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1976–77 Isthmian League

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Season
  
1976–77

Relegated
  
Dulwich Hamlet Ilford

Goals scored
  
1229 (2.66 per match)

Champions
  
Enfield

Matches played
  
462

The 1976–77 season was the 62nd season of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.

Contents

It was the first Isthmian League season to use goal difference as a tie-breaker.

Enfield won the First Division, while Tilbury won the Second Division.

At the end of the season the league divisions were renamed: the First Division was renamed the Premier Division and the Second Division was renamed the First Division. Also, seventeen clubs from the Athenian League were newly admitted to the league, they were placed to the new Second Division, as the league expanded up to three divisions.

First Division

The First Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 20 clubs from the previous season and two clubs, promoted from the Second Division:

  • Croydon
  • Tilbury
  • League table

    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Second Division

    The Second Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 20 clubs from the previous season and two new clubs, relegated from the First Division:

  • Clapton
  • Oxford City
  • League table

    Source:
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    References

    1976–77 Isthmian League Wikipedia