UPDATES
4 November Jimmy Shaker of Fitba North has drawn my attention to an incorrect date and result in the 1923-24 Highland League. Forres v Citadel was recorded in the grid as date 26 Jan, score 1-4. This match was actually played on 8 Dec 1923 and finished 3-3. The grid and final table have both been amended
3 November A host of updates...
South of Scotland League and Cup results for 1952-1956 have been researched by John Weir
North Ayrshire Cup, Ayrshire League and Aberdeenshire Charity Cupsof the 1900s
Kilsyth & District Charity Cup
1974-75 Scottish Combined Reserve League (thanks to Gordon Hunter)
Thanks to Donald Pollock for highlighting an error in the winners list of the Stirlingshire Cup, Alloa, not east Stirlingshire, were the winners in 1925
I've uncovered a near complete final table for the 1891-92 Lanarkshire Junior League
20 October The page of Junior competitions
in Argyll and Bute has been extensively updated and now features extended lists of cup-winners and league champions from 1886 to 1939 when Junior football in the area ceased. Most of the final league tables for the Oban & District (the Bullough Cup) and Campbeltown & District are also given.
Final tables for the Kirkintilloch & District Junior League from 1896-1898 added
16 October more dates for East of Scotland competitions in 2012-13 added
Gordon Hunter has supplied a couple of details re the 2004-05 Fife Cup and 1887-88 Fife 2nd XI Cup. I've also amended the rounds order for a couple of seasons in the early 2000s.
3 October a new file documenting the South of Scotland competitions has been added. Most of the dates and results from the 1880s up to WW2, and from the mid-1980s to the present day are included. The 1950s to mid-1980s period will be researched over the upcoming months. Given the background of the predominately cup-tie football that was more popular in the region, this file will eventually supercede the existing competitions pages that are currently on the site.
30 September Colin Arnot was a member of the Civil Service Strollers' East of Scotland League championship-winning side of 1972-73 and he has contacted me with more info on the results that season. CSS actually completed their fixture list that season, beating Heriot-Watt 4-3 (we had that match as unpayed). Also the match at Coldstream was 7-1 (not 6-1) and the score against Ferranti was 3-1 (not 4-1). The result of the Hibs v CSS was 1-1, not 2-2 that we had assumed. John Weir also passed on a number of tables from that season and we have been able to work out a number of other results, including that the 2 legs of the final of the Scottish Qualifying Cup between Valeof Leithen and Duns also counted as league fixtures. Finally, the idea that Heriot-Watt was excluded from the final table due to being suspended by the Scottish Amateur FA is unfounded and it appears that this was probably due to the club's name simply being missed out by an errant newspaper editor.
18 September John has supplied all the missing dates for the 2007-08 East of Scotland competitions. The Lothian and Border file has been updated and the individual pages for each competition will be amended in the next few days.
12 September Thanks again to John's stellar work, all the dates {again bar one!) for the 2006-07 season for the East of Scotland competitions have now been added.
26 August
John Weir has unearthed all the dates bar one for the 1997-98 East of Scotland League. That season's King Cup and City Cup have also been completed. We have also been working more on the 1979-80 EOS League. The results grid still has a number of matches to confirm but we are sure not all of them were fulfilled and the points were awarded in these cases.
10 August
Ranald Henderson has noted an inconsistency with the 1898-99 Central Combination final table, several clubs had points awarded for unplayed fixtures, which I've corrected.
I hope to have news concerning the FOUR outstanding matches in the Highland League historic results page.
The dates for the two matches in 1897-98 appear to have been found but I'm awaiting confirmation on these.
The two outstanding fixtures in 1914-15 would appear to have been not played after all. One match was scheduled for 21 Nov 1914 but looks increasingly likely it was postponed. The other match has a 3-1 score-line attached to it, however this is based on a previously published league table and could possibly be erroneous.
4 August I've collated all the Senior leagues and cups involving clubs from the Lothians and Borders onto one [Word] document. Note that this doesn't include competitions such as the Central League or Penman Cup which involved Lothians clubs as I intend to include these and others in a similar document.
