| Season | 1986–87[1] |
|---|---|
| Champions | Scarborough (1stFootball Conference title) |
| Promoted to theFootball League | Scarborough |
| Conference League Cup winners | Kettering Town |
| FA Trophy winners | Kidderminster Harriers |
| Relegated to Level 6 | Frickley Athletic, Gateshead, Nuneaton Borough |
| Matches | 462 |
| Goals | 1,403 (3.04 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Kim Casey(Kidderminster Harriers), 38 |
| Biggest home win | Sutton United –Kettering Town 8–0 |
| Biggest away win | Gateshead –Barnet 1–5; Nuneaton Borough –Boston United 1–5; Kidderminster Harriers –Telford United 0–4; Nuneaton Borough –Weymouth 0–4; Wealdstone –Boston United 0–4 |
| Highest scoring | Runcorn –Northwich Victoria 7–3 |
| Longest winning run | ? |
| Longest unbeaten run | ? |
| Longest losing run | ? |
| Highest attendance | ? |
| Lowest attendance | ? |
| Average attendance | 917 |
1987–88 → | |
The Football Conference season of 1986–87 (known as theGM Vauxhall Conference for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of theFootball Conference, the first season under this name, this league having earlier been known as the Alliance Premier League.
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 theFootball League Fourth Division.Scarborough finished the season as Conference champions, and so won automatic promotion to the Football League at the expense ofLincoln City.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarborough(C, P) | 42 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 64 | 33 | +31 | 91 | Promotion to theFootball League Fourth Division |
| 2 | Barnet | 42 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 86 | 39 | +47 | 85 | |
| 3 | Maidstone United | 42 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 71 | 48 | +23 | 73 | |
| 4 | Enfield | 42 | 21 | 7 | 14 | 66 | 47 | +19 | 70 | |
| 5 | Altrincham | 42 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 66 | 53 | +13 | 69 | |
| 6 | Boston United | 42 | 21 | 6 | 15 | 82 | 74 | +8 | 69 | |
| 7 | Sutton United | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 81 | 51 | +30 | 68 | |
| 8 | Runcorn | 42 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 71 | 58 | +13 | 67 | |
| 9 | Telford United | 42 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 69 | 59 | +10 | 64 | |
| 10 | Bath City | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 63 | 62 | +1 | 63 | |
| 11 | Cheltenham Town | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 64 | 50 | +14 | 61 | |
| 12 | Kidderminster Harriers | 42 | 17 | 4 | 21 | 77 | 81 | −4 | 55 | |
| 13 | Stafford Rangers | 42 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 58 | 60 | −2 | 53 | |
| 14 | Weymouth | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 68 | 77 | −9 | 51 | |
| 15 | Dagenham | 42 | 14 | 7 | 21 | 56 | 72 | −16 | 49 | |
| 16 | Kettering Town | 42 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 54 | 66 | −12 | 47 | |
| 17 | Northwich Victoria | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 53 | 69 | −16 | 44 | |
| 18 | Nuneaton Borough(R) | 42 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 48 | 73 | −25 | 44 | Demoted to theSouthern League Premier Division[a] |
| 19 | Wealdstone | 42 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 50 | 70 | −20 | 43 | |
| 20 | Welling United | 42 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 61 | 84 | −23 | 40 | |
| 21 | Frickley Athletic(R) | 42 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 47 | 82 | −35 | 32 | Relegation to theNorthern Premier League Premier Division |
| 22 | Gateshead(R) | 42 | 6 | 13 | 23 | 48 | 95 | −47 | 31 |
| Home \ Away | ALT | BAR | BAT | BOS | CHL | DAG | ENF | FRK | GAT | KET | KID | MDS | NOR | NUN | RUN | SCA | STA | SUT | TEL | WEA | WEL | WEY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altrincham | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
| Barnet | 1–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | |
| Bath City | 1–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
| Boston United | 4–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 5–1 | 2–2 | 6–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 4–3 | 1–1 | |
| Cheltenham Town | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 5–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| Dagenham | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
| Enfield | 0–2 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 4–0 | |
| Frickley Athletic | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–2 | |
| Gateshead | 1–3 | 1–5 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 | |
| Kettering Town | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 5–1 | 3–0 | |
| Kidderminster Harriers | 3–0 | 0–3 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 5–1 | 4–2 | 3–4 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |
| Maidstone United | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | |
| Northwich Victoria | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
| Nuneaton Borough | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–4 | |
| Runcorn | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 3–2 | 7–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | |
| Scarborough | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| Stafford Rangers | 2–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | |
| Sutton United | 2–3 | 3–1 | 7–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 8–0 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–3 | |
| Telford United | 4–0 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 5–2 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 5–1 | |
| Wealdstone | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 6–0 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | |
| Welling United | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 3–4 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 5–0 | |
| Weymouth | 2–2 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 3–4 | 4–3 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 3–2 |
| Rank | Player | Club | League | FA Cup | FA Trophy | League Cup | Total[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Casey | Kidderminster Harriers | 38 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 44 |
| 2 | Mick Carter | Runcorn | 30 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 41 |
| 3 | Steve Butler | Maidstone United | 24 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 34 |
| 4 | Gary Abbott | Welling United | 23 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 28 |
| = | Chris Cook | Boston United | 23 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 27 |
| = | Ken McKenna | Telford United | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 7 | Nicky Evans | Barnet | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 26 |
| = | Chris Townsend | Cheltenham Town | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| 9 | Mike Doherty | Weymouth | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 |
| = | Paul Bodin | Bath City | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| = | Stewart Mell | Scarborough | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| = | John Timmons | Altrincham | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 |