North West Counties Football League 1986-87

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The 1986-87 North West Counties Football League was the fifth in the history of the North West Counties Football League, a football competition in England. Teams were divided into three divisions: the First, Second, or Third.

Contents 1 First Division Final Table 2 Second Division Final Table 3 Third Division Final Table 4 Promotion and relegation 4.1 First Division 4.2 Second Division 4.3 Third Division 5 External links

[edit] First Division Final Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Points 1
1	Stalybridge Celtic	38	25	8	5	74	39	+35	58
2	Accrington Stanley	38	19	15	4	63	32	+31	53
3	Clitheroe	38	20	12	6	76	47	+29	52
4	Kirkby Town	38	22	4	12	71	48	+23	48
5	Bootle	38	19	10	9	52	38	+14	48
6	St Helens Town	38	19	9	10	65	37	+28	47
7	Winsford United	38	19	8	11	55	39	+16	46
8	Fleetwood Town	38	16	13	9	61	49	+12	45
9	Penrith	38	16	10	12	62	59	+3	42
10	Rossendale United	38	14	11	13	66	59	+7	39
11	Congleton Town	38	13	11	14	38	39	-1	37
12	Burscough	38	11	11	16	58	54	+4	33
13	Leyland Motors	38	13	7	18	52	56	-4	33
14	Eastwood Hanley	38	10	11	17	40	50	-10	31
15	Radcliffe Borough	38	11	8	19	46	57	-11	30
16	Leek Town	38	9	12	17	42	55	-13	30
17	Netherfield	38	12	5	21	45	73	-28	29
18	Irlam Town	38	4	13	21	36	74	-38	21
19	Curzon Ashton	38	4	12	22	35	78	-43	20
20	Glossop	38	5	8	25	33	87	-54	18

^{1 The points system up until the 1990-91 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

[edit] Second Division Final Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Points 1
1	Droylsden	34	20	8	6	79	42	+37	48
2	Warrington Town	34	16	13	5	48	34	+14	45
3	Ashton United	34	19	6	9	73	45	+28	44
4	Wren Rovers	34	18	8	8	65	39	+26	44
5	Colwyn Bay	34	17	9	8	61	43	+18	43
6	Darwen	34	15	8	11	45	47	-2	38
7	Chadderton	34	14	9	11	52	47	+5	37
8	Colne Dynamoes	34	14	8	12	57	44	+13	36
9	Skelmersdale United	34	13	10	11	52	53	-1	36
10	Ellesmere Port & Neston	34	15	5	14	68	54	+14	35
11	Formby	34	13	7	14	54	55	-1	33
12	Blackpool Mechanics	34	12	8	14	56	64	-8	32
13	Lancaster City	34	12	7	15	55	53	+2	31
14	Prescot Cables	34	12	6	16	46	48	-2	282
15	Great Harwood Town	34	9	8	17	36	59	-23	242
16	Oldham Town	34	7	9	18	38	57	-19	23
17	Atherton Laburnum Rovers	34	8	5	21	32	61	-29	21
18	Salford	34	1	8	25	17	89	-72	10

^{1 The points system up until the 1990-91 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

^{2 Prescot Cables and Great Harwood Town had 2 points deducted.}

[edit] Third Division Final Table

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference	Points 1
1	Atherton Collieries	24	16	4	4	46	22	+24	36
2	Flixton	24	15	5	4	58	29	+29	35
3	Maghull	24	14	2	8	44	29	+15	30
4	Nelson	24	12	6	6	37	29	+8	30
5	Newton	24	11	5	8	42	36	+6	27
6	Ford Motors	24	9	8	7	38	27	+11	26
7	Bacup Borough	24	10	6	8	27	27	0	26
8	Cheadle Town	24	9	5	10	33	44	-11	23
9	Daisy Hill	24	6	7	11	21	42	-21	192
10	Padiham	24	4	8	12	35	39	-4	16
11	Nantwich Town	24	5	6	13	26	42	-16	16
12	Ashton Town	24	4	9	11	29	39	-10	152
13	Whitworth Valley	24	3	5	16	17	48	-31	11

^{1 The points system up until the 1990-91 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.}

^{2 Daisy Hill and Ashton Town had 2 points deducted.}

[edit] Promotion and relegation

[edit] First Division

12 sides (highlighted in the table in green) were promoted to the Northern Premier League First Division. No teams were relegated.

[edit] Second Division

Droylsden and Lancaster City moved to the Northern Premier League First Division while 10 teams (highlighted in the table in yellow) were promoted to the First Division. Newcastle Town, Maine Road and Vauxhall Motors joined the Division as newly-admitted teams. No teams were relegated.

[edit] Third Division

All sides were promoted to the Second Division as the Third Division was disbanded at the end of the season.

[edit] External links

• North West Counties Football League Tables at RSSSF

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