1986–87 Football Conference

Season 1986–87 Conference League Cup winners Kettering Town		Promoted to the Football League Scarborough FA Trophy winners Kidderminster Harriers

Champions Scarborough (1st Football Conference title) Relegated to Level 6 Frickley Athletic, Gateshead, Nuneaton Borough

The Football Conference season of 1986–87 (known as the GM Vauxhall Conference for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of the Football Conference, the first season under this name, this league having earlier been known as the Alliance Premier League.

Overview
New teams in the league this season
Final League Table
Results
Promoted
Relegated
References

Overview

This was the first season of automatic promotion for champions of the Conference, following the abolition of the re-election system, and automatic relegation to the Conference for the bottom placed team in the Football League Fourth Division. Scarborough finished the season as Conference champions, and so won automatic promotion to the Football League at the expense of Lincoln City.

New teams in the league this season

Gateshead (promoted 1985–86)

Sutton United (promoted 1985–86)

Welling United (promoted 1985–86)

Final League Table

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Points scoring: 2 points for a home win, 3 points for an away win, 1 point for a draw.

Results

Source: Peter Dunk (ed.), Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1987.
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promoted

Scarborough (to the Football League Fourth Division)

Fisher Athletic (from the Isthmian League)

Macclesfield Town (from the Northern Premier League)

Wycombe Wanderers (from the Southern Premier League)

Relegated

Lincoln City (from the Football League Fourth Division)

Frickley Athletic (to the Northern Premier League)

Gateshead (to the Northern Premier League)

Nuneaton Borough (to the Southern Premier League)

References

1986–87 Football Conference Wikipedia

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