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.
Division One
The league featured seventeen clubs, fifteen of which competed in the previous season together with two additional clubs: Greenwich Borough, transferred from the London Spartan League Metropolitan Police (Hayes), joined from the Kent County Amateur League
The league was won by Tunbridge Wells, their first league winners title in the reformed Kent League.
At the end of the season both bottom clubs, Crockenhill and Ramsgate were re-elected to continue their membership of the division. League table
Challenge Cup The 1984–85 Kent Football League Challenge Cup (named the Winstonlead Kent League Cup for sponsorship reasons) was won by Greenwich Borough in their first season in the league. 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 and Final
<onlyinclude> Second Round Hythe Town 0 – 2 Sittingbourne Darenth Heathside 1 – 0 Ramsgate Crockenhill 3 – 4 Beckenham Town Whitstable Town 0 – 1 (aet) Alma Swanley (score at 90 minutes 0–0) Herne Bay 0 – 3 Tunbridge Wells Cray Wanderers 1– 0 Metropolitan Police (Hayes) Kent Police 5 – 5 Deal Town REPLAY 1: Deal Town v Kent Police REPLAY 2: Kent Police 4 – 0 Deal Town Greenwich Borough 4 – 0 Slade Green Athletic First Round Faversham Town 2 – 3 Greenwich Borough Byes for the other fifteen teams
Sources: Final: Semi-finals: ; Quarter-finals: ; Second Round:; ; First Round:
Reserves Section 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. Division Two
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 Sheppey United R, returning following a one season absence Canterbury City R joined from the Kent County Amateur League Deal Town R joined from the Kent County Amateur League Thanet United R, formerly Margate R, joined from the Kent County Amateur League
The division was won by returnees Sheppey United R 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.
League Table
Division Two Cup The 1984–85 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won by Sheppey United R, who defeated Fisher Athletic R in the final, and completed a league and cup double.
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