# 2012–13 Kent Football League

The 2012–13 Kent Football League season (known as the 2012–13 Hurlimann Kent Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the 47th in the history of Kent Football League, a football competition in England.
At the end of the season the league changed its name to the Southern Counties East Football League, to reflect that many of its member clubs no longer played within the county boundaries of Kent.
The League structure comprised two divisions: a Premier Division and Division One – the latter was known as the Reserves Section, comprising reserves teams which were not permitted in the Premier Division. Additionally there were two league cup competitions, the Challenge Cup for the Premier Division clubs and another for the teams in the Reserves Section.

## Premier Division

The division comprised teams from17 clubs, 15 from the previous season together with two additional clubs:
* Rochester United (formerly Bly Spartans), promoted from the Kent Invicta League
* Whyteleafe, relegated from the Isthmian League
Owing to expansion of the Isthmian League Divisions One North and South from 22 to 24 clubs for the following season two clubs, selected on a points per game (PPG) basis, from the following six Step 5 leagues were to be promoted: Combined Counties League, Eastern Counties League, Essex Senior League, Kent League, Spartan South Midlands League and the Sussex County League. From the Kent Premier League Erith & Belvedere (who were promoted as champions), Erith Town, Tunbridge Wells, VCD Athletic and Whyteleafe applied for promotion. Subsequently, VCD Athletic were promoted as one of the two runners-up with the best PPG.

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | Erith & Belvedere | 32 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 113 | 45 | +68 | 76 | Promoted to the Isthmian League Division One North |
| 2 | VCD Athletic | 32 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 97 | 31 | +66 | 74 | Promoted to the Isthmian League Division One North |
| 3 | Erith Town | 32 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 74 | 40 | +34 | 61 | |
| 4 | Corinthian | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 74 | 37 | +37 | 59 | |
| 5 | Lordswood | 32 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 60 | 56 | +4 | 58 | |
| 6 | Whyteleafe | 32 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 67 | 49 | +18 | 54 | |
| 7 | Tunbridge Wells | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 82 | 43 | +39 | 52 | |
| 8 | Cray Valley Paper Mills | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 63 | 58 | +5 | 47 | |
| 9 | Canterbury City | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 52 | 58 | −6 | 43 | |
| 10 | Woodstock Sports | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 59 | 76 | −17 | 43 | |
| 11 | Beckenham Town | 32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 63 | 73 | −10 | 40 | |
| 12 | Deal Town | 32 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 58 | 65 | −7 | 39 | |
| 13 | Rochester United | 32 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 52 | 70 | −18 | 38 | |
| 14 | Fisher | 32 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 41 | 71 | −30 | 28 | |
| 15 | Greenwich Borough | 32 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 33 | 93 | −60 | 23 | |
| 16 | Holmesdale | 32 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 34 | 83 | −49 | 21 | |
| 17 | Sevenoaks Town | 32 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 28 | 102 | −74 | 10 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | BEC | CAN | COR | CVP | DEA | E&B | ERI | FIS | GRE | HOL | LOR | ROC | SEV | TUN | VCD | WHY | WOO |
| Beckenham Town | | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–6 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 3–5 | 5–4 | 0–7 | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| Canterbury City | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 6–1 |
| Corinthian | 3–3 | 4–1 | | 3–1 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 |
| Cray Valley Paper Mills | 2–2 | 5–0 | 1–1 | | 3–3 | 1–2 | 1–5 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–9 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–4 |
| Deal Town | 5–4 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 6–0 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 |
| Erith & Belvedere | 3–2 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 4–4 | 5–2 | | 3–1 | 3–2 | 7–0 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 6–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 8–5 |
| Erith Town | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–0 | 4–3 | | 4–3 | 8–0 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 2–3 |
| Fisher | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–6 | 0–1 | | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–5 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–5 | 0–2 | 3–1 |
| Greenwich Borough | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 1–4 | | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–6 | 1–6 | 0–2 | 2–0 |
| Holmesdale | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–4 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–4 | | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 0–2 |
| Lordswood | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 2–2 |
| Rochester United | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | | 4–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Sevenoaks Town | 2–6 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 1–6 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 0–3 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 1–4 | | 0–6 | 1–4 | 1–5 | 1–3 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 3–2 | 6–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 5–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 0–1 | | 0–2 | 2–3 | 1–1 |
| VCD Athletic | 5–1 | 5–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 6–2 | 4–1 | 9–2 | 1–4 | 4–0 | 1–0 | | 2–0 | 6–0 |
| Whyteleafe | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | | 2–2 |
| Woodstock Sports | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–5 | 2–3 | 5–0 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 0–6 | 1–5 | 2–3 | |

