Season 1988–89 Conference League Cup winners Yeovil Town | Promoted to the Football League Maidstone United FA Trophy winners Telford United | |
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Champions Maidstone United (2nd Football Conference title) Relegated to
Level 6/Folded Weymouth,
Newport County | ||
The Football Conference season of 1988–89 (known as the GM Vauxhall Conference for sponsorship reasons) was the tenth season of the Football Conference.
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It was the third season that the champions of the Conference were automatically promoted to the Football League after the abolition of the election system.
Overview
Maidstone United, who had been Conference champions once earlier in the decade and once the runners-up, were finally promoted to the Football League Fourth Division after gaining their second title at this level.
Newport County, the club newly relegated to the Conference from the Football League, were wound up due to debts on 27 February 1989. They were then expelled from the Conference for failing to fulfil their fixtures; their record was expunged.
New teams in the league this season
Final league table
Results
Source: Jack Rollin (ed.), Rothmans Football Yearbook 1989–80. Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura Publishers, London & Sydney, 1989.
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.