1 August Another of the ever dwindling missing matches in the SCOTTISH HIGHLAND LEAGUE has been found. Rothes v Clach was played on 16 May 1951 and was a 1-0 win for Rothes. We had originally incorrectly listed the result as 1-1.
28 July Douglas Gorman has sent me an updated NEEDS LIST for the Scotland Junior Internationals Project that he and Tom McGouran have been compiling for the past few years. Since first publication of the work in 2020, they have uncovered a further 26 matches and 150 new players as well as more attendances and gate receipts.
24 July Gordon Hunter supplied a number of the missing matches in the 1952-53 Aberdeenshire League. Further research has uncovered more results for this and 1951-52 season.
23 July Aberdeenshire League and Aberdeenshire Cup updated
20 July Final tables for the Morayshire Junior League and North Region Junior League (North) added.
Results grid for the 1968-69 East of Scotland League updated.
8 July East of Scotland League More results from John Weir for the 1970s have been added. The EOS Qualifying Cup and King Cup has also seen some additional results and corrections. I will be working on 1969-70's notes from John over the next couple of days.
After 9 months of extensive work, John and I are in the process of winding down the research for these competitions. We reckon we now have over 95% of results for the League and 99% of the cup results.. Any further additions will now be on an "as and when" basis. If anyone can add any of the missing info, be it dates, results, even corrections, these will be gladly recieved.
4 July East of Scotland League 1972-73 results grid has been updated and is complete as is possible. Again EOSQC and King Cup-ties appear to have been counted as certain league matches. The final table has also been corrected to reflect the results grid and has a few differences regarding the number of matches won and lost by a few clubs.
22 June some more league tables and extended memberships have been added to the North Caledonian League.
The Inverness Junior League's founding date has been pushed back to 1950.
And more results have been added to the 1950s seasons of the Aberdeenshire League.
New addition: Highland Alliance, a reserve league for Highland League clubs which existed in the mid 1920s. The North of Scotland 2nd XI Leaguewas colliquolly known as this in the late 1930s after it changed its name for the North of Scotland Junior League.
Border Amateur League (pre-WWI version) results are now 99% complete.
13 June East of Scotland League, EOS Qualifying Cup and King Cup, all updated with more results for the 1960s.
I've also researched more on the Border Senior League and have now uncovered virtually every result for this competition which existed from the 1890s to the early 1920s. This has meant a slight rewrite of the winners list... the1907-08 and 1912-13 seasons being unfinished and the championships withheld. Also the Borders-based Southern Leagueof 1905-06 was abandoned during the season.
I intend to work on the Berwickshire-based Border Amateur League of the same period over the next week or so.
1 Jun 1979-80 East of Scotland League results updated.
28 May 1973-74 and 1974-75 East of Scotland League results updated.
Ken Morton has noted that the result of Peterhead v Huntly Highland League match on 18 Dec 1954 was 0-1, not 2-1.
Thanks to Gordon Hunter for uncovering more Penman Cup ties for the 1960-61 season
21 May 1969-70 East of Scotland League results updated
15 May additional results has been added to a few seasons in the early 1980s of the East of Scotland League, We've also been able to fill in the match outcomes and some scorelines for the Edinburgh Section of the 1967-68 season. This has corrected an apparent anomally where Edinburgh University were recorded as playing only 10 of their 12 fixtures despite all the other clubs completing theirs!
25 April the date and result of every Highland League Cup match from 1946-2025 are now on the site.
24 April East of Scotland League more results for 1964-65 and 1965-66 have been added, The Border Section of the 1967-68 season has also been updated. John Weir's research has been able to confirm the remaining missing scores for the 1984-85 season. The EOS Qualifying Cup, King Cup and East of Scotland League Cup have also been updated
10 April
Scott Husband has sent some amendments and additions for the 1961-62
Aberdeenshire Cup and 1957-58
North of Scotland Cup. I've looked more at the latter and it appears every match in this competition is now accounted for. Further research of the Inverness Cup has also yielded more results for the 1950s editions and I'll be looking further into this cup over the next few days.
Further research of the Highland League has uncovered three of the missing results ..
1923-24
28 Apr Inv Thistle v Caley 1-2
1926-27
8 Sep Caley v Clach 2-1
1947-48
16 Aug RAF v Deveronvale 1-7
This leaves only SIX matches to confirm.
