| Season: | 1989–90 |
| Winners: | Darlington (1st Football Conference title) |
| Continentalcup2: | Conference League Cup winners |
| Continentalcup3: | FA Trophy winners |
| League Topscorer: | Robbie Cooke (Kettering Town), 28 |
| Biggest Home Win: | Runcorn – Enfield 9–0 (3 March 1990) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Barrow – Merthyr Tydfil 1–5 (18 April 1990); Stafford Rangers – Darlington 0–4 (21 April 1990); Telford United – Chorley 0–4 (9 December 1989); Wycombe Wanderers – Cheltenham Town 0–4 (30 December 1989); Yeovil Town – Welling United 0–4 (13 September 1989) |
| Highest Scoring: | Runcorn – Enfield 9–0 (3 March 1990); Farnborough Town – Runcorn 6–3 (11 November 1989) |
| Matches: | 462 |
| Total Goals: | 1317 |
| Longest Wins: | Barnet, 8 matches |
| Longest Unbeaten: | Darlington, 13 matches |
| Longest Losses: | Northwich Victoria, 6 matches |
| Highest Attendance: | Barnet v Darlington, 5,880 (31 March 1990) |
| Lowest Attendance: | ? |
| Average Attendance: | 1,429 (+ 9% from previous season) |
| Nextseason: | 1990–91 |
The Football Conference season of 1989–90 (known as the GM Vauxhall Conference for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Football Conference.
Darlington, relegated to the Conference from the Fourth Division a year earlier, finished the season as Conference champions and regained their Football League status at the first attempt – just as Lincoln City had done two years earlier. Coming down to the Conference from the Football League were the bottom placed Fourth Division club Colchester United.
| width=20 | Rank | width=155 | Player | width=155 | Club | width=50 | League | width=50 | FA Cup | width=50 | FA Trophy | width=50 | League Cup | width=50 | Total |
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| 1 | Robbie Cooke | Kettering Town | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | ||||||||
| 2 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | ||||||||||
| 5 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 22 | ||||||||||
| = | 19 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 22 | ||||||||||
| 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 25 | ||||||||||
| = | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
| = | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | ||||||||||
| = | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | ||||||||||
| = | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 22 | ||||||||||
| = | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
| 14 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 21 | ||||||||||
| = | 16 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 25 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20 | ||||||||||
| = | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | ||||||||||
| 18 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||||||||
| = | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||||
| 20 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||
| = | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | ||||||||||
| = | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | ||||||||||
| = | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 |