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The Scottish Football Association was formed in 1873, and the first official competition in Scotland commenced that same year, the Scottish Cup. The game in Scotland progressed further with the founding of the Scottish Football League in 1890, and the official sanctioning of professionalism in 1893. Queens Park's insistence on remaining amateur ...
Jim Delahunt. James Martin Delahunt (born 1962 in Irvine) [1][2] is a Scottish sports presenter and newspaper columnist, best known for his 8-year tenure as presenter of STV's long-running sports programme Scotsport (1998 - 2006) and as a sports columnist with the Scottish Sun newspaper.
The 1957 Scottish League Cup final was the final match of the 1957–58 Scottish League Cup. The football match was played on 19 October 1957 at Hampden Park, in which Celtic beat rivals Rangers in a record 7–1 victory. The final was nicknamed " Hampden in the Sun ", a phrase coined by Celtic supporters as the title of a terrace song.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 September 2024. Football league List of Scottish football champions The trophies awarded to the Scottish champions prior to 1998 (top) and subsequently (bottom) Founded 1890 (Scottish Football League) 1998 (Scottish Premier League) 2013 (Scottish Premiership) Number of teams 12 Current champions ...
The Scottish Premiership was established in July 2013, after the SPFL was formed by a merger of the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League. [2] There are 12 teams in this division, with each team playing 38 matches per season. Sixteen clubs have played in the Scottish Premiership since its creation in the 2013–14 season.
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. [1][2] As well as operating its league competition, which consists of the top four levels of the Scottish ...
A Scottish football league system was first instituted in 1890, with the creation of the Scottish Football League. A second national cup competition, the Scottish League Cup, was created in the 1946–47 season. This page details the team and individual records set in these competitions.
Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer). The ball could be carried by hand, and teams were sometimes of dozens of players or more, with scrummaging involved. Some of these games are still played, notably in Kirkwall and Jedburgh – see Ba ...