1896–97 Scottish Football League

Statistics of the Scottish Football League in season 1896–97.

Overview

Hearts were champions of the Scottish Division One.

Partick Thistle won the Scottish Division Two. Both Linthouse and Port Glasgow Athletic had four points deducted.

Scottish League Division One

Main article: 1896–97 Scottish First Division

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hearts	18	13	2	3	47	22	25	28
2	Hibernian	18	12	2	4	50	20	30	26
3	Rangers	18	11	3	4	64	30	34	25
4	Celtic	18	10	4	4	42	18	24	24
5	Dundee	18	10	2	6	38	30	8	22
6	St Mirren	18	9	1	8	38	29	9	19
7	St Bernard's	18	7	0	11	32	40	-8	14
8	Third Lanark	18	5	1	12	29	46	-17	11
9	Clyde	18	4	0	14	27	65	-38	8
10	Abercorn	18	1	1	16	21	88	-67	3

	Division Champions
	Failed re-election/relegated

Scottish League Division Two

Main article: 1896–97 Scottish Second Division

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Partick Thistle	18	14	3	1	61	28	33	31
2	Leith Athletic	18	13	1	4	54	28	26	27
3	Kilmarnock	18	10	1	7	44	33	11	21
=	Airdrieonians	18	10	1	7	48	39	9	21
5	Morton	18	7	2	9	38	40	-2	16
6	Renton	18	6	2	10	34	40	-6	14
=	Linthouse^[1]	18	8	2	8	44	52	-8	14
8	Port Glasgow Athletic^[1]	18	4	5	9	39	50	-11	13
=	Motherwell	18	6	1	11	40	55	-15	13
10	Dumbarton	18	2	2	14	27	64	-37	6

1 2 Both Linthouse and Port Glasgow Athletic had four points deducted.

Division Champions/Elected to Division 1

References

Scottish Football League (1890–2013)

≫ Scottish Professional Football League (2013–present)

Divisions	Premier Division (1975–1998) First Division (1975–2013) Second Division (1975–2013) Third Division (1994–2013)

Cup competitions	League Cup Challenge Cup B Division Supplementary Cup Summer Cup Spring Cup

Clubs	Aberdeen Abercorn Airdrieonians (1878) Airdrieonians (2002) Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Annan Athletic Arbroath Armadale Arthurlie Ayr Ayr Parkhouse Ayr United Bathgate Beith Berwick Rangers Bo'ness Brechin City Broxburn United Cambuslang Celtic Clackmannan Clyde Clydebank (1914) Clydebank (1965) Cowdenbeath Cowlairs Dumbarton Dumbarton Harp Dundee Dundee United Dundee Wanderers Dunfermline Athletic Dykehead East Fife East Stirlingshire Edinburgh City (1928) Elgin City Falkirk Forfar Athletic Galston Greenock Morton Gretna Hamilton Academical Heart of Midlothian Helensburgh Hibernian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Johnstone Kilmarnock King's Park Leith Athletic Linthouse Livingston Lochgelly United Meadowbank Thistle Mid-Annandale Montrose Motherwell Nithsdale Wanderers Northern Partick Thistle Peebles Rovers Peterhead Port Glasgow Athletic Queen of the South Queen's Park Raith Rovers Rangers Renton Ross County Royal Albert Solway Star St Bernard's St Johnstone St Mirren Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer Third Lanark Thistle Vale of Leven

Seasons	1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 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 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13

Clubs Stadia Monthly awards Representative team

Men's football in Scotland

SFA PFA Scotland

Overview	League system Clubs Venues Champions Second tier winners Third tier winners Fourth tier winners Honours won Managers

National teams	Scotland B U-21 U-20 U-19 U-17 U-16 Scottish League Semi-Pro

League system	SPFL Premiership Championship League One League Two Development Highland Lowland East of Scotland South of Scotland North Caledonian

Cup competitions	Scottish Cup League Cup Challenge Cup Youth Cup

Junior football	SJFA Junior Cup West East North

Amateur football	SAFA Amateur Cup Aberdeenshire Ayrshire Caithness Caledonian Central Fife Inverness & District Kingdom Caledonian Lewis & Harris Lothian & Edinburgh Midlands North & South Lanarkshire Orkney Paisley & District Perthshire Scottish Shetland Stirling & District Strathclyde Uist & Barra West of Scotland

Welfare football	SWFA Forth & Endrick Moray North East Ross-shire Strathspey & Badenoch

History Records Attendance records Timeline Seasons Hall of Fame Referees Media

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1896–97 Scottish Football League

Overview

Scottish League Division One

Scottish League Division Two

See also

References