The 1982–83 Kent Football League season was the seventeenth 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 which competed in the previous season together with two additional clubs which both transferred from the London Spartan League: Alma Swanley Beckenham Town
The league was won by Crockenhill, their only season as champions of the Kent League.
At the end of the season seventh placed team Chatham Town left the league following their election to the Southern Football League. League Table
Challenge Cup The 1982–83 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Slade Green Athletic, who defeated Faversham Town in the final, their only winners trophy whilst members of the Kent League. The competition, contested by all seventeen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds (with only one tie in the first round) culminating in the final.
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final
<onlyinclude> Second Round Ramsgate 3 – 2 Deal Town Darenth Heathside 2 – 1 Chatham Town Sittingbourne 1 – 2 Crockenhill Faversham Town 3 – 2 Kent Police Cray Wanderers 1 – 3 Slade Green Athletic Hythe Town 3 – 2 Tunbridge Wells Alma Swanley 1 – 4 Sheppey United Herne Bay 1 – 0 Beckenham Town First Round Whitstable Town 1 – 2 Deal Town Byes for the other fifteen teans 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 eighteen clubs (including one non-reserve team, Snowdown Colliery Welfare), sixteen of which had competed in the division the previous season with two additional clubs: Beckenham Town R Faversham Town R, returning after a one season absence.
The division was won by Maidstone United R for the second successive season.
At the end of the season four clubs left the league: Sheppey United R, and three who joined the Essex and Herts Border Combination: Dartford R, champions Maidstone United R and Welling United R. League Table
Division Two Cup The 1982–83 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won by Erith & Belvedere R who defeated Hythe Town R in the final.
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