1986–87 in English football

The 1986–87 season was the 107th season of competitive football in England.

The First Division championship was won by Everton in their final season under the management of Howard Kendall before his departure to Athletic Bilbao. His side overcame a spate of injuries to fight off competition from runners-up Liverpool and David Pleat's Tottenham Hotspur side, who finished in third place. Fourth spot was claimed by George Graham's emerging young Arsenal side, who also won the League cup in his first season in charge. Fifth place went to newly promoted Norwich City, whose manager Ken Brown built a strong squad on a limited budget to achieve a finish which would have been enough to qualify for UEFA Cup had it not been for the ongoing ban on English clubs in European competitions. Wimbledon finished sixth in the First Division in only their tenth season as a Football League club. Dave Bassett's men had led the league for the first two weeks of September.

Aston Villa were relegated to the Second Division just five years after they won the European Cup. Chairman Doug Ellis replaced manager Graham Turner with Manchester City's Billy McNeill in September, but McNeill was unable to stop Villa's decline, and they went down in bottom place. McNeill was subsequently sacked and replaced by Watford's Graham Taylor.

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