1986–87 Kent Football League


The 1986–87 Kent Football League season was the twenty-first 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. 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 eighteen clubs, which had all competed in the previous season.
Slade Green Athletic changed their name to Slade Green.
The league was won by Greenwich Borough, part of a league and cup double.
At the end of the season both bottom clubs, Faversham Town and Kent Police, were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.

League table


Challenge Cup

The 1986–87 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won, for the second occasion in three seasons, by Greenwich Borough and was part of a league and cup double.
The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in Division One, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground.

Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final


Second Round

First Round

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Reserves Section

The letter "R" following team names indicates a club's reserves team.
Division Two featured mostly reserves teams 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, sixteen of which had competed in the division the previous season together with two additional clubs
The division was won for the second successive season by Fisher Athletic R.
At the end of the season Erith & Belvedere R withdrew from the division and both bottom clubs, Faversham Town R and Whitstable Town R, were re-elected to continue their membership of the division.

League Table


Division Two Cup

The 1986–87 Kent Football League Division Two Cup was won by Sittingbourne R.
The competition, contested by all eighteen clubs in the division, comprised five single match tie rounds culminating in the final which was played on a neutral ground.

Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final


Second Round

First Round

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