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1987–88 Football Conference

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Season
  
1987–88

FA Trophy winners
  
Enfield

Promoted to the Football League
  
Lincoln City

1987–88 Football Conference

Champions
  
Lincoln City (1st Football Conference title)

Conference League Cup winners
  
Horwich RMI (Northern Premier League)

Relegated to Level 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.

Contents

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.

  • Lincoln City (to the Football League Fourth Division)
  • Aylesbury United (from the Southern Premier League)
  • Chorley (from the Northern Premier League)
  • Yeovil Town (from the Isthmian League)

    • Relegated

  • Newport County (from the Football League Fourth Division)
  • Bath City (to the Southern Premier League)
  • Dagenham (to the Isthmian League)
  • Wealdstone (to the Southern Premier League)

    • References

    1987–88 Football Conference Wikipedia
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