2006–07 Scottish Third Division

Scottish Football League Third Division
Season 2006–07
Champions Berwick Rangers
Promoted Berwick Rangers
Queen's Park
Relegated n/a
Matches played 180
Goals scored 497 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer Scott Chaplain (18)
Martin Johnston (18)
Biggest home win Six games by 5 goals[A]
Biggest away win Montrose 0–5 Dumbarton
(23 December 2006)
Highest scoring Albion Rovers 6–2 Elgin City
(20 January 2007)
Stenhousemuir 3–5 East Fife
(14 April 2007)
Longest winning run 8 games
Berwick Rangers
Queen's Park
Longest unbeaten run 13 games
Arbroath
Longest winless run 17 games
East Stirlingshire
Longest losing run 11 games
East Stirlingshire

The 2006–07 Scottish Football League Third Division was the 12th season in the format of ten teams in the fourth-tier of Scottish football. The season started on 4 August 2006 and ended on 28 April 2007. Berwick Rangers finished top and were promoted alongside Queen's Park as play-off winners.

East Stirlingshire finished bottom of the table for the fifth consecutive season. Despite finishing bottom again, East Stirlingshire won their battle to retain full member status of the Scottish Football League, though were warned that they would lose their status if they finished bottom in the following season.[1]

Teams for 2006–07

Cowdenbeath as champions of the 2005–06 season were directly promoted to the 2006–07 Scottish Second Division. They were replaced by Dumbarton who finished bottom of the 2005–06 Scottish Second Division.

A second promotion place was available via a play-off tournament between the ninth-placed team of the 2005–06 Scottish Second Division, Alloa Athletic, and the sides ranked second, third and fourth in the 2005–06 Scottish Third Division, Berwick Rangers, Stenhousemuir and Arbroath respectively. The play off was won by Alloa Athletic who defeated Berwick Rangers in the final. Alloa Athletic therefore retained their Second Division status.

Overview

Relegated from Second Division to Third Division

Promoted from Third Division to Second Division

Stadia and attendances

Team Stadium Average Highest
Arbroath Gayfield Park 730 1,250
Albion Rovers Cliftonhill 431 619
Berwick Rangers Shielfield Park 565 2,054
Dumbarton Strathclyde Homes Stadium 709 1,089
East Fife Bayview Stadium 546 702
East Stirlingshire Firs Park 307 396
Elgin City Borough Briggs 423 537
Montrose Links Park 463 1,211
Queen's Park Hampden Park 590 916
Stenhousemuir Ochilview Park 461 683

Table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Berwick Rangers (C) (P) 36 24 3 9 51 29+22 75 2007–08 Scottish Second Division
2 Arbroath 36 22 4 10 61 33+28 70 Scottish Second Division Play-offs
3 Queen's Park (O) (P) 36 21 5 10 57 28+29 68
4 East Fife 36 20 7 9 59 37+22 67
5 Dumbarton 36 18 5 13 52 37+15 59
6 Albion Rovers 36 14 6 16 56 61−5 48
7 Stenhousemuir 36 13 5 18 53 63−10 44
8 Montrose 36 11 4 21 42 62−20 37
9 Elgin City 36 9 2 25 39 69−30 29
10 East Stirlingshire 36 6 3 27 27 78−51 21

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team plays every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away[1] ALB ARB BERDUMEFIESTELGMONQPASTE
Albion Rovers 1–3 0–1 2–1 0–1 4–0 3–1 3–1 1–1 2–5
Arbroath 2–3 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 2–1 3–1 1–2 2–0
Berwick Rangers 1–1 3–2 3–0 2–1 2–2 3–1 1–2 1–0 0–1
Dumbarton 3–1 0–2 2–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 2–0 0–0 4–0
East Fife 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0
East Stirlingshire 0–1 0–2 0–1 0–2 0–4 2–1 0–3 2–1 5–0
Elgin City 0–3 0–4 1–2 0–2 1–2 5–0 3–2 1–2 2–0
Montrose 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 0–3 0–1
Queen's Park 2–1 0–3 1–0 1–0 3–0 1–3 3–0 1–1 1–1
Stenhousemuir 3–2 1–2 2–3 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–0 5–0 2–1

Source: Soccerway
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away[1] ALB ARB BERDUMEFIESTELGMONQPASTE
Albion Rovers 0–3 0–1 0–1 0–3 2–1 6–2 2–2 2–1 2–1
Arbroath 0–0 1–0 2–2 1–3 3–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 4–1
Berwick Rangers 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 0–2 2–1
Dumbarton 3–1 1–0 1–2 0–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–2 1–1
East Fife 1–3 1–2 0–2 1–0 0–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 1–1
East Stirlingshire 0–0 1–5 0–3 1–5 0–2 0–2 0–2 0–2 0–1
Elgin City 3–0 0–1 2–1 0–1 2–3 2–1 0–2 0–3 2–1
Montrose 2–3 0–1 1–2 0–5 3–3 4–0 0–1 0–2 3–2
Queen's Park 5–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–0 5–0 1–0
Stenhousemuir 0–4 1–2 2–0 5–1 3–5 1–1 3–2 2–5 1–2

Source: Soccerway
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Scorer Goals Team
1 Scotland Scott Chaplain 18 Albion Rovers
Scotland Martin Johnston Elgin City
3 Scotland David Weatherston 16 Queen's Park
4 Scotland Craig O'Reilly 13 East Fife
5 Scotland Mark Ferry 11 Queen's Park
6 Scotland Stephen Dobbie 10 Dumbarton
Scotland Neil Jablonski East Fife
Scotland Andy Rogers Montrose
Scotland Pat Walker Albion Rovers
Scotland Gary Wood Berwick Rangers

References

  1. ↑ Shire given one year to improve BBC Sport. Retrieved 2007-05-03.

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