The 1985–86 season was the 71st season of the Isthmian League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from London, East and South East England. League consisted of three divisions. Division Two was divided into two sections.
Sutton United won the league for the second season in a row and finally were promoted to the Conference.
Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 19 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs: Farnborough Town, promoted as champions of Division One Kingstonian, promoted as runners-up in Division One Yeovil Town, relegated from the Alliance Premier League
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Barking Mayesbrook Park Billericay Town New Lodge Bishop's Stortford Woodside Park Bognor Regis Town Nyewood Lane Carshalton Athletic War Memorial Sports Ground Croydon Croydon Sports Arena Dulwich Hamlet Champion Hill Epsom & Ewell Merland Rise Farnborough Town Cherrywood Road Hayes Church Road Harrow Borough Earlsmead Stadium Hendon Claremont Road Hitchin Town Top Field Kingstonian Kingsmeadow Slough Town Wexham Park Sutton United Gander Green Lane Tooting & Mitcham United Imperial Fields Walthamstow Avenue Green Pond Road Windsor & Eton Stag Meadow Wokingham Town Cantley Park Worthing Woodside Road Yeovil Town Huish Park
Division One
Division One consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season and six new clubs:
Two clubs relegated from the Premier Division: Harlow Town Leytonstone/Ilford
Two clubs promoted from Division Two North: Finchley Leyton-Wingate
Two clubs promoted from Division Two South: Grays Athletic Uxbridge
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Aveley The Mill Field Basildon United Gardiners Close Boreham Wood Meadow Park Bromley Hayes Lane Chesham United The Meadow Finchley Summers Lane Grays Athletic New Recreation Ground Harlow Town Harlow Sportcentre Hampton Beveree Stadium Hornchurch Hornchurch Stadium Leatherhead Fetcham Grove Lewes The Dripping Pan Leytonstone/Ilford Victoria Road Leyton-Wingate Wadham Lodge Maidenhead United York Road Oxford City Marsh Lane St Albans City Clarence Park Staines Town Wheatsheaf Park Tilbury Chadfields Uxbridge Honeycroft Walton & Hersham The Sports Ground Wembley Vale Farm
Division Two North
Division Two North consisted of 20 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:
Clapton, relegated from Division One Hertford Town, relegated Division One Rainham Town, transferred from Division Two South Vauxhall Motors, joined from the South Midlands League
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Barton Rovers Sharpenhoe Road Berkhamsted Town Broadwater Chalfont St Peter Mill Meadow Cheshunt Cheshunt Stadium Clapton The Old Spotted Dog Ground Harefield United Preston Park Haringey Borough Coles Park Hemel Hempstead Vauxhall Road Hertford Town Hertingfordbury Park Heybridge Swifts Scraley Road Kingsbury Town Avenue Park Letchworth Garden City Baldock Road Rainham Town Deri Park Royston Town Garden Walk Saffron Walden Town Catons Lane Stevenage Borough The Lamex Stadium Tring Town Pendley Ground Vauxhall Motors Brache Estate Ware Wodson Park Wolverton Town Wolverton Park
Division Two South
Division Two South consisted of 20 clubs, including 15 clubs from the previous season and five new clubs:
Flackwell Heath, transferred from Division Two North Marlow, transferred from Division Two North Metropolitan Police, relegated from Division One Southwick, joined from the Combined Counties League Woking, relegated from Division One
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Banstead Athletic Merland Rise Bracknell Town Larges Lane Camberley Town Kroomer Park Dorking Meadowbank Stadium Eastbourne United The Oval Egham Town The Runnymede Stadium Feltham The Orchard Flackwell Heath Wilks Park Horsham Queen Street Hungerford Town Bulpit Lane Marlow Alfred Davis Memorial Ground Metropolitan Police Imber Court Molesey Walton Road Stadium Newbury Town Town Ground Petersfield United The Southdowns Builders Stadium Ruislip Manor Grosvenor Vale Southall Robert Parker Stadium Southwick Old Barn Way Whyteleafe Church Road Woking The Laithwaite Community Stadium
See also Isthmian League 1985–86 Northern Premier League 1985–86 Southern Football League
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