0.633 | 24 | |
| 16 | Ashford Town Reserves | 36 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 57 | 117 | 0.487 | 21 | Resigned (team disbanded) |
| 17 | Dover Reserves | 36 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 36 | 92 | 0.391 | 17 | |
| 18 | Tonbridge AFC Reserves | 36 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 38 | 87 | 0.437 | 15 | Resigned |
| 19 | Ramsgate Reserves | 36 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 38 | 131 | 0.290 | 9 | Re-elected (replaced by first team) |

## Challenge Cup

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

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| Tunbridge Wells | 0 | 3 | | | | | | |
| Medway | 0 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Medway | 0 | 1 | Tunbridge Wells | 1 | 0 | | | |
| | | | Sittingbourne | 1 | 1 | | | |
| Maidstone United Reserves | Maidstone United Reserves | 0 | Sittingbourne | 1 | 1 | | | |
| Sittingbourne | Sittingbourne | 1 | | | | | | |
| Sittingbourne | Sittingbourne | 1 | | | | Sittingbourne | 2 | 2 |
| | | | | | | Sheppey United | 2 | 4 |
| Slade Green Athletic | Slade Green Athletic | 1 | | | | | | | Sheppey United | 2 | 4 |
| Sheppey United | Sheppey United | 4 | | | | | | |
| Sheppey United | Sheppey United | 4 | Sheppey United | Sheppey United | 3 | | | |
| | | | Kent Police | Kent Police | 2 | | | |
| Folkestone & Shepway Reserves | Folkestone & Shepway Reserves | 1 | Kent Police | Kent Police | 2 | | | |
| Kent Police | Kent Police | 2 | | | | | | |
* 1 2 Replay
* 1 2 Replay
* 1 2 Replay

### Second Round

* Ashford Town Reserves 0 – 3 Medway
* Crockenhill 1 – 1 Folkestone & Shepway Reserves
* REPLAY: Folkestone & Shepway Reserves 3 – 0 Crockenhill
* 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 Herne Bay

### 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: "County Soccer Details: Results: Saturday: Kent League Cup, final". Kentish Express. 14 May 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "County Soccer Details: Results: Tuesday: Kent League Cup, final replay". Kentish Express. 14 May 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* Semi-finals: "Senior Soccer Details: Results: Saturday: Kent League: League Cup semi-finals". Kent Messenger. 16 April 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Senior Soccer Details: Results: Tuesday: Kent League: Cup semi-final replay". Kent Messenger. 16 April 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* Quarter-finals: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 9 March 1976. p. 39. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 30 March 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* Second Round: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 13 January 1976. p. 30. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Soccer Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 20 January 1976. p. 22. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Soccer Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 27 January 1976. p. 27. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
* First Round: "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 18 November 1975. p. 30. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.; "Results: Kent League Cup". Thanet Times. 2 December 1975. p. 28. Retrieved 7 May 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.