1987–88 Football Conference

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Season 1987–88 FA Trophy winners Enfield		Promoted to the Football League Lincoln City

Champions Lincoln City (1st Football Conference title) Conference League Cup winners Horwich RMI (Northern Premier League) Relegated toLevel 6 Bath City,Dagenham,Wealdstone

The Football Conference season of 1987–88 (known as the GM Vauxhall Conference for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Football Conference.

Overview

Lincoln City, who had been relegated to the Conference a year earlier in the first season of automatic promotion and relegation between the Conference and the Fourth Division of the Football League, won the Conference title to reclaim their place in the Football League, where they replaced the bottom placed Fourth Division club Newport County.

New teams in the league this season

Lincoln City (relegated from the Football League 1986–87)

Fisher Athletic (promoted 1986–87)

Macclesfield Town (promoted 1986–87)

Wycombe Wanderers (promoted 1986–87)

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 scored: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

Results

Source: Rothmans Football Yearbook 1988–89. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1988.
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.