The 1984–85 Kent Football League season was the nineteenth 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 structure comprised two divisions: Division One and Division Two with the latter known as the Reserves Section (reserves teams were not permitted in Division One). Additionally there were two league cup competitions: the Challenge Cup for the Division One clubs and another for the teams in Division Two.
| Season | 1984–85 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Tunbridge Wells |
| Matches played | 272 |
| Goals scored | 909 (3.34 per match) |
← 1983–84 1985–86 → | |
The league featured seventeen clubs, fifteen of which competed in the previous season together with two additional clubs:
The league was won by Tunbridge Wells, their first league winners title in the reformed Kent League.[3]
At the end of the season both bottom clubs, Crockenhill and Ramsgate were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.[4]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Season End Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tunbridge Wells | 32 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 83 | 39 | +44 | 72 | |
| 2 | Hythe Town | 32 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 70 | 33 | +37 | 72 | |
| 3 | Sittingbourne | 32 | 21 | 4 | 7 | 77 | 43 | +34 | 66 | |
| 4 | Beckenham Town | 32 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 67 | 46 | +21 | 59 | |
| 5 | Cray Wanderers | 32 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 59 | 51 | +8 | 53 | |
| 6 | Greenwich Borough | 32 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 62 | 49 | +13 | 51 | |
| 7 | Faversham Town | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 44 | 42 | +2 | 47 | |
| 8 | Darenth Heathside | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 45 | 43 | +2 | 46 | |
| 9 | Metropolitan Police (Hayes) | 32 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 66 | 66 | 0 | 43 | |
| 10 | Whitstable Town | 32 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 43 | 44 | −1 | 40 | |
| 11 | Alma Swanley[a] | 32 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 47 | 49 | −2 | 39[b] | |
| 12 | Deal Town | 32 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 50 | 57 | −7 | 37 | |
| 13 | Herne Bay | 32 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 43 | 57 | −14 | 29 | |
| 14 | Slade Green Athletic | 32 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 35 | 66 | −31 | 28 | |
| 15 | Kent Police[c] | 32 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 48 | 88 | −40 | 27 | |
| 16 | Crockenhill | 32 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 34 | 63 | −29 | 25 | Re-elected |
| 17 | Ramsgate | 32 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 36 | 73 | −37 | 24 |
The 1984–85 Kent Football League Challenge Cup (named the Winstonlead Kent League Cup for sponsorship reasons)[4] was won by Greenwich Borough in their first season in the league.[6] The competition, contested by all seventeen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds (with a single tie in the first round) culminating in the final.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Sittingbourne | 1 | 1[a] | ||||||||||||
| Darenth Heathside | 1 | 3[a] | ||||||||||||
| Darenth Heathside | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Beckenham Town | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Beckenham Town | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Alma Swanley | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Beckenham Town | 2[b] | |||||||||||||
| Greenwich Borough | 3[b] | |||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Cray Wanderers | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Greenwich Borough | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Kent Police | ||||||||||||||
| Greenwich Borough | ||||||||||||||
Sources:
The letter "R" following team names indicates a club's reserves team.
Division Two featured mostly reserves teams (which were not permitted in Division One) from clubs from Kent and the adjacent area whose first team played in Division One and other higher ranked leagues. There was a League Cup competition for the teams in the section.
| Season | 1984–85 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Sheppey United R |
| Matches played | 271 |
| Goals scored | 924 (3.41 per match) |
← 1983–84 1985–86 → | |
The league featured seventeen clubs (including one non-reserve team, Snowdown Colliery Welfare), thirteen of which had competed in the division the previous season together with four additional clubs
The division was won by returnees Sheppey United R[7] who completed a league and cup double.
At the end of the season Hastings United R folded and left the league and both bottom clubs, Deal Town R and Whitstable Town R were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.[4]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Season End Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheppey United R | 32 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 77 | 25 | +52 | 75 | |
| 2 | Ashford Town R | 32 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 61 | 37 | +24 | 63 | |
| 3 | Erith & Belvedere R | 32 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 61 | 33 | +28 | 61 | |
| 4 | Fisher Athletic R[a] | 31 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 79 | 28 | +51 | 56[b] | |
| 5 | Faversham Town R[c] | 32 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 71 | 56 | +15 | 51 | |
| 6 | Herne Bay R[d] | 31 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 69 | 55 | +14 | 50 | |
| 7 | Hythe Town R | 32 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 53 | 46 | +7 | 48 | |
| 8 | Snowdown Colliery Welfare | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 44 | 47 | −3 | 43 | |
| 9 | Hastings United R | 32 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 43 | 53 | −10 | 42 | Resigned, club folded |
| 10 | Sittingbourne R[e] | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 72 | 61 | +11 | 40[f] | |
| 11 | Darenth Heathside R | 32 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 53 | 47 | +6 | 39 | |
| 12 | Folkestone R | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 51 | 76 | −25 | 37 | |
| 13 | Chatham Town R | 32 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 36 | |
| 14 | Thanet United R[g] | 32 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 39 | 56 | −17 | 31 | |
| 15 | Canterbury City R | 32 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 46 | 71 | −25 | 27 | |
| 16 | Deal Town R | 32 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 34 | 87 | −53 | 26 | Re-elected |
| 17 | Whitstable Town R | 32 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 30 | 97 | −67 | 19 |
The 1984–85 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won by Sheppey United R,[9] who defeated Fisher Athletic R in the final, and completed a league and cup double.
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