1928-29 in Scottish football

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Season 1928-1929 was the 39th season of Scottish league football.

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[edit] Scottish League Division One

Position Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference Points
1 Rangers 38 30 7 1 107 32 75 67
2 Celtic 38 22 7 9 67 44 23 51
3 Motherwell 38 20 10 8 85 66 19 50
4 Hearts 38 19 9 10 91 57 34 47
5 Queens Park 38 18 7 13 100 69 31 43
6 Partick Thistle 38 17 7 14 91 70 21 41
7 Aberdeen 38 16 8 14 81 68 13 40
8 St Mirren 38 16 8 14 78 75 3 40
9 St Johnstone 38 14 10 14 57 70 -13 38
10 Kilmarnock 38 14 8 16 79 74 5 36
11 Falkirk 38 14 8 16 68 86 -18 36
12 Hamilton Acad 38 13 9 16 58 83 -25 35
13 Cowdenbeath 38 14 5 19 55 69 -14 33
14 Hibernian 38 13 6 19 54 62 -8 32
15 Airdrie 38 12 7 19 56 65 -9 31
16 Ayr United 38 12 7 19 65 84 -19 31
17 Clyde 38 12 6 20 47 71 -24 30
18 Dundee 38 9 11 18 59 59 0 29
19 Third Lanark 38 10 6 22 71 102 -31 26
20 Raith Rovers 38 9 6 23 52 105 -53 24

Champions: Rangers
Relegated: Third Lanark, Raith Rovers

[edit] Scottish League Division Two

Position Team Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference Points
1 Dundee United 36 24 3 9 99 55 44 51
2 Greenock Morton 36 21 8 7 85 49 36 50
3 Arbroath 36 19 8 9 90 60 30 47
4 Albion Rovers 36 18 8 10 95 67 28 44
5 Leith Athletic 36 18 7 11 78 56 22 43
6 St Bernard's 36 16 9 11 77 55 22 41
7 Forfar Athletic 36 14 10 11 69 75 -6 38
8 East Fife 36 15 6 14 88 77 11 36
9 Queen of the South 36 16 4 16 86 79 7 36
10 Bo'ness 36 15 5 15 62 62 0 35
11 Dunfermline Athletic 36 13 7 16 66 72 -6 33
12 East Stirling 36 14 4 18 71 75 -4 32
13 Alloa Athletic 36 12 7 17 64 77 -13 31
14 Dumbarton 36 11 9 16 59 78 -19 31
15 King's Park 36 8 13 15 60 84 -24 29
16 Clydebank 36 11 5 20 70 85 -15 27
17 Arthurlie 36 9 7 16 51 73 -22 25
18 Stenhousemuir 36 9 6 20 51 90 -39 24
19 Armadale 36 8 7 21 47 99 -52 23
20 Bathgate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NOTE: Arthurlie resigned - fixtures stand
Bathgate resigned - fixtures expunged

Promoted: Dundee United, Greenock Morton

[edit] Scottish Cup

Kilmarnock were winners of the Scottish Cup after a 2-0 win over last years winners Rangers.

[edit] Scotland national team

Note that scores are written Scotland first

Scotland were winners of the 1929 British Home Championship. 1929 also saw Scotland complete against non-British teams for the first time.

Date Venue Opponents Score Competition Scotland scorers
October 27, 1928 Ibrox Park, Glasgow Wales 4-2 BHC Hughie Gallacher (3), James Dunn
February 23, 1929 Windsor Park, Belfast Northern Ireland 7-3 BHC Hughie Gallacher (4), Alex Jackson (2), Alex James
April 13, 1929 Hampden Park, Glasgow England 1-0 BHC Alec Cheyne
May 26, 1929 Brann Stadium, Bergen Norway 7-3 F Alec Cheyne (3), James Nisbet (2), Robert Rankin, Thomas Craig
June 1, 1929 Grunewald Stadium, Berlin Germany 1-1 F William Imrie
June 4, 1929 Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam Netherlands 2-0 F James Fleming, Robert Rankin(pen)

Key: BHC = British Home Championship qualifiers, F = Friendly; scores are written Scotland first

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