Scottish Football League XI
The Scottish League XI was a representative side of the Scottish Football League. The team regularly played against the (English) Football League and other national league select teams between 1892 and 1980. For a long period the annual fixture between the English and Scottish leagues was only second in importance to the matches between the two national teams. The fixture declined in importance after regular European club competition was instituted in the 1950s; matches in the 1960s and 1970s were played irregularly and poorly attended. A match involving a Scottish League XI was last played in 1990, to mark the centenary of the League.
History
Soon after the creation of the Scottish Football League (SFL) in 1890, there was a desire on the part of its officials to test its strength against the more senior (English) Football League. An Anglo-Scottish league match was first played in April 1892 at Pike's Lane,Bolton and ended in a 2–2 draw. The first Football League team contained Scottish players (Donald Gow, Willie Groves and Tom McInnes). This practice did not continue, however, as Scots were not selected for the Football League again until the 1960s, by when the match was declining in importance. A return match was played at Celtic Park in April 1893, attracting an attendance of 31,500. In the same year, the Scottish League played its first match against the Irish League XI, in Belfast.
2015–16 Scottish League One
The 2015–16 Scottish League One (referred to as the Ladbrokes League One for sponsorship reasons) is the 21st season in the current format of 10 teams in the third-tier of Scottish football.
Teams
Promoted from Scottish League Two
Relegated from Scottish Championship
Stadia and locations
Personnel
Managerial changes
League table
Results
Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 36 games.
Season statistics
Scoring
Top scorers
Hat-tricks
Discipline
Player
Club
Awards
Monthly awards
References
2015–16 Scottish League Two
The 2015–16 Scottish League Two (referred to as the Ladbrokes League Two for sponsorship reasons) is the 21st season in the current format of 10 teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The last placed team will enter a play-off with a team nominated by the Scottish Football Association from outside the SPFL determining which team enters League Two in the 2016–17 season.
Teams
Relegated from Scottish League One
Stadia and locations
Personnel
Managerial changes
League table
Results
Teams play each other four times, twice in the first half of the season (home and away) and twice in the second half of the season (home and away), making a total of 36 games.
Season statistics
Scoring
Top scorers
Hat-tricks
4 Player scored 4 goals
Discipline
Player
Club
Awards
Monthly awards
League Two Play-offs
The first round will be contested by the winners of the Highland League and Lowland League.The winning club will then play off against the bottom club in League Two, with the overall winner taking a place in League Two for the 2016–17 season.
Scottish League One
The Scottish League One, known for sponsorship reasons as the Ladbrokes League One, is the third tier of the Scottish Professional Football League, established in July 2013. The league consists of 10 teams who play each other four times each, twice at home and twice away. The team that finishes in first place gains automatic promotion to the Scottish Championship, and the team that finishes in 10th place will be relegated to the Scottish League Two. Teams finishing second, third, fourth and the club finishing ninth in the Scottish Championship will be entered into the play-offs.
Teams and stadiums for 2015-16
Listed below are all the teams competing in the 2015–16 Scottish League One season, with details of their home stadium.
a.^ Stenhousemuir currently share Ochilview Park with East Stirlingshire
History
References
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
See also
Scottish people
The Scottish people (Scots: Scots Fowk, Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a nation and socially defined ethnic group resident in Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two groups—the Picts and Gaels—who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century, and thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celts. Later, the neighbouring Cumbrian Britons, who also spoke a Celtic language, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation.
In modern use, "Scottish people" or "Scots" is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from within Scotland. The Latin word Scotti originally referred to the Gaels but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Though sometimes considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for the Scottish people, though this usage is current primarily outside Scotland.
There are people of Scottish descent in many countries other than Scotland. Emigration, influenced by factors such as the Highland and Lowland Clearances, Scottish participation in the British Empire, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, resulted in Scottish people being found throughout the world. Large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. There is a Scottish presence at a particularly high level in Canada, which has the highest level per-capita of Scots descendants in the world and second largest population of descended Scots ancestry after the United States. They took with them their Scottish languages and culture.
Scottish language
Scottish language may refer to:
See also
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