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1988/89
      P W D L F A Pts
  Leading League goalscorers:
Steve Butler & Mark Gall
(both Maidstone United)
 26 goals each

 Sadly a season after being relegated from the Football League Newport County ran out of money and were unable to complete their fixtures in the Conference. They played their last Conference match away to Maidstone United on 11th February 1989 with the clubs' last competitive match being a Clubcall League Cup match against Kidderminster on February 21st (results). On February 27th 1989 they were declared bankrupt, left the Conference and Newport County ceased to exist after 77 years. In June of 1989 a new Newport club was founded and the fight-back started.

   1 Maidstone United 40 25 9 6 92 46 84 Promoted
    2 Kettering Town 40 23 7 10 56 39 76
    3 Boston United 40 22 8 10 61 51 74
    4 Wycombe Wanderers 40 20 11 9 68 52 71
    5 Kidderminster Harriers 40 21 6 13 68 57 69
    6 Runcorn 40 19 8 13 77 53 65
    7 Macclesfield Town 40 17 10 13 63 57 61
    8 Barnet 40 18 7 15 64 69 61
    9 Yeovil Town 40 15 11 14 68 67 56
    10 Northwich Victoria 40 14 11 15 64 65 53
    11 Welling United 40 14 11 15 45 46 53
    12 Sutton United 40 12 15 13 64 54 51
    13 Enfield 40 14 8 18 62 67 50
    14 Altrincham 40 13 10 17 51 61 49
    15 Cheltenham Town 40 12 12 16 55 58 48
    16 Telford United 40 13 9 18 37 43 48
    17 Chorley 40 13 6 21 57 71 45
    18 Fisher Athletic 40 10 11 19 55 65 41
    19 Stafford Rangers 40 11 7 22 49 74 40
    20 Aylesbury United 40 9 9 22 43 71 36 Relegated
    21 Weymouth 40 7 10 23 37 70 31 Relegated
   
   

Promoted Maidstone United were promoted to the Football League, replacing Darlington who were relegated from the League.

Relegated Newport County were expelled from the Conference after having played 29 matches, because of financial problems. Their record was expunged - results. Aylesbury were relegated to the Vauxhall Isthmian League and Weymouth to the Beazer Homes Southern League. The three clubs promoted to the Conference for 1989/90 were Barrow (from the Northern Premier League), Farnborough (Isthmian League) and Merthyr Tydfil (Southern League).