Front cover: Gary Lineker
Back cover: Oscar Ruggeri (Argentina)
Photo: Careca of Brazil
Britain in the cold! Keir Radnedge reports on winter football, Britain being Europe's 'odd one out'
Supercup is back! Preview by Keir Radnedge
Review of 1986 by Eric Batty (Europe), Bob Pateman (Africa) and Eric Weil (South America)
World soccer portrait by Iain Macleod - Anderlecht snap up Haan: Arie Haan report
Sleeping giants MTK come back to life… club focus by Brian O'Sullivan
World soccer four page Asian special - South Korean gold by Peter Burns
World Soccer four Page Asian Special - Small but steady Oman
The Brian Glanville column: Hooligans… all sit down!
America cup dates - South and Central America report from Eric Weil
South America - Brazilian holiday report by Eric Weil
English review by Derick Allsop - Don't talk of the title
World soccer diary compiled by Robert Alexander - Hose down trouble makers at football
Arthur Rotmil reports - Hamburg climb 'sensational'
Double for Egypt - African notebook compiled by Mark Gleeson and Bob Pateman
Canada to have national league - Colin Jose reports
Classified results tables
Wolfgang Schafer (Bayern Uerdingen) photograph