Scottish Football Historical Archive

Site maintained by Brian McColl 2002-2010

Please acknowledge the SCOTTISH FOOTBALL HISTORICAL ARCHIVE if using any material from it.

 

If you would like to contribute to the contents of this site, have any amendments or have any queries

please CONTACT ME

 

Recent Updates

31 Aug – Frank Hannaway has sent me corrections for the 1970-71 and 1972-73 Scottish Reserve League.

Results grids for the 1920s and 1930s Perthshire League added, and also for the briefly reformed North Perthshire League (1921-1923).

 

29 Aug – Dewar Shield and Penman Cup updated. Blenheim Cup added.

 

23 Aug – Dunedin Cup updated (dates added and some results amended)

 

22 Aug - Stuart Robertson and Stewart Davidson are in the process of compiling a statistical record of the West of Scotland Junior Cup, but still need a number of results to complete the project. Please take a look at the list of games and if you can help with anything, please contact me and I’ll pass all the material on to them.

 

20 Aug – Scottish Combination (1935-1937) results and tables added.

 

19 Aug – Updates made to the Scottish Alliance (1926-27 South Section table added), and Provincial League (some results added).

17 Aug – Gordon Hunter has supplied a missing result (Lochgelly 2 King’s Park 2) from the 1911-12 Central League.

 

16 Aug –In August 1880 there was a brief attempt at forming a Scottish Junior FA, six years prior to the present organization. This body only lasted one season before apparently disbanding, but did manage to run a Scottish Junior Cup competition. Also added is the results from a Glasgow completion called the Royal Standard & Grand National Halls Cup which was held in the 1879-80 season.

 

11 Aug – Alun Urquhart has uncovered the two missing results in the CDivision of the 1946-47 Central Junior League.

 

10 Aug – small amendments made to the Club Directory – Bob McPherson writes ‘You have listed a club called Norwood as being a Broughty Ferry club but Broughty Ferry papers of the time consistently describe Norwood as being a Dundee club – and this of course pre-dates Broughty Ferry’s merger with Dundee .

My other query centres on Abertay (Broughty Ferry). In 1877 Abertay were one of the top Rugby clubs in the east of Scotland and although I can find mention (in The Scotsman) of a match taking place between Abertay and Arbroath, which ends in a draw, no score is give and it could quite easily be a rugby match because reports of the two codes are mixed up at this time – 13 October 1877.The match also pre-dates by a year what the Arbroath FC centenary book states is the first Association match in Arbroath – involving Dundee ’s first Association team, St. Clements.’

 

A to Z Index

League and cup histories for all levels of Scottish football, plus galleries and miscellany

 

Seasonal Results Archive

1870-1882

1882-83 1883-84 1884-85 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1899-00 1900-01 1901-02 1902-03 1903-04 1904-05 1905-06 1906-07 1907-08 1908-09 1909-10 1910-11 1911-12 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 1920-21 1921-22 1922-23 1923-24 1924-25

 

All-time Scottish Football Club Directory

Last updated on 10 Aug 2010

The Directory can be viewed in five formats:

SPREADSHEET This is the original format containing information on nearly 7000 Senior and Junior clubs to have existed since the 1820s.

HTML Contains the same information as above, but now as a Web page.

Directory arranged by LOCATION

Directory arranged by COUNTY

DATABASE Robert Bruce has created  this and can be accessed via the Rangers History site

This Directory has been growing slowly over the last 25 years, having started out as a personal all-time index of Senior clubs, initially those entering the Scottish Cup. The catalyst for the project was the publication of John Byrne’s seminal work ‘The Scottish Cup 1873-1986’. Thanks to numerous contributions, the original directory has been greatly expanded upon and also now includes nearly every Junior club to have existed. The Directory now has over 6500 clubs in its database. In particular I am most grateful to the following individuals for their invaluable help...

Stuart Robertson, for giving me access to his own list of Junior clubs

Alick Milne, for sharing his research of colours for a great many Senior clubs.

