The league featured eighteen clubs, the fifteen non-reserves teams that had competed in Division One the previous season together with three additional clubs:[2] The league was won by Sheppey United,[7] their third championship in seven seasons and part of a league and cup double.
[8] At the end of the season Crockenhill were re-elected to continue their membership of Division One whilst bottom club Snowdown Colliery Welfare had their application to drop to Division Two approved.
The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in the league, comprised five single match tie rounds (with the first round featuring two ties) culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground (at Sittingbourne[12] this season).
The league featured reserve teams from eleven clubs: Dover R, previously in Division One; Faversham Town R, Medway R and Sittingbourne R from the New Brompton League; Deal Town R, Herne Bay R, Hythe Town R, Margate R, Ramsgate R from the Kent Amateur League; together with Cray Wanderers R and Darenth Heathside R. Medway R were the inaugural league winners [13] and were unbeaten over the twenty match league campaign.
The 1978–79 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won by Dover R with Darenth Heathside R runners-up.