The 1971–72 Kent Football League season was the sixth 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.
League
The league featured teams from 20 clubs, including ten reserves teams. Seventeen of the clubs had competed in the league the previous season and they were joined by three additional clubs: Dartford Reserves Dover Reserves Deal Town joined from the Greater London League and replaced their reserves team
The league was won by Chatham Town, who completed a League and Cup double.
At the end of the season Dartford Reserves resigned. Both bottom two clubs, Sheppey United Reserves and Ramsgate Athletic Reserves, were re-elected back into the league. with the former being replaced by their first team.
League table
Challenge Cup The 1971–72 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Chatham Town, who completed a League and Cup double.
The competition, contested by all twenty clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground (at Sittingbourne F.C. this season).
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final
<onlyinclude> Second Round Tonbridge Reserves 3 – 2 Sheppey United Reserves Slade Green Athletic 1 – 0 Margate Reserves Dover Reserves 0 – 0 Chatham Town REPLAY 1: Chatham Town 1 – 1 (aet) Dover Reserves REPLAY 2: Dover Reserves 1 – 2 (aet) Chatham Town (score at 90 minutes 1–1) Sittingbourne 2 – 0 Deal Town Crockenhill 1 – 3 Hastings United Reserves Dartford Amateurs 2 – 2 Ashford Town Reserves REPLAY: Ashford Town Reserves 2 – 1 Dartford Amateurs Bexley United Reserves 2 – 1 Kent Police Brett Sports 6 – 2 Dartford Reserves First Round Whitstable Town 0 – 4 Dover Reserves Tunbridge Wells 0 – 1 Dartford Amateurs Folkestone Reserves 1 – 2 Bexley United Reserves Dartford Reserves 4 – 0 Ramsgate Athletic Reserves Byes for the other twelve clubs
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