Sheppey United - Season by Season Record

This section is where I'll list, hopefully, every season's end of season record for Sheppey. It will be done season by season with a final league table for each year that the club competed in league football of some kind (I've not listed any league tables for the 1st and 2nd World Wars for obvious reasons and Sheppey had 3 years recently where they either quit the Kent League before the season was over or did not enter a side in senior league football).

One thing to note is that I have decided to list ONLY the most senior competition when Sheppey competed in more than 1 league at the same time in any season. In Sheppey's formative years in competitive football, the club appear to have competed in 2 leagues at the same time with not only the Southern league being competed in but also, firstly, the Thames and Medway Combination and, after this, the Kent League . I am not sure as to whether Sheppey entered their first team or their reserves in the latter 2 leagues as the number of games give scope for the first team to have taken part in all 3 so only the Southern League has been listed in these years.

There is a section for each decade and when you click on any of the links you will be taken to a page that has a further menu for each year within that decade if a league table has been typed up for it and has been put online. The seasons covered so far are 1895-1966 and 1972-present. More will follow as and when I type them up!

What I am finding frustrating is that the local papers in Sheerness have patchy coverage of final league tables. Out of all of Sheppey's Kent League Championship winning seasons, only 1 final table has been printed in the local papers, even when the island had 2 papers, and that was the first one in 1906! Even as recently as the last title win in 1995, the local papers didn't print the final table. I am now giving serious consideration to going to libraries outside of the Swale area and seeing if their archives of local papers covers the Kent League final tables better than the Sheerness Times, Sheerness Guardian and Sheerness Times-Guardian have. I certainly hope so.

Well, with many thanks to Chris Collings who is involved with the History of Dover Football Club website, I now have all the league tables from 1895-1966 typed up as well as 1972-present done. That now leaves me only 5 seasons to hunt down the league tables for and I will have every league table from Sheppey's history online - and I'm hopeful of getting those soon.

I now have the Metropolitan League tables for 1967-1971 with many thanks to Graham Allison who e-mailed them to me. These have now been typed up and are online. That now means that every league table from Sheppey's history is now available online at this site.

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