The 1986–87 season was the 85th in the history of the
Western Football League
The Western Football League is a association football, football league in South West England, covering Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, western Dorset, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. The league's current main sponsor is Jewson, so it ...
.
The league champions for the second time in their history were
Saltash United. The champions of Division One were
Swanage Town & Herston.
[Robinson, Michael (ed.), Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006, Soccer Books, 2006]
Final tables
Premier Division
The Premier Division remained at 22 clubs after
Shepton Mallet Town were relegated and left to join the
Somerset County League
The Somerset County League is a football competition based in England. The Premier Division operates at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System. It is a feeder to the Western League Division One and has promoted ten clubs to it since ...
. One club joined:
*
Radstock Town, runners-up in the First Division.
First Division
The First Division remained at 22 clubs, after Radstock Town were promoted to the Premier Division. One new club joined:
*
Calne Town, joining from the
Wiltshire League
The Wiltshire Football League, also known as the Wiltshire League and the Wiltshire Senior League, is a Association football, football league in England which was formed by amalgamation in 1976. All clubs are affiliated to a County Football Ass ...
.
References
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Western Football League seasons
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