1986–87 Football Conference

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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 toLevel 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

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.