### Challenge Cup

The 2012–13 Kent Football League Challenge Cup, known as the Macron Kent League Cup (to reflect sponsorship by the Macron Sportswear brand), was won by Erith & Belvedere to complete a League and Cup double.
The competition was contested by the 17 teams from the Premier Division and was played over a total of five rounds: four on an aggregate basis (home and away matches) followed by a final match played on a neutral ground (at Welling United F.C. this season).

#### Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Cray Valley Paper Mills | Cray Valley Paper Mills | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Deal Town | Deal Town | 2 | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Deal Town | Deal Town | 2 | 1 | 3 | Deal Town | Deal Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Corinthian | Corinthian | 3 | 5 | 8 | | | | | |
| Corinthian | Corinthian | 1 | 5 | 6 | Corinthian | Corinthian | 3 | 5 | 8 | | | | | |
| Holmesdale | Holmesdale | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Holmesdale | Holmesdale | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | Corinthian | Corinthian | Corinthian | Corinthian | 1 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | 4 |
| Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | 4 |
| Whyteleafe | Whyteleafe | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Whyteleafe | Whyteleafe | 0 | 0 | 0 | Erith & Belvedere | Erith & Belvedere | 3 | 0 | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Lordswood | Lordswood | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
| Lordswood | Lordswood | 4 | 1 | 5 | Lordswood | Lordswood | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
| Tunbridge Wells | Tunbridge Wells | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |

#### First Round

* VCD Athletic 1 – 3 Corinthian (1st Leg 0–1; 2nd Leg 1–2)
* Holmesdale 7 – 4 Rochester United (1st Leg 1–0; 2nd Leg 6–4)
* Cray Valley Paper Mills 5 – 3 Erith Town (1st Leg 2–2; 2nd Leg 3–1)
* Fisher 1 – 7 Deal Town (1st Leg 1–1; 2nd Leg 0–6)
* Erith & Belvedere 6 – 1 Greenwich Borough (1st Leg 3–0; 2nd Leg 3–1)
* Sevenoaks Town 3 – 5 Whyteleafe (1st Leg 3–1; 2nd Leg 0–4)
* Canterbury City 3 – 5 Lordswood (1st Leg 3–1; 2nd Leg 0–4)
* Tunbridge Wells 3 – 2 Woodstock Sports (1st Leg 2–1; 2nd Leg 1–1)

#### Preliminary Round

* Beckenham Town 3 – 4 Erith Town (1st Leg 2–2; 2nd Leg 1–2)
Source: SCEFL Archives

## Reserves Section

The letter "R" following team names indicates a club’s reserves team.
The 2012–13 season Reserves Section comprised a single division (amalgamated from the previous season's two). Promotion from the Reserves Section into the Premier Division was not permitted. There was a League Cup competition for the teams of the Reserves Section.

### Division One

The division comprised 14 teams, six of which competed in the previous season together with seven from the previous season's Division Two plus one additional team, Rusthall R.
At the end of the season the division was discontinued.

#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Whitstable Town R | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 86 | 28 | +58 | 60 |
| 2 | Herne Bay R | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 68 | 40 | +28 | 53 |
| 3 | Maidstone United R | 26 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 80 | 52 | +28 | 50 |
| 4 | Chatham Town R | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 55 | 32 | +23 | 46 |
| 5 | Erith Town R | 26 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 56 | 40 | +16 | 45 |
| 6 | Ramsgate R | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 55 | 54 | +1 | 40 |
| 7 | Deal Town R | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 49 | 55 | −6 | 34 |
| 8 | Holmesdale R | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 61 | 60 | +1 | 33 |
| 9 | VCD Athletic R | 26 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 57 | 60 | −3 | 30 |
| 10 | Phoenix Sports R | 26 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 60 | 66 | −6 | 29 |
| 11 | Margate R | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 47 | 57 | −10 | 29 |
| 12 | Woodstock Sports R | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 41 | 75 | −34 | 29 |
| 13 | Lordswood R | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 40 | 62 | −22 | 24 |
| 14 | Rusthall R | 26 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 26 | 100 | −74 | 12 |
* ↑ Herne Bay R v. VCD Athletic R match: win awarded to Herne Bay R (0–0)
* 1 2 Deal Town R v. Chatham Town R match: win awarded to Deal Town R (0–0)
* ↑ Herne Bay R v. VCD Athletic R match: win awarded to Herne Bay R (0–0); Margate R v. VCD Athletic R match: win awarded to Margate R (0–0)
* ↑ VCD Athletic R deducted three points.
* ↑ Margate R v. VCD Athletic R match: win awarded to Margate R (0–0)

