Kent Football League (1894–1959)
The Kent League was a football league which existed from 1894 until 1959, based in the English county of Kent. Another, unrelated, Kent League was formed in 1966, and is now known as the Southern Counties East Football League.
Champions[]
The champions of the league's top division were as follows:[1]
Member clubs[]
During the league's history, member clubs included:[3]
- 12th Infantry Training Corps
- 1st King's Own
- 1st Royal Warwickshire
- 1st South Wales Borderers
- 2nd Connaught Rangers
- 2nd Essex Regiment
- 2nd King's Royal Rifles
- 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers
- 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers
- 2nd Royal Irish Rifles
- 3rd Worcestershire
- Army Ordnance Corps (Woolwich)
- Army Service Corps (Grove Park)
- Ashford Town
- Ashford Town Reserves
- Ashford United
- Aveling & Porter (Strood)
- Aylesford Paper Mills
- Aylesford Paper Mills Reserves
- Belvedere & District
- Bexleyheath & Welling
- Bexleyheath & Welling Reserves
- Bexleyheath Labour
- Bexleyheath Town
- Borstal
- Bromley
- Canterbury City
- Canterbury City Reserves
- Carabiners
- Charlton Athletic
- Charlton Athletic 'A'
- Charlton Athletic Reserves
- Chatham Town
- Chatham Town Reserves
- Chislet Colliery Welfare
- Cray Wanderers
- Cray Wanderers Reserves
- Crystal Palace Reserves
- Dartford
- Dartford Reserves
- Deal Cinque Ports
- Deal Town
- Deal Town Reserves
- Depot Battalion, RE
- Depot Machine Gun Corps (Folkestone)
- Depot Royal West Kent Regiment
- Dover
- Dover Reserves
- Dover United
- Erith
- Erith & Belvedere
- Erith Oil Works
- Eythorne
- Faversham Services
- Faversham Town
- Faversham Town Reserves
- Folkestone
- Folkestone Reserves
- Folkestone Gas
- Folkestone Harveians
- Folkestone Town
- Folkestone Town Reserves
- Gillingham
- Gillingham 'A'
- Gillingham Reserves
- Gravesend & Northfleet Reserves
- Gravesend Hotspur
- Gravesend United
- Grays Athletic
- Grays Thurrock United
- Grays Thurrock United Reserves
- Herne Bay
- Herne Bay Reserves
- London Paper Mills
- Loyal Regiment
- Luton
- Maidstone Athletic
- Maidstone Church Institute
- Maidstone Institute
- Maidstone Invicta
- Maidstone United
- Maidstone United Reserves
- Margate
- Margate Reserves
- Medway Corrugated Paper Company
- Metrogas
- Millwall Reserves
- Minster United
- Murston Rangers
- New Brompton
- New Brompton Amateurs
- New Brompton Excelsior
- Northfleet
- Northfleet United
- Orpington
- RAF Eastchurch
- Rainham
- Ramsgate
- Ramsgate Reserves
- Ramsgate Athletic
- Ramsgate Athletic Reserves
- Ramsgate Grenville
- Ramsgate Press Wanderers
- Ramsgate Town
- Rochester
- Rochester & Borstal
- Royal Artillery
- Royal Marines (Deal)
- Royal Marines (Deal) Reserves
- Royal Naval Depot (Chatham)
- Royal Naval Depot (Chatham) Reserves
- Royal Ordnance Factories
- Royal Scots Fusiliers
- Royal West Kent Regiment
- S.E. Railway Mechanics Institute
- S.R. Athletic
- Sevenoaks
- Sheppey United
- Sheppey United Reserves
- Sittingbourne
- Sittingbourne Reserves
- Snodland Town
- Snowdown Colliery Welfare
- Snowdown Colliery Welfare Reserves
- South Lancashire Regiment
- Southend United Reserves
- Strood
- Swanscombe
- Tilbury
- Tonbridge
- Troy Town Invicta
- Tunbridge Wells United
- Tunbridge Wells United Reserves
- Vickers (Crayford)
- Vickers (Erith)
- Whitstable
- Whitstable Reserves
- Woolwich
- Woolwich Reserves
- Woolwich Arsenal Reserves
References[]
- ^ England - Lower Level Leagues - Lists of Champions RSSSF
- ^ Triggs, Roger (1984). Gillingham Football Club: A Chronology 1893–1984. Kent County Libraries. p. 54.
- ^ England - Kent League RSSSF
Categories:
- Kent Football League (1894–1959)
- Football leagues in Kent
- 1894 establishments in England
- Sports leagues established in 1894