Scottish Intermediate Football League

1927-1931

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The Intermediate dispute was a major football split which lasted from 1925 to 1931 and concerned the compensation that Junior clubs received when one of their players moved to a Senior Scottish Football League side. On 19 March 1926, 62 clubs formed the Scottish Intermediate Football Association and were immediately outlawed by the Scottish Football Association. In June 1927, the powerful Glasgow Junior Football League (GJL) dissolved itself at its AGM and made way for the formation of the breakaway Scottish Intermediate League while in Ayrshire the Western Junior Football League reformed as the Western Intermediate Football League. When a compromise was reached in 1931, the Scottish Intermediate Association renamed itself the West of Scotland Junior FA. It was also decided not to reform the GJL but to keep the Scottish Intermediate League format as the Central Junior League The Scottish Intermediate Cup was also renamed as the West of Scotland Junior Cup. The accompanying league memberships were researched by the late Jackie Heaney and kindly supplied by Stewart Davidson, with additional information taken from John Aitken’s ‘West of Scotland Juniors 1885-2005’. Robert Watson supplied me with the final table of the 1929-30 Eastern Division table, and Alistair Hay the 1930-31 West Division.

Scottish Intermediate League champions 1927-28 Baillieston 1928-29 Ashfield 1929-30 Clydebank Juniors 1930-31 Bridgeton Waverley

Scottish Intermediate Cup Ashfield Ashfield Clydebank Juniors Yoker Athletic

Scottish Intermediate Consolation Cup Irvine Meadow XI Port Glasgow Athletic Ashfield Pollok

Scottish Intermediate League Cup Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Ashfield Clydebank Juniors Pollok

	1927-28 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Ashfield Clydebank Rob Roy St. Roch's Perthshire St. Anthony's Port Glasgow Athletic Benburb Maryhill Petershill Shawfield Camelon Duntocher Hibernian Renfrew Yoker Athletic Helensburgh Neilston Victoria Dumbarton Harp Pollok Johnstone Rovers	38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 38	30 27 25 26 22 20 19 16 17 16 16 14 14 11 13 12 11 11 4 2	3 5 6 3 6 5 6 9 5 6 2 6 5 11 7 7 4 4 6 2	5 6 7 9 10 13 13 13 16 16 20 18 19 16 18 19 23 23 28 34	150 117 109 116 100 83 83 82 78 77 78 72 68 69 69 62 73 59 53 32	51 51 65 68 79 72 58 79 79 84 82 80 73 81 83 77 112 99 127 130	63 59 56 55 50 45 44 41 39 38 34 34 33 33 33 31 26 26 14 6

	1927-28 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Baillieston Shotts Battlefield Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Bridgeton Waverley Cadzow St Anne Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Larkhall Thistle Parkhead Rutherglen Glencairn Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shieldmuir Celtic Shotts Celtic Shotts United Strathclyde Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Championship – Baillieston beat Ashfield 1-1, 2-1

	1928-29 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	Ashfield Perthshire Yoker Athletic Rob Roy Pollok St. Roch's Clydebank Petershill Cameion Duntocher Hibernian St. Anthony's Renfrew Benburb Maryhill Port Glasgow Athletic Neilston Victoria Dumbarton Harp Johnstone Rovers	34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34	22 21 22 19 18 19 18 15 14 14 12 15 13 12 11 8 5 2	8 7 3 6 6 3 3 8 9 5 8 2 6 4 5 4 3 2	4 6 9 9 10 12 13 11 11 15 14 17 15 18 18 22 26 30	92 90 100 84 105 87 91 53 63 72 55 72 68 74 68 50 48 25	52 54 62 46 66 61 61 52 64 85 67 92 91 80 75 120 106 63	52 49 47 44 42 41 39 38 37 33 32 32 32 28 25 20 13 6

Yoker refused to play, Petershill awarded points

Johnstone suspended from League, unplayed opponents were awarded the points

	1928-29 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Baillieston Parkhead Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Bridgeton Waverley Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Larkhall Thistle Rutherglen Glencairn Shawfield Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shieldmuir Celtic Shotts Battlefield Shotts United Strathclyde Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Championship – Ashfield beat Baillieston 1-0

	1929-30 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	Clydebank Parkhead Yoker Athletic St. Roch's Pollok Maryhill Benburb Rob Roy Ashfield Perthshire St. Anthony's Renfrew Duntocher Hibernian Petershill Port Glasgow Athletic Neilston Victoria Dumbarton Harp Camelon	34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34	23 24 24 22 22 19 16 16 15 14 12 9 11 10 9 8 5 3	6 4 3 6 3 2 7 5 5 7 6 9 4 5 5 4 6 1	5 6 7 6 9 13 11 13 14 13 16 16 19 19 20 22 23 30	114 83 97 87 88 75 74 66 69 66 71 57 59 61 37 40 39 23	40 54 46 55 49 67 73 73 72 71 82 87 81 93 45 94 84 40	52 52 51 50 47 40 39 37 35 35 30 27 26 25 23 20 16 7

Camelon resigned from League halfway through season and Port Glasgow Athletic and Dumbarton Harp three quarters through the season. All moved to the Scottish Junior League and remaining points were allocated to their opponents

	1929-30 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19	Bridgeton Waverley Larkhall Thistle Blantyyre Victoria Blantyre Celtic Cambuslang Rangers Strathclyde Rutherglen Glencairn Shotts United Shettleston Fauldhouse United Shieldmuir Celtic Shawfield Shettleston Celtic Wishaw Lanark United Bellshill Athletic Vale of Clyde Baillieston Shotts Battlefield	36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36	26 22 21 19 20 21 19 17 17 16 18 13 13 12 15 11 9 5 2	2 5 4 8 5 2 5 8 6 7 3 6 5 6 0 5 5 5 5	8 9 11 9 11 13 12 11 13 13 15 17 18 18 21 20 22 26 29	97 86 88 86 75 93 56 101 98 93 79 66 60 68 65 60 68 33 22	57 62 68 67 61 74 53 74 77 84 76 80 101 83 86 86 117 46 42	54 49 46 46 45 44 43 42 40 39 39 32 31 30 30 27 23 15 9

Baillieston moved to the Scottish Junior League during the season.

Shotts Battlefield moved to the Lanarkshire Junior League during the season.

The remaining matches of both the above clubs were awarded to their opponents.

Championship – Clydebank Juniors beat Bridgeton Waverley 3-2 (after 2 draws)

	1930-31 West Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	Yoker Athletic Pollok Juniors Renfrew St Roch’s Benburb Kirkintilloch Rob Roy Glasgow Perthshire Clydebank Intermediates Parkhead Maryhill Ashfield Neilston Victoria Petershill St Anthony’s Duntocher Hibernian Arthurlie	30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30	24 23 16 16 17 14 12 11 11 10 10 8 8 8 6 6	2 1 6 6 2 5 9 9 5 5 4 7 7 4 4 4	4 6 8 8 11 11 9 10 14 15 16 15 15 18 20 20	103 90 83 71 69 66 61 74 53 60 60 56 48 52 45 49	38 45 63 55 45 57 59 57 70 71 73 79 73 82 82 91	50 47 38 38 36 33 33 31 27 25 24 23 23 20 16 16

	1930-31 East Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1 2	Bridgeton Waverley Strathclyde Bellshill Athletic Blantyre Celtic Blantyre Victoria Cambuslang Rangers Fauldhouse United Lanark United Rutherglen Glencairn Shawfield Shettleston Shettleston Celtic Shotts United Vale of Clyde Wishaw

Larkhall Thistle and Shieldmuir Celtic resigned during the season

Championship – Bridgeton Waverley beat Yoker Athletic 2-0

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