1988–89 Isthmian League

Isthmian League
Second Division North
Season	1988–89
Champions	Harlow Town
Promoted	Harlow Town; Purfleet
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1291 (2.79 per match)
	← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Isthmian League
First Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Staines Town
Promoted	Staines Town; Basingstoke Town
Relegated	Collier Row; Bracknell Town; Basildon United
Matches played	420
Goals scored	1170 (2.79 per match)
	← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Isthmian League
Premier Division
Season	1988–89
Champions	Leytonstone/Ilford
Promoted	Farnborough Town
Relegated	Tooting & Mitcham United; Croydon
Matches played	462
Goals scored	1236 (2.68 per match)
	← 1987–88 1989–90 →

The 1988–89 season was the 73th 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.

Premier Division

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

Dagenham, relegated from Football Conference
Grays Athletic, promoted as champions of the First Division
Marlow, promoted as runners-up in the First Division

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

At the end of the season Leytonstone/Ilford were refused in promotion due to ground problems. Club changed name into Redbrigde Forest before the next season started.

Farnborough Town finished second and get a promotion back to the Conference after four years in Isthmian League.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Leytonstone/Ilford (C)	42	26	11	5	76	36	+40	89
2	Farnborough Town (P)	42	24	9	9	85	61	+24	81	Promoted to the Football Conference
3	Slough Town	42	24	6	12	72	42	+30	78
4	Carshalton Athletic	42	19	15	8	59	36	+23	72
5	Grays Athletic	42	19	13	10	62	47	+15	70
6	Kingstonian	42	19	11	12	54	37	+17	68
7	Bishop's Stortford	42	20	6	16	70	56	+14	66
8	Hayes	42	18	12	12	61	47	+14	66
9	Bognor Regis Town	42	17	11	14	38	49	−11	62
10	Barking	42	16	13	13	49	45	+4	61
11	Wokingham Town	42	15	11	16	60	54	+6	56
12	Hendon	42	13	17	12	51	68	−17	56
13	Windsor & Eton	42	14	13	15	52	50	+2	55
14	Bromley	42	13	15	14	61	48	+13	54
15	Leyton-Wingate	42	13	15	14	55	56	−1	54
16	Dulwich Hamlet	42	12	12	18	58	57	+1	48
17	St Albans City	42	12	9	21	51	59	−8	45
18	Dagenham	42	11	12	19	53	68	−15	45
19	Harrow Borough	42	9	13	20	53	75	−22	40
20	Marlow	42	9	11	22	48	83	−35	38
21	Tooting & Mitcham United (R)	42	10	6	26	41	81	−40	36	Relegated to the First Division
22	Croydon (R)	42	4	9	29	27	81	−54	21	Relegated to the First Division

Source: ^[1]
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.

First Division

First Division consisted of 21 clubs, including 15 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:

The First Division started the season one club short after Oxford City left the league after losing its ground and Walthamstow Avenue merged into Leytonstone/Ilford at the end of the previous season.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Staines Town (C) (P)	40	26	9	5	79	29	+50	87	Promoted to the Premier Division
2	Basingstoke Town (P)	40	25	8	7	85	36	+49	83	Promoted to the Premier Division
3	Woking	40	24	10	6	72	30	+42	82
4	Hitchin Town	40	21	11	8	60	32	+28	74
5	Wivenhoe Town	40	22	6	12	62	44	+18	72
6	Lewes	40	21	8	11	72	54	+18	71
7	Walton & Hersham	40	21	7	12	56	36	+20	70
8	Kingsbury Town	40	20	7	13	65	41	+24	67
9	Uxbridge	40	19	7	14	60	54	+6	64
10	Wembley	40	18	6	16	45	58	−13	60
11	Boreham Wood	40	16	9	15	57	52	+5	57
12	Leatherhead	40	14	8	18	56	58	−2	50
13	Metropolitan Police	40	13	9	18	52	68	−16	48
14	Chesham United	40	12	9	19	54	67	−13	45
15	Southwick	40	9	15	16	44	58	−14	42
16	Chalfont St Peter	40	11	9	20	56	82	−26	42
17	Hampton	38	7	14	17	37	62	−25	35
18	Worthing	40	8	10	22	49	80	−31	032^†
19	Collier Row (R)	40	8	7	25	37	82	−45	31	Relegated to the Second Division North
20	Bracknell Town (R)	40	8	6	26	38	70	−32	30	Relegated to the Second Division South
21	Basildon United (R)	40	6	7	27	34	77	−43	25	Relegated to the Second Division North

Source: ^[1]
^† Worthing were deducted two points.
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.