Tom Thornton (East Lothian), Graeme McGinty (West Lothian), Brian Reilly (clubs in Maryhill in the 1890s), John Meffen (Stirlingshire) and Malcolm Pagan (Dumfries & Galloway) who have all shared their research to greatly expand the number of clubs included.                                        

I also have to thank Alan McCabe, and Stewart Davidson who kindly loaned me copies of club lists compiled by the late Jackie Heaney.

Where a name has been used on several occasions, these clubs have been differentiated by a number ie [1], [2] etc.

All dates given are inclusive ie 1890-1892 means seasons 1890-91 and 1891-92.                                              

Where a date is unknown, this has been marked with an asterisk (*). Eg 18** denotes sometime between 1870 and 1890. 189* denotes sometime in the 1890s and so on. Any confirmed dates of formation and/or disbanding are given in bold, while all other dates are given as italics

 

 

 

Scottish Junior Cup

 

Stewart Davidson still needs a large number of results to enable him to continue publishing a complete record of the Scottish Junior Cup. Please take a look at the list of games and if you can help with anything, please contact me and I’ll pass all the material on to him.

 

West of Scotland Junior Cup

 

Stuart Robertson and Stewart Davidson are in the process of compiling a statistical record of the above competition, but still need a number of results to complete the project. Please take a look at the list of games and if you can help with anything, please contact me and I’ll pass all the material on to them.

 

Gallery

Ardath cigarette cards 1936

Those gone... an archive of team photographs featuring long defunct clubs

 

‘Wish List’

To complete some of the pages below, I still require a number of final tables. Even partial tables or else more information on league memberships would be most welcome. The list does look lengthy, but apart from the reserve leagues it only features a small number from each league. If you can help in any way at all, please contact me. Many thanks.

 

Central Combination 1903-04 (unfinished)

Central League 1897-98 (unfinished), 1910-11

Combined Reserve League 1958-59, 1959-60, 1964-65 through to 1971-72, and all Second Series competitions

Eastern League 1905-06, 1906-07, 1912-13, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1922-23

East of Scotland League 1979-80

Fife League 1916-17

Glasgow & District Midweek League 1912-13

Glasgow & West of Scotland League 1903-04

Inter City League 1905-06, 1908-09

Inter County League 1904-05, 1905-06, 1916-17

Lanarkshire League 1899-00, 1901-02

Midland League 1891-92, 1892-93, 1903-04, 1908-09, 1909-10

Midlothian League 1895-96

North Ayrshire League 1899-00 (fuller table), 1900-01

Northern League 1892-93, 1895-96, 1912-13, 1914-15, 1919-20

Perth City League 1898-99

Perthshire League all seasons

Provincial League 1927-28

Scottish Alliance 1893-94, 1995-96, 1896-97, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1923-24. 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1939-40, 1956-67

Scottish Reserve League 1890s-1900s, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49

Scottish Combination 1896-97, 1904-05, 1906-07 through to 1910-11

Scottish County League 1899-00, 1900-01, 1901-02

Scottish Reserve League West all seasons

Scottish Reserve League East all seasons

Scottish Union 1909-10, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-15 (unfinished)

Wemyss League 1907-08 through to 1912-13

Western League all seasons

Ayrshire Region Junior League – South Section 1968-69 to 1975-76, Division 2 1978-79 & 1982-83

Glasgow Junior League – 1903-04 (full table), 1922-23 (Div 2 only) to 1926-27

Kincardineshire Junior League - all seasons

Lanarkshire Junior League 1891-92, 1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1907-08, 1909-10, 1914-15, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1925-26 (Div 2),  1927-28 to 1930-31, 1932-33, 1939-40, 1940-41, 1940-41, 1948-49 to 1949-50,  1952-53 to 1954-55, 1960-61

Lanarkshire Junior Alliance 1892-93, 1894-95, 1895-96, 1896-97

Clackmannanshire Junior League 1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1908-09

Central Junior League Eastern Division tables for 1931-32 & 1932-33, 1939-40, 1940-41

Western Division tables for 1933-34, 1937-38, 1938-39, 1961-62 to 1964-65

A Division tables for 1949-50, 1954-55, 1958-59 to 1960-61, 1967-68

Division B tables for 1941-42, 1950-51 to 1953-54, 1955-56 to 1957-58, 1965-66, 1966-67

