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The 2002–03 Kent Football League season (known as the Go Travel Kent League for sponsorship reasons) was the 37th in the history of Kent Football League a football competition in England.
The League structure comprised three divisions: a Premier Division together with a Reserves Section comprising two equal ranked geographically based divisions known as Division One North and Division One South – with a play-off between the winners of these two divisions to decide the Division One champion. Reserves teams were not permitted in the Premier Division. Additionally there were two league cup competitions: the Challenge Cup for the Premier Division clubs and another for the teams in the Reserves Section.
Premier Division
| Season | 2002–03 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Cray Wanderers |
| Matches played | 232 |
| Goals scored | 825 (3.56 per match) |
← 2001–02 2003–04 → | |
The league featured 16 clubs which competed in the previous season, no new clubs joined the league this season.
Faversham Town resigned towards the end of the season with eight games to play. As per league rules as they resigned after 1 March their record was not expunged and, owing to the resulting unequal number of matches played by the remaining clubs, the final league positions were decided on a points per game basis.[1]
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cray Wanderers | 29 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 68 | 23 | +45 | 62 | 2.14 | |
| 2 | Maidstone United | 30 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 76 | 31 | +45 | 63 | 2.10 | |
| 3 | Thamesmead Town | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 76 | 39 | +37 | 63 | 2.10 | |
| 4 | Deal Town | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 62 | 40 | +22 | 54 | 1.93 | |
| 5 | Ramsgate | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 59 | 35 | +24 | 55 | 1.83 | |
| 6 | Whitstable Town | 29 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 56 | 45 | +11 | 53 | 1.83 | |
| 7 | VCD Athletic | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 51 | 36 | +15 | 48 | 1.60 | |
| 8 | Hythe Town | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 46 | 54 | −8 | 45 | 1.50 | |
| 9 | Slade Green | 29 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 57 | 54 | +3 | 35 | 1.21 | |
| 10 | Beckenham Town | 29 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 41 | 53 | −12 | 33 | 1.14 | |
| 11 | Herne Bay | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 53 | 54 | −1 | 34 | 1.13 | |
| 12 | Tunbridge Wells | 29 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 53 | 66 | −13 | 29 | 1.00 | |
| 13 | Lordswood | 30 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 37 | 66 | −29 | 24 | 0.80 | |
| 14 | Greenwich Borough | 30 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 36 | 70 | −34 | 20 | 0.67 | |
| 15 | Erith Town | 29 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 36 | 71 | −35 | 18 | 0.62 | |
| 16 | Faversham Town | 22 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 18 | 88 | −70 | 7[a] | 0.32[a] | Resigned from the league |
- ^ Faversham Town resigned with eight games to play. Their record was not expunged, but final league positions were decided on a points per game basis.
Challenge Cup
The 2002–03 Kent Football League Challenge Cup was won by Cray Wanderers who completed the League and Cup double.
The competition was contested by the 16 teams from the Premier Division over four rounds: the first two a single match knock-out followed by the semis-finals on an aggregate basis (home and away matches) and the final match played on a neutral ground (at Folkestone Invicta F.C. this season).
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals and Final
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Herne Bay | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tunbridge Wells | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cray Wanderers | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maidstone United | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cray Wanderers | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cray Wanderers | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| VCD Athletic | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Deal Town | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Slade Green | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Deal Town | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| VCD Athletic | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| VCD Athletic | 2[a] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Erith Town | 0[a] | |||||||||||||||||||
First Round
- Tunbridge Wells v Hythe Town
- Beckenham Town v Herne Bay
- Faversham Town 2 – 5 Maidstone United
- Cray Wanderers 2 – 1 Thamesmead Town
- Deal Town v Greenwich Borough
- Lordswood v Slade Green
- VCD Athletic v Ramsgate
- Erith Town 1 – 0 Whitstable Town
Sources: Beckenham Town FC: Cup Draws & Results (archived) & Herne Bay FC (archived)
Reserves Section
The letter "R" following team names indicates a club’s reserves team.
The 2002–03 Reserves Section comprised two equal ranked geographically based divisions, Division One North and Division One South. The top club in each division played a single match to decide the Division One Champion. Promotion from the Reserves Section into the Premier Division was not permitted. There was a single League Cup competition for all teams in the section.
Division One Champion Play-off
Deal Town R were the Division One champions. They won the single play-off match, played at Herne Bay F.C., between the top team from each of the Division One North and Division One South:
Division One North
| Season | 2002–03 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Cray Wanderers R |
| Matches played | 131 |
| Goals scored | 513 (3.92 per match) |
← 2001–02 | |
The division featured 12 clubs, 10 of which had competed in the previous season together with two additional clubs:
- Corinthian, returning to the Kent League after resigning in 1998 from Division One (subsequently renamed the Premier Division).
- Erith & Belvedere R
Prior to the season the Swanley Furness club was renamed Danson Furness[3]
At the end of the season the top six teams were moved to the newly formed Division One and the bottom six to the newly formed Division Two.