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  Scottish Football League at AllExperts
The league was formed in the 1890s to provide the growing number of football clubs in the country with a more consistent fixture list.
The league proved to be highly successful, and in 1893 a Second Division was formed by the inclusion of a number of clubs previously in the Scottish Football Alliance.
Scottish club Gretna from the English UniBond League were admitted in 2002 to replace the defunct Airdrieonians.
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  Football League Third Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before that it was the third division overall, but that ended with the creation of the FA Premier League prior to the start of the 1992-93 season.
Prior to the formation of the Premiership in 1992, the Third Division was the third highest level in English football.
The Third Division was originally formed in 1920 with the addition of Southern League clubs to the League, before becoming the Third Division South in 1921.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_third_division   (406 words)

  
 Scottish Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The league was formed in the 1890s to provide the growing number of football clubs in the country with a more consistent fixture list.
After a couple of decades, the league again reorganised, with four divisions of 10 clubs, as Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County were elected to round out the league.
The remaining leagues, of ten clubs each, kept their names and the Premier Division was not reconsistuted, leaving First, Second, and Third Divisions.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Football_League   (565 words)

  
 Scottish Football League Third Division - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Scottish Football League Third Division is the third highest division of the Scottish Football League and the fourth highest overall in the Scottish football league system.
The division contains ten teams and, until recently, each year the top two teams are promoted to the Second Division.
Scottish Football League Third Division, Teams for 2005/06 season, Winners of the Third Division, See also and Scottish football competitions.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Scottish_Division_Three   (228 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Scottish football league system
The Scottish football league system (or pyramid) is a series of interconnected leagues for Scottish Association football clubs..
It is not as well developed as most other football league systems, consisting of only two leagues made up of just four divisions.
Leagues do exist outside the pyramid (most notably the Highland Football League), but there is no regular promotion or relegation between them and the pyramid.
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 Read about Scottish Football League at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Scottish Football League and learn about ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Scottish Premier League, and 10 in each of the three Scottish Football League divisions.
UniBond League in England were admitted in 2002 to replace the defunct Airdrieonians.
Scottish Premier League providing their stadium meets certain criteria.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Scottish_Football_League   (493 words)

  
 Footiemap.com - All Top Tier Scottish Football Clubs
At that time, the Northern League was a good going provincial concern, and it was strongly emphasised that it would welcome another addition to its ranks, and at the same time, the sport-minded citizens of Brechin would see a better class of football.
They joined the league in 1900, but have rested in lower regions of the league for most of their existence, although they won the Second Division in season 1931-32, and Division C in 1947-48.
History: They were founded in 1893 and originally played their football in the Highland Football League.
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 1990-91 in English football Information
Arsenal took their second league title in three seasons despite a season during which it often looked as though the good points would be outnumbered by the bad points.
Third place in the league went to Crystal Palace, who lost out on a European place to Liverpool who were let off their European ban a year early - 1991-92 UEFA Cup - therefore missing out on their first foray into Europe.
Wrexham finished bottom of the league but their league status was saved by the expansion of the Football League to 93 clubs for the 1991-92 season.
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 Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Premier League (also known as the Bank of Scotland Premierleague for sponsorship reasons or the SPL for short) is the top division within the current structure of Scottish football.
Previously the Scottish Football League had a two divisional structure (Divisions One and Two) between which clubs were promoted and relegated at the end of each season.
The league proved to be highly successful andin 1893 a second division by the inclusion of a number of clubs previously in the Scottish Football Alliance.
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 Knowledge King - Scottish Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In its initial season the league was won jointly between the Rangers and Dumbarton.
After a couple decaeds, the league again reorganised, with four divisions of 10 clubs, as Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County were elected to round out the league.
Glasgow Rangers have won the greatest number of league titles in the league's history, with 50 national championships (including SPL titles) to their name.
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 Glasgow Celtic at eleven-a-side.com, the home of Irish soccer
The club's fast flowing, end to end football was both successful and attractive and when the club won the league championship for six successive seasons, 1905-10, the club enjoyed unparalleled popularity among religionists across the sectarian divide.
Celtic continued to stay among the peleton of the Scottish game but it wasn't until three years later that they achieved their next major milestone in the history of the club when the League Cup was scooped for the first time - after a decade of near-misses.
League titles were retained year on year with the famous nine in a row being achieved from 1966 to '74.
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 Scottish Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The league proved to be highly successful and soon a second division was added from which clubs could be promoted to the firstdivision.
After a couple of decades, the league again reorganised, with four divisions of 10 clubs, as Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Ross County were elected to roundout the league.
The remaining leagues, of ten clubs each, kept their names and the Premier Division was not reconsistuted, leaving First,Second, and Third Divisions.
www.therfcc.org /RFCC/scottish-football-league-28325.html   (450 words)

