Kent county cricket teams matches at Town Malling between 1836 and 1841. The expense of running county games meant that Town Malling proved too small to support a county club, despite the large attendances that games attracted, and in 1842 Pilch moved to the Beverley club at Canterbury. Kent struggled against the prominence of Sussex in the early roundarm years but then enjoyed a glorious period in the middle of the century. Rowland Bowen has recorded that a Maidstone newspaper in 1837 described a match between Kent and Nottinghamshire as for the County Championship. This is the earliest known use of the term although
Deal Town F.C. 1966, but were replaced by the first team in 1971. In 1982–83 and 1983–84 they played in Division Two of the Eastern Section of the Kent County League. They later rejoined the reserve divisions of the Kent League, before returning to the Kent County League in 2013. Deal Town F.C. Deal Town Football Club is a football club based in Deal in Kent, England. FA Vase winners in 2000, they are currently members of the and play at the Charles Sports Ground. The club was established as Deal Cinque Ports in 1908, and initially played in the Thanet League and