1972–73 Kent Football League

The 1972–73 Kent Football League season was the seventh 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 twenty clubs, including eight reserves teams. Eighteen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by two additional clubs:
 * Snowdown Colliery Welfare returning to the league following a one-season absence.
 * Sheppey United joined from the Metropolitan–London League and replaced their reserves team.

The Ramsgate Athletic Reserves team from the previous season were renamed Ramsgate Reserves.

The league was won by Sheppey United.

At the end of the season Brett Sports folded and together with Hastings United Reserves left the league. Both bottom clubs, Ashford Town Reserves and Margate Reserves, were re-elected to continue their membership of the league.

Challenge Cup
The 1972–73 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Folkestone Reserves – the final occasion it was won by a reserves team.

The competition, contested by all twenty clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final between Sittingbourne and Folkestone Reserves and played at the former's home ground, the Bull Ground.

Second Round

 * Ashford Town Reserves 0 – 2 Ramsgate Reserves
 * Sittingbourne 3 – 1 Chatham Town
 * Brett Sports 0 – 2 Tonbridge Reserves
 * Whitstable Town 2 – 4 Dartford Amateurs
 * Sheppey United 2 – 1 Kent Police
 * Tunbridge Wells 3 – 1 Slade Green Athletic
 * Margate Reserves 1 – 1 Folkestone Reserves
 * REPLAY: Folkestone Reserves 2 – 0 Margate Reserves
 * Crockenhill 1 – 6 Deal Town

First Round

 * Chatham Town 1 – 0 Bexley United Reserves
 * Whitstable Town 2 – 0 Hastings United Reserves
 * Dover Reserves 0 – 0 Kent Police
 * REPLAY: Kent Police 3 – 2 Dover Reserves
 * Margate Reserves 4 – 1 Snowdown Colliery Welfare
 * Byes for the other twelve clubs

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