C Division  1960-61

Section tables for 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46, 1947-48, 1948-49

Central Region Junior League

1971-72 B Division

1972-73 C Division

1973-74 B & C Divisions

1974-75 A Division

1975-76 B Division

1976-77 A Division

1977-78 C Division

1978-79 A Division

Dumfries & District Junior League 1945-46

East Lothian Junior League 1912-13, 1913-14

Kilmarnock & District Junior League 1903-04 to 1920-21

Lothian Junior League 1915-16 to 1917-18

Midlothian Junior League 1895-96 to 1901-02, 1918-19 to 1919-20

Musselburgh Junior League 1898-99, 1899-00, 1900-01

 

 

External Links

General

London Hearts Superb database of all things Hearts and Scotland.

Scottish Football Archive Results database for SFL, SPL and cup competitions since 1873.

Scottishleague.net Historical questions raised and answered.

Scottish Non League Review Site Stewart Davidson’s invaluable books on the non League game, including the annual Scottish Non League Review.

Neil Brown’s Scottish player records charts all players’ careers since 1946.

Historical Football Kits Superb archive showing strips for every SFL/SPL club since 1867.

RSSSF The world football database.

Jamie Wire’s Non League Scotland Records and photographs from all of Scotland’s non League clubs, with league details going back to 1990.

Football Live Web access to live matches from around the world

Ayrshire Junior Football Archive Historical records going back to 1939.

Football in Stevenston Short history of football in the Ayrshire town.

Football in Douglasdale Great historical site relating to the Junior and Juvenile scene in this part of Lanarkshire.

Fife Junior History, Eric Thomson’s superb historical record of Fife Junior football.***NOTE*** this site is temporarily offline, but I hold all the details from it if anyone requires specific information

East Fife Year by year record on the Methil club, giving results scorers etc.

Rangers History Project Ongoing research giving complete lineups and scorers from every Rangers match.

The Gallant Pioneers focuses on the early years of Rangers.

Hibernian Database of every Hibs’ game.

Dave Beattie’s two sites have been combined into one at www.hibsprogrammes.co.uk/stats.html

Hibernian FC History site another Hibs’ database which gives complete line-ups, scores etc for every game.

Partick Thistle – The Early Years Story of the Glasgow club from 1875 to 1900.

Newtongrange Star Historical site aiming to compile every result from Star’s history.

Arbroath History of the Red Lichties.

Arniston Rangers which includes a copy of ‘The History of Arniston Rangers’ written by Alexander Smith in 1991

Baillieston History of Baillieston’s numerous clubs.

Beith History of Beith’s Senior and Junior clubs.

Blackburn United Excellent site devoted to the East Superleague club.

St Anthony’s The official site which has an ongoing historical section.

Celtic Extensive contributory historical site.

Dundee Programme Collector an excellent site by Kris Scrimgeour that has excellent historical content on Dundee FC and their predecessor clubs.

Dundee's Footballing Victorians also by Kris, gives information on Dundee’s clubs from the 19th Century

Falkirk blogspot John Meffen’s excellent historical musings on Falkirk FC – well worth a look!

 

Historical Publications

As well as publishing the only annual dedicated to non-League football in Scotland since 1988, Stewart Davidson’s Scottish Non League Review has also issued numerous booklets covering a huge range of subjects.

Stuart Robertson has compiled a series of booklets which gives the results of every Junior game played in Ayrshire between 1933 and 1968. An excellent addition to any library, these indispensible records can be obtained by emailing Stuart.

Scottish Football Historian Each edition comprises 28 pages and contains original research on the history of the game in Scotland, its personalities, players and clubs. Reproductions of long-forgotten articles on Scottish Football History, book reviews, obituaries, exchange of information, and news and views of interest to all those with an interest in the history of Scottish Football.

Soccer History magazine, which is edited by Ian Nannestad, is a quality publication covering football history over Britain with in depth coverage of the Scottish game.

Eighteen74, a regular publication started during 2009-10 season, is about the wide and varied history of Heart of Midlothian, and in my opinion is well worth a look.