The 1986–87 season was the 72nd 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. The Second Division was divided into two sections.
Wycombe Wanderers won the league and returned to the Conference at the first attempt.
Premier Division
The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 19 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs: Bromley, promoted as runners-up in Division One St Albans City, promoted as champions of Division One Wycombe Wanderers, relegated from Alliance Premier League
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Barking Mayesbrook Park Bishop's Stortford Woodside Park Bognor Regis Town Nyewood Lane Bromley Hayes Lane Carshalton Athletic War Memorial Sports Ground Croydon Croydon Sports Arena Dulwich Hamlet Champion Hill Farnborough Town Cherrywood Road Hayes Church Road Harrow Borough Earlsmead Stadium Hendon Claremont Road Hitchin Town Top Field Kingstonian Kingsmeadow Slough Town Wexham Park St Albans City Clarence Park Tooting & Mitcham United Imperial Fields Walthamstow Avenue Green Pond Road Windsor & Eton Stag Meadow Wokingham Town Cantley Park Worthing Woodside Road Wycombe Wanderers Adams Park 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: Billericay Town Epsom & Ewell
Two clubs promoted from Division Two North: Kingsbury Town Stevenage Borough
Two clubs promoted from Division Two South: Bracknell Town Southwick
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Basildon United Gardiners Close Billericay Town New Lodge Boreham Wood Meadow Park Bracknell Town Larges Lane Epsom & Ewell Merland Rise Finchley Summers Lane Grays Athletic New Recreation Ground Hampton Beveree Stadium Kingsbury Town Avenue Park Leatherhead Fetcham Grove Lewes The Dripping Pan Leytonstone/Ilford Victoria Road Leyton-Wingate Wadham Lodge Maidenhead United York Road Oxford City Marsh Lane Southwick Old Barn Way Staines Town Wheatsheaf Park Stevenage Borough The Lamex Stadium Tilbury Chadfields Uxbridge Honeycroft Walton & Hersham The Sports Ground Wembley Vale Farm
Division Two North
Division Two North consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season and six new clubs:
Aveley, relegated from Division One Chesham United, relegated from Division One Collier Row, joined from the London Spartan League Harlow Town, relegated from Division One Hornchurch, relegated from Division One Wivenhoe Town, joined from the Essex Senior League
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Aveley The Mill Field Barton Rovers Sharpenhoe Road Berkhamsted Town Broadwater Chesham United The Meadow Cheshunt Cheshunt Stadium Clapton The Old Spotted Dog Ground Collier Row Sungate Harlow Town Harlow Sportcentre Haringey Borough Coles Park Hemel Hempstead Vauxhall Road Hertford Town Hertingfordbury Park Heybridge Swifts Scraley Road Hornchurch Hornchurch Stadium Letchworth Garden City Baldock Road Rainham Town Deri Park Royston Town Garden Walk Saffron Walden Town Catons Lane Tring Town Pendley Ground Vauxhall Motors Brache Estate Ware Wodson Park Wivenhoe Town Broad Lane Wolverton Town Wolverton Park
Division Two South
Division Two South consisted of 21 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs:
Chalfont St Peter, transferred from Division Two North Chertsey Town, joined from the Combined Counties League Harefield United, transferred from Division Two North
League table
Stadia and locations
Club Stadium Banstead Athletic Merland Rise Camberley Town Kroomer Park Chalfont St Peter Mill Meadow Chertsey Town Alwyns Lane Dorking Meadowbank Stadium Eastbourne United The Oval Egham Town The Runnymede Stadium Feltham The Orchard Flackwell Heath Wilks Park Harefield United Preston 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 Whyteleafe Church Road Woking The Laithwaite Community Stadium
See also Isthmian League 1986–87 Northern Premier League 1986–87 Southern Football League
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