  
 The Road To Hampden/Scotland/Scottish Football History/league/information/dates/Stats/historians
The Scottish F.A. remained adamant that soccer was a game for amateurs, though it had become common for clubs to pay some of their players "under the counter".
Footballers were encouraged to enlist in the armed forces; the Hearts' team did to a man. The First Division continued throughout the war but the Second Division folded after season 1914 / 15.
As First Division clubs found some of their players being lured away to the Central League something had to be done.
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 Scottish Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The league proved to be highly sucessful and soon a second division was added from which clubs could be promoted to the first division (although this was done by a ballot of clubs until the early 1920s when automatic promotion and relegation between the two divisions was introduced.
Again the league changed in 1998 when the Premier Division clubs fuelled by a desire to keep a greater share of television monies being raised by the game split from the league to form the Scottish Premier League (SPL).
Rangers have won the greatest number of league titles in the league's history, with 50 national championships (including SPL titles) to their name.
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 Albion Rovers History
The seats in the grandstand were purchased from Third Lanark FC when they became bankrupt in 1967 and new floodlights installed in 1998 included lamps from Cardiff Arms Park (which was demolished to make way for a new stadium).
Airdrieonians subsequently went bust and a new team Airdrie United were formed to take their place in the league but the league members instead voted for Gretna to fill the vacancy.
United found their way into the league by the back door, buying Clydebank F.C. who were virtually bankrupt and changing their name and location to Airdrie.
www.albionrovers.com /history.htm   (882 words)

  
 TF - Kill The Kings
The fundamental difference between English and Scottish football, which often escapes the casual observer, is the possibility of progress.
I think the Euro league might weaken the clubs for domestic games, and their fixture burden would have to be eased, perhaps with byes through the early rounds of the domestic cup competitions.
The one thing that absolutely everyone I spoke to in Scottish football for this article agreed on was that the Old Firm's supremacy was more total and crushing now than it ever had been, and that it was only going to grow more so as time passed.
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 Scottish Football League Second Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prior to season 2005-6, the top two teams were promoted to Division One and the bottom two were relegated to Division Three.
With effect from 2005-6, there is automatic promotion only for the top team and automatic relegation for the bottom placed team.
The teams which are placed 2nd, 3rd and 4th enter into a play-off with the team which is 9th in the First Division, and the team which is placed 9th enters into a similar play-off with the teams which are placed 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Third Division.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Division_Two   (255 words)

  
 East Stirlingshire F.C. Information
They are members of the Scottish Football League and currently play in the Third Division.
The club's name is often abbreviated by outsiders to East Stirling, leading to the erroneous impression that they are based in or near the city of Stirling, 14 miles away; fans and other locals refer to the club by their nickname, The Shire.
Their home town of Falkirk is also home to Falkirk F.C. In the 1960s the club moved to Clydebank under the name ES Clydebank, but legal moves led to them returning to Falkirk and their original name.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/East_Stirlingshire_F.C.   (588 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Sport - The shape of things to come or another hard pyramid sell?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In an interview last week, he speculated that a vote to allow junior clubs to participate in the Scottish Cup could eventually point the way to a pyramid, bringing promotion and relegation to and from the Scottish Football League Third Division.
Scottish football is a mish-mash in which it seems a case of never the twain shall meet.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to expect there might even be a league’s worth of clubs bubbling under the Third Division with the financial wherewithal to meet senior league obligations in respect of stadium safety and other regulatory concerns.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=324772005   (968 words)