2 April A discussion on the History of the Highland League Facebook group regarding the 1923-24 Highland League has noted that the result of the Forres v Nairn County match was actually 4-3 and not 3-3 as recorded in the results matrix. This has now been amended and league table adjusted accordingly. Thanks to Ian McNeill for uncovering this error.
As for ttwo Caley v Thistle matches where the scores are unknown, based on an, albeit somewhat dodgy table published on 1 April 1924, it appears the undated match in the grid was played prior to this date and was won 2-1 to Caley with the 28 April match also ending 2-1.
31 March
Chris Soutar has unearthed a report that the 1925-26 Morayshire Junior Leaguewas won by Lossiemouth Rangers and this has been confirmed by a subsequent report in the Aberdeen P&J on 1 June 1926. Sorry Newmill!
29 March 1987-88 East of Scotland League First Division results near complete. The only two outstanding results are the two Heriot-Watt v Tollcross matches played on 26 March and 26 April 1988. It looks likely that Tollcross won both matches by an aggregate score of 8-0.
28 March I've reviewed the 1951-52 East of Scotland League and the updated results grid and table is now on the site. 20 match results are unfortunately still outstanding. I have attempted to use week to week league tables as published in the press to determine the missing results however this has been problematic. For a start some newspapers printed tables that conflict with another paper's. Also some cup-ties were also counted as league matches, some of these were subsequently taken out, then some added back!
25 March
John has found more results for the1983-84 East of Scotland League. Using the weekly tables published in contemporary newspapers, I've been able to compile a near complete result grid, the resultd dates and/or dates of seven matches still needing to be confirmed.
I received an email from Bruce Ralston concerning the 1952 Scottish Amateur Cup final...
"Whilst browsing through the facts and figures and happy memories of my younger days (I am now 86 years of age) I did, however come across a discrepancy which I feel sure you would want to know about.
In the section on Scottish Amateur Cup finals, it correctly shows details of the 1957 final as Giffnock North 4 Cupar Hearts 2. As a teenager representing the Youth sections of the club on the Giffnock North committee at that time I can vividly recall every minute of that memorable day.
However, your details of the 1952 final – Port Glasgow Hibs 1 Giffnock North 0 – are incorrect. Much as I would like to claim that Giffnock North have appeared in two finals, in 1952 it was in fact Giffnock Amateurs, an entirely different club. Both played in the Scottish Amateur League, and shared the same pitch at Huntly Park, Giffnock, which, of course, led to a close local rivalry.
There is absolutely no doubt that it was Giffnock AMATEURS who appeared in the 1952 final."
19 March East of Scotland League for 1954-55 has been further amended. John has also sent more dates/results for the 1982-83 season.
15 March The 1975-76 season of the East of Scotland League, EOS Qualifying Cup, King Cup has been updated, the confirmation of only two league results outstanding. Further work on the 1950s to 1980s period is ongoing. Many thanks to JOHN WEIR for his unwavering research in this period.
9 March Edinburgh & District League More dates and results have been found for this league which operated between 1930 and 1935. The league tables have also been corrected.
I've also added the pre-WWI Eastern League results and tables, this league ran from 1912-1914 and contained several Lothian and Borders clubs.
4 March East of Scotland League, EOS Qualifying Cup, King Cup, Alex Jack Cup and East of Scotland League Cup all updated
Border Cup updated
John has sent more league and cup results for the 1979-1986 period, as well as additional info for the earlier seasons. I've also looked at the 19th century editions of the cup competitions and made further amendments to those. Thanks to Madara of P&B forum for highlighting a Border Cup error, 1910 semi-final should read Duns 1 Coldstream 3, not 3-1.
2 March
Gordon Hunter has noted a couple of results for the 1966-67 East of Scotland League, the results grids for this season is now near complete.
1 March Thanks to Eednud of P&B for noting the final score of the 1901-02 Paul Shield between Selkirk and Duns (4-1).
I've been looking at the 19th century seasons of the EOS Qualifying Cup, EOS Consolation Cup
and Two downloads are also available...
