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1987–88 Isthmian League

Isthmian League
Premier Division
Season 1987–88
Champions Yeovil Town
Promoted Yeovil Town
Relegated Hitchin Town
Basingstoke Town
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,201 (2.6 per match)
Isthmian League
First Division
Season 1987–88
Champions Marlow
Promoted Marlow
Grays Athletic
Relegated Billericay Town
Stevenage Borough
Wolverton Town
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,371 (2.97 per match)
Isthmian League
Second Division North
Season 1987–88
Champions Wivenhoe Town
Promoted Wivenhoe Town
Collier Row
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,288 (2.79 per match)
Isthmian League
Second Division South
Season 1987–88
Champions Chalfont St Peter
Promoted Chalfont St Peter
Metropolitan Police
Matches played 462
Goals scored 1,346 (2.91 per match)

The 1987–88 season was the 73rd 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.

The Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 19 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs:

At the end of the season First Division club Walthamstow Avenue merged into Leytonstone/Ilford. New club started next season under the name of the Premier Division club.

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

The First Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 16 clubs from the previous season and six new clubs:

Two clubs relegated from the Premier Division:

Four clubs promoted from the Second Division North:

Four clubs promoted from the Second Division South:

At the end of the season Oxford City left the league after losing its ground. Walthamstow Avenue merged into Leytonstone/Ilford. New club regained Leytonstone/Ilford's name and place in the Premier Division.

Only Bracknell Town were reprieved from relegation, thus, the First Division started next season one club short.

Source:
Walthamstow Avenue merged into Leytonstone/Ilford at the end of the season.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.


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