Scottish Football
League
C Division overview
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When the Scottish League was revived after the Second World War in
1946, it had intended to revert to its pre-War set-up of two divisions of 20
and 18 clubs just as the English League had done. However the big First
Division sides preferred to retain the 16-14 club divisions that was used by
the Southern League during the previous season, and intended to breakaway and
form a rival Super League if their wishes werent granted. After much debate,
the League voted to keep the status quo and placed the six excluded clubs
into a third division. The divisions were also renamed A-B-C instead of 1, 2
and 3. Of all the pre-War clubs, only two failed to restart. Stirling Albion
were formed as a replacement for Kings Park whose ground was destroyed in a
bombing raid, while St Bernards folded after their ground was sold from
beneath them. Three reserve sides were also invited to help make the number
of member clubs up to ten. Only first
teams could gain promotion to the B Division, but when the Scottish Reserve
League was merged with the C Division in 1949 to create two regionalised
sections, this made it well nigh impossible for them to achieve this, as the
minnows had to face the second strings of the A Division giants. Whereas no
reserve sides won the C Division between 1946 and 1949, they only failed to
win on one occasion after this. At a League meeting in June 1955, a number of clubs intended to
withdraw their reserve sides and reform the Reserve League. The five C
Division clubs were promoted to an expanded 19-club B Division and the C
Division was abolished. As C Division sides were excluded from the League Cup, they had to
play in their own C Division League Cup, this was played as the Supplementary
League in 1947-48. |
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1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 1949-50 1950-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 |
Champions
Stirling Albion East Stirlingshire Forfar Athletic ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- |
North & East Section
------- ------- ------- Hibernian A Heart of Midlothian A Dundee A Aberdeen A Brechin City Aberdeen A |
South & West Section
------- ------- ------- Clyde A Clyde A Rangers A Rangers A Rangers A Partick Thistle A |
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1946-47 1947-48 1948-49 1949-50 1950-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 |
League Cup
Stirling Albion Aberdeen A Aberdeen A Aberdeen A or Rangers A Partick Thistle A or Rangers A |
Supplementary League A
------- Forfar Athletic Brechin City |
Supplementary League B
------- East Fife A Leith Athletic |
Membership
Aberdeen A Airdrieonians
A Albion
Rovers A Alloa A Arbroath A Ayr United
A Berwick
Rangers Brechin City Celtic A Clyde A Cowdenbeath
A Dumbarton
A Dumbarton Dundee A Dundee
United A Dunfermline
Athletic A East Fife
A East
Stirlingshire Edinburgh
City Falkirk A Forfar
Athletic Hamilton Academical
A Hibernian
A Heart of
Midlothian A Kilmarnock
A Leith
Athletic A Leith
Athletic Montrose Morton A Motherwell
A Partick
Thistle A Queen of the
South A Queens Park
Strollers Raith Rovers
A Rangers A St Johnstone
A St Mirren
A Stirling
Albion A Stirling
Albion Stranraer Third Lanark
A |
1949-1955 1948-1955 1949-50 1949-1951 1947-48,
1949-50 1949-1955 1951-1955 1946-1954 1949-1955 1949-1955 1950-51 1949-1952 1954-1955 1946-1955 1946-1952 1948-1955 1947-48,
1949-1955 1946-1948,
1949-1955 1946-1949 1949-1955 1946-1949 1949-1952,
1953-54 1949-1955 1949-1955 1947-1955 1947-48 1946-1947,
1948-1954 (expelled 1953-54) 1946-1955 1949-1954 1949-1955 1949-1955 1949-1955 1948-1955 1947-1955 1949-1955 1946-1953 1949-1955 1949-50,
1951-1955 1946-47 1949-1955 1949-1955 |
