1938-39 in Scottish football

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Season 1938-1939 was the 49th season of Scottish league football. Due to the Second World War the league was not officially competed for until season 1946-47.

1 Scottish League Division One
2 Scottish League Division Two
3 Scottish Cup
4 Scotland national team

[edit] Scottish League Division One

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
1	Rangers	38	25	9	4	112	55	57	59
2	Celtic	38	20	8	10	99	53	46	48
3	Aberdeen	38	20	6	12	91	61	30	46
4	Hearts	38	20	5	13	98	70	28	45
5	Falkirk	38	19	7	12	73	63	10	45
6	Queen of the South	38	17	9	12	70	64	6	43
7	Hamilton Acad	38	18	5	15	67	71	-4	41
8	St Johnstone	38	17	6	15	85	83	2	40
9	Clyde	38	17	5	16	78	70	8	39
10	Kilmarnock	38	15	9	14	73	86	-13	39
11	Partick Thistle	38	17	4	17	74	87	-13	38
12	Motherwell	38	16	5	17	82	86	-4	37
13	Hibernian	38	14	7	17	68	69	-1	35
14	Ayr United	38	13	9	16	76	83	-7	35
15	Third Lanark	38	12	8	18	80	96	-16	32
16	Albion Rovers	38	12	6	20	65	90	-25	30
17	Arbroath	38	11	8	19	54	75	-21	30
18	St Mirren	38	11	7	20	57	80	-23	29
19	Queens Park	38	11	5	22	57	83	-26	27
20	Raith Rovers	38	10	2	26	65	99	-34	22

Champions: Rangers

[edit] Scottish League Division Two

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
1	Cowdenbeath	34	28	4	2	120	45	75	60
2	Alloa Athletic	34	22	4	8	91	46	45	48
3	East Fife	34	21	6	7	99	61	38	48
4	Airdrie	34	21	5	8	85	57	28	47
5	Dunfermline Athletic	34	18	5	11	99	78	21	41
6	Dundee	34	15	7	12	99	63	36	37
7	St Bernard's	34	15	6	17	39	39	0	36
8	Stenhousemuir	34	15	5	14	74	69	5	35
9	Dundee United	34	15	3	16	78	69	9	33
10	Brechin City	34	11	9	14	82	106	-24	31
11	Dumbarton	34	9	12	13	68	76	-8	30
12	Greenock Morton	34	11	6	17	74	88	-14	28
13	King's Park	34	12	2	20	87	92	-5	26
14	Montrose	34	10	5	19	82	96	-14	25
15	Forfar Athletic	34	11	3	20	74	138	-64	25
16	Leith Athletic	34	10	4	20	57	83	-26	24
17	East Stirling	34	9	4	21	89	130	-41	22
18	Edinburgh City	34	6	4	24	58	119	-61	16

[edit] Scottish Cup

Clyde were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 4-0 win over Motherwell.

[edit] Scotland national team

Scotland were joint winners of the 1939 British Home Championship with England and Wales

Date	Venue	Opponents	Score	Comp	Scotland scorers
October 8, 1938	Windsor Park, Belfast	Northern Ireland	2-0	BHC	James Delaney, Thomas Walker
November 9, 1938	Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh	Wales	3-2	BHC	Thomas Walker(2), Torrance Gillick
December 7, 1938	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow	Hungary	3-1	F	Thomas Walker(pen), Andrew Black, Torrance Gillick
April 15, 1939	Hampden Park, Glasgow	England	1-2	BHC	James Dougall