Kent Football League (1894–1959)

The Division II champions were awarded a new trophy, the Kent County Challenge Shield.

[10] The league was reconstructed for the 1910–11 season under the auspices of the KCFA,[12] which had relinquished their role on the management committee a decade previously.

[14] In March 1923 informal discussions took place concerning a knock-out Kent League Cup competition for the Division I teams.

Apart from a five-season hiatus owing to World War I the league structure remained broadly the same until 1928, albeit with a churn of clubs.

In April 1958 Folkestone Town and Dover, two of the larger clubs, indicated their intention to leave the Kent League and join the expanding Southern League,[19] with Bexleyheath & Welling and Tunbridge Wells United doing the same shortly afterwards.

Although, owing to contractual arrangements, the clubs had to play in the Kent League for the 1958–59 season, the number of rebel clubs expanded to eight with the addition of Ashford Town, Margate, Ramsgate Athletic and Sittingbourne.

In the 1966–67 season the Kent Premier League was formed, derived from the Thames & Medway Combination.