The 1969–70 Kent Football League season was the fourth in the history of the Kent Football League, a football competition 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.
Season | 1969–70 |
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Champions | Faversham Town |
Matches played | 210 |
Goals scored | 773 (3.68 per match) |
← 1968–69 1970–71 → |
The league featured teams from 15 clubs including five reserves teams. Fourteen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by one additional club:
The league was won by Faversham Town,[2] the first of two successive Kent League titles.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
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1 | Faversham Town | 28 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 67 | 21 | 3.190 | 47 |
2 | Kent Police | 28 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 80 | 55 | 1.455 | 39 |
3 | Tunnel Sports | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 58 | 25 | 2.320 | 37 |
4 | Sittingbourne | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 60 | 36 | 1.667 | 37 |
5 | Tunbridge Wells | 28 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 56 | 50 | 1.120 | 31 |
6 | Margate Reserves | 28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 47 | 49 | 0.959 | 30 |
7 | Chatham Town | 28 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 62 | 53 | 1.170 | 28 |
8 | Snowdown Colliery Welfare | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 54 | 52 | 1.038 | 27 |
9 | Whitstable Town | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 50 | 0.880 | 27 |
10 | Deal Town Reserves | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 41 | 47 | 0.872 | 25 |
11 | Ramsgate Athletic Reserves | 28 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 53 | 62 | 0.855 | 23 |
12 | Brett Sports | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 55 | 0.582 | 21 |
13 | Sheppey United Reserves | 28 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 44 | 71 | 0.620 | 17 |
14 | Crockenhill | 28 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 40 | 77 | 0.519 | 16 |
15 | Folkestone Reserves | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 35 | 70 | 0.500 | 15 |
The 1969–70 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by newly admitted club Kent Police,[3] their sole winners trophy whilst playing in the Kent League.
The competition was contested by the 15 teams from the league over four rounds, the first and second where two leg home and away aggregate score ties followed by single match knock-out semi-finals to reach the final, played on a neutral ground (atSittingbourne F.C.[4] this season).
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
Ramsgate Athletic Reserves | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Chatham Town | 1 | 6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
Chatham Town | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Faversham Town | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
Faversham Town | 1 | 3[a] | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Whitstable Town | 1 | 2[a] | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Chatham Town | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
Kent Police | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
Sittingbourne | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
Deal Town Reserves | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Sittingbourne | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
Kent Police | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
Kent Police | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Tunnel Sports | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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