Second Division North

Second Division North consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:

Billericay Town, relegated from the First Division
Purfleet, joined from the Essex Senior League
Stevenage Borough, relegated from the First Division
Wolverton Town, relegated from the First Division

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Harlow Town (C) (P)	42	27	9	6	83	38	+45	90	Promoted to the First Division
2	Purfleet (P)	42	22	12	8	60	42	+18	78	Promoted to the First Division
3	Tring Town	42	22	10	10	65	44	+21	76
4	Stevenage Borough	40	20	13	7	84	55	+29	73
5	Heybridge Swifts	42	21	9	12	64	43	+21	72
6	Billericay Town	42	19	11	12	65	52	+13	68
7	Clapton	42	18	11	13	65	56	+9	65
8	Barton Rovers	42	18	11	13	58	50	+8	65
9	Aveley	42	18	10	14	54	52	+2	64
10	Hertford Town	42	16	13	13	62	49	+13	059^*
11	Ware	42	17	8	17	60	65	−5	59
12	Hemel Hempstead	42	16	10	16	55	58	−3	58
13	Witham Town	42	16	7	19	69	67	+2	55
14	Vauxhall Motors	42	15	9	18	53	57	−4	54
15	Berkhamsted Town	42	14	10	18	57	70	−13	52
16	Hornchurch	42	11	16	15	59	61	−2	49
17	Tilbury	42	13	10	19	53	60	−7	49
18	Royston Town	42	12	7	23	46	72	−26	43
19	Rainham Town	42	9	15	18	49	62	−13	42
20	Saffron Walden Town	42	8	16	18	54	72	−18	40
21	Letchworth Garden City	42	4	18	20	34	71	−37	30
22	Wolverton Town	42	5	7	30	42	95	−53	013^†	Resigned from the league

Source: ^[1]
^† Wolverton Town were deducted nine points.
^* Hertford Town were deducted two points.
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.

Second Division South

Isthmian League
Second Division South
Season	1988–89
Champions	Dorking
Promoted	Dorking Whyteleafe
Matches played	420
Goals scored	1183 (2.82 per match)
← 1987–88 1989–90 →

Second Division South consisted of 21 clubs, including 20 clubs from the previous season and one new club:

Finchley, transferred from the Second Division North

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dorking (C) (P)	40	32	4	4	109	35	+74	100	Promoted to the First Division
2	Whyteleafe (P)	40	25	9	6	86	41	+45	84	Promoted to the First Division
3	Finchley	40	21	9	10	70	45	+25	72	Transferred to the Second Division North
4	Molesey	40	19	13	8	58	42	+16	70
5	Harefield United	40	19	7	14	56	45	+11	64
6	Hungerford Town	40	17	13	10	55	45	+10	64
7	Ruislip Manor	40	16	9	15	56	43	+13	57
8	Feltham	40	16	9	15	58	53	+5	57
9	Epsom & Ewell	40	16	8	16	55	55	0	56
10	Egham Town	40	16	7	17	54	58	−4	55
11	Eastbourne United	40	15	9	16	68	61	+7	54
12	Chertsey Town	40	13	14	13	55	58	−3	53
13	Flackwell Heath	40	13	11	16	51	49	+2	50
14	Camberley Town	40	15	5	20	51	71	−20	50
15	Yeading	40	13	9	18	47	63	−16	046^†
16	Banstead Athletic	40	12	8	20	50	65	−15	44
17	Maidenhead United	40	10	13	17	44	61	−17	43
18	Southall	40	11	10	19	41	73	−32	43
19	Newbury Town	40	11	8	21	47	65	−18	41
20	Horsham	40	7	14	19	36	68	−32	35
21	Petersfield United	40	5	7	28	36	87	−51	22

Source: ^[1]
^† Yeading were deducted two points.
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.

References

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1988–89 Isthmian League

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League table

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