#### Results

| Home \ Away | CHA | DEA | ERI | HER | HOL | LOR | MAI | MAR | PHO | RAM | RUS | VCD | WHI | WOO |
| Chatham Town R | | 5–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Deal Town R | – | | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–4 | 7–1 |
| Erith Town R | 0–1 | 0–2 | | 1–4 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 7–0 |
| Herne Bay R | 4–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | | 2–2 | 4–1 | 5–0 | 5–2 | 4–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | – | 3–0 | 3–3 |
| Holmesdale R | 1–4 | 3–4 | 1–2 | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 5–6 | 1–2 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 |
| Lordswood R | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 5–4 | | 0–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 8–0 | 2–3 | 0–6 | 0–2 |
| Maidstone United R | 5–2 | 9–0 | 3–3 | 5–1 | 5–4 | 1–1 | | 2–2 | 5–3 | 4–0 | 6–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 6–1 |
| Margate R | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 3–1 | 3–5 | 1–1 | 2–3 | | 1–5 | 1–1 | 4–1 | – | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| Phoenix Sports R | 3–1 | 3–3 | 1–1 | 2–6 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 1–4 | 4–1 | | 5–3 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 1–3 | 9–0 |
| Ramsgate R | 0–4 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | | 7–0 | 3–0 | 1–5 | 0–2 |
| Rusthall R | 0–3 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 5–2 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 0–3 | | 2–4 | 0–12 | 1–5 |
| VCD Athletic R | 2–5 | 5–1 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 6–2 | 0–5 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | | 2–8 | 6–0 |
| Whitstable Town R | 3–3 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 3–0 | | 5–1 |
| Woodstock Sports R | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–5 | 3–1 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–3 | |
* ↑ Match awarded to Deal Town R (0–0)
* ↑ Match awarded to Herne Bay R (0–0)
* ↑ Match awarded to Margate R (0–0)

### Reserves Cup

The 2012–13 Kent Football League Reserves Cup was won by Phoenix Sports R.
The competition was contested by the 14 teams from Division One and was played over four rounds: the first two comprised single knock-out matches, followed by the semi-finals, which were decided on an aggregate basis (home and away matches), and culminated in the final match, played on a neutral ground (at Corinthian F.C. this season).

#### Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| VCD Athletic R | VCD Athletic R | VCD Athletic R | VCD Athletic R | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | Maidstone United R | 1 | VCD Athletic R | VCD Athletic R | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | |
| Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | 5 | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | |
| Erith Town R | Erith Town R | Erith Town R | Erith Town R | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Erith Town R | Erith Town R | Erith Town R | Erith Town R | 3 | | | | | | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | Phoenix Sports R | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | 2 |
| Whitstable Town R | Whitstable Town R | Whitstable Town R | Whitstable Town R | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | 2 |
| Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | Ramsgate R | 0 | Whitstable Town R | Whitstable Town R | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | |
| Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | 2 | Herne Bay R | Herne Bay R | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | |
| Woodstock Sports R | Woodstock Sports R | Woodstock Sports R | Woodstock Sports R | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |

#### First Round

* VCD Athletic R 5 – 1 Margate R
* Lordswood R 0 – 4 Maidstone United R
* Erith Town R 4 – 1 Holmesdale R
* Whitstable Town R 5 – 0 Rusthall R
* Herne Bay R 2 – 1 Chatham Town R
* Woodstock Sports R 7 – 4 Deal Town R
Bye to next round: Phoenix Sports R and Ramsgate R
Source: Kent League Archived