  
 J.League News | December 2005 :: Soccerphile.com
For Reds assistant coach Gert Engels, the win had an additional sweetness to it: it is his third title.
He is aiming to hone his skills in a foreign league in the run-up to the World Cup.
Verdy was relegated to J2 for the 2006 season, a complete reversal of fortunes for the club that dominated the early years of the League.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/j_news.html   (1206 words)

  
 Gretna Football Club | Club History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Six consecutive Carlisle and District League titles proved that the club was becoming too strong for its local surroundings and the club was admitted to the newly formed Second Division of the Northern League in 1982, spending over £100,000 on upgrading the ground to the standards required by the League.
Promotion to the First Division was achieved at the first attempt and the club spent nine successful seasons at this level culminating in back-to-back championships in 1990-91 and 1991-92, the latter ensuring promotion to the First Division of the Northern Premier League.
Gretna finished 5th and 3rd respectively in their first two seasons in the Scottish League and, thanks to Brooks Mileson’s generosity and dedication to the club, revealed plans to build a new 6,000 all-seater stadium to SPL standard matching the club’s ambitions.
www.gretnafootballclub.co.uk /club/history.html   (631 words)

  
 Articles - United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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In 2003, the United States was ranked as the third most visited tourist destination in the world; its 40,400,000 visitors ranked behind France's 75,000,000 and Spain's 52,500,000.
Asian Americans, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are a third significant minority (4% of the population in 2000).
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 Arbroath Football Club
One of the longest waits in Scottish football history could be over if Arbroath win their remaining two league games of the season.
Of the current Scottish League members, only Peterhead and Elgin City, both of whom joined as recently as 2000-2001, are listed alongside Arbroath as never having won a divisional championship.
League reconstruction in 1975-76 marked the beginning of a long-lasting decline in Arbroath's fortunes as the club slipped through the divisions.
www.arbroathfc.co.uk   (4638 words)

  
 SCOTTISH LEAGUE ARCHIVE
The League Cup has been much-criticised in the past from within Ibrox as a tournament of little value but it was interesting to see just how highly prized it was by both Rangers management and support when winning it ended their two year trophy drought.
But the three divisions of the Scottish Football League are providing genuine excitement as the season heads to its climax.
The second division is always the tightest, losing 40% of its members each season, and this term is no different.
www.scottishleague.net /archive/archive20.htm   (1556 words)

  
 Scottish Football League Second Division - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Scottish Football League Second Division - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Scottish Division Two is the second highest division of the Scottish Football League and the third highest in the Scottish football league system.
Scottish Football League Second Division, Teams for 2005/06 season, Winners of the Second Division, See also and Scottish football competitions.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Scottish_Division_Two   (277 words)

  
 Dunfermline Athletic - Historical Football Kits
In 1915 the Second Division was suspended and Dunfermline played in the Eastern League until 1920 when they resigned their membership in protest at the refusal of the First Division clubs to reinstate this competition after the Great War ended.
In 1950, while playing in Division B (second tier), Dunfermline reached the final of the Scottish League Cup but were beaten 0-3 by East Fife.
In 1986 the Scottish League was again restructured with the formation of the Premier League and Dunfermline were given a platform in the new First Division from which they achieved promotion to the top level in 1987.
www.historicalkits.co.uk /Scottish_Football_League/Dunfermline_Athletic/Dunfermline_Athletic.htm   (727 words)

  
 Scottish Football League - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Scottish Football League - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Scottish Football League contains research on
Scottish Football League, Single-Division Period, Two-Division Period, First Three-Division Period, Four-Division Period, Second Three-Division Period, Scottish Football League Tables, See also, External links and Scottish football competitions.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Scottish_Football_League   (588 words)

  
 SCOTTISH LEAGUE WEBSITE
Every side currently playing league football in Scotland is featured here with details of their past glories and, in some cases, their failures.
League triumphs, Cup victories, relegation battles - all have a place on scottishleague.net.
From Queen's Park winning the first Scottish Cup in 1874 to Gretna reaching the 2006 Final, this is a site dedicated to every aspect of Scottish football.
www.scottishleague.net   